FREE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 since 1957 California State University, Northridge www.dailysundial.com OPINION Students need more college preparation p. 5 Women’s basketball matches last season’s win total p. 7 SPORTS IN TODAY’S ISSUE Volume 53 Issue 53 • A fInAncIAlly Independent student newspAper NEWS When is it time for Occupy L.A. to call it night? p. 2 ASHLEY SOLEY-CERRO LIVE NEWS EDITOR Despite an eviction deadline of Monday at 12:01 a.m., Occupy L.A.’s encampment on City Hall lawn is still standing. The protesters, who have occu- pied the lawn for almost two months, filed a court order Mon- day morning requesting occupiers be allowed to continue camping. The court order, filed after pro- testers were not removed from City Hall lawn, noted that the defen- dants are in violation of the First and 14th Amendments by approv- ing of the Occupy presence for 56 days then suddenly, and randomly, requesting they leave. The City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck were named as the defendants. Five occupiers filed the order. When the 12:01 a.m. eviction deadline passed, over a thousand occupiers began protesting in the streets surrounding City Hall. Although protesters were peace- ful, with many people sleeping in the streets or chanting, tensions were high as LAPD officers hold- ing batons blocked off streets sur- rounding the protest. More than a thousand protesters converged on the site to stop police from closing the encampment. Pro- testers ranged from students to vet- erans, religious leaders to lawyers. Most protesters agreed Occupy L.A.’s purpose is to get corporate greed and money out of politics, although many people had addi- tional reasons for being there, such as LGBT rights or the high unem- ployment rate. Susan Hartley, an employment law attorney who works with Vet- erans for Peace Los Angeles, stood in the intersection of First and Main streets waving a flag with a peace sign on it until the dispersal order was given. “The whole country’s gone nuts, greed controls everything,” she said. “Like any revolution in history, including the American Revolution, no one knew what was going to happen in the beginning, and same goes for this one.” Hartley said the protesters’ message is specific: “Why bail out banks and not people?” For over four hours, police offi- cers slowly moved in on protesters, trying to force them off the streets surrounding the park. At around 3:20 a.m., LAPD announced they would not raid the encampment but rather wanted everyone off the streets. Clark Davis, Occupy L.A. media coordinator, and Command- er Andrew Smith, LAPD spokes- man, began asking people to move back to the lawn. “Although peaceful, it’s not a sustainable piece of property,” Smith said. When asked where protesters could find sustainable property that could be occupied safely, Smith deferred the question by repeatedly saying the current situation could not continue. A dispersal order was given over a loudspeaker at 4:53 a.m., and the streets were cleared by 5:10 a.m. Four people were arrested for refusing to leave the street. Protesters lining the sidewalk around City Hall faced off with police officers standing on First Street. Demonstrators chanted “Who’s blocking traffic now?” See OCCUPY page 4 KEN SCARBORO/ EDITOR IN CHIEF Protesters and police face-off on First Street at nearly 5:00 a.m. Monday. Police promised they would not make arrests inside the camp, requesting protesters clear the streets. Thousands of demonstrators converge on City Hall Park, stopping LAPD’s scheduled eviction of the tent city Police and protesters standoff Los Angeles still occupied
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 since 1957California State University, Northridge
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OPINION
Students need more college
preparation p. 5
Women’s basketball matches last season’s
win totalp. 7
SPORTSin today’sissue
Volume 53 Issue 53 • A fInAncIAlly Independent student newspAper
NEWSWhen is it time for
Occupy L.A.to call it night?
p. 2
ashley soley-CerroLive News ediTor
Despite an eviction deadline of Monday at 12:01 a.m., Occupy L.A.’s encampment on City Hall lawn is still standing.
The protesters, who have occu-pied the lawn for almost two months, filed a court order Mon-day morning requesting occupiers be allowed to continue camping.
