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urveillance cameras installed throughout the university are being used to deter crime and theft, according to multiple sources on campus. The Oviatt Library and the University Student Union (USU) both have numerous cameras installed, but it is unclear whether the rest of the university is similarly watched. When asked if there are any known surveillance cameras installed in university buildings, CSUN spokeswoman Carmen Ramos Chandler said she could not recall ever seeing a permanent camera installed on campus. The surveillance camera used to catch the CSUN pro-

fessor accused of urinating on a colleagues door last semester was temporary, installed after suspicion about a potential culprit increased, Chandler said. It was taken down after law enforcement had the footage they needed. The USU has the most surveillance cameras on campus, with approximately 40 installed throughout the facility, said Jason Wang, associate executive director. “We put cameras up initially to deter theft, damage and vandalism,” Wang said. “We want (the USU) to be safe, (for) people to feel safe, so we think having a sign out that says you’re under surveillance might help people make better choices.” Legally, signs are not required to tell people they are in the presence of surveillance cameras if those cameras are

installed in a public area, said Melanie Williams, business law department chair. “You have no expectation of privacy normally if you’re in a normal public place,” Williams said. “There would be no particular limitations that apply to a public institution or an educational institution that wouldn’t apply to any other institution or place of business.” Although signs are not required, Wang said the USU created its own guidelines, including signs near entrances that tell visitors the area is subject to video recording and recorded video will be kept for 14 days. “We consulted with an attorney and our legal counsel for the student union, and decided it was the best practice,” he said. The Oviatt Library, which has approximately 30 cameras

installed, has similar guidelines to the USU with the exception of having signs, said Marianne Afifi, library associate dean. “We do not believe that we need to tell students,” she said. “However, we are not hiding the fact that they are there. Anyone who looks up can see them.” Like in the USU, cameras installed in the Oviatt are used to prevent crime and ensure the employees’ safety, Afifi said. They’re used “to ensure the protection of state property in the event of theft and for the security of our users and employees,” she said. When asked about the cost of the cameras, both Wang and Afifi had rough estimates. Wang had no figures for the cost of cameras in the USU, but provided the costs for the cameras being installed in the new student recreation center.

Surveillance cameras for the new facility were estimated at $140,222, according to the Jan. 15, 2009 budget. Afifi provided no figures for the cost of the cameras in the Oviatt, but explained the cost fluctuates. “We have a service contract and that varies by how often the company has to come out and service the system,” she said. Provided the surveillance cameras being installed in the new student recreation center cost more than $100,000, it would be difficult to determine how much it would cost the entire university to install cameras on every building on campus, Williams said. “That would be enormously costly at a place like this,” Williams said. “I can’t imagine that (surveillance cameras) would be worth the money being spent.”

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Areas off-campus pose greater danger to students Madison Kaufmann daily sundial

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Ida Slapia, Kay Chingona, Miso Horny of the West Hollywood Cheerleaders come to show their support at the 27th annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles event. “We’d like to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS and we’d also like to bring awareness to the stigma of HIV and AIDS,” Kay Chingona said. See p. 4 for more photos of the event.

hen walking to her car a block and a half away from campus at night, Angela Igrisan, public administration graduate student, fears she will be taken by surprise if someone were to attack her. Igrisan said she is always aware and makes sure to look at the people around her and take note of their height and speed of walk.

“If I was attacked I would first look at the person to get a description and then run,” said Igrisan. There have been 64 crimes within a mile of campus from Aug. 29 to Oct. 17, according to the LAPD crime map. While walking on or off campus at night, Christina Villalobos, CSUN police spokeswoman, suggested students not talk on their cell phones, listen to music through headphones and not walk in dark or unfamiliar areas. “Sometimes when you get involved in a conversation

you may start to tune out things and not be aware of your surroundings,” Villalobos said. Sgt. Jose Torres of the Devonshire community relations department said to have your “head on a swivel,” meaning look around and be aware of your surroundings. Public administration major Megan Kuss, 26, lives a few blocks away from campus and walks home by herself at night. Kuss said she doesn’t

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Walking toward a cure for AIDS PHOTOS BY CHARLIE KAIJO / CONTRIBUTOR

Team Fresh and Easy march during the 2011 AIDS Walk Los Angeles on Sunday. “We’re part of the team here in the West Hollywood area and we wanted to come and show our support today,” said Nicole DeRuiter.

A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence shows their support with fun costumes and makeup at the AIDS Walk Los Angeles.

Scan this QR-Code to read the story online West Hollywood mayor John Duran speaks to participants of the AIDS Walk Los Angeles on Saturday. “Be compliant, we’re almost there. Keep taking your meds,” Duran said.

