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NEWS Renovated lobby, performance hall coming to Plaza del Sol p. 3

More time for studying, less time on the phone

Grocery strike would affect student employees p. 4

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Freshmen deal with disapointment of firstyear ban p. 12 Kathleen Russell / Daily Sundial

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Workers install the Matador statue, CSUN's newest icon, in Matador Square. The unveiling will take place Thursday, Sept. 8 before Freshman Convocation.

CSU to reevaluate presidents' salaries andrew lopez daily sundial

fter CSU presidents’ salaries came under fire in July, the system decided to compare the 23 campuses to national universities in an effort to gauge president pay at an Aug. 24 board of trustees meeting. At least four bills have been announced by state lawmakers that would put caps on president’s salaries since new president of San Diego State University, Elliot Hirshman was granted a $100,000 increase in salary at a board of trustees in meeting July 12, the same day they voted to raise student tuition 12 percent. With the retirement of CSUN President Jolene Koester in December and San Francisco State Uni-

versity President Robert A. Corrigan by next fall, the board will work to find a balance between hiring the best for the job while also not angering the public over hefty salaries. CSUN Provost Harry Hellenbrand doesn’t see how balancing the two can work. “You can’t satisfy everybody,” Hellenbrand said. “It’s a no-win situation.” Putting a cap on salaries could drive away the best candidates to higher paying jobs at other institutions, Hellenbrand said. CSU board of trustees will undertake a new survey, splitting the CSU system into four tiers of similarly sized campuses and comparing them to public universities outside the system.

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he end of the Spring 2011 semester started the revolution against the once prevalent two-hour hold time to make an appointment at the Klotz Student Health Center, which is now offering online appointment scheduling. “I think (online appointments) will make student’s lives easier with their busy schedules,” said Sharon Aronoff, Klotz Center educator. “Students can make appointments at 3 a.m. from home instead of having to call while we are open.” Not only does this new system allow students to make appointments, but it will also send email reminders about appointments and allow students to cancel or reschedule appointments at any time. The health center is still trying to get the word out about this new system. There is a button on their website that links to the appointment-making page along with bookmark handouts and soon-to-be electronic banners around school. “I went to the (health cen-

ter’s) homepage to look for the phone number and found the information about online appointments instead,” senior Alexis Vilkas said. “It’s great because there is no wait and you can find out immediately what time slot is available and which doctor you will meet with.” Online appointments are not currently available for all appointments, however. “If someone is making a general dentist appointment, they can do that online,” Aronoff said. “However, anything beyond a general appointment requires a phone call because we need more information on the specific problem.” Although it can be more convenient to go online, some believe a human voice on the other end is more important. “I prefer to either call to make an appointment or go in person,” said sophomore Nathalie Ramirez. “I don’t think I would ever go online because I like being able to ask questions.” First year graduate student Jasmin Nikzad agreed. “I prefer to talk to people and get advice or ask questions

See klotz, page 8

Courtesy of Jenna Jackson

A CSUN student works with children in the Dominican Republic's El Castillo village as they color fruits and vegetables as part of a lesson on food portion sizes. When finished coloring, the children attached their fruits and vegetables to paper plates in correct portion sizes.

See p.6 to read how CSUN students developed a nutrition program for locals in a village in the Dominican Republic

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Students scramble to park on first day Some prefer streets over lots madison kaufmann kimberly anderson sarah lorsch daily sundial

arking lots B1, B3 and G3 had the most traffic Monday and were shut down due to full capacity, an occurrence parking official said, and will likely continue until students are back into the swing of the semester. “We close them as soon as they fill up,” said Capt. Alfredo B. Fernandez, the traffic safety captain in the parking transportation department. “If not we have 200-300 people driving in parking structures in circles and it creates a huge backup and frustrates people.” This traffic plan will be in place the first two weeks of school, when people are coming onto campus for multiple reasons in addition to classes, said Capt. Scott G. Van Scoy. CSUN police direct traffic that circles the parking lots, shutting down full structures for 30 minutes to an hour until traffic lessens, Fernandez said.

