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Spring 2016 Issue 10

Oakland's homelessness continues SEE OPINION PAGE 2

By Brenda Brown and Wendy Medina

SHOULD NCAA ATHLETES BE PAID?

CONTRIBUTOR / COPY EDITOR

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LAKE CHABOT CELEBRATES 50 YEARS

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“The Greatest” athlete of all time dies Muhammad Ali 1942 - 2016

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Clinton’s big win in California: Why were the polls so wrong?

By Aaron Kinney EAST BAY TIMES A trio of polls showed a tight race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in California, but by early Wednesday morning it was clear Clinton, who claimed the Democratic nomination Tuesday night at a rally in New York, would roll to a resounding victory over the Vermont senator.

The question, as dawn broke Wednesday, was why.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton has a lead of 12.6 percentage points over her rival in a bitterly fought nomination contest.

In the liberal Bay Area, which was fertile territory for Sanders’ “political revolution,” voters in all nine counties favored Clinton, mostly by wide margins.

No matter how old you are, you know the sayings: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” or “I’m a bad man.” The most famous athlete of all time is the one who coined them all.

The self-proclaimed “Greatest of All Time” boxer Muhammad Ali, passed away on Friday while being treated for respiratory complications at a Phoenix, Arizona hospital, according to a statement from the family spokesperson Bob Gunnell.

Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder which causes tremors, in 1984 and battled

Many thousands of late-returning mail ballots must still be counted, so Clinton’s lead may shrink, but the outcome is decided.

There are a few obvious factors that political experts will consider as they break down Clinton’s triumph in coming days and weeks: --To what extent did an Associated Press report Monday calling the nomination for Clinton dampen the enthusiasm of Sanders’ supporters, keeping them from the polls?

--How much trouble did independent voters have trying to participate in the Democratic primary? A Los Angeles Times investigation found thousands of independents may have mistakenly registered as members of the American Independent Party, a fringe conservative party. Others may have failed to request a Democratic ballot.

--And how much did Sanders’ support depend on millennials and college students who could not be relied on to get to the polls in the first place?

According to an exit poll of early mail voters by Capitol Weekly, Clinton did better among older, more affluent voters, as well as women and blacks.

Election data guru Paul Mitchell, who

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against the illness for more than 32 years, up until his death. The disease eventually took his verbal and physical abilities away from him later in life, but after his passing, his iconic status was quickly appreciated.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1942, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1962, which caused a stir around the world. After he was drafted through selective service in 1967, Ali used his religious freedom to protest his involvement in the war, which was met with both criticism and praise by supporters and opponents.

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, some poor, hungry people in the mud, for big powerful America, and shoot them for what?” Ali said in a radio interview in 1967. “They never called me nigger.

They never lynched me. They didn’t put no dogs on me.”

After his refusal, he was stripped of

his boxing title, convicted on draft evasion charges and sentenced to five years in prison. This began a lengthy appeal process that Ali eventually won four years later in 1971. However, it halted his career since he was not allowed to fight or leave the country during the process. While Ali wasn’t his former self in the ring, he still managed to regain his belt and fought in some of arguably the greatest fights of all time including “The Rumble in the Jungle” and “The Thrilla in Manila”.

For many people, a stigma hovered over Ali that he was “Un-American” since he chose not to fight for the United States in the Vietnam War. This stigma was lifted in 1996 when the nation watched Ali carry the Olympic Torch into Atlanta and light the 1996 official Olympic Flame. Although his disease revealed itself when his arm jerked as he guided the flame to its final destination, it was that day that Ali “became

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Voters show up to polls

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Voters line up at a Bay Area polling site on June 7. Hillary Clinton won the California Primary for the Democrats and Donald Trump won for the Republicans.

Pulling in from the freeway onto 17th Street in Oakland, two visibly homeless men stand on opposite sides of the street, beckoning the cars with their cardboard signs and empty paper cups. An “eyesore” for the city and its residents, little has been done to solve or at the very least alleviate homelessness with the immediacy it requires.

A topic which personally strikes a chord with us, it was jarring to try and talk to the people living in these makeshift encampments riddled throughout the city because it reminded us so much of our own past.

We scouted areas in downtown Oakland — bridges, under freeway overpasses and on the street. While the bolstering camp areas drowning in trash were set up, everyone was inside their tents, unwilling to talk. After no luck at an encampment on Sycamore and Northgate, we eventually ended up on San Pablo and Grand avenues, an area near the Oakland Greyhound station and homeless shelter St. Vincent DePaul. The few people who we were able to speak to there promptly steered us away as well.

In a report released in March for the 2015 year, the Alameda Countywide Homeless Count and Survey published that the pointin-time count “estimated number of sheltered and unsheltered people who were homeless in Alameda County on January 28, 2015 was 4,040.” However, this number could not possibly demonstrate the actual amount of homeless in the city of Oakland, putting into perspective their 406,253 population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau; much less the entirety of Alameda County.

While for some, homelessness may be a rock bottom period of their lives, others have had to adapt to this “lifestyle.” We finally met a young man named Dane, with his dog Pizza, who told us he’d just saved Pizza in Texas on his way to California on a freight train. He said he was kicked out of his mom’s house when he was 15 and now at 28, he’s been homeless for 13 years.

When asked about any drug or alcohol use, he responded that he doesn’t touch anything and is simply looking for work.

Dane said being homeless has caused him stress, anger and depression. However, he shared some positivity as well, “All we got is time. We gotta use it to do the best we can,” and went on his way to panhandle for some dog food.

While we continued to “knock on the doors” of the tents by calling out and asking if anyone was home, we briefly interacted with a young lady named Mona. She was reluctant to speak and held her head down in shame while trying to talk to her. When asked how she ended up in the encampment, she simply replied, “I didn’t have anywhere to go.” Mona did not care to speak with us any further.

After seemingly no luck of trying to get answers from a first-person perspective about what the city has done to help, we took our questions to city hall. Assistant to the City Administrator, Joe DeVries, gave us a rundown of the efforts being done on the macro level — feder-

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Should NCAA pay its athletes?

By Christina Bleakley CONTRIBUTOR Amateurism. It is a core value of the National Collegiate Athletic Association that means student athletes cannot be compensated for anything more than the costs to attend their colleges or universities.

