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Latinos largest minority on campusesBraNDoN HeNSleyDaily SunDial

Latino college enroll-ment increased 24 percent from 2009 to 2010, mak-ing them the largest 18-to-24-year-old minority group on university campuses, according to the Pew His-panic Center.

“We all need to be edu-cated,” said student Mat-thew Alcantara, 21. “With Latinos being a majority now, I think that’s great.”

Alcantara, a health

administration major, is the first one in his family to go to college. He will gradu-ate next spring, a mile-stone, he said, some of his high school friends will not reach.

In his neighborhood, Alcantara said, students graduating high school focus more on working to support their families, not continuing their education.

But Alcantara’s parents immigrated from Peru and instilled a different kind of work ethic.

“Their main focus since

I was young was to get educated, become a profes-sional and make a differ-ence,” Alcantara said.

Latinos were the largest group on CSUN’s campus in Fall 2010, accounting for 31.4 percent, according to the school’s Institutional Research. White students come in second at 30 per-cent of the student popula-tion.

Latinos make up about 40 percent of the under-graduate population at Northridge and 18.2 per-cent are in a graduate pro-

gram, making them the largest minority group in both categories, ahead of Asian Americans, who come in at 11.4 percent for undergraduates and 10 per-cent for graduate students.

While the school’s Lati-no numbers are encour-aging, David Rodriguez, Chicana/o Studies depart-ment chair, said he is con-cerned about the amount of Latinos not moving on to universities.

In October 2010, 54 percent of Latino students were in four-year schools,

compared to 63 percent of black students and 78 percent of Asian students, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

“It’s one thing to get a bunch of (Latino) stu-dents in a community col-lege,” Rodriguez said. “But you’re going to need more than an AA degree to be successful.”

CSUN has seen a 4 per-cent dip in the number of Latino students enrolled in a graduate program,

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Former CSUN student Christian Hunter-Sheppard, 20, was arrested July 20 on suspi-cion of burglarizing 22 dorm rooms between October 2010

and April 2011, according to CSUN police officials.

Hunter-Sheppard has been charged with five felony counts of burglary and one misde-meanor count for possession of a loaded handgun found in his car during a police search, said Christina Villalobos, spokes-woman for CSUN police.

Hunter-Sheppard was

attending Pierce College at the time of the break-ins, and CSUN police obtained a search warrant for his residence in Reseda where they recovered stolen property, Villalobos said.

Tracking software was installed on one of the stolen computers, she said. When the owner reported the theft, the tracking company flagged

down the equipment, leading CSUN detectives to Hunter-Sheppard.

It is possible for addition-al charges to be filed if more victims come forward or more stolen property is found, Vil-lalobos said.

Hunter-Sheppard is being held on $250,000 bail at Los Angeles County Sheriff’s

Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, according to arrest records.

His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 13 at San Fernando Courthouse.

Dorm burglaries were six times higher in 2010 than the previous year, according to CSUN police.

There were 27 burglaries of

first floor dormitories in 2010, and many of the thefts involved electronics or video game con-soles, Villalobos said.

Police at the time believed the burglars were opportunistic, taking advantage of unlocked doors and windows, Scott VanScoy, captain of patrol ser-vices, told the Daily Sundial in March 2010.

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The Hermanos Unidos de CSUN stand in front of their booth on the first day of class, helping lost students find their way around CSUN. “it’s great that the numbers have gone up for latinos,” said Matt alcantara, co-chair of the club.

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His whole life, all Keith Nolan wanted to do was serve in the military.

As a boy, he read military history, visited battle sites and lived to hear stories from his grandfather and great-uncle, both of whom served in World War II.

At 18, he entered his local Navy recruiter’s office and attempted to enlist, but was instead handed a slip of paper that simply read, “bad ear. Disqual,” Nolan said in an email interview.

Despite being born com-pletely deaf, Nolan contin-ued to try to enroll in the military, only to be met with repeated no’s. Finally let-ting go, he went on to earn a master’s degree in deaf edu-cation from CSUN in 2010, and began teaching at Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Calif.

One day, after a class on the Mexican-American War, a student approached Nolan and asked if he could join the military.

“I said, ‘No, you can’t, because you’re deaf,’” recalled Nolan. “And than it really hit me. I realized that I had been told no all my life, and now I was telling my own student that he couldn’t because he was deaf — and that wasn’t right.”

