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Who needs to add?Students face what has become the usual battle for classes
Graduate students' loans earn interestLegislators eliminate government subsidiesBrandon HensleydAily sundiAl
Graduate students at CSUN will have to start paying interest on their loans next fall while under-graduate students will still be able to breathe easy when it comes to their borrowed money.
As part of a way to trim the national deficit by at least $2.1 trillion, the federal government will no longer pay the interest of graduate loans while the student is still in school beginning July 1, 2012.
“It’s certainly not a good deal if you’re a gradu-ate student,” said Haley Chitty, spokeswoman for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
The current agreement allows students to start paying interest six months after they’ve completed their program. About $22 billion will be saved over 10 years by charging students earlier, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
There may be a silver lining to the change, however. Elimination of loan subsidies will help correct a shortfall in the federal Pell Grant program, Chitty said.
Pell Grants, given by the government to under-graduate students from low-income families and do not have to be repaid, will not see any changes.
“In that sense, the legislation really protects the cornerstone of the federal student aid program which is the Pell Grant program,” Chitty said.
Lili Vidal, director of CSUN’s Financial Aid and Scholarship Department, was at least happy to have the Pell Grant program saved.
“It’s really the most critical program that we all want to preserve,” she said. “That should be the last thing to go.”
In the 2010-11 school year, Vidal said CSUN paid just under $63 million in Pell Grants to 15,066
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Despite administration adding almost 50 new classes to the Fall 2011 schedule, stu-dents continue to face prob-lems enrolling in the classes they need.
“There’s an increased demand for classes,” said Cynthia Rawitch, vice provost for academic affairs. “We’ve opened more than 50 sections in the last month, ranging from small classes for majors to
large classes for general elec-tives.”
Rawitch advices students still seeking necessary classes to be flexible and look harder.
This semester would have been Nicole Cardenas’ first semester as a transfer stu-dent. However, the psychol-ogy major chose to walk away from CSUN due to her inability to add any other classes toward her degree.
“I was only able to enroll in one class,” she said.
At orientation, advisers told Cardenas that it would be dif-ficult to register for classes in
her major. She quickly found out they were right. Closed sections and an absence of permission codes denied her access.
“My department left me on my own,” Cardenas said. “I called Admission and Records, but they sent me to each indi-vidual department.”
Like many other students, Cardenas just wanted a shot at classes, even if it meant losing a job.
“Even if I had stayed, I probably would have had to leave my job,” Cardenas said. “The classes I had planned,
before the permission number problems, were going to be all-day, spread-out. I’d have to be on campus for large blocks of time, four days a week. It’s tough, especially working full-time, but I would have done it.”
Cardenas was not the only student impacted by this issue.
Junior Marie Takakura, an international student studying biology, did not have a full class schedule at the beginning of the semester. Her stay at CSUN was also in limbo.
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Examining the lack of accommodations for breast-feeding women and a new cam-pus tradition were among Asso-ciated Students’ first orders of business Tuesday during their first meeting of the semester.
The absence of resources for mothers to pump breast milk on campus was critiqued.
“If a woman doesn’t have a place to pump, she’s probably going to stop altogether,” for-mer CSUN student Genevieve Calvin said during her 15-min-ute presentation.
The need for accommo-dation is crucial, Calvin said,
with over 90 percent of women breastfeeding directly after leaving the hospital, and an increase in birth rates shown with students ages 18 and 19.
Currently there is very little support for breastfeeding on campus, said Brenda.
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students raise their hand after professor Jeanine Mingé aks who would like to add her communications course.
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Students line up for free hotdogs at Tuesday's AS Fair. See p. 6 for more photos.
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students.That year Stafford
Loans, available to both graduate and undergradu-ate students, were given to 14,389 students at CSUN, totaling over $113 million, she added.
About 3,000 graduate students received $21.5 million in subsidized loans, Vidal said.
Kristin Contreras is beginning CSUN’s two-year graduate history program this fall, while still paying off undergraduate loans from Occidental College.
She said the news regarding graduate student loans was tough to take.
“Now (graduate stu-dents) have to start paying (loans) off early,” Contreras said. “But if they’re not able
to have sufficient income to cover these loans imme-diately, it makes it kind of tight.”
Despite the changes, graduate students will still line up for loans because they would not be able to pay for school otherwise, Vidal said.
The big thing for stu-dents to do next year is to take better care of their money, she added.
“A lot of students blindly accept what we offer them,” Vidal said. “We have to offer the maximum that they’re eligible for, but they don’t have to accept that.”
Students should live fru-gally and borrow less if they can, Vidal said.
As for Contreras, she said alternative funding may be the way to go.
“I’m going to have to start receiving scholar-ships,” she said.
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laptops, smart phones and tablets have digitalized communication, entertain-ment, and now education through online courses.
“(Online courses) are a way of reaching out to stu-dents with primarily jam packed days,” said Harry Hel-lenbrand, CSUN provost and vice president for academic affairs. “This allows them to take a course that they can squeeze into (their sched-ules).”
In a city like Los Ange-les where traffic is a con-stant variable, online courses allow students to take classes without coming to campus, he added.
Although online courses are beneficial for some stu-dents, Hellenbrand said entirely online courses are not the most suitable for incom-ing freshman, who generally do not succeed in a digital classroom.
Only 29 percent of Ameri-cans believe online courses provide the same education as in-class courses, but 51
percent of university presi-dents believe they are of equal value, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
Students want the campus experience, Hellenbrand said. That experience increases stu-dents’ maturity and is essential in preparing them for their career.
One-in-four college stu-dents reported taking an online course, but reaction is mixed among the students tak-ing part.
"I feel like online cours-es can be a good and a bad thing," said, Daniel Abad, transfer from San Diego State
University. "The bad is that it gives students the ability to be lazy and not come into class, the good is for full time stu-dents who also have a job to work into my schedule.”
Abad admitted to enjoy-ing the college experience and getting the interpersonal atten-
tion by a professor that there is no cyber-replacement for at this juncture in technology.
“I presume it would take two to three times the cost of the course itself to prepare the materials for it if it’s entirely online,” said Hellenbrand.
The cost for creating online
resources may be substantially more but online courses have the advantage of reusable material and the opportunity to recuperate cost over time, Hellenbrand said.
Online courses are broken up into two categories: state-supported classes where stu-dents have the same oppor-tunities to receive state aid, and self-supported, where students take out loans that fit their needs.
CSUN’s Tseng College supports the latter category and targets graduate students, advanced undergraduates or students with little time for school during the week.
“Our classes are a more desirable way for (mid-career professionals) to get an edu-cation because it’s a better fit,” said Kamiran Badrkhan, deputy dean at Tseng College. “Not having to drive makes things more convenient.”
Tseng College offers professional hybrid learn-ing. with courses online and on campus.
Badrkhan said many of the classes were not com-pletely online because they require face to face instruction, and no matter how advanced technology becomes, no online experi-ence can match that of in-person instruction.
“You wouldn’t want to go to a phlebotomist who was taught entirely online, you would probably rather go to a person that has live experience,” Badrkhan said. “Online is not a substitute,
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ONLINE CLASSES ON THE RISE
89%of four-year public universities offer online classes
60%of four-year private universities offer online classes
15%of college presidents say most of their cur-rent undergraduate students have taken on online course
23%of college students report taken an online class
46%of them graduated in the past 10 years
50%of college presi-dents predict most of their undergradu-ates will have taken classes online 10 years from now
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CSUN students were met by 100 degree tempera-tures and plenty of sunshine on their first day of the semes-ter, and the next few months will likely bring more of the same to make up for an unusually cool summer.
“The forecast is above normal temperatures for this month, so we may have a little bit of a warmer Septem-ber and October, because we were below average for June and July,” said Dr. Helen Cox, director of the Institute of Sustainability.
Summer in Southern Cali-fornia was not as sweltering as usual, but worldwide,w 2010 was the hottest year on record, said David Klein, mathemathics professor.
Students have noticed the unusual weather patterns.
“One day it’s super hot and then another day normal,” said Jesus Delgado, a com-puter engineer major. “Last year felt cooler and this year it’s a lot hotter and humid.”
Local weather is largely controlled by El Nino, but
there was a shift from a little La Nina into El Nino, said Cox.