The court order, filed after pro-testers were not removed from City Hall lawn, noted that the defen-dants are in violation of the First and 14th Amendments by approv-ing of the Occupy presence for 56
days then suddenly, and randomly, requesting they leave.
The City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck were named as the defendants. Five occupiers filed the order.
When the 12:01 a.m. eviction deadline passed, over a thousand occupiers began protesting in the streets surrounding City Hall. Although protesters were peace-ful, with many people sleeping in the streets or chanting, tensions were high as LAPD officers hold-ing batons blocked off streets sur-rounding the protest.
More than a thousand protesters converged on the site to stop police from closing the encampment. Pro-
testers ranged from students to vet-erans, religious leaders to lawyers.
Most protesters agreed Occupy L.A.’s purpose is to get corporate greed and money out of politics, although many people had addi-tional reasons for being there, such as LGBT rights or the high unem-ployment rate.
Susan Hartley, an employment law attorney who works with Vet-erans for Peace Los Angeles, stood in the intersection of First and Main streets waving a flag with a peace sign on it until the dispersal order was given.
“The whole country’s gone nuts, greed controls everything,” she said. “Like any revolution in history, including the American
Revolution, no one knew what was going to happen in the beginning, and same goes for this one.”
Hartley said the protesters’ message is specific: “Why bail out banks and not people?”
For over four hours, police offi-cers slowly moved in on protesters, trying to force them off the streets surrounding the park.
At around 3:20 a.m., LAPD announced they would not raid the encampment but rather wanted everyone off the streets.
Clark Davis, Occupy L.A. media coordinator, and Command-er Andrew Smith, LAPD spokes-man, began asking people to move back to the lawn.
“Although peaceful, it’s not
a sustainable piece of property,” Smith said.
When asked where protesters could find sustainable property that could be occupied safely, Smith deferred the question by repeatedly saying the current situation could not continue.
A dispersal order was given over a loudspeaker at 4:53 a.m., and the streets were cleared by 5:10 a.m.
Four people were arrested for refusing to leave the street.
Protesters lining the sidewalk around City Hall faced off with police officers standing on First Street. Demonstrators chanted “Who’s blocking traffic now?”
see oCCupy page 4
ken scarboro/ editor in chief
protesters and police face-off on First street at nearly 5:00 a.m. Monday. police promised they would not make arrests inside the camp, requesting protesters clear the streets.
Thousands of demonstrators converge on City Hall Park, stopping LAPD’s scheduled eviction of the tent city
How long is long enough for Occupy L.A. to camp out?
kaitlyn andrewspsycHOLOgy
“There shouldn’t be a time limit. They aren’t hurting anyone so it doesn’t really
matter.”
kristina beCkjOurnALism
“now. i don’t feel they have a set idea of what they are
fighting for and no clear leader so they shouldn’t be there
anymore.”
gabriela fernandezLiberAL sTudies
“staying longer might help the
word get out more because not a lot of people seem to know.”
dalia armandpourLiberAL sTudies
“They should stay. They are
making a big statement and they should stay until they get what
they want.”
nanCy lijanLiberAL sTudies
“if they have already been there
for two months and haven’t gotten anything accomplished,
then it should be a wrap.”
correction
monday’s article “minority students get grad school aid” identified the program as the “robert e. mcnair scholars program,” rather than the “ronald e. mcnair...”
it also noted that the program, which gives financial and career aid to first-generation
college students pursuing masters and doctorate degrees, is funded by nAsA, the ciA, the Hearst foundations and u.s. department of defense.
but, according to mcnair program director, the program is funded by the u.s. department of Higher education.
The program is one of eight TriO programs created as part of the Higher education Act of 1965, said renee moreno, program director and csun chicano/a studies professor. All of these programs, including the mcnair scholars program, sustained a 3.1 percent funding cut this year.
until the streets were reopened in time for morn-ing rush hour.
Although occupiers and police officers appeared to be relieved that the six-hour standoff was peaceful, not everyone was optimistic.