UCLA, a Division I school, recently signed a 15-year, $280 million deal with activewear brand Under Armour — the largest sponsorship deal in college sports history — but none of their athletes will see a dime of that.

In 2014, the NCAA signed a $10.8 billion deal to have their events televised. They claim that their primary mission is to educate, but student athletes feel compelled to spend 40 or 50 hours a week in press conferences and other related time commitments.

How is “amateurism” fair to their “amateur” athletes?

The NCAA claims to be a “non-profit” organization, but then turn around and make money and sign lucrative deals like these.

Why? You can’t have it both ways, NCAA. This new Under Armour deal with UCLA is the largest shoe and apparel sponsorship in college sports history.

As a result of this deal, the agreement will pay UCLA $15 million in cash up front. The school will then receive $11 million annually in rights and marketing fees. Under Armour has also committed to supplying an average of $7.4 million in clothing, shoes and equipment, and an additional $2 million over the next eight years for upgrades to their facilities, according to the LA Times.

But besides all the free gear related to their sports programs and upgrades to the school’s sport facilities, how else does this deal help any of their athletes? How do these athletes that train under coaches that are paid millions of dollars to coach them, get any sort of compensation for their work? A pat on the back and a trophy?

NCAA’s rules on amateurism states that students are not allowed to accept any compensation from sports teams, receive salaries, awards, gratuity or incentive payments. However, this Under Armour deal looks pretty shiny, filled with incentives for UCLA to keep

“How is ‘amateurism’ fair to their ‘amateur’ athletes? ”

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their products pumped into locker rooms and around the school.

This idea that athletes aren’t allowed to be paid seems trivial after looking at that deal. If the trend is to sign crazy $280 million deals like this, wouldn’t it seem fair to give every student that plays for “pro-profit” sports like basketball, football and baseball a full-ride scholarship? That would seem to make sense as a way to “pay” their athletes for work and awards that they bring into their schools.

The NCAA claims that they are non-profit, but their members are currently playing in championships with billion-dollar television deals.

During the month of March, the NCAA Tournament, March Madness, becomes a version of the NBA. The

NCAA national title games have a Super Bowl-esque feel to the and they generate huge revenues. Everything is big, the turnout of fans seems to break records every year, but the only thing that differs between this tournament and an NBA Finals championship game? These players return to their classrooms and school campuses in the following week, not go on a vacation.

The common contradiction within the NCAA is that when it comes to college sports they seem to be turning into professional-amateur athletes.

According to a Harris Poll in 2014, college football was the third-most popular sport in the country, just trailing the NFL and Major League Baseball.

However, with all these big con-

tracts to schools, coaches and apparel, there is still some good news for athletes.

In September 2015, while college students shouldn’t be expecting any big payments or NFL-sized contracts for their athletic exploits in their near future while in school — even though they are the reason these multi-dollar beast of merchandise deals and ticket sales rocket upwards — the good news is that the use of stipends, or discretionary funds provided by colleges can help sport participants defray their living and travel costs, according to an CNBC article.

As college students, we know that work and school are two challenging things to balance. For a Division I athlete means even less time to work. Now schools will step in to help yield the costs for those students athletes that lack the time for a normal job. These stipends would go for things such as groceries during the week, or for those that are back east during the long winters, extra winter clothes.

Another interesting note to take into consideration is in 2015, former and current college athletes sued Electronic Arts Sports for making a video game that used their names, images and likeness.

The agreement said that these students are entitled to shares of the $60 million in settlements, according to USA Today Sports.

Typically NCAA rules specifically state that their athletes are not to be paid for their names, images and likeness. That they are to remain “amateur status.” But when the video game settlement occurred in 2015, the NCAA allowed a “blanket eligibility waiver” for any of their current college students who received money from that settlement, according to CBS Sports.

So while student athletes are still to remain amateur and not accept payment or compensation of any kind for their sports, there still seems to be small glimmer of hope with their shiny new stipend deal.

And at least for one moment, those college athletes were finally paid — for appearing in video games.

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CSUEB Aramark contract set until 2018

By Elizabeth Avalos STAFF WRITER Cal State East Bay’s campus food options have always been a relevant topic of discussion on campus. Whether criticism has been directed towards the lack of healthy food choices provided in the dining commons and on-campus restaurants, the arguably high prices at the POD market and bookstore or simply the limited variety of restaurants available on campus, discontent has long been expressed.

The university dining program contract is set to end in just over two years and questions regarding the future of Cal State East Bay’s dining services are bubbling to the surface: What does the current contract with Aramark entail, when will this contract expire, what will happen when that time arrives and how will this affect which restaurants are brought to campus or how food prices are determined?

Aramark is a corporation that provides food service, facilities and uniform services to hospitals, universities, school districts, stadiums and other businesses around the world.

According to Robert Todaro, the director of Procurement Services, CSUEB’s current contract with Aramark was signed in July of 2009 and extends until June 30, 2018. It was the first contract CSUEB ever signed with this corporation.

In the current contract, Cal State East Bay and Aramark agreed that Aramark would manage the university’s dining service program for students, faculty and staff. This includes the dining commons and restaurants like Panda Express, Subway and Pizza Hut, and also the food trucks that are available on campus a few days per week.

From July 2009 to July 2012, the contract was overseen by the CSUEB Foundation, which is a non-profit auxiliary organization within the California State University system. But as of July 2012, the university took over the contract and assumed all of the liabilities and obligations from the foundation, Todaro stated.

Although there is no language in the current contract that offers the option to extend it beyond its end date, Todaro explained that the university’s intent is to complete that contract. Subsequently, they will prepare a new proposal, which is essentially an invitation for bids on

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Aramark provides various health food options for staff and students at the Dining Commons Wednesday evening. behalf of companies that provide food services and includes the terms and conditions on how that service is to be operated. This proposal is expected to be completed approximately one year before the contract with Aramark expires.

“It takes at least 90 days to get a proposal package put together with housing on the requirements that are going to be under the contract and we receive proposals like after two weeks,” Todaro stated.

Anyone that provides food services can apply, including Aramark, and it typically takes 30 to 60 days before a decision will be made on the awardee.

