The Pioneer Newspaper April 2, 2015

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Attempted kidnappings in Hayward

By Shannon Stroud METRO EDITOR

Police are investigating three attempted kidnappings in Hayward over the last six weeks.

The most recent attack happened March 27 when a 16-year-old girl walking home from Hayward High School, on Walpert Street and Fletcher Lane, was grabbed by an unidentified male and pushed into the backseat of a white four-door car. The young woman was able to fight back and escape uninjured.

“We are still investigating different aspects of these cases, but as of today [April 1] there are no new updates,” said Sergeant Tasha Decosta, a media contact for the Hayward Police Department.

Two similar kidnapping attempts happened prior to March 27. The first one was on Feb. 20, when a 14-year-old girl walking home from Tennyson High School on Joshua Street was grabbed by a man with a four-door vehicle grabbed her. She escaped without any injury.

On March 6, a 15-year-old girl, was walking home from Tennyson High school on Whitman Street when she was grabbed by a male, associated with a white four door vehicle, and pushed into the back seat. She fought off her attacker and escaped without injury.

In the most recent attack, the victim described the alleged perpetrator as possibly Hispanic or Middle Eastern, wearing shorts and a hooded sweatshirt.

In the second and third attacks, the victims described the suspect as having a beard with no mustache.

Anyone with information on the cases is encouraged to contact Detective Eric Mulhern at (510) 293-3436.

Home was not kind to the Cal State East Bay baseball team last weekend.

The Pioneers’ losing streak was extended to seven games after the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles swept a four-game series with CSUEB at Pioneer Baseball Field on the Hayward campus.

CSUEB is now 7-20 overall and 4-16 in California Collegiate Athletic Association conference games while CSULA improved to 19-9 overall and 14-6 in conference play. The Pioneers were outscored 21-8 by the Golden Eagles in the home stand.

Game one of the series against CSULA on Friday was the closest of the four games and the Pioneers eventually lost in extra innings by a final of 9-7. The Pioneers took a 7-5 lead in to the top of the ninth inning but a throwing error allowed the Golden Eagles to score two unearned runs, which tied the game at 7-7 and forced extra innings.

CSULA junior catcher Ryan Welker and senior outfielder Trent Zaks both drove in runs in the top of the tenth inning which secured the two-run victory for the Golden Eagles.

“Winning the first game of the series is huge because of the momentum going in to the next day,” CSUEB senior pitcher Michael Pope said.

CSUEB junior utility player Rudy Navarro was solid for the Pioneers in the loss as he amassed four hits in five plate appearances and drove in two runs.

“Rudy got it going this weekend,” CSUEB Assistant Coach Darren Lewis said. “We know he is a good hitter.”

The two teams played a doubleheader on Saturday and the results were the same, two victories for CSULA, 7-1 and 2-0. The Golden Eagles accumulated an impressive 17 hits in the 7-1 triumph over CSUEB. Zaks led the way offensively for the Golden Eagles with three hits, two RBI’s, and he also scored twice.

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CSUEB Junior utility player Rudy Navarro swings at a pitch against CSULA on Friday at Pioneer Baseball Field.

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Women discuss gender issues Local women speak about inequality at work and in education

By Shannon Stroud METRO EDITOR

On March 26, the City of Hayward held “Hayward Honors Women” for the third time at City Hall. The event featured four women with roots in Hayward who discussed gender issues and women’s rights.

“Events like these are important because I think it is a coming together and sharing ideas and thoughts on issues,” said Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday.

“It contributes to our goal of promoting education in the community. Events like these highlight local issues for women and we are likely to learn from them.”

“Hayward Honors Women” lasted two hours and was moderated by NBC’s “The Mix” host Janet Riley, as she guided the panelists through questions that ranged from women in the workplace to young women in social media.

The panelist included a variety of women from different generations, professions and cultures. The panelist were: Gail Steele, former Hayward City Council member; Cecily Joseph, Vice President of Corporate Responsibility for Symantec Corporation; Farima Pour-Khorshid, a third year Ph.D. student; and Ana Rangel a Recent UC Berkeley graduate.

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Mayor Barbara Halliday and NBC host Janet Riley talk after “Hayward Honors Women” event on March 26 at City Hall.

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A day for Chavez, a lifetime for me EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

By Louis LaVenture

SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR For many people, Cesar Chavez day is exactly that, just another day.

However, for my family and I, March 31 is a day that is cherished just like Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, or even Christmas. This is a day to celebrate the life and legacy of a man who blazed the trail for the rights of farm workers in America, specifically the West Coast.

Chavez rose to iconic status from the late 60s through early 90s as an organizer and social justice advocate.

Some of the farm workers who followed him and worked alongside him were United States citizens, but the majority of them were not. Many were Mexican immigrants who worked on farms but had no rights and faced unsafe, unfair work conditions: little or no water, extreme heat conditions with rare breaks, and threats to be turned in to immigration or law enforcement officials.

Chavez, like me, was born here in the United States and he proudly wore the Mexican American badge everywhere he went. After he got a job with the Community Service Organization in 1952, Chavez began to deal directly with Latino and Hispanic communities.

His goal was to increase voter turnout and educate these communities about their rights as citizens, both legal and illegal.

Once the CSO rejected his offer to start a union for farm workers in 1962, Chavez quit his job and moved to Delano with his family to start the National Farm Workers Association. Chavez related to the struggles of farm workers: a primarily Mexican, Latino, and Hispanic workforce that included members of his own family. He became one at the age of 13 when he dropped out of the seventh grade so his mother could retire from the same profession. He knew the cruel and illegal work conditions well, and that is where his passion to develop a union for these workers began.

This is something my family and I are forever grateful to this man for. Too many of my older Mexican family members to count worked in fields in the

Central Valley and endured some brutal work conditions. As a child my grandfather picked fruits and vegetables in the Salinas Valley area during the 1940’s and

until the day he died on April 22, 1993 while participating in a hunger strike.

His passion and drive to help this profession made it better for my family

(AFL-CIO) as it is known today was formed.

Chavez helped make the fields safer for my family to work in which helped give me a better life and for that I am thankful beyond words. While many people don’t acknowledge this day, for me, this is a day to celebrate a man who helped me flourish as a Mexican Ameri-

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EDITORIAL PRODUCTION ASSISTANT he knew firsthand how brutal the conditions were when he lost the tip of his ring finger to an equipment accident.

Chavez fought peacefully to achieve rights and a union for farmworkers through techniques he learned from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Chavez frequently used boycotts and hunger strikes to draw attention to the requests and issues of farm workers.

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who worked in fields during the decades after his union’s infancy in 1966 when the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Hayward campus lit up by “In The Dark: New Media Works”

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Top left: Freshman graphic design major Marc Vicente plays “Bubby Rainbow” on Wednesday at the “In The Dark” art exhibition. Right: CSUEB alumni and staff member James Saxon adjusts a sand noise device on Wednesday at the “In The Dark” exhibition. Bottom left: CSUEB digital imaging instructor Jason Anaya participates in the art exhibition.

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Works created by current and former students are on display until the closing ceremony and have been up since March 10, Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The exhibit is different than a traditional art show. Every piece, aside from one, is displayed on a flat screen monitor.

Alongside every piece there is a set of headphones or a keyboard so you can interact with the pieces by either playing the games or listening to the audio of the videos.

“In The Dark: New Media Works is a new exhibition to showcase work by electronic arts students and multimedia students. The Exhibition includes video games, short films, interactive sound devices, virtual reality gaming, long scrolling websites, moving graphic posters, and more,” said Ian Pollock, a CSUEB professor in the Multimedia Graduate Program.

“We blacked out the gallery and took out the track lighting to allow the screens to illuminate the gallery. This is the first electronic media, video show we have ever done.”

One of the more popular pieces is a sand noise device, created by a few students in the multimedia graduate program who also created The Green Cat Collective, which is, “a quartet of multimedia installation artists and designers,” according to their website.

Small lit-up pillars can be moved throughout the sand, and once the pil-

lars are sensed, music starts to play.

Towards the back of the exhibit, people can gather around a projector facing a white wall that projects what a guest is viewing while wearing a pair of Oculus Rift goggles.

The goggles are headsets that project a virtual reality gaming experience.

“In new media, a lot of times it’s not just one person, its a group of people working on a joint project,” said Pollock. “The Game Jam that we run every quarter is really specifically designed to bring art students and computer science students and engineering students together to work on joint projects. So trying to break down the walls of those silos and get them together.”

In early February, art student Tri Vo arrived at Game Jam, a game-making event held for multimedia graduate students at CSUEB. He and his fellow students were then given a task: create a computer game based on a specific topic.

Vo’s topic? Diversity.

This project eventually turned into a piece on display at the “In The Dark” exhibit.

Vo’s computer game is now featured in a new media exhibit called “In The Dark.” Vo and two classmates created the game “Bubbly Rainbow,” in which players pick a character that has to jump over obstacles to get to a finish line.

When the player gets to the end of the obstacles the screen, which was initially black and white, suddenly turns to color.

“This is like the internet era, so you can use new media to send a message,” Vo said. “Like for example this game wants to send a message that if you overcome the challenges then there is something better waiting for you.”

Pollock said that the goal was really to just make sure that there was one show that highlighted screen-based media because in traditional exhibits there is a lot of extra light and so some pieces would get somewhat drowned.

Louis LaVenture contributed to this article

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Oak land rec ord store expands to SF

By Sam Benavidez ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

Prior to 2008, walking down 40th Street between Webster Street and Shafter Avenue in Oakland would have been just another stroll in the Temescal District passing small, unmarked businesses without many retail options.

When 1-2-3-4 Go! Records opened, things started to change.

Originally a block with not much to show for it, the 40th street location is now area for local, more hip businesses because of its proximity to MacArthur BART station, Broadway Street, and a neighborhood with a median age almost three years younger than the rest of the city, at 34 according to City-Data.

Since 2008, 1-2-3-4 Go!, Subrosa Coffee, Manifesto Bicycles, and Homeroom, a popular macaroni and cheese specialty restaurant, have opened for business along 40th Street, contributing to its emergence as a commercial hub on the once-vacant block.

“There was nothing [before 1-2-34 Go!]” said owner Steve Stevenson.

“There were no retail businesses besides Moran [plumbing] Supply and the car wash.”

Nearly their entire inventory is 12inch, 10-inch and 7-inch vinyl, with some CDs and cassettes. They carry pop, rock, hip hop, punk, indie, and metal albums that range from Taylor Swift’s “1989” to local band Synthetic ID’s “Apertures” record, released on 1-2-3-4 Go!’s own small record label.

The back room of the Oakland store

has also been converted into a small venue with a stage where local and touring acts perform a few times a week. The room was built and equipped for live shows with the help of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and his former Pinhead Gunpowder band mate Bill Schneider, who on April 3 will open Broken Guitars, a mid range guitar shop across the street from the Oakland 1-2-3-4 Go! Records.

But at a time when it’s common for record stores to close in response to typically downward trends in album sales, the Oakland shop is expanding. After a series of tease posts on their social media accounts, the indie record store announced three weeks ago that they would be opening a San Francisco location on May 1, their first attempt at expansion, in seven years of business.

“It’s something I always wanted to do,” said Stevenson. “I’ve been wanting a San Francisco record store for the past six years.”

The store will be at 1034 Valencia Street in the Mission District, sharing space with Lost Weekend Video, a rare film store owned by former Jawbreaker drummer Adam Pfahler. With rising rent costs in San Francisco, the small business needed to fill half of their space and split the rent.

“It’s really expensive to rent your own space there, and I’m confident that its going to work,” said Stevenson. “This is the perfect way for us to get into SF with the least amount of risk.”

The Mission is already home to Aquarius Records, San Francisco’s oldest independent record store, which is located 100 feet from the new 1-2-3-4

Go! location. Stevenson does not see Aquarius as competition, however, but more of another piece to a larger puzzle that is Bay Area independent record store scene. Aquarius is known for carrying a large selection of world music, as well as a psychedelic, and metal.

“There’s a very small fraction of people that think we’ll be competition,” said Stevenson. “They’re a highly specialized shop in genres that I don’t really touch.

Nobody goes to one record store on the

cords will open in time for the eighth annual Record Store Day, on April 18. The international event originated at Rasputin Music in Mountain View with the help of Bay Area metal group Metallica.

Limited edition, special releases are planned for the day, which will serve as a grand opening of sorts for the Mission location. Both shops will have food trucks, and free coffee and doughnuts.

block and goes ‘That’s enough!’ We’re in the same game but playing it differently.”

1-2-3-4 Go! Records have asked customers to help build their inventory for the San Francisco location. The new San Francisco store, like the Oakland location, will buy used vinyl for resale, but they have placed orders for a new selection as well. Thos shipments began arriving las week.

The San Francisco 1-2-3-4 Go! Re-

Customers flip through records at the Oakland location last month.

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THE PIONEER Hayward Women From Page 1 Alexis Diaz opened the event, a student at Hayward High School, as she shared her poem “I am Woman.” In Diaz’s poem she said, “I am strong and independent, I am woman.”

“Out of all the speakers tonight, the young girl [Alexis Diaz] who read the poem was my favorite. She’s a representation of what we want our young woman to be like in the community.

She’s brave, I wish I could have been a lot like her when I was in high school,” said Halliday.

One of the largest conversation topics was brought up by Riley, as she asked panelists the question directed to Steele, “What was your experience working in a mans world, in Public Government?”

The question, although directed at Steele, ignited a response from each panelist about personal experience.

Steele was the third women elected into Hayward’s City Council, and shared that at the time she was the only woman on the council.

Steele explained that her job on City Council at the time was to be a liaison for the community, and to do that she walked from door to door to get to know the residents in her community, something that the men on city council did not understand at the time. She said that people didn’t talk to her for 4 to 8 years, because of her gender and her approach to work.

While Steele discussed the struggles she dealt with at work many years ago, Joseph discussed the issues women face working in a ‘mans world’ today.

“Companies face the issue of tokenism all the time, where they hire one woman to say that they have a diverse office, but when you hire one woman, she will feel excluded. So they hire two, and that causes competition between women. So the magic number is three,” said Joseph.

Joseph explained that the number three is good because it brings more women into the work environment, but at a point, it can become a negative because then companies are hiring women to fill a quota.

Joseph and Steele spoke extensively on the issues women face in the work-

place, and Rangel and Pour-Khorshid discussed the issues young women face in education.

Rangel explained that women are attending and graduating college more now than ever. She attributes that to the types of outreach programs in the area like Puente and Upward Bound that help young women and others understand that college is a possibility.

The panel ended with a question and answer segment from the audience.

Where one audience member stood up and asked the question, “How do you feel about women who are prejudice towards other women?”

“I think Madeleine Albright summed it up nicely when she said, ‘there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help women,” responded Joseph to the audience question.

The event concluded with refreshments and time for audience members to network and socialize with the panelists and women in the Hayward community.

“I feel like walking away from this event women should feel empowered to do anything, whatever you put your mind to, you can do it, “ said event attendee Patricia Godino.

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Hayward’s mayor, Barbara Halliday, speaks to “Hayward Honors Women” event attendee Pam Glassoff on March 26 at City Hall.

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El 21 de marzo del 2015 fue algo mas que un flashback para algunos, de aquella vez que se celebró el legado de César Chávez en Hayward, el 31 de marzo de 2011.

Ua vez más, las palabras fueron muy conmovedoras ya que vinieron del mismísimo nieto de César Chávez, Antonio Chávez, quien afortunadamente pudo formar parte del evento este año de nuevo, y explicar lo que su padre hizo en el pasado.

El evento tomó lugar en la plaza de la biblioteca pública de Hayward en Calle B, y comenzó a las 12 del mediodía. A esta gran conmemoración atendieron varios grupos como Latinos Con Propósito y Puente.

Todas las escuelas secundarias y colegios que forman parte de Puente, juntos fueron los anfitriones del evento.

Por su puesto, Francisco Zermeño, junto con muchos otros concejales de la ciudad, tampoco quisieron perderse esta gran oportunidad.

Antonio explicó las dificultades que suponía trabajar en el campo durante la época de Chávez, comentando algunos de los puntos en los que su abuelo fue clave para formar la subsecuente huelga.

Antonio también comentó sobre hechos de los cuales muchos no tenían ni idea, como “los filipinos fueron los primeros en comenzar la huelga.”

Antonio relató algunas de las anécdotas personales que fueron llevadas de generación en generación por los Chávez. Tales incluyeron la manera de la que Chávez trataba a otros campesinos, comprendiendo su situación.

“Fue un buen resumen de los riesgos que su abuelo, junto con todos aquellos que tomaron parte en la huelga, tuvieron que recorrer,” dijo Arturo, uno de los miembros del grupo Latinos Con Propósito, en respuesta a las palabras de Antonio.

Durante el evento, Los Mariachis Juveniles de Hayward honraron a Chávez, cantando su canción favorita De Colores.

Los estudiantes de la escuela primaria de Glassbrook también tomaron parte del show, al cantar una canción sobre César Chávez. Su himno fue: “Si se puede.”

“Hubiera estado mejor si el evento se encontrara en la sombra,” dijo Arturo. “Yo junto a muchos de los acudientes, e incluso el orador, empezamos a derretirnos del calor.”

Era un día para recordar los logros de César Chávez y como gracias a él, hoy muchos inmigrantes pueden trabajar de manera justa en el campo.

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Problemas de mujeres: pasado, presente y futuro Por Shannon Stroud EDITORA DE CIUDAD TRADUCCIÓN POR PAVEL RADOSTEV PUSHINA

El 26 de marzo, la ciudad de Hayward llevó a cabo el evento “Hayward Honra a Mujeres” por tercera vez en el ayuntamiento. El evento contó con cuatro mujeres que tienen raíces en Hayward, mientras discutían cuestiones de género y derechos de las mujeres.

“Eventos como este son importantes porque creo que es un encuentro e intercambio de ideas y pensamientos sobre temas,” dijo la alcalde de Hayward Barbara Halliday. “Contribuye a nuestro objetivo de promover la educación en la comunidad. Eventos como este destacan los problemas locales para mujeres y es seguro que aprendamos de ellos.”

“Hayward Honra a Mujeres,” duró dos horas y fue moderado por “el Mix” de la NBC, con Janet Riley como anfitriona, mientras guiaba al panel a través de preguntas que iban desde mujeres en su lugar de trabajo hasta mujeres jóvenes en las redes sociales.

El panel incluye a una variedad de mujeres de diferentes generaciones, profesiones y culturas. El panel estuvo formado por: Gail Steele, ex miembro del Concejo de la Ciudad de Hayward; Cecily Joseph, vicepresidenta de Responsabilidad Corporativa de la Corporación Symantec; Famia Pour-Khorshid, una estudiante de tercer año de doctorado; y Ana Rangel, una recien graduada de la UC Berkley.

Alexis Diaz empezó el evento, una estudiante de la Escuela Secundaria de Hayward, cuando relató su poema “Soy Mujer.” En su poema, Diaz dijo, “Soy fuerte e independiente, soy mujer.”

“De todos los oradores de esta noche, la joven chica [Alexis Diaz] que leyó su poema fue mi faPHOTOS BY TAM DUONG JR./THE PIONEER

Mujeres de Hayward discutieron de differente culturas en Concejo De La Ciudad de Hayward en el 26 de marzo.

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vorita. Es una representación de lo que queremos en las jóvenes mujeres en nuestra comunidad. Es valiente, me hubiera gustado ser como ella cuando iba a secundaria,” dijo Halliday.

Uno de los mayores temas de conversación fue traído por Riley, cuando preguntó al panel la pregunta dirigida a Steele, “¿Cuál fue tu experiencia trabajando en un mundo de hombres, en el Gobierno Público?” La pregunta, aunque fuera dirigida a Steele, prendió la mecha de todos los miembros del panel.

Steele fue la tercera mujer electa por el Concejo de la Ciudad de Hayward, y compartió que en esos tiempos era la única mujer del concejo.

Steele explicó que su trabajo en el ayuntamiento fue de intermediario para la comunidad, algo que los hombres del ayuntamiento no comprendían para aquel entonces. Dijo que la gente no le habló durante 4-8 años, por su género y su aproximación al trabajo.

Mientras Steele discutía las luchas con las que tuvo que confrontarse en el trabajo hace muchos años, el miembro del panel Joseph, discutía los problemas de las mujeres que trabajan en ‘el mundo de los hombres,’ hoy en día.

“Las empresas se enfrentan a la cuestión de la participación simbólica todo el tiempo, donde contratan a una mujer para poder decir que hay diversidad en sus oficinas, pero cuando contratas a una mujer, ella se sentirá excluida. Si contratan a dos, esto causa competencia entre mujeres. Por lo que el número mágico es tres,” dijo Joseph.

Joseph explicó que el número tres está bien porque trae a mas mujeres al mundo laboral, pero también es una perdida porque en este in-

stante, las empresas nomás contratan a mujeres para satisfacer la quota.

Joseph and Steele hablaron extendidamente sobre los problemas con los que se topan las mujeres en el mundo laboral, y Rangel y Pour-Khorshid discutieron sobre los problemas con los que las mujeres jóvenes se topan en la educación.

Rangel explicó que las mujeres atienden y se gradúan más que nunca de las universidades ahora. Ella atribuye esto a los tipos de programas de extensión de la zona como el club Puente y Lazo Ascendente que ayudan a jóvenes mujeres a comprender que la universidad es una posibilidad.

El panel terminó con un segmento de preguntas y respuestas para la audiencia, donde uno de los miembros de la audiencia se ponía de pie y preguntaba una pregunta, “¿Cuál es tu posición acerca de las mujeres con prejuicios sobre otras mujeres?”

“Creo que Madeleine Albright lo resumió muy bien cuando dijo, hay una lugar especial en el infierno para las mujeres que no ayudan a otras mujeres,” respondió Joseph a las preguntas de la audiencia.

El evento concluyó con refrigerios y tiempo para que los miembros de la audiencia puedan ponerse en contacto y socializar con los miembros del panel y otras mujeres de la comunidad de Hayward.

“Siento que después de este evento las mujeres deberían sentirse capaces de hacer cualquier cosa, cualquier cosa que tengas en mente, puedes hacerla,” dijo la asistente al evento Patricia Godino, residente de Hayward.

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Farima Pour-Khorshid (centro) habla con participantes de el evento “Hayward Honors Women” el jueves pasado en el Concejo De La Ciudad de Hayward.

8 POLITICS

THURSDAY APRIL 2, 2015

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New district plan shows potential for Hayward

By Bryan Cordova MANAGING EDITOR

After complaints from local property owners, the Hayward City Council voted in favor of an enabling ordinance with an amendment that could potentially create a Community Benefit District.

Assistant City Manager Kelly McAdoo introduced the enabling ordinance, which provided guidelines for the creation of a CBD, a locally modified Property and Business Improvement District in Hayward.

According to McAdoo, after the dissolution of the state Redevelopment Agency in 2002, the city sought new ways to improve activities. One of the solutions was to create a CBD, and the non-profit, nonpartisan public policy institute and think tank New America was brought in to explore the possibility.

The Hayward city staff estimates that revenue from the CBD would be between $500,000 - $700,000 annually.

If established, property owners would pay an assessment to the CBD under the ordinance. The assessments would be used to provide the districts with special benefits on top of the general benefits the city pro-

vides such as street sweeping and road paving.

Special benefits would be a variety of services such as additional sidewalk cleaning, graffiti abetments, street furniture, marketing programs, and event production, according to Frank Holland, Community and Media Relations Officer of Hayward.

According to the proposal, the CBD would operate as an independent 501(c) (3) and be controlled by a board of directors made up by property owners within the district.

The next steps would be the adoption of the ordinance, and then investment

into outreach and education to receive a 30 percent approval of property owners by weighted support for a ballot.

The district can then only be formed if 50 percent plus one of the valid returned mail ballots sent to business property owners – weighted according to the percentage of each voter’s share of the total assessment – cast a ballot in favor of the district.

Weighted property assessments are based on lot size, linear frontage, and building size in the potential CBD, which City Hall is estimated to own 20 percent of.

During the city council meeting on March 17 the ordinance met opposition from Hayward business owners.

Property owner of Ace Hardware on B Street, Mona Diamantine pointed out that the support needed was 30 percent of the assessments proposed, not 30 percent of the property owners.

“The process is disproportionately weighted in favor of the City and BART who currently own a nearly 23 percent of the property within the proposed CBD,” Diamantine said. “Only an additional 7 percent of the weighted property owners would be needed to reach the 30

percent threshold.”

According to the Supplemental Information document regarding Community Benefits Districts, the ordinance requires the Council to vote in favor of the petition before it is allowed to move forward.

“Without the enabling ordinance, I really don’t know on what basis we expend staff time beyond this because we spent quite a bit of time to get to this point,” said City Manager Fran David.

Before voting on the ordinance, Council Member Sara Lamnin motioned to increase the weighted petition threshold to 50 percent for the adoption of the ballot to “show the city’s willingness to have the process be inclusive with the property owners.”

David pointed out that lower threshold is also needed to dissolve the district; so increasing the threshold would also increase the vote requirement to dissolve the district in the future.

The motion carried 4-1 and the ordinance returned to the council on March 24 where it was amended and discussed further.

Correction The previous version of this article in The Pioneer on March 19, 2015 titled “Community Benefit District faces denial” misstated information regarding the enabling ordinance.

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The Graduate Program in Communication of California State University East Bay in partnership with the CSUEB Communication Graduate Student Society invite submissions of conference papers, panels and media/arts pieces for the 2015 annual Communication Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place on the CSU East Bay Hayward campus on Friday and Saturday, May 15 -16, 2015, bringing students and invited faculty speakers from around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

This year’s keynote speaker is renowned feminist hip hop scholar Aisha Durham, PhD, from University of South Florida, author of Home with Hip Hop Feminism (2014), “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built” (2013), “Hip Hop Feminist Media Studies” (2010), and editor of Home Girls, Make Some Noise!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology (2007).

This is a multi/interdisciplinary event. We invite submissions from across the humanities, social sciences, arts, education, and all other related fields. Paper, panel, and media/arts proposals may be submitted online at commgscon.blogspot.com until March 31, 2015.

This year’s conference theme is organized around the cultural phenomenon of #BlackLivesMatter: Signifier and Signified. Possible topics and themes include (but are not limited to): • The status and renewal of civil rights consciousness in America and around the world • The roles of social media and online activism in local and global political movements • The role of culture in contemporary social change • Empowerment strategies in academia and local communities • The discourse of #BlackLivesMatter and other current civil rights signifiers • Contemporary everyday experiences in communities of resistance • The prison industrial complex • Impacts of the “wars on” poverty, drugs, and terrorism on life in targeted communities • African American, Feminist and “minority” identities in digital consumer culture • Stratification and economic divides in contemporary America and around the world • Education and inequality (NCLB, digital divides, anti-intellectualism in America, private vs public) • Geographies of wealth and poverty both local and global (including gentrification and displacement) • Employment and ownership in the global economy • Gender and sexual identities within and as communities of resistance • Ability and Age in intersectional identities • Contemporary media and ideologies of power • The political economy of policing in America and America as “global police” • The post-Obama world and the discourse of post-racial America

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The fall of an empire: San Francisco 49ers

By Andrew Rodriguez CONTRIBUTOR

Four seasons, three conference championship appearances, one Super Bowl appearance, and one new stadium: times were good for the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2014.

The organization was headed in the right direction after the forgettable first decade of the 2000s.

But as the saying goes, “all great empires fall,” and that time has come.

NFL free agency has caused quite a stir this year; in just two weeks players have switched teams and retired around the league.

The Niners saw their NFC West division foes Seattle, Arizona, and St. Louis get significantly better while watching their own Pro Bowl caliber players walk out the door.

Notable players like Frank Gore, Patrick Willis, Mike Iupati, Perrish Cox, Michael Crabtree, Chris Borland and Justin Smith will not return and Head Coach Jim Harbaugh has left the Bay Area for the University of Michigan.

They all played major roles in San Francisco’s three-year run of dominance.

But the way I see it, the road to NFL supremacy was thrown out the window long before this mass exodus. The fall of this empire is more complicated.

Loss in Super Bowl XLVII The Niners came into the big game arguably the most talented and athletic team in the league, but still lost to a

They drafted a dynamic quarterback who set the single-game rushing record for the position with 181 yards on the

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The window to win the championship is small, and 2012 was the only shot San Francisco had to gain that coveted sixth super bowl title.

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ground against the Packers in a playoff game in his first full season as quarterback, but then reduced him to a pocket passer.

That’s playing scared. Kaepernick has played the game a certain way his whole life by being an unconventional

back and throw deep will not cut it.

Relocation to Santa Clara After 68 years in San Francisco, the 49ers moved 40 miles south to sellout to the Silicon Valley tech community in Santa Clara.

If I was a die-hard fan from San Fran-

cisco, I’d be infuriated: they left their loyal fan base for people that would rather eat a steak in a stadium restaurant than be in the seats watching the game.

Ownership is now putting profits over wins. San Francisco isn’t the ideal city for football, but it is a lot better than sun-beaten Santa Clara stadium.

Football is not meant to be played in the heat, that’s why it’s a winter sport.

Poor location and no respect to the people of San Francisco who helped create this empire.

Head coach situation I respect Jim Harbaugh’s ability to develop players, but it’s better he left. He does not have what it takes to be a great in-game coach with his sideline antics, and didn’t carry a winners presence on the sideline, compared to the likes of New England Head Coach Bill Belichick.

New Head Coach Jim Tomsula, who has never been a head coach, is a puppet in charge that will shut-up and listen to everything owner Jed York says. Good luck with that.

Loss to the Oakland Raiders in 2014 Niner fans still have not heard the last of that 24-13 week 14 loss in Oakland to the 2-11 Raiders: one team on the bottom with nowhere to go but up, and the other on a slow train wreck downhill.

This loss came in the midst of an 0-4 skid for the 49ers, when the 49ers were supposed to reign supreme in the west coast for years to come.

But an 0-4 stretch to their regional rivals proves their time has ended.

Happenings in and around Hayward April 2, 2015 - April 8, 2015

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Gather together for this joyous celebration of the Cambodian New Year in Oakland. Cambodian, Burmese, Thai and Nepali dancers will be performing throughout the event during this multicultural celebration. An assortment of traditional Khmer music, food, arts, crafts and other activities will be available as well.

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Hayward Farmers Market

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Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Time: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Cost: Prices for food vary by truck Location: City Hall, Watkins Street (Between B and C Streets), Hayward

Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Cost: Free Location: Sofitel Hotel, 223 Twin Dolphin Dr., Redwood City

Those looking to have a variety of grub from a myriad of food trucks are invited to come out and enjoy this community event. Whether you just want a quick bite, have a favorite food truck, or want to get a little taste of everything, Off the Grid has you covered.

Bay Area saxophonist Michael O’Neill will be playing a free show at the Sofitel Hotel. Attendees can unwind to selections from O’Neill’s signature jazz compositions, with refreshments available from the hotel’s Bay Bar. O’Neill is a leader in the Bay Area jazz community whose quartet has headlined numerous local music festivals, including the San Jose Jazz Festival.

Those looking for fresh, locally grown produce come check out the Hayward Farmers Market.

Sporting a diversity of fruits, vegetables, gourmet specialties, fresh fish and freshly cut flowers the market is a great place to get just what you need. Network with local growers and enjoy the day in Hayward. Those interested in becoming vendors can fill out an application at www.agriculturalinstitute.org.

The San Mateo Japanese American Community Center invites you to this event focused on Kabuki theatrical performances on film. Films are in Japanese, with introductions and synopsis in English prior to the screening. Passionate and knowledgeable experts lead them on Kabuki.

So come enjoy the unique qualities of Kabuki theatre, whether you are an admirer or just someone interested in learning about Kabuki.

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THURSDAY APRIL 2, 2015

THE PIONEER Baseball From Page 1 CSULA senior pitcher Icezack Flemming recorded a complete game victory and allowed just one run on five hits while he struck out 11 batters. Pioneers senior outfielder Kelly Starnes drove in the lone run of the game for CSUEB on a sacrifice fly to right field in the first inning against CSULA The great pitching continued for the Golden Eagles in game two of the doubleheader on Saturday and junior pitcher Ralph Ramirez recorded his fifth victory of the season on the mound for CSULA. Ramirez allowed just three hits in a complete game shutout for the senior hurler. Pioneers freshman pitcher Alex Vesia was also impressive on the mound and allowed just six hits and two runs in a complete game effort.

“Vesia came in big,” CSUEB senior infielder Ryan Cochan said. “He really impressed me.”

The final game of the series was on on Sunday and started as a pitcher’s duel until the fifth inning. CSULA got to Pioneer freshman starter Jacob Call in the fifth and sixth innings for the only three runs of the game. Golden Eagles Dakota Hernandez, Jesus Cuevas, and Trevor Meleski all drove in runs off of Call which was enough to secure the threerun victory.

CSULA returns home for their next series against Chico State (12-14 overall, 11-12 conference) April 2 through April 4 at Reeder Field in Los Angeles. The Pioneers will have to go on the road to Rohnert Park to take on Sonoma State (17-16, 11-13) at Seawolf Diamond April 2 through April 4.

“It’s only going to get tougher this weekend versus Sonoma. They have excellent arms too,” Lewis said. “Lets see if some of our other hitters who are struggling can get it going like Rudy did against CSULA?”

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Top left: A CSUEB pitcher delivers to the CSULA batter on Sunday at Pioneer Baseball Field. Top right: The CSUEB baseball team lines up for the national anthem on Friday against CSULA. Bottom left: The Pioneers celebrate a scoring play against CSULA on Friday in Hayward. Bottom right: CSUEB junior shortstop Michael Frantz tags out a CSULA base runner while teammate and junior second baseman Adam Kocina looks on in a 3-0 loss on Sunday.

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“The CCAA pitching this year is the best I’ve seen in four years. [Navarro] is now seeing how he is being attacked and making adjustments,” CSUEB Assistant Coach Darren Lewis said. “That’s what good hitters do. Most importantly, he competes no matter what.”

Navarro was stellar at the plate as he collected seven hits in 11 at bats during the four-game home stand. Navarro recorded three doubles, two walks, and knocked in two of the eight total runs put up by the Pioneers during the series.

“He got me in the third on a single,” CSULA junior pitcher Brandon Quintero said. “Hits happen when you have to throw strikes with runners on, but he was locked in.”

Navarro is a junior from Corcoran in his first season with the Pioneers after he transferred from the College of the Sequoias in Visalia. Navarro had a .301 batting average in 47 games last season for the Giants that included 52 hits, 11 doubles and 24 runs batted in.

He also accumulated a .991 fielding percentage after he committed just one error in the field as a utility player in multiple positions. He was a team captain on the 2014 COS squad where he also earned a spot on the Central Valley All-Conference first team.

In the 9-7 extra inning loss on Friday Navarro had four hits in five at bats that included two doubles, two runs batted in, and three defensive putouts in right field for the Pioneers defensively.

“He was a tough out,” CSULA Head Coach Vince Beringhele said about Navarro’s performance on Friday against CSULA. In a team-high 89 at bats Navarro has 22 hits, seven doubles, 13 RBI’s, and a homerun for a .247 batting average.

Navarro has been a bright spot in a tough season so far for CSUEB who are 7-20 overall and 4-16 in California Collegiate Athletic Association conference games.

Next up for Navarro and the Pioneers is a road trip to Rohnert Park to take on Sonoma State at Seawolf Diamond from April 2 to April 4. The Seawolves are 17-16 overall and 11-13 in CCAA conference games so far this season.

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