Depending on what time they arrived on campus, CSUN students had mixed reviews on the parking situation. “I got here at 10:30 for my 11 a.m. class and found parking, but it was a mess, people were parked along the sides,” said biology major, Heather Williams, 23. “I would recommend people getting here one hour ahead of time to find parking.” Geology major, Michael Murphy, 27, saw people directing traffic, but felt they could have used people helping out around the streets as well. “I parked on the street and they put so much one and two hour parking around the school so we don’t disturb residential areas,” said Tony Strel, 21, biology major. “I just parked where I saw a lot of cars and I didn’t see a sign, so I hope I’m good.” Parking permits cost $6 for a day, $180 for a semester and $360 for a year. These costs have some CSUN students parking in the street, getting dropped off or rolling onto campus with bikes, skateboards and scooters.

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How was your first day back at CSUN?

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Gina Kiely public health education

“It has been crazy since I am at 0 units right now and trying to crash 5 to 6 different classes because I was trying to switch my major and Admission and Records lost my paper work, so I was not able to add classes in time.”

“It has been unreal being back on campus, it seems like summer has already left.”

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jessica alvarez sociology

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“I am tired and it’s not as hot as it was last week, but I have no units right now so I am crashing all the classes I need.”

“It has been very hot, scary and I could not find one of my classes this morning.”

“So far it has been good and the people are very nice and friendly here at CSUN. I am looking forward to my first class today.”

“My day has barely started, but this to me has been one of the hottest days here at CSUN.”

“It is hot but it has been a really good day back so far and it is nice to be back on campus.”

cesar louna undeclared “It was a good first day at CSUN just a lot of walking.”

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August

A.S. Fair

time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Where: Bookstore lawn

A.S. Senate Meeting

time: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Where: Grand Salon (USU) Description: Come see your representatives in action. Let A.S. know how you think they are doing, and be heard.

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The USU Board of Directors voted Monday to replace the 500 chairs in the Plaza del Sol performance hall.

Chairs to get a face lift Caitlin martin daily sundial

laza del Sol will soon be brought up to date with its campus companion, the VPAC, after USU board of directors voted Monday to replace the hall’s 500 chairs and renovate the lobby. The renovation of the entire hall and lobby was already passed by the university, but the USU is financially responsible for the chairs, said Colin Donahue, assistant vice president of facilities development and operations. The total cost for both the renovation of the hall and the lobby is estimated at $1 million, and new chairs would cost an additional $375,000, said Debra Hammond, USU executive director. Some board members questioned the necessity of replacing the chairs, but others clarified the funds would come from the Dormitory Building Maintenance and Equipment Reserve Fund, which was already approved for the year’s sole project

thus far. The 17-year-old chairs do not match those in the new VPAC, and by updating the space and fixtures, the performance hall will stay competitive with other campus amenities, Hammond said. The renovations to the hall, which include seating, main aisle and wall carpeting, acoustic wall fabric and a new stage curtain, would begin in December and are expected to last through January, according to a power point presentation. The lobby will not be renovated until next summer to avoid semester disruption. Combined construction projects could hinder campus convenience, Hammond said. The recreation center is being finished on the same north side of campus and already many pathways are being blocked. The summer-slated renovation of the lobby will include replacing the acoustical ceiling, a new ticket and concession booth, new wall panels and column covers, new paint, and a carpet replacement.

time: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Where: Games Room, USU Description: Meet your peers and enjoy free food, billiards, table tennis, console games, music, and a raffle for a VISA gift card. Bring your residence sticker/room key for admittance.

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Welcome Back Event

Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Where: Games Room, USU Description: Enjoy free food, gaming, billiards, table tennis, and music.

President’s Picnic

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Where: Bayramian Hall Lawn

USU Craft Corner

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Where: Plaza del Sol, USU Description: Matafest - Tropical and ocean themes wtih school items.

USU Neon Nights

Time: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Where: Games Room, USU

2 Women’s Soccer vs. New Mexico

USU Matafest

time: 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 performing live with Hawaiian music and Polynesian dancers along with Monroe and Jishin Taiko. Food catered by L&L Hawaiian BBQ.

time: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. where: Matador soccer field Description: CSUN students w/ ID recieve FREE admission! Arrive early these free seats are limited! Wear red! Be loud! Stand with the Matadors!

