Full name: Brooke Doane Date of Birth: May 2, 1989 Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii Height: 5’ 4” Major: Biochemistry Stats: In singles, Brooke is 10-10, 4-3 in Big West Conference. In doubles overall, 18-4 and with Jennifer Sher, 11-1, 7-0 in Big West Conference Favorites Food: Baked spaghetti Music: Reggae/ Ska/ R&B Movie: “The Notebook” directed by Nick Cassavetes Song: “Up to You” by Chris Brown Athlete: Roger Federer Book: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Life Greatest Difficulty:… Read more

Track and field The Cal State Northridge track and field women’s and men’s teams finished up a busy week when they participated in the Texas Relays, UCLA’s Rafer Johnson/ Jackie Joyner-Kersee invitational and Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. At the Texas Relays, jumper Thomas Johnson matched his career-high of 6 feet, 10.75 inches to finish third. At UCLA, Northridge’s group of pole vaulters had a good week as Tiana Webberley reached her lifetime-best on the women’s side with a clearance of 12 feet,… Read more

Student housing officials have implemented changes to improve security measures at the University Park Apartments due to the escalating number of dorm burglaries at CSUN. Six dorms were burglarized in two days in the week leading up to Spring break. In March alone 11 dorms were burglarized.  In most cases the suspect(s), entered through the bedroom windows. In most cases, suspects gained entry when residents left windows or doors open, however in more recent cases, burglar(s) gained entry by prying… Read more

Faculty at CSUs across California are taking another step in ensuring the success of their teachers in K-12 schools to make it the best environment for both student and teachers. The CSU Center for Teacher Quality based at CSU Sacramento, works to collect data and experiences of teachers out in the field to help current students in the teaching programs at other CSUs. Dr. David Wright, director of the center said this program was created to see if curricula at… Read more

IRVINE, Calif. – It was the silent bats against LMU and San Diego State that doomed the Matadors over the past four games. Now it’s the arms. The Cal State Northridge baseball team (14-14, 0-3 Big West) came into the weekend series and it was unable to figure out a way to stop a UC Irvine (18-6, 3-0 Big West) offense that was hitting .288 collectively coming in. Despite being swept by Gonzaga and averaging an abysmal 1.7 runs per… Read more

The third period was a struggle for the Matadors at the start of the season. There were mistake-filled third periods in which the other teams were capitalizing on opportunities and CSUN had no answer for. Well the last two Big West games for the Cal State Northridge water polo team depicted a different third period story in the game against UC Davis Saturday and Pacific. The Matadors scored a combined 12 goals while holding their opponents to four. “Once we… Read more

Building confidence in a young CSUN team has been one of the main goals coming into Big West Play. For the No. 17 Matador water polo team, it showed just how confident they are in a 14-13 win over No. 15 UC Davis at Matador Pool. “I looked at Heidi (Pettinger) Sydney (Sonoda) and Whitney (Delgado) and as a coach you look at them and they looked confident, cool calm and collected,” coach Marcelo Leonardi said. “It was an emotional… Read more

An unknown suspect(s) burglarized five dorm rooms on Wednesday, March 30 at the University Park Apartments. There was another burglary and an attempted burglary on Thursday, March 31. According to the CSUN police Campus Crime Alert issued on April 1, the suspect(s) gained entry by forcing bedroom windows open and stole laptops, an X-Box game console and a camcorder. The burglar(s) hit UPA buildings 1, 10 and 12 at different times of the day. In one incident, the bedroom window… Read more

CSUN’s Iranian Student Association commemorated Persian New Year by organizing a celebratory event on Wednesday in the USU’s Plaza del Sol. Persian New Year commemorates the first day of spring and has been celebrated for over 1,000 years in the area that makes up modern-day Iran. “It is Persian New Year, so every year we (the Iranian Student Association) have this event where we want to get people at CSUN to interact and get to know the Persian culture,” Sorme… Read more