Ryan Grady, a graduate student of social work at CSUN, shows his support for the Los Angeles AIDS Walk on Saturday. It is his third AIDS Walk, he said.

News 5

Learn to buy a home Madison Kaufmann daily sundial

re you a first time home buyer or plan to become one? If so, the University Corporation will be sponsoring a free seminar for faculty and staff from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Sierra Center Colleagues’ Room. “The goal of the seminar is to educate CSUN faculty and staff, who will attend, about the home buying process,” said Linda Turner, associate director of real estate at the University Corporation. The speakers will be presenting from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. and the Q & A portion will be from 5:30- 6 p.m. Robert J. Carlson, Esq., an attorney real estate specialist, will guide students toward understanding legal aspects of property disclosures. Jeff Neistein, manager of the home mortgage branch at Well Fargo Bank, will also present. What escrow is and what it does will be discussed by Stewart Title California senior escrow officer Mary Sehenuk and Claudia Queen, senior vice president. Previous, current and future homeowners are welcome.

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safety

Continued from page 1 have any fears walking home in the dark but makes sure she doesn’t look as if she is wandering. “The streets aren’t well lit, but I take the same path home every night and know my neighborhood is safe,” she said. There have been no recent reports of crimes against pedestrians on or around campus, according to CSUN police records. Villalobos said when an attack, sexual assault or robbery happens on or around campus, the CSUN police department puts out a crime alert bulletin. A 2009 bulletin alerted the campus community of a suspect who was reported to be approaching women on and around campus, grabbing their breasts, genitals and buttocks, trying to kiss and hug them,.

Another reported bulletin described a CSUN student who was approached and struck on her upper back by an unknown suspect in October 2009 while walking off campus. After screaming for help, another CSUN student came out of their home to help the victim while the suspect fled. Later that year, a victim was robbed and assaulted by an unknown suspect on Lindley Avenue south of Lassen Street around 12 p.m., according to the crime bulletins. Matador Patrol, CSUN’s community safety assistance, escorts students anywhere on campus or within a street away in all directions from dusk until 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, said Christine Villasenor, Matador Patrol spokeswoman. All safety assistants carry pepper spray, a flashlight and a radio that is linked to CSUN police dis-

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An empty pathway leading to the Oviatt Library is illuminated by dim lights lining the lawn.

patch, Villasenor said. When students are being escorted, safety assistants will talk about safety procedures if they are asked or have nothing to talk about, she added. “If you do not feel comfortable, it is generally an indication that something is

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not right,” Torres said. “If it doesn’t feel right, immediately move towards safety.” It is a good idea to install extra lighting motion censors in living spaces, she added, especially when it starts to get dark at 5 p.m. “Most victims interviewed have put themselves

in position for open prey and get taken advantage of,” Torres said. CSUN PD will conduct a pepper spray workshop on Nov. 16. The event will cost $6 and will include a canister of pepper spray and lessons on its effects and how to use it.

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SUN’s Alumni Relations Center has relocated from University Hall to a more centralized location next to the bank building, northwest of Jacarada Hall. The center manages opportunities to get alumni connected with the campus, said Shellie Hadvina, associate director of alumni relations. There are currently 22 alumni chapters at CSUN, and three new chapters were added this year: Iranian Alumni Association, the Black Alumni Association and the Master’s of Social Work Alumni Association. According to Hadvina, the center recently started a new program called the “N Crowd,” which connects current students with CSUN graduates who have active careers in their desired fields. “You are a Matador for life,” Hadvina said. “We want to support graduates not only while they are students, but after they graduate. Once a matador, always a matador.”

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October 18, 2011

Hail to all the

Matadors

Nupur Kumar contributor

have been to four freshman convocations. Yes, FOUR! One as a first time freshman when I was forced to go and three others as a student leader in Housing when I had to force others to go. I can practically run the whole evening down to you right now. In University 100 classrooms across campus professors will coax students into going with threats of fails or incentives of extra credit. While Housing RAs with plastered smiles do the same with their unwilling residents. When the day finally arrives the temperature is always unbearable with a pretty consistent 100+ degrees. As students make their way down to campus they are corralled into the area between the library and the USU. Quickly, popsicles, water bottles and fliers start flying around as cheerleaders, RAs, orientation leaders, athletes, and even Matty the Matador try and persuade first time freshman that CSUN is a great school, even though it was not their first choice. As first time freshman roll their eyes they are again corralled into ridiculously long lines and filed into hundreds of seats in front of the library with music and pep that doesn’t reflect their apathetic attitudes. Our president, Jolene Koester will speak a beautiful speech that I can practically mimic in my mind. Oh, that was a new line, I think as I smirk in my seat, and examine the program schedule. I always eagerly wait and enjoy listening to the student speaker who will give a glorious speech with metaphors and similes and a story of failure then triumph to which I wish I could relate. Of course the eager ears start perking up when the keynote

