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learning environment. Douglas Richman, the junior, said that despite the school’s decreased enrollment, the school does an excellent job at preparing them for college. “EBA has had a 72 percent college enrollment rate,” Richman said. Invited up next was East Bay Arts teacher Andrew Champion who is in charge of the Secure Growth proposal that is focused on getting 400 students by 2017. He noted that the school has seen an increase in interdistrict transfers, proposed a more
Two people were arrested on Nov. 4 when a special Alameda city council meeting turned violent as landlords, renters, and developers debated the rise of housing costs in their city. Nearly 300 people, including citizens, property owners, and sign carrying Rent-coalition members showed up at the meeting to decide on imposing a moratorium to stop or restrict the rise in rent prices and no fault evictions in the city of Alameda. Alameda County, on the east side of the bay, is home to over 1.6 million people living in 14 incorporated cities and six unincorporated communities, according to the 2014 U.S. census. Consultant BAE Urban Economics briefed the council with their study findings that between 2000 and 2013 the median rent in Alameda City had jumped 54 percent compared to a 56 percent jump across Alameda County. Landlords showed up early at the meeting and monopolized the limited space in the hearing room, but dozens of angry renters, anxious to speak at the meeting which was limited to just two hours, gathered outside the conference room in City Hall and tried to storm it as they chanted “Let The Renters Speaks” and “Moratorium Now.” One protestor, who identified their self to reporters as activist, transgender woman and teacher, Bob Davis, 68, pushed her way into the room, but Assistant City Manager Bob Haun shoved her to the ground. Davis then grabbed Haun’s ankles bringing him down. In the moments following, Davis got up, moving back into the crowd. Police stepped in, pushed the teacher to the floor, blooding Davis’ face as they took her into custody. A second person John Klein, 64, was also taken into custody. “Nothing like this has ever happened at a City Council Meeting,” Alameda Police Lt. Jill Ottaviano commented. She confirmed that Haun’s hip was fractured after she brought him down and serious charges could be brought against Davis. Over half the population of this tight knit 79,000 member community, are renters; many of them are families, who say the extreme price increases they’re experiencing will force them to leave the city, their friends and their schools behind to find more affordable housing, according to attendees. Rene Hutchins, who says she is a frustrated renter, told the council her landlady imposed, “a $300 rent increase and … also she's asking me to leave in 60 days, next month, during the holidays." Mark Landreth, who identified himself as a landlord, voiced his
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Above: Alex Johnson, left, inhales nervously as Patricia Li, right, prepares to initiate his time trial run at Hayward's Rubiks Cube Rumble event on Saturday at City Hall. Below: Competitor Dan Pastushkov watches his Rubiks cube fall apart during his time trial run on Saturday. Competitors are penalized by two seconds for not completely solving their puzzles correctly.
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Hayward became the most recent location for speed-cubing: the Hayward Rubik’s Rumble at City Hall in Hayward welcomed national and international champions to the event. Nearly 100 competitors gathered in Hayward to display their Rubik’s Cube skills and possibly capture a win thanks to some fast hands. Many people lump the Rubik’s Cube in a category with other fads like the Pet Rock, a Chia Pet or even a Slinky. In its infancy the toy faced critics who claimed it was a fad during the 1980s with little relevance on the world. Those critics were wrong.
The Rubik’s Cube, originally known as the “Magic Cube,” was designed to be unsolvable. Erno Rubik, an architecture professor in Budapest, set out to create a puzzle without a solution.
