The Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball team made changes to its starting lineup Friday night, hoping it would bring in its first home victory of the season and a 2-0 start in Big West Conference play, but Long Beach State didn’t allow it. The Matadors (7-7, 1-1) fell to 0-3 at the Matadome and dropped to fifth place in the league standings after losing to the 49ers (8-5, 2-1) in four sets (25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 25-21). Monica McFarland started at… Read more

Police apprehended a suspect who ran across six lanes of traffic and onto campus Thursday after leading police on a car pursuit. An LAPD motorcycle officer attempted to pull over an erratic driver near Nordhoff Street and Etiwanda Avenue at about 5:45 p.m., said Captain Kris Pitcher of Devonshire LAPD. When the responding officer ran the suspect’s plates, they came back as code 37, or a stolen vehicle, Pitcher said. The suspect, a minor wearing a dark tank top and… Read more

Politically conservative and religious groups are scrambling to gain 550,000 signatures in order to place a proposition on next year’s ballot to repeal Senate Bill 48, the “Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act.” The FAIR Ed act, approved by Governor Jerry Brown in July, would revise the education code to require “instruction in social sciences to include a study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the development of… Read more

Every morning, hundreds of students head to CSUN on congested freeways, crowded buses, bicycles and skateboards to make it to class on time. CSUN is known to locals as a commuter school with students traveling dozens of miles to further their education. Thirty percent of CSUN freshmen and only 9 percent of undergraduates live on campus, according to College Portraits’ most recent figures. To students like sophomore Ira Caminong a lengthy commute may deter students from participating in extra-curricular activities… Read more

At CSUN’s Little Theatre, where the Tony-award wining musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is performed, the actors in the show are just as enthusiastic as their characters. By the Sept. 23 opening night, all shows in the first weekend – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – and the Sept. 28 show, had all sold out. The musical shows the determination and ambition of six elementary school spellers which carries them through an afternoon of emotional upheaval and disappointment…. Read more