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Student Protests Raise Questions and Inspire Hope, CSUN Prof Says
While the academic year winds down, Antastasiia Timmer, an assistant professor of criminology and justice studies at California State University, Northridge, said student activism over the war in Gaza is not over. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
CSUN Prof Gives TEDx Talk on Creating a Unified Framework for Psychotherapy
With the stigma around mental health shifting, conversations about therapy are becoming increasingly popular. However, those who seek mental health counseling know finding a therapist or an ideal therapy approach isn’t always easy. -- SCV News
Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, June 13-20
SoCal Sound Benefest: The SoCal Sound, 88.5-FM (California State University, Northridge (KCSN) and Saddleback College (KSBR) linked together adult, album and alternative radio station), hold a fundraising concert with Pete Yorn, Jade Bird, Cayucas, JEMS, and special guest Jackson Browne, 8 p.m. June 15. Tickets $29 and up. Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. www.thesocalsound.org/ -- Los Angeles Daily News
Rev. James M Lawson, Jr., bellwether of nonviolence in the civil rights movement
When Vanderbilt University sponsored a three-day Freedom Ride commemorative program in 2007 Lawson participated. A year before this event, during a graduation ceremony, the university apologized for its treatment of him and he later returned to teach at the college. His papers were donated to Vanderbilt in 2013. For several years he served as a visiting scholar at California State University Northridge (CSUN), where he taught a semester-long course on nonviolence. -- New York Amsterdam News
Ventura College Foundation Distributes Over $636,000 In Scholarships
Gabrielle MacNeill of Simi Valley, a member of the Ventura College water polo and swim teams, is transferring to Cal State Northridge in the Fall. She received multiple scholarships including the Miriam and Henry Schwab Memorial Aquatics Scholarship given to students involved in aquatics. A swim instructor, she teaches kids with physical and cognitive disabilities. MacNeill will major in psychology and possibly obtain a master’s degree in occupational therapy to continue her work helping kids. -- Moorpark Patch
Soraya Season Ranges From Randy Newman’s Faust to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
To open the 2024–2025 season for The Soraya, the performing arts center at California State University, Northridge, Newman is fashioning an all-new concert version of the score. His take on the classic tale of soul-selling is set for performances Sept. 28 and 29, cast to be announced. -- San Francisco Classical Voice
Meet the Newly Awarded Scholars of the Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship:
Sayuri from Paso Robles, planning to attend California State University Northridge. -- Wine Business
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where his wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at California State University, Northridge and the University of California, Los Angeles. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth. -- Washington Post
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95; civil rights leader was adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at Cal State Northridge and UCLA. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth. -- The Mercury News
LA500 2024: Dana Roberts
Roberts’ first job as a teenager in 1970 was alongside his father, a superintendent at C.W. Driver. Roberts obtained an ownership stake in the company in 1981 and assumed full ownership in 1987, the same year he became chief executive. Recently, the 105-year-old company completed a $68.4 million new classroom building at UC Santa Barbara, a $33 million creative office building in Santa Monica, and a $37.8 million mixed-use development for Begonia Temple City. The firm also broke ground on a $100 million high school in Malibu for Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and two student housing buildings for Cal State Northridge. -- Los Angeles Business Journal