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Business world still not wholly favorable to women, study finds KArLEE JOHNSON

 Men’s salaries increased an average 21 percent in 2008, while 2 percent of women earned the same.

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omen in the business world may still be facing gender inequality thought to be long since eradicated, a 2010 study found. The survey found that women received an average of $4,600 less initially than their male colleagues. Women were also given fewer opportunities for promotion, and their salaries increased an average of 2 percent compared with men’s 21 percent in 2008. Catalyst, a nonprofit aimed at increasing opportunities for women in business, conducted a survey of 4,000 MBAs who graduated between 1996 and 2007 from business schools in the U.S., Asia, Canada and Europe. “From the first job on, men received higher compensation, were more highly placed in the organization and received more promotions of greater monetary value over time,” the study revealed. CSUN alumna Rosa Davies, who earned her degree in management in Spring 2011, said she was not surprised by the salary gap. “People pay on experience and create sala-

ries based on potential,” said Davies, who now works as a medical insurance agent. “There is a perception that men can handle stress better. When a woman tries to be seen on the same level, (management) tend to notice her and not what she is doing.” Others suggest that perhaps the gender divide in business salaries can be looked at differently. “Economists have found that if you compare people with the same educational background, there isn’t much gender-based discrimination,” said Dr. Shirley Svorny, economics professor. “When you see differences in wages, it’s because (researchers) have not compared apples to apples. If you compare women and men who have the same education and who have been working for the same amount of time, it is hard to find differences in salaries.” The Catalyst study results also showed that the presence of a mentor in a recent graduate’s career helped significantly, finding that, “men who had a mentor received $9,260 more in their first post-MBA job than women with a mentor.” Mentors, as defined by the study, were individuals whom students relied on for career advice and networking prior to their first post-

 Businesswomen start out earning about $4,600 less than their male colleagues.

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Teaching African American history through lost art KrISTINA SANBOrN DAILY SUNDIAL

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CSuN alumnus Drazen Malinis (left) talks to Mike Dade about a trumpet case filled with the entire Miles Davis discography before the Miles Davis Experience show featuring the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet at the VPAC Sunday, Oct. 23.

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NEWS Deaf community told of suspected gunman later than others p. 3

isitors were able to tour a post-war Los Angeles through an African-American perspective during a celebration of jazz and the opening reception of a photography

OPINION Child porn and animation are not the same p. 6

exhibit Sunday in the VPAC. The Miles Davis Experience featured a jazz production by the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet. The performance chronicled not only the work of Davis, but the historical context that surrounded the jazz music scene during that decade. From the poem “Trumpet

Player” by Langston Hughes, “The Negro, With the trumpet at his lips, Has dark moons of weariness Beneath his eyes, where the smoldering memory of slave ships Blazed to the crack of whips about thighs,” narrated Donald E. Lacy, Jr. as an image

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SPORTS Women’s soccer is embarrassed at home against UC Irvine p. 8

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Getting a foot in the music industry’s door christopher ho daily sundial

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Associate Director of Marketing and Programs Shannon Krajewski reviews details of the anticipated Student Recreation Center during Monday’s USU board of directors meeting.

No opting out of rec center fee braulio campos daily sundial

hannon Krajewski, associate director marketing and programs for the USU, discussed the FAQ that would go on its new Student Recreational Center material and revealed some information in doing so. The SRC website stated the $130 membership fee will be included as part of the USU fee, bringing the total

fee to $250. Krajewski revealed that students will not be able to opt out of the SRC membership fee and that the fee will also be applied to graduate and other education program students, as well. There will also be a $3 increase in the fee each year, Krajewski said. Registration will involve an ewaiver and a scan of students hand outline, Krajewski said. “It’s an outline of the hand, not a hand or fingerprint. The USU will not be conduct-

ing checks on students,” said Krajewski. Students have been paying for the SRC since 2007, and due to the financial collapse that has occurred since then, the SRC has cost the USU $8 million less than its expected budget. “The financial crisis has allowed us to get contractors at lower bids and get Build America Bonds,” Krajewski said. “With the money we saved we have been able to borrow less, put a bigger down payment on the

building, and will be able to expand the programs we can offer.” She noted that this money will be used only for SRC purposes. The Fitness Center will close Jan. 15, with the SRC slated to open a week later on Jan. 26. There is a timeline pending to transform the Fitness Center building into a wellness center that will offer massages and physical therapy, said Debra Hammond, USU executive director.

alling all music majors and student musicians: the Recording Academy and CSUN music department are giving you an opportunity to explore the job market Wednesday at their Santa Monica headquarters. The Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy presents the yearly event through its GRAMMY University Network, to provide music majors and aspiring student musicians an opportunity to network and gain insight into the music industry. “It’s definitely not an easy field to get into, you have to be really good (at what you do),” said Guy Fabre, head of Concert Production at the CSUN music department.