This decision is based on technical, business and price factors.

“Technical factors are things such as how long those companies that are proposing have been in business, what they

are bringing to the table from a technical standpoint, which would be the food they serve and what they are recognized in the industry for,” Todaro stated.

From a business standpoint, the university looks for references from other companies or institutions that the proposing companies have previously been or are currently providing food services to, to become familiarized with each company’s services.

Price-wise, the university arranges the basis for the services that will be provided, which ultimately refers to the revenue percentage that the university will take and what percentage Aramark will keep.

According to Todaro, under the current contract, Cal State East Bay gets about 10 percent back from the total revenue.

All of the food and menu items and prices were mutually agreed upon by the two parties, including the food service locations that would be brought to campus and the hours of operation for each location.

Todaro explained that the contract specified that Aramark would be required to publish and maintain a dining commons menu online, which was to include the nutritional and ingredient information for all food being offered.

Additionally, the contract requires that they comply with the federal and state food quality standards for their frozen foods, dairy products, fresh produce and meats, among others.

Aramark additionally agreed to provide special diet menus and nutritional programs including vegetarian and vegan options, while also making sure

that a portion of the daily menu in the dining commons consists of identified low-fat, low-sodium and low-cholesterol entrees.

The university’s Housing Department is the designated department responsible for overseeing and ensuring that that all of the terms and conditions that the university and Aramark agreed upon are being met.

Todaro explained that under the current contract there is no clear indication as to whether students’ feedback and input is taken into consideration when a contract is being negotiated and food options are being decided.

However, the university recently sent out an email with a food access survey, which is believed to be the only method of feedback and communication between the university and students.

FROM THE WIRE Former Stanford swimmer blames ‘party culture and risk-taking behavior’ for sex assault

By Veronica Rocha LOS ANGELES TIMES

A former Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on campus has blamed a “party culture and risk-taking behavior” for his actions.

In a letter he penned to Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, Brock Turner wrote that he was shattered by “the party culture and risk-taking behavior that I briefly experienced in my four months at school.”

Turner said he came from a small town in Ohio and never experienced partying that involved alcohol. But when he started attending Stanford, Turner wrote, he began drinking to relieve the stress of school and competitive swimming.

“The swim team set no limits on partying or drinking and I saw the guys take full advantage of these circumstances, while I was shown to do the same,” he wrote. “I witnessed countless times the guys that I looked up to go to parties, meet girls and take the girl that they had

just met back with them.”

Describing himself as an “inexperienced drinker and party-goer,” Turner said he looked up to members of his swim team. On Jan. 17, 2015, the night of the sexual assault, Turner said he drank five beers, two “swigs” of Fireball whiskey and bounced from one party to another.

“I want to demolish the assumption that drinking and partying are what make up a college lifestyle,” he wrote.

“I made a mistake, I drank too much, and my decisions hurt someone. But I never meant to intentionally hurt (the victim). My poor decision making and excessive drinking hurt someone that night and I wish I could just take it all back.”

Turner vowed to “change people’s attitudes towards the culture surrounded by binge drinking and sexual promiscuity that protrudes through what people think is at the core of being a college student.” A jury convicted Turner in March for sexually assaulting the woman, and he was facing a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

At the time, prosecutors asked Persky to sentence him to a six-year prison

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Former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner after he was arrested in 2015. term for the three felony counts he was found guilty of: assault with the intent to

commit rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration of an unconscious

person and sexual penetration of an intoxicated person.

When Persky instead sentenced Turner last week to six months in county jail and three years’ probation, the decision sparked outrage. Critics argued the sentence was too lenient and launched a campaign to recall Persky from the bench.

Turner’s victim read a 12-page letter in open court, called the more lenient sentence “a soft timeout, a mockery of the seriousness of the assaults.” She said Turner had failed to show responsibility.

She wrote: “Unfortunately, after reading the defendant’s statement, I am severely disappointed and feel that he has failed to exhibit sincere remorse or responsibility for his conduct. I fully respected his right to a trial, but even after 12 jurors unanimously convicted him guilty of three felonies, all he has admitted to doing is ingesting alcohol. Someone who cannot take full accountability for his actions does not deserve a mitigating sentence. It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of promiscuity. By definition rape is the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”

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CSUEB debate team rises to prominence

By AJ Luna CONTRIBUTOR It wasn’t an easy first competitive season for Cal State East Bay’s debate team, which regrouped last fall after a 10-year hiatus.

The debate team was cut 10 years ago because of a lack of funding. Traveling and tournament fees in particular were too costly, Dr. Terry West, associate professor of communications, told The Pioneer last December. Ryan Wallace, graduate student and debate coach, was a key component in bringing it back to the campus.

“I had lamented the absence of debate since I got to CSUEB,” Wallace said. “I had asked faculty and their response was essentially ‘we should have a team, go and do it.’”

Wallace believed it would be a good way for students to channel their energy into something constructive. An undergraduate at Diablo Valley College and Sacramento City College, he competed for the debate teams at both schools.

“Debate played a huge role in shap-

ing my own academic background and life. “ Wallace said. “I want everyone at CSUEB to have the opportunity to compete and succeed in an activity that has such great impact on people’s lives.”

“Debate played a huge role in shaping my own academic background and life.”

Wallace and John Cervantez started the team and got the ball rolling when they recruited Scott Ault. New members Muhammad Algoniah, Anthony O’ Keke, Lottie Fultz and Erik Camacho joined the team throughout the season.

The CSU Debate Team’s work and preparation was put to the test in their first tournament at Santa Clara Uni-

versity on the weekend of January 2223. The team placed third in the competition and second overall for new coming universities. Team member John Cervantez said it was a learning curve for the upcoming season.

Wallace said that the seriousness and intensity of the competitors was overwhelming and at times the team found itself scrambling to create cohesive arguments.

“During a few of the events, even those we won, we failed to address issues that the other side brought up,” Cervantez said. “This is a very important process [that] requires a lot of practice flowing, which is why we practice so much doing flows during weekly practice sessions” Flowing is the competitive tactic where debaters track on paper the arguments and supporting evidence produced during a debate round.

At a competition, two people from each team debate each other at a time.

There are a total of six speeches per round, which lasts about 45 minutes.

