C0-Sports Editor Alonso Tacanga contributed to this report Times sure have changed for the men’s basketball team since their admirable 2009 trip to the NCAA Tournament. And it’s all due to something a member of that last championship team says has changed little: grades. “That’s been a problem for a while,” said Rob Haynes, a senior on the 2009 Big West Tournament champion squad. Low-grade problems, among other factors, won’t allow the Matadors to even attempt to repeat the 2009… Read more

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With tears running down his eyes, an emotional Don Strametz tried to regain his composure to speak to his team after the Big West Track and Field Championships Saturday in Irvine, California. “I’m extremely excited, especially to go out this way,” said Strametz after the Matador women picked up a sixth straight conference title. “Pretty emotional day for me, it’s hard to say goodbye.” It was a perfect way to end Strametz’s final Big West championship meet, culminating an illustrious… Read more

By the Gender and Women Studies  300 class “Women as Agents of Change” Think about your daily schedule.  For many of you, you wake up in a comfy bed, brush your teeth with clean water, take a relaxing, hot shower, get to campus to begin the last weeks of the semester—the last push—all while you down the caffeinated beverage of your choice.   But regardless of how overwhelming it may seem, it is nothing compared to the struggles like those of… Read more

Conor Lansdale contributor The Fall of 2006 was my first semester on campus, and every day since then I have been impressed and proud of our leadership for taking strides to improve our enjoyment and to enhance our experiences while pursuing a degree. There used to be only 2 parking structures, vintage apartment-style dorm suites, and little to no Matador Spirit, a.k.a. Matatude. Those days are well past us now, but there have been two constants throughout the past few… Read more

As the 2010-11 school year draws to a close, we reflect at the Daily Sundial on the issues we reported on and the themes that emerged.  We hope our coverage is a reflection of what is most relevant to the CSUN community.  By far, the topic that stands out to the editors of this newspaper is the rising cost of education and subsequent surge of student activism to thwart further increases. Yet, it has become clear to us that the… Read more

About 4,000 birds were killed by the BP oil disaster last year. That’s a lot of turkey salad gone to waste. Considering 4,000 birds according to the Deepwater Horizon response’s Consolidated Fish & Wildlife Collection Report, it may look like British Petroleum is responsible for one of the greatest avian disasters of the decade, at least. But it was far from the biggest threat to the birds. Collisions with buildings cause 100 million to one billion bird deaths per year…. Read more

One of CSUN’s English teachers has been listed this year on ratemyprofessor.com’s list of the top 25 professors at universities across the U.S. Dr. Evelyn McClave is a professor of English and linguistics and the coordinator of the linguistics program here at CSUN. She was listed as No. 13 in the 2010-11 list. Ratemyprofessors.com is owned by MTVU, the college-based part of MTV. It allows users to rate their teachers according to helpfulness, clarity, easiness, and hotness. The annual top… Read more