The Northridge men’s soccer team started its longest road stretch of the season Friday and will have an unheard of seven consecutive games away from Matador Field. The Matadors decided to make themselves at home in Texas over the weekend. CSUN went into the Prego Italian Express Invitational in Dallas determined to make a nationwide statement about their program – and they did, defeating perennial-ranked Tulsa, 2-1, on Friday, to win its fifth in a row. Before the team set… Read more

The CSUN women’s soccer team (4-5) shut out the University of Hawaii 1-0 on a sweltering Friday afternoon at Matador Field.  Junior forward Farryn Townley scored the lone goal of the game in the first half, and a very impressive performance by junior goalkeeper Kellie Drenner kept Hawaii scoreless to preserve the win for the Matadors. The victory was an important one as it snapped a two-game losing streak, and it gave CSUN some momentum heading into its match with… Read more

Answering the demands of students and faculty members, the College of Humanities has been offering CSUN students the opportunity to explore gender and sexuality through the queer studies minor. The program started in Fall 2008. Sheena Malhorta, an associate professor for the gender & women studies major, is the coordinator for the queer studies program. She said an interdisciplinary committee — established by the dean of the College of Humanities — worked for a couple years to design the new… Read more

Like many organizations in the current economy, New Leash on Life, a nonprofit animal rescue, is facing financial hardship — making it difficult to stay afloat. Last December, the organization had to lay off two-thirds of its staff because of cutbacks, lack of funding and donations. “We’re facing the hardest situation right now because of the economy and donations are very low right now,” NLL operations manager George Cox said. “Corporations do not give as much money and grants (as… Read more

Concern and frustration about parking increases has many CSUN employees taking a stand and speaking out about what they are calling a parking injustice. Many CSUN employees were notified by e-mail on Aug. 27 that their parking rates were going to increase beginning Sept. 1.  What faculty and staff did not realize was not all employees were going to be receiving the same fee increase. With the fee increase in effect, some employees are paying $15.06 a month for parking… Read more

Up in the hills of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a town in Italy known for its wine and olive oil-making, an environmental battle is brewing. And in the middle of it all is a CSUN mathematics professor. Born in the Bronx to Italian parents, Maria Rita D’Orsogna had never considered herself an activist. But two years ago, a friend of hers, Roberto, who called just to say hello, mentioned something that would forever change her life. Roberto told her that oil had… Read more

Letter to Reporter To: Joseph Glatzer After reading your article, “Free education? It’s in the pork?” I have to say I have a different opinion to your argument.  I will dissect each premise that you convey towards each argument in your article. Point #1: “One such loophole is the ability for enormous multinational corporations to hide their profits in offshore tax havens in places like the Cayman Islands….” This I find interesting.  If the U.S. would use our tax dollars… Read more

   On Wednesday, Sept. 9, as President Obama was giving his health care address to both sessions of Congress, Congressman Joe Wilson, Republican from South Carolina,  shouted, “You lie,” when President Obama denied that health care legislation would provide free coverage for illegal aliens. Biology major, Dania Diaz, a 21-year-old senior at CSUN said, “I was in the bedroom studying, when I heard him say, ‘You lie.’ I was surprised. I would have expected it at a town hall meeting,… Read more

Just minutes away from Interstate 5, there’s a hidden jewel in the city of Los Angeles that is less than six months old.  Barbrix is a tapas, wine restaurant with a Euro-Mediterranean influence. The restaurant is situated on Hyperion Avenue, but is hidden behind a hump of a parking lot.  The décor is modern and what you will notice first is how everything in this restaurant is uniquely designed. Just like the diversity on the menu, even the patio tables… Read more