Emily Francis, an assem-bly speaker that has been camping at Occupy L.A. since the third day of its cre-ation, Sarah Garcia, CSUN deaf studies major and Stu-dents for Quality Education (SQE) member, and Mat-thew Delgado, CSUN pho-tojournalism major and SQE member, speculated that police would be back with-out warning.
The police will “move in when people and media are gone,” Francis said. “At least when we’re in the streets we force them to raid while we have media attention.”
Smith confirmed that Fri-day’s warning of the Mon-day morning eviction was their message to leave.
Protesters will be given a brief warning when the LAPD decide to uphold the eviction, Smith said. He would not define how much time occupiers would be given to evacuate.
“Even if I knew when they would move in or what strategy was going to be used, it’s policy to not talk about strategies,” Smith said.
oCCupyContinued from page 1
kat russell / daily Sundial
an occupy l.a. protester sat in the intersection of First and spring streets, in front of a line of lapD officers, and read a book. The eviction standoff between protesters and lapD officers stretched from just after midnight until nearly 7 a.m. on Nov. 28, 2011.
kat russell / daily Sundial
When the police presence became more apparent, after midnight on Nov. 28, 2011, occupy los angeles protesters laid down in the intersection of First and spring streets while their companions traced their bodies with chalk.
ken scarboro / editor in chief
a protester calls for occupiers to remain in the street, attempting to force an lapD raid of the camp. around, a thousand protesters were present to defend the 58-day-old encamp-ment.
For video coverage of occupy l.a., scan the Qr code to the right.
studies have shown that col-lege graduates earn about $1 million more than high school graduates over a lifetime.
This factoid has been repeated to high school stu-dents since I was in high school, five years ago. Unfor-tunately, my counselors and teachers did not tell me that all degrees are not created equal.
In Payscale’s 2011 update to its “20 Best-paying College Degrees” survey, the best aca-demic investment is in busi-ness and engineering fields, which require advanced levels of math. These fields pay well and are in demand.
The cost of education at CSUN is more than the $6,600 a year in tuition alone, which is scheduled to increase 9 per-cent in Fall 2012. Gas, housing, books and bills add to this non-fixed cost.
In the last “Money Mat-ters” lecture of the semester, the CSUN financial aid and schol-arship department responded to students’ lack of financial knowledge. Mathematics pro-fessor Carol Shubin explained what students can do to limit these tuition costs.
“Aim to graduate in five years or less,” Shubin said. “Since per-unit costs increase gradually, education will con-tinue to increase as students attend college.”
That is, the more time stu-dents take switching majors or
dabbling in classes, the more their degree will cost them.
College should be a venue for exploration of ideas and a place for learning what you want to learn.
However, in discussing edu-cation as the investment I needed for my future, I wish I had been prepared with a clearer direction than what I started with.
The higher education bub-ble, the concept that the number of people attending college and taking out loans will cause the trend to burst, has students wor-ried. Reports from the Associ-ated Press, MSNBC and Forbes have noted that student loans, unlike houses, cannot be filed under bankruptcy or sold.
For 25-year-old finance major Christopher Alvarado, the topic drew him to the ‘Money Matters’ event.
“I just figured I would pick
up some new info, and that’s what I got,” said Alvarado, a transfer student who has taken out student and personal loans. “It is important to learn things that students are igno-rant about.”
Federal Stafford Loans are given to students after a brief explanation and quiz over the terms of accepting the loans. These loans are offered to all U.S. citizen students.
It’s tough, Alvarado said, that students come out of col-lege with $100,000 in debt into an economy with no jobs.
“I learned here about the Peace Corp and Teach for Amer-ica,” Alvarado said. “I could pay off my loans working with these organizations better than I could with a part time job.”
Teach for America offers $10,700 of loan assistance for each year of teaching, and the
Peace Corps offers loan defer-ment and even cancellation after serving with them.