Feeling a regained sense of purpose, Nolan went home and sent a request to his alma mater asking to join their Army Reserve Officers’

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Amazon hires to avoid taxes New legislation could require online retailers pay state taxBraulio CamposDaily SunDial

Shopping on Amazon could get more expensive for California residents in Septem-ber 2012 if a new bill passes the state legislators.

The online retailer had been exempt from paying state taxes until part of Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget required out-of-state online retailers collect the tax if they had business ties to the state.

After a failed attempt at repealing the law, Amazon offered to hire 7,000 people in California and drop its effort to reverse the act if the state pushed off enforcing the taxes for one year, Forbes reported.

Gov. Brown has until Oct. 9 to sign or veto the revised ver-sion of the bill.

The online companies will be forced to collect taxes from customers, allowing California to collect almost $200 million in tax revenue.

Online tax is equal to the state tax, which is 7.75 percent in California.

Use tax, taxes levied on in-

state business, must be paid by a company or voluntarily paid by its customers, according to the State Board of Equalization, which collects the taxes.

Other online retailers are cur-rently collecting taxes and are not exempt under this deal.

Buying something from a Californian on ebay will add sales tax to a purchase, and Newegg.com, based in Whittier, also applies sales tax.

Students like Henry Jau-regui, 28, use Amazon to find cheaper books, and the sociol-ogy major said he avoids sales tax by purchasing from out-of-state vendors.

“The state should come first, but as a consumer this is good news,” Juaregui said. “Plus, if you think about 7,000 more workers means more people paying taxes.”

Others think online retailers should be completely exempt from taxes because all prod-ucts do not come from Amazon warehouses, private citizens post goods on the site.

“More jobs are involved,” said Alain Babaian, urban stud-ies major. “It’s not just Amazon who sells on Amazon.”

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The Northridge Center was filled with laughter dur-ing CSUN’s second annual “Got Jokes,” headlined by stand-up comedians Loni Love and Pauly Shore Friday night.

“The show was a big suc-cess,” said Amari Canada, public relations major and event coordinator. “Even the big comedians sat with the audience to watch the line-up, instead of staying back-stage.”

CSUN student, fresh-man David Dorward, cinema television and arts (CTVA) major, opened the show, fol-lowed by comedians Andrew Shea, Ron G. and other head-liners.

University Student Union, along with Canada, planned the event, choosing a diverse lineup to reflect the diversity

of the campus. Junior Nicoyia Hurt,

a health science major, enjoyed the show and would love to go to another CSUN comedy event.

“Events like these really make me appreciative of CSUN and being a college student,” Hurt said.

However, some students thought that comedian and actor Pauly Shore’s perfor-mance was rude and strange.

“Pauly Shore was ter-rible,” said Junior Brandon Blueford, a cinema and tele-vision arts (CTVA) major. “He seemed like he was under the influence.”

The audience was ecstatic that comedian and actress Love came to their campus, Blueford said. Love, who can be seen on the E! channel’s popular talk show, Chelsea Lately, gave three bits of advice for success to students during her stand up.

“You need something to do, something to hope for,

and something or someone to love,” said Love. “Study hard and graduate.”

Dorward is already fol-lowing her advice. The USU chose him for the opening act because he won their online contest by submitting a video of himself telling a joke.

Friday’s audience was the biggest crowd the amateur comic has ever performed for.

“It was awesome to open for these big comedians,” said Dorward. “And it’s cool to perform for fellow stu-dents.”

Comedian Ron G., who hosted the show, enjoyed Dorward’s act. He says com-edy is very addictive, but is a difficult path to follow.

“You can’t choose com-edy,” said G. “Comedy has to choose you.”

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according to CSUN’s Insti-tutional Research.

“We’re not getting enough into the graduate levels,” Rodriguez said.

Rocio Mejia, junior health education major, is the first in her family to attend college and one of the few in her circle of friends to make it to a four-year school.

“Most of my friends go to community college,” she said. “Some of them didn’t even go to college.”

The perception of Lati-nos from other groups is the biggest concern for Mejia, she said.

“It makes us look bad if Latinos don’t go to college as much as other (ethnici-ties),” Mejia said.

A rise in the U.S. Latino population could be a rea-son for the higher enroll-ment, Rodriguez said. The Pew Hispanic report noted Latinos make up 19 per-cent of the nation’s young adult demographic, up from 5 percent in 1972.