speaker tells a story that the freshman were supposed to read but didn’t. The keynote speaker attempts to relate their intriguing story with one that connects to college. Then finally the procession comes to a close, with the alma mater sung by only the orientation leaders and freshman hurrying to get away. This is what I expected this year, and yes, that is how it began. But the second that the group realized the Matador statue was to be unveiled there was a buzz in the air. What was that buzzing? Was it…I dare not say it…PRIDE? As the students peered over at the veiled statue I noticed for the first time that there were not only first time freshman in this audience. There were alumni, faculty, sophomores, juniors, seniors, etc. Were they all here to see the statue? The same statue that was getting negative publicity from the hordes of ‘rioters’ preaching the words of class cuts that we all knew too well. However despite that commotion, the crowd was excited, as President Koester gave a new speech. (I didn’t know this one!) The statue was unveiled and the audience cheered! A cheer that is rarely heard in our amazing school. The school that gives us an education, plus experience and life-long memories and more. As the cheerleaders waved excitedly and we continued the normal processions I listened to the speakers with a new fervor. Desiring to hear the

words of encouragement and success. As a senior it finally made sense. I let my mind drift and stare at the pleasantly billowing flag on top of our library and realized this was it. This was the moment when CSUN finally leaves the realm of being just an easy to get into commuter school and really turns into a university. A university that we are finally becoming proud of. This isn’t JUST CSUN, this is finally becoming THE CSUN. As I walked away from the ceremony I heard the alma mater in the back-

ground, the one that I have heard a hundred times and still don’t know a word of beyond ‘Hail to all the Matadors’ and felt a pleasant tug. And I heard the echo of it from the bookshelves of the bookstore, to the Sierra clock tower, between the orange trees in the Orange Grove all the way down to the G4 parking lot. I am a Matador and, ‘We Hail our Matador.’

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letter to the editor Do Not Give Into Evil Today (10/13) is the proposed date for Occupy CSUN by several campus activist groups, including the Greens, and while I sympathize with the movement, I ask that it redirect its frustration from Wall Street to the true culprits of our troubles – the state. It is the state that has increased tuition costs by providing constant subsidies to the education sector. By doing so it has manipulated the information flow to firms. Ordinarily a firm would seek to decrease its prices (i.e. tuition) to compete, but why should a college do that when the state has written a blank check in the form of grants and countless indirect subsidies? Is it the state that created by great recession through the Federal Reserve. It manipulated producers into believing there were more savings in the marketplace to fund their endeavors. It was the constant use of the printing press that increased consumer goods and assured us that there was plenty of credit available to buy our gizmos with. It is the state that is responsible for the high unemployment. How can entrepreneurs hire if they’re being constantly thrown new regulations and taxes to pay? If it is hard enough to fight everyday to please costumers, do they really need to be told what to do by men nearly 3,000 miles away on top of that? I propose to the occupiers a challenge. Be a real radical and occupy not Wall Street, but the state. Do not give into evil by playing their game and asking for hand outs. Instead go ever more boldly against them and demand the dismantling of the welfare-warfare state. Michaelangelo Landgrave

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One confident middle Hinger Despite being a freshman, Hinger isn’t afraid to show her competitive side

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Middle blocker Casey Hinger (1) leads CSUN in blocks with 66.

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hether the Matadors need a clutch kill or a skilled vocalist for karaoke night, Casey Hinger is your go-to person, CSUN head coach Jeff Stork said. “She was the lead singer for her high school play,” Stork said of her freshman middle blocker. “That takes a confident person. All that stuff overflows in what she does on the volleyball court.” The assertive Hinger will take the brutal smack of a volleyball over the microphone, though. “I love when you get that kill and it hits someone that just happens to be in the way,” Hinger said. “Like that game-point kill. That’s my favorite part, like just to be able to ‘boom’ put it down.” Whether it’s singing or volleyball, or even soccer – a sport the freshman practiced while at Valencia (Placentia) High School, Hinger is one of the most arduous competitors in the Matador locker room. In just her first year at CSUN, she’s the team’s second leading kill-getter at 2.40 per set. Named her high school’s league MVP and All-CIF First team member last year, Hinger came into the program ready to play right away. She’s started all but one of the Matadors’ 19 games and leads them in blocks (66). CSUN scouted her for two years and saw her play four different positions: middle blocker, out-