In each round, teams have 15 to 20 minutes to prepare their approach on an assigned topic.

Each team alternates between affirmative and negative positions. They have no idea which side they will be asked to defend during the debate.

The topics are chosen by the tournament host and usually deal with policy surrounding current events. To prepare for competitions, teams put in long hours of practice, where they outline debate structures and debate each other.

“I think our success with this team will be ultimately demonstrated by its posterity.”

“I can’t emphasize enough what a great group of students we have to give up their evenings and some weekends to practice for these events,” Wallace said.

The team found their footing at the NCFA Spring Champs tournament on the weekend of February 19-21 at Modesto Junior College, where CSUEB won the second place sweepstake award. Cervantez and Ault made it to the quarterfinal round, a significant accomplishment for newcomers in debate. They took home three trophies.

“Ryan and I had been talking about creating a debate club for about a year and then to finally see the reality of our hard work was truly incredible,” said Cervantez. “Now that the groundwork has been laid, the only way the debate team can go is up.”

CSUEB hosted Santa Clara University and San Jose State University at its inaugural debate scrimmage on May 21. Members Fultz and Camacho won and were recognized as top speakers. The team hopes to continue to hold scrimmages as well as travel.

“I think our success with this team will be ultimately demonstrated by its posterity. We’ve had a great start, and with continued hard work, we hope to continue this success next year and beyond,” said Wallace.

Ali From Page 1 American” again.

More important than his athletic career was his stance on social issues. Ali was outspoken during an era where free speech from Blacks was not welcomed or appreciated by the majority of Americans. Racism and prejudice ruled the day, however, Ali spoke his mind and took a stand on hot button issues like race and war.

“My enemy is the white people, not Vietcongs or Chinese or Japanese,” Ali told a white student during his appeal.

“You my opposer when I want freedom.

You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs and you want me to go somewhere and fight but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”

Sure, he was the best boxer at a time in America when boxing was the national pastime. However, Ali used the platform provided by his boxing fame to voice his opinions on civil rights and equality issues that were frowned upon at the time. He stood up for minorities and equal rights at a time when it could have easily got him assassinated.

More than the one-liners or the athletic achievements, it was his conviction in his beliefs that made him the greatest and most popular athlete of all-time.

“He stood up for minorities and equal rights at a time when it could have easily got him assassinated. ”

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Electronic parking signs now accurate

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Finally, they work.

The electronic signs for general parking lot A, the former site of Warren Hall, have been giving accurate numbers on available spaces for the past couple weeks, according to a Pioneer investigation.

Since the signs were installed in September 2015, there were problems with the accuracy of the parking spaces available listed on the electronic counter.

According to University Parking and Transportation Services manager Derrick Lobo, “The problem is that folks are driving over both lanes as they enter [and] exit the lots. That throws the count off and eventually locks up the system.”

According to Lobo, to fix the problem, barriers were installed along the entrance and exit lanes during winter and spring quarter breaks, yet inaccurate numbers were still being displayed early on in the spring quarter. Lobo did not confirm if any adjustments would be made to the entrances and exits beyond the previous additions.

An audit of available spaces to the number displayed on the sign over the past few weeks by The Pioneer found that the signs were accurate within a few spots every time, in eight different checks.

The $3.7 million parking lot project was approved as part of last year’s

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school budget and included the general parking lot with 595 total spaces.

The two new parking lots contain 830 total parking spaces for staff, faculty, students and visitors, whereas the old parking lots contained only 505 total

spots.

According to CSU Mentor, 95 percent of CSUEB students have a car and 85 percent of them live off campus, which is why East Bay is often referred to as a commuter campus.

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as the reason, there are likely multiple factors that contribute to this statisThank you so much for the article tic that applies to all different kinds of featuring the Personal Safety class led disability. However, you are right that by our campus Police Chief Boykins for having aphasia is often stigmatizing the Aphasia Treatment Program that ap- and isolating. peared in your paper last Thursday. I’d The event’s focus was to help the like to add to the definition of aphasia. Aphasia Treatment Program (ATP) As the article states, aphasia is a com- members gain access to a course about munication disorder usually caused by Personal Safety since the typical avestroke or traumatic brain injury that nues to this information, like commudoesn’t impact intelligence. I want to nity classes or online resources, are add that aphasia is often a life-long dis- not accessible to someone with aphasia order that impairs the ability to talk, un- and may not address issues specific to derstand, read and write. someone with a communication disorIt is a language problem that masks der. We wanted to empower the ATP a person’s inherent competence—the members with strategies and informaability to express what they know, feel, tion that might help them stay safer. think. As the Aphasia Institute points Although June is National Aphaout (www.aphasia.ca) when the ability sia Month, this collaboration with our to participate in conversation, read, and campus police was part of the Comwrite is impaired, then “every relation- municative Sciences and Disorders ship, life role, and life activity is at risk.” Department’s training, and advocacy I also want to acknowledge the role during May in recognition of Better of two graduate students, Alyssa Rome Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). and Cara Gottschalk-Jacobson. They The year’s BHSM theme was “Commudeserve to receive credit for taking lead nication Takes Care.” in applying evidence based principles Thanks to Chief’s Boykins’ willingfor written preferences of individuals ness to collaborate in adapting the mawith aphasia like increasing font size, terials and to learn how to be a skilled reducing complexity of text, and adding communication partner for a group of relevant visuals to make the original individuals with aphasia, the innovapresentation more “aphasia friendly”. tive aphasia-friendly Personal Safety Co-presenting with Chief Boykins was class did just that—our ATP members Desi Calzalda, campus police operations learned how to take better care of themmanager, who addressed the challenges selves and their family members. of interacting with 911 if you have a communication problem.

Sincerely, The article stated that the incidence of nonfatal violent crimes against disEllen Bernstein-Ellis abled individuals is reported to be twice that as the general public.

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Oakland museum thrives on Friday night

By Marquis Jaramillo CONTRIBUTOR It is 4:50 p.m. on a beautiful Friday afternoon in Oakland. Nineteen food trucks from Off the Grid, an organization that hosts street vendors and food trucks at different locations throughout the Bay Area, line up at 10th and Oak Street, right outside the Oakland Museum of California. The 10th Street Amphitheater, located on the lower level of the museum, stands empty, but will soon fill up with a mob of people. DJ Dion Decibels sets up his equipment and mixes songs by Mary J. Blige and James Brown. Event organizer and emcee Preston Justice sets up the stage for tonight’s live band, Chelle! and Friends.

