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CSUN Food Pantry Drive for Soup'r Bowl Sunday
Please help our food challenged CSUN students! Soup'r Bowl Weekend Food Pantry Drive, sponsored by First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills, 10400 Zelzah Ave. Granada Hills will be collecting food donations using a drive through, drop off on Saturday, February 10 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. and on Sunday February 11 from 8:30 - 11:00 am. We are collecting cans and dry packaged goods as well as personal care products. Please, no items that are in glass containers and no expired products as well. Cash, checks (made payable to the CSUN Foundation Food Pantry) or gift cards are also accepted. At our 9:00 am service on Sunday, February 4 we are having a video showing how the CSUN Food Pantry has helped them so much. -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same?
“It may also be the largest petrachrome mural in the world,” said Natalie McDonald, a graduate student in history at California State University, Northridge, and research assistant for the Living New Deal, a history project based at the University of California, Berkeley, that chronicles the legacy of the New Deal. -- MarketPlace
Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Jan. 25-Feb. 1
Leyendas del Mariachi: Performers include members of legendary mariachi groups including Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Mariachi Los Camperos, Mariachi Cobre and Mariachi América de Jesús Rodríguez de Hijar, 8 p.m. Jan. 25. Tickets $39 and up. The Soraya at California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. 818-677-8800. www.thesoraya.org. Details and to purchase tickets: tinyurl.com/yc5y8z77 -- Los Angeles Daily News
California State University faculty seem split on merits of tentative labor deal announced Monday
Trisha Anas, a fourth-year student at Cal State Northridge, said that as of Tuesday afternoon, there hadn’t been a mass email from the university letting students know that they were expected to be in class in accordance with the strike’s end. -- East Bay Times
Free low-income tax preparation
Gayle Anderson reports California State University, Northridge’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Clinic in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics is offering free tax preparation assistance to low-income families and individuals, including non-English speakers, people with disabilities and veterans, beginning Monday, January 22nd through Monday, April 15th at CSUN and more than a dozen satellite locations throughout Los Angeles County. -- KTLA
Ruth Ashton Taylor, Early Radio and TV Newswoman, Dies at 101
“Taylor says she always approached her stories any way she liked,” Suzanne Haibach Marteney wrote in her master’s thesis about Ms. Taylor for California State University, Northridge, in 1986. “She justified her attitude by saying she must be giving the woman’s view because it was her view and she was, of course, a woman.” -- The New York Times
CSU and faculty reach surprise tentative agreement, ending massive strike after one day
The rain did not keep Stevie Ruiz, a Cal State Northridge professor in the Chicana and Chicano studies department, from protesting. He said the vast majority of students stayed away from campus. Ruiz added that about half of Northridge’s student body is Latino, and many are the first in their families to attend college. -- Los Angeles Times
California State University faculty reach tentative contract agreement and will end strike
Michele Bartlett, a professor in the social work department, pickets outside the Cal State Northridge campus Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, in Northridge, Calif. More than 30,000 professors, librarians, plumbers, electricians, and other workers at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., have started a weeklong strike on Monday to demand higher wages. -- Seattle Post Intelligencer
Cal State faculty reach deal to end strike at largest US university system
A picket line at Cal State Northridge on Monday. -- The Guardian
Thousands of faculty walk off the job at largest university system in US
Faculty and supporters picket during a strike at the California State University, Northridge campus in Los Angeles, California, US, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The union representing 29,000 faculty members at California State University, the nation's largest four-year public university system, is set to walk off the job for five days beginning Monday, disrupting the first week of the spring semester for tens of thousands of students, reported the Los Angeles Times. -- CNN