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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President Barrack Obama and countless of celebrities have one. You network with friends and family through it. However, among the circle of your Facebook page visitors, there might be another member lurking through your profile you might feel uncertain about, your boss (or future boss in certain cases).   As thousands of students across the nation turn the tassel and graduate with degrees in hand this spring, many will seek employment. Others will be scavenging for summer jobs to comply… Read more

Two CSUN students have kicked their way into the Tae Kwon Do Collegiate World Championship. Alexander Ahlstrom and Stephon Westbrook are part of the Tae Kwon Do 2011 Collegiate National Team, which they won at UC Davis and are on their way to the world university games in August. “It’s almost like a mini Olympics because they don’t just have tae kwon do, they have weight lifting, swimming, tennis, boxing, like a lot of different sports,” said Ahlstrom, 24, working… Read more

Michael Lizarraga, 22, the only deaf player in Division I men’s basketball last season, had his inspiring story covered by “The New York Times,” “Los Angeles Times,” ESPN, Fox Sports, “Los Angeles Daily News,” CBS Sports and many other media outlets. Having to cover the Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team for the last two seasons, I had the opportunity to see all the attention Lizarraga received from reporters and began to wonder if he ever got tired of the… Read more

It’s 6 a.m. on a Monday and Jeanette Ramirez, 21, just woke up. She reaches for her cell phone and opens her FMyLife application to read the latest posts. Throughout her day, Ramirez checks her phone every couple of hours to view the latest posts on the Internet site where users can anonymously post embarrassing, unfortunate and humiliating moments. She has read FMyLife posts so often that now, she feels like she’s read them all. “Yes, I know I’m addicted…. Read more

Twenty to 30 CSUN students protested budget cuts by using theatrics to promote their message Wednesday afternoon. They stopped in the Marketplace at Sierra Center, in front of the Oviatt library, and the USU before finally concluding outside the bookstore. The group performed demonstrations with each member taking their turn to reveal to onlookers how the budget cuts have derailed their life. Monica Turner, a lecturer in the Pan African studies department, led the march that involved her students in… Read more

With issues at both the defense and offense for most of the season, the Matadors had finally found a bright spot in the long tumultuous year. After winning two of three games against UC Santa Barbara, the Cal State Northridge baseball team (20-27) improved its Big West Conference record to 3-12, taking its first league series victory of the season. CSUN head coach Matt Curtis stressed the fact that winning league series is difficult in and of itself, so a… Read more

Award-winning Los Angeles Times’ reporters Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives, who uncovered corruption in the city of Bell, gave a presentation Tuesday in the USU about the challenges of investigative journalism. They discussed the process they went through to uncover these stories, from requesting public documents to crunching numbers and figuring out the salaries of Bell city officials. Gottlieb and Vives have received numerous awards in journalism, including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their investigative pieces uncovering… Read more