Friday Nights at Oakland Museum of California, now in its third year, opens gallery space to the public for extended hours every Friday. Food and drinks are on offer, and bands and DJs provide entertainment. The weekly gathering began in January 2013 in a partnership with Off the Grid to highlight local artists, food makers and tasters, musicians, dancers, historians, environmentalists, writers and poets.

Cynthia Taylor, associate director of Public Programs at the Oakland Museum of California, said the mission of the OMCA is to “inspire all Californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities.” To support their mission, the museum’s public programs department decided to establish this weekly event in order to provide a meaningful impact on its visitors at the “Friday Nights @ OMCA” events.

The museum and event “proudly reflects the community [of Oakland] in it’s many different facets, bringing together people of every background, ethnicity,

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Attendees listen to live music during a Friday celebration at the Oakland Museum of California last month. age, and interest,” Taylor said.

By 5:15 p.m., the food trucks are open for business and the DJ’s turntables are in full rotation. Slowly, people start to show up: A family of four, a group of five friends, White, Asian, Black, Latinx and people up and down the socioeconomic scale.

They fill the steps of the 10th Street Amphitheater, talking, eating and enjoying the music. “Honestly I think a big part of it is purely wanting to give the people, you know, our neighbors, the people of Oakland and the Bay Area a space to come in and gather and get some fun, some easy access to good music, dance and culture,” Justice said.

People pack the dance floor. Friends

dance with each other, couples dance together and parents dance with their children. The Friday night vibe is felt in the atmosphere. You can see smiles on the multitude of faces in attendance.

At 6:40 p.m., a game of musical chairs breaks out before the live band takes the stage. Justice invites whoever is willing to join in on the game, which continues for 15 minutes until the final two people are left: Two children between the ages of seven and 10. A man with his one-yearold uses his baby to reach over seats and places his child on an empty seat, securing them a chance to participate in the next round. One kid didn’t get the hint that he was eliminated and stayed in the game until he was eliminated again.

“You know I think that we’re in a really good space,” said Justice. “We have a lot of families and individuals who come very often. Some people come every week and some people come maybe twice a month.”

The 10th Street Amphitheater — better known as the “Go Local Stage” — is packed with 300 people. The Oakland band Chelle! and Friends play a fusion of New Orleans Mardi Gras jazz and R&B. “The idea is that we’re presenting the arts, the music that is happening right here, in Oakland ideally, but in the East Bay and greater Bay Area,” Justice said.

The success of this night and the museum coincides with ongoing gentrification in Oakland. The influx of people

moving to Oakland from San Francisco is triggering the same effect of rising rents and displacement seen in San Francisco.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bay Area’s population increased by 90,834 people between 2014 and 2015, and 25,365 of these people are now residents of Alameda County.

“People say, ‘The hell with it, I can’t afford San Francisco. I’ll go to Oakland,’” Tim Colen, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, told the San Francisco Chronicle in March.

Colen believes Oakland is “the new Brooklyn.” With more people relocating to Oakland, they are looking for things to do in the city and “Friday Nights @ OMCA” is one place to be.

At last the band is playing their last song and some of the food trucks are closed because they ran out of supplies.

People have filtered out and have gone home. Next week and the weeks to come will be the same thing but with different bands and new exhibits.

On display now at the museum is “Altered State: Marijuana in California,” a linear history of the discovery of marijuana and its vast uses in the past and present, and “Bees: Tiny Insect, Big Impact” providing a critical insight to the major impact bees have on our ecosystem.

“I’m actually really excited, the museum is going to be opening up an exhibit at the end of July that speaks to the changing landscape of Oakland and the Bay Area,” Justice said.

Their upcoming exhibit “Oakland, I want you to know…” will showcase social, economic and demographic changes in Oakland, but through the lens of those that call Oakland home. This exhibit will consist of artwork, video installations, compelling images and community book-making projects and will be on display July 23 through Oct. 30.

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Castro Valley park celebrates 50 years

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF If you grew up in the East Bay, chances are you’ve been to Lake Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, whether it was for a birthday party, a fishing excursion, a boat ride or just a walk on the trail.

On Saturday the park celebrated its fiftieth year in existence, highlighted by fishing derbies, one for kids and one for ages 16 and older, that rewarded the biggest catches of the day.

The park offered free admission for its golden anniversary celebration which included fishing clinics, demonstrations, paddle boat races, lake tours, nature hikes, food and more.

The East Bay Regional Park District, founded in 1934, is responsible for all public parks and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, which includes Lake Chabot, according to EBRPD. The system encompasses over 120,000 acres of land that includes 65 regional parks, 29 trails and serves 25 million visitors every year.

According to the EBRPD, their primary goal is to “protect and preserve natural cultural resources,” like Lake Chabot.

“I have been coming here for 30 years,” attendee Paul Chisholm said. “I walk, fish and even ride the boats sometimes. It is so peaceful out here. It’s like a meditation session for me when I come out here. I let it all go and zone out.”

This was a day for people to appreciate the natural resources of the lake nestled between mountains on all sides.

Earlier this year the EBRPD won awards from the California Parks & Recreation Society for their “excellence in youth development” and a program called “Teen Eco Action,” which aimed to get teens involved in environmental issues.

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East Bay Regional Park District Supervising Naturalist James C. Frank tricks attendees with a fake fish at the 50th anniversary of Lake Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley on Saturday. The mobile fishing exhibit is a 26-foot long aquarium on wheels that offers an up-close experience with fish from local lakes.

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Residents migrate away from Jungle

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The leftover remainings of residents at The Jungle in San Jose, which was officially closed down earlier this year by San Jose officials.

By Vanessa Pineda CONTRIBUTOR The Jungle was a homeless encampment in San Jose over a year and a half ago. My mom, who is a homeless addict, used to live there before it was swept out and closed. The Jungle was once filled with people, tents, grocery carts, tarps, bags, blankets, chairs, buckets, bikes and hundreds of miscellaneous items; it was packed with clutter.

