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Scores matter on and off fieldAthletes train academic agility after men’s basketball’s post-season banaNthoNY CarpioDAILY SUNDIAL

a thletic programs at CSUN are trying to set higher standards for student-athletes after the men’s basketball team was penalized last year for not meeting academic require-ments.

The basketball team has been barred from playing in the postseason after receiving an 871 NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR), below standards for collegiate sports.

APR tracks the progress of student-athletes, as well as the graduation rates of sports pro-grams. Teams need to meet an average score of 930 to avoid being penalized, according to the NCAA.

Men’s basketball head coach Bobby Braswell was unavail-able for comment on his team’s

performance.Though the basketball team

failed to meet their require-ments, other CSUN athletic programs are earning the grade.

The Matador cross-country team boasts a perfect score of 1000.

“The first thing I told (my athletes) is that we’re raising the bar academically,” said Avery Anderson, head coach of CSUN cross-country and track and field.

In his first year as head coach, Anderson said he wants his athletes to perform better in the classroom. Last year, the team had an average GPA of 3.0, but Anderson said he wants it higher.

“The easiest way to do well athletically is to do well academically,” he said. “It just makes it easier to do what we

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t he Cal i fornia Department of Public Health fined 12 hospitals, two in Los Angeles, for noncompliance with licens-ing requirement after an assessment of the facilities on Sept. 7.

Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center was fined for failing to implement written policies and procedures for giving out medication, accord-ing to the Department of Health press release. This is the fourth administra-tive penalty issued to the hospital and carries a fine of $50,000.

The Brotman Medical Center in Culvery City was fined $50,000 for its fail-ure to follow policies and procedures for fall preven-tion, the same press release noted. This was the hospi-

tal’s second administrative penalty.

Neither hospital were available for comment by the time of publication.

Hospitals nationwide are inspected every 18 months, usually by an outside organization that reports back to the Depart-ment of Health, said Ralph Montano, spokesman for the California Department of Health.

The organization will deem a hospital acceptable if the facility meets federal regulations and laws, but hospitals are required to self-report some incidents, Montano said.

If the hospital doesn’t report an incident and a person or entity complains, the assessment will also look at why the hospital did not report it, he said.

The Department of Health allows consumers to see reports and find hospi-tals in their area, shows any

Early birdStudents who take early classes perform better

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despite only being able to nab one morning class this semester, Ellie Sol, communications junior, advocates taking morning classes as a way to make the most of every day.

“(After a morning class) you don’t have to worry about it anymore and you can have time to study or go out,” Sol said. “You’re fresh-er in the morning. Toward the night, you’re just tired.”

A recent study by St. Lawrence University proved this to be true. Students who wake up early for morning classes tend to get better grades.

The study, conducted by psychology professors Serge Onyper and Pamela Thach-er, found that students who

took later classes slept more but also had more time to go out with friends, which may mean late nights. The reasoning behind this is the

level of maturity when it comes to handling a college career.

“If you know you don’t have to be in class until 2

p.m. then why go to bed at 9 o’clock the night before just to get up at eight in the

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Urban studies professor, Mintesnot Woldeamanuel, lectures to his 8 a.m. class yester-day. “in a way they are really fresh, in a way they are kind of sleepy, but i dont have a problem to engage them,” said Woldeamanuel.

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“From a consumer standpoint, the penal-ties and assessments don’t matter much,” said Dr. Brian Malec, health administration professor at CSUN. “Very few patients research their hospital. Should they? Yes. Do they? Probably not.”

Some students said they would take the assess-ments seriously, now that they know it exists.

“I can find better options now,” said senior construction manage-ment major Preston Jen-sen. “A hospital that was fined wouldn’t be my first choice.”

Hospitals have 10 days to appeal the penalties, Montano said, but he was unable to reveal if any appeals have been filed.

Penalties range from $50,000 to $75,000, depending on the sever-ity of the infraction and how many penalties have been issued, Montano explained.

California’s Depart-ment of Health has issued 198 penalties since the program began in 2007, Montano said. Of those, 150 have been paid and the rest either went to

court or were overruled.Malec said large fis-

cal penalties may affect a hospital’s reputation more so than their bottom line.