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nion members representing 62,000 Southern California Vons, Ralphs, and Albertsons employees voted in favor of a strike on Aug. 20 after six months of contract negotiations. “We don’t want to strike, last time it was terrible for everybody,” said Mike Shimpock, union spokesman. “It’s a terrible position to put everyone in, but if these markets won’t negotiate with us we don’t have much of a choice.” Grocery store employees voted to pass the strike by 90 percent, well above the necessary two-thirds vote, but it does not mean a strike is imminent, said Kendra Doyle, spokeswoman for the grocery chains. If an agreement cannot be made to the satisfaction of both sides, in a timely manner, the unions will be forced to strike, Shimpock said. The possible strike would affect more than 1,500 Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores stretching from Santa Maria to the Orange County border.

The contract between the grocery unions and the markets’ parent companies, Kroger, Safeway Inc., and Supervalu Inc., expired on

tional Union Local 135. “We are all scared, the last time we went on strike, we lost a lot,” said Irene Gonzalez, union steward and Ralphs

“It’s extremely scary for us. I hope that they keep on negotiating in good faith on both sides and come to an agreement.” — Irene Gonzalez

Union steward and Ralphs employee March 1. Since then both sides have been struggling to reach an agreement on a new contract, and the most contested piece is an employee health care plan. Union officials said the health care plan offered by employers will increase costs for the employees to as much as half of their take home pay. Union and corporate representatives are working with a federal mediator in the hopes of striking an agreement, but employees could protest within the next week if there are no reassuring developments, said Mickey Kasparian, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Interna-

employee. “I don’t want to strike, but I am prepared to strike if I have to.” In 2003, the region suffered one the longest employee strikes in history. The dispute lasted four months, the super markets lost over a billion dollars in revenue and the union members lost tens of millions in income. Gonzalez supports a family of six, including her disabled husband. The last strike financially devastated her family, forcing them to give up their home and move in with her parents. “It’s extremely scary for us,” she said. “I hope that they keep on negotiating in good faith on both sides and

KATHLEEN RUSSELL / DAILY SUNDIAL

Shopping carts sit outside the Ralphs located at 16940 Devonshire St. in Granada Hills, CA.

come to an agreement.” Jacob Holmes, a part-time Ralphs employee and CSUN student, said the atmosphere at his Granada Hills store is tense and anxious. Holmes is one of three family members who currently work for Ralphs.

Holmes doesn’t anticipate a strike, but if there is he hopes he can continue working and not be forced to join the picket lines as the result of a lockout. Customers have been supportive of current grocery workers, claiming if there is

a strike, they will shop elsewhere. “I’m not too familiar with unions, but I know they do a lot of good,” said Ralphs customer Betty Hamer, 84. “I don’t like anybody striking, but we all have to make money so I support it.”

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Seeds of Change Volunteers serve in Dominican Republic Kat Russell daily sundial

Courtesy of Jenna Jackson

CSUN students and graduates planted a vegetable garden over the summer in the Dominican Republic’s El Castillo village.

t was the opportunity of a lifetime and CSUN senior Jenna Jackson jumped at it. It started with a simple question – “How come we don’t get the opportunity to travel?” Jackson said. “We learn about cultural eating but we don’t really experience it.” Little did she know the impact that simple question would have on her life and the lives of many others. This past summer, Jackson and 11 other nutrition and dietetics students and graduates embarked on an adventure to the villages of El Castillo and Rio Grande in the Dominican Republic. The goal was to use creative techniques to teach the villagers about food safety, nutritional needs and healthy eating. Jackson, who has always been passionate about nutrition and healthy living, planned and coordinated the program with the help of International Student Volunteers Inc. (ISV), a non-profit organization that coordinates student volunteer trips. The organization provided Jenna with an on-site coordinator, David DeMinico, who

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The effect the program had on the group of students was profound, changing the perception of developing countries many of them previously had. “It’s really made me think about where I may want to go with my nutrition background and who really needs our help,” said participant Virginia Ortiz. Many of the students had never been exposed to the poverty and lack of resources in which these villagers lived. The dirt road villages were small, marked by structures pieced together with whatever materials were at hand - plastic sheets, plywood, metal sheeting and populated by wandering chickens and dogs. Despite their circumstances, the students remember the villagers as warm, full of life, eager to learn, and excited to welcome them into their homes and lives. “The people were amazing,” recalled participant Holly Erdogan. “We fell in love with the children immediately.” Jackson, who became quite attached to the children, was saddened by their circumstances. “A lot of the boys were working in the fields with the men,” Jackson said. “They don’t get to go to school, so they can’t read or write because they have to work. That was hard for me to see.”

