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Contents 10.11.21|Volume 62, Issue 3
2. Letter from the Editor
12. Faces of
3. Why did print change?
14. Solutions
From Newspaper to magazine
4. Pro-Con Army recruiting
8. Day in the Life Veteran Nestor Vinelli
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A look into the VRC Veterans benefits
16. Too Close for Comfort A veteran shares his point of view Cover photo by Chris Torres
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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he withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan over the past month and the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks have once again led the American public to re-examine its relationship with war, our military, our veterans and in many ways, with peace. There is nothing black-and-white about any of these subjects. They are complicated and must be viewed and reflected upon with this in mind. The perspectives, experiences, emotions and opinions of them are varied and sometimes conflicting. For the first time in nearly 20 years, our country will not have a large mass of armed forces actively engaging in combat and there are no, at least apparently, immediate foreseeable reasons to send large numbers of armed forces to fight abroad. This has been met with both great praise and great criticism. In the third edition of The Sundial, we will explore these topics and their complexities by approaching through different perspectives, such as through our own lens here at CSUN, where we follow a veteran and student who is adjusting to college life after a career in the military. We also examine the history of benefits and aid given to veterans since World War l and how veterans assistance often still falls short of giving them the aid they need at both federal and local levels. In our “Too Close for Comfort” series, we get an inside look of an airman’s mindset when they first decide to enlist, the hardships faced by this decision and the rationale of why we need a military from one of our own reporters who served in the U.S. Air Force. In contrast, we also deliver a scathing opinion on why the U.S. Army shouldn’t recruit on CSUN’s campus. Although our newspaper publication has transitioned online, we have shifted the role of our print publication to a bi-monthly magazine focusing on the communities of CSUN and the issues we face as a society, such as the ones we cover in this issue. Trevor Morgan
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WHY DID PRINT CHANGE?
From newsaper to magazine By Michaella Huck
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n an age where digital technology has taken over the world, journalism is no exception. When daily newspaper printing was at its peak, we were finding out the news that happened yesterday when the paper hit the stands the following morning. People want to find out the news as it happens or directly after. Digital publishing allows us to provide this. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sundial stopped printing for the first time in history. This forced us to do something we didn’t do much before — publishing daily news online. This was a step in the right direction on a road to us keeping up with what I like to call “new school journalism.” While we would love to take all the credit, my team and I are not responsible for creating a Sundial news magazine. The 2019-2020 school year’s editor-in-chief, Madison Parsley, took the Sundial from a daily print newspaper to a weekly news magazine. Her staff, which I was a part of, printed weekly themed issues on communities that make up our campus. As time goes on, it’s important to refine ideas. After much planning, the Sundial is finally back on stands in a different format. When looking at a magazine in general, it’s important that everything has a niche. The editorial team and I decided that the magazine will cover issues we face as a generation in addition to covering communities to highlight the voices on our campus that are seldom heard. We also changed the size of the magazine to an 8.5x11 glossy cover as opposed to a traditional magazine format. Newspapers are something many publications are trying to break away from due to the fact that they can be a bit outdated and not as necessary in the digital age. We don’t want to see our hard work go to waste. We don’t want our audience to read it and toss it into a trash can. Our work takes hours of the team’s time and many trees died for the news to end up on the laps of our audience. We wanted to treat it as such. The glossy cover allows the audience to preserve it as a keepsake. Traditional newspaper’s shelf life is not long and we wanted to create something evergreen with a longer lasting impact. The final change we made is the frequency of our print schedule. You might think, “Wow they went from daily to weekly to semi-monthly in a span of three years?” I know it’s a big change, however, it’s for a valid reason. All of our editors and reporters’ energies went to working on the stories that would not go on stands until the next Wednesday when the copy is printed weekly. This is not feasible. Coming into my position as print editor, I want our reporting content to be amazing in every facet. The three-week slate we now have to publish the next issue allows the Sundial to publish better content on our website. It gives editors time to work on multimedia projects and it allows for what we put on stands to be thorough and accurate. I know the change may be large and uncomfortable for some who have followed the Sundial for years. Sometimes change can be good. We are trying to adapt and navigate the digital era while keeping print alive for our audience! Too Close for Comfort is a section where our audience and editors give first hand accounts of issues that relate to them. If you have a story about navigating through pandemic thats too close for comfort please email us at toocloseforcomfort.sundial@gmail.com.
