EDITORIAL : WHAT A COMEBACK GROWING ENROLLMENT REFLECTS CSUN'S CAN-DO SPIRIT.LOOKING for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an good indicator of the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's recovery from the Jan. 17, 1994, earthquake? Try California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . It is bouncing back with a vengeance. Fall classes began Monday. University officials reported that enrollment reached 26,500, the largest one-year increase at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge in eight years. Such an increase in enrollment would be noteworthy even in normal times. But the past two-plus years have been far from normal at CSUN. The quake Quake - A string-oriented language designed to support the construction of Modula-3 programs from modules, interfaces and libraries. Written by Stephen Harrison of DEC SRC, 1993. caused more than $300 million in damage at the Northridge campus. More than 80 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Enrollment - which had been falling even before the quake - plummeted to a 20-year low. Some of the damage has been repaired. But much of the work remains to be completed. And as a result the tranquillity normally associated with a university is shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. by the disruptions caused by heavy construction. So why, in the light of all of these interruptions, is enrollment increasing at such a robust pace? Some of the credit has to go to CSUN's aggressive recruitment campaign. Take the case of freshman Damion Bryant of Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. . His first choice was an out-of-state university, but CSUN recruiters persuaded him to enroll at the Northridge campus. ``They came to my school five, six times - they were trying to get us,'' Bryant told the Daily News. But CSUN isn't the only university trying to recruit promising students. Other universities do the same thing. So why have CSUN recruiters been so successful? One reason, we suspect, is that the recovery at CSUN produced a can-do spirit that retains its vigor. We recall that CSUN President Blenda Wilson promised that the university would reopen Feb. 14, 1994, notwithstanding all the damage that had occurred. Quoting poet John Masefield in an open letter to students, Wilson said: ``Wherever a university stands, it stands and shines.'' Wilson, with the help of dedicated faculty members and university employees, kept her word. The university reopened on schedule, even though some classes had to be held in tents and other makeshift quarters. CSUN still stands. And it shines even brighter, both as a symbol of the Valley's recovery and a beacon pointing toward a more promising future. |
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