“Encampments are closed down by the property owners. They are the ones who decide if it gets shut down,” said Claire Wagner, director of communications for Home First, an agency that provides services to the homeless, primarily through support while they help individuals acquire housing. It also provides the largest shelter in the Santa Clara county.

The Santa Clara water district and San Jose made the decision to shut down the encampment because people who lived there defecated in the water along Coyote Creek, which caused water pollution.

Homeowners and residents in that neighborhood complained to police and city officials about the encampment and did not want to live near homeless people. The city was also concerned with the safety of the Jungle due to the high volume of people and the underground caves created by inhabitants of the site that could collapse in, but the ultimate concern was a lack of sanitation.

Today the Jungle is just an open dirt area. The space where hundreds of people used to live, including my mom, is now full of bushes and plants. Recently when I went by, I noticed there are only a few people wandering, but the other homeless addicts, transients and fami-

lies are no longer present.

I remember where my mom used to stay; the area she showed me before is completely empty. In my head I picture all the people and their belongings that used to fill this space, but now it’s only dirt with a black fence surrounding the area.

I wonder where all the people who lived there went and migrated to. Wagner explained that there was no actual census of the Jungle, so there is no exact number of how many people lived there; however, it was in the hundreds.

During the clean up at the Jungle, there were housing subsidies and vouchers offered by the city and organizations. Almost 200 people received housing vouchers, but about 100 more didn’t get into housing, according to Wagner. There are various reasons why people weren’t able to get help. In some cases there were not enough resources,

and other times the people denied the help.

Authorities notified people living in the Jungle about the plan to close an encampment months in advance. Volunteers from various organizations, like Home First, come and help the homeless separate their possessions from trash. There are services offered to help individuals get residency and provide places to stay.

People who lived at the Jungle dispersed all over the city. Hundreds of people left and it’s hard to say where everyone went.

In the county of Santa Clara, 70 percent of homeless are in the city of San Jose. Many homeless have scattered to other parts of the city, off of interstate 680, by Berryessa and to several parts of the Eastside.

I don’t know exactly where my mom is yet, but my uncle’s friend saw her on

the east side of San Jose. Most likely she migrated to that side of town along with many other homeless addicts.

City residents have started seeing more homeless people, which created a perception that homelessness has grown, according to multiple residents.

According to the Santa Clara County homeless census and survey, between 2013 and 2015 the number of homeless decreased by 1,000 people and as of January 2015, there were about 4,063 homeless in the city of San Jose.

This number is still high and homelessness is a serious issue. Unfortunately some homeless addicts just don’t want the help and would rather be left alone.

My mom is at a stage where she doesn’t want help. However, I hope that if I am able to find her I can help her end this period of homelessness and start a new chapter in her life.

cities like Tracy and Modesto. DeVries said that they hope to triple housing funds within the upcoming months when the matter is brought to council.

Continuing our search for answers included a visit to Operation Dignity, a non-profit organization that assists the homeless in the city of Oakland, primarily assisting homeless veterans.

Rachel Cole-Jansen, head of Mobile Outreach Services and program case manager, explained that they worked with the city’s Public Works Department in assisting the distribution of blankets, as they are involved in the city sweeps, or clearing an area of encampments.

She explained that there are Caltrans and Oakland city property boundaries that affects the people living in the encampments that may spill across either boundary when sweeps are scheduled because all of their belongings are dumped when Caltrans arrives. Residents also take advantage of the fact that the encampments are smothered in trash in order to do some dumping of their own.

Cole-Jansen said that Operation Dignity, along with Oakland’s Public Works Department have a system in place so

that if for some reason the homeless cannot be there to move their things, for example being in the hospital, their things would be tagged and held for a period of 90 days. She said that on the other hand, “Caltrans doesn’t care.”

“They give [a 72 hour] notice and if the homeless’ belongings are not removed, Caltrans discards their belongings,” stated Cole-Jansen. An article in the East Bay Express investigating the same topic confirmed this, as it describes Caltrans workers who moved the homeless and their encampments in the pouring rain. One homeless woman named Kimmie commented in the comments section below the article and described Caltrans as “evil” for doing that to them.

Caltrans maintenance worker Mike Benca described the desensitization of the workers doing the sweeps and clean up. Benca got reassigned to the position of sweeps involving the homeless and his story lines up with Kimmie’s comments of how cruel some of the workers were, although some are hired through Adopt a Highway.

“Many of the homeless people are pushed from one side of the freeway to another. We are simply cleaning up

their living area and then it’s on to the next site only to return within a month to clean up the same spot,” he said. “Every worker there knows that this is a perpetual chronic problem and that the state is not solving the crisis of homelessness and displaced people. Almost every time we remove a person and their encampment, they return within a few days. The process always repeats itself.”

Benca described some of the contract workers as short of being homeless themselves, yet they laugh at and ridicule the homeless when they throw their belongings away, taking what little dignity they have and stomping on it.

The descent to homelessness has numerous contributing factors. There isn’t one sole cause; however, lack of affordable housing is the big one. We hear so much from officials about ordinances or programs to alleviate this crisis, yet a mere drive around the city paints a much more crucial picture. Although Oakland hasn’t hit the immensity of the Los Angeles area homeless, it’s important to bear in mind that LA’s infamous Skid Row, the largest homeless concentration in the country, started off the same way.

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al and state — to fund more housing in order to counterbalance the housing shortage.

“There’s a $2 billion affordable housing measure in the legislature right now and it will provide a lot of money for emergency shelters as well as temporary transitional housing, like single-room occupancy units, as well as permanent support housing for people who are truly disabled and not able to pay rent,” he explained. However, this is years along the line, it doesn’t provide immediate relief, which is what is truly needed.

DeVries explained that a large reason for the housing shortage is the tech boom in the Bay Area that is bringing more people in, while pushing others out. To solve the problem requires the building of more homes in an already concentrated area. To accommodate the influx of new residents, the homes cost much less to make than what they go for, which largely contributes to the affordable housing crisis.

According to DeVries, people that

were squatting in what were once abandoned homes were kicked out and those homes were bought, fixed up, flipped and sold for $500,000 to $1,000,000 by developers. Those squatters ended up on the street, further increasing body count in the encampments.