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PRO-CON
THE U.S. MILITARY SHOULDN’T RECRUIT ON CSUN’S CAMPUS. HERE’S WHY By Trevor Morgan Illustration by Carolyn Burt
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t’s an exciting experience for any new or returning student to step on to campus and see the booths set up to recruit them into the many clubs, groups, organizations, sororities and fraternities our community has to offer. Almost identical in strategy and appearance is the U.S. Army’s recruitment booth at CSUN. You may have seen them already, near areas of high foot traffic such as Matador Square. Maybe you’ve even seen their ads, such as the one published in this very magazine, featuring a young Black woman sporting a U.S. Army backpack — ironically placed in our first issue next to a story about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Black community. There are several reasons why the Army shouldn’t recruit on college campuses and there are some good ones for why they shouldn’t recruit at CSUN specifically. They prey on the working class with the promise of social mobility (at the cost of your morality). It would be nice to say that the Army doesn’t have the right to recruit from campuses that are mostly first-generation students (such as CSUN), or colleges in general, but they actually do. In 2006, the United States Supreme Court upheld a law that allowed the federal government to withhold funds to any college that did not allow military recruiters on campus. Thus, pretty much requiring colleges to allow this.. This was a huge win for the Department of Defence, because now they could target our country’s brightest. It can take years to train and prepare someone to design, maintain or remotely pilot an unmanned drone to deliver death from the sky on what is believed to be armed terrorists, but turn out to be seven children — like what happened in Kabul on Aug. 29. Why not just get a CSUN graduate with an engineering degree to do it? The Army’s tactics differ slightly when they try to recruit us. Instead of the old “guns and grit” technique, they offer fulltuition scholarships to a generation increasingly burdened by student debt. They’ll promise high-tech jobs that are usually marketed as “non-combat” (You know, so you won’t have to directly kill people). They’ll also offer the opportunity to become an officer after graduation. Those without a college degree sometimes take years to be promoted to this level, if ever at all. The Army targets the working class, seen statistically as transfer students, first-generation students, and grant or loan dependent students, with the promise of alleviating their debt or promising them a job that would put them in a class that is “better” than what they came from.
They do this because they know our statistics and our demographics, and they recruit with the same type of strategy, intelligence and propaganda that they would use in a war. The futility of war What the Army isn’t telling you is that even if you get a “non-combat” role, you’re still participating in a war machine that exists because it generates profits to some of the world’s wealthiest arms manufacturers and their investors, which means that you help people profit from war. Although you may gain some social mobility (that you’ll probably achieve even if you don’t join the Army, according to CSUN statistics) it comes at the cost of those who truly suffer — the people of the countries we invade, whom the Army deems as “collateral damage.” The number of innocent people that were killed or wounded at the hands of the U.S. military, or its allies, during the Iraq War alone is somewhere between 184,000 and 207,000, according to Brown University. The exact number is unknown. According to the same source, the number of innocent people killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001 is approximately 71,000. For perspective, if we combine the conservative estimate from the Iraq war and the approximate number from Afghanistan and Pakistan, it adds up to roughly 85 times the amount of people that died as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Revenge really is a fool’s errand, isn’t it? It’s safe to say that these numbers exclude a lot of things. They don’t include the lives that were upended or destroyed because our military killed a family member. They don’t include the amount of insurgents, extremists, or terrorists we have created because of these actions. They don’t include the haunting images of dead children killed in a NATO airstrike. They don’t even include their names. The people whose lives we destroy are just numbers on a page to the Army, especially to those who have never seen combat. So even if you take a “non-combat” role or just because the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are “over,” it doesn’t mean that our military won’t continue to kill innocent people abroad. Every aspect of a student’s morality, ethics, critical thinking, rhetoric, empathy and compassion that they’ve learned as a CSUN student will be challenged and ultimately broken by the Army’s boot camp and training system. That’s what they don’t tell you at their booth near Matador Square, and that’s why they shouldn’t have even been there in the first place. Sound familiar?