El Nino represents warm-er sea surface temperatures, while La Nina is cooler, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
As winds blow from the
east to west along the equator of the Pacific Ocean it pushes up water in the western part of the Pacific and creates deeper waters in the east. As cool water gets pulled up from below it replaces the warm water being blown west, according to NOAA.
The summer’s unusual
weather pattern seems to be turning around, Cox said.
But climate changes are affecting the environment worldwide, Klein said.
These factors can create natural disaster from low to high ranges on the point scale, such as recent events like Hurricane Irene in the
east coast, flooding in Missis-sippi and heat waves in Texas, Klein said.
To deal with the fluctuating local temperatures, students are advised to walk along the shade when ever possible, drink lots of water and stay indoors between classes to keep cool, he added.
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Some students may choose their major for the money, but this was not the case for Beneyam Wolde-Yohannes. For him, choosing his major meant it would be something that he would love to do every day.
“I wanted to tell stories, and what better artistic form than film,” he said. “It brings out a person’s emotions when you watch a film.”
Wolde-Yohannes’s pas-sion for film derives from his love of storytelling.
“Ever since I started this major, I don’t even think about graduating,” he said.
Hollywood and fame were not factors in his decision of choosing a career.
“I want to make peo-ple better, and film is the medium that reaches the masses,” Wolde-Yohannes said. “There are things that I stand for, and I want to share that with people — and hopefully, I’ll inspire them to find what they love to do.”
Wolde-Yohannes plans on making films that shed light on topics that are sel-dom seen in motion pictures.
“My dream movie would be something that sheds light on the schism between the rich and the poor in this country, and in the entire world,” he said.
He would also like to make a film about his par-
ent’s country of origin, Ethiopia.
Film is an integral part of his everyday life. Work-ing as an assistant engineer for the Cinema Television Arts department, Wolde-Yohannes’s interest and knowledge about motion pictures and film produc-tion continues to grow.
Currently, Wolde-Yohannes’s specialty is film editing, but as he goes deeper into the program he is beginning to respect every single aspect of film production, he said. He sees film crews as a team, in which every member is crucial to making the film.
“What everybody does within the film is so impor-tant,” he added.
Given that film crews are the driving force of
a film, Wolde-Yohannes respects all of his peers in the film program.
“We work hard, espe-cially in this film program,” he said. “People don’t understand the amount of work that we do.”
Not only do film majors have to know every detail about how to make films, they also have the load of their other classes as well, Wolde-Yohannes said.
“We work a lot of hours outside of class,” he said. “The best part is that everybody loves it. Everybody is committed, and you’ve got to be com-mitted.”
Wolde-Yohannes wants to inspire people to better themselves. He believes that he is not the only one that can make a difference.
“I feel that everybody has an idea or creative vision,” he said. “They just have to find it and find out how to let it out the right way.”
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Beneyam “Benny” Wolde-yohannes, film production major, aspires to positively influence people with his films.
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Mike Pina, 21 year old business management major, had three opportunities to make a shot with a small basketball to win a prize at one of the tents at the event.
Credential student Arleen Luna, 32, sits in front of a camera at the Associate Students tent to send Sacramento a message to let them know how the recent CSU changes have personally affected her.
Horizon Piudel, 19, engineering major won the first bicycle raffle that was being hosted at the Big Show tent.
The Associated Students held the A.S. Fair on Tuesday in front of the Matador Bookstore, giving students an opportunity to enjoy free food, music, games and prizes. Students were able to participate in raffles to win prizes such as bicycles and tickets to the San Diego Zoo and Legoland. The Matador concession stand was free for students during most of the event, offering hotdogs, apples and cold drinks. Associated Students also took the opportunity to meet students and involve them in creating a video, where students were able to voice their opinions to Sac-ramento about the changes the CSU has made and how that has affected them personally. The A.S. Fair was successful in welcoming students for most of the day and allowed them to participate in fun activities with friends.
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DJ Spy announces the first winner of one of two bicycles that were given out by the CSUN police department.
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national students dictate that stu-dents must be enrolled in 12 units to be considered full time. If Takakura doesn’t add the necessary units, her student visa could be revoked.
“This semester, I can only enroll in four units in my major,” she said. “If I’m not a full time student, I can’t stay here.”