Jackson’s experience in the Dominican Republic has left her more motivated than ever to continue to do community work. Both she and ISV plan to continue the project in the years to come and are already planning the trip for summer 2012. The venture is also being further developed to facilitate research on cultural eating and nutritional deficiencies. After her experiences with the villagers, Jackson feels that she has discovered

Courtesy of Jenna Jackson

(LEFT) Students participating in an International Student Volunteers program over the summer pose with the community of El Castillo village in the Dominican Republic. (BELOW) A little girl, approximately 3 years-old, hides behind the El Castillo village schoolhouse while the adult villagers were inside participating in a lecture. The lecture was given by CSUN students.

The people were amazing. We fell in love with the children immediately. — Holly Erdogan her purpose in life. “This experience changed my career goals,” Jackson said. “I felt like I was more in touch with myself. I wasn’t surrounded by things to influence me, it was just me reflecting on the situation and the experience. I would love it if one day I could have my own non-profit organization that runs trips like this and does work specifically in nutrition in other countries.”

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Stock market's lull hits college investments hard angela braza daily sundial

arents of college students were among the hardest hit during late summer’s stock market turbulence, and financial planners are suggesting these investors look into options outside of Wall Street. “The parents with young children still have time to increase their savings, but the parents of children in college should really consider opting out of the market,” said Charles Rotblut, vice president of the American Association of Independent Investors. The stock market plunged in early August with the Dow’s biggest decline since December 2008, at the start of the recession. After the Dow lost about 10 percent, the stock market witnessed the fall of other market indexes as well. Recent volatility in the market have prompted experts to warn parents with future college expenses to have no more than 20 percent invested in the

stock market, and parents of seniors should be even more conservative, Rotblut said. “One of the best ways to preserve savings is to invest in a money market or CD account,” he said. Both of these are shortterm investments which would allow investors to retrieve their funds when they need them. Money market accounts are offered by banks and credit unions and work like regular savings accounts, said Rotblut. The main difference is that interest rates and minimum balance requirements are usually higher in money markets. While banks often place a monthly withdrawal limit on money markets, investors are still able to take out the money they need at any given time. Unlike money market accounts, certificates of deposits (CDs) typically don’t allow investors to withdraw from funds until the specified amount of time they set for their account has passed. CDs pay investors interest on the money they have saved. Parents of college stu-

dents and investors who plan to retire soon should make changes in their savings plans. “If that money needs to be utilized soon, it’s best not to take any chances,” Rotblut said. In addition to college parents, people planning to retire soon were shaken during the stock market flux. “These two groups will be affected more than others because their stocks are short-term, meaning that the savings in their funds were meant to be used in the near future,” said Clarice Clouey, a certified financial planner with Lincoln Financial Advisors in Ventura. It is unlikely these groups will be able to accumulate the funds they lost in a short amount of time, but long-term investors have a better chance of recovering their losses, she added. “If the value of their investments has gone down with the recent plunge, then that’s going to affect the value of their portfolio, therefore affecting how

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CSUN students may now make appointments online at the Klotz Student Health Center website.

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Continued from page 1 rather than go online; I’m very anti-technology,” Nikzad said. Amy Reichbach, clinical patient health educator at the student health center, can see both the good and the bad with online appointments. “I felt so sorry for students who had to wait by the phone for appointments,” she said. “Now they can go home and make an appointment whenever they want and that appeals to me.” On the other hand, calling

can be beneficial for people that are unsure who they should see, Reichbach added. “One time I had a student who came to me hoping for birth control pills and I can’t do that,” she said. “It was an hour and a half appointment that someone else could have had if the student had gone to the right person.” Along with online appointments, the online package will also allow patients to receive lab work and send secure messages to their medical provider for small questions. “There are so many nuanc-

es for whether communication should be online or over the phone,” Aronoff said. “It’s case by case.” If the lab is concerned with the results or there will be follow up questions, communication would not happen over the Internet, Aronoff said. “The portal was not meant to replace communication, it is meant to enhance it,” she added. Online appointments are still fairly new, but Aronoff hopes that by October they will notice a difference in how patients are making appointments.