On the local spectrum, DeVries mentioned that Mayor Libby Schaaf put together a housing cabinet with the objective of getting the homeless into permanent housing last winter, as the city has doubled spending for shelters since then. The main issue from the city’s perspective is the homeless people’s reluctance to stay at these shelters due to such strict guidelines, such as not being able to retain their belongings, no couples accommodations, no pets, chores and having to arrive and leave at set curfews.

Oakland’s model for transitional housing, or their service center for transition at many shelters, attempts to get homeless people on federal assistance, and has relocated some to other

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Primaries From Page 1 worked on the exit poll, said the AP story does not explain why the polls were off, because Clinton exceeded expectations among early mail voters who cast their ballots before the wire service filed its narrative-altering report.

But something happened to the young voters who leaned toward Sanders, he said. From January to May, 2.3 million Californians registered to vote, the biggest surge in state history, Mitchell said, and polling showed they favored Sanders over Clinton.

“We’ll have to do a post-election analysis to see how many of them turned out,” he said.

One recent poll accurately predicted Tuesday’s result.

Stanford’s Hoover Institution released a survey May 31 that showed Clinton with a 13-point lead.

Bill Whalen, a Hoover research fellow, said the polls that showed a tighter race may have overestimated voter turnout, which many people expected would approach the 5 million mark set during the 2008 primary contest between Clinton and Barack Obama. As of Wednesday, fewer than 3.5 million votes had been counted.

“There was this anticipation that on June 7 this wave of young

voters and independents would hit the shore,” Whalen said.

“And that wave died somewhere out at sea.”

That tipped the scales toward traditional Democratic voters inclined to go for Clinton. He noted that Bill Clinton’s victory in California during the 1992 general election was a pivotal moment in the state’s trans-

“There was this anticipation that on June 7 this wave of young voters and independents would hit the shore.” formation into a safe haven for Democrats.

“She helped create that machine and she’s an extension of that machine,” Whalen said.

“And that machine worked very well for her on Election Day.” Still, the ease of Clinton’s victory took many by surprise.

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expecting a Sanders surge as he watched the returns Tuesday night.

“Bernie camped out here for the last three weeks,” he said.

“Given the size of his rallies, I thought there was going to be a giant comeback.”

The appearance of a neckand-neck race gave Californians a rare opportunity to see the Democratic primary up close.

Clinton and Sanders barnstormed the state in the campaign’s final days.

But even riding a merry-goround at Santa Monica Pier didn’t help the Vermont lawmaker, who is losing by 57 percent to 42 percent in Los Angeles County.

Clinton’s best result in the Bay Area so far comes in San Mateo County, where she leads her rival 60.9 percent to 38.6 percent. Sanders’ best showing is in Sonoma County, where he trails by a mere 2.5 percentage points.

In the broader Bay Area region, Sanders managed to claim victory in Santa Cruz County.

He leads there by 11 percentage points.

Honda stalling In his second face-off with challenger Ro Khanna, Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, needed a strong showing in the primary to generate momentum for the general election.

He didn’t get it.

With all precincts reporting Wednesday morning, Khanna

leads Honda 38.3 to 38.1 percent.

Honda now has a dire fight on his hands. In their first meeting in 2014, the congressman won handily in the primary but prevailed by only 3.6 percentage points in the November general election.

Things may go much, much worse for Honda this time.

Harris cruises As expected, Attorney General Kamala Harris will be in the catbird seat in the general election.

The darling of California’s Democratic establishment outpolled second-place finisher Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Garden Grove, by more than 2-to-1 in the race to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer.

And a geyser of oil money didn’t help Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, keep it close against state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose. With all precincts reporting Wednesday, Beall has 49.2 percent of the vote.

Campos, in second with 26.3 percent, will get another shot at the incumbent in November.

‘Yea’ for the bay In a sign that voters are feeling good about the economy, most tax measures throughout the Bay Area appeared to be passing.

The most closely watched initiative was Measure AA, a $12 annual parcel tax to fund wetlands restoration and flood control projects around the shore of San Francisco Bay. Backers of the measure, which needs two-thirds of the vote in the nine Bay Area counties to

pass, declared victory Wednesday morning.

Here’s how residents in all nine counties have voted, with all precincts reporting: San Francisco (77 percent), Alameda (74.6), Marin (72.5), San Mateo (71.5), Santa Clara (69.5), Contra Costa (64.8), Sonoma (68.3), Napa (57.2) and Solano (53.4).

Local measures In San Jose, voters showed strong support for Measure B, a quarter-cent sales tax hike to raise revenue for city services.

But they were not high on Measure C, which would have loosened restrictions on medical marijuana outlets. That measure is failing, with just 35.1 percent support.

Coastal casualty The blowback against the California Coastal Commission for its February termination of Executive Director Charles Lester intensified Tuesday as Commissioner Martha McClure, one of the agency’s strongest anti-Lester voices, was crushed in her re-election bid as a supervisor in Del Norte County.

Losing her supervisor’s seat means she will lose her spot on the commission as well.

McClure was appointed to the commission in 2011 by Gov. Jerry Brown.

McClure was blown out Wednesday by challenger Lori Cowan by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Check back Wednesday for more updates and analysis.

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By Erik Khan STAFF WRITER The San Jose Sharks are in the Stanley Cup finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins. While playing for the NHL’s most sought after prize is a feat of its own, they currently trail 3-1 in the series and played well.

Despite facing a 3-1 series deficit, the Sharks and their fans have waited too long for this moment: This is their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals in the franchise’s 25-year history.

This isn’t to say that the Sharks haven’t had success in the past. Prior to this year, the team had been to the Western Conference Finals three times in team history, yet they finished 3-12 in those series. The team also earned the president’s trophy back in the 2008-2009 season, which is awarded to the best regular season team, but were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs that year.

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one. This postseason, though, things just felt different. The Sharks exercised their demons in the first round, as they eliminated their division rival Los Angeles Kings in five games. They then bested the Nashville Predators and St. Louis Blues to wind up in a battle with the Penguins for the Stanley Cup. Over the course of this postseason, the Sharks have been true to vintage San Jose form, led by stellar offensive play. Skaters like Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Logan Couture and Brent Burns have been phenomenal on the offensive end.

