Fall 2019 Issue 6

SF State’s student-run publication since 1927

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019

Volume 110, Issue 6

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First Hispanic dance club flows with Folklorico

Rebeca Gonzales Estrada spins while practicing a traditional dance from Sinaloa, Mexico. She and others are practicing in order to perform during Hispanic Heritage Month. Practice took place at Ocean Beach on September 26, 2019. (Photo by William Wendelman / Golden Gate Xpress)

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Ethnic Studies students rally for climate justice Homelessness on rise for San

Franciscans 50 years and older

BY MJ JOHNSON CAMPUS EDITOR

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ndrew Va’i pumped his fist into the air as his booming voice blasted through the speakers during a climate rally at SF State Sept. 26. “We are fighting!” The crowd thrusted their handmade signs high and returned his call with a thunderous roar.

“Not drowning!”

SF State students amassed at Malcolm X Plaza for a climate justice rally, organized by students within the College of Ethnic Studies, primarily the Asian American Studies department and other Pan-Asian student organizations. The rally was staged during the Bay Area Week of Climate Action, a regional push for climate change awareness.

“Climate change is a reality for me just as much as it is a reality for my family on the islands of Oceania,” said Va’i, an Ethnic Studies graduate student from Samoa.

Va’i delivered part of a spoken word poem at the rally.

“There are people existing within the trenches and they are fighting, not drowning, they are living so proudly.”

The rally was a student-led joint collaboration between Ethnic Studies departments and Asian American and Pacific Islander Retention and Education (ASPIRE),

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the Asian Student Union and the League of Filipino Students. Student activists within these groups took turns at the mic invigorating the crowd with calls to action against environmental racism, displacement, colonization and other issues surrounding students and the climate crisis.

“It’s so important to have black and brown folks who are more affected by the climate issues that are happening to be involved,” said Shara Orquiza, League of Filipino Students chairperson and key organizer of the rally. “We wanted to emphasize this movement is not only happening locally but on a global level as well.”

Students held up colorful handmade signs on recyclable cardboard which included proclamations to “Save the planet,” “System change not climate change,” and “Impeach.” Some signs advocated for justice for Brandon Lee, an environmental activist and SF State alumnus who was shot in the Philippines and remains in critical condition.

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hile accepting the 2019 Distinguished Long Term Care Advocate Award for her work with aging communities, Mayor London Breed opened the ongoing discussion about homelessness among the city’s aging population to a public forum during her visit at SF State.

SF State community members, medical experts and social service professionals gathered Sept. 27 for the 2019 SF State Silver Lining Lecture & SF DAAS Community Training.

Students could get class credit by participating in the training and learning more about solutions proposed for SF’s homelessness issue.

According to data collect-

ed by UCSF’s Margot Kushel, almost half of SF’s homeless population is 50 years of age or older. The median age for homelessness will continue to rise, according to a study called Health Outcomes of People Experiencing Homelessness in Older Middle Age (HOPE HOME) spearheaded by Kushel, who gave a presentation at the event after Breed’s speech.

Kushel said that this age group is especially vulnerable to becoming and staying homeless due to declining health, mental illness, repeated victimization, racial injustice, substance abuse, imprisonment and lack of income as a young adult.

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Jesse’s Major League Baseball postseason predictions

Defense attorney candidates present to and hear from formerly incarcerated students

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DA candidates listen to formerly incarcerated students

BY MJ JOHNSON CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR

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ears filled Elisabeth Ocampo’s eyes and her voice began to quiver, but she persisted in her question to three seasoned lawyers currently running for district attorney in San Francisco.

Ocampo, a formerly incarcerated undergraduate student at SF State, rushed to the microphone to voice her opposition to district attorney hopeful Nancy Tung, who is in favor of sentencing young people to prison terms longer than 20 years. Ocampo teared up as she spoke of her childhood friend who was sentenced to life in prison at 16.

“It’s personal, and I’ll only bite my tongue for so long,” Ocampo said.

Three district attorney candidates convened in Cesar Chavez student center Sept.

24 for a discussion forum hosted by Project Rebound and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

Formerly incarcerated students with Project Rebound, a special admissions program at SF State for people in and coming from the criminal justice system, led the discussion and posed questions to candidates that touched on topics of racism, police brutality, recidivism and mass incarceration. Project Rebound hosted the event as an opportunity for students and the community to learn more about the people running in the election, said Regional Director of Project Rebound Jason Bell.

“They (Project Rebound students) have faced DAs, these are people who are vicious in the courts, who have prosecuted us to some degree and we feel like they’re our enemies,” said Bell, a formerly incarcerated individual. “So for us it was big to be in the same room.”

The discussion forum was co-hosted by the ACLU as part of the “Meet Your DA” campaign in California, which is designed to raise awareness about the powerful role district attorneys play in the state’s 58 counties. The district attorney is not only the chief prosecutor but also impacts the criminal justice system by introducing propositions and reform measures.

“We think the voices of formerly incarcerated people should be the leading voice in the fight for criminal justice,” said Yoel

Jose Cuellar, lecturer of Latino/Latina Studies at SF State, challenges SF District Attorney candidates to call out implicit and explicit racism as systemic white supremacy Sept. 24 (Photo by MJ Johnson / Golden Gate Xpress)

Haile, criminal justice project manager at ACLU-Northern California. “The forum is a way to directly have a conversation with the people who are going to be making

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It was all those flaws within the system that kept me in the system. The system let me down in a lot of ways.

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-Elisabeth Ocampo,

formerly incarcerated SF State student

these decisions after November.”

Although all four candidates running for district attorney were invited by Project Rebound to participate in the discussion, only three showed up to take questions

from students and community members.

SF Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin, California Deputy Attorney General Leif Dautch and SF Deputy District Attorney Nancy Tung all commented on the notable absence of their fellow contender SF Police Commissioner President Suzy Loftus.