Rodriguez said these fig-ures may not translate to success at the college level, but in this struggling econo-my there is potential for an attitude shift within young Latinos to place a higher demand on education.

“Right now, you need everyone educated,” he said.

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Training Corps. “I asked the question that

everyone always asks him — ‘If everyone is always telling you no, why do you keep trying?’” said CSUN ROTC Capt. Sid Mendoza. “And he said, ‘Well, hope-fully, someone will say yes.’”

And this time, someone did.

Although ROTC had never before had a deaf

cadet, and the U.S. Military has strict medical guidelines prohibiting them from serv-ing, CSUN ROTC leader-ship decided to give him a shot.

“Ultimately, what made me decide to allow him to participate was his incredi-ble attitude and motivation,” said Lt. Col. Shawn Phelps, commander of the CSUN ROTC program.

Nolan was first admit-ted into the program as a “participating” student, meaning he could sit in on the classes, but would not

be issued uniforms or be allowed to participate in activities, such as morning workouts or field training. But Nolan continued to push for more involvement, even-tually convincing ROTC staff to classify him as an “enrolled” cadet.

With his new status, Nolan was given a full mili-tary issue and began partici-pating in all activities, from drill and ceremony to water survival and land naviga-tion.

“I loved it. This is just what I’ve always wanted to

do,” Nolan said. “(I loved) the discipline, the workouts, the physical fitness, what we learn in class, the theo-ries, the strategies, military history, everything.”

With support from his family, Nolan quit his teach-ing job in order to keep up with the strenuous ROTC schedule. All his energy was focused on being a solider.

“You can see when someone just has that burn-ing desire, that ‘This is what I want, and I want it more than everyone else,’ and that’s very clear with him. When he’s here, he’s 110 percent here,” Mendoza said.

“His enthusiasm is contagious, as is his love for the Army and those in the Army,” added Phelps. “Both the cadets and cadre are amazed by him day in and day out, and we will certainly always consider him part of our organiza-tion.”

Unfortunately, the arrangement didn’t last.

After a year of doing everything he had dreamed, the Army discovered Nolan was participating as an “enrolled” cadet, a status reserved for students who are contracted to join the Army after graduation, despite being unable to pass the medical requirements.

Army officials ordered the CSUN ROTC to strip him of his uniform and return him to “participat-

ing” status, where he could no longer go to the field or march alongside his com-rades.

“It was a huge blow,” Nolan said.

But Nolan isn’t letting the setback keep him from realizing his dream – to one day serve actively in the U.S. Military.

He researched the history of deaf soldiers, began shar-ing his story, and even trav-eled to Israel, where deaf citizens are allowed to join the armed forces. There he met with some of those offi-cers to document how they make it work.

Nolan began a one-man campaign on Facebook, which has already garnered thousands of supporters to allow deaf Americans to serve their country.

Nolan says he has “no doubt” that deaf Americans will serve their country one day, and while he hopes he can be one of them, he is also looking to the future.

While still enrolled as a cadet, Nolan returned to Taft High School to talk to his former students about his experience.

“I think they realized that it’s a possibility,” he said. “Maybe they can try and follow my footsteps and try and break down that door. I’d like to think that maybe I’ve sort of bent the door, so to speak, so that other deaf students can just break it open.”

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Keith Nolan meets with Capt. Sid Mendoza (center) from CSUN roTC. Nolan has been able to communicate through interpreter rita alexander (far left) during his participation in roTC.

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Political science professor Dr. James Mitchell returned Aug. 30 from Tanzania after an 11-day lecture trip.

Mitchell said he learned what Tanzanian students thought and knew about U.S. media and government officials.

“The main concerns are with US intentions,” Mitchell said. “There is a sense of US double standard and unfairness, treat-ing some allies as less equal than others.”

Because the presentations were centered around question-and-answers, Mitchell said he was able to clarify misunder-standings, like the U.S. being set on world domination.

“I asked, given what I explained, who did they think was in a position to make that kind of decision,” Mitchell said. “Someone said, ‘Congress?’”

Mitchell told them legislators have a difficult time settling on an annual budget, much less a course of world domination.

Tanzanians said they expected a lot from President Obama, but were disappointed his administration did not shift U.S. priorities in Tanzania’s favor, Mitchell said.

“There is a great love for President Obama, without a doubt,” Mitchell said. “People remain hopeful.”