“We were out to solve everything,” Rubik said in an interview with a local newspaper in Budapest in 1982. “We can’t and won’t solve everything, this is what the original idea symbolized.” Bi-annual speed-cubing competitions among die-hard fans began in 1982 in Budapest. After a lengthy hiatus, speed-cubing competitions resumed in 2003 and Dan Knight was crowned champion with a time of 20 seconds. The cube got a makeover in 2013, which included new action mechanisms and sturdier tiles, which were designed to help cubers solve the puzzle even faster. Competitors have gotten exponentially better at solving the cube: at the 2013 championships, winner Feliks Zemdegs captured the speed title with a time of 8.18 seconds. The sights and sounds of cubing are unmistakeable. Clicking and plastic moveable pieces rubbing each other could be heard from outside city hall like a symphony of
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East Bay Arts High School scheduled for closure By Ynez Adsuara CONTRIBUTOR
Outside the San Lorenzo Unified School District office, students handed out refreshments at tables that said “East Bay Arts,” while several others walked around with #SAVEEBA and #EBA written on their faces to show support for their school. Inside, board members, teachers, parents and students had come together to listen to proposals to save the small San Lorenzo arts high school from being closed; the school is scheduled to close at the end of the school year because of declining enrollment. A few students seated at tables outside the meeting said to close their school would be unfair. “They just dropped it on us,” said Yesenia Rosales, a tenth-grader at EBA. Earlier in the year, Superintendent Fred Brill sent out a letter to East Bay Arts families regarding the future of their school. He states that the school has been struggling with three main things: declining enrollment, teacher turnover and fiscal viability. In order for the high school to be fiscally viable, they are required to have at least 400 students enrolled. However, for two years, only 360 students were enrolled at the school, and this year it
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The East Bay Arts High School displays murals along the front and inside of the schools hallways, with a special typeface for their school name. The school has been struggling with various issues that have placed them in danger of closing. dropped to approximately 180 students, according to Brill. At the Nov. 3 meeting, Brill told attendees that school board members will vote to decide on the school’s future on Dec. 15. Teacher turnover is no different at East Bay Arts as it is at other schools according to Dr. Ammar Saheli, director of student support services. “My recommendation is to keep East Bay Arts open,” Brill said. “I want to be very clear the elected officials are the decision makers here.” He called the
students’ advocacy and professionalism at the meeting and a previous October meeting, “inspirational.” Brill opened the floor to teachers, students and board members to give presentations on what they think should happen with the school. Five teams, made up of at least two people each, presented options for the school. A junior and senior from East Bay Arts argued to keep East Bay Arts exactly as it is. They said the small size of the high school makes for a strong
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brittany.england@csueastbay.edu “Sex in the City” is one of my alltime favorite shows; I commend it for its six seasons of humorous and candid portrayals of fierce female friendship, single womanhood and the problematic search for love. But as a young Black female creative, I can’t fully relate to Carrie Bradshaw in her fabulous New York penthouse and squabbles with her editor at Vogue Magazine. While I am still able to laugh along at Samantha’s latest sexual tryst with a professional Black record executive, I am also struck with the realization that there are few black women featured on the show. However, I can relate to J, a character in the web series “The Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl,” as she struggles with how to react when her white boss touches her close-cropped afro without permission. Far from the loud, finger popping, neck rolling stereotype of a Black girl, J’s awkward encounters with the creepy co-worker she slept with after a Christmas party feels more realistic to me. I can loosely relate to Bradshaw’s passive aggressive behavior to Mr. Big’s many slights, but I am much more validated by the explosive anger a Black entrepreneur named Deon expresses
in another web series, “That Guy,” when she realizes her fiance is breaking up with her after two years. Instead of sitting in her apartment whining and then writing about it like Carrie Bradshaw would do, Deon yells at her ex-fiance over the phone: “I got a business! I pay my bills! I got okay credit! Do you know
solidarity for her heartbroken bestie. Or Wendy from “Chef Julian,” struggling to explain her relationship status after being designated to the friend zone by her crush. Show creators and directors like Crystle Clear Roberson, Issa Rae, Dennis Dortch, Numa Perrier and Jeanine
“Seeing such a wide range of Black characters creates a more authentic depiction of Black communities.” how many dudes wanna sleep with me!” Rather than chain-smoking and tears, their confrontation ends with plans to get Chinese food. Situations like this, created by Black writers and producers, normalizes my everyday experience. Even when the underlying theme is dramatic, like breaking up with your fiance or problems with your boss, there is still a comedic relief in the familiarity of the characters. Characters in these shows remind me of people I know. Like Stasi from “Sexless,” an overprotective best friend who smashes a car window in an act of
Daniels all started their careers in recent years by creating free web TV content for black audiences on YouTube. Since then, all of their shows have more than 200,000 hits and gained notoriety among celebrities like Oprah and Pharrell Williams; Williams even funded the final season of “The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl” and featured the show on his iamOTHER YouTube channel. Roberson, an HBO filmmaker and assistant director on “Stomp the Yard” and “No Good Deed” recently produced a comedy web series called “Love Handles.”