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TIMELINE
AFGHANISTAN: THE TWENTY YEAR WAR By Mercedes Cannon
1973 In 1973, the country was taken over in a coup by Mohammad Daud Khan, who implemented educational reform and proSoviet policies.
2001 Sept. 9, 2001, saw the execution of Ahmad Shah Masood, who led the Northern Alliance against Taliban rule. Masood is executed by assassins posing as journalists.
2017 Following the transition into Donald Trump’s presidency, Trump announced that U.S. troops would stay and “fight to win” in Afghanistan in 2017.
1984 America’s involvement began in 1984 when the U.S., along with China and Great Britain, sent arms to support the anti-Soviet group the Mujahedeen or ‘holy warriors’.
2001 The day of Sept. 11, 2001, was when Al-Qaeda made its calculated move to attack on U.S. soil. Al-Qaeda hijackers took over four commercial planes, crashing them into the twin towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.
2020 In November of 2020, it was announced that U.S. troops would be limited to only 2,500 in Afghanistan, just days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
1988 In April of 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a peace agreement with Afghanistan and agreed to withdraw. By 1989 the last Soviet soldier had left Afghanistan.
1998 Al-Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in 1998, prompting President Bill Clinton to engage military forces against terrorist training camps in Africa run by bin Laden. This mission fails in taking out its targeted leaders.
2009
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When President Barack Obama came into office, he made the decision to increase the U.S. military presence temporarily in 2009.
In May 2011, bin Laden was successfully located in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed by U.S. forces.
2021 By Aug. 15, 2021, the Taliban had taken the capital of Afghanistan after the collapse of the government.
2021 On Aug. 26, 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bomber at the Kabul airport killed nearly 200 Afghans and 13 U.S. servicemembers. Biden announced, “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
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Nestor Vinelli, a resident mentor and cinema and television arts major, shows a tattoo he got in memory of his friends and fellow U.S. soldiers who lost their lives.
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PHOTO ESSAY
DAY IN THE LIFE OF VETERAN NESTOR VINELLI Photos and story By Taylor Arthur
Vinelli walks up a flight of stairs in CSUN on-campus housing’s Southernwood Hall. Vinelli served in the U.S. Army as a sergeant for almost 11 years. Currently attending CSUN, Vinello is also working on his acting career. He spends his time thinking about scriptwriting, helping students at CSUN grow as individuals and occasional building maintenance issues.
Vinelli helps a student with a broken washing mashing in the laundry room of CSUN on-campus housing’s Southernwood Hall in Northridge, Calif. on Sept. 25, 2021.
Vinelli knocks on a door of a student to help out with a broken smoke detector at Burdock Hall in Northridge, Calif.
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Top left: Vinelli looks up at the palm trees in the CSUN on-campus housing complex in Northridge, Calif. on Sept. 25, 2021.
Top Right: Vinelli with his cat Nyra in Southernwood Hall in Northridge, Calif. on Sept. 25, 2021.
Right center: Vinelli holds up his arms in anguish at his cat, Nyra, because she walked on the paper pumpkin he was working on at the Southernwood Hall in Northridge, Calif. Vinelli holds up his arms in anguish at his cat, Nyra, because she walked on the paper pumpkin he was working on at the Southernwood Hall in Northridge, Calif.
Bottom right: Vinelli tears large paper sheets at the resident mentor storage and craft room. The paper will be used to craft a large pumpkin that Vinelli wants to place on his tree of accomplishments for fall.
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Vinelli works on his notes for a possible film in his dorm room in Southernwood Hall in Northridge, Calif. Vinelli spends his time thinking about script writing, helping students at CSUN grow as individuals and occasional building maintenance issues.
