A new head coach, new faces and a new approach to the game defines the Matadors as they enter the 2011 season. The Cal State Northridge baseball team will begin play Friday in a four-game weekend series against the Seattle University Redhawks at Matador Field. First-year head coach Matt Curtis takes over a team that finished over .500 at 29-27 for its first winning season since 2002, but had a subpar 9-15 Big West Conference record. Curtis, who was on… Read more
The Matadors finally picked up their first home win of the season Friday after defeating third-ranked Long Beach State in an improbable five-set match. Northridge was on a six-match losing streak before facing the 49ers. Freshman middle blocker Greg Faulkner sealed the win with a hard kill down the middle, snapping Long Beach’s four-game winning streak, bringing CSUN’s first win since Jan. 15 against UCLA. Although the 49ers had a better game statistically, outhitting the Matadors .299 to .178 and… Read more
After 11 consecutive games away from home, the Matadors will finally make their home debut on Saturday. “We are all excited to have a game at home and have our family and friends there to cheer us on,” freshman attacker Melissa Doll said. The Cal State Northridge water polo team will host the Occidental Tigers and Cal State Bakersfield. It will be the Matadors’ only two home games until March 16. Even though the team likes to play on the… Read more
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The opportunity was there for Cal State Northridge to climb up the standings. Beat Cal Poly on Wednesday night and move back to second place in the Big West and hold the tie breaker over the Mustangs. CSUN failed to take advantage of a golden chance as they were crushed by the 10th best scoring defense in the nation, 72-49, at Mott Gym. “We didn’t take this game serious and we didn’t compete at all… Read more
A.S. allocated additional funds to African Student Organization (ASO) and LGBTA from an account of “unassigned contingency funds” which holds $80,000, said Vahan Khodanian, director of finance. ASO received $800 for a Black History Month benefit concert to supplement their $6,000 budget while LGTBA was granted an unofficial loan of $885 for Gay Prom. Khodanian said despite looming budget cuts to the CSU, these supplemental allocations were equivalent to only one percent of A.S.’s budget for the remainder of the… Read more
PRO By Ariele Macaluso At first glance, a walk by the Oviatt appears to be lovely. It is a beautiful library and the trees are blooming pretty white flowers. But wait…what’s that smell? Your perfectly nice walk on campus has been ruined by something mysterious and horrendous. The question is where is this smell coming from? The answer is the Bradford pear trees with the pretty white flowers that line the path many students walk along when they are passing… Read more
Two of the eight vacant senate seats were filled by Associated Students over the past two weeks and the remaining are expected to be assigned by mid-March, said Paige Andrews, A.S. director of personnel. Junior Anthony Castro, 21, was appointed Tuesday Feb. 8 to represent the college of health and human development seat and sophomore Ryan Roope, 20, was approved yesterday to represent the college of arts, media and communication seat. “There’s been an increase in applications to sit on… Read more
Almost a year after last March’s “Day of Action” protests, in which an American Indian studies associate professor broke her arm, the trial for the students who were arrested has still not begun. They appear in court today for a pre-trial hearing. CSUN students Anthony Garcia, Jose Gomez, Justin Marks and Jonnae Thompson and Los Angeles Valley College student Angel Guzman are charged with failure to disperse the scene of a riot or illegal assembly, a misdemeanor offense. Additionally, Garcia… Read more
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA conducted a conference call Tuesday morning to discuss their recently issued report that examines the impact that state budget cuts have had on our student body. Patricia Gándara and Gary Orfield surveyed more than 2,000 students at CSUN in Fall 2010. They chose CSUN because it is one of the largest universities in the CSU system and it demographically mirrors the student body of the CSU system. “Cal State Northridge has the highest… Read more