Black Entertainment Television and HBO have also begun to take notice. HBO just approved a pilot for “Insecure,” a show loosely based on Issa Rae’s “J the Awkward Black Girl” that will also feature Rae. Founders of Black and Sexy TV, Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier, created an entertainment network of independent programming geared toward the Black audience. In September they paired with BET to feature Black and Sexy hour, which will essentially show Black and Sexy TV material — shows like “Roomie Lover Friends” and “Sexless” which were once only available on YouTube — every Wednesday night. Seeing such a wide range of Black characters creates a more authentic depiction of Black communities. Instead of waiting for mainstream television producers, who are predominantly White and male, to understand the need for such content, Black show creators are taking matters into their own hands. What began as an attempt to see a genuine reflection of themselves has resulted in great success for Black creators in the independent television and film industry.
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Above: Competitor Sophie Chan reacts to her misaligned puzzle during Hayward’s Rubik’s Cube Rumble event Saturday evening at City Hall. Below: Event organizer April Chan shows emotion during the opening ceremony of the final round on Saturday.
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soft noise. Competitors rarely look up and when they do it is usually because they are done solving. Richard Jay S. Apagar is Asia’s current speed cubing champion. Apagar traveled from the Philipines to Hayward in order to compete. “The cubing community helped me become more social and make real friends,” Apagar said. “I had a lot of Facebook friends, but not much confidence or real friends. This community has given me confidence in myself and I’ve made friends that I
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concerns over having a rent control ordinance rather than the Rent Review Board, which currently settles disputes. An ordinance puts limits on how much landlords can raise rent while review boards are open forums to solve disputes between landlords and tenants, according to the City of Alameda. "Any restriction on my ability to rent is like anybody here getting a restriction on what they would earn in income, " he told the meeting. He said he is afraid a Rent Control policy would force him to have to sell his property. Alameda is one of several Alameda County communities who have Rent Review Boards rather than actual rent control. But rising housing costs are affecting communities all over the county. In nearby San Leandro, cases heard by their board went from 3 to 39 over the past year. In Alameda, where there is a very active Renters Coalition, cases jumped from 25 in 2014 to 34 in 2015. “We have a serious problem with large rent increases in Alameda,” acknowledged Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer, a renter herself. She extended Wednesday’s meeting to allow equal numbers of renters to speak. It ended at 2 a.m. with the Board deciding to implement a temporary 65-day moratorium on any rent increases over 8 percent and any “no-fault” evictions.
probably wouldn’t ever have without cubing.” There were team events where competitors solved multiple cubes together, individual events based on speed and even a blindfolded event that seemed to be the most challenging of the day. Current United States speed-cubing champion and UC Berkeley student Riley Woo had the most impressive showing of the day when he solved a cube in just minutes during a demonstration before the finals — using his feet. Woo said after he got really good at solving it with his hands he decided to challenge himself by solving it with his feet.
“They have competitions for it and I just thought it was fun,” Woo said. “People always seem to be impressed when I solve it with my feet.” The cubing world is just like any other gaming or sporting environment. There are teams, sponsors, leagues, governing bodies and even uniforms in some cases. Event organizer Jeremy Fleischman was thankful to the city for allowing them to use City Hall as a venue. “We’re usually in a pretty small room,” Fleischman said. “This is far from what we’re used to. We’re normally packed in a small classroom.” On Saturday, cubers were consistently solving the cube in about 10 seconds and some even faster.