The new classes are largely offered on Fridays and Saturdays, making it nearly impossible for students to manage around a work schedule. The only other option is to show up to a class and try to add it, thus the chances of enrolling in the preferred section decreases.
“Students don’t want Friday or Saturday classes, but it’s when we have the classrooms available,” Rawitch said. “We are running out of classrooms and faculty to teach these classes."
Nevertheless, Rawitch advised students to look into the Friday and Saturday classes that are available.
Sophomore Devon Bargmann also noticed the shift in classes to less desirable times.
“I would prefer taking a class multiple times a week,” she said. “A three-hour class is a lot of information at once, and you don’t get to know the subject as well.”
When she began the search for classes, the most available were Tuesday-Thursday slots or ones offered once a week.
“How do I make sense about living on campus when I go to school two or three days a week?” she said. “My home is only half an hour away.”
On the first day of school, busi-ness management major Westin
Yacoobian noticed differences in adding classes for his sophomore year.
“The classes I needed weren’t completely open,” he said. “They were not available at times I want-ed. I start at 8 a.m., and I have a seven-hour break on Wednesdays.”
His evaluation of the process: “It wasn’t terrible. But it wasn’t ideal, either.”
The available classes on Fri-days and Saturdays are less desir-able for students. But with no available classrooms during the week, administration said it does
not have other options. Classrooms are all booked.
However, Rawitch said sections will continue to be added through-out the first week of the semester.
“There’s a lot of movement in the first week,” she said.
The basis for adding sections
is a result of tracking class need, Rawitch said. The university holds money centrally to departments, allowing the provost’s office to open more sections of full classes.
All classes must be added by the end of the third week with permis-sion numbers from the instructor.
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talar shanlian, junior communications major, sits in a communications class hoping there will be room for her to add the class. "It has been horrible, this will be the fourth class I'm crashing," says shanlian in regards to getting classes.
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Matador Nights is a chance for continuing stu-dents and incoming fresh-men to meet and have fun on a typically serious campus.With school just starting and new students flooding the campus, why was the upcom-ing Sept. 9 event canceled?
Some have speculated that the Matador Nights held last April, which ended early after a fight broke out, is to blame for the cancellation. But after talking to the Uni-versity Student Union events manager, I believe this can-cellation, and the changes it will bring, were inevitable and in the best interest of CSUN students.
For those not aware, the last Matador Nights was held in spring 2011 and abruptly ended after two unidentified males got into an alterca-tion and USU administrators evacuated the event.
In total, 11 crimes were reported on this night alone
and some students were even taken to the hospital due to their levels of intoxication.
“It has grown so much,” USU events manager Shanell Tyus said of the lately trou-blesome Matador Nights.
Tyus said with this growth in attendance comes the inev-itable challenge of keeping it a safe event, but still fun at the same time.
Tyus, along with the events team and student com-mittee, need to look at the logistics more thoroughly. Having a fall event would be impossible without major changes.
For freshmen and others who are new to CSUN, this event marks a chance to meet people on campus, and with a college as big and diverse as CSUN that can be a chal-lenge.
What must be remem-bered though is the idea of safety.
A college campus is sup-posed to be that safe bubble where parents can send their children and feel secure in their well-being.
Even with CSUN’s close proximity to areas such as
Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles, it still needs to remain that safe haven, some-thing that cannot be achieved without the proper security and planning of events like this.
Tyus said that while the fall scheduled Matador Nights might have been can-celed, the spring event will be held, as well as many smaller events throughout September, to welcome both new and continuing Matadors.
Many incoming students look forward to these major events, but not if there’s a safety risk involved.
“I don’t think it’s fair for new students to miss out, but I also don’t want anything scary to happen,” said Jessica Shofner, a freshman psychol-ogy major.
As a new CSUN student, Shofner said she doesn’t know anyone on campus yet, and large-scale events such as Matador Nights are things she would attend just to meet new people.
“Smaller things (like the planned movie night and comedy show) just don’t seem as worthwhile to drive
up here (to campus) for," she said. "I don’t know if I would meet as many people."
The safety of students, especially during events tuition and other fees fund, should be of the utmost focus and concern.