The three candidates each had opportunities to share their positions on hot-button issues for the upcoming election.

“We need to stop focusing on convictions. We need to stop focusing on life sentences,” said Boudin, a candidate whose parents were both sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in a bank robbery when Boudin was 14 months old. “We need to start focusing on prevention and healing. We need to recognize the public health crisis in our streets. We need to recognize that we are safer when we invest in education rather than incarceration.”

Ocampo challenged the candidates on their positions on gang enhancement, additional time on prison sentences for those deemed to be gang affiliated. She shared from her history when at 13 years old, she was entered into the CalGang database, a

system used by law enforcement in California to identify and track alleged gang members.

“What kept me in the system with numerous violations was how law enforcement perceived me, because of my gang involvement, because of being poor,” said Ocampo, a mother of two and business management major who will graduate in the spring. “It was all those flaws within the system that kept me in the system. The system let me down in a lot of ways.”

The candidates will go head to head on Nov. 5 under San Francisco’s new voting system that will expand ranked-choice voting from three to 10 choices, part of the city’s push toward digital voting. This year’s district attorney race is the first open-seat race without an incumbent in San Francisco since 1909.

“It’s good to be educated on topics that are important to us like who to vote for,” said Lesly Altamirano, a criminal justice major who just turned 18 and will be voting in her first election. “I get to learn something I didn’t know, like about the new voting system.”

Sexual assault resources on campus

Last week, the Xpress published a story surrounding a series of sexual crimes on campus. This, understandably, raised many concerns surrounding safety and resources for those affected. Below are a list of resources for victims of sexual violence The SAFE Place, located in the Student Services building, room 205, within the Counseling and Psychological Services office. At the SAFE Place, victims can access confidential services including immediate crisis counseling and assistance with every step of reporting, should the victim choose to do so, as well as academic intervention and medical care. Contact the SAFE Place at 415-338-2208.

To report any type of sexual misconduct including harassment, discrimination or violence, members of the community should fill out a Title IX reporting form. It is worth noting that, unlike the SAFE Place, Title IX workers are typically bound by mandatory reporting laws, meaning they are obligated to report any such incidents to the university. Contact the Title IX Coordinator Office at 415-338-2032.

Students who feel unsafe walking across

campus past sunset can request an escort courtesy of the University Police Department’s Campus Alliance for a Risk-free Environment (CARE) program. Call UPD’s non-emergency number, 415-3387200, and ask for an escort.

For emergencies, dial 911 or 415-3382222 to specifically contact UPD. Emergency phones are also scattered throughout campus for public use. To see the location of all emergency phones, go to the SF State

campus map and click on any quadrant.

Emergency phone locations are marked with an E. The Sexual Violence Prevention Collaborative (SVPC) is an organization comprised of students, professors and other staff all committed to combatting sexual violence on campus. To join the SVPC, contact Denmark Diaz, Men’s Health Educator, at denmarkd@sfsu.edu.

A clean record for campus cops

BY JUAN CARLOS LARA STAFF REPORTER

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records request by Xpress found that no officers currently employed by UPD have ever been written up for sexual assault, use of force or dishonesty in the field since they began at SF State.

Since the beginning of 2019, Senate Bill 1421, proposed by Berkeley’s state Sen. Nancy Skinner, made certain previously private records regarding police miscon-

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duct available to the public.

In January The San Francisco Chronicle reported on records released by the Fairfield Police Department, finding three officers with histories of sustained sexual misconduct allegations and four others who were disciplined for dishonesty. This led Xpress to look into UPD. “San Francisco State University has conducted a reasonable search for these records… and has determined that it has

no responsive records,” said Andrea Whipple-Samuel, Compliance and Policy Coordinator for Quality Assurance, the department within the administration responsible for handling public records requests. No responsive records means there is no documentation of any of the above transgressions.

The types of records made available include instances where officers used force resulting in significant harm or death, fired

their weapon, committed sexual assault or acted dishonestly, according to the bill’s text. Since the bill became law, news organizations across the state began submitting requests to local police departments.

“When incidents occur the public deserves to know that a thorough investigation has occurred and that police are held accountable,” said Skinner, according to a press release sent out from her office.

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It’s so important to have black and brown folks who are more affected by the climate issues that are happening to be involved.

- Shar Orquiza, League

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of Filipino Students chairperson and key organizer of the rally

Sarah San Juan chalks a message at Malcolm X Plaza before a Climate Justice rally Sept. 26 (Photo by MJ Johnson / Golden Gate Xpress)

Students from the College of Ethnic Studies held a rally for climate justice during the Bay Area Week of Climate Action CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Polynesian communities whose islands are being threatened by rising sea levels,” said Rachel Perry, a member of Students Against Displacement, a student group that provides information and resources to tenants on their housing rights.

Other students read poetry or rapped verses dedicated to solving the issues of climate change. Makena Rutishauser, an Asian American studies major, helped to organize the event by making posters and writing speeches for other students.

“We’re the next generation,” said Rutishauser, a freshman who handed out stickers eagerly to participants. “All these climate change problems surrounding us, we are

going to need to solve ourselves. So, it’s important we stay involved.”

Simmy Makhijani, a lecturer of Asian American Studies and Race and Resistance Studies at SF State who supported students in organizing the rally, said both organized and unorganized students connected the direct impacts of climate change, to the long history of colonialism, advanced capitalism, war and imperialism.

“They got to witness themselves in their own power, in their own voice in a way they never have before,” Makhijani said. “It was emotional, it was empowering, and I think we still have a lot of work cut out for us.”