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Child-care workers among the lowest paid in nation, study shows By Sarah Favot DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES Child-care providers are among the lowest-paid workers in the nation, leaving many unable to make ends meet, a study shows. Many child-care workers’ wages are so low that they could not afford to put their own children in child-care programs, according to the study by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute. In Los Angeles County, a childcare worker’s median annual income in 2014 was $22,000, according to the study. By contrast, a pre-school worker earned about $30,000. The Economic Policy Institute has calculated a one-person family budget for Los Angeles County to be about $35,000, which is considered the cost of a “modest, yet adequate” lifestyle, including housing, food, child care and transportation costs. About 90 percent of child-care workers across the county do not meet the $35,000 budget. Rather than being comparable to a similar profession, like teaching at the elementary school level, child-care workers’ wages are more like the pay of
fast-food workers and retail cashiers, the study’s author, Elise Gould, said in an interview. “They are really among the lowest paid, that was astounding,” said Gould, a senior economist at EPI. Holli Tonyan, a psychology professor at Cal State Northridge, said the difference between elementary schools and child-care centers is the funding model. While schools are funded through state and local taxes, child-care providers often have to string together different funding sources from fees and subsidies such as those for serving healthful foods, Tonyan said. “Having to stitch together their funding from all these different sources makes it difficult, without having a predictable funding base, to compensate staff at levels that one would hope,” Tonyan said. In California, the median cost of infant child care is $12,000 a year, according to EPI, which is more than half the typical L.A. County child-care provider’s annual salary. The fees for a 4-yearold’s child care is about $8,800. “It is abundantly clear that the unaffordability of child care is not driven by excessively lavish pay in the sector,” Gould wrote. One reason child care is so expensive is that child-care centers need to
have many teachers to provide quality care, Gould said. At Young Horizons in Long Beach, the infant to teacher ratio is three infants to one teacher, executive director Sarah Soriano said. At the preschool level, it is eight children to one teacher. Research shows better outcomes for children who have access to high-quality early child-care. Some state and federal elected officials are pushing for more support for early child-care programs. In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama said affordable child care was a key to helping middle-class families feel secure in a “world of constant change.” Tonyan remains cautious. “I am hopeful that there may be enough attention being paid to this issue, but experience tells me that this has not been a key agenda item,” she said. “What we really need is the political will to create some sort of a system that would reach at least all of the low-income children, if not all of the children in the state.” Soriano said the public needs to understand that early child-care providers are more than baby sitters. “We need to be seen as professionals, as educators,” Soriano said. At a summit hosted by the city of Los Angeles’ Workforce Investment Board
and Los Angeles Universal Preschool last month, First 5 L.A.’s Executive Director Kim Belshé spoke about creating the public and political will for public investment “commensurate with the value of quality early childhood education for our society and economy,” according to a copy of Belshé’s prepared remarks. She said child-care workers support every other sector of the economy by providing care so that parents of young children can go to work. Less than 3 percent of infants and toddlers and only about 10 percent of children under age 5 in L.A. County have access to licensed child or family care, according to First 5 LA, a nonprofit organization that provides programs for child care services. About 65,000 people in the county are employed in the early childhood education sector. Turnover in the child-care field is high. Soriano said she loses many of her workers who have a bachelor’s degree to school systems. She said even with a bachelor’s degree, starting pay for providers in her facility is $12 to $13 an hour. But, she said, for the workers who stay, what they lack in pay, they fill with a love for the job. “They do it only out of their love and their dedication to these young children’s lives,” Soriano said.
