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Unit caps and smaller classes attempt to fit CSU’s constraints

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c SUN students received an email earlier this week announcing new restrictions on spring regis-tration, including a 15-unit cap and less class seats.

The decision to tighten registration rules was imple-mented to avoid a $7 mil-lion penalty from the CSU by reducing students’ unit loads, according to campus officials.

If CSUN does not scale back to Spring 2011 levels of full-time equivalent students, the campus could incur a multi-million dollar penalty. Without that threat, there would be no need for the unit restrictions, said CSUN Provost Harry Hellenbrand.

“We have the money,” he said. “We would be able to support (these) students if we aren’t penalized.”

CSUN is allowed to exceed full-time student enrollment capacity by 3 percent. The campus is operating at 6.3 percent beyond enrollment capacity, said Vice Provost Cynthia Rawitch.

An increase in full-time equivalent students and a rise in average unit loads are to blame for the spike, Rawitch said.

“Despite fall enrollment controls, we had more fresh-man and transfer students than we hoped to have,” Rawitch said.

defining full-time equivalency

CSUN accepted its larg-est freshman class yet, with 5,200 first-year students coming to campus in Fall 2011.

Now the campus is look-ing to decrease its number of full-time equivalent students by about 4,000, according to academic affairs documents.

That figure does not rep-resent real students, however. A full-time equivalent stu-dent is a statistical category, Hellenbrand said, calculated by multiplying the number of enrolled students by the total number of units they take and dividing that number by 30 units, a full-term load.

Full-time equivalent stu-dents are calculated by com-bining individual students’ unit loads to make one full-time student taking 12 units. For example, two part-time students each taking six units would equal one full-time equivalent student.

The average unit load has increased from 11.2 to 11.8 for a full academic year, Hellenbrand said. While this number is only a few tenths above the average unit load, this increase translates to about 800 to 900 full-time equivalent students.

Not only does CSUN have to decrease full-time equiva-lent students for the Spring semester, the campus must

also make up for the Fall overage, Rawitch wrote in an email.

“We need to get as close to 100% of target as we can,”

she wrote, adding that CSUN

is aiming for fewer full-time equivalent students because some areas will have more than they should.

exceptions to the rule

According to the cam-pus-wide email, graduating seniors are exempt from the 15-unit cap, but other stu-dents were encouraged to choose their classes wisely and make every unit count.

First-time freshmen, dis-abled students, deaf and hard of hearing students, and some cohorted students are also exempt from the restric-tion that allows non-exempt students to register for 13 units in the first wave of registration and another two units during open registra-tion, or the second wave.

Students will be allowed to petition with their college deans for exemptions, but they will be rarely granted, Hellenbrand said.

Similar cut backs and restrictions were implement-ed two years ago, he added

It is unclear how long the new restrictions will be enforced, but the matter will be revisited next semester when campus officials decide how to conduct freshman registration in May, Rawitch said.

“it’s a foolish thing to do”

If students take 15 units each semester, they should graduate within four years if all of those classes were necessary and appropriate to their degrees.

On average, CSUN first time freshmen take 5.6 years to earn their degrees, according to Institutional Research’s 2010-11 data.

Campus officials are unsure how the new restric-tions could affect these fig-ures, but Hellenbrand said it could be detrimental.

“It’s a foolish thing to do,” he said. “It (could) dis-courage graduation.”

lecture hall meets legislature

The CSU has requested a

5 percent system-wide enroll-ment increase be included in

next year’s state budget, said William Wat-kins, vice president of student affairs. Negotiations for that request

should begin in January when Gov. Jerry Brown proposes a new economic outline.

Until then, the CSU is clamping down on campuses that have exceeded their tar-get enrollment.

Political theory swirling in California’s higher edu-cation suggests if campuses can show they have fewer full-time equivalent students, then they can ask state poli-cymakers for more money to boost their numbers, Hellen-brand said.

“(This has not worked) in my lifetime,” he added.

Officials in Long Beach said because the chancel-lor decided not to increase tuition in the spring, cam-puses were left responsible to replace and sustain revenue.

CSU’s Fall 2011 tuition increased 12 percent after the system took a $650 million blow to its budget from the state.

“There was no other way to get the failed revenue,” said Stephanie Thara, CSU spokeswoman.

CSUN’s decision to han-dle its finances with unit caps and shrunken classes was a campus-specific one, Thara said.

California’s university systems could be hit with an additional $100 million cut in January if state revenue does not meet projections, but Thara said this looming cut is unrelated to CSUN’s need to scale back.

More uncertainty

Campus officials announced last spring that CSUN would accept spring transfers, and that will not change with the recent rule since those new students have already been notified, Hellenbrand said.

Change could, however, come in Fall 2012, when campus officials must reevaluate their targets and determine if support-ing transfer students is in CSUN’s budget.

CSU’s Fullerton, San Diego, San Jose and San Luis Obispo have all declared impaction, mean-ing their campuses have met capacity and closed to new students, according to the CSU.

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what is your registration strategy?

what are your concerns now that units are capped at 15?

mike ahncompuTer scieNce

major, seNior

“it depends on when they give me my date to register. as

soon as i get the registration date and time, even if it’s at 2 a.m., i’ll wake up at 2 a.m. and get the classes that i need.”

natalie Coelhofamily aNd

coNsumer scieNces major, juNior

“i was planning on trying to

graduate a little bit earlier, so i wanted to request more classes because they cut a lot of mine,

but now i can’t really do that, so i don’t know where i am right

now.”

SpenCer mix liberal sTudies major, seNior

“basically check all the classes

online ahead of time and as soon as registration comes up, i’ll (get)

them as quick as i can.”

mark landencompuTer scieNce, graduaTe sTudeNT

“Twelve units is kind of enough.

if i want to get beyond that, there’s usually 12 main units i

want, but anything beyond that is kind of excessive.”

natalie Coelhofamily aNd

coNsumer scieNces major, juNior

“i’ll pick the classes i need based on my (degree progress report). i’ll make a couple of schedules

that i like, and during my enrollment appointment, i’ll log on and put in whatever codes

for my classes.”