Wednesday night’s event will feature performances by DJ Mr. Choc, a world famous beat junkie, DJ Hapa, the director of the Scratch Academy of L.A., and MC Lyte, a two-time GRAMMY nominee as well as president of the Los Angeles Chapter. Aside from networking and performances, the three hour kickoff will include photo booths, prize drawings, learning to DJ and scratch records, vinyl spin art stations and an organic jam session with DJ Hapa and Mr. Choc. The event is open to academy students as well as the public, and they are encouraged to bring an instrument if they wish to participate in the organic jam session. Admission is free and snacks and drinks will be provided through the GRAMMYU foundation.

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Deaf students notified about gun threat later than others CAITLIN MArTIN DAILY SUNDIAL

eaf and hard-ofhearing students found a slight glitch in the system when it came to getting the emergency notification regarding the suspected gunman on campus Sept. 27. “The emergency notification system worked well except that I didn't get the emergency text,” said senior Kailyn Aaron-Lozano, referring to the text message she was supposed to have received instead of the phone call other students received. Aaron-Lozano said she learned about the alert from

her hearing friends who had received the voicemail, and from Facebook. “I’m sure they sent out an e-mail, but I wouldn't check it till I get home. So the idea is good to have a texting system, but I wish it would have gone out sooner than later,” Aaron-Lozano said. Jim Macaluso, associate director for CSUN’s National Center on Deafness, said deaf or hardof-hearing students have multiple options when it comes to receiving emergency notifications. Macaluso said he received the emergency notification via e-mail, video phone and text message. “Deaf and hard of hear-

ing students/employees can opt to receive notifications via email, SMS messaging and/or phone,” Macaluso said in an email interview. “The extent of the notification is contingent upon each (deaf/hard-of-hearing) individuals’ settings as configured via their CSUN portal.” CSUN’s deaf studies department has the largest nationwide enrollment of deaf and hard-of-hearing students at a mainstream institution, according to its website. The department is one of two institutions in the nation to offer a comprehensive deaf studies program. Nageena Ahmadzai, also a deaf student at CSUN,

said she received emergency emails and also learned about the situation from other students. “To me it’s enough because my CSUN email is linked to my phone,” Ahmadzai said in an email interview. She said the confusion came when she was not aware of what was going on at the Oviatt Library when it was being blocked off. Aaron-Lozano and Ahmadzai were informed about the Oviatt situation, though Aaron-Lozano wishes the school would have been the one to do it. “(It’s) just unfortunate to find out what was happening from my friends around me and on Facebook,” Aaron-Lozano said.

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Continued from page 1 graduate jobs. The study showed that, while men and women were equally likely to have a mentor, men with those relationships were more likely to earn a higher entry level position. Though the study found that men and women were equally likely to have active mentoring relationships, men’s mentors tended to be more highly placed in the corporations. “Research shows that when left to their own devices, individuals choose to associate with others like themselves,” the study noted. “Thus, men are more likely to affiliate with other men and women with other women. ... Because in most organizations there are more men than women in senior executive positions, the pool of male mentors at the top is

correspondingly larger.” Davies, who did not have a mentor until she began her first job, said she could have benefited from a mentor. “I considered my fellow classmates my mentors,” Davies said. “But they could not give me job references after graduation. Now my hiring manager is a mentor to me, but he and I are essentially on the same level in the company.” Davies did not think that she could have benefited more from a female mentor, and the Catalyst study showed the same results. While mentoring, and especially sponsorship, is helpful and even necessary, it isn’t enough, the study noted. “It’s not a silver bullet that will close the gender gap—even women with highly placed mentors continued to fall further and further behind men over time,” the study noted.

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Continued from page 1 of Miles Davis projected onto three illuminated screens on the backdrop of the stage. Ambrose Akinmusire, the up-and-coming 28-year old trumpet player from Oakland, took the stage for a solo performance. Images of Davis and jazz colleagues including John Coltrane and Billie Holiday continued to flash across the screen as the quintet awakened the late jazz-artist’s spirit. Davis’s own voice resonated throughout the venue as interview clips were transitions between several of the jazz pieces. Quintet members Walter Smith III, Sam Harris, Harish Raghavan, and Justin Brown also crooned their solos as the evening wrapped up with photographs of the East St. Louis riots. Although the Miles Davis