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ring light and a script is all Nestor Vinelli needs to bring his own stage to life inside the dorm rooms at California State University, Northridge. His cat, Nyra, becomes his audience. Vinelli is a cinema and television arts major, the resident advisor for on-campus student housing’s Southernwood Hall, a U.S. Army veteran and an aspiring actor. In his 11- year career in the military, Vinelli was never deployed. “I’m happy about it because I didn’t have to go and see some of the things these soldiers have to see,” said Vinelli. “I have other ways I am supposed to help vets, by being a vet.” Life’s unexpected twists led Vinelli to attend community college where he took a class which helped him become comfortable with speaking in public. An unexpected decision to audition for a local Antelope Valley children’s theater
show made things click for Vinelli. He decided on a performance based on a character from “There is a monster at the End of this Book,” Grover. “In a Grover voice, I created this giant invisible book behind me and I turned the pages as Grover. I brought it to life,” Vinelli said. Little did he know, this was a favorite book of the show’s director Jeffery Whitehouse. Whitehouse selected Vinelli to play the leading role. “After every show we performed, these kids stood up and clapped their little lives out. Tons of little hands clapping at the same time,” Vinelli said. “Then you talk to them and they’re like, ‘you’re my favorite, you’re just like me, can I be an actor?’” “And, I’m like, yes. You can be whatever you want to be,” Vinelli said. This experience made Vinelli feel
as though he had found what he was supposed to do with his life and career. A multitude of theater and acting opportunities followed. However, Vinelli got the sense that he became a big fish in a little pond in the Antelope Valley theater scene. He needed to seek growth and opportunity elsewhere, which brought him to attend CSUN. “I am a train engine, I am headed forward. If you want to attach on, cool. But if you hold me back, I will release the latch and leave you there,” Vinelli said. Vinelli’s goal is to become eligible for the Screen Actors Guild, build his own production company to be on par with the big players in Hollywood, and write and act for television. His YouTube show “Opposites” aims to appeal to a broad audience by portraying underlying messages that unify communities.
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PHOTO ESSAY
A LOOK INTO CSUN’S VETERAN RESOURCE CENTER Photos and story by Carina Cardenas
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SUN’s Veterans Resource Center specializes in helping students transition from military life to college life, helping them with any questions they might have regarding campus, classes, etc. But it doesn’t stop there - the VRC also welcomes all students. It’s a space where students can come in and have access to computers, studying tables, lounge couches, games and many more. Dustin Canete is a student veteran at CSUN majoring in communications. Canete served for four years before coming to CSUN and found out about the VRC online. Canete has only been to the VRC a few times and during those times, “I’m usually studying.” Aside from the VRC being a quiet space for students to study, it’s also a space that provides fun and educational opportunities. The VRC will be hosting a “Sports Watch Party” now through Nov. 15 online, a “VRC Study Jam” on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in person and “Elevate,” which allows students to get career tips from the CSUN Career Center. CSUN’s VRC is located in the University Student Union between the Student Recreation Center and the USU Computer Lab and they are open on Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dustin Canete studies on his personal computer at the Veterans Resource Center in Northridge, Calif. on Sept. 29, 2021.
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Flags are hung on the ceiling throughout the CSUN Veterans Resource Center in Northridge, Calif.
The Veterans Resource Center has a designated area for flyers, brochures and job listings that for all students in Northridge, Calif. on Sept. 29, 2021.
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SOLUTIONS
VETERANS BENEFITS: UNDERSTANDING ITS DISCRIMINATORY HISTORY IN ORDER TO MAKE AN EQUITABLE FUTURE By Dwayne Johnson
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ith America’s military budget being the largest in the world, along with spending more than the next 11 developed nations combined, it is clear that war is a big part of our economy. According to the Office of Management and Budget, our $778 billion defense budget accounts for 11% of all federal spending per year. This money is, in part, used to support active duty personnel. After their service, our military veterans receive benefits upon completion. However, it has not always been this way, especially for people of color. Prior to World War II, there was a large movement within the United States made up of World War I veterans that used their large movement organizing millions of members to push Congress to develop a bill that would give governmental support to veterans, which would address some of the major issues faced by veterans returning home after their service. Before this point, WWI veterans returning home were given very little help in adjusting back into civilian life. Fast forward to the creation of the G.I. Bill in 1944, lawmakers made provisions to allow for Jim Crow-like sentiments to be carried over. Banks often denied African American veterans loans and mortgages that their white counterparts could receive with ease. This is in addition to restrictions placed by Southern universities on the admission of African American students. The lasting legacy created by practical restrictions in the G.I. Bill has continued to affect the lives of veterans today. While African American veterans are statistically more likely to have higher levels of income and education than their non-military peers, their health and socioeconomic statuses are still significantly worse compared to white veterans’. With how income and education contributes to having good health, the disparity plays a role in the systemic contrast of health outcomes between these groups till today. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs requested $269.9 billion for 2022, with roughly $372 million allocated for just California alone. With the V.A. budget becoming so substantial, scrutiny on the V.A. budget has reached historical highs. Some politicians would argue this increase in budget is necessary as COVID-19 has created the need for increased involvement in homelessness and suicide prevention within the veteran community. Going against increases in veteran benefits can prove to be a political self-destruction, as being perceived as unsupportive of the troops can lead to public outcry. Congressman Mike Bost (R-IL) has been critical of the budget increases, claiming we should not give out “blank checks” with taxpayers’ money. It is this type of language used by politicians that causes many veterans to worry that their benefits might face cuts in the future. With 243,871 veterans in Los Angeles County, approximately 3% of our population relies on these services and budget cuts can be extremely detrimental to this group. Increases to the V.A. budget are necessary with the increased complexity in addressing the needs of our veterans. Budget proposals put out by the White House show a 10% increase in funds, with Secretary of V.A. Denis R. McDonough being in staunch support of it, claiming it is vital to ensuring the V.A. moves into the future. Within the proposed budget, $12.9 million will be allocated to the creation of a diversity and inclusion department to tackle issues of racial equality within the department, along with addressing widespread claims of sexual assault and misogynic tendencies in the department. While our ever-evolving world has created the need for additional resources to continue to support our veterans, it is vital that the discriminatory history of veteran benefits and its lasting impact on services offered today continue to be addressed while adapting to the needs of veterans.
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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
A veteran shares his point of view why people choose to enlist — including himself By Danny Solano
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found myself lost during high school and whereas some people already had plans for their post-graduation lives — like my younger brother who’s currently serving — I stumbled into military service by chance when my school offered the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in lieu of a class period. Scoring high in electronics, I thought to myself, “Why not?” and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft technician. It was during my enlistment that I learned that most military members weren’t the patriots that movies made them out to be, but rather everyday people like myself who were simply looking for a change. Veterans tend to have strong bonds with each other and that camaraderie is not formed because of some loyalty to their military service (well, maybe a little) but because they all know how important it is to turn strangers into family. Most of us weren’t there to fulfill some desire to become a war hero or live out a “Call of Duty” fantasy. We just wanted to make a living like everyone else. However, it’s understood that in choosing our lifestyle, the possibility of being sent to a hostile part of the world was real and we would only have each other, should the time come. Trust is the foundation of all of our relationships and it was through that trust that many of us, myself included, formed lasting friendships. You can prepare as best as you can for life as a military member, but nothing really prepares you for just how lonely and isolating it can be. For all the material perks that military members experience, there is an equal toll on their emotional and mental state. Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death among veterans and active members alike, according to a 2015 study conducted by the Department of Defense. Veterans accepted many risks when they signed those enlistment contracts and you’d be right in saying that no one asked them to, but they did it anyway because someone has to. Whether we like it or not, our nation has a military and that military needs people to function. There are plenty of other jobs that we could have taken but a life in the military holds the promise of many things that most of us were looking for. On the surface, military life isn’t far off from everyday life and the jobs that exist in the civilian world, exist within the military community; you can be a mechanic, a cook, or even a dental assistant. The difference is that in the civilian world, your job won’t ask you to leave home for months at a time or to qualify on an M4 assault rifle, or at the very least, a handgun. The truth is, no matter which branch you join, you have to be ready at a moment’s notice to leave everything behind and do what’s asked of you. Regardless of what someone may feel toward war, government spending or the military-industrial complex, the reality is that we live in a world with conflict. In a world where militaries exist because we live alongside some very dangerous people who have, and will, escalate things to the point of gunfire. And when those times came and someone had to be sent to fight those battles, veterans were the ones who said, “Okay, I’ll do it.” Too Close for Comfort is a section where our audience and editors give first-hand accounts of issues that relate to them. If you have a story about navigating through pandemic that’s too close for comfort, please email us at toocloseforcomfort.sundial@ gmail.com.
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