Shara Orquiza and members of the League of Filipino Students lead a chant at the Climate Justice Rally at Malcom X Plaza Sept. 26. (Photo by Paisley Trent / Golden Gate Xpress)

Almost half of SF homeless are 50 years of age or older CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 HOPE HOME discovered that homeless people around 60 years old had poorer health conditions than non-homeless individuals in their 70s and 80s, posing a challenge for the city and community members tackling the homelessness epidemic.

“It is very hard to care for an aging population in a shelter and impossible to care for an aging population who is living outdoors,” Kushel said.

For Breed, the event’s keynote speaker, the issue of elder care is personal. She was raised by her grandmother who developed Alsheimer’s Disease. According to Breed, the challenges she faced getting her grandmother support inspired her initiatives.

“I can’t help but think there are people out there who are seniors who are experiencing some of the same things,” Breed said. “And we have to make sure that they don’t fall through the cracks.”

SF State student and lecture attendee, Daneshia Cloyd said her 49-year-old father was homeless in Oakland for quite some time and she was shocked to hear the number of older adults experiencing homelessness will triple within the next 11 years.

“I’m a struggling college student. I don’t own a home. I don’t have a place where I can have him come to,” Cloyd said. “I don’t want him to die on the street. That’s one of my biggest fears for him.”

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According to HOPE HOME, there is a high mortality rate among the 50 and over group experiencing homelessness. Since the study began in 2012, 46 out of the 350 individuals in the cohort died. Seven additional deaths occurred out of 100 people enrolled last year.

In a five year period, 11% of the homeless seniors enrolled in HOPE HOME died.

Of the surviving, about 33% were in some form of stable housing and 34% were still homeless. The remainder of people were either in transition or could not be located.

Breed is committing to create 1,000 new shelter beds. The city created 346 so far and aims to open 800 more by this upcoming spring. Breed said that $5 million of this year’s budget will go toward homelessness prevention and subsidizing rentals for seniors who are at risk of losing their housing or who are leaving treatment facilities. She also backed an ordinance to increase pay for home health support workers to keep people employed in the industry.

“I feel that in a lot of ways, what we do now won’t necessarily be seen or witnessed until later on so the work we have to do now is so important,” said Gerontology graduate student Landon Vandergriend.

“No legislator, no politician is going to have an answer. It’s going to take time and attention and I think this is where it starts.”

President Lynn Mahoney and Mayor London Breed attend a community training discussing SF aging homeless population at Seven Hills Conference Center on Friday, Sept. 27. (Photo by Carly Wipf / Golden Gate Xpress)

Vandergriend experienced unstable living conditions as a youth and has other family members who are currently homeless. He said the data presented hit close to home.

“I had to live with a friend during a time when I was struggling right out of high school,” Vandergriend said. “My mom lost our apartment. I kind of can say I’ve experienced [homelessness] myself in a lot of ways, which in a lot of ways will affect my outlook today and where I’m going later in life.”

Kushel said she hopes by sharing the study results at SF State, students and graduates will advocate for policies that will im-

prove conditions.

The goal, according to Kushel, is to keep individuals who are aging and experiencing homelessness within their familiar community for as long as possible. She said solutions can be found in expanding programs that provide support for elders, including in-house care for seniors living in affordable and temporary housing units.

“If we don’t believe we can solve this problem, we’re never going to solve this problem,” Kushel said. “We need to start somewhere.”

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Ballet Folklorico de San Pancho State

(From left to right) Gabriela de Loera, Rebeca Gonzales Estrada and Julissa Hernandez perform a traditional dance from Sinaloa, Mexico in preparation for Hispanic Heritage Month.

The three took their practice to Ocean Beach on September 26, 2019. (Bottom) Rebeca Gonzales Estrada spins while practicing a traditional dance from Sinaloa Mexico. She and others are practicing in order to perform during Hispanic Heritage Month. (Photos by William Wendelman / Golden Gate Xpress)

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ibbons of red, yellow and blue glided through the air, weaved in and out of a variety of headpieces.

Young women fanned out long ruffled skirts as they twirled vibrant shades of green and orange waves.

Stepping side to side, a syncopated beat followed the alternation of trumpets and trombones.

Ballet Folklorico de Pancho State, SF State’s first Hispanic cultural dance club, meets twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays to discuss Hispanic heritage, plan events and performances, and learn traditional folk dances from a variety of regions throughout Mexico.

Just as each dance is specific to each region within Mexico, so is the traditional attire involved in performances such as the clothing, makeup, hairstyle or pieces, shoes and jewelry. The group is currently working on a dance from the Sinaloa region, a northwestern state in Mexico next to Chichahua, Mexico..

“You can picture a flowery dress usually very bright and colorful and the skirts are always high up in the air more like festivals,” said Julissa Hernandez, a sopho-

more studying mathematics for teaching at SF State.

“Where as Veracruz, a southeastern state where my family is from, has a white elegant look to it, where the hands are a little lower and posture differs.”

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The club was established in 2018 by Club Advisor Janet Lopez and the Dream Resource Center. Before then, there had not been a cultural Hispanic dance group on campus. For most of the young men and women of the club, dancing ballet folklorico was an important part of their childhood and helped them love performing the dances today.

“It’s always just been a part of my culture, I started actually when I was eight,” said Gabriela de Loera, a freshman studying Communicative Disorders at SF State.“My mom was the one who got me to start doing it since she used to do it when she was little and ever since then I’ve loved it.”

For some members finding the group was what they have been looking for because they haven’t danced since they were little and didn’t know how to get back into the art.

“I have danced since I was a young girl through the South San Francisco Parks and Recreation, and had to stop due to an injury in 2017,” said Rebeca Gonzalez Estrada, a senior at SF State studying Communication Studies and BECA. “So when I found out SF State was trying to start a ballet folklorico club I was immediately drawn in,” Ballet Folklorico de Mexico is a Mexican traditional folk dance encompassing the regional and ethnic diversity of the region while tracing its roots from pre-Hispanic indigenous dances and colonization by the Spanish in the 16th century. Through European influence, styles of polka and ballet became a big part of the dance culture today.