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Will the Warriors rise again? By Louis LaVenture
NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR Last year ended a 40 year wait for an NBA championship in Oakland. The Golden State Warriors, led by the league’s Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, reached the top of the basketball world last season when they captured the team’s fourth championship in franchise history and first since 1975. It was the run and gun fast-paced style that saw Curry shoot from anywhere at any time that led them to the title. However, some people forgot that it wasn’t just the innovative offense and small fast lineups that put the Warriors over the top, it was the defense that ranked first in the league at the end of the season. Golden State has taken the “if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it” approach to this season. The only major roster move they made was releasing veteran forward David Lee, which cleared over $10 million in salary cap space. A draft pick and a free agent were added for depth, but the team is otherwise the same. Critics claim that the lack of moves made by the champs in the offseason will lead to a struggle to repeat as champions. ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was one of the offseason critics who said, “The Warriors have basically done nothing this offseason. How can they repeat when everybody around them got better and they are the same?” However, the organization feels like they have found the perfect recipe for success. The Warriors didn’t just win a championship, they broke offensive and defensive records along the way. Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond
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Green, Harrison Barnes and Andre Iguodala have meshed to form a core of players that will continue to be successful. Case in point, the Warriors are 8-0 already this season, with a 50-point victory over the Memphis Grizzlies and a win over conference rivals the Los Angeles Clippers. After they beat the Detroit Pistons on Monday, the Warriors became the first western conference team to start 8-0 and recorded their 23rd straight home win, also a franchise record for the Dubs. The records continue to get shattered this season. Curry scored 216 points through the first six games, which is the most points scored through the first six games of a season since Michael Jordan did it to open the 1989 season. He has also become an international superstar and one of the faces of the league, as evidenced by his number one selling jersey, according to the NBA. The Warriors won 67 games last year and with all of the moves that other Western Conference teams made, they were expected to win less this season. However, a perfect start has begun to overshadow some of those moves and 70 plus wins seem possible for the Dubs. As good as they have looked so far, they might not lose at all. The San Antonio Spurs added two allstar players, David West and LaMarcus Aldridge to go with their big four of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Kawhi Leonard and Manu Ginobili. Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, who the Warriors beat in last year's NBA Finals, were without two key players, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, who they will have back for this season. While other NBA teams made moves, Golden State didn’t need to. They have a group of players that have proven they can be successful over the long haul. But it wouldn’t be the Warriors without some kind of drama. In addition to
site with the Adult School. That would make us more centrally located for all San Lorenzo Unified School District families,” Champion said. “We’d be adjacent to Bohannon Middle School and that would be a natural draw for new students.” The school district has asked the
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the lack of offseason moves, their second year Head Coach Steve Kerr is hurt. Usually the coach isn’t listed on the injury report but Kerr, being a former player, required back surgery this offseason. Luke Walton, assistant coach and son of Hall of Famer Bill Walton, has been the inter-
im head coach for Kerr who has missed the first eight games. Despite the hiccups, the team hasn’t missed a beat on the way to an unblemished early season record. Golden State has the perfect mix of young players and veterans, with a deadly backcourt who
can hit a shot from anywhere on the floor. That, combined with arguably one of the best home advantages at Oracle Arena, nicknamed “Roar-acle,” has the Warriors on their way to back-to-back championships, a rare feat in the modern sports era.
school to recruit 100 new students by December 3rd. East Bay Arts is a small college preparatory school that offers courses in the arts while following the California high school A-G course requirements. Their 9th grade program includes classes for science, math, english,
history, electives and after school dance and theatre. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade follows the same requirements at higher levels. Elective courses offered other than foreign language and music, are art, drama and digital arts. 46.7 percent of the student population at East Bay Arts
High identify as Hispanic, making up the majority of the student body. The students are able to learn all the basics while also applying the curriculum to become a visual or performing artist. The board will review the five presentations that were given and make their final decision next month.
