CSUN HITS BIG TIME WITH TOP TV SHOW 'WEST WING' DIALOGUE GIVES PLUG TO CAMPUS.Byline: Erik Nelson Staff Writer NORTHRIDGE - Fresh off its historic victory on the basketball court, California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , may now have stolen UCLA's crown as Hollywood's darling with the appearance of a fictitious CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge professor on TV's top drama, ``The West Wing.'' In the episode that aired Wednesday night, White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg tells President Josiah Bartlet that while hosting a televised panel discussion on a new Mars probe, he will be joined by a panel of Mars experts including a scientist from the Johnson Space Flight Center, two NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. scientists and ``Dr. Joyce Grey-Sutton, planetary geologist from Cal State Northridge.'' The line set off waves of bemusement be·muse tr.v. be·mused, be·mus·ing, be·mus·es 1. To cause to be bewildered; confuse. See Synonyms at daze. 2. To cause to be engrossed in thought. among CSUN alumni and officials. And it came just a week after CSUN made national headlines when its men's basketball team beat the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , basketball team - CSUN's first victory over the 11-time national champions. ``I'm department chair of physics and astronomy, so presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , this fictitious person works for me,'' said CSUN's Adrian Herzog, who watched the show, but missed the beginning and heard about the CSUN reference from his secretary. ``I thought it was kind of funny.'' As for planetary geologists, Herzog explained, ``we don't have any of those.'' What the school does have is at least $4 million worth of teaching and research programs it does in conjunction with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. in Pasadena. On the other hand, ``UCLA, they have a lot of good planetary geologists down there,'' concedes department instructional technician Dave Liggett. Executive producer Aaron Sorkin writes most of the dialogue on ``The West Wing,'' according to a show spokeswoman. She couldn't explain why Sorkin, a graduate of the University of Syracuse, included a CSUN professor on the panel. But others were quick to offer an opinion. ``That's because we beat UCLA - that's why they mentioned us,'' said Peter Weingand, a volcanologist with CSUN's geological sciences department. |
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