Sarah mCilVaineeNviroNmeNTal biology major,

seNior

“i’m actually exempt from it, so thank goodness. but i’ve been here seven years, so if that had happened sooner, i would’ve

been really frustrated.”

Excess enrollment and larger unit loads to blame for spring semester registration caps and shrinking classes

3.3 years

Transfer time to degree

5.6 years

Freshmen time to degree

11.2 11.8

Current average unit load

Usual average unit load

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Latin hip-hoptakes the stage

Wale gets back to the basics

Up-and-coming Latino rappers blend their Mexicanroots and American upbringing into their music

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It was dusk. The sunlight remaining in the day was about to fade as the black SUV rolled into the parking lot of a Hol-lywood lounge. “Sorry we’re a bit late,” said one of the rep-resentatives for Latin hip-hop duo, Serpientes Y Piramides (SYP), as they stepped out of the car. They had just finished two media interviews and they were onto their third.

Serpientes Y Piramides (Ser-pents and Pyramids), in English, Juan Zarate, of Chicago, and Manuel Garcia, of Milwaukee who goes by “Antorcha,” trav-eled to L.A. to promote their new album, “Arriba Los Rudos” (Hooray for the Rudes, trans-lated in English).

“There isn’t really any Latin hip-hop groups that are repre-senting in this form, we want to fill that void,” Garcia said.

Prior to any involvement with the music business, both members were born in México and moved to the U.S. at an early age. They were faced with the challenge of having to learn English and deal with a lack of representation of Mexican-Americans in their communities. They steered clear of the gang

life and put education on the forefront for their futures.

“I have both perspectives – I grew up with both cultures,” said Garcia as he described the balance between his Mexican roots and American identity. “I understand both.”

The duo has infused their Mexican culture into their tracks, cover art and overall message.

The CD art of “Arriba Los Rudos,” which is a phrase often used in Mexican wrestling, depicts a bold double-headed Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec god.

When they were looking at the double headed serpent, they kept in mind their dual-identity and what the Aztecs used for a “simbolo de sabiduria” (symbol of wisdom), Zarate said.

“We want to keep it to our culture and our roots,” Zarate added.

The bilingual artists show-case the essence of Mexican-American culture through the language and lyrics of the album. While it is a predomi-nately Spanish album, at times they switch from Spanish to English on a given track.

The lyrics are formed through a street-feel with verses of poetry and political advocacy, all while sticking to the roots of Latin hip-hop.

Though their experiences

may appear somewhat analo-gous, they only met a few years ago at Virus Enterprises record label when they were working on different projects.

Initially, the two were on different paths. Garcia was pro-ducing for label mates Kinto Sol, while Zarate contributed to the label as a separate artist. They ended up collaborating and decided to form SYP.

“We liked the chemistry and we kept at it,” Zarate said.

Although Garcia had always dreamed of being involved in the hip-hop music industry, it wasn’t until Zarate’s high school years when he began to play with the idea of hip-hop as a possible career choice.

“I never thought I would do music, but one day I heard myself on a track and said ‘Hey I don’t sound too horrible,’” Zarate said. “We (him and his friends) just started messing around with hip-hop, playing shows and going to rap battles.”

Later, his passion for writing, reading and music journalism lead him to obtain an associate degree in journalism. He admits he used to collect hip-hop maga-zines and dreams of having his name embedded into the pages.

Garcia has always been attracted to the messages of

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Shortly after leaving Inter-scope Records for not seeing eye-to-eye with his production-team over the sound of his first album, rapper Wale has found a home with Rick Ross, founder of Maybach Music Group. With a trusted crew around him, Wale is determined to prove he is one of the most talented lyricists in a music landscape filled with over-bloated production from lesser artists.

With “Ambition,” Wale’s second full-length album, the D.C. rapper returns to what he’s most comfortable with; deep lyrical musings over simple old-school samples.

After album opener, “Don’t Hold The Applause” gives long-time Wale supporters hope that “Ambition” will see him return to 70’s style funk/dance sam-ples, it’s cemented with track two, “Double M Genius.”

As the horn-punctuated sam-ple eases itself into the track, Wale explains he’s one of the “best thinkers” in the freshman class of rappers, which includes Drake and Wiz Khalifa. What follows for the next two and a half minutes is unfiltered ener-gy, as Wale’s verses duel with grooving horns and percussion.

It’s in this regard that Wale stands above most other rap-pers you can listen to on the radio every day. While he may not be able to sing and doesn’t dabble with auto-tune, his natu-rally smooth flow adds to old samples to create something entirely new.

While most comfortable when backed by decades-old horns and the distinct sound of live drums, Wale proves on

“Ambition” that he can step outside those bounds and try something different.

“Sabotage” featuring Lloyd, the album’s eighth track, has Wale rapping over mellow electric guitar talking about making up with a girl after a serious fight. Lloyd lends his high-pitched vocals to intro-duce the hook, which highlights the subdued track with steady drumming and toned down trom-bones and trumpets.

On every rap album, there’s at least one ill-conceived love/heartbreak song that offers lis-teners nothing more than a few painful minutes of cringing and embarrassment, which makes it all the more pleasant that “Sabotage” avoids being comi-cally misplaced and altogether random.

“Slight Work” featuring Big Sean, stands out for both its basic beat and perfect platform for a lyrical show-off contest between Wale and Big Sean. The radio-friendly track is all bravado, as their topics of choice are how great they are and how much money they have. And while that might sound like every other hip-hop song you’ve heard, the two rappers manage to exceed the average simply by not taking themselves so seriously.

Though not a classic, “Ambi-tion” does an admirable job of bridging the gap between Wale’s love of 70’s funk and dance with modern hip-hop. Maybach Music Group offers him a home to further work on his craft while not succumbing to the mediocrity radio listeners have had to endure over the last several years.

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Juan zarate, of Chicago, and Manuel Garcia, of Milwaukee, form the Latin hip-hop duo serpientes Y Piramides.

Courtesy of virus enTerprises

Check outSerpientes y Piramides:

Twitter: @serpientesSYPFB: facebook.com/serpientesypiramides

Their new album, “Arriba Los Rudos” will be released on Nov. 15.

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hip-hop and set his sights on becoming part of the music world. Since the age of 12, he worked on producing tracks and all things behind the scenes.

“I love the grimy part of it. I love making instrumentals,” Garcia said as he explained the reason why he got into the genre. “You don’t need no major label to push you, the people who really understand your music will sup-port you.”

Now, he is going to school working towards his bachelor’s degree in marketing as a back-up.

According to SYP, the Latin hip-hop movement may not have a huge presence in the American mainstream but has impacted audiences as far as South Ameri-ca and Spain.

“We don’t see it growing over here as much, and there’s a lot of competition,” said Zarate as he expressed Latin hip-hop as a subculture. “Before they look at us, they’re going to look at Lil Wayne and Nas... and then regional underground and then the Latinos.”

They have yet to lose hope, though.

“There’s a market for every-thing,” Garcia said. “There has to be room for Latin hip-hop. I love it when other artists, especially Latinos, come out with dope music.”

SYP does not see Latin hip-hop’s low-key presence in Ameri-can mainstream music as a nega-tive characteristic.

As a matter of fact, they are using social media to combat

the obscurity and spread their message. Tweets of their L.A. appearances and Facebook posts for their upcoming album circu-late on their networking sites, which has allowed them to gain fans all over the world.

“Now, especially with the Internet, you can see it (Latin hip-hop movement) in places like Venezuela and Columbia,” Garcia said.

As the night creeps in and Hollywood streets brighten from streetlights lamps and billboards, SYP’s promotional tour in L.A. is almost over.

“It’s been a stepping stone, a ladder to climb,” Zarate said. “It’s challenging but it wouldn’t be fun if it wasn’t a challenge.”

“I’m doing what I enjoy, there’s nothing better than that,” Garcia said.

sYP Continued from page 1


Juan zarate’s passion for writing has led him to not only pursue music, but a degree in journalism as well.


Manuel Garcia’s love for music production has helped him incorporate himself into the world of Latin hip-hop.


serpientes Y Piramides composed of Juan zarate and Manuel Garcia will receive their album ‘arriba Los rudos’ november 15.

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Date Opponent Time

11/11/11 @ USC 8:00 p.m.

11/15/11 @ Hawaii 1:00 a.m.

11/19/11 @ Boise St. 12:05 p.m.

11/22/11 vs. San Diego Christian 7:05 p.m.

11/26/11 @ Drake 5:05 p.m.

11/30/11 vs. CSU Bakersfield 7:05 p.m.

12/3/11 @ Santa Clara 7:00 p.m.

12/10/11 @ Pepperdine 7:00 p.m.

12/17/11 vs. Pacifica 7:05 p.m.

12/22/11 @ Washington 7:00 p.m.

Date Opponent Time

12/29/11 vs. UC Irvine* 7:00 p.m.

1/2/12 @ UC Riverside* 7:00 p.m.

1/7/12 vs. Long Beach St* 7:05 p.m.

1/12/12 vs. Pacific* 7:05 p.m.

1/14/12 UC Davis* 7:05 p.m.

1/19/12 @ UC Santa Barbara* 7:00 p.m.

1/21/12 @ Cal Poly* 5:00 p.m.

1/26/12 vs. Cal State Fullerton* 7:05 p.m.

1/28/12 @ CSU Bakersfield 7:00 p.m.

2/2/12 vs. UC Santa Barbara* 7:05 p.m.

Date Opponent Time

2/4/12 @ Long Beach St* 4:05 p.m.

2/9/12 @ UC Davis* 7:00 p.m.

2/11/12 @ Pacific* 7:30 p.m.

2/15/12 vs. Cal Poly* 7:00 p.m.

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2/22/12 vs. UC Riverside* 7:05 p.m.

2/25/12 @ UC Irvine 7:30 p.m.

2/29/12 @ Cal State Fullerton* 7:05 p.m.

Date Opponent Time

11/11/11 @ San Francisco 3:00 p.m.

11/14/11 @ Loyola Marymount 7:00 p.m.

11/17/11 @ Oregon St. 7:00 p.m.

11/19/11 @ Washington 2:00 p.m.

11/25/11 vs. Colgate% 7:30 p.m.

11/26/11 Consolation game% 5:00 p.m.

11/26/11 Championship game% 7:30 p.m.

12/1/11 vs. Santa Clara 7:00 p.m.

12/3/11 @ Pepperdine 4:00 p.m.

12/7/11 vs. San Jose St. 7:00 p.m.

Date Opponent Time

12/11/11 vs. Fresno St. 2:00 p.m.

12/19/11 @ Oregon 7:00 p.m.

12/21/11 @ Portland 7:00 p.m.

12/29/11 vs. UC Irvine* 4:00 p.m.

12/31/11 vs. UC Riverside* 4:00 p.m.

1/7/12 @ Long Beach St.* 4:00 p.m.

1/12/12 @ UC Davis* 7:00 p.m.

1/14/12 @ Pacific* 4:00 p.m.

1/19/12 vs. Cal Poly* 7:00 p.m.

1/21/12 vs. UC Santa Barbara* 4:00 p.m.

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1/25/12 @ Cal State Fullerton* 7:00 p.m.

1/28/12 vs. CSU Bakersfield 4:00 p.m.

2/2/12 @ UC Riverside* 4:00 p.m.

2/4/12 @ UC Irvine* 4:00 p.m.

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2/16/12 Pacific* 7:00 p.m.

2/18/12 UC Davis* 4:00 p.m.

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After a surprise 2010-11 season in which the Matadors finished third in the Big West Conference and had a freshman class play a pivotal role in their success, the future looked prom-ising.

But that was quickly put on hold.

The NCAA decided in May to ban Northridge from all post-season play for the 2011-12 sea-son for its continuous subpar marks in the Academic Progress Rates (APR) report, an account that measures eligibility and retention for Division-I student athletes and is an indicator of graduation rates.

The Matadors, who had an overall record of 14-18 and a league record of 9-7 a year ago, won’t get a chance to play under the bright lights of the Big West Tournament, but they still have an opportunity to capture the conference’s regular season championship.

“We’re not going to go out there and lose every game, we’re still going to play for pride and play for honor,” sophomore guard Josh Greene said. “We still can compete for a Big West championship. I’m ready to play.”

CSUN begins its quest Fri-day when it faces USC at the Galen Center in the season opener for both teams.

The Trojans, who were ineli-gible to compete in the postsea-

son during the 2009-10 year, are the first of two Pac-12 teams CSUN will face this season, with Washington being the other.

Guard Vinnie McGhee, one of only three seniors on CSUN’s roster, has advice for his young teammates when they step on the floor against USC.

“I told them, ‘They’re just another team, you don’t play their name, you play them,’” McGhee said. “Just go out there with the focus that we can beat anybody. It doesn’t matter that their jerseys read ‘USC.’ It’s about five guys playing against another five guys.”

McGhee will be the leader of a Matador team that consists of seven freshmen, six sopho-mores and no juniors. CSUN is the third youngest team in the nation behind only Navy and fellow Big West member UC Irvine.

After news broke out about Northridge’s postseason ban, McGhee had the option of trans-ferring but decided to return, saying he wanted to be a big brother for his teammates and a mentor for the guards.

Last season, McGhee took Greene and Aqeel Quinn under his wing and the two made a major impact in their first sea-son as Matadors.

CSUN was picked to finish eighth in the Big West standings a year ago, but the surprise play of Greene and Quinn and the one-two senior punch of Lenny Daniel and Rashaun McLemore took the team all the way to the Big West Tournament semi-finals, where they ultimately fell to eventual-champion UC Santa Barbara.

This season, the Matadors were once again picked to finish

eighth in the league, with Long Beach State and UCSB at the top of the preseason poll.

“It will be a huge surprise if we do anything because you have Santa Barbara with every-body back, Long Beach with everybody back,” said Bobby Braswell, who is entering his 16th season as head coach for the Matadors. “Fullerton had three or four guys sitting out because they were transfers

from Berkeley that are going to be really good. So the expecta-tions for us I’m sure aren’t very high.”

With the loss of Daniel, CSUN’s leading scorer and rebounder last season, the Mata-dors could have a tough time creating an inside presence.

However, the Matadors could create problems for their opponents with their guard play. CSUN is stacked in the

backcourt with the additions of Allan Guei from Comp-ton High School and combo guard Stephan Hicks, a red-shirt freshman from National College Prep.

“We’re definitely a guard-oriented team so we will be able to run fast,” Quinn said. “If you put a big group out there against us, we’re going to outrun them. Our guard core has some of the best skills in the country.”

Despite ban, Matadors eye Big West title

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CSUN center Ari Feld-man had seen the bright lights before. The roaring crowds. Their loud cheers following the punishing of an impotent rival.

It was all so familiar for Feldman Saturday at the Mat-adome as CSUN blew out Cal Baptist 86-51 in exhibition play. The only difference was the missing net in the middle of the court.

In its place, two basketball hoops had been placed at each end.

Feldman, a former middle blocker for the CSUN vol-leyball team who now wears No. 32 on the basketball team, figures he’ll get used to it. He just needs to get his feet wet.

“It was my first game,” said Feldman following his first real action at the Division I basketball level. “Maybe I had a little bit of nerves in my legs. All my shots were com-ing up a little short.”

The senior’s stat line against the Lancers wasn’t eye-popping: No points, three assists and six rebounds in 13 foul-plagued minutes. But

the senior fulfilled his role backing up starting center John Hayward-Mayhew and defended the biggest oppos-ing body, center Luke Evans. Defense is most of what CSUN head coach Bobby Braswell looks for in his play-ers.

“(Feldman) is going to play a lot for us this year,” Braswell said. “He was a little nervous. He had (four) fouls.”

The path taken by Feld-man to get back on the Mat-adome’s floor was an unusual one. He was recruited out of Santa Monica High School by the CSUN volleyball team in 2008, a year in which he redshirted. Shoulder problems required him to have surgery during that offseason, but he came back the following year ready to contribute.

The middle blocker appeared in three games for the Matadors in 2009 as CSUN rolled through a 24-7 season that ended in the Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration playoffs. The follow-ing season, limited again by the pain in his right shoulder, he only played one game as CSUN made it all the way to the Final Four.

After that, Feldman decid-

ed to call it quits.“I tried to play through the

pain, but I couldn’t,” Feld-man said. “And eventually it just wasn’t worth it anymore, so I talked to (CSUN men’s volleyball head coach Jeff Campbell) and had to leave the team.”

The red-haired center didn’t spend too much time lamenting his volleyball mis-fortunes, however. As soon as he left, Feldman started his preparation to make another comeback. This time, he had basketball – a sport he also played while at SMHS – on his mind.

Feldman started his basket-ball workouts late last year. He then e-mailed Braswell this summer asking for a tryout. Braswell, who had just lost an unnamed big man after the player decided to stay close to home instead of joining the Matadors, told Feldman he was in. No tryout needed.

“We lost that (player) and (Feldman’s) e-mail came the very next day,” Braswell said. “We needed the body. The timing was great. It worked out great for us.”

And as long as Feldman doesn’t have to swat down a ball too hard, his shoulder

should be fine, he said.“When I play basketball,

it doesn’t bother my shoul-der at all,” Feldman said. “It was just the volleyball swing. That’s the thing that hurt my shoulder.”

With volleyballs and shoul-ders a thing of the past, Feld-man’s first true test will come Friday against USC. Asking the 6-foot-9 and 220-pound Feldman to guard 7-foot-1, 260-pound center James Blas-czyk is not exactly easing him into the position, but Feldman knows the teams needs him to adjust as quickly as possible.

“I don’t have a transition year,” Feldman said. “I have to transition right now before the season starts. It’s a little added extra pressure.”

After his first home game against Cal Baptist, Feldman said he felt he was in the right shape to help the Matadors be successful. On the road against the Trojans, the lights will shine just a little bright-er. He only has one concern regarding that.

“Hopefully I won’t be in as much foul trouble (against USC),” Feldman said.

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Last season Braswell brought in eight freshmen, modeling the blueprint of the last two Big West Conference champions, UCSB and Long Beach.

The Matadors received major contributions from guards Josh Greene and Aqeel Quinn as the two were a main reason why CSUN advanced to the Big West semifi-nals and a third-place finish in the league standings.

Now in their second season, Greene and Quinn are being asked to be leaders for a young Matador team that has seven freshmen on their roster this season.

“They’re going to have to be the leaders and they’re doing a pretty good job about it,” said 16-year head coach Braswell about Greene and Quinn. “Q (Quinn) is really stepping up and being vocal. Josh is stepping up and being vocal too. We’re young, extremely young. I love their commitment and atti-tude.”

Quinn has been teaching fresh-man Allan Guei how to handle

point guard duties, despite that the two will be battling for starting minutes this season.

“They’ve been helping me out a lot, especially Q (Quinn) because we’re always competing and he’s pushing me a lot just making me a better player,” Guei said. “I really wasn’t pushed in high school, but coming over here, he’s really push-ing me a lot.”

Greene and Quinn worked out during the offseason with NBA players Russell Westbrook and Clay Thompson and played in the Drew League, a well-known sum-mer basketball league in South Los Angeles that many NBA players participate in.

“For me it was a good opportu-nity (to play in the Drew League), I got to see how the NBA guards work, like James Harden, Russell Westbrook and Dorell Wright,” Quinn said. “I see how all those dudes work and that betters my game. They gave me pointers off the court about how to handle myself during the school year with class, media and everything else.”

Even though Greene and Quinn made the biggest impact for the Matadors a year ago, sophomores Allen Jiles IV, Thomas Jacobs, Frankie Eteuati and Jordan Mitch-ell are all expected to play a big role for CSUN for the upcoming season.

With the Matadors losing star forward Lenny Daniel, who led the team in points and rebounds a year ago, forwards Jacobs, Eteuati and Mitchell will try to fill Daniel’s void in the paint.

“My aspect of the game I’m trying to bring is physicality and rebounding,” Jacobs said. “For our team to be successful, we’re going to need a post presence and all that starts with being strong. Although, we’re not the tallest team, I believe all of our guys are capable of show-ing heart and that’s going to pay off.”

The 6-foot-10 Eteuati said he wants to protect the paint and be an offensive presence for the Mata-dors and is aiming to break Dan-iel’s school record in block shots.

“I just want to contribute any-way I can, if I need to score then I’ll score,” Eteuati said. “I defi-nitely want to break Lenny’s record of block shots.”

Besides filling Daniel’s void, CSUN will have to replace Rashaun McLemore’s all-around scoring ability. Jiles and redshirt freshman Stephan Hicks, who was part of the Matadors’ 2010 recruiting class, could be the scoring guards CSUN needs.

If the second-year players pan out the way Braswell expects, Northridge could be in store for success the next few seasons.


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last season’s 4-26 record wasn’t what the CSUN women’s basket-ball team was looking to do during head coach Jason Flowers’ inaugural season.

This season, Flowers and the Matadors are looking to bounce back and put CSUN on top of the Big West standings, beginning with the season opener at San Francisco Uni-versity on Friday.

“I know we’re already improved,” Flowers said. “If we can stay focused and continue to work hard, there’s no limit to how good this group can be.”

The Matadors lost eight play-ers from last season, but have five returning players saw enough min-utes on the hardwood floor to know what it takes to be successful this year.

According to a media preseason poll, the Matadors are predicted to finish seventh out of nine teams in the Big West Conference after finish-

ing last place a year ago.“I’m really confident in this

year’s team,” senior center Jasmine Erving said. “I think we’re going to go far. Practices are going really well and I think everyone’s just really excited for our first game.”

The 6-foot-2 Erving will look to lead the charge for the Matador’s offense this year. She already comes into the season with high expecta-tions having been named to the pre-season All-Big West First Team.

During the Matadors’ Oct. 29 exhibition against Master’s College, Erving dropped 27 points in 23 min-utes, with 24 of those points coming in the first half.

Erving led last year’s team with 14.9 points per game and grabbed 208 rebounds. Her dominance in the paint also showed on the defensive end with her 36 blocked shots.

Also returning to help Erving in the paint is junior Violet Alama. The Hawaiian forward returns after a solid 2010-2011 season in which she averaged 10.9 points and nearly six rebounds a game. She also collected 61 assists for the year.

Alama played in all 30 games last season and will prove to be a valuable asset on the defensive end this year. Along with 32 steals, Alama tallied 20 blocks in her sophomore year.

Most of Alama’s offseason was spent healing her surgically-repaired

shoulder, but has high hopes in this Matador squad.

“Our goal is to win Big West,” Alama said. “We’re young so our newcomers need to buy into the pro-gram and listen to what the coaches have to say. The newcomers are more than half of the team and if they buy into the system, they’ll be a big part of the success this year.”

The Matadors have brought in six freshmen and two transfers this year.

“On different nights, different people are going to be called upon to play different parts,” Flowers said. “I just think everyone needs to be pre-pared when their time comes.”

Some new players that are going to be relied on are freshman Janae Sharpe and transfer Kaitlyn Petersen.

Sharpe comes to the Matadors after averaging 24 points and just over nine assists per game for Rialto High School. The guard racked up six 30-point-plus games in her high school senior season.

Petersen, a sophomore, joins CSUN after spending last season at Gonzaga University. Petersen and the Bulldogs appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2010-11 and her experience there should carry over into her first season as a Matador.

The lone, active returning guard sophomore Haley White will be looked to as the leader of the younger guards since she already has a year’s

experience with Flowers’ style of coaching.

Last season, White led the team in steals (48) and assists (105) and appeared in all 30 games while scor-ing more than five points per game. White also helped create second-chance points with 21 offensive rebounds.

Overall, the Matadors feel this

year will be the one in which they turn it around in a Big West that has seen some recent changes.

“The gap between the top teams and everybody else used to be huge,” Flowers said. “I don’t think that there is that gap anymore just because there’s a lot of different teams that have a chance at being successful this year. It’s wide open.”


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Jasmine Erving didn’t have the luxury of being raised by two parents. The 21-year-old senior only had her mother at her side.

“I don’t think I missed out on anything being brought up by a single parent, so I’m lucky for that,” said Erving, center for the CSUN wom-en’s basketball team. “I have a great mom, fortunately. My mom fulfilled the spot of being my mom and my dad. She’s my No. 1 fan.”

CSUN head coach Jason Flowers, who was also raised by a single mother, said he understands the bond and importance that Erving and her mother have for one another.

“The love that she has for her mom and the relationship that they have is big time,” he said. “It’s a major part of who she is, but also shows her loyal and caring side. At the end of the day, if you ask her (about the relationship), she might chuckle about it,

but she’s still mommy’s little girl and there’s nothing wrong with that at all.

“In today’s society, that’s rare a lot of times.”

The experiences Erving and Flowers have in common have made it easier for the two to bond with one another, and unify the team.

“He uses his life stories a lot in our talks after prac-tice and with the team,” said Erving, who was named to the Preseason All-Big West First Team. “So I can defi-nitely relate to things that he talks about because he was brought up by a single mom. And I think that when we have one-on-one conversations, we can relate on the same level because we both were brought up the same way.”

Flowers believes Erving would not be where she is today had she not grown up in a single-parent home.

“We all have a story, everybody has a story. Some people choose to be victims and some people choose to make things happen,” Flowers said. “I think that’s part of her story. It’s part of who she is.

It’s made her, it’s formed her, it’s developed her.”

Flowers said Erving, who last season averaged 14.9 points and 6.9 rebounds, has carried over a sense of family and has positive affects on the team.

“It’s helped facilitate the transition for our staff and the new players, and made things a lot easier than they could have been,” Flowers said. “One of the challenges was we had five returners and we had the eight newcomers. The challenge was bringing them together to be one group, and she’s facilitated that right from day one. And I think it’s just a testament to her leader-ship abilities and her qualities as a person.”

Randi Friess and Ashlee Guay, two freshman guards on the team, can vouch for Flow-ers. Both agree that Erving has helped them assimilate into the group.

“When we get yelled at, she’ll talk to us on the sideline and says, ‘You got it, don’t worry about it. You can do it. Keep it up,’” Guay said.

With the season about to begin, Erving has her mind set

to helping this young squad.“Since I’m a senior and a

big part of this team, I defi-nitely have the responsibility to keep my team going,” she said. “My biggest goal this year is to keep my team moti-vated, because we do have so many new players. I’ve had to take on the role of being a

leader and being vocal during practice.”

It may be Erving’s last year as a Matador, but it’s the love between her and her mom that will continue to benefit her after her career at CSUN.

“She’s just picked up certain characteristics from that process that, instead of

becoming a victim, she’s defi-nitely used it to her advan-tage,” Flowers said. “She’s going to walk out of here with a degree, and walk out of here as one of the best players to ever play here. And I think that a lot of that has to do with that dynamic of her and her relationship with her mom.”

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it was only a year ago that Haley White joined the CSUN women’s bas-ketball team fresh out of high school and was asked to carry a heavy load at the guard position.

After leading the team in assists (105) and starting 22 of 30 games, the sopho-more guard returns to the court and looks to step up as one of only five return-ing players from CSUN’s young squad.

With the injury to senior guard Bridgette Conejo and the departure of guard Janelle Nomura, the work-load will get a little heavier for White.

Throughout her freshman campaign, White’s versatil-ity made her effective from everywhere on the court.

The 5-foot-9 sophomore explained that if the oppos-ing team put someone small on her, she would post up, but if they put someone big-

ger on her, she would drive around them.

“I just happen to be that good size,” White said. “I’m not too big to be a guard or too small to be a post (player).”

After seeing min-utes at every position last season,White predicts she will see most of her play-ing time at guard, and even some at small forward this season.

Matador center and captain Jasmine Erving described White as “kind, trustworthy and smart.” The two are coming into their second season together, and Erving has nothing but pos-itive things to say about the sophomore.

“(White) is not only a hard worker on the court, but also an extremely kind and caring person and a pleasure to be around,” Erv-ing said. “This year, I am looking forward to seeing Haley continue to improve on her game and continue to be the hard-working player she was last year.”

White averaged 5.3 points per game last season. She’s looking to put even more points on the board for the Matadors this year.

“I wasn’t really a scorer last season, but this sea-son I plan on getting some points,” White said.

White spent time at her alma mater in Ontario, Calif. during the offsea-son working on her shot to make sure she was ready to pull the trigger when the opportunity arose. When she wasn’t doing work-outs assigned to her by the coaches, she was putting in work off the court as well.

Besides basketball, White spent a lot of her off-season at Loveland Church in Ontario. White even attended the God’s Young Women’s Conference in Palm Desert with others, aged 12-19.

The yearly event helped her get away from everyday life and get focused on the upcoming season.

“I’m really involved with my church so I did a

lot of events,” White said. “Just being able to be really influential in their life is really big.”

This year, White will also have a huge influence on the young talent the Mat-adors have brought in at the guard position.

The Ontario native has already had some experi-ence playing with freshman Janae Sharpe.

“It’ll be fun to get to play with her again for a couple of seasons,” said White, having played with Sharpe when they were 9 years old.

Although White is only a year or two older than the newcomers, her experi-ence working under Flow-ers from last season will benefit her and the young guards on the team.

“I see myself as one of the leaders, the silent lead-ers,” White said.

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Following a 4-26 season, the CSUN women’s basketball team underwent a major overhaul that brought eight new players.

Things look brighter already, as the Matadors handily defeated The Master’s College 87-53 during an exhibition game last Saturday.

“We acquired quite a few kids who are going to have an impact,” said second-year head coach Jason Flowers. “They compliment the players that are already here. From top to bottom, they are a talented and hard-working group, and they enjoy being around each other.”

Flowers said the coaching staff and players have worked hard to address the two biggest problems they had last year: a defense that allowed 71.2 points per game – about 14 more points than they scored – and an offense that accumulated 19.3 turnovers every game.

“Our issues last year were defense and taking care of the basketball,” Flowers said. “I think those things have improved with the development of returners and the new talent we have coming in.”

Flowers stresses the impor-

tance of jelling together as a team to reduce the amount of turn-overs committed. He also said last year’s turnover statistics were misleading because players were sometimes asked to do things they weren’t comfortable with.

“In a lot of situations last year, we had times where we asked people to do things that were out of their comfort zones,” Flowers said. “This year is going to be different because we have players that will be able to settle more into their roles, whether it be if they’re asked to do something on the court or play a certain position.”

Center Jasmine Erving, who averaged 14.9 points and 6.9 rebounds per game last season, is entering her senior year and Flow-ers said she’s in the best shape of her life.

“She’s put herself in the posi-tion to have an outstanding senior season,” said Flowers. “Any time you have a post player who can attract the amount of attention and produce at the level as she does, it makes everybody’s job a little bit easier.”

Last season, the onus was mostly on the 6-foot-2 center to score, but the team is hopeful this year’s recruits will take the pressure off, which would give her more room to operate down

in the post.“Our chemistry right now is the

best that it’s been all four years I’ve been here,” Erving said. “It helps that we have such great guards that can shoot outside. It relieves that much more pressure for me and vice versa.”

Erving, who’s usually a post player, has the versatility to knock down outside jumpers. With her and a few big freshman guards who can post up, Flowers expects his team’s offense to be more dynamic.

“(Erving) has the ability to knock downs shots and threes,” Flowers said. “With her ability to step out on to the perimeter and our guards’ ability to post up, it creates a different dynamic for our team on offense and gives our opponents a different aspect they have to be concerned about.”

Even though Erving is a dec-orated player with two All-Big West Second Team selections and about to become the eighth highest scorer in CSUN women’s basketball history, Flowers said teamwork and unity are the keys to victory.

“One player can’t make a pro-gram,” he said. “The program is bigger than any one person, including myself. The group that comes in is what makes the big-gest impact.”

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Five of Five (V/V) announced that Monroe, the Los Angeles-based alternative rock band, is its Artist of the Year for 2011-12.

“We feel extremely honored to be chosen as the No. 1 band,” said the band in an email interview. “It feels like we just won a championship game.”

Last Wednesday, four artists, meticulously chosen out of 70 submissions, battled it out for a one-year contract with CSUN’s music industry studies’ student-run entertainment label.

“We competed against some very talented people,” Monroe said. “Going on last, we felt that we were up against some great competition and had to play like it. It is very comforting to know that what we put our time and energy into gains positive feedback.”

The band, which formed in 2009 while members were attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music, was both excited and relieved upon receiving the email that they had won.

“We were so stoked we just started yelling,” said guitarist Lawrence Carol, who was in the band’s home studio, along with lead vocalist Kelton Blackshear, when they got the email.

The band, aside from member Trevor James, is from the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas. James joined the band two months ago, and is originally from Texas.

Like most bands, they want to reach the top, said Carol in a phone

interview. The help from V/V will help them with a part of the industry they lack experience in – marketing and promotion.

“Working with (V/V) will provide us what we need right now to build our fan base and build us up,” Carol said. “They are a great group of minds, and we feel like we will work well with them.”

Narrowing down the talent was difficult to do, as the final four candidates had to represent what V/V believes in, said Julian Banks, Five of Five‘s director of artist and repertoire (A&R).

“The A&R team became

really attached to the finalists because their music was the best of everything we heard and they were all really great to work with and everyone had such a positive attitude and great character, which is something a lot of artists are missing in this industry,” Banks said.

The ultimate decision was left up to the voters who attended the artist showcase on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

Banks said he looks forward to working with them over the coming year.

“We are all certain Monroe’s professional goals and

accomplishments line up with Five of Five Music Entertainment,” Banks said.

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this fall, CBS brought something back to televi-sion that seemed long gone: pure, unadulterated racism.

“2 Broke Girls,” cre-ated by comedian Whitney Cummings and “Sex and the City” creator Michael Patrick King, is a sitcom with a recession-era twist. The show revolves around two white girls who wait-ress at a small Brooklyn diner.

Max, played by Kat Den-nings, and Caroline, played by Beth Behrs, work for the foreign-born Korean owner, Han “Bryce” Lee, played by Matthew Moy.

It is obvious that neither Cummings nor King know a single thing about Asian Americans.

Lee is a goofy, socially ignorant but financially successful man who can-not pronounce his L’s and speaks like a confused for-tune cookie.

His accent and speech do not reflect how a for-eign-born Korean immi-grant would sound, much less how any other Asian-American immigrant would sound.

Lee is not an accurate portrayal of today’s Asian-Americans, but is a throw-back to an era where dis-tasteful stereotypes were accepted and encouraged.

According to Allan Aquino, CSUN Asian-American studies profes-sor, Asian stereotypes have existed since the 1850’s when Asian-Americans were cast as immigrants and “forever foreigners”.

“No matter how hard they try to assimilate, they are not American,” Aquino said. “It ignores the long history of Asian-Americans in the U.S. and multi-gen-eral Asian-Americans’ con-tributions.”

Aquino cited the “Six Faces of The Oriental,” defined by Professor Rob-ert G. Lee, author of “Ori-entals,” a history of Asian Pacific-Islanders in Ameri-can pop culture.

These six faces include the pollutant, the coolie, the

deviant, the yellow peril, the model minority and the gook.

The yellow peril and model minority most impacted public attitude toward Asian-Americans during 20th century poli-tics, popular culture and media.

The “yellow peril” emerged in the early 1900’s to portray Asian-Americans as a “threat to nation, race and family.” This stereo-type was the basis for the television show “Fu Man-chu,” which was about an insidious, evil Asian man who wanted nothing but destruction for the white race.

Though not part of the six faces, it is important to recognize another ste-reotype created around the same time to contrast the yellow peril: the benevo-lent but culturally ignorant Asian man.

This stereotype is best expressed through the television series “Charlie Chan.” Chan was a detec-tive who traveled the world solving crime mysteries, but spoke broken English and ultimately, did what the white man wanted.

Both Manchu and Chan were at one point played by white actors, made up in “yellow face.” Yellow face continued to surface in American media, in works such as “Madame Butter-fly,” “The Good Earth,” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Another popular stereo-type is the “martial artist,” the exotic, dangerous Asian who can defy physics and annihilate enemies with his body.

“The paradox of Bruce Lee’s image is that, while Bruce Lee, as a man and living innovator, gave pop culture its first great Asian Pacific Islander hero and forever changed philosophy and pop culture,” Aquino said. “The image cannibal-ized after his death yielded the stereotype of the one-dimensional martial arts hero and or villain, a more dangerous update of the yellow peril.”

Possibly the most influ-ential in the way Asian-Americans are portrayed today is the stereotype of the “model minority.” According to Dr. Tracy Buenavista, CSUN Asian-American studies professor, the model minority myth developed during the civil rights movement.

It was based on the idea that Asian-Americans are economically and academi-cally more successful than other minorities, despite

facing discrimination.“The civil rights move-

ment was about the govern-ment getting rid of racism in the law in American Insti-tutions,” Buenavista said. “The conservative media response was to create the model minority myth. If Asian-Americans can do it through hard work, it disproves (the) idea that blacks and browns needed civil rights reform.”

The myth is inaccurate because it only focuses on the experiences of a few Asian ethnic groups,” Buenavista said. “What it obscures is the diversity of the Asian-American com-munity. There are over 40 different groups and some of those groups demon-strate low educational attainment rates, lack of

access to employment and mental health issues.”

CBS’ Han “Bryce” Lee is a hybrid of stereotypes. He is Chan meets the model minority, and he is forever the foreigner. Lee is not based on any real human being, but is a lie. This portrayal is dehumanizing, unethical and defamatory.

How CBS and the Amer-ican public is allowing a Long Duc Dong character on television to represent Asian-American immigrant men is a social offense beyond outrage, and pres-ents a huge step back for racial media equality.

It will be truly perilous for CBS’ reputation if they allow the Lee character on “2 Broke Girls” to be the butt of a racist and ignorant white joke.

the perils of yellow faceScene from “2 Broke Girls”:

Diner. Waitresses Max and Caroline are chatting with the owner, Han “Bryce” Lee.

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Multiple mistakes in match against UCSB, drops CSUN to thrid place.

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SaNta BarBara – Trailing 1-0 and down 23-17 in the second set, CSUN decided it was time to make its move Wednesday night at the Thun-derdome.

The Matadors scored four of the next five points, drawing them within 24-21 of UC Santa Barbara. Then they got a block, making the Gauchos cringe on the floor at the thought of a possible collapse. The cringing didn’t last long, however. The block was waved off almost immediately due to a touch of the net by a Matador. The point instead went to UCSB, which won the set, and eventually the game, 3-0.

“We had a slow start, we started figuring things out a little too late,” said CSUN outside hitter Britney Graff, who

led the Matadors with 10 kills.The at-the-net call was only one of

a handful of incidents gone wrong for the Matadors (13-12, 7-6 Big West), who only managed 33 kills in contrast to UCSB’s 48 for the game. In a match that counted for sole possession of sec-ond place in the Big West Conference, the renowned Gaucho defense prevailed over CSUN’s recent hot hitting.

UC Santa Barbara (15-11, 8-5) shut the Matadors down offensively, only allowing them to hit .116 for the game. Even when it seemed like CSUN – which had hit .355 over its past two games – was starting to turn things around, the Gauchos remained calm, knowing their defense would get them out of the hole.

The Matadors started the third set by scoring five of the first six points. Then the Gaucho defense steadied itself, allowing UCSB to get back in the game.

The Gauchos won the final frame, 25-20, holding the Matadors to .020 hitting.

“Santa Barbara is known to be a very great defensive team,” said CSUN middle blocker Casey Hinger, who had seven kills. “We just had to put more balls down.”

The match looked very competi-tive early on as Matadors and Gauchos battled toe to toe for the first half of set No. 1. Tied at 9-9, however, UCSB

used a 16-7 run to finish off a CSUN team desperately looking for a way to put down a kill.

Making matters worse for the Mata-dors: on top of its defensive effort, UCSB was also hitting lights out. The Gauchos hit .311 in the first set and .286 in the second (.224 for the game).

“They’re a good team. We were tied (in the standings) with them for a reason,” Hinger said. “We just needed to shut them down a lot quicker than we did.”

The Matadors slowed UCSB down in the third, only allowing them to hit .082. The problem lied in their own hit-ting: .020 for the frame.

UCSB was led by their quartet of hitters: Stacey Schmidt (12 kills), Leah Sully (11), Kara Sherrard (11) and Lily Lopez (8).

The good news for the Matadors was that the loss doesn’t put them out of reach from second place in the confer-ence, especially since they have another meeting with UCSB coming up on Nov. 18 at the Matadome.

While the match at UCSB wasn’t the most positive of experiences for CSUN, at least one Matador is looking forward to the rematch in Northridge.

“It’s a bummer. This was a really big win that we needed,” Hinger said. “They played really well against us, but we’re going to kick their butts next time around.”

Big west standings

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