“When adding up the number of people in and out of hospitals every day, the amount of deficiencies

resulting in penalties is small,” Malec said. “Hos-pitals are diligent in train-ing employees in the laws and policies but one per-son can make a mistake, forget to sign a form, it affects the whole hospi-tal.”

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need to in terms of the athlet-ic-side of things when we’re taking care of business on the academic side.”

An APR score can make a team appear on top of their aca-demic game, but Anderson said it’s not as clear as people think.

It “can be a little deceiving, in that there are other factors that go into it,” he said. “I don’t think that it tells the whole pic-ture.”

Jim Bracken, head coach of CSUN men’s golf, said his small team puts golf’s APR at a disadvantage because they have limited points.

Bracken’s team received a 926, just below the required 930, but was given an exception because of the team’s size.

But size is not the only thing that matters when it comes to academic progress scores.

A few years ago, two golf players left the program before graduating — one to play pro-fessional golf, and the other to attend PGA Tour school, Brack-en said. The early departures lowered their team’s APR.

Men’s golf has improved their APR. Bracken said he does everything he can to help his athletes with their grades.

“I want all my (athletes) to graduate, but you can only do what you can do,” he said. “I can’t do anything else.”

Bracken said he checks-in with his academic advisers at least three to four times per

week, and gives his athletes time off from practice for tests and class.

“I’m very proactive on how they are doing,” he said.

Even when Bracken gives his athletes extra time for work, he can be surprised by the out-comes.

“I look at grade reports three weeks before finals, and every-thing’s good,” he said.

But when it comes time for finals, Bracken said the momentum did not stick.

Student-athlete success in the classroom comes down to the students themselves, Brack-en said.

Rafael Garcia, co-captain of CSUN men’s soccer, is graduat-ing this Fall semester, but it has not been an easy road for him.

“There are challenges that come with athletics, such as traveling and having games

during the semester,” Garcia said. “It’s definitely a challenge being a student-athlete.”

Garcia said he gives prior-ity to his academics first and focuses on athletics after, but added he would not be gradu-ating without the help of the athletic department and the ser-vices they offer.

“I take advantage of all the resources that are available,” he said. “Tutoring and mentoring programs, in my opinion, have helped me a lot. I couldn’t be happier with the programs that they offer here.”

Although the men’s basket-ball team was penalized for not meeting NCAA requirements, Anderson said all teams need to abide by it, no matter how flawed they may think it is.

“If that’s the standard, then you need to figure out how to live within the standard,” he said.

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Brotman Medical Center, a hospital located in West los angeles, is one of dozens that were heavily affected by the department of public health for noncompliance with licensing requirements.

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morning just to sit around,” said Sam Wachtor, geology senior.

Students rationalize that by taking later classes, they are able to sleep in and be better rested — but the study found it was a lower quality of sleep.

“The effects of later class-start times might include more sleep,” said Thacher in a prepared statement. “But this might be offset by lower quality sleep, which in turn might affect students’ ability to engage, intellectually, with their coursework.”

Despite this, later class times only predicted slightly lower grade point averages. Later classes were correlated with more drinking, which impacts academic perfor-mance.

“Those who choose later classes also tend to sleep longer and consume more alcohol and other substances, while those who elect earlier classes may be more moti-vated to find ways to offset the early start time by making healthier choices about their daily living,” Thacher said.

However, simply attend-ing early classes will not

raise a student’s GPA.“It’s the maturity of the

learner and their intent for being there,” said Cynthia Desrochers, professor of edu-cation at CSUN.

With 29 years of teaching an array of students under her belt, Desrochers argues no

matter what time of day the student attends class, students who are just starting their col-lege education tend to be less serious about their classes.

According to the listing of classes in the myNorthridge student portal, CSUN offers roughly the same amount of

morning and night classes. Additionally, most graduate classes are evening classes, in which more experienced students are enrolled.

In a class of graduate stu-dents, Desrochers noted the students were more mature not only in age but in having

gone to school longer and knowing what they want to do in life.

“Whether I had them at 8 in the morning, 1:30 in the afternoon, or 7 o’clock at night, they were mature learners,” Desrochers said.

After teaching multiple

semesters of a freshman seminar, she said she noticed more of a range in matu-rity levels of students because they were, for the most part, still immature. She said it being their first time away from home and them stay-ing out late was a probable impact.

Wachtor took note of this trend in his classes through-out his years at CSUN.

“At this point, all my classes are with majors, not just 100-level GE classes with all the rowdy kids,” Wachtor said.

Many seasoned CSUN students tend to resist night classes but give in when morning classes are unavail-able.

Ryan Witkosky, senior geophysics major, is pro-morning class.

“I get tired later on in the day, and it’s harder to focus and concentrate,” Wit-kosky said. “But you can’t always do that because there are so many other factors that play into that. Sometimes, the class isn’t even offered in the morning or your schedule doesn’t allow for it.”

With this information, stu-dents can tweak their sched-ules to make the most of the thousands of dollars they are spending on school.

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ari emuriamn, 23, economics major, reviews his book as he waits for his 9:30 a.m. latin america georgraphy class to start. “i like morning classes for two reasons: for parking and i’m fresher,” said emurian.

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Budget cuts have affected more than just stu-dents trying to crash class-es. Administration has felt the pinch and are making changes to save resources and make them stretch.

In January, the gover-nor’s office released the 2011-12 budget for the CSU system which called for an 18 percent reduction in state support. Translated to mon-etary terms, about $500 mil-lion have been cut.

Each college and depart-ment on campus has been affected differently by the financial strain.

All personal printers were taken out of the social work offices within the last year, limiting them to one centralized printer, with a maximum number of cop-ies, said Tiffany Newton, social work office manager.

Instead of ordering sup-plies as needed, the depart-ment is now limited to one supply order a year, Newton said. They must be extra cautious as to the amount of office items they use or they will run out and need to bring their own.

With students having trouble getting classes and graduating on time, it is only fair that the depart-ments have to deal with monetary issues as well, said Monica Montes, 20, liberal arts major.

Betsey Jones, office manager of the department of civil engineering and applied mechanics, said her goal for the department is to preserve resources like paper, ink and pens so they can allow students to make copies.

“We know (students) don’t have a lot of money and are trying to get through school,” Jones said.

Offices aren’t the only

victims of the budet crunch. Engineering labs may soon see the effects because they cannot be updated, Jones said.

Students have noticed the lack of paper, which has pushed them to print their own syllabi, but the labs are still acceptable.

“I haven’t really noticed anything run-down or dirty, it all seems average or above average,” said Michael Johnston, 19, com-puter science major.

Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Commu-nications has experienced these cuts for years and because they implemented resource-saving tactics such as conserving paper and ordering less supplies, they are not facing as much of a crisis right now, said Dean Robert Bucker.

Compared to other Cali-fornia universities, CSUN is dealing well with the budget cuts, said Maureen

Rubin, interim associate dean.

“Unlike other CSU’s we have not had to lay off fac-ulty, furloughs and other small changes have mini-mized the effects of bud-get cuts on faculty and stu-dents,” Rubin said.

Budgets and money allo-cated to departments varies. Some departments are more expensive to run than oth-ers so they are given more money to cover this, Rubin said.

Students like psychol-ogy major Nicole Moncree still blame budget cuts for lack of classes, but Rubin said the number and kind of classes offered is monitored by how many students need them, and more classes are added when a need arises.

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If the universe saw fit, I was to study journalism in Istanbul for five weeks through ieiMedia - an intensive international journalism program. Whether or not I was going to be able to pull it off was questionable. I am a single mom and a full-time student and making that work is hard enough without me being in a different coun-try. On top of that, I’m not exactly swimming in pools of excess money. I was forced to weigh the pros and cons of the situation – could I justify spending five weeks away from my

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ExTRAS Other sports played: “I was a cheer-leader in middle school and I also played volleyball and track and field.”Started playing soccer: Four years oldPerson I would most like to meet: Will FerrellInteresting fact: McDaniel’s brother, Logan, plays for the Loyola Marymount men’s soccer team.Greatest Hero: Mom

Next Game: Friday @ Loyola Marymount, 4 p.m.

Get to know...chloe McDanielreporting by cHRISTINA AzOuz / DAILy SUNDIAL

Full name: Chloe McDanielDate of Birth: Dec. 22, 1991Place of Birth: Palmdale, California

Height: 5’6”Position: DefenderMajor: Kinesiology

High School: Quartz Hills2011 Stats: 1 goal, 2 points, 6 games started

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cSuN sophomore chloe McDaniel (right) fights off a New Mexico defender on Sept. 2.

AlONSO TAcANGASPOrTS eDITOr

Having lost two straight games heading into Big-West-Conference play does not seem to faze the Matadors (6-6).

CSUN dropped games to UCLA and BYU last week, but the setbacks apparently didn’t do much to diminish its players’ con-fidence. Freshman middle blocker Casey Hinger is actually quite certain their next game, on the road against UC Riverside, will be a win.

“We’re fighting hard and that’s what counts,” Hinger said fol-lowing CSUN’s 3-1 home loss to BYU on Saturday. “I can’t wait for our first conference game at UCR. I can’t wait to go beat them.”

CSUN looked quite capable during Saturday’s third set, domi-nating the Cougars behind oppo-site hitter Mahina Haina’s five kills. Outside of that, the Mata-dors were one step behind BYU the whole way. CSUN hit .130 for the game.

Even during their will-impos-ing third-set win, the Matadors found themselves in an undesir-able position. Following a 9-3 run to start the set, BYU scored five straight points to get within a point. It was a similar sce-nario from the game against No. 7 UCLA on Sept. 12 in which CSUN held multiple leads only to have the Bruins snatch the lead

back every time.Against the Cougars, however,

CSUN responded. The Matadors scored the next four points and cruised to a 25-16 win.

Focusing on the positives will be key to come out with a win on Saturday at Riverside, CSUN libero Cindy Ortiz said.

“We just got to shake it off and move on to the next game,” Ortiz said. “Can’t dwell on the last game and keep moving forward.”

Hinger, who hit .227 against BYU, is ready to do that.

“I’m very confident,” she said.

It’s getting hot in hereThe first thing fans felt as

they entered the Matadome for CSUN’s game against BYU: the temperature elevating.

It’s no secret the Matadome’s long lacked an air-conditioning system, and with Northridge reaching the high 80’s tempera-ture-wise on Saturday, CSUN and its fans had to deal with the irk-some heat.

Not everyone minded it, though.“I like it. When you come off,

you’re still warm,” Hinger said. “You don’t have to go into the game cold.

“We’re so used to it at this point. We had to do double-days (in the summer) in the middle of the day at 110-degree weather, so we’re used to it at this point,” she added.

Ortiz actually sees the hot gym as part of the home court advan-tage.

“It’s an advantage for us because we play in there every-day,” she said. “But when it’s hot, it’s hot, you just got to play.”

But would she mind it if it wasn’t so warm in there all the time?

“AC is better,” Ortiz said. “But it’s OK, I guess.”

Mariah Counts, tooOutside hitter Mariah Counts

didn’t play during CSUN’s first set vs. BYU. She then saw limited action in the second and third set before finally getting consider-able playing time in the fourth.

CSUN head coach Jeff Stork’s explanation for this: her serving.

“At one point we weren’t scor-ing in the rotation,” Stork said. “We put Mariah in and she had a run of three or four points. She’s a good, confident server and we look to put her in that rotation to score points for us.”

Counts, who has appeared in eight of the Matadors’ 12 games, had two digs, an ace and two serving errors for the game.

Orlandini still outAfter appearing in a career-

high 31 matches during the 2010 season, senior setter Sam Orland-ini hasn’t seen a minute of action this season.

According to a team source, Orlandini broke a team rule, resulting in her sidelining.

When asked to explain the circumstances of Orlandini’s sus-pension, Stork declined comment.

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Middle blocker casey Hinger (1) exuded confidence when asked about the Matadors’ Big-West opener at uc Riverside. She said she “can’t wait” to go to the Highlanders’ home court and “beat them.”