Mitchell returned to CSUN, but said he’ll maintain the con-nections he made.

“You cannot drop the ball and leave it here, goodwill was forged but must be followed up with deeds,” Mitchell said. “One of the concerns is that the US loses interest after awhile.”

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Illusion versus reality is the theme that drives filmmaker Eric Javier Mejia’s work.

Mejia, senior cinema and television arts (CTVA) major, tells stories of misrepresented groups in his films, most of which tackle image, body issues and American standards of beauty.

“[The illusion is that] people may look ugly or shattered on the outside, but [the reality is that] on the inside they’re completely human, thriving creatures,” Mejia said.

Mejia loves to glamorize the freaks in his films, because he grew up feeling like he wasn’t allowed to exist the way he wanted to.

He has wanted to be a film director since the age of six, movies were a form of escap-ism for him as a child.

“I sympathize with stories

of Frankenstein and Carrie,” he said. “They are stories where the one person who wants to belong isn’t allowed to.”

Mejia’s relatability to these characters stems from his past, he was often bullied for being overweight and for relating to girls more than boys.

The adults in his life never stood up for him when he was bullied and this forced him to grow up very quickly, Mejia said.

“I felt like life would always be like that,” he said. “I did not think I would ever have anyone to stand by me.”

That all changed after the tenth grade when Mejia, who had only attended private school at the time, told his parents that he would kill himself if he could not transfer to public school.

Mejia recalls this as the moment he was able to tell adults no, and know what is best for himself.

The transfer from private

to public school changed him. Without the distraction of bul-lying, his new environment allowed him to focus on his studies, become involved in campus activities, and even go

on to become prom king, Mejia said.

Though he is no longer overweight, he said that state of mind never left him. Through film, he wishes to produce mes-

sages of body positivity and acceptance.

Mejia is currently experi-menting with photography, cre-ating a series about the lack of plus-sized women in high-end

fashion.“I want to empower people

to embrace themselves and love themselves,” Mejia said. “I want to be more than a filmmaker; I want to be an advocate.”

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"i always sympathize with stories of Frankenstein and Carrie," said eric Javier Mejia, 24-year-old cinema and television arts major.

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Whether you are here at campus, at the market, or at the home improvement store, the green movement constantly bombards you. Considering Mars doesn’t seem like a viable living option any time soon, maintaining the already estab-lished planet Earth seems to be something of importance.

For those of you living under a rock, the green movement is not something related to a bunch of pot smoking hippies. Rather, it is the process by which our world becomes more environ-mentally conscious.

Here on campus, the green movement, also known as sus-tainability, has been established. However, its successes have failed to grasp a spot in the top 100 most sustainable US univer-sities by the Sierra Club.

With four of the top 10 schools on the list being UC’s, how can we Matadors get to the point of sustainability that we too can help our planet – plus, ranking on any list always makes you feel a little special.

"Green initiatives should actually be rephrased to be ‘green way of life’ since through education, consumer behavior and innovation, society as a whole is embracing sustainabil-ity now, not as an ‘initiative’, but as a ‘way of life,’” said Byron Washom, director of Strategic Energy Initiatives at the Uni-versity of California San Diego (ranked 3rd in the nation by the Sierra Club).

Washom’s conception of

the “green way of life” coex-ists well with his fellow team member Dave Weil, UCSD director of Building Commis-sioning and Sustainability. Weil describes the process of becom-ing green as one that must be done through student initiative and getting senior leadership, i.e. the president of the university's, involved.

On campus, there are green clubs, green buildings, and CSUN was even the first univer-sity in California to install a fuel cell utilizing the Self Generation Incentive Program, but there is always more that can be done.

Taking a look at CSUN’s sustainability website, one would note all the movements and involvements that exist to encourage this “green way of life." However the backing from students does not seem to be as apparent as those from other schools such as Cal Poly, San Diego State, CSU Long Beach, and UCSD.

This semester was the first semester sustainability was an option for a minor. Currently in development is a Masters Program in Sustainability Prac-tices. The school has laid out the footwork for a green life style; the rest is truly in the students’ hands.

Yes, the idea of spending more money to replace all our light bulbs with LED lighting sounds pricey. But, when Weil, Washom, as well as many others have proven the long-term fiscal savings, it is difficult to deny that sustainability and the green way of life isn’t important.

