Student voices: Maintaining heritage languages
November 22, 2014
There is an overwhelming lack of foreign language education throughout schools in the United States. Many individuals experience a withdrawal from their mother tongue and either speak English with their families or drop out of foreign language programs at a young age. In Europe maintaining one...
Broken screens and malfunctioning phones make big business
May 8, 2014
Pulling out a smartphone only to watch it free fall onto the concrete is not a pretty picture — in fact, it’s probably one of the worst things a college student can witness. Without a cover or case, it only takes one clumsy accident to break a phone or electronic device, regardless of how recent...
Sign n’ Run event draws big crowd
April 28, 2014
CSUN National Center on Deafness celebrate American Sign Language with festivities. CSUN students gathered in front of the Klotz Health Center to socialize back and forth in ASL with family, friends and children to celebrate deaf culture. The National Center on Deafness (NCOD) hosted their 5th...
Students share religious sacrifices they make for Ramadan, Yom Kippur, and Lent
April 16, 2014
For many, the purpose of Lent, Ramadan and Yom Kippur is to sacrifice personal desires to develop a closer bond with God and personal faith. This time of the year represents a time for confession, repentance, prayer, fasting and abstinence. Ramadan signifies the time of spiritual reflection of one...
Professor of religious studies starts Peace Institute in Congo
April 14, 2014
In summer 2011, Mutombo Nkulu-N’sengha started a Peace Institute in Camino, Congo to address the causes of violence and poverty in the area. N’sengha travels to Congo every winter and summer break. The violence is defined by a pattern of human rights violations and conflicts between interreligious mi...
Poet holds workshop to spread awareness of indigenous languages
March 24, 2014
Xanath Caraza, award-winning poet and professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City, (UMKC) stood reading poems from her book “Conjuro” to a room full of students repeating words and sounds in a verse that flowed in a rhythmic beat. In a poem read out loud called, “Matra” students wrote down wo...
Faculty, alumni perform as part of Pan-African studies talent show
February 27, 2014
As part of Black History Month, the CSUN Black Alumni Association and faculty members of the Pan-African Studies department held a talent show filled with poetry, dance and music. Each performer was introduced individually in front of the Grand Salon Tuesday. This is the first professor showcase set...
AS to screen ‘Mean Girls’ as part of spring movie series beginning Thursday
February 12, 2014
Associated Students Productions is hosting a free screening of the cult-hit “Mean Girls” at the USU Northridge Center Thursday at 7 p.m. The film stars Lindsay Lohan as a home-schooled girl raised by her zoologist parents. She enters a public high school for the first time and gets involved with a gro...
Men’s Volleyball: Matadors confident following strong homestand
January 31, 2014
Following a strong showing during their most recent homestand, the Matadors (2-3, 2-2 MPSF) will head into the bulk of their tough schedule with a renewed certainty. CSUN will be entering the Alex B. Spanos Center in Stockton on Friday to face the Pacific Tigers (1-6, 0-4 MPSF) on somew...
CSUN students discuss New Year’s resolutions for 2014
January 21, 2014
Yet another year has come and gone. At the end of every New Year’s Eve party, Americans gather round to set ambitions for the upcoming year. Promises of eating healthier, being kinder to friends and family, procrastinating less, and studying more. CSUN students are keeping their New Year’s re...
Matador Patrol student honored for bravery, heroism
January 14, 2014
A Matador Patrol student, who was injured while helping another student, was honored at the Department of Police Services Annual In-Service for heroic service on Wednesday. Alberto Dejesus Muñoz, 23, senior urban studies and planning major, received the Chief’s Award, which is the highest award given...
Well-known surfer encourages students at ‘Speak Your Blues’ night
November 22, 2013
Jesse Billauer was surfing the waves on a typical day at Malibu Beach when he pulled out on a wave and another wave rushed in that forced him headfirst into shallow water and broke his neck. “At that moment my whole life just stopped,” Billauer said. “I didn’t really know what to think. I wante...