Experience was only showcased for one evening, the Art Gallery’s photo exhibition will be on display until Dec. 10. Music was not the only way visitors celebrated African American artistic history. Forty years of photography lined the gallery walls like a timeline, allowing viewers to travel from 1940 to 1980, through a world of civil rights protests and backlash, segregation and racism, and a world of mundane beauty often overlooked. “Identity and Affirmation: Post War African-American Photography” opened the 125 piece exhibition to the back drop of a live student jazz band. “It mostly just seems like a documentation, a celebration of the everyday,” said Danny Escalante, an art graduate student. “It’s nothing epic, but just being alive and living.” Gallery attendee Maureen Fitzgerald said she thought civic leaders were an impres-

sive display of early leadership, and the art was compelling. “Having grown up in the times seeing these leaders, you never forget history, and it’s shocking at times,” Fitzgerald said. “Seeing the Mason-Dixon Line was appalling, but at the time it was acceptable.” The exhibition’s curator Kent Kirkton said the exhibit was about community as much as photography. “The post-war period was a very, very difficult period of time for African Americans in LA and we tend to forget that,” Kirkton said. “The city was quite racist. Everything had racial-restricted covenants.” All the images, which were narrowed down from nearly one million archival photographs from the Institute for Arts and Media, were created by African American photographers, and were donated to CSUN over two decades by the artists and their families.

photos by Andres Aguila / Daily Sundial Ambrose Akinmusire plays his trumpet during the Miles Davis Experience show at the VPAC on Sunday, Oct. 23.

Ambrose Akinmusire (left) and Walter Smith III perform during the Miles Davis Experience show at the VPAC.

Narrarator Donald Lacy Jr. recites a Langston Hughes poem to the audience during the Miles Davis Experience show featuring the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet.

Debbie Beltran looks at the trumpet case filled with the entire Miles Davis discography before the Miles Davis Experience, featuring the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet.

Eugene Carnes reads the VPAC program before the Miles Davis Experience show.

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October 25, 2011

Separating artistic license from child pornography Braulio Campos daily sundial

he Canada Border Services Agency (Canada Customs) arrested an American citizen in June after searching and finding “Lolita” manga, Japanese comics illustrating children in erotic situations, on his laptop. In accordance with Canadian customs statutes, any sexual images of characters that appear to be underage can be treated as child pornography. The man, in his mid20s, faces a year in Canadian prison and registration as a sex offender. “I don’t think he should have been arrested if it was just drawings,” said psychology major Manisha Perera, 23. There is a distinction between real children and comics, and it’s not real kids, Perera said. In the United States, pornographic images of simulated children, computer generated or drawn, are illegal only if found to be obscene and serve no purpose. Otherwise, they are protected as artistic

expression. Canada customs are tough on print materials, said Darren Thomas, manager of Earth-2 Comics in Northridge. “I know shipments the store has made to Canadian customers have not reached them because they get seized by Canada customs,” Thomas said. “It’s for a number of reasons, not just pornography.” Within literature and even comics, it is not unheard of for simulated children in sexual situations to serve an artistic purpose and not be child pornography. These characters are not even underage, they are not any age. They are just ink or pixels. Vladimir Nabokov’s book “Lolita,” in which the narrator engages in sexual acts with a 12-yearold, is on TIME’s 100 best English-language novels list from 1923 to 2005. “Lolita” is the namesake of a genre and a subculture focused on characters that look child-like. Alan Moore’s comic “The Lost Girls” was met with criticism for portraying children in erotic situations, and even banned in

Canada until its customs deemed its contents “integral to the development of an intricate, imaginative, and artfully rendered storyline.” “I doubt the guy would have been arrested if he had crossed the border with a copy of ‘Lolita,”’ Thomas said. The visual content is what tips off Canada customs, even though there are explicit moments in “Lolita,” Thomas said. English literature major Nick, who did not want to provide his last name, said this case is alarming. “Lolita-like stuff has always been a part of Japanese manga,” Nick said. “I don’t partake in it, but being that it is an art form, I think American law is in the right.” Nick is a fan of manga, and though he does not read or own “Lolita” manga, his belongings, such as his laptop and phone, can be searched at the Canadian border if he has printed manga on him. “If you are going into the country, you must go by their laws,” Nick said. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit

that works to preserve the protection of comics as an art form, has released an advisory on crossing international borders with comics. The need for this precaution is excessive. The United States government’s stance on child pornography is not lenient on distributors and producers. There is a no tolerance policy for child pornographers. Lumping cartoonists and comic enthusiasts with child predators and molesters is heinous. Placing comic readers with pedophiles in prison for the same crime is preposterous. Artistic merit or not, a living child forced into sexual acts is different from a fictional non-living child depicted doing the same thing. Owning a slasher film is not the same thing as owning a snuff film. Owning a cartoon depiction of children in sexual situations should not be legally equal to owning a video of real sexual child abuse. Is it obscene, and even a bit creepy? Yes. Is it actual child pornography? No.