“Life cycle costing shows the comparison of initial construc-

tion costs to the savings accrued because of the sustainable con-struction techniques used,” Gary Matthews, vice chancel-lor for Resource Management and Planning at UCSD said. “In many instances where there is an existing building, changes in a system may pay for it self in reduced energy costs within several years.”

Drastic change, like in the city of Long Beach where they banned the use of plastic bags and began charging ten cents

per paper bag used. is not neces-sary. If students work together to encourage the incentives through recycling, reducing waste, and educating ourselves on this life style, an improve-ment can be made.

It is understandable that putting forth such efforts can be exhausting, time consum-ing and, for those of you who still don’t believe our world is impacted by global warming, ridiculous. But think fiscally; you will save money over time.

Contact our Sustainabil-ity Director Helen M. Cox, and Administrative Coordinator Sarah E. Johnson, research the sustainable ways, donate to the

cause, do your part as an active college student to help our planet be a pleasant place to live until our next ice age. There is power in numbers.

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Math, science, English, history. The four core classes that everyone got more than enough of in high school. Although it is quite doubtful that you held a place in your heart for all of these subjects, you were still forced to take them, all in hopes of giving you a well-rounded education that you would “appreciate someday.”

Well, someday has come, and yes, the statistics class you dreaded or the biology class you barely passed are helpful for general eds, but now what? The vocabulary test you took on Macbeth is no help to an engineer.

Perhaps if U.S. high schools focused a little more on what we wanted to learn and a lit-tle less on what was “best for us,” high school dropout rates would decrease and col-lege graduation rates would increase. Students could use less of their college time and

money figuring out what to major in and instead know as soon as they got there.

The U.K. versus the U.S.’s primary and secondary educa-tion system is a prime exam-ple of why our system should emulate theirs.

Let’s start with the basic facts. While 91 percent of stu-dents graduate high school in the U.K., a measly 77 percent of students graduate in the U.S. according to the Organ-isation for Economic Co-operations and Development (OECD).

Not that this is a competi-tion (we are doing great in comparison to Portugal with a 63 percent graduation rate and Turkey with a 26 percent graduation rate) but this means the U.K. is doing something we obviously, as the inferior school system, haven’t tapped into yet.

What might that be?Due to my love of fighting

the system, I’ve been looking into the differences between these two methods for some time now and can tell you, there is a lot we can learn

from the people that once inspired the evolution of rock and roll.

You know the U.S. system. Elementary school goes from ages 5-11. Middle school goes from ages 11-14 and High School from ages 14-18. High school may offer some electives but with all of the requirements that have to be met to graduate, most stu-dents only have enough time to explore a few topics they are truly interested in.

The U.K. separates school by four stages in a different fashion from the U.S. Stage one covers ages 5-6, stage two covers ages 7-10, stage three covers ages 11-13 and stage four covers ages 14-15. The 16 and 17 year olds’ spend time in something called a sixth form.

The sixth form is an option-al portion of school meant to prepare students for college or allow them to spend two years in a college that offers courses for the sixth form.

While we are spending our last two years of High school with 13-year-olds

finding their way around the school and pretending to be in college with AP classes, U.K. students are getting col-lege experience and figuring out exactly what they want to do.

Again, the difference in this type of education shows up in the numbers. 46 percent of college students in the U.S. graduate college. Guess how many graduate in the U.K… 65 percent.

To top it off, they are given more freedom in class choices in the last two years because it is optional.

So what can we do about this? Not much. The education budget is in the toilet and the government has no intention of changing the school system. We don’t have to worry about high school, we’ve already graduated high school and are at some point in our college careers. But, for the future potential unenthusiastic high schoolers, do extra curricu-lar activities and scrounge for the maximum amount of elec-tives, or maybe, just transfer to the U.K.

U.K. education beats the U.S.

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CSUN gets back on winning sideanthony CarpioDaily SunDial

The Matadors were able to break their losing streak and took care of Missouri State with little difficulty, downing them 3-0 in the opening game of the Lobo Invitational on Friday.

More importantly to CSUN head coach Terry Davila, they did it with all of their men on the pitch.

“We didn’t play with 10 men, we played with 11,” said Davila, recalling a game against No. 2 Akron on Sept. 3 in which CSUN lost in over-time while playing one man short for most of the match. “We’re very good when we have 11 men on the field.”