Students with engineering degrees in progress have been able to find paid internships using their skills, decreasing the cost of higher education.
But working, Shubin said, takes up studying time and can prolong a student’s stay in col-lege, increasing the cost of edu-cation over time.
“In the past, accepting a $10,000 loan to finish early was a better decision,” Shubin said. “But now it’s not so easy, as stu-dents working about 20 hours a week do better.”
After completing 130 units, CSUN students are no longer eligible to receive financial aid. Essentially, paying for your own education could leave you in college longer than you expect-ed, exceeding the unit limit and
missing financial aid.I am a transfer student, like
much of CSUN’s student body, and didn’t take the freshman seminar. More finance educa-tion should be given to transfer students and freshman before
they decide to come into college.Maybe students will recon-
sider getting a liberal arts degree or take a year off until they are mentally and finan-cially prepared to graduate in five years or less.
Higher education a worthwhile investment; only with planning
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Coming off back-to-back wins against Colgate and West Virginia to win the Woodland Hills Thanksgiv-ing Classic championship, the Mata-dors (4-2) are off to their best start since the 1999-2000 season.
CSUN has already matched its win total from last season and second-year head coach Jason Flowers attributes the improvement to the new recruits and the team's hard work.
“The players we recruited during the offseason and through the last school year came in with an attitude to get better and wanted to be part of something special,” Flowers said. “Our kids have turned the corner and elevated their work ethic, and they’re getting results.”
Even though Northridge strug-gled offensively throughout the tour-nament, they managed to pull off a 48-47 victory against West Virginia Saturday night in the championship round using their defensive presence and persistence on the glass.
“Against West Virginia, I noticed my offensive game wasn’t really there because they were double-teaming me and I wasn’t getting the shots I wanted,” said senior center Jasmine Erving, who finished with 13 rebounds, three blocks and two steals against WVU. “So I had to
step up my defensive game and rebounding to contribute to the team.”
The Matadors hope to continue their win streak – and end their offensive struggles – Thursday night against Santa Clara at the Matadome.
“The reality of it was that we knew the West Virginia game was going to be a defensive battle,” Flow-ers said. “But we’re going to continue to get better and evolve offensively.”
Erving’s defensive standFollowing the tournament, Erv-
ing was named Big West Player of the Week. For the season, she’s averaging 15.2 points per game, 10.7 rebounds per game and has a com-bined 24 steals and blocks.
“(Erving) is always evolving as a player – physically, she’s stron-ger, quicker and faster,” Flowers said. “If you look at her stats from last year to this year, her rebounds are up which helps both offensively and defensively.”
Even though Erving struggled offensively during the tournament, she still managed to score 14 points per game on 10-of-24 shooting, but her impact was more felt on the defensive end of the court where she totaled 24 rebounds, four blocks and five steals.
“She’s been an anchor on defense, she’s been an anchor on offense and she’s been an anchor in the locker room,” Flowers said. “She’s start-ing and she’s starting to believe in
herself in areas other than scoring the basketball.”
Petersen’s impactSophomore guard Kaitlyn Peters-
en, a transfer from Gonzaga, had a major impact on the team’s success during the tournament as she kept the struggling offense afloat by scor-ing 15 points per game and shooting a perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line.
“Coach always tell us to be aggressive,” Petersen said. “They were overplaying passing lanes and I just decided getting to the basketball was what was working best because they were fouling. I got easy points at the line and it helped the team out.”
Petersen, being the most experi-enced of the three starting guards, scored 17 points in the champion-
ship round to lead the Matadors in scoring when they needed it most as they shot a cold 28.1 percent.
“(Petersen) has been in these kinds of situations before,” Flowers said. “She’s talented, just like the rest of the guards, and she just took the opportunity to be aggressive and got to the free throw line and carried us offensively while we struggled in the first half.”
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CSUn star center Jasmine Erving, left, was named Big West Conference Player of the Week Monday.