“I love being Mexican and my culture is part of my identity so for me to be able to represent my culture by keeping the traditions alive through dance is something very special for me,” said Alyssa Villanueva, a senior studying Psychology at SF State. “It brought me closer to my family because it allows me to be a representation of our people.”

According to ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America, dance within Hispanic culture has been used to symbolize communal ritual life, cultural beliefs and to celebrate heritage and a variety of historical moments. Many use dance as a way to remember their ancestors,celebrate their roots and try to share that love for their culture with others.

“I have been taking a lot of Latina/o studies courses because I feel like history has always been told in the narrative of Americans, the white perspective, and that’s just the way it is,” said Loera. “So to bring back some of the culture that was lost throughout generations, that’s why I continue to do ballet folklorico and I don’t know everything about each region I can only say little bits of history.”

Although the group has just been established, they meet Mondays and Wednesdays 6-8 p.m. at Malcolm X Plaza to create a space for others to feel welcome, celebrate and learn about their Hispanic culture through dance and discussions and hope others will share their own cultures with them as well.

“I think that it’s important to get to know a little bit of everyone’s culture, and especially folkloric dancing, I feel like its not well known in a lot of places,” said Hernandez. “There’s a history between each region and we want to create a community where we can show our culture to everyone else.”

Encima la mar dulce With the gentle hand of the city’s light upon my face I remembered the first time I heard the snow.

Locked up In the sound of the world That snowed forever, They spoke to me as I rowed out deep Into the gray brown lake.

Adelante por Los Islas.

“Buy one! One of the Islas! They say the volcano, whose shadow embraces the sweetness of these waters, rained these islands down onto the lake many years ago with great agony of birth.

Before you saw with eyes that had not yet been made.

Before your tongue learned of the melody of your soul.

La Vulcan snowed for us.”

So it snows for you now, In the cold of my heart So that with great love You may find an island on the lake To make your own!

BY PAUL C. KELLY CREATIVE CONTRIBUTOR The Lake of Nicaragua, spotted with volanic born islands, with the dormat Volcano Mombachado caped by clouds. Photo courtesy of Paul C. Kelly.

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City prepares to suffocate illicit drug trade

BY COREY BROWNING STAFF REPORTER

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he Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the creation of a task force Sept. 24 to tackle the street-level drug dealing which plagues the Tenderloin, SoMa and Mid-Market neighborhoods.

The 12-seat committee will advise city officials on policy decisions and submit to the Board of Supervisors and mayor a plan by the end of 2020 to address local drug dealing. District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney said he secured $200,000 from the city budget for its first year of operation.

“I am creating this task force in response to the frustration, anger and hopelessness that many of my constituents are feeling about the endemic crisis of street level-drug dealing,” District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney said the previous week at a Rules Committee presentation.

District 6, which includes the Tenderloin, SoMa, and Mid-Market neighborhoods, accounted for 68% of 883 drug-dealing citations or arrests made citywide in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, according to a Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office report from April.

Out of the 601 cases presented to the District Attorney’s Office, about 46% of the filed charges were still pending in April.

Only 15.6% resulted in a county jail sentence.

Remaining cases resulted in probation, es cannot survive,” Young wrote, stating dismissal or other action. Just 5% of peo- that rampant open-air drug dealing had ple in those cases were diverted and moved taken over his block to the point where his out of the criminal justice system and into employees, customers and even he didn’t health or social service programs, accord- want to be there. ing to the report.

San Francisco spent more than $12 milThe Board of Supervisors will appoint lion that year on “suppression and related nine people not employed by the city, in- criminal justice costs” of open-air drug cluding individuals “directly impacted by dealing in the Tenderloin, SoMa, and the harms” of drug dealing, as well as people with backgrounds in releShame on all of you for vant fields like law enforcement and public health. The police department, letting our streets get public defender’s office and District Attorney’s Office will each appoint an so horrific that small employee to the force.

Though city employees will receive businesses cannot survive. their regular pay for time spent on the - Max Young, former owner of task force, other members would work on a volunteer basis with a potential recently closed Mr. Smiths bar $50 stipend per meeting attended.

The task force was suggested in April Mid-Market areas, according to the budget during a four-hour hearing called by Haney analyst report. to address open-air drug dealing, which “I don’t know what possibly can be done, drew an impassioned crowd to City Hall. because they keep throwing money at the At the previous week’s meeting, Haney situation and it’s not getting any better,” said his office had received hundreds of said Glenn Gustafik, pointing to a group he calls and emails on the issue. said sell drugs outside his business.

Among them was an email from Max Gustafik owns Mister Hyde, a barbershop Young, a third-generation San Franciscan on Hyde and O’Farrell streets, which falls announcing the closure of his Mid-Market within a zone police identified as a hotspot night club, Mr. Smith’s, after 19 years of for drug dealing at the April hearing. Unbusiness. til he sees results, Gustafik said, he won’t “Shame on all of you for letting our have an opinion on the city’s latest efforts streets get so horrific that small business- to address the issue.

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Alongside the drug dealing task force, Haney introduced a resolution Tuesday declaring overdose deaths a public health crisis, citing 259 overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2018.

Earlier this year Mayor London Breed announced the Methamphetamine Task Force to address rising methamphetamine use in the city. A safe injection services task force was created in 2017, which recommended opening safe injection sites in the city, something that has not been accomplished.

Rose Nguyen, an employee of a small café in the Tenderloin, said drug-dealing has increased in the last three years, and business has slowed because of it.

“Nobody protects me,” said Nguyen, who requested the name of the café be withheld to avoid retaliation. “Even the guys dealing drugs, they know — police come by (and do) nothing.”

Nguyen said she calls police frequently but rarely receives assistance clearing the drug dealers and drug users that gather outside the café, which has been in business for over 20 years. She said she requested the landlord install water misters outside to deter people from gathering, as other businesses in the area have resorted to doing.

The drug dealing task force will go before the mayor for final approval and become effective 30 days after she approves it. Its first meeting would be held within the 90 days that follow.

Pelosi leads charge for impeachment

BY WILSON GOMEZ STAFF REPORTER

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ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) announced the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump Sept. 24 for pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

“The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of betrayal of his oath of office and betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections,” Pelosi announced.

Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden, accusing the former vice president of stopping a former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin from investigating a company under the direction of his son Hunter Biden, according to a transcript of a phone call between President Trump and Zelensky, released to the public Sept. 25.

There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

The former prosecutor general of Ukraine, Shokin, ended the investigation of Hunter Biden after finding no wrongdoing, his successor Yuri Lutsenko told the LA Times in a Sept. 28 interview.

The Ukrainian parliament then voted to fire Shokin in 2016 due to his reputation for allowing corruption amid pressure domestically and from several western countries, including the U.S. Joe Biden was among the many calling for the embattled prosecutor’s removal from power.

“It’s not enough to set up a new anti-corruption bureau and establish a special prosecutor fighting corruption,” Joe Biden said to the Ukrainian parliament in a Dec. 9, 2015, speech. “The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.”

The transcript sparked concern among top Democrats that Trump wished to exchange political favors with a foreign power to improve his 2020 election bid in exchange for $400 million in aid.

Impeachment Six committees are conducting investigations into potential wrongdoing by Trump.

Pelosi in her announcement directed those committees to continue their investigations under the umbrella of the impeachment inquiry. They will gather documents, conduct interviews and hear from witnesses.

“It can be helpful to think of this as similar to but different than the structure of a criminal investigation,” SF State political science assistant professor Rebecca Eissler said.

If a committee determines that Trump committed a crime, then the House of Representatives will vote to decide whether to impeach him. At least 223 Democratic representatives have publicly stated their support for an impeachment inquiry.

Once the committees finish collecting

evidence and file a formal accusation. The House Judiciary Committee would vote and then the full House would do the same.

A majority would force a trial in the Senate, where 67 senators must vote to charge the president as guilty to indict him.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) could simply refuse to have a trial and end the impeachment process, Eissler said. However, McConnell told NPR that “if it [impeachment] were to happen, the Senate has no choice. If the House were to act, the senate immediately goes into a trial.”

“This is like a proceeding in a courthouse where the hundred members of the Senate are the jury, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, would be the judge in this trial,” Eissler said.

Sixty-seven senators must vote to charge the president as guilty in order to remove him from office. If they don’t, the impeachment process will end.

Sources: CNBC, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox and CNN. By Wilson Gomez.

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Fire season sparks debate about N95 respirators

BY KARAMEL NUNEZMARTINEZ STAFF REPORTER

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uring last year’s big wildfire, I received a lot of scrutiny from friends and relatives since I have asthma.

Having a difficult time breathing on a regular day, people were worried to see that I wasn’t wearing a mask or some form of protection from the smoke. I explained that wearing the N95 was uncomfortable and suffocating for me, often causing me to hyperventilate if I wore it for too long.

I have seen plenty of people wearing N95s comfortably, but for someone like me with standing respiratory issues, the mask only made breathing more painful.

Whether someone has a respiratory condition or not, the safest step is to contact your healthcare provider to ensure that any mask you choose will be a safe choice.

California’s annual wildfire season has arrived, and nearly 158,000 acres of land already burned according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. In September alone, nearly 98,000 acres caught on fire.

The National Significant Wildland Fire Potential

Outlook’s September issue, shows reports of above-normal fire potential in Northern California. Areas of lower elevation have the potential to demonstrate extreme fire behavior with rapid spread rates. Fuels like wind and dry underbrush are expected to create warmer conditions for September through December.

Residents can expect an air quality index similar to two of northern California’s most destructive fires, the Camp Fire in Paradise and the Tubbs Fire of Sonoma and Napa County.

When AirNow, a website that monitors how polluted or clean the outdoor air is, reaches ‘very unhealthy’ levels, San Francisco residents often reach for N95 respirators, which are designed to filter out at least 95% of harmful airborne particles like dust and soot.

The Food and Drug Administration states that respirators can be very effective for air filtration, however, only if tested to fit properly to the face. Even though there are FDA regulated respirators for the general public, it emphasized that these are single-use products that aren’t recommended for use in the general public. They are not

to be used on children or people with facial hair.

“They only really work when they’re sort of uncomfortable, the mask gets hot and sweaty and that’s something a lot of people don’t want to keep on all the time,” Ralph Borrmann, an information officer at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said. “Generally we want to steer people away from the false sense of security a maks gives you, the best thing someone can do is stay indoors or get out of the area.”

Residents don’t always have the option to leave the Bay Area or stay inside all day. Often having the N95 respirators is the only practical solution.

“We issued thousands of N95 voluntary use dust mask,” said Marc Majewski the Director of Environmental Health and Occupational Safety at SF State. “There are few things you can do. It’s one of the only things you can do. It’s recommended by all the agencies.”

Cal/OSHA’s Control of Harmful Exposure standard requires employers to provide respiratory protection and equipment, once they determined if respirator use is voluntary or required.

Fish farmers restore San Francisco Bay

BY KARAMEL NUNEZMARTINEZ STAFF REPORTER

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an Francisco’s coast and estuary are a vital resource for the water’s ecosystem and to the community. The San Francisco Estuary Partnership states that the mix of freshwater and saltwater surrounding the city has created a lot of biological diversity. The decline in water quality in areas like the bay has caused drop in aquatic habitats.

“Areas up in Tomales and Humbolt are working to farm a native species of oysters in the bay area … Having those oysters is an important natural way of filtering water.” said Randy Lovell, the Aquaculture Coordinator at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Due to the change in quality of San Francisco’s waters, shellfish can’t be properly farmed.”

The loss of oyster reefs in the bay has affected its entire ecosystem. Oysters are natural filter feeders, filtering out small sediments and contaminants in the water.

The unclean water has made it difficult for underwater grass to grow, reducing habitats for fish.

The California Shellfish Initiative is a proposal put together by the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association, a board of shellfish farmers who work on environmental protection and safety.

The initiative works to advance local restoration plans for the bay, partnering with the California Coastal Conservancy to rebuild its native oyster reefs and wetlands.

“We started to develop a regional monitoring program for the wetlands,” said Heidi Nutters, an environmental planner for the San Francisco Estuary Partnership.

Aquaculture, a controlled process for farming, breeding and rearing aquatic organisms such as algae, plants and shellfish, is used in the Bay Area for food production and restoration of species and habitats.

Fish farmers have started to use these methods to reverse the damage from overfishing certain shellfish and fish. One of the more common subsections of aquaculture used is mariculture, where large water tanks or artificial channels of water are set up in open water to breed mollusks and grow seaweed.

“It’s important for people to realize all the impacts aquaculture has on the waters,” Lovell said. “Aquaculture does improve the quality of the water when farming animals and plants, but it only helps some of the habitats improve. There’s a balance you have to find.”

SF State to unveil sources of carbon emissions this winter After achieving carbon neutrality goal 15 years early, university commits to a new standard of transparency

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F State remains more than a decade ahead of schedule for its Climate Action Plan, continuing to make progress in sustainability and limiting emissions.

In 2010, SF State President Robert Corrigan signed a Climate Action Plan, vowing to decrease the university’s emissions 25% (relative to 1990 levels) by 2020 and 40% by 2030.

Both goals were surpassed in 2015, according to Caitlin Steele, director of sustainability and energy. Steele attributed much of this progress to California and the transition to renewable resources for the state’s electrical grid.

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this Winter and it will be available for everyone to see at our website,” said Steele.

The dashboard will serve as a tool to illustrate for the campus community where our emissions come from. It also intends to “impact of sustainability projects like energy upgrades or purchasing cleaner energy sources,” said Nick Kordesch, sustainability and transportation project manager.

Recently, the university’s facilities team replaced all of their vehicles with electric alternatives. The Grounds Shop also recently implemented CalSense, a more efficient water irrigation system, according to Steele.

According to Kordesch, SF State is currently involved in developing a carbon neutrality date for the entire CSU system.

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Gonzalez helps Gators capture ninth place at the Capital Cross Challenge

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he 2019 SF State Men’s Cross Country team began the year on a high note with an assortment of qualifying finalists.

The team finished in ninth place coming out of the Capital Cross Challenge in a pool of 30 schools on Saturday, Sept. 28.

Kinesiology major and Gators redshirt junior Carlos Mario Gonzalez of Pittsburg, California was the lead dog for the Gators at the 2.1-mile split with a clock time of 10:56.3 in the event.

Gonzalez began play last season with a twenty-ninth overall sectional finish

Carlos Mario Gonzalez of Pittsburg, California runs in the 10k race and nabs the 40th overall spot with a recorded time of 25:54.42 in the Capital Cross Challenge. (Photo courtesy of Paul Tait)

at the SF State Invitational on Sept. 21, 2018 with a career best, and record setting time of 26:56.9. Gonzalez built upon last season’s performance at this year’s event, the Capital Cross Challenge by surpassing his milestone time at the SF State Invitation with an astounding time of 26:44.9, a ranked finish of 18th place for the Gators.

Gonzalez would catapult the Gators by taking the 40th spot, being the leader of the pack for SF State by crossing the finish line for the second time on the very early season in the 10K race with a recorded time of 25:54.42.

This season, the Gators split the overall ranking in half by finishing in ninth place, out-striving California Collegiate Athletic Association divisional rival Cal State Monterey Bay as well as some notable familiar Northern California opponents like Dominican, Notre Dame de Namur and the haphazard Hawks of Holy Names, who the Gators beat in most athletic competitions over the last couple years.

Tom Lyons, currently entering his 15th year as the head coach of the SF State Men’s Cross Country program, was announced as the director of track and field

and cross country in Sept. 2018. During his tenure at SF State, Lyons was the head coach for the women’s cross country team and served as the interim head coach for the women’s track and field team, most notably coaching 20 NCAA Division II All-Americans.

The Gators are set to return home to the Bay Area to host the SF State Invitational on Oct. 11 at the Golden Gate Park speedway meadow. The men’s race is scheduled to begin at 2:40 p.m.

Jesse’s Major League Baseball postseason predictions

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ctober is upon us which guarantees a few things, the days are shorter and playoff baseball is right around the corner.

The grueling grind of a 162-game season that spans from March to September came to an end on Sunday.

AL Predictions by Round: Ray’s vs A’s (Wild Card): Two teams that are great at spending their money wisely face off in a one-game, winner takes all match in Oakland. The A’s entered the 2019 season the same way they do each year, hopeful. The loveable little brother of the baseball world surpassed most expert projections, finishing the 2019 campaign with one more win than last season. The A’s won the season series, taking four of seven. The A’s hold the fourth best home record while the Rays have the second-best road winning percentage.

WINNER: A’s win this one with big hits in big moments.

Twins vs Yankees (ALDS): Rays found success this season despite having the lowest payroll in baseball through excellent decisions made by management. These moves included trading away the faces of the franchise in Evan Longoria to the Giants and Chris Archer to the Pirates. Both of those teams failed to make the postseason. For the Yankees, DJ LeMahieu is the key to victory as he led the team in average, RBI’s and runs. The Bronx bomber Gleyber Torres had a torrid year as well, posting 38 home runs at the young age of 22. On top of Stanton and Judge, this is their series to lose.

WINNER: History repeats itself, Yan-

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kees in 5.

A’s vs Astros (ALDS): Pitching tends to prevail in these situations and the Astros have just a little bit too much. Garrett Cole and Justin Verlander are workhorses on the mound: both boasting an impressive ERA under 2.6.

WINNER: Astros send the A’s back to earth in 5.

Yankees vs Astros (ALCS): Capturing the best record in baseball, the Astros will attempt to win their second championship in three years. They have young ballers all around the diamond making another championship a realistic goal this fall. This series has high scoring written all over it with two of the top-hitting teams in the league.

Both teams have solid pen arms to balance, making this series a potential classic.

WINNER: Once again starting pitching overcomes as the Astros move on in 6.

NL Predictions by Round: Brewers vs Nationals (Wild Card): The Brewers got hot at the right time, overcoming a five-game deficit in early September for the final playoff spot. Not to mention they lost their team captain and reigning NL MVP for the season after he took a ball to the knee cap. They rallied after losing their big bat, going 19-4 since his absence.

The Nationals started the Bryce Harper-less era exactly how they hoped: in the postseason as his Phillies are on the couch for October. The Nats started the season losing 31 of 50 games. But since May 23, they went 72-38, the best in the National League and secured their spot in October.

Per usual, our nation’s capital team can hit with the best of them and has reliable starts from the likes or Strasburg, Corban and Scherzer. In a one game showdown,

pitching usually wins it. Although the brew crew has the best closer in the game, they may not get the chance to use him.

WINNER: Nationals in a rout.

Cardinals vs Braves (NLDS): The Braves took control of the NL East all season long, finishing the year with the most wins since 2003. This youthful club is looking to get their first playoff series win since 2001 against an opponent in the Cardinals whom they haven’t had great success against.

The pressure will rest on those young superstars, Ozzie Albies and Ronald Acuna Jr. Late injuries for the Braves will prove to make a difference in this one. The St. Louis Cardinals’ new addition, Paul Goldschmidt, paid off in the home run category as he posted 33 this year. Mainstay Kolten Wong had a solid year and young aces Dakota Johnson and Jake Flaherty led the team in wins and ERA. The experience on the side of the Cardinals can’t be denied.

WINNER: Cardinals win in 4 as Braves show their age.

Nationals vs Dodgers (NLDS): The complete team of the Dodgers should prove to be too much for a team that just can’t get past the divisional round. The Nationals’ bullpen is not a bright spot. They posted a 5.73 ERA, second worst in the league, only ahead of the 54-win Orioles. For the boys in blue, with all their abundance of regular season success, will look to finally finish a season as the last team standing. The Dodgers are attempting to go to their third straight World Series after coming up short in the last two Fall Classics.The bats come alive for the Dodgers while the Nationals’ bullpen struggles.

WINNER: Dodgers in 4.

Cardinals vs Dodgers (ALCS): These

teams are beyond familiar with one another and know what buttons to press at the right moment. They have not won a championship since 1988 against the Oakland A’s.

The Dodgers had a largely successful and steady season, relying on hitting from new and old faces, using the next man up strategy that has this team pegged as the deepest and most versatile in the league.

WINNER: Kershaw gets the monkey off his back and pitches great in enemy territory, Dodgers in 6.

World Series Dodgers vs Astros: In a rematch of the 2017 series we will witness deja vu as they will battle each other with the same formula. Timely hitting will be key in this one. Astros will put runs on the board. The Dodgers bullpen is a must if they intend to refrain from facing the same, infamous fate as Jim Kelly and his Bills.

WINNER: The Dodgers continue to hit the fastball and prove why they have been the most consistent team—the trophy comes back to the city of angels in 7 games.

MATTER OF FACT In the Sept. 24 issue, in “San Francisco will eventually be in the MLS,” the reporter’s name was misidentified as Diego Felix. The correct byline is Alonso Frias.

Future corrections can be sent to ggxnewsroom@gmail.com.

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hree House committee chairmen issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on they believe would support an allegation that President Donald Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to interfere in the 2020 election.

Chairmen Eliot Engel, Elijah Cummings and Adam Schiff were now acting under the guise of an impeachment inquiry when they issued the subpoena to Pompeo.

The Democrats on Capitol Hill are right to act in their capacity as investigators, but not under the guise of an impeachment inquiry to get to the bottom of Trump’s conversations with Zelensky.

Wait until all the evidence points to a crime before you launch the impeachment proceedings into Trump. You are bringing politics into it and nuking yourselves in the foot if you put the cart before the horse.

How about you look at alternatives first.

The only hard evidence produced so far is a phone call made on July 25 that was unclassified

by Trump Sept. 24. The summary of the call shows Trump asking Zelensky for a “favor” to “look into” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Trump believed the former vice president tried to end a Ukrainian prosecution into his son, Hunter Biden, over his ties to the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, which was allegedly surrounded by corruption, according to the July 25 phone call.

The July 25 phone call is not enough to support the allegation Trump asked Zelensky to interfere in for the 2020 election, and it definitely does not warrant an impeachment inquiry.

The important aspects to consider with the impeachment inquiry are to understand what it

is and what it has to do with impeachment. An impeachment inquiry is an investigation to gather evidence to support a reason for impeachment, the first step in the process.

From there, the House Judiciary Committee will take up articles of impeachment to a vote, then the full House of Representatives will do the same. If both votes pass, boom, Trump is impeached.

The House’s power to do so comes from Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution. “The House of Representatives … shall have the sole power of impeachment.”

Okay, but if the impeachment inquiry is an investigation well that is how the House will get the evidence, right?

Yes. However, there are better alternatives to consider: having the Democrats lead investigations as they have gained power from the 2018 midterms, making a select committee look into this specific situation or appointing a special prosecutor.

Impeachment should be the last resort for Democrats to ascertain the Ukraine situation; instead, they should continue the investigations that have been going on. For instance, the House Judiciary, Intelligence and Oversight committees have been looking into Trump’s finances. Each of those could add more to their plate.

Or make a select committee for an investigation, which is the purpose of those bodies. “The House will sometimes form a special or select committee for a short period and specific purpose, frequently an investigation,” according to house.gov.

Have this special committee be full of representatives who are the most moderate from both parties. Strive for a balanced group to preserve integrity in

their mission.

However, to truly take politics out of the equation, the best way to investigate the president would be to appoint a special prosecutor. Neither the House nor the Senate has the power to do so alone or together. But one or both can, in the interest of objectivity, formally ask Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special prosecutor. He has the power to do so.

But a special prosecutor has been tried before, right? Yes, one has. So maybe it wouldn’t be preferred by Democrats, Republicans or the American people.

The special prosecutor route would just be playing a broken record by this point. Just insert Russia for Ukraine and 2020 for 2016.

Impeachment sounds like the next step after exhausting a twoyear investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The problem is ultimately making the process political, which is what will happen if Democrats lead it.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to call for an impeachment inquiry is reminiscent of what Senate Democrats did in 2013 when they invoked the “nuclear option.” They made the fight political rather than objective.

Back in 2013, during the beginning of former President Obama’s second term in office, he ran into Senate Republican roadblocks on his cabinet-level and federal judicial nominees.

The procedure used to stall Obama’s nominees was the filibuster.

The filibuster is a Senate tactic used to seek “recognition and, once recognized, speaks at length,” according to senate.gov.

It gives a senator the ability to convince colleagues or delay a vote by long-form debate.

The way to end a filibuster would be to invoke cloture, which is detailed in Rule XXII in the Senate rules.

‘Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?’ And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn, then said the measure, motion or other matter pending,” will come to an end.

Before Nov. 2013, Rule XXII had a threshold that protected the minority’s voice. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led the charge to change that rule and dropped the requirement to invoke cloture down to a simple majority for nominations by the president, enacting the “nuclear option.”

The move was entirely political and it ignored the will of the Republican minority at the time.

“It’s a sad day in the history of the Senate,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said at the time.

The “nuclear option” was used in the Trump administration to appoint two Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, to the bench. Those two judicial appointees reeked of Republicans playing politics to sit two people to the nation’s highest court. Who was in charge then and still is? McConnell.

A simple lesson from 2013 should be reason enough for Pelosi and House Democrats not to go through with the impeachment inquiries in a partisan manner. They have options to avoid playing politics with this serious issue of whether the president tried to use a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 election.

Democrats, don’t repeat history! Learn from it!

As Bruce Bochy steps down, an era comes to an end

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he end of yet another San Francisco Giants era swiftly approached us, raining down once again on this historic franchise. The Giants will be left with a looming open managerial spot for the first time since the end of the 2006 season. It only took a few years for Bochy and the Giants to become a dynasty in the early 2010s. He exemplified what it is to be a player’s manager, and he knew how to get the best out of each of his players. Bochy was more than just the right man for the job at the time. He was a representation of one of America’s most vibrant cities: San Francisco.

We all knew the Giants legendary manager was headed straight for retirement following the conclusion of the 2019 MLB season. Under Bochy’s leadership, the Giants posted a 1,0521,054 (.500) record since 2007. His 1,052 wins are the second-most wins by a Giants manager in team history behind Hall of Famer John McGraw (2,583).

Bochy was the fourth manager in San Francisco history to bring more than 10 years of big-league managing experience to the job after his time in Pittsburgh and San Diego. Only Cap Anson (21 seasons) in 1898 and

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Hughie Jennings (14) in 1924 coached longer. Interestingly enough much like the demographics for the city of San Francisco, Bochy became the fourth Giants manager to be born outside of the United States (France) in 2004, joining Jack Doyle from Ireland, Arthur Irwin from Canada and Felipe Alou from the Dominican Republic.

The team lost their momentum after a month of dominance in July, officially being eliminated from playoff contention with a third place finish in the National League West behind the gargantuan 109-win Los

Angeles Dodgers and the blossoming young squad of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Bochy wasn’t left with much talent this year for another magical run. Guys like Madison Bumgarner, Buster Posey, and Pablo “Panda” Sandoval, who stuck around and were the pivotal economic model of World Series Championship rosters from years past, couldn’t manage the behemoths of the National League. This year’s Giants team ultimately succumbed to more superior rosters down the stretch.

Derek Rodriguez, the son of big-league

hall of famer Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, continued to dazzle on the mound for Bochy along with Tyler Beede, the Giants’ first round pick back in 2014, who developed into an emerging young phenom. Beede showed promise in Sacramento, and Bochy gave him a spot in the show during September roster call-ups, bringing up potentially one last pitching prospect onto the rubber at Oracle Park.

Bochy is amongst the rarest of breeds for a manager, which is going out on your own terms. The Joe Torre’s, Charlie Manuel’s, and Mike Scioscia’s of the world are about as rare as a player staying his entire career with one franchise — it just doesn’t happen.

During his 13-year tenure with SF, Bochy guided the Giants to three World Series titles, with San Francisco winning the Fall Classic in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He became the fifth manager to lead a team to three titles in a fiveyear span, joining baseball royalty alongside Connie Mack, Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel and Joe Torre. The Giants’ championship in 2010 was their first in San Francisco history and their first overall since the then New York Giants won the title in 1954.

This year Bochy will be accompanied

by Ned Yost of the Kansas City Royals as world championship winning managers riding off into the sunset on their own terms. He leaves baseball with being the 11th manager in MLB history to achieve 2,000 wins in his 26-year managerial career.

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