CSUN knew how to take advantage of having a full squad in this one. A header from midfielder Yardun Azu-lay near the end of the game drove the nail in the coffin against the Bears and gave the Matadors their most lopsided win in 13 games dating back to last season.

Azulay, a freshman, scored his second goal of the year 52 seconds before the end of regu-lation. Midfielder Chris Smith picked up his second assist

of the game, and third of the season, on the play.

Both teams came out shoot-ing early in the match. CSUN and Missouri State had two shots each within the first 20 minutes of the game. Despite the Matadors striking first with a goal from Taylor Bowlin in the 23rd minute, the Bears had three shots on goal at the half, edging out CSUN by two.

Matador goalkeeper Michael Abalos was put through his paces in the first half. The junior had two saves roughly two minutes apart early in the match, coming up with a total of three saves by halftime. Abalos finished the game with four and his first shutout of the season.

The second goal of the game came from forward Edwin Rivas in the 63rd min-ute. Rivas, who was assisted by midfielder Thomas Ramos, fired a low bullet to the right of the net as CSUN went up 2-0.

By the end of the match, the Matadors had 10 shots, with six on goal. Missouri State fol-lowed closely with 11 shots, four on goal.

Azulay could have had himself a multi-scoring day, but his penalty kick in the 47th minute was saved by Bears’ goalkeeper Trevor

Spangenberg.Despite the comfortable

win, it seemed like all Davila was thinking about following the match was how much his team fouled.

“We still fouled too much. There was a lack of discipline when fouling,” said Davila, who had called his team “reck-

less” after it had accumulat-ed 48 fouls over its past two games. “We have to improve on our maturity on those fouls.”

In the first half, the Matadors had seven fouls and saw one yellow card, shown to Ramos right at the end of the first 45 minutes. The stat repeated itself

in the second half as CSUN ended the game with 14 fouls and two yellow cards.

The Matadors, who evened up their record at 2-2 with the win over the Bears, finished the Lobo Invitational with a game against host New Mex-ico on Sunday (Full recap of that game available online).

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James rochlitz (24), shown here fighting for the ball during a game against akron on Sept. 3, and the Matadors scored a 3-0 Friday win over Missouri State in the lobo invitational.

tonight against UCLA (7 p.m.) at the John Wooden Center. CSUN has already had to battle against a Pac-12 powerhouse in USC on Tuesday. They didn’t fare too well then, dropping the match, 3-0.

Haina commented on the intensity of that game.

“I think our perfor-mance was shaky, but it got better and USC is a great team,” she said. “They are ranked high, they know how to play volleyball. They are just a little bigger and faster and stronger than us.”

Allen said they played with jitters then.

“We started out ner-vous because it’s USC, but other than that, I think we played good,” she said.

As good as the Tro-jans are, they were no match for CSUN’s rival of turn tonight. The eighth-ranked Bruins made it look easy against USC and swept it at the Galen Center in both teams’ Pac-12 Conference opener on Friday night (25-19, 25-17, 25-17).

The Matadors will have to come out firing in all cylinders against the top-tier opponent if they hope to have a chance against UCLA (7-1), which is playing its home opener.

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Matadors keep scoring going at Boilermaker ChallengeChriStina azouzDaily SunDial

The Matadors continued their hot scoring streak, but even an early two-goal lead wasn’t enough to grant them their second win of the sea-son as they opened the Boil-ermaker Challenge with a 2-2 draw against host Purdue on Friday night.

After two scoreless overtime periods, both teams engaged in a penalty shootout that the Mat-adors won 3-2, qualifying them for the championship match against Dayton yesterday (Full recap of that game available online).

Even though CSUN won the shootout against the Boilermak-ers, both teams will be credited with a tie on their records.

"We would have liked to win, and I thought we had it in double overtime, but we showed a lot of resilience to come out on the road and gave a great effort," CSUN head Keith

West said. "The girls showed a lot of character to get a result in a tough environment."

The Matadors, who were 1-4-1 entering Sunday’s cham-pionship game, got off to a fast start, scoring in the second minute of the game. Senior for-ward Heidi Farran, who scored two goals in a victory over Princeton on Sept. 4, continued her stellar play as she shot a floater from the right side of the field, from 15 yards out, into the top left corner of the net to give CSUN an early 1-0 lead.

Purdue tried to even the score and had three shots on goal in a row. Junior goalkeep-er Cynthia Jacobo saved two of those, and a CSUN defender blocked the other.

Jacobo ended the game with five saves.

