Dancers, poets, and speakers joined together for the annual End-Dependence Day event held at The Chicano House on Sept. 19 in an effort to share culture and discuss issues affecting ethnic communities.

When Gov. Linda Lingle, R-Hawaii, graduated from CSUN in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, she had not imagined that she would go on to become the first female governor of the state of Hawaii.

When the Matadors soccer team learned midfielder Rafael Garcia and senior forward Devin Deld'oacute; both had season-ending ACL injuries, the coaching staff was anxious to see who would step and seize the role of team leader.

One hand perfectly placed on the hip, the other holding the camera at an angle above the head and the eyes looking seductively in the lens.

As the baseball season comes to a close, Most Valuable Player-award candidates are finishing up their respective campaigns and padding their stats during the final week of the season. In the interim, talks are heating up just like the pool of award-winning hopefuls. Only one deserving player will hoist the MVP trophy after the culmination of the World Series. Not one of them is more deserving of the career-making accolade than Manny Ramirez.

Carla Benegas, sophomore business and marketing major, has no idea what Associated Students is or what it offers.

With a turning of the seasons and the semester in full swing there is one thing that CSUN students never cease to fall short of, style. In reality, most students spend their money on books so they can not always afford high end apparel featured in the public eye.

Apart from allocating money to clubs, organization's and themselves Associated Students is working to increase voter turnout for the November elections by registering voters.

A few months ago Librarian Lynn Lampart went to see a movie in a huge theater. She couldn't find a seat and an usher who had taken a library instruction session with her two years prior saw her and recognized her.

Seat shock,' similar to sticker-shock, refers to the feeling of surprise experienced by concertgoers upon finding unexpectedly distant seating after their arrival to a music venue. Typically, this reaction occurs after purchasing a somewhat pricey ticket for a highly anticipated show.

This weekend I experienced a heartbreak, suspicion, love, despair, embarrassment, and redemption, all for less than the cost of a movie. Some may think it crazy to pay for such feelings, and I'd agree, but to witness this gamut of human emotions second-hand is worth much more than the cost of admission to the CSUN theatre department's newest offering.

The Matadors (5-3-0) jumped out to a first half lead, but couldn't hold on as they fell to the Wildcats 2-1 in double-overtime Sunday in Arizona.