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Why Tony Mendoza thinks he can win back the seat he just left under a sexual-harassment cloud
“That is so bizarre,” Tom Hogen-Esch, a Cal State Northridge political science professor, said earlier in the day after a spokesman said Mendoza is running but before Mendoza confirmed it. -- Los Angeles Daily News
LA leader says people are leaving their dockless bikes ‘strewn about’ in the city. Here’s what he’s doing about it
Mere weeks after dockless bike sharing was rolled out at Cal State Northridge, the complaints have already begun rolling in. -- Los Angeles Daily News
8,000 Murders By Middle School: America’s Addiction To Violence Is Killing Us
According to Dr. Norman Herr, from California State University, Northridge, by the time an
average child finishes elementary school they have seen 8,000 murders on television. By the time they are 18, they have viewed 200,000 violent acts. -- Inside NJ
Why Tony Mendoza thinks he can win back the seat he just left under a sexual-harassment cloud
“That is so bizarre,” Tom Hogen-Esch, a Cal State Northridge political science professor, said earlier in the day after a spokesman said Mendoza is running but before Mendoza confirmed it. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
Hear guest soloist Lorenz Gamma at Orchestra performance
According to his biography on the Cal State Northridge website, he teaches violin there full-time after having previously taught at UCLA, Indiana University in Bloomington and at the California Institute of the Arts. -- Tehachapi News
Kamala Harris: Hope-bearer with a shortcoming
Harris himself has not yet commented on a potential candidacy in the 2020 presidential election. Hogen-Esch, who teaches at California State University Northridge, believes Harris' ethnic background may be a problem. In a society that continues to struggle with racism and sexism, standardizing Harris would be a risk for the Democrats. "It could trigger the same negative reactions that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced," says the political scientist. -- Hansjürgen Mai (in German)
Disocveries linked to Neanderthals throughout history
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PHILIPPE SIUBERSKI Helene Rougier, anthropologist at California State University Northridge in the United States, displays some of the 96 bones and three teeth from five Neanderthal individuals which were found in the Belgium Goyet cave at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, in Brussels, on December 21, 2016. Deep in the caves of Goyet, in present-day Belgium, researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or reindeer, but also on each other. / AFP / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) -- Aol.
Academics design Geoportal de la Frontera Mexico-United States
The UNAM and the California State University in Northridge (CSUN, for its acronym in English) develop the Geoportal of the United States-Mexico Border, which will aim to analyze the sustainable social and economic development of our northern border by integrating geographic and statistical data of relevant issues such as water, health, public safety, energy, transport and migration, among others. -- Cornice - Mexico (in Spanish)
Tween Time: Shadow Magic
Historians have viewed shadow puppetry as a precursor to movies, and that is evident in the work of the Chicago-based Manual Cinema troupe. They use cameras, vintage projectors, musicians, actors and shadow puppets to construct their mesmerizing production, “The Magic City.” Recommended for ages 9 and older, this unique mixed-media, immersive experience comes to the Soraya (formerly the Valley Performing Arts Center, www.valleyperformingartscenter.org) in Northridge for a 3 p.m. performance March 18. Tickets are $33. -- LA Parent
CSUN to Host Research Program that Corrects Crime and Immigration Misconception
Crime and immigration are often mistakenly linked when people focus on belief and ideology instead of research. Hoping to address these misconceptions, officials in California State University, Northridge’s Criminology and Justice Studies Department will host the discussion, “Does More Immigration Mean More Crime?” -- AmericanTowns.com