If ensuring that safety means postponing or cancel-ing an event until that can be guaranteed, then it should be done.
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Women Infants Children (WIC).
Klotz Student Health Center offers some lactation accom-modations for faculty, staff and students, but its short hours and far location could prevent peo-ple from using it to its fullest potential, Smith said.
Title 9, a federal law, requires lactation accommoda-tion be provided in the work-place, Calvin said.
The measure mandates a pri-vate space big enough to walk in to ensure that a woman can pump in private. This excludes bathrooms and cars, both popu-lar places women use to accom-modate their lactation needs.
Some CSU campuses, Uni-versity of California Los Ange-les and University of Southern California, accommodate lac-tating mothers.
The senate shifted to school spirit when University Affairs invited students to attend the freshman convocation and the unveiling of the matador statue
next Thursday evening in front of the library.
A proposition was approved to reinstate the “Tradition of the Rose,” which calls students to place roses on the new mata-dor statue to symbolize accom-plishments, struggles, or other symbolic change or action tak-ing place in their life, according to Veda Ward, faculty advisor.
“[Matadors] are the equiva-lent of Kobe Bryant and Jay-Z,” she said, speaking about other parts of the world. “You put up pictures of matadors on your wall.”
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Calendar of EventsAugust - september 2011
USU MatafestTImE: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.WHERE: Plaza del Sol, USU (11:30 a.m.) and OST Lawn, USU (5 p.m.)DESCRIpTION: Matafest will have food, games, and live music. Prizes will include a parking permit, gift cards to the Freudian Sip, the PUB, the Matador Bookstore and a pair of Big Show tickets. The craft corner will be making fish bowls and sun catchers. South Seas Entertainment will be perform-ing live with Hawaiian music and Polyne-sian dancers along with Monroe and Jishin Taiko. Food catered by L&L Hawaiian BBQ.
Family Fun ZoneTImE: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.WHERE: OST Lawn (map)
Welcome Back EventTImE: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.WHERE: Games Room, USUDESCRIpTION: Enjoy free food, gaming, billiards, table tennis, and music.
President’s PicnicTImE: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.WHERE: Bayramian Hall Lawn
USU Craft CornerTImE: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.WHERE: Plaza del Sol, USUDESCRIpTION: Matafest - Tropical and ocean themes wtih school items.
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Women’s Soccer vs. New MexicoTImE: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.WHERE: Matador soccer fieldDESCRIpTION: CSUN students w/ ID recieve FREE admission! Arrive early these free seats are limited! Wear red! Be loud! Stand with the Matadors!
01 (cont.)USU Neon NightsTImE: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.WHERE: Games Room, USU
USU Red RallyTImE: 7pm – 9pmWHERE: Soccer Field DESCRIpTION: Men's Soccer vs. Univer-sity of Akron
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Jessica Williams, upper division seat II senator, places a rose in the fence surrounding the new Matador statue as part of the 'tradition of the rose' which was reinstated at the a.s. meeting tuesday.
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Much like the NFL’s lock-out situation this summer, the NBA is having its own set of problems between team owners and the Player’s Association. However, unlike in the NFL, NBA players can take matters into their own hands; they can play professional basketball and get paid millions without the NBA.
What people forget is, the NBA is only one of many basketball leagues in the world that could fulfill these desires.
Recently, many players - among them superstars Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant - have been considering the option to play overseas in case the NBA lockout persists. Some players, like point guard Deron Williams, have already agreed to do so.
But is playing overseas really the right course of action? Will the depar-ture of players be detrimental to the NBA and the team owners? Or is it working against the players them-selves, as NBA commissioner David Stern suggests?
Along with FIBA giving clearance to NBA players who wish to play out of the country while the lockout is on, the league and the team owners could see major fallout -- they’ll not only lose money, they’ll also lose fans.
Instead of pushing their players away, the NBA should be pulling them closer to try and avoid a conflict that will inevitably end in disaster.
The league should stop making ridiculous proposals that not only look to cut back on existing contracts, but also impose a harder salary cap and take away a greater chunk of basketball-related income from the players.
The league needs to find a middle ground whereby both parties can be happy, and they can start on that as soon as today when the NBA is sched-uled to meet with the players’ union
in New York. Otherwise, we may be looking at another strike-shortened season like the 1998-99 one, or even worse, no season at all.
