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The Test-Prep Program That’s Helping Low-Income Students Get to College
It’s one of the most glaring indicators of inequity in the nation’s education system: Students from low-income families tested 166 points below the average on last year’s SAT and 396 points behind than their wealthiest peers. Put another way, the poorest students (whose parents earned less than $20,000) could barely meet the baseline for applying to California State University, Northridge, while most rich kids (whose parents rake in over $200,000) would have the same shot of getting into the higher ranked University of California, Los Angeles. -- Nation Swell
Shows Of The Night: Tuesday, November 29th
SHOWS OF THE NIGHT
The Naked And Famous @ Fox Theater
Young Thug @ Shrine Expo Hall
Louis C.K. @ Dolby Theatre
YG @ Wiltern
Princess Nokia @ The Echo
Vancouver Sleep Clinic w/ Lo Moon @ Bootleg Theater
Getting Doug With High @ The Troubadour
Clay @ The Hotel Cafe
Dragon Smoke @ The Mint
Judd Apatow & Friends @ Largo At The Coronet
Cloak & Dagger @ Confession
Wind Ensemble @ Cal State Northridge -- Scenestar
Class act: Yes, some non-holiday music is being played by the L.A. Philharmonic and others
The Vienna Boys Choir makes rare Southern California appearances on Dec. 2 at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge and on Dec. 3 at Segerstrom Hall performing a program of Christmas music that spans six centuries. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
Wintering's Career-High 36 Leads UP To Win Over CS Northridge
Alec Wintering scored a career-high 36 points and Portland beat Cal State Northridge 96-78 Sunday night in the seventh-place game of the Wooden Legacy Tournament. --OPB
Big West: Anteaters say Luke Nelson will play only when hamstring is 100 percent healed
Cal State Northridge (2-5) lost all three of its games in the Wooden Legacy Tournament, allowing an average of 98.6 points. After his team's 96-78 loss to Portland on Sunday in the seventh-place game, Matadors coach Reggie Theus took a long time to emerge from the locker room. -- Orange County Register
UC Irvine coach Russ Turner cautious with Luke Nelson
CSUN (2-5) lost all three of its games in the Wooden Legacy Tournament, allowing an average of 98.6 points. Following his team’s 96-78 loss to Portland on Sunday in the seventh-place game, Matadors coach Reggie Theus took a long time to emerge from the locker room. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Beth Allen: Finding happiness in Scotland key to my success
“It is difficult to put my finger on a specific factor, but I think experience has helped me tremendously,” admitted the graduate of California State University at Northridge. “I had only been playing golf for eight years before I qualified to play on the LPGA, so I was relatively young in golf years. Now, 20 years after I started playing I feel like I have learned how to win and get the most out of my game. I also have been working with Ian Rae for about 18 months and he has been a great help really fine tuning my swing and helping me with my overall game. -- The Scotsman
Jim Snyder Joins Sun Valley as Director of Food and Beverage
A seasoned ski resort food and beverage professional with over thirty years of multi-unit responsibility in the resort industry, Jim most recently was Senior Vice President of Food and Beverage for Intrawest. Based out of the Steamboat Resort, he oversaw six resorts in North America with over 80 restaurant venues, as well as all food and beverage operations at the Steamboat Resort. Prior to his time at Intrawest, Jim held executive food and beverage positions at Canyons Resort, and was Vice President of Food and Beverage for American Skiing Company -- both based in Park City, Utah. Snyder began his career as the Executive Vice President of Good Earth restaurants, a pioneering concept in the natural food industry. He is a graduate of California State University-Northridge with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. -- Hotel Online
SoCal-based Cuban composer, and noted historian weigh in on Fidel Castro’s legacy
Aurelio de la Vega, Cuban composer and professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge. He is in Miami today receiving an award from the National Association of Cuban American Educators. Today is also his birthday, he turns 91 -- KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Presidential election sparks a rise in campus unrest
The Cal State system, the largest in the nation, with campuses in Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge and San Bernardino, is not “in the business” of enforcing federal immigration laws, White said. -- Orange County Register