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Northridge woman was sentenced in Aug. to 15 years in prison for the September 2008 hit-and-run death of a CSUN student. Just this past Thursday, another CSUN student who was riding their motorcycle was sent to the intensive care unit after a driver of a light-grey SUV ran a red light and struck them. According to the statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), not only have pedestrian fatalities gone down, but traffic fatalities in general have gone down since 2005. With 4,333 traffic fatalities in California in 2005 compared to 3,081 in 2009, it appears the government has done its job to make sure these numbers continue to drop. Though traffic fatalities are one area the NHTSA reports on, there is another area that I found quite interesting. In 2008, the NHTSA discovered that 60 percent of fatal crashes were single-vehicle crashes, and 71 percent of those crashes were run-offroad crashes. A run-off-road crash is where the vehicle runs off the road and crashes into an object. What I found that was interesting was that 95 percent of these accidents were due to driver errors. Overcompensating the steering wheel when turning, poor directional control, and driving too fast for the conditions were factors that make up the 95 percent. This tells me that we as Americans are horrible drivers. When we remove driving under the influence fatalities from the mix, the main reason

why people get into car accidents is because they can’t drive. All of us that drive (hopefully) have had to take driver’s education and pass the driving exam at some point or another. So that means we have the ability to drive, right? That’s not exactly the case. If you flip through a driver handbook, the phrase “Driving is a privilege, not a right” is printed throughout its entirety. And it’s a privilege that a lot of people take for granted. In order for someone to get a license in California, the state requires a written test needs, several hours of driving behind the wheel, and a final driving exam. But as I started to look into this topic, I was reminded of Finnish driving schools in an old episode of Top Gear U.K. Host James May did a segment on becoming a better driver and chose Finland as the country to help him reach that goal, and with good reason. It takes three years, regardless of age, to get your driver’s license in Finland. During those three years, the driver must complete numerous theory tests (which are similar to the written tests), as well as six driving lessons on a wet skidpad. No wonder Finland produces more championship drivers in World Rally Championship and Formula One than any other country. Humanities major Anthony Sigala said the United States

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should make our driving tests more rigorous, which makes a lot of sense. Our driver’s education is a joke compared to other countries. According to Expat Finland, a website aimed at helping Americans relocate to Finland, a Finnish driving exam is 45 to 60 minutes long. All we have to do is take a 10 to 15 minute driving test and they mail us our license when we pass. Turning to automobile manufactures to reduce accidents is certainly not the right thing to do. Sure, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have developed new technology to help prevent accidents. Volvo created Adaptive Cruise Control with Queue Assist and Distance Alert, and

Mercedes-Benz with DISTRONIC PLUS. Both do the same thing: it allows you to use your cruise control to keep pace with the car in front of you. Should the car in front of you slow down or if you’re not paying attention, the car will automatically apply the brakes and ensure that you don’t cause a fender bender. This technology can be useful down the road, but it’s not quite ready yet. Dr. C.T. Lin, CSUN mechanical engineering professor, explained to me that this kind of technology is still in development and it could take up to 10 to 15 years before it becomes perfected. I’m not against new technology, but one thought that worries me is that people will

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become dependent on using these features. They are meant to aid us, not to make our decisions for us. If manufacturers find a way to have the car steer for us as well, then I consider us doomed as a society.

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Continued from page 1 Schools will be divided based on size, number of programs and other economic factors each CSU campus faces, Chancellor Charles Reed said at the meeting. Ten similar public universities will lay ground work for each tier to determine an average salary a president would make compared to market value. Data collected will compare 50, 75 and 100 percent of market value salaried offered to presidents, leaving the decision up to the board of trustees to determine what is reasonable when assessing a president’s salary, the board decided at the meeting. Diversity among the 23 campuses must be considered, said Charles Knapp, former president of the University of Georgia and current consultant for several companies. “One size fits all will not work,” Knapp said. A president’s job becomes increasingly complex the larger the campus and student body, Knapp said, and the more complex a campus is, the higher a president’s salary will likely be. A balance of hiring qualified, experienced campus president’s while minimizing backlash from state legislators and the public was the goal of this meeting, Knapp said.

“I’m not going to provide you a silver bullet,” Knapp told the board. Some presidents receive additional compensation from these campus foundations based on their success in raising funds for their university. Presidents manage the board of directors for the university foundation and coordinate events to raise funds. Of Hirshman’s $400,000 salary, $50,000 was provided through SDSU Foundation sources, according to an Executive Compensation Salary document. Reed approached the board of directors to fund the additional pay, CSU spokesperson Liz Chapin said. Though fundraising is a factor considered when looking for a new president, it is not reflected in their pay. “(Presidents) are not paid more based on how much money they raise,” Chapin said. “There is no commission.” Chirag Bhakta, a Cal State Fullerton student who attended the meeting, does not think president salaries should be based on how well they raise funds or what the national market offers. “At the essence of it they’re public servants,” Bhakta said. “If you’re not happy with $300,000, then we don’t want you to work for us.” Living in a competitive market society will drive up campus president’s salary

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“A good president can save you a lot of money,” he said. “ A bad president can lose you a lot of money.”

much they’ve saved for their kids’ college already,” she said. Couey said she anticipates the market’s erratic nature will change once more in the coming months. “Although the stock market percentage dropped significantly in a short period of time, it is already starting to slowly climb back,” she said. “Those who choose not to sell [their stocks] and wait it out instead are not in any grave danger.” Parents of college-bound students who wish to maintain their savings should have a solid investment strategy, said James P. Dow, chair CSUN’s department of finance, real estate and insurance. Although Dow cannot give specific advice without knowing the details of a person’s financial situation, he said investors should follow a general set of rules when it comes to making important investment decisions. Do not invest as a reaction to news, he said. The state of the market changes constantly and parents should not make any quick decisions based on the present, and temporary, situation. Parents should have a well-planned, longterm strategy, he added. Consider creating 5-year or 10-year investment plans that will help prevent costly mistakes. Long-term investments tend to fare better than short-term ones, he explained. An investor’s savings can grow significantly in a span of five to 10 years, but not so much in short-term stocks. Stocks that are held longer are likely to ride through the market’s ups and downs, he added. “Be educated,” Dow said. “The more you know, the more you’ll save.”

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ollowing a year in which the CSUN men’s soccer team didn’t get its first win of the season until game No. 8, things are looking much improved early on in 2011. The Matadors (1-0) won their season opener against Canisius 2-0 on Friday night with an overhauled roster. And it’s because after an awful 3-14-2 record last year, CSUN decided to freshen up its roster with 12 new players, eight of them freshmen. Some might consider this team young, but that is not how head coach Terry Davila, who won his 100th game as a Big West Conference member versus the Golden Griffins, sees it. “We didn’t just add new players, we added experience,” Davila said. “There’s nothing like maturity on a team. You can’t be immature and play in our system.” So while there’s an influx of young blood into the team, there’s also experience. And Davila expects the Matadors to have the mental understanding of what the team is trying to accomplish. With a medley of qualified players filling in different positions, the team is looking to impose its will against the opposition this season. One addition to help the Matadors reach that goal is forward Yarden Azulay. Coming from Jordan Valley,

Israel, Azulay, who had a shot on goal in the season opener, has three titles to his name already, all with the Beitar Jerusalem F.C., a youth team from Israel. The Matadors hope his international experience will transform him into an immediate impact player this season. A key area Davila paid attention to when scouting these new players was their junior-college and club pedigree. Some of the teams the newcomers played for include JC’s like Cerritos and Moorpark and club teams like the San Diego Surf, Real So Cal and FC Hasental, Davila said. “One of the things that we looked for is that they came from good programs,” Davila said. “They’ve been schooled and disciplined and expected to do the right things from the programs that they’ve come from.” Though players are new to the Matadors’ system of play, a few of them have actually had experience playing together, in one form or another. Defenders Luis Armando Gutierrez and Jose Luis Garcia (two shots on goal versus Canisius) both transferred from Moorpark and played for F.C. Hasental, but had known each other even before that. “Gutierrez and I grew up playing (against) each other in high school,” Garcia said. “We’ve been playing with each other for the past eight years.” Captains Joe Franco and Rafael Garcia also played alongside Jose Luis Garcia and Gutierrez on F.C.

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Freshman Christian Gonzalez Diaz, seen here waving to the home crowd during an exhibition game on Aug. 20, is one of 12 newly-signed Matadors in 2011. Gonzalez Diaz scored a goal on Friday vs. Canisius.

Hasental during the summer. And while Davila found experienced players from different colleges and clubs, the majority of his team renovation came from high schools. One of them, freshman Zachary DeVille, is sold on Davila. “I saw their program and they play a different type of soccer,” said DeVille, a forward/midfield-

er. “It’s a type of soccer that I want to be a part of.” DeVille, a kinesiology major, led University City High School to a 19-8 record and a CIF championship during his senior year. “I want to help CSUN achieve (more),” he said. “Hopefully, this year, we can be more clinical in front of the goal.”

Davila not only likes the experience and maturity of his new players, but also their confidence and capabilities inside and outside of his system. “You want people to buy into your system, but be able to make the area of their field their own,” he said. “These players are the ones that are special.”

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Freshmen learning to deal with first-year NCAA ban alonso tacanga sports editor

SUN freshman point guard Allan Guei’s letter-ofintent signing was a huge event back in April at Compton High School. His head coach was there. His classmates were there. Even NBAer, Toronto Raptor DeMar DeRozan, a former Compton standout himself, was there, proud to see him sign. And as the point guard committed his name onto a piece of paper to play for CSUN for the next four years and everyone cheered, not many imagined Guei’s college-playing career would get a noteworthy bump on the road in as early as a few weeks later. “The day I was going to sign, (CSUN head coach Bobby Braswell) called me and said we’d probably be ineligible for the

postseason,” Guei said. Though the news of the Matadors’ one-year ban from postseason play due to poor APR scores (grades) weren’t official yet, Guei knew of the possibility. Yet he chose to go ahead and sign anyway. The next month, the NCAA made it official. “(Braswell) said it wasn’t for sure yet, but I figured ... it didn’t really matter. CSUN was the right place for me,” he said. Guei signed the forms warned. Fellow freshman Stephen Maxwell did not. Maxwell, a 6-foot-5 small forward from 2011 City-section champion Taft High School, didn’t hear of the sanctions until after he had signed and was attending summer school already. He was eating with teammates when he got the call. “I was really hurt by it, but I wasn’t going to let it slow me down,” Maxwell said. Guei, who at 5 feet 9 aver-

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Freshman Allan Guei, one of four first-year CSUN players, signs his fate at an April event at Compton High School.

aged 13.9 points and 3.7 assists per game in 2010-11, was at lunch at Compton when his high school coach approached him and said to him: “bad news, man.” “I was like, ‘are you (serious)?’ I wanted to call the coach,

but I was like, ‘nah, he already gave me the heads up.’” Guei recalled. “I didn’t want to think about it. I just wanted to get here and focus on what I need to do.” Though CSUN won’t be able to play beyond its regular-season finale at Cal State Fullerton on

Feb. 29, Guei and Maxwell said there’s more to being Matadors than just competing for titles. Maxwell cited academics as well as the opportunity to play close to home as a top reason for signing with CSUN while Guei feels the Matadors are the program that needs him the most and that he’ll get a chance to get considerable playing time right off the bat. And it helps that the sanction is not projected to go beyond this season, Guei said. “It’s not like it’s for four years,” he said. Athletics is doing its part so that doesn’t happen, according to the freshmen. Tutoring, study hall and constant checking on student-athletes’ class punctuality are some of the measures applied to make sure the team complies with NCAA APR guidelines, a sighing Maxwell said. It seems to be working for

him so far. Earlier this month, Maxwell posted on his Twitter account that he earned a 3.0 GPA for the summer. While the freshmen have accepted the reality of the 201112 season and seem to be coping with it just fine, it remains to be seen what emotions the actual season will bring to them. Both are excited for the season opener at USC on Nov. 11 and said they believe that “everything happens for a reason.” However, they are also keeping frustration words - if any bottled up for now. According to them, no one has even brought up the topic of the banning in the locker room at all. “At a time, it’s going to really hit us. Like ‘OK, this is our last game and after this we’re just going to have to watch.’” said the candid Guei. “I know I get emotional, and stuff like this might make me emotional ... but not for now. Not right now.”