Farran almost netted her second goal of the game in the 26th minute on a shot that went wide left of the goal.

In the 30th minute, sopho-more defender Chloe McDaniel extended the Matadors’ lead

with a header into the right side of the net off a pass from senior midfielder Alexis Barbara.

It was the first goal of the season for McDaniel, a team captain, and the first assist of the season for Barbara.

"We have been working a lot on set pieces in training and we came out with a lot of con-fidence in our play," McDaniel said. "The goal was pretty awe-some. I didn't even look after I headed it and just watched my teammates when the ball went in."

In the 52nd minute, the Boilermakers cut into CSUN’s lead following a goal by fresh-man midfielder Chinyelu Asher. Asher put back her own rebound into the bottom left corner of the net.

Purdue wasn’t done, how-ever. Sophomore defender Jor-dan Frick bent in a corner kick inside the far post to even things at 2-2 in the 70th minute.

CSUN had two opportuni-ties to take the lead again late in the game, but could not finish

and took the tie and the penalty shootout to determine its tour-nament fate.

Purdue midfielder Kellie Phillips missed the first penalty. Then, it was CSUN’s turn and sophomore defender Shannon Ward put the Matadors ahead 1-0. Purdue missed its second shot, giving CSUN a chance to take a 2-0 advantage, but the Matadors blew the opportunity as freshman midfielder Hannah Wissler missed.

Both teams made their next two shots to bring the score to 3-2. The Boilermakers then missed the fifth penalty kick, allowing the Matadors to advance to the championship game.

Game notes: CSUN had a season-high 22 shots against Purdue. … The draw was CSUN's first since a 0-0 tie against UC Irvine on Oct. 23, 2008, a span of 49 matches. … Besides goalie Cynthia Jacobo, only defenders Katie Russ and Brielle Slepicoff played the entire 110 minutes of the match.

back from vegas a winnerMatadors get ready for eighth-ranked UCLA by winning two out of three at UNLV Invitational

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after only scoring one goal in the first four games of the season, Marie hirsch (22) and the Matadors netted five in their following two games.

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The Matadors played for keeps in Sin City.

With a well-balanced attack, the CSUN women’s volleyball team was able to defeat UNLV in five sets in the final match of the UNLV tournament on Saturday night, giving the Matadors (6-4) their second tourna-ment crown in a row.

Sophomore Mahina Haina and freshman Casey Hinger led the Matadors, who the week before had won all three of their games at the Sacramento State Invita-tional, with 15 kills apiece. Redshirt sophomore Britney Graff and sophomore Natalie Allen also contributed with 12 and 11 kills respectively.

CSUN took two of its three matches to win the tournament, including a vic-tory over Eastern Washing-ton in five sets on Friday. The Eagles were the third Big Sky Conference team the Matadors have seen, and defeated, in 2011. The other two were Sacramento State and Weber State.

The Matadors dropped the second match (25-27, 26-24,

35-37, 18-25) to Southern Utah Saturday morning with Graff leading the team with 15 kills and Haina adding 14. Hinger had 11 kills, but poor defense let the team down in the final sets.

"We didn't have any blocks in the third or fourth sets which is surprising for us," CSUN head coach Jeff Stork said. "But credit South-ern Utah. They played scrap-py and with a lot of intensity. We didn't serve real well in critical moments and com-mitted a hitting error when we had a chance to win the third set."

Prior to the trip to Nevada, Stork had said he didn’t know what to expect from Southern Utah. He, however, also expressed that he saw both Eastern Washington and UNLV as “playoff teams.”

In the game that would decide the tournament cham-pion, CSUN lost the first set

(25-23), with Hinger lead-ing the way with four kills and setter Sydney Gedryn tallying 13 assists. The sec-ond set belonged to Haina, who powered her way into six kills in the 25-23 win. The team breezed through the third set as CSUN turned up the defense with a collec-tive six blocks in a 25-16 win over the Rebels.

The fourth set was evenly matched, but UNLVsopho-more Madeline Westman’s six kills was the difference as the Rebels took a 25-22 win to force a fifth set. Fresh-man Daryn Glenn contrib-uted with five kills and an ace in the set.

CSUN took the fifth and deciding set, 16-14, won the match, and took the tournament.

The Matadors don’t have much time to celebrate as they’re right back to work

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britney Graff (14) and the Matadors won their second tournament in a row Saturday.