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CSUN blown out of first place Matadors fail to seize control of Big West, get beatdown by UCI at home christina azouz daily sundial

n a night where sole possession of first place in the Big West Conference was up for grabs, the CSUN women’s soccer team played its worst game of the season and lost scandalously, 4-0, to UC Irvine Sunday night at Matador Soccer Field. Sophomore forward Natalia Ledezma scored three of the four goals for No. 21 UC Irvine (12-3-2, 5-1-1). Her first goal came in the 11th minute after she received a cross from junior midfielder Dana Sanderlin and shot the ball in the corner of the net. The goal was Irvine’s first score in regulation against CSUN since 2007. Ledezma’s second goal of the game was by far the best of the three. The UCLA transfer shot the ball from 35 yards out, forcing junior goalkeeper Cynthia Jacobo to back peddle into her own net. “It’s hard to play against a good team like that when you’re down one nothing and to give up the

Big west Standings 1. UC Irvine (5-1-1, 16 pts) 2. UC Davis (4-1-1. 13 pts) 3. CSUN (4-2-1, 13 pts) 4. Long Beach St. (4-2, 12 pts)

second goal within the next couple of minutes,” said CSUN assistant coach Miguel Ruiz on Monday. “It’s tough.” The final goal for Ledezma came in the 76th minute from the left side of the field and into the right corner of the net past the outstretched arms of Jacobo. The embarrassing loss at home left the Matadors speechless as the players and coaches walked off the field without doing their usual postgame stretch, team huddle and did not talk to the media. The Matadors (6-8-2, 4-2-1) scored in their own net in the second minute of the game after UC Irvine crossed the ball in front of CSUN’s net and junior defender Stephanie Norton cleared the ball into the goal. For a majority of the game, UC Irvine controlled the tempo and outplayed CSUN. The Matadors had their best opportunities to score when they Simon Gambaryan / Daily Sundial made a push at the end of the first Natalia Ledezma (3) scored three goals to help Long Beach State defeat CSUN 4-0 on Sunday night. half. Junior forward Melissa Fernandez and senior defender Brielle CSUN finished the game with It was the worst loss for the determine if the Matadors make it Slepicoff both had one shot on goal only two shots on goal and one cor- Matadors since Texas beat them into the four-team Big West Tournawith time winding down in the half. ner kick. The Anteaters finished the 5-1 on Sept. 28. This was also the ment and in what seed. The CSUN offense could not get game with 13 shots on goal and four first loss for CSUN in its last four If CSUN wins, they will most anything started and had trouble corner kicks. games, snapping a three-game win- likely finish in second place in the getting the ball past the Anteaters’ The three goals for Ledezma ning streak. conference and will host the third back line. gave her 11 for the season. CSUN returns to action Thurs- place team in the semifinals. With the loss, the Matadors Jacobo had six saves and backup day night to take on UC Riverside The Matadors will play their last dropped into a tie with UC Davis goalkeeper junior Haley Hawes had on the road, which will be the Mata- game at the Matador Soccer Field for second place in the conference two saves in the final 10 minutes of dors’ final Big West Conference on Sunday night against Cal State with two games remaining. the game. game of the season. The game will Bakersfield.

PUZZLING MATADORS Dazzling Win Men’s soccer 3-2 win at No.7 UCLA

Perplexing Loss Women’s soccer 4-0 loss to UCI at home

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Coming into Saturday night’s match at No. 7 UCLA, the Matadors had lost three of four games and dropped themselves from first to fourth place in the Big West Conference standings. Every loss was a punch to the gut, but none harder than Wednesday night’s at UC Riverside where CSUN scored the apparent game-winner in the 86th minute only to have the Highlanders score two goals within four minutes to beat the Matadors 2-1. Following such a crushing loss, expectations weren’t exactly high going into Drake Stadium – a site CSUN had never won at before – but the Matadors responded with a historic 3-2 comeback win against the juggernauts as if to say “we’re not done.” Granted, it wasn’t a conference win, but still a great accomplishment for CSUN.

On a three-game winning streak that included knockdowns of nemesis UC Santa Barbara and defending champion Long Beach State, CSUN found itself tied for first place with two games to go in league play going into last weekend. The Matadors’ following game pitted them against the other first-place team, UC Irvine, Sunday night at Matador Soccer Field. It looked like the perfect opportunity for CSUN to shake off the Anteaters and pretty much wrap up the league championship. Instead, UCI came into Northridge and smacked the Matadors around, winning 4-0 to claim sole possession of first with only one conference game to go. One could have expected a hard-fought loss, but not a head-scratching beatdown like that. CSUN will have to wait for the Big West Tournament to try and get back at UCI.