side and opposite hitter and setter. According to Stork, the team didn’t know where to put her at first. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. “In some ways, (Hinger)’s actually untapped right now,” Stork said. “The team is learning about her and what her capabilities are. We’re just now starting to develop some little wrinkles in what she’s able to do. Her versatility is unbelievable.” Hinger didn’t even touch a volleyball until she began playing at Valencia. A six-foot freshman then, Hinger felt accomplished with any small contribution she provided. “I didn’t think I was good,” Hinger recalled. “I would get one random good kill and I was like ‘Whoa.’” Hinger’s father, Randy, wasn’t as impressed as she was then. “My dad would always tells me, ‘When you’re older, you’re going to hit all the balls like that.’” The senior Hinger’s prophecy is taking shape. Hinger, now 6-foot-2, has the second best hitting percentage among Matadors (.261). And she’s saved her best stuff for the Big West Conference season, averaging 2.92 kills per set. She played a large role in giving the Matadors their biggest win of the season Oct. 1 against Cal State Fullerton. Hinger, coming off a 15-kill performance a night before against Long Beach State, pounded down 14 kills as CSUN swept the defending Big West champs. With Hinger being from Fullerton, one might have thought she

would have circled the date the Titans visited the Matadome. Not the case for the middle blocker, though, who never even entertained the thought of playing for her hometown college. “Too close to home,” Hinger said. “I was never really interested in that.” Hinger wanted to find a school “near home, but far away enough at the same time,” and the Matadors fit the bill perfectly. She credited the family-like coaching staff and “gorgeous campus” as the main allure to come to CSUN. She felt Northridge was “where I belonged,” a place to continue competing for championships. “I’m sure you’ve noticed I’m extremely competitive,” Hinger said. “So I wanted to be somewhere where I could thrive and my team could thrive.” Though the Matadors (9-10, 3-4 Big West) aren’t exactly thriving and are 2 ½ games behind league leader Long Beach State, Hinger’s confidence seems indomitable. Whether CSUN’s coming off a huge victory against the defending champion or a rough road loss, Hinger always feels a win coming in the next match. “I’m not afraid to tell the newspaper, tell the world that we’re CSUN, we’re here and we’re good. I’m very outgoing and you might have a hard time shutting me up, sorry,” Hinger said laughing. No apologies needed. Whether it’s in volleyball or singing, the Matadors probably want her to keep on making noise.

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Notebook: Overtime troubles for Northridge gilberto manzano sports editor

he CSUN men’s soccer team (6-6-1, 3-2 Big West) has gone into overtime four times this season and in every game the Matadors have come out winless. Redshirt junior defender Joe Franco has a simple explanation for that: “the curse of the overtime.” During CSUN’s 2-1 loss to UC Davis Saturday night in extra minutes, there were a few signs of the Matadors being cursed. Northridge allowed Aggie forward Matt Sheldon, who entering the match had yet to score this season, to find the back of the net twice, including the golden-goal in the 94th minute. Co-captain Franco added a realistic breakdown for why CSUN struggles in overtime. “I think the problem that we have is a lack of focus,” Franco said. “Once we get into overtime we let loose and we put our guard down.” The Matadors, who have a 0-3-1 record this season in extra period games, haven’t won an overtime match since defeating Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 4, 2009. “I’ve been good to my family, I don’t know what the hard luck is,” said CSUN head coach Terry Davila, whose team went

winless in five overtime games a year ago. “We’ve created enough chances to win it, we’re just going to keep digging and hopefully it comes at the right time. We know in the back of our minds that we haven’t won an overtime game and hopefully we don’t have to go into overtime anymore.” Davila is still feeling the pain of the latest overtime loss to UC Davis, which dropped them to a second-place tie with the Aggies and Cal Poly in the Big West Conference. “You never get over something like that,” Davila said. “When you have it in your hand and you play hard enough. “You just got to look deep down as coaches and ask if we’re preparing them right and what are some things we need to work on.” Another reason why Davila isn’t able to get over Saturday’s loss is the disparity in shots between the two teams. The Matadors took 20 shots compared to the Aggies’ seven shots. “We’ve got to improve our ratio on finishing, we take 20 shots and score one goal, that’s a very low ratio,” Davila said. “We create enough opportunities we just have to improve our ratio. A couple shots were rushed, but there weren’t a lot of clear opportunities. Davis is very good defensively.”

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Joe Franco (3) and the Matadors haven’t won an overtime game since 2009.