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From Hardship to Achievement – CSUN Student Receives CSUN’s Highest Honor

A tired middle school student gets home from class, enters the front door and throws down his backpack in the corner of the living room. Exhausted from his reading and writing classes, he turns on the Nintendo 64, spending the next couple of hours playing Paper Mario until dinner time. -- AmericanTowns.com

KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Brezza in Chatsworth

Area buyers will appreciate the community’s prime location, as Brezza is only a short commute to area employment centers, excellent shopping, and first-class entertainment. Hiking, biking and other recreational activities are plentiful at nearby Chatsworth Oaks Park, Chase Park and Lanark Recreation Center. Shopping and dining destinations are within a short drive to Northridge Fashion Center, Warner Center, and Westfield Topanga. Additionally, the community is convenient to California State University, Northridge, and Pierce College. -- Yahoo! Finance

Peggy Stabile: Why I marched

I marched so that Marta, who was brought to California by her parents at the age of 4 years to escape the terrorists in her Central American country, can continue her studies at CSUN and become the teacher she has always dreamed of being. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal

UMHB graduate assistant selected to participate in NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar

LaMar Campbell, assistant athletics director for student-athlete engagement, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tom Mitchell, associate athletics director for compliance, Purdue University; Dawn Ellerbe Crawford, associate athletics director for branding and fan development, California State University Northridge; Karen Stromme, associate athletics director for internal operations and senior woman administrator at the University of Minnesota Duluth; and Yulander Wells, senior associate athletics director for finance and chief financial officer, University of South Florida. -- KXXV

A Map of California for the Blind

This Braille map, furnished by map curator Chris Salvano of the California State University, Northridge, Geography Department Map Library, augments the state’s familiar silhouette with Braille identifiers for its geographic distinctions. Though understanding Braille isn’t required in order to grasp this map, it does force us to consider it from a unique perspective. - KCET

Trump overshadows young migrants' emotional trip to Mexico

Alvaro Castillo Garcia, a 23-year-old master's student in creative writing at California State University, Northridge, recalled how, before DACA, he had to constantly hide his illegal status amid fears of deportation. -- Associated Press: The Big Story

These Women Got Engaged at the Women's March, In Case You Wanted To Cry More Happy Tears Today

Stapleton, a professor at Cal State Northridge, explained how she worked out the surprise proposal with the help of the other organizers from the Riverside Women's March. "There was a lot of coordinating. I went to the planning team meeting on [Marcela's] behalf and it was the perfect opportunity." Ramirez added that Stapleton was "totally in cahoots" with her fellow organizers, and she had no idea. -- Yahoo! Style

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