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Profesor de East Bay promueve recetas indígenas Por Kris Stewart JEFE DE REDACCIÓN Podrías olerlo por la calle antes de entrar en Oakland. En cuanto abras la puerta del Hub Impacto en Broadway, el aroma de los tamales flotaba sobre ti. El Consejo de Políticas Alimentarias de Oakland organizó un lanzamiento del libro, “Descolonizar su dieta,” un libro de cocina escrito por Dr. Luz Calvo. El domingo por la mañana, asistentes se sentaron y escucharon atentamente como oradores principales se turnaron en el podio para expresar la importancia de los alimentos y el rol que desempeñan en la comunidad. Co-escrito con su pareja y profesora de San Francisco State, Dr. Catriona Rueda Esquibel, “Descolonizar su dieta” se compone de más de 100 recetas vegetarianas de platos Mesoamericanos. A través de este libro, Dr. Calvo quiere inspirar mejores hábitos alimenticios — hábitos que comenzaron por un diagnóstico de cáncer de mama en 2006. Q : ¿Qué significa para descolonizar su dieta? Cuando decimos “descolonizar su dieta” estamos pidiendo a la gente que piensen acerca de la colonización y en la forma en que afecta a los alimentos que comemos. Venimos de un contexto político - origen mexicano, así que para nosotros, queremos que la gente honre la increíble historia de la comida de nuestros antepasados indígenas por el consumo de esos alimentos y mantener esas recetas vivas. Q : ¿Qué inspiró su libro? Hay tantas cosas que inspiraron este libro, tanto personal como políticas. Pero la historia que quiero contar es sobre una estudiante de CSUEB, Jessika Ríos. Jessika estaba tomando varias clases conmigo y me oyó hablar de la cocina. Ella no sabía cómo cocinar y me preguntó si podía enseñarle. Le dije que iba a darle una receta a la semana. Empecé una página de Facebook, sólo
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para ella. Publique la receta de la semana allí. Ella la hacía y me traía un pequeño tupperware para que pudiera probarlo y darle mi opinion. Comenzamos con una olla de frijoles, la siguiente receta era para la sopa de lentejas. Fuimos así por un tiempo. Eventualmente, ella preguntó si otros también podrían mirar en la página de Facebook y abrimos la pagina. Empecé a publicar más y más recetas e ideas sobre la justicia alimentaria . Más gente empezó a seguir la página. Ahora, la página cuenta con más de 14,000 seguidores. Pero empezó con una, Jessika Ríos. Q : ¿Cómo surgió la comida juega un papel en su remisión del cáncer? ¿Se siente la alimentación es un factor importante en muchas de las enfermedades que nos enfrentamos en los EE.UU. ? Definitivamente siento que la alimentación es un factor importante en muchas enfermedades. La Investigación de Estados Unidos muestra que en la población, la mala alimentación es un factor que contribuye a la diabetes tipo 2, enfermedades del corazón y algunos tipos de cancer. Dicho esto, a nivel individual, nadie puede saber a ciencia cierta qué combinación de factores provocó una enfermedad en particular. Para mí, cuando termine con el tratamiento, yo quería aumentar mis posibilidades de no tener mi cáncer volver a ocurrir. Así que, ahí es cuando empecé a hacer muchas investigaciónes sobre alimentación y salud. Encontré que el crecimiento de mi propia comida era muy sanador porque me conecto con el ciclo de la vida y la tierra. Q : ¿Qué espera lograr con su libro? Quiero que los jóvenes valoran el conocimiento de sus antepasados. Q : ¿Qué es la justicia alimentaria ? La justicia alimentaria es que todos tengan acceso a alimentos sanos, frescos y culturalmente apropiados que se
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cultivan/cosechan/producidos en formas que respeten a los trabajadores y el medio ambiente. Q : ¿Usted siempre tiene una pasión por la comida ? He disfrutado cocinar desde que era adolescente. Me encanta preparar comidas para amigos y familiares. Cocinar es la forma en que yo le maestro a la gente que me importan. Yo he sido una persona política desde que era joven y empecé a desarrollar un análisis político de la comida después de leer “ Dieta para un pequeño planeta" cuando estaba en la escuela secundaria. No fue hasta que me estaba recuperando de un cáncer que realmente junte todo - el placer que obtengo de la cocina, el deseo de comer alimentos saludables y el análisis político. Q : Describa cómo se sintió después de completar este gran proyecto - ¿Cuánto tiempo le tomó para producir ? Este libro ha sido un gran proyecto que tomó cerca de 8 años en completarse. Trabajamos cada verano, primero en la investigación, luego en la escritura. Al final fue una carrera para completar, porque una vez que firmamos nuestro contrato del libro, la prensa sólo nos dio tres meses para completar los manuscritos . La prensa quería una organización y estructura ligeramente diferente, así que básicamente reescribimos el libro entero en 3 meses. Fue loco. Pero se siente como, al final, que hemos logrado mucho de lo que nos propusimos hacer en este libro. Q : ¿Cuál es la conexión entre la comida y la gente de color ? Las comunidades de color tienen un gran conocimiento y los recursos culturales. Muchos miembros de nuestras comunidades son capaces de mantener a sus familias con platos caseros, incluso con pocos recursos. Q : ¿Qué opinas de los alimentos a los estudiantes se les ofrece en el campus? Creo que los estudiantes en nuestro
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Comida del libro de recetas fue servido a los asistