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ecurity has been ramped up near the doors to maintain the safety of students living on campus.

Student housing has hired private security guards to supplement CSUN police and residential advisers who monitor the dorms.

“I live on the third floor so I feel pretty safe,” said English major Stephanie Jones, 21.

Jones and freshman Brishay Anderson, 18, said they have heard stories about people

breaking into the dorms and others getting into fights, but have not heard or seen anything this semester that has worried them.

“I live on the first floor, so I hear a lot of things but I haven’t heard anything recently so I feel pretty safe,” Anderson said. She said that the first floor has ground level windows, which lead students to be more wary of break-ins.

The annual Clery Report lists the crimes that have occurred on campus over the last year and support a trend of lessening dorm crimes.

The report lists one rape occurring in on-campus housing over the last 3 years and

the other crimes are limited to thefts and a limited number of simple assault cases.

Students can also check the daily crime log to find crimes or thefts that have occurred in the dorms. The most recent crimes have been limited to vandalism in a dorm bathroom on Oct. 6, a stolen Nintendo 3DS from a dorm room on Oct. 4, and a traffic stop on Oct. 1 by the dorms that resulted in a marijuana possession citing; all of which are relatively minor crimes.

Anderson said she has seen the security guards patrolling the dorms along with the RAs. A two-person team of

officers called the Community Policing Team have been monitoring the dorms with police since 2004, said Christina Villalobos, spokeswoman for CSUN police. They work Wednesday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The team holds security training and awareness meetings with RAs and students when they request help educating themselves on personal safety, Villalobos said.

CSUN’s dorm crimes are comparatively low, with LAPD Devonshire division, the area that patrols the community around CSUN, listing 17 rapes and six homicides in the area

from January to date.

“Compared to what you read about and hear about on the news about the area, I feel very safe in the dorms,” said sociology major Caroline Sachs, 19.

Practices like locking of the gates at 7 p.m. and rules about checking in guests give them an additional feeling of security, Sachs said.

Guests are allowed to enter and stay overnight in the dorms as long as proper procedure is followed. The guest must be registered by 3 p.m. the day before they are to stay

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Greeks promote cancer awareness Kristina Sanborn Daily Sundial

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he United Sororities and Fraternities Council (USFC) hosted “Greeks Against Cancer” to promote awareness on campus of all types of cancers Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Marielos Renderos, president of USFC, came up with the idea for this event last year, after her mother was diagnosed with uterine carcinosarcoma, an extremely rare type of cancer that affects one in 750,000 women.

After her mother was diagnosed, Renderos , a senior pre-med student threw herself into taking charge of her mother’s care by managing her medications, asking questions and ensuring her mom the best level of comfort as

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Jennifer Yessi of the Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority talks to a student about brain cancer and tumors during the Greeks Against Cancer event.

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SUN’s budget, student fees and advisement were all fair-game at the President’s Summit Thursday afternoon in the Oviatt Presentation Room.

“The point that I wanted to get across is that we could have an open and respectful dialogue between university administration and student leaders,” said Amanda Flavin, Associated Students president. “We

provide an opportunity in a forum for students to voice their concerns in a respectful manner to the university, and for the university to answer back some of the questions.”

Thursday’s president summit was the first in a while and that they would hold another summit when the new president arrives, Flavin said.

Flavin was accompanied by President Jolene Koester, Vice President for Student Affairs William Watkins and Vice Provost

Cynthia Rawitch.

Student organizations were represented, including the College of Health and Human Development, a spokesman for the lesbiangay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) community, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and Students for Quality Education (SQE).

The summit was an invitation-only event, where organization leaders were the only groups invited.

“I came to voice the concerns of students who

weren’t permitted to be here,” said Justin Marks, an SQE member. “I hope that we can get past the repetition of table manners and understand that we have to speak to each other respectfully and actually get down to solutions.”

Though Marks had an opportunity to talk to Koester, he thought the conversations were too brief.

“It feels like even though President Koester was on her way out, it was almost as though we were still being introduced,” he said.

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A topic that was on the agenda was student advisement, which sparked interest in one attendee.

Martel Okonji, student ambassador for the LGBT community, told a story of his freshman year where his advisor told him if he should be going to college or not. This is an area that he would like to see fixed.

They should make “sure that students know exactly what they’re going to school for, how to do it,

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Occupy L.A. Photos by Simon Gambaryan / Daily Sundial

(Bottom): Pershing Square, Los Angeles: A man waves a flag with its stars replaced by large corporation logos during the Occupy LA movement. (Right): People continue to march and protest down the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.

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Occupy LA will discuss becoming a nonprofit Braulio Campos Daily Sundial

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fter the rock shows and marching was over, Occupy LA’s finance committee proposed organiz-

ing a 501 (c) (4) nonprofit organization in the name of Occupy LA at the group’s general assembly in front of city hall at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the proposal was tabled to be discussed at the group's next general assembly.

About 10,000 - 15,000 people participated in Saturday's Global Day of Action, as stated in a preliminary police report, although most were not present for the assembly.

The IRS sees 501 (c)

(4) organizations as social welfare groups which can accept large, non-tax exempt donations and are not exempt from lobbying or engaging in political activity, said 26-year-old Callie Little, who has fun-

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Participants of varying ages and economic standing marched for Occupy LA on the Global Day of Action, Saturday.

draising experience.

A 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, like Occupy Wall Street has, was not proposed because of the limitation on how they can participate in lobbying and politics, in addition to allowing tax deducted donations, something the group feared would attract corporate donors, the committee said.

The finance committee said they did not want to risk being co-opted by anyone making too big a donation.

The scheduled 30 second proposal took over an hour as those present debated the benefits of evolving the protest in this way.

“We want to build the movement, but the reality is we need to be able to provide the services, maintain the group’s needs and not limit ourselves politically later on,” Little said. “A (c) (4) nonprofit would let us do that,” she said.

Although other organizations, such as Crooks and Liars, have taken donations in the name of Occupy LA, there is nothing set in place to handle the donations received on site directly, Little said.

This becomes a problem because it places all liability on the finance committee to be transparent and keep

track of the financial matters and because services such as the on-site waste management must be paid by checks, she said.

“Doing this would allow us to put donations into an organizational credit union and allow donors to write checks to Occupy LA,” said Little.

Some questioned why becoming a legal entity was being proposed as the best solution or criticized it as hypocritical, some suggested forming a political party, others did not feel that $1,500 should be spent on the fees to file as a nonprofit; reactions varied.

“I’m not anti-corporate or anti-taxes, I just think it needs to be fair. Corporations should not be allowed loopholes not available to everyone. There are a lot of anti-establishment thoughts here and they are not willing to work within the system,” said protester Hanley Bonynge.

Amy Smith, a tax accountant in the private sector, has donated her time to assist the finance committee.

“There is no hope on the street. I want this movement to stand on its own feet and not be taken as a joke. This step can allow us to make change,” Smith said.

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After two rounds of chemotherapy, the disease claimed her life this past March.

“My other thoughts were on the rest of my peers— how would they know what to do?” Renderos said.

The 15 Greek organizations that make up the USFC tabled information about an array of cancers and sold art pieces for donation that were created to honor those that have fought and continue to fight the disease, on Sierra Walk.

“My expectation is that for everyone to have learned something about cancer and to hopefully advise other people on how to prevent it,” Renderos said.

Renderos, who calls herself a save the humans activist, said the main mission was to promote awareness within the campus community.

“I haven’t taken care of myself lately because it’s a scary thought,” she said.

“I’m taking a more active role. Now that I see it, it’s important for younger generations to go out and get checked out. If you have any history of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, we should all get checked out.”

Stephanie Cortes, a sophomore health science major, was one of the volunteers during the art walk and talked to

students about breast cancer.

“There’s probably students suffering right here on campus,” said Cortes, whose own grandmother had passed away from breast cancer.

Fellow Greek volunteer Bryan Hernandez, a sophomore kinesiology major, also lost an aunt and a close family friend to leukemia.

“Now that we’re in college, we’re young adults and we’re out there with a lot more connections to communicate. We need to promote action,” he said.

Greeks Against Cancer culminated with a balloon release vigil at the Plaza Del Sol and guest speaker Dr. Steven Oppenheimer at the Grand Salon, Wednesday.

“We’re not going to let go of that hope, we’re going to share it with the rest of the world,” said Augie Garibay, activities coordinator for clubs and organizations at the Matador Involvement Center, as he began the balloon release vigil with a few words to inspire students of who have lost a loved one from cancer. Attendees stood in a moment of silence before releasing dozens of white balloons into the night sky.

Oppenheimer, CSUN biology professor, lectured students on the many facets of cancer.

“If you can detect the cancer before it has spread around the body, you often can cure it,” said Oppenheimer. “It’s not a death sentence.”

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Marielos Renderos, president of the United Sororities and Fraternities Council, honors her mother with two art pieces during the art walk for the Greeks Against Cancer event. Renderos came up with the idea for the event when her mother passed away from uterine carcinosarcoma in March.

During his presentation, Oppenheimer described the causes of cancer, and displayed a slide during his presentation that included the American Cancer Society acronym CAUTION to help remind students when to see a doctor. CAUTION stands for changes in the bowel or the bladder, a sore that does not heal, unusual bleeding or discharge, thickening or lumps in the breast or elsewhere,

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Hookfin, a kinesiology major, said that CSUN has good studentprofessor interactions, and would like to see this remain when Koester leaves.

A question that Koester would not speak extensively on was the salary for the new San Diego State University president, which MEChA President Daniel Santana Hernandez

understand each different segment, and really marketing to get students to understand what that really is,” Okonji said.

Better teaching environments was a topic that one student leader wants to see stay the same when the new president arrives.

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That’s what they’re there for,” said Renderos.

Oppenheimer agreed, “that is criminal in this country— that people don’t get treatment for cancer until it’s too late.”

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“My concern (was about) the salary increases,” he said, “And it’s almost unfathomable how some presidents are making a quarter million dollars (during) the budget crisis.”

But Hernandez appreciated being able to talk to Koester and Flavin during the meeting. He said that when he would go to CSU Board of Trustee meetings, he would not be able to speak because the slots available had been filled up.

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checked out. It only takes a matter of seconds to get car insurance. Why is it more important than taking care of your health? It’s a little sad,” said Renderos.

“Most of the cancer patients in my mother’s hospital were all from minorities who had failed to get their check-ups done on time because they didn’t qualify for health insurance, or could not afford to get them done

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“Very little has gone into the field of cancer prevention.

If they did that, we’d see better results than we have in 40 years,” said Oppenheimer.

Renderos’s experience was a key example of what Oppenheimer described.

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Continued from page 1 and must wear a clearly visible guest pass while in the housing complexes. These and other rules regarding non-residents are clearly outlined when one moves into the dorms and there are consequences if rules are broken.

“Not just anyone can come in and you have to go through the security guard and get clearance once the gate is locked,” Jones said.

While on-campus housing may be more expensive than some off-campus options, the peace of mind it gives Sachs makes it worth it to her.

“I don’t regret living in the dorms,” Sachs said. “With school and work, I like knowing that security and everything is taken care of for me, it takes some stress off.”

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Dancing and standing up to cancer C. Megan Diskin

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t’s no secret that bad things happen to good people. Some ask ‘why’ they were a target for life’s misgivings and others find solace in the belief that everything happens for a reason.

When Liora Paniz was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer that affects the lymph nodes, she chose the latter.

Paniz, 26, studying for her second BA in Religious Studies. She received her first BA in History from UCLA in 2007. After graduation she decided to take some time off because she wasn’t ready to go back to school yet.

In September 2009, she experienced pain in her left shoulder and proceeded to have it checked out. Paniz is a professional ballroom dancer so it was essential that it was checked immediately.

A chest x-ray showed a shadow in her chest looked different. It was nothing the doctor was too worried about, so he let Paniz leave.

“It was a dance-related injury,” she said.

A year later, she woke up at 4 a.m. and the muscles in her back were spasming.

“The kind of dancing I do causes tight muscles,” she said.

This time the doctor said everything was fine except for a mass in the middle of her chest. The results of a chest biopsy concluded the mass was an enlarged lymph node caused

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Liora Paniz, 26, is a second BA student majoring in religious studies and also a professional ballroom dancer.

by Hodgkin’s disease.

According to the doctor “it’s the best kind (of cancer) you can possibly get,” Paniz said. This type of cancer is curable with extensive chemotherapy treatment.

Paniz said she was surprised at the diagnosis, but said she’s not an emotional person.

“I’m gonna be a work horse, put

my head down and get through this,” she said. “There has to be a reason even if I may not know what it is.”

Every other Tuesday for five and a half months, Paniz underwent chemotherapy, and a variety of people were always by her side.

Her friend Kelly Richards, 31, moved into Paniz’s parent’s house and helped her stay busy by making

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“I ate a lot,” Paniz said.

She stopped working because she was too tired from the medicine to commit to a schedule and that it was more important for her to sleep and focus on her recovery.

“There was no room in my head for anything else,” she said. “I’m not particularly ready to be the post-

er child for anything.”

She finished chemotherapy five months ago and is still processing the experience, she said. However, there was an incident at a wig shop right after she was done with chemo that gave her a new perspective.

While she was looking for a wig she noticed a woman shopping for her mother.

“It seemed like she didn’t have anyone to talk to,” Paniz said.

She explained that it’s usually all about the cancer patient, that the people around them never have a chance to talk about what’s going on. Upon hearing that Paniz just concluded her treatment, the woman began to shower her with affection and tears.

In that moment Paniz experienced what she called a reverse awakening.

She realized that others could find solace in the fact that she had gone through the treatment and came out cancer free.

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October 17, 2011

‘Buffet plan’ won’t help

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Question of the Day Abbey Seltzer / daily sundial Do you feel girls age 12 to 17 should be able to get the HPV vaccine without parental consent?

A new bill passed by Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown permits girls age 12 to 17 to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine without parental consent. The vaccine is administered in three shots over the course of six months and wards against certain strains of HPV and cervical cancer.

California minors currently can seek confidential care diagnosis, and treatment for STDs, contraception, pregnancy, help for mental health problems, and drug abuse, but they cannot get vaccinated without parental approval.

In 2007, Texas Gov. Rick Perry passed an executive order mandating the HPV vaccine for all girls entering sixth grade, with a parent opt-out. The order was overturned by Texas legislature.

Virginia’s House of Delegates attempted to kill another law in January, four years after it had been approved, which mimicked Perry’s in requiring girls to receive the vaccine before entering sixth grade, also with a parent opt-out.

The debate about the vaccine falls mainly along party lines and seems to not have anything to do with the medicine and science behind the vaccine itself.

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orking its way through the lower intestines of our legislative system is a new bill that will force the highest earners in America to pay higher taxes.

Many are calling this new plan “the buffet plan,” as President Barack Obama has joined forces with billionaire Warren Buffet in an attempt to make light of the fact that the super rich are enjoying tax breaks while working-class citizens are fighting to make ends meet.

Obama has found the change he promised is harder than previously expected, especially with a Republican-stacked House of Representatives and some media platforms that will fight him around every bend.

Regardless of Obama’s problems with checks and balances, I can’t think of anything more fair and democratic than a tax plan where citizens pay to their ability.

The real issue is not Obama or his tax plan. It is the constant battle between political parties that has plagued our country since the beginning.

We live in a representative democracy where citizens vote in people to represent them, govern them and create laws that benefit them. But

reality is, the politicians who collect the most money to run for office will generally win.

This creates a system where politicians are indebted to those who put them in place, not to the citizens who voted for them.

Do Americans think special interest groups, lobbyists and the rich will allow their politicians to pass a law that will pull money from their pockets? I don’t think so.

“Obama’s plan is more a political gesture than an actual policy, since he doesn’t have the votes in Congress to pass it, so it’s hard to say what exactly he’s up to — other than trying to get re-elected,” history professor Thomas Devine wrote in an email.

Former President Franklin Roosevelt did much the same thing during the Great Depression, Devine said.

CSUN economics professor Robert Krol thinks Obama’s tax plan would do little but force the rich to change their game plan.

Former President Bill Clinton tried to do something similar in the 90’s, and the rich countered by changing their methods and constricting the way they operated, Krol said.

“It’s silly to pick out just one or two things. I would greatly simplify ( the tax code) to the lowest possible tax rate, higher the tax base,

get rid of the crazy exemptions,” Krol said. “The goal is to raise revenue and promote growth. (The tax code) is a monstrosity.”

If there’s anything that the American people should have learned from the bailout of 2008, it’s that rich capitalist businessmen will always take their money.

Dan Ariely of Duke University’s psychology department and Michael Norton of Harvard’s school of business conducted a study called “Building A Better AmericaOne Wealth Quintile At A Time” in 2005, in which they randomly selected over 5,000 people from all denominations, political affiliations and wealth quintiles, and asked them their opinion on the the wealth distribution in America.

In the study, they were given unlabeled pie charts and asked which one they thought represented America, and which was most justly appropriated. Ninety-two percent of Americans said they preferred the unmarked pie chart that represented the wealth distribution in Sweden, where the top 20 percent own 36 percent of the wealth.

In 2005, the top quintile controlled 80 percent of the wealth in America. If this is class warfare, as Speaker of the House John Boehner has called it, then it looks as

though the American people are losing.

“The bottom 40 percent of the American people either own nothing or are in fact in debt, and that’s what the American people don’t know,” said William Wallis, CSUN political science professor.

“That is, they don’t know the degree of the inequality. They know it is unequal, but they don’t know how enormous the inequality is.”

The survey asked, “How much should the distribution of wealth be for the top percentile?”

The average answer called for the wealthiest Americans to own 32 percent of the wealth, a far cry from the 84 percent that they actually own.

“What they really want, even if they don’t know it, is to live in a wealthier state like Sweden or something close to it,” Wallis said.

So why do Americans, especially those in the lowest quintiles, not advocate for a redistribution of wealth?

It could be the highest earners own many of the media outlets in America and tactically mold Americans into trusting peons who are too busy working and chasing the American dream which, just a few generations ago, used to be a reality.

Whatever the reason, this tax plan isn’t the solution.

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enior forward Heidi Farran's game-winning goal in the 89th minute ended Long Beach State's sixmatch winning steak as the CSUN women's soccer team took over first-place in the Big West Conference after defeating the 49ers 1-0 Friday night at Matador Soccer Field.

The Matadors (5-7-2, 3-1-1 Big West) handed Long Beach State (10-4-1, 3-1-0) its first loss in conference play and dropped them into second place in the standings.

CSUN snapped a two-game losing streak to the 49ers and tied UC Irvine for first in the Big West.

However, the 49ers can get back to first-place with a win over UC Irvine Sunday night (results were not available before publication).

CSUN took satisfaction in the victory after Long Beach State eliminated the Matadors in last year's Big West Tournament semifinals.

“Beating them was a huge deal for us,” said Farran, who scored her sixth goal of the season. “We lost to them in

the playoffs last year so it was kind of like payback.”

Farran received the ball after a throw-in by junior defender Katie Russ went to sophomore defender Chloe McDaniel, who headed the ball to Farran as she shot the ball in the lower left corner of the net.

“It was a throw in and I don’t know how, but the ball got to me,” Farran said, “and I hit it with my left foot into the corner.”

After the goal, the CSUN crowd erupted into cheers as vuvuzelas blasted, making the field sound as if it was hosting a World Cup game.

“Honestly, I didn’t even see who scored the goal,” said CSUN head coach Keith West. “Everyone was going crazy and I just saw it (ball) going in the back of the net.”

The game was a tale of two halves. The first period was a defensive struggle for both teams and the second half was filled with scoring opportunities.

For most of the first half, the ball was at midfield as both teams were fighting for possession. The Matadors had no shots on goal and no corner kicks heading into halftime, while the 49ers had only two

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Senior forward Heidi Farran (3) scored the game-winning goal in Northridge's 1-0 victory over Long Beach State.

shots on goal and two corner kicks.

In the second period, junior forward Nadia Link, Big West leader in total goals, started to show her offensive skills by getting in front of the box, where the Matador defense was waiting for her.

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“Defense was spectacular,” West said. “Our backline was amazing tonight.”

The Matador offense was able to break through the tough 49er defense late in the match, putting some pressure on goalkeeper senior

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With eight minutes remaining in the game, junior goalkeeper Cynthia Jacobo made a game-saving stop to keep the match scoreless.

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“We just went after her,” West said. “We said that we were not going to let her take it to us. We took the game to her a little bit.”

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iscommunication and turnovers cost CSUN an opportunity to move up in the Big West Conference standings as the Matadors lost to UC Davis 2-1 in overtime at Matador Soccer Field Saturday night.

It was Aggie forward Matt Sheldon who took advantage of CSUN’s lack of communication, scoring two goals, including the game-winner in the 94th minute. Matador defenders left Sheldon unmarked and gave him an open look at the net to end the match.

“Two mental breakdowns cost us the game,” CSUN midfielder Rafael Garcia said. “(For) the first goal, I turned the ball over. I’m not known for

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making mistakes, but that mistake cost us. I’m only human.”

Sheldon, who entering the game had yet to score this season, put his team up 1-0 in the 72nd minute off a turnover by CSUN (6-6-1, 3-2 Big West).

Sheldon kicked the ball and hit a Matador defender — in similar fashion to a score that occurred during CSUN’s loss to UC Irvine Oct. 8. The ball had lots of spin on it and Northridge goalkeeper Michael Abalos could not save it in time.

The loss puts CSUN in a three-way tie with the Aggies (5-6-2, 3-2) and Cal Poly for second place in the Big West.

The Matadors split the season series 1-1 with UC Davis, with both teams winning on the road.

“I felt like we were going to (win) it, but everything fell apart in overtime,” CSUN forward Edwin Rivas said.

“We were supposed to beat this team, beat them twice, and get on the road (against UC Riverside Wednesday) and get another win so we can stay on top. But it didn’t work that way.”

CSUN scored seven minutes after Sheldon’s first goal.

Rivas got the equalizer in the 79th minute with assists from Garcia and midfielder Rene

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UC Davis celebrates after Matt Sheldon's game-winning goal defeats CSUN 2-1 in overtime Saturday night at home.

Anguiano. Garcia took a corner kick to find Anguiano, who found Rivas on the left side of the box. He netted the ball to the right side of the goal.

The Matadors earned their third overtime loss of the season, leaving CSUN head coach Terry Davila frustrated.

“We took 20 shots. They didn’t go in,” Davila said. “We had two (penalty kicks at UC Davis) last time. The match was rough and that’s their style.

The referee let them beat at us a little bit. That’s the game, man.

That’s the game.”

Davila added that the referee called the game consistently, something his team had to adapt to on top of Davis’s physical play.

Aggies and Matadors both had offense on their minds.

CSUN point leader, midfielder Thomas Ramos had one goal nearly go in in the 20th minute.

Ramos ran the ball up the right

side of the field and tried his luck with a shot from about 25 yards, but the bend on his kick caused his shot to hit the right post.

Davis also had an opportunity to score in the first half.

An Aggie player tried a shot from the left side of the goal box, but Abalos showed his quick reflexes and deflected the shot upwards with one hand, keeping the game scoreless at halftime.

It was a physical match throughout, with Davis playing rough and accumulating 14 fouls and one yellow card. The Aggies had one hard foul in the first half, where a defender sideswiped co-captain Garcia and tackled him down to the ground.

“We took a beating for sure, but we knew what we were walking into,” Garcia said.

“They’re a very physical team.

That’s their style and we can’t do anything about it.”

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Mahina Haina (10) recorded eight kills against UC Irvine on Saturday.

he Matadors hadn’t known victory since their Oct. 1 takedown of defending Big West Conference champion Cal State Fullerton. Having gone on a three-game road trip that left a sour taste bigger than the last at each stop, CSUN had to win Saturday’s game against UC Irvine to remain relevant in the conference championship race.

Win they did, 3-0 at the Matadome.

When asked what it felt like to finally get one to stop a bleeding that was starting to make the season look like a “Saw” movie, CSUN middle blocker Casey Hinger opened her eyes wide and gave a happy, scream of relief.

“Ahhh!,” yelled a laughing Hinger, whose team won by scores of 25-18, 25-11 and 26-24. ”I don’t know if you can type that in the newspaper, but that’s what it feels like. Just like, ‘Finally!

Yes! We’re back! This is Northridge.’”

Hinger and Northridge (9-10, 3-4 Big West) looked particularly impressive in the second set, thoroughly outplaying the Anteaters (7-11, 2-5) offensively and defensively. The Mat-

adors opened a 9-4 lead with a balanced attack and continued to add to it ceaselessly. CSUN poured the kills and blocked most of the Anteaters’ offensive attempts, almost creating the feeling that UCI was down a player.

CSUN head coach Jeff Stork made sure to give full credit to his team, which had five blocks in the frame, for making UCI look like a high school squad.

“The way that I always look at it is, ‘The opponent we play is going to play the best volleyball it can. If they’re not playing the best volleyball they can, it’s because of us.' We were putting too much pressure on them," Stork said.

The Matadors finished them off, 25-11, taking a 2-0 lead into intermission.

Following a relatively trouble-free first set win and the second-set beatdown, most of the 543 people in attendance expected little from the Anteaters in the third frame. UCI showed resolve, however, and – behind 15 of their 34 game-total kills – had the Matadors down 23-22, threatening to prolong the night. “(UC Irvine) talked a lot (in the intermission) and they got pumped up and came up strong,” said CSUN oppo-

site hitter Natalie Allen, who had a game-high 11 kills.

Two kills by opposite hitter Mahina Haina (eight kills) and two Anteater errors put an end to the drama, however, as CSUN outscored UCI 4-1 to finish the sweep with a 26-24 third-set win.

“We just pushed back,” Allen said.

The Matadors hit .287 for the game and limited the Anteaters, who were led by outside hitter Aly Squires’s nine kills, to .066. CSUN’s special defensive scheme for UCI got 11 blocks.

“We stayed in a quick-three blocking move,” Stork said. “Where we have our shoulders square to the net and we never turn. Normally, we turn, run and jump, but against this team we didn’t.

“It was effective with our outside blocks.”

The Matadors’ next match is Saturday against last-place UC Riverside, a team CSUN’s already beat once. It will be yet another golden opportunity for the Matadors to gain ground in the tough Big West.

“The feeling (of winning) is amazing,” Allen said. “A win is a win. We've got to win the next couple games and we’re back in (the conference race).”