However, this year, the Sharks have found their missing piece, as Goalie Martin Jones has been at the top of his game and has clearly performed as the top goaltender in these playoffs.

Game one featured the Sharks rallying from an early two-goal deficit, only to give up the game-winner with less than three minutes remaining.

The Sharks entered the second period down 2-0, but goals by Tomas Hertl and Patrick Marleau evened things up heading into the final frame. While the Sharks were heavily outshot in the game, Jones was brilliant and kept the team in it until the end.

Game two also featured another crazy finish. In a low scoring affair, the Sharks trailed 1-0 when they headed into the third period. Sharks defenseman Justin Braun made sure that the game wouldn’t end in regulation, as he ripped one past Penguins goalie Matt Murray with four minutes left in the game. The game went into overtime where the Penguins struck quick,

forcing the Sharks to head back to the Shark Tank facing a 2-0 series deficit.

When the puck dropped in San Jose for game three, the Sharks fortune finally changed. In another incredibly tight game, both teams traded goals back and forth. The Penguins went up 1-0 early on, but Braun answered minutes later. The team entered the third period trailing by a goal for the second consecutive game, but Joel Ward gave the Sharks life, scoring his 7th goal of the 2016 postseason.

For the second straight game, overtime was needed to decide a victor.

After a back and forth overtime period, Sharks forward Joonas Donskoi netted one in the top shelf causing the shark tank to erupt. Jones was again a huge reason that the team was still in the game at that point, he stopped 40

Penguin shots.

In a game four that the Sharks desperately needed, they came out flat.

Once more, they fell behind early, eventually trailing 2-0 as the third period began. The Sharks were again able to pull within one goal in the third period, but eventually fell to the Penguins by a final score of 3-1. Melker Karlsson was the lone Shark to put one past Murray.

Even though the Sharks trail 3-1 in the series, there is some positive to pull out of that game four loss: While the Sharks have been heavily dominated through three games and two periods this season, they owned the third period of the game four loss. Finally, the offense looked like the one coach Peter Deboer was accustomed to seeing his team deploy. The team was aggressively attacking the offensive zone and getting pucks on net. If the Sharks can play the inspired hockey that they displayed in that period, I wouldn’t be shocked if the Bay Area saw their second 3-1 series comeback in 2016.

The series shifts back to Pittsburgh for game five tonight, where the Sharks look to stay alive and force a game six.

Warriors take charge in first two games of NBA Finals

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The Golden State Warriors showed why they are in the finals and have the best record in league history, 739, when they beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in both of the first two games of the final series.

In Game 1 on Thursday, Golden State realized how essential every man on the team is when the star players have a slow game. Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry each had unorthodox games as the two combined for a total of only 20 points, on 8-27 for shooting.

Fortunately that was not a problem, as the Warriors’ roll players stepped up and took control. Power forward Draymond Green had 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and shooting guard Shaun Livingston scored a team-high 20 points (8-10 FG, 4-4 FT) and added four rebounds, three assists and a steal in 27 minutes of playing time, which made it his career postseason high.

“It’s a great sign, obviously, that we can win in the finals without those two guys having big games, but it’s not really that surprising to us.

This has been our team the last couple of years,” said Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr during a press conference following the game.

Golden State lead by 9 going into the third quarter. The Cavs then closed within one point when Kevin Love drove in the lane for a score and also earned the foul with 4:36 left, which made the score 63-62.

The Warriors began to heat up as they went on to outscore the Cavs 21 to 4, with Livingston scoring 17 of the points.

“I was just being aggressive, feeding off each other’s energy,” said Livingston on his play to reporters after the game. “My midrange was going and I was trusting my game and having confidence in myself.”

The Warriors outscored the Cavs in every quarter. The bench in particular outscored Cleveland 45-10, and overall the Cavs shot only 38.1 per-

cent the entire night. Golden State’s defense was stellar, especially Andre Iguodala on Lebron James, holding him to 23 points, as James went 9-for-

enough. The Warriors overpowered the Cavs and shot 49.4 percent to secure the victory 104-89.Game 2 of the finals was filled with even more

28 points, 5 three-pointers and shot 11-for-20 in 34 minutes. Green was everywhere and showed heart and tons of emotion throughout the en-

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Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green (23) and Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson (11) distrust a shot against Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) during the third quarter on Sunday, June 5, 2016, at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.

21 in 41 minutes. Kyrie Irving had the game high, going 7-for-22 with 26 points in 38 minutes, but it was not

dominance for the Warriors, as they tire game flexing and screaming after were in command mode. The impact several big plays. player of the game was Green, he had Coach Kerr and teammates had

nothing but praise for Green during the postgame press conference, “Draymond does everything for us, he defends, when we play small he protects the rim, he does everything,” Kerr said. Teammate Thompson added, “Draymond was special with the shooting.”

It was a team effort in Game 2.

With 5:36 left in the first, Bogut got a big block on James, which transitioned into a Curry three-pointer, that put the Warriors up 11-10. “We battled, everyone came ready to play tonight,” Thompson told reporters after the game.

The Warriors got going in the second quarter and ran away with the game when Green got hot and scored on a three-pointer with an assist from Thompson with 7:30 left. They went up by 15 by the end of the second quarter.

Curry got in foul trouble after he picked up his fourth foul with 8:42 left in the third, but that’s when players like Green stepped up and helped lead the team.

“With Steph having to go to the bench with foul trouble, someone has to step up and shots were coming my way,” said Green during the postgame press conference.

Golden State’s defense was smothering once again. Bogut had 5 blocks in the first seven minutes of the game and Iguodala had another fabulous night of defense restricting James from scoring in the first quarter and only allowing him to score 19 points on 7-for-17 shooting.

Kyrie Irving was also held to a miniscule 10 points in 33 minutes on the floor. The Warriors held the Cavaliers to only 77 points and won the game 110-77.

That means nothing to Curry who addressed reporters following the game, “We haven’t won anything really, I mean we took care of home court advantage, which is what we’re supposed to do, but there is still a lot of basketball left.

How we show up [in Cleveland] will be a big test for sure.” Be sure to check out our coverage of game 3 on our website.