No one is born with courage, but we are all born with the ability to be courageous, was the first of many messages part of Wednesday night’s lecture “An Evening with Dr. Maya Angelou.” Angelou spoke at the Matadome to a packed crowd of about 2,300 students and faculty. The University Student Union (USU) and Associated Students (A.S.) sponsored the lecture. Dorothy Barresi, a professor in the English department and a poet/critic introduced Angelou to a crowd of thousands. Angelou… Read more

She’s home. Esha Momeni, a CSUN mass communications graduate student who was imprisoned and later under a travel ban in Iran, has returned to the United States. “I didn’t believe I was leaving until I got into the plane, they closed the plane’s door and started going,” Momeni, 29, said. She arrived on Tuesday. Momeni was imprisoned in October 2008 while working on her thesis project, charged with propagandizing against the regime. The Iranian-American student was released on bail Nov…. Read more