Mattias Bonvehi began his career as a Matador soccer player this semester. The freshman midfielder, who played for El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, is on the 29-man roster that'll be battling this season to make it back to the NCAA tournament at the end of November.

May Day (May 1) is celebrated throughout the world as "International Workers' Day." However, it is also known as a day of political protest. Last Tuesday, people in Los Angeles marched for the rights of immigrants. A day characterized by peaceful protests in MacArthur Park in the Pico Union area turned ugly in the late afternoon hours as police armed in riot gear confronted protesters, who at some point began throwing rocks and bottles at them.

This is not a story about a young parent, or a story of a CSUN student. It's a story about the strength of a human being to be persistent when life has become one long, hard struggle. Like some of you reading this, Chris Haggard is a parent. And also like many of you, he struggles to balance school, work, and family - especially now that he has a family of his own.

One of the earliest and most important roads of the San Fernando Valley, San Fernando Roads is symbolic of two things - diversity and the immense separation of social classes in the Valley. The road runs through seven cities - it begins in Sylmar and ends on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles.