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Summer 2016 Issue 7

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CSUEB Police Officers participate in an active shooter training event on the Hayward campus on Tuesday.

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New Fremont park closes

By Mathew Weber CONTRIBUTOR

Set high up in the Fremont Hills, the Vargas Plateau contains more than a thousand acres of park space that overlooks the San Francisco Bay, Fremont, Newark and Union City. It’s a steep landscape, but people come for the six miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails and bird watching.

Formerly private land, the East Bay Regional Park District began acquiring the land in the ’90s, and opened the Vargas Plateau as an open park space to the public on May 5, the district’s first new park to open in six years.

And now the East Bay’s newest park is now its latest park to close.

The park was closed July 18 by order of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch, who issued a ruling July 15 in response to a lawsuit.

The case was brought against the park district in May by Jack W. Balch and Christopher M. George, neighbors of the park, who filed a lawsuit claiming the park district failed to make necessary improvements to the area.

The park will be closed indefinitely while the case is heard in court, according to the EBRPD. The lawsuit alleges the traffic and parking situation along Morrison Canyon Road and Vargas Road is unsafe, and that the park district failed to meets its obligations to improve access.

Concerns over the parking situation started in 2008, when a similar lawsuit was filed by two other neighbors to reduce crowding at Vargas and Morrison Canyon Roads.

The case was settled, and the park district agreed to widen portions of Vargas Road, install “No parking” signs, limit parking to 25 spaces and remove roadside vegetation.

A report adopted by the EBRPD in April 2008 called for a parking lot for up to 60 vehicles, significantly more than the current 25-stall lot available.

CSU East Bay’s University Police Department (UPD) officers received training on how to respond to active shooter situations on campus on Monday and Tuesday.

The training was facilitated by the Public Safety Training Institute, a nonprofit organization that trains law enforcement and fire personnel throughout California on emergency response protocols in active shooter and mass casualty scenarios.

The event took place in the library and Pioneer Heights and consisted of eight hours of lecture on California law practices and policies on Monday and eight hours of scenario-based training on Tuesday, according to Mike Elerick, founder and president of the PSTI and coordinator of the event.

According to Elerick, the training was coordinated in response to an Emergency Response Services: Active Shooter Incidents law that was passed in 2014 in California Law, which re-

quires law enforcement and fire department officials to “collaborate on policy and train together on active shooter response protocols.”

Officers from the Hayward Police Department, Hayward Fire, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, Alameda County Fire, Oakland Fire, Santa Rosa Police, South SF Fire, Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, Emeryville Police Department, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department attended the training, according to Elerick.

UPD Chief of Police Sheryl Boykins told The Pioneer that she is confident that the training will be beneficial in the event of an active shooter incident on campus. Boykins said she values training and collaborating with “allied agencies,” such as the City of Hayward and Alameda County first responders.

“I was impressed with the agencies that participated, and I want the campus community to know that UPD takes campus safety seriously and will continue to train, drill and practice with our neighboring first responders,” she said.

The courses were developed by PSTI

officials and are certified by California Peace Officers Standards and Training and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, according to Elerick.

PSTI officers was made up of current or retired law enforcement supervisors and managers with long-term SWAT, tactical and public safety training backgrounds, according to Elerick.

PSTI is contracted with the Department of Homeland Security, which fully funded the training through the Bay Area Urban Area Security Initiative grant program, according to Elerick. Attendees were required to be first responders working within the 12 counties that make up the BAUASI to qualify for the event.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department manages this grant program.

PSTI also offers training to the Riverside UASI, Sacramento UASI and Santa Ana and Anaheim UASI programs.

PSTI facilitates training for the California Office of Traffic Safety and provides training to school faculty in elementary schools, colleges, universities and in the private sector.

This is the first time this event has taken place on campus, according to Elerick.

A’s, Giants active at MLB trade deadline

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The MLB trade deadline came and went on Monday with the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics in their traditional roles.

San Francisco were buyers and traded away a fan favorite to do so in shortstop Matt Duffy who played collegiately at Cal State Long Beach and was originally drafted by San Francisco in 2012. They traded Duffy, to bolster their struggling starting pitching staff, to the Tampa Bay Rays for starting pitcher Matt Moore, who will battle with Jeff Samardzija for the third spot in the rotation behind Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto.

The Giants also sent shortstop Lucius Fox and pitcher Michael Santos to the Rays as part of the deal for Moore who has appeared in 21 games this season and racked up 130 innings pitched with a 4.08 earned run average.

It was no surprise the Oakland Athletics were sellers at the deadline when they traded right fielder Josh Reddick and starting pitcher Rich Hill to Los Angeles Dodgers for pitchers Frankie

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The Oakland A's traded right fielder Josh Reddick, left, to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The San Francisco Giants traded for pitcher Matt Moore, right.

Montas, Grant Holmes and Jharel Cotton. The A’s are currently in last place in the American League West Division at 47-59.

The Giants currently hold a two-game

lead over the Dodgers in the National League West Division, however, Los Angeles just got a lot stronger thanks to help from the A’s and General Manager Billy Beane.

December renovations at Cal State East Bay’s Oakland campus will allow Continuing Education students enrolling in certificate programs to feel more connected to the East Bay’s campus community, come fall.

According to Kate White, director of Continuing Education at East Bay, a renovation and restoration project that was finalized in December expanded the facility — located in an office suite in the Oakland Professional Development and Conference Center off of Broadway — by 40 percent, adding two student lounge areas and one classroom.

Before the construction, White said that the facility had reached max capacity in its classes, around 325 students, but without a communal space to congregate, they were forced to immediately leave after classes ended. Students had to sit on the floor in the hallway to eat and study because of the lack of communal space, according to White. Now there are two new student common areas and a total of eight classrooms.

According to White, University Extension, the branch of East Bay that oversees continuing education programs among others, decided that in order to provide students with a campus experience, renovations were necessary.

The primary focus of the expansion was to add non-classroom spaces, more so than actual classrooms, for students to congregate when not in class.

“Students who take programs at Oakland Center often don’t go to the other two campuses,” said White. “We wanted to give them a place to feel a sense of community.”

East Bay’s Oakland campus enrolls approximately 1,500 students per quarter, both on-site and online, and offers certificate, credit and noncredit programs that are independent from the degree curriculum at East Bay’s core Hayward and Concord campuses, according to White. Students can obtain certifications in paralegal studies, human resources management, construction, nonprofit management and social media studies, and a three-year master’s in a social work program at Oakland.

The seven original classrooms were remodeled with new paint, carpeting and furniture and the facility was expanded from approximately 11,000 sq. ft. to 15,500, said White. Aside from routine maintenance, the building hasn’t received a complete renovation since it opened in 2001.

The renovation project cost approximately $1.5 million and was funded through the tuition charges students pay for continuing education courses, said White.

The Oakland campus itself sustains through these “self-support” dollars. Tuition charges covers all materials and costs associated with each course, including faculty pay, explained White.

The renovations took place in two phases, the first was conducted throughout summer last year and paused before fall term, while

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Mother and student at the same time

By Maira Sanchez CONTRIBUTOR Two years ago my life changed. In the summer of 2014, I found out I was pregnant, and it was unexpected. It was not in my plans to have a baby yet, but I believe things happen for a reason. I decided to keep my baby with or without the father’s involvement.

It was one of the toughest decisions I had to make because I did not know what I was going to do or if my parents would support me. The father decided not to be involved, but I had my daughter at the age of 20, while I was in my second year of college.

Statistics show that while I am not alone, life with a daughter will be a significant challenge. Single mothers often spend more than half of their income on housing expenses and a third on child care, according to a 2013 study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture. The study also found that in 2013, “15 percent of the 1.6 million children born out of wedlock in the U.S. were to teenagers under age 20, 37 percent were to women ages 20 through 24.”

On Monday mornings I head to work at 5 a.m. and then attend class at 2 p.m. I run errands until 10 p.m., which is when I get to see my daughter, Areli, who is one year and two months old. She stays home with my mother who helps me take care of her while I am gone. This gives me the support I need to finish college and keep working. It may seem that I have it easier than most single parents, but

keeping up with school and two jobs is very tiring. And I miss out on spending time with my daughter.

The next morning my day starts again at 5 a.m. I go to my first job at Banana Republic in Milpitas, then my second job at a radio station, 93.3 La Raza, in San Jose.

I have always worked two jobs and gone to school, but now I have a daughter to take care of. Finding the right balance is very difficult.

I am the first one to attend college in my family and dropping out is not an option. I have six older brothers and none of them have a degree. I need to finish school and earn my bachelor’s degree, not only for the pride and joy of my parents, but for me as well. It gives me a chance to provide a better future for my daughter.

I recently got hired at a radio station 93.3 La Raza as a promotions technician, an entry level position in which I go out in the streets and promote our radio station and clients.

I plan to stay there and grow within the company. I am a communications major at Cal State East Bay with an option in media production, so obtaining the job at the radio station is a foot into the industry I want to pursue as a career.

Many of the people I know say it was very irresponsible of me to get pregnant because I am still attending school, and that my life is ruined.

Others see it as normal because it is something that we see more in our society: the number of student parents jumped from around 3.2 million in 1995 to 4.8 million in 2011, according

to a data analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonprofit research organization.

When I was pregnant I kept attending school and worked until I had my baby. I went back to attending my classes two weeks after she was born, and went back to work full-time a month later. My mom takes care of my daughter essentially all day while I’m in school and at work. I could never stay in school and continue to work without my mother’s help.

CSUEB used to have a daycare on

“Statistics show that while I am not alone, life with a daughter will be a significant challenge.” campus, but it closed in Aug. 2011 due to excessive costs and low enrollment rates, according to previous coverage

by The Pioneer.

Despite the increasing number of student parents, the proportion of community colleges with childcare on campus has fallen from 53 percent in 2003-04 to 46 percent in 2013.

The proportion of public four-year colleges with child care resources decreased from 54 percent to 51 percent in about the same time, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Re-

search.

It is hard to maintain a good sleeping schedule, which makes me feel tired and unfocused most of the time. A January 2016 report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 43.5 percent of single moms got less than seven hours of sleep, compared to 31.2 percent of women in two-parent families and 29.7 percent of women without children. Among single dads, this number was 37.5 percent.

It’s hard to stay healthy because I always feel like I’m running out of time. Twenty-four hours are not enough. I am constantly on the road or running errands. I will continue my education and earn my bachelor’s degree by next spring. I plan to leave my retail job by the end of July and focus on my career and education goals.

It continues to be difficult journey and it is not going to get easier.

But by staying focused it will all be worth it in the end for my daughter and myself.

Correction In the July 28 issue of The Pioneer, a caption to the picture titled, “Roads repaved at Hayward campus” said the crews were repairing Hayward Road, however, it should have said Harder Road.

Diverse enough to work at Facebook?

By Pablo Garnica CONTRIBUTOR Facebook’s July diversity report showed that the company lacks any real progress toward achieving diversity among its employees.

According to Facebook’s figures, Black employees totaled 2 percent and Hispanics only made up 4 percent of the company’s total U.S. employees. Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global director of diversity, said that high schools lack computer science courses and blamed the problem on the public education system. “It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology…will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,” Williams stated in the blog report on Facebook.

This statement seems contradictory since the company’s effort to connect with students in the Hayward area is minimal, or nonexistent at Cal State East Bay, according to CSUEB computer science department officials.

According to an April 2016 California higher education report by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research center that inform and improves policy in the U.S., the California State University system is the largest public university system in the nation, with over 360,000 students.

“We have all these local people,” said Borre Ulrichsen, East Bay’s chief information officer and associate vice president for information technology of Face-

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book’s diversity report. “That’s a great resource and these companies should be much more focused on growing that local talent.”

Jamil Walker, corporate communications manager at Facebook, mentioned two community efforts by the company to expand its diversity, although in my opinion they’re not sufficient for the goal the company is trying to reach.

In celebration of Black History Month, Facebook invited 225 African American students from the East Bay Area, not including Hayward, in an effort to expose low income individuals to careers in technology, according to Walker.

The other event was created by Oculus, a virtual reality developer that Facebook acquired for $2 billion dollars in 2014. It set up a pilot program in Oakland High School and Fremont High School

where students are able to use the latest virtual reality technology and engage with leading industry filmmakers.

William reported that Facebook also donated $15 million to Code.org, a nonprofit organization that works to ensure every student has the chance to learn computer science. However, the only Advanced Placement Computer Science course available in Hayward is at Moreau Catholic High School, which has an annual tuition of $17,736, according to the school’s website. Facebook’s philanthropic donation is commendable, but it fails to reach all members in the computer science community.

The East Bay should be an epicenter of investment in technology education by organizations like Facebook. In Hayward, 40 percent of the community is Hispanic

or Latino, in Oakland, Latinos make up the largest group of youth under 20 years old, and African American youth make up close to 30 percent, according to Oakland Fund for Children and Youth’s Demographic Profile Report.

Over the past year at Cal State East Bay, students have been vocal about lacking necessary resources for academic success. African American students are working with administration through a task force through ASI to create an African American resource center on campus, where free printing, computers and advising may be made available.

It is in these types of projects and students that Facebook should be investing in. “These companies, like the Facebooks and the Googles, that’s what they should be doing,” Ulrichsen said. “They need to get themselves in front of you. So you know who they are and you just don’t know them as an app on your phone, but as a potential employer.”

This would create better results for reaching the goal of diversity in computer science, which Williams stresses is vital for the future. Facebook can truly make a visual impact in its neighboring Bay Area cities and build connections for success, instead of waiting for a system provide their future employment needs. While Facebook’s efforts are commendable, they lack any true social impact.

In order to truly achieve diversity, is time for Facebook to become more involved in the community.

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Youth program to expand to high schools such as training materials, books, lesson plans and t-shirts. The school district pays the police department per student and the police department, in turn, pays for the officer’s training.

Fraser said three officers from the SCPD are currently assigned to teaching D.A.R.E. in 15 elementary schools, three middle schools and additional private schools within the Santa Clara Unified School District.

The program is funded through D.A.R.E. America which raises money through car washes, kiwanis club donations and volunteer groups like “D.A.R.E. to Kare,” which organizes toy drives, sweepstakes cards and “kare kits” for displaced families, according to Mahan.

Today, D.A.R.E. is taught in all 50 states and 52 other countries, according to Mahan.

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR In fall, fifth graders won’t be the only ones acquainted with the iconic cartoon lion that represents the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, more commonly known as D.A.R.E. For the first time since the program’s inception in 1983, D.A.R.E . curriculum will be taught regularly in high schools throughout the country, D.A.R.E. America’s Director of Communications Richard Mahan, told The Pioneer. The new curriculum was announced earlier this month at the at 29th D.A.R.E International Training Conference, which took place from July 19-21 in Atlanta, Georgia.

D.A.R.E. is a nonprofit organization that educates students about violence, drug and alcohol abuse and how to make good decisions. The new high school curriculum will be based on these core values, yet tailored to focus on issues relevant to teens, such as making safe decisions on prom and graduation nights and the dangers of drinking and driving after parties, according to Mahan.

Traditionally, the D.A.R.E. program was taught in fifth grade classrooms but was expanded to middle schools in recent years. Mahan said the curriculum has been adapted to reflect issues that are prevalent among teens today, like cyber-bullying, and receives an update every few years.

D.A.R.E. started as a grassroots program in 1983 and was started

by Los Angeles Police Chief Deryl Gates, who believed that arresting people for drug use was an ineffective way of lowering drug rates, according to Mahan.

Gates believed that educating young people on the dangers of drug and alcohol use early on would discourage substance abuse later in life.

He initiated a partnership between the LAPD and the Los Angeles Unified School District, which developed the first curriculum shortly after.

At present, D.A.R.E. curriculum

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can only be taught by police officers who undergo 40 hours of training at a school resource officer class and an 80-hour D.A.R.E. school for instruction on specific curriculum, explained Sgt. Kevin Fraser, supervisor of community services and school units at the Santa Clara Police Department. In order to pass the training program, officers are required to teach a course in a school in a low socioeconomic area in either Southern California or Las Vegas.

The curriculum, which is science and evidence-based and developed by universities, is typically taught once a week over a 12-week span.

The lessons are choreographed in a “building-blocks style,” Fraser explained, and lead to an overall message. At the end of the course, students write a final essay that encourages them to share what they’ve learned and provide examples of good decision-making in different scenarios.

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ercrombie has taught the program both part and fulltime since 1994, eight years after he hired on as an officer with the Hayward Police Department. He began working parttime as an instructor at the TPD in 2002 and continued even after retiring due to a back injury in 2005.

Abercrombie currently teaches in 75 fifth grade classrooms annually.

Abercrombie believes D.A.R.E. is more important now, more than ever because it allows students to connect with officers in a positive environment. “The current belief, opinions [and] judgements regarding police officers is very disturbing,” he said. “We are seen as the enemy in many communities and through the media. People need to understand that 99 percent of the officers care and want to help.”

Abercrombie said he solved three murders in Hayward because the witnesses--19 years old in two of the cases--would only speak to him, their former D.A.R.E. officer, who had received the program when they

were 11 years old.

At its peak, D.A.R.E. frequented approximately 80 percent of schools in America, however the 2007-08 recession, coupled with the Sept.

11 attacks in New York resulted in severe cutbacks of the program in schools throughout the country, said Mahan. Officers who instructed the program were pulled from schools and relocated to the streets and the municipalities funding D.A.R.E. “tightened their belts,” said Fraser.

The effectiveness of the program is difficult, if not impossible, to track so many school districts determined that the program wasn’t a priority.

The SCPD outlasted the recession and has managed to offer D.A.R.E . education for over 20 years. “We’re kind of an oddity,” said Fraser, who attributes the program’s endurance to the solid “tax base” of the Silicon Valley.

Fraser explained that D.A.R.E. funding is tied in to taxes and cities and school districts help cover the costs associated with the program,

the final construction took place over last year’s two-week winter break in December.

East Bay held a grand reopening ceremony in February.

Three certification courses in cyber security and a change management certification program, which will teach students how to adapt to changes in an organization, will be added in fall.

White is hopeful that the building won’t need any further upgrades for a number of years, but University Extension plans to “keep a pulse” on the demand in the area. If expansion is necessary later down the line, relocation will be necessary, as the building cannot be expanded further, said White. University Extension has no plans to relocate at this time, but will take future demands into consideration if the program continues to expand beyond Oakland’s capacity.

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Living on campus not so bad for students

By Tishauna Carrell CONTRIBUTOR My peers are often in a rush to be independent by moving off campus.

However, when people hear that I will be living on campus for my fifth and final year at Cal State East Bay, they’re completely baffled.

I have often been told that I should go to work so I can pay rent like an adult, or that I am getting too old to live on campus, but I’m only 21. I didn’t know there was an age limit!

Within my last four years as a resident of Pioneer Heights, I have gained nothing but benefits. Sure, having roommate disagreements can be annoying, and I miss being able to light candles in my room, but because of liv-

ing on campus, I became well-rounded.

I have learned how to deal with a plethora of personality types, met different people, made amazing memories and learned so much about our campus.

One of the complaints mentioned by ear is the quality of the Dining Commons food. One of the convenient features about Pioneer Heights is that students can voice their opinions to the Residence Hall Association, which is a “student run organization that serves as the voice for the residents. Listening to resident concerns about the community RHA tries to accommodate every need,” according to Karina Flores, vice president of communications for RHA. Flores said that residents complained about the lack of vegan/vegetarian options they offered. RHA usually sends out surveys or talks to the residents

about the Dining Commons and changes, which they would like to see.

I personally have noticed the improvement in the DC, especially with their vegetarian options — there are more than I have seen since my freshman year.

It’s common for Pioneer Heights residents to move off campus because of housing being too expensive. That is one of the main factors for 5-year biology student, Leilani Camarillo, who moved out of the dorms after her sophomore year. “It’s so much cheaper off campus and more freedom,” she explained.

Living off campus may be cheaper for people; after all, I am pulling out loans to help pay for housing. But I think it is relatively affordable compared to other universities. According to University of

California, Berkeley’s newspaper, The Daily Californian, in 2015, UC Berkeley was ranked as the nation’s most expensive on campus housing at the price of $15,438.

The most expensive dorm at CSUEB are the freshman dorms, which cost $13,164 per year, but after the freshman dorms, you can choose to live at other lesser cost dorms, the cheapest being a triple dorm which cost $8,472 per year.

It’s also convenient for me to live on campus simply because I am from Southern California. People like alumni Divya Hari, who lived on campus for three years because of the convenience, said, “Staying on campus was a lot easier to get to my classes on time and it was easy for me to do everything with no hassle.

But commuting was a little bit has-

sle because driving from where I live in San Jose to Hayward, was a big commute but I was able to handle both with ease. I was commuting a lot during my last quarter at CSUEB and sometimes during the summer quarter when I did not live in the dorms.”

Living on campus and paying for housing may be pricey for some people, but I think it’s better to avoid the hassle of making sure your roommates pay their rent on time. When you have roommate disagreements while living off campus, there is no Residents Assistant to help you solve your problems and you can’t simply request a room change if all goes wrong. On campus housing has been nothing but a great and convenient experience for me and I recommend that students to take advantage of it when they can.

Who broke the American election system?

By Kathleen Stevens CONTRIBUTOR We are rapidly approaching one of the most unique national elections in recent history. It has become a political circus instead of an election and to further aggravate the situation, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton seems to have developed a clear plan of attack to solve our country’s many societal problems, such as economic inequality between upper and the lower classes, racial discrimination among minority populations, the need to raise the minimum wage and the threat of imminent terrorist attacks.

The American electoral system is unraveling before our eyes. The candidates from both parties appear to be unsuitable for the presidency. What a choice for the American people to have to make — basically they will be electing the “best of the worst” or the least unpopular of the most unpopular.

Some of the disenfranchised voters are so disgusted by the available choices in this election, that they are looking elsewhere to alternative

options such as the Green Party, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Socialist Party and any other fix for the current unworkable capitalist system. People want change and they want it soon.

Both of the candidates are strongly distrusted, and neither of them has much to offer in the way of concrete solutions. There is no “magic” solution for the myriad of problems facing our nation today — racial conflicts, violent protest demonstrations, discrimination towards minority populations, the lack of good jobs with reasonable wages and ISIS terrorism. To truly believe that any one political party or one presidential candidate can solve these problems, which have taken years to accumulate is, at best, naïve.

On one side of the spectrum, we have the Trump, who has been compared with Adolph Hitler and has extreme xenophobic and racist tendencies. Trump acts and speaks publicly as though he is incapable of filtering what comes out of his mouth before he says it.

However in some cases, his behavior has caught the attention of voters who want a candidate who

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will blow the political system and political correctness to smithereens.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have the Clinton, who many consider a liar and a “white collar crim-

inal.” According to The Washington Post, FBI director James B. Comey found 110 emails on Clinton’s private email server that were classified at the time they were either sent

or received, which put the nation’s security at a tremendous risk.

Clinton denies that she ever sent or received classified emails, and after a FBI investigation she was exonerated and avoided indictment — but should she have been?

No matter who wins the 2016 election, if some real, solid solutions are not found, and soon, we may have passed the point of no return in protecting our form of government as it was originally outlined in the U.S. Constitution. The American election system and the integrity of our presidential candidates has deteriorated dramatically throughout the years.

The current candidates seem to have lost the unique qualities of integrity, honesty and trust which are so important in any relationship — whether it be between family members or a president and the electorate of his/her nation.

Each voter must search deep within themselves and ask what they want to see in the next four years. Our collective goal, as a nation, should be to make the next President of the United States and his or her administration answerable to the needs of “We the People.”

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THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 2016

THE PIONEER

Actor John Leguizamo teaches Latin History to “Morons”

By April G. Ancheta CONTRIBUTOR

John Leguizamo’s new solo performance at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on July 22 was a 90 minute show with no intermission. In Latin History for Morons, the 52-year-old award-winning actor, comedian and playwright provided present-day commentary with contrasting scenes of historical Latino moments.

Latin History for Morons will continue to run every day until August 14th except Monday and Tuesdays.

“We got a lot of work to do tonight because I gotta reboot you on the way you think of Latin people,” Leguizamo said as he began the show.

Throughout the performance, Leguizamo shone a light on Taino (Native Indians from Northern-South America), Inca and Aztec civilizations, and discussed Latin heroes dating back to the Revolutionary War. He wove historical research in with the story of a father desperate to help his son with a bullying situation.

Leguizamo aimed to make clear to audiences how Latin roots have played a major role in developing the Americas as they look today. Leguizamo explained that Latin roots extended back to a time long before Conquistadors set foot on South American land. Leguizamo is attempting to retell Latin history in a way it has not been told before.

He used extensive research to create his characters. One of the characters is Loreta Janeta Velaquez--a woman who dressed like a male soldier to fight in the Civil War. A collaboration of lights projected on stage and sound effects of ammunition helped Leguizamo tell her story. Although he was the only actor on stage, he would play two

characters while he used himself as a narrator. During the play, Leguizamo used his entire body to demonstrate the battlefield. His whole-body way of storytelling is full of energy. He duck and dove behind the blackboard as it became a trench. Lights flashed and dimmed as the sound of rifles faded.

Leguizamo seems dedicated to find a Latin heroes in history books to show his son how Latinos played a role in history.

According to the United State Census Bureau, 22.6 percent of Alameda County identified as Latino or Hispanic in July 2015. According to the Hayward Unified School District website, out of the 20,966 K-12 students enrolled with HUSD, 13,151 students identify as Latino or Hispanic. That’s 63 percent of the HUSD student body.

Leguizamo’s play and message to educate students of unknown Latino history is more relevant with a growing Hispanic and Latino student body.

During a video for BerkeleyRep. com, Leguizamo said that 32 percent of Latinos drop out of high school. “I totally understand why,” he said. “I know what that feeling was. I wanted to drop out of high school because you never see yourself represented anywhere. How do you project yourself into the future or into any level of power or success, if you don’t learn about anybody that looks like you or is like you?”

Much of Latin History for Morons was developed in the East Bay at the Berkeley Repertory and The Ground Floor, a space created for creative development, support and programs for developing work at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Broadway hits such as “American Idiot” is one of fourteen plays that got it’s start at Berkeley Rep. In an interview with Madeleine Old-

PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE/BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

Award-winning playwright, actor, and performer John Leguizamo in the world premiere of Latin History for Morons at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

ham, “The Power of Shared History: A conversation with John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone”, Leguizamo describes the Berkeley Rep as one of the most prestigious theaters in America.

John Leguizamo’s career spans from theatre, film, stand up comedy, television, and literature. He has an extensive filmography: he is the voice of Sid in the Ice Age movies and had

roles in “Romeo + Juliet,” “Carlito’s Way,” “The Pest” and “Moulin Rouge.”

He has created and performed theatrical shows such as “Mambo Mouth,” “Freak” and “Ghetto Klown”.

It feels as if there is only you, a few close friends and John Leguizamo in a single room. He performs on a “Thrust” style stage where audience members are seated to the left side, right side and directly in front of the stage. At the very center of the audience is a group considered “head of the class”--these audience members paid extra to sit on small benches seated directly beneath the stage. It’s also an open invitation for the teacher, Mr. Leguizamo, to call on them. To the bottom left corner and bottom right corner of the stage there are milk crates filled with textbooks.

Before Leguizamo walks on stage the audience sees a large table with textbooks and blank blackboard similar to a classroom. Leguizamo animated his story with heartfelt, personable and colorful characters. It’s easy to forget that there is one person on stage yet the audience meets an anxious father, a tired wife, a worried son, a disconnected daughter and even a opportunistic therapist. Leguizamo uses a range of different voices to play these characters with very few props.

He dusted chalk from the blackboard onto his hair to appear older or he used his hand gesture and a well timed roll of his eyes to impersonate a teenage girl wearing headphones.

When he brought Latino ancestors to the stage, he reached into a box and pulled out a wig or a helmet to play a soldier in the Civil War. One minute, Leguizamo is laying on the ground as a wounded soldier then the next minute he has propped himself on his feet to yell like a lieutenant.

Local artist gives color to Trump with book

By Ali Jones-Bey CONTRIBUTOR

A few months ago, inspired by a friend’s birthday party that featured canvas painting, Joey Yang signed up for a drawing class at UC Berkeley Extension, where he received an assignment to create a series of blind-contour drawings, a drawing technique where the artist draws the outline of a subject without looking at the subject itself.

Yang quickly grew bored with drawing bowls and lamps, so he decided to switch to a more interesting subject: Donald Trump.

After creating 30-40 drawings, he began sharing them on his Facebook. He describes the drawings as

“funny” or “frightening.” He said he received positive feedback and that his followers told him that they were funny and abstract. One even suggested he make a book, so he came up with the concept of a Donald Trump coloring book, “Make America Colorful Again,” which was published on July 16.

Yang is an Oakland transplant from Ohio and engineer at Google, who believes in bringing people together through art because “humans are inherently creative.” One of his biggest inspirations is Keith Haring, an iconic 1980’s artist and social activist.

Yang’s drawings are strange, with heavy, abstract lines that don’t always go where they should. It spans thirty pages, opening with a

short explanation of why he chose to create the coloring book, and the last page includes text from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

The book also includes bonus drawings: A creepy-looking Ted Cruz, two versions of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders with ice cream cone hair and one of DJ Khaled, with “congratulations you just played yourself” in crooked letters.

The drawings are surreal with a comically nightmarish quality to some of the more skewed renderings.

Yang believes that a Trump presidency poses an imminent danger to immigrants due to his promise build a wall at the Mexican border and his consistent labeling of Mexican immigrants as criminals and

rapists and Muslim Americans as terrorists. Yang believes this type of rhetoric is harmful and divisive. “[As Americans] we have to all be able to respect and deal with each other,” Yang said. “Mexicans and Muslims are Americans, too.”

The son of immigrant parents, Yang is donating all proceeds from the book to the International Institute of the Bay Area, a nonprofit organization that provides legal immigration support, resources to help immigrants earn citizenship and family reunification and humanitarian aid.

The IIBA also provides support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications, which protect undocumented immigrants youth from deportation for up to

two years. The DACA has helped over 400 immigrants who are vulnerable to deportation file their DACA applications at low or no cost, according to the DACA website.

Yang’s main goal is to expand the reach of IIBA and inform undocumented people that they can get legal help, which is often low cost or free. “You should use your art to speak up about the things that matter to you and can hopefully make a difference,” Yang told the Pioneer.

“That’s kind of what I’m doing. A lot of people who are eligible for DACA have not applied.”

His initial fundraising goal was $1,000 and he has raised over $5,000 since the book was released.

OPINION 7 Vice Presidential candidate a virtual unknown

THURSDAY AUGUST 4 , 2016

THE PIONEER

Republicans look to solidify unity as election looms

By Sean McCarthy STAFF WRITER

In 1999, during NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert, Donald Trump said he was “very pro-choice” and that “partial birth abortions were okay.” Trump appeared on the show to tell audiences why he he decided to leave the Republican party and speak of New York City values. Fast forward to 2011 when Trump changed from pro-choice to pro-life. Trump switched his stance when a friend’s wife wanted to abort a child but his friend begged to keep it reports ABC News. The kid became a “great kid” and a “superstar,” Trump said.

Trump is the Republican presidential nominee and Mike Pence is his running mate. Pence is known as a very religious man with a conservative background that aligns with much of the Republican party.

This year Pence signed a measure which prohibited patients from an abortion on the merits of race, gender, or disability of the fetus, reports Mother Jones. This law also said that doctors were legally liable for wrongful death if they performed an abortion for any of these reasons.

Pence was a six-term U.S. House of Representative member from 20012013 where he would eventually leave to become the Governor of Indiana states The Atlantic. Before his political career Pence was an attorney and talk radio host.

As Governor of Indiana, Pence became a household name because he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act on March 26, 2015 reports MSNBC. The RFRA was signed to protect the right of Christian business owners to refuse service to people who did not align with their religious beliefs.

“The Constitution of the United

States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion but today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action,” said Pence right after he signed the bill according to the state of Indiana webpage.

Trump spoke to members of the Faith and Freedom Coalition on June 10 and evangelical leaders in New York on June 21 , where he said the right to freely practice religion was “so important” and “people are going to say ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” reports NPR. However, Trump has not always been as avid of a religious freedom supporter as Pence is. Trump never asked “God for forgiveness” states Laura Turner of Politico in a July 11 article where she questioned if a Trump nomination meant the end for the “Religious Right” of the Republican party.

However, Pence and Trump differ in regards to the Federal minimum wage and trade. Trump said that the minimum wage has to go up to at least $10 at a press conference in Miami, Florida July 27th. Pence voted against an increase on the minimum wage for three years straight as a member of Congress from 2006-2009, states Mother Jones.

On his Twitter account, Pence urged for a swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership September 8, 2014 and claimed the the ban to Muslims from the country was unconstitutional on December 8, 2015. Both are exact opposite to Trump’s plans if elected president.

Trump and Pence are completely different when it comes to their political viewpoints. However, it looks as if they are willing to compromise on their own political ideals and find some sort of middle ground.

Trump and Clinton have flipflopped in recent presidential polls over the course of the past month according to Real Clear Politics so it is entirely possible that Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States.

NEWS

CCSF to make tuition free for San Francisco residents

By Sean McCarthy STAFF WRITER

Free college is on the way for San Francisco residents.

Ten of San Francisco’s 11 Board of Supervisors voted July 12 to make tuition at City College of San Francisco free for residents.

Board member Mark Farrell was the lone dissenting vote. He is in favor of making the college free to San Francisco residents, but he had reservations over the way that the resolution was passed and wanted it discussed during a San Francisco budget meeting instead, according to CBS. CCSF was previously free to residents of San Francisco when it opened in 1935, but began charging tuition fees to residents of the city in 1983, according to The San Francisco Examiner. Currently, California residents pay $46 per unit with a $17 health care fee.

Although no date has been set, the proposal will alleviate tuition for approximately 20,000 residential students and would cost the city $13 million annually. In order to pay for this, board member

Jane Kim called for the expansion of the mansion tax. According to Kim, this has set specific tax values based on property value and would apply to the sale of buildings $5 million and above, according to news reports.

Property sales between $5-10 million would see a tax increase from 2 to 2.25 percent. Property sales of $10-25 million would see a tax increase from 2.5 to 2.75 percent, and $25 million properties would increase from 2.75 to 3 percent. Kim claims the expansion on the tax will generate $44 million a year, more than the cost of tuition.

Kim originally introduced the proposal as a part of a package of changes that she wants to make while running for California State Senate District 11 against Scott Weiner, a fellow board member.

Kim’s proposal would also provide free college textbooks for 14,000 students who received a fee waiver as well, according to Kim. Approximately 64,000 San Francisco residents attend the school annually, according to city college data. The exact method of funding has not been determined.

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8 SPORTS

THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 2016

THE PIONEER

East Bay athletes get academic recognition

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Summer is an interesting time of the year for collegiate athletes.There are no games and with limited training and practice requirements, many student athletes head home for the break.

However, it is also the time of year that acknowledges the work these athletes do in the classroom. Cal State East Bay received a slew of academic honors during the summer break and here are some of the highlights: Men’s Basketball On July 26 the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced its Honor Court, which recognizes student-athletes who have succeeded in the classroom as well as the athletic arena.

A trio of Pioneer junior guards, Tre Mauldin, Jalen Richard and Paramvir Singh, all made the cut and were awarded the academic honor.

According to Rick Leddy, spokesperson for the NABC, in order to be eligible for the recognition, players must be a junior or senior and a varsity player, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher at the conclusion of the 2015-2016 academic year, have matriculated at least one year at their current institution and must be a member of a NCAA Division I, II, III or NAIA Division I or II institution with a NABC member coach.

It was a bright spot for a tough season that saw the Pioneers finish 9-18 overall and 5-15 in conference competition.

Last season Richard averaged teamhighs in points per game with 15.6 and steals with 41 overall.

Singh was primarily used as a reserve off the bench last season for head coach Gus Argenal, however, he did appear in all 27 games for the Pioneers,

PHOTO OF COURTESY KELLEY COX

PHOTO BY TAM DUONG JR./THE PIONEER

Left: CSUEB junior golfer Joel Keylor hits a ball during an event last year. Right: CSUEB junior guard Jalen Richard drives to the basket last season at the Pioneer Gymnasium.

averaging 3.2 points and 2 rebounds.

Mauldin started 13 games last year and played in 22 total en route to 3.7 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.

“We meet weekly with our players, have mentor groups inside our team, have study hall differentiated by academic success, but most importantly we communicate daily about academics and being organized,” Argenal said.

Women’s Volleyball The CSUEB women’s volleyball team was one of 771 teams in the country recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on July 25 when they received the Team Academic Award.

According to Betsey McCamish, awards, events and membership specialist for AVCA, the award is given to high school and collegiate volleyball teams that maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3. I n the 24-year history of the association 7,649 totals awards have been given to teams throughout the United States. This year, 122 NCAA Division II squads were given the award and 771 teams total up from last year’s number of 757.

The total number of teams has increased every year since 2004-2005, when just 276 teams received the honor.

Men’s Golf On July 20 the Golf Coaches Association of America named CSUEB junior Joel Keylor an All-America Scholar for 2016.

Keylor was one of 91 NCAA Division II athletes to receive the award and 219 total.

According to the GCAA, in order to be eligible for the honor, recipients must be a junior or senior, competed in at least three full years at the collegiate level, participated in at least half of his team’s competitive rounds, have a stroke-average under 78 and maintain a minimum cumulative career grade-

point average of 3.2.

Keylor met all of the requirements coming off the heels of the first ever California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference championship for East Bay, where he was a crucial component.

Keylor won his semifinal and final match play events last season to help catapult CSUEB to their first title.

According to Steve Connolly, director of athletic communications at CSUEB, Keylor is the first golfer to win the award since 2013 when current assistant coach and former Pioneer standout Chris Herzog received it in consecutive years in 2012 and 2013.

NBA takes 2017 All-Star Game away from Charlotte Hornets League cites LGBTQ Act, HB2, as reason

the Charlotte Hornets. Curry had previously been unclear on the actual legislature in HB2, but stated discrimination is wrong, no matter what.

By Sean McCarthy

“I think that’s not tolerable. Nowhere.

And it just sucks that it’s in my home state, where there are a lot of great people.”

STAFF WRITER The National Basketball Association and Golden State Warriors executives took a firm stance against North Carolina and its HB2 law on July 21 and decided to move the All Star Game to another city, which is still undetermined according to an official statement from the NBA and current commissioner Adam Silver.

North Carolina came under fire in March when it proposed the HB2 -- the Public FaWarriors President cilities Privacy Rick Welts. & Security Act -- to force transgender people to use bathrooms based on the sex assigned to them at birth rather than the gender they identify with.

On March 24, the day after HB2 was passed, the NBA released a statement about inclusivity and said that the discriminatory law runs counter to the NBA’s “principles,” according to Silver.

HB2 also states that people may not use state courts to sue in regards to discrimination; instead, they would need to go through the federal court systems.

The law was passed 83-24 by the General Assembly of North Carolina and Gov. Pat McCrory.

Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts, an openly gay man, told a crowd of 70 league executives and team personnel at the NBA’s end of the Summer League meeting that if the All Star Game was held in N.C., he would not feel comfortable there. He also said after

—Stephen Curry

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Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry, right, drives to the basket against the Charlotte Hornets’ Kemba Walker, left, during the third quarter at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 2, 2015. speaking to other people who identify as LGBT within the NBA community, half of them said they would not feel comfortable in the state either.

“I think that’s not tolerable. Nowhere,” Warriors superstar Stephen Curry said in a postgame press conference May 27. “And it just sucks that it’s

in my home state, where there are a lot of great people there.” Curry grew up in North Carolina and his father Dell Curry is a former player turned announcer for

According to multiple ESPN reports, the league has not selected a new host site for the 2017 game, however, New Orleans, Chicago and Atlanta were among the places mentioned.

The NBA released an official statement on July 24 that said, ”Our weeklong schedule of All-Star events and activities is intended to be a global celebration of basketball, our league, and the values for which we stand, and to bring together all members of the NBA community — current and former players, league and team officials, business partners, and fans. While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2.”