Stern isn’t helping the cause with his declarations to The Associated Press earlier this month. The com-missioner said players choosing to leave aren’t a threat to the NBA, but instead, they’re only hurting them-selves, because their actions might cause the Player’s Association to divide, prolonging the lockout.
But if this was really the case, why would the players’ representatives, led by union president and Lakers point guard Derek Fisher, sign a memo approving the actions of the players going overseas? The union stated it wants players to look for work instead of giving in to the economic demands of team owners.
The players are the ones benefiting from this scenario because they get to do what they always do: play basket-ball and get paid for it. Not only that, they get to play somewhere where the competition is much weaker than in the NBA, something that definitely appeals to some.
Think about it this way: The NBA is unquestionably the biggest stage for basketball in the world. The best play-ers on the planet converge here and the level of competition is extremely high. Because of this, a mediocre player in the NBA could be a legiti-mate superstar overseas and get used to the idea of being the best player on his respective team.
New Jersey Nets point guard Jor-dan Farmar, who recently signed with Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, was greeted by singing fans and drummers when he landed at the airport, a far cry from his status as a role player with the Lakers. Could you really blame him if he didn’t come back to the NBA?
Sure, Farmar is only a bench warmer, but what about the super-stars? Would they leave, too? There’s some allure to playing overseas for them because they wouldn’t just sim-
ply dominate, they would completely shatter the competition.
In the 1995-96 season, washed-up superstar Dominique Wilkins signed with Greek team Panathinaikos and averaged 20.9 points and seven rebounds per game at the age of 36. Just imagine what the likes of Bryant and Wade could do.
And while it is true superstars will only get a percentage of what an NBA salary amounts to if they sign with a
foreign team, it’s better than getting nothing if there’s a lockout.
Stern also told the AP there would be only about 10-20 players who may secure employment overseas, but that simply didn’t turn out to be true.
According to ESPN, more than 40 players have already signed contracts, and more than 65 others, includ-ing big names like Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, and Carmelo Anthony, are very much interested in playing
overseas next year should the NBA remain “closed.”
So what would the NBA do if all their marquee players started to leave? Would the owners soften their demands, or watch everyone leave one by one?
A quick and simple remedy to this would be to loosen up and give in a bit into what the players’ union is proposing, because, overall, the real losers are the fans.
nBA owners possess key to end the lockout
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Can we agree on a deal?: Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, left, meets Lakers guard kobe Bryant after Dallas’s series-sealing Game 4 win in the 2011 Western Conference Semifinals on May 8. Can owners and players be just as amicable today at their new-york meeting and find a way out of the nBA lockout?
spotlightWhat are the Matadors saying on the social network?
We feel 3.0 is pretty good.@DiaperDandy_Max / Stephen Maxwell, men’s basketballOnly got a 3.0 GPA for my summer class!Aug. 25
Sophomore eager for the year.@AqeelQuinn / Aqeel Quinn, men’s basketballBeen focus all summer...Just picking up where I left off...Sophomore campaign begins!Aug. 29
Bus ride to Utah would have been a hassle.@HoniHini / Mahina Haina, women’s volleyballWait what !! Not riding in a bus ! Northridge volley is upgrading :)Aug. 25
Welcome! Story ran on Tuesday. Still up on our website!@DiaperDandy_Max / Stephen Maxwell, men’s basketball Catch me and Allan Guei in the CSUN student newspaper tomorrow..thanks to @sundialsports57Aug. 29
One professor needs to get to class earlier.@TMagorien / Travis Magorien, men’s volleyballDon’t worry teach class only started at 11 and your not here but I am still waitingAug. 29
No cap room, no NBA season.@m_abalos30 / Michael Abalos, men’s soccerJust watching Russell Westbroook play in our gym in northridge....he is unreal, la please sign him!Aug. 18
Perks, huh?@violetalama / Violet Alama, women’s basketballOhhhh the perks of being a student athlete :)Aug. 17
Confident man right here.@JO3FRANCO / Joe Franco, men’s soccerI dnt have swag...they have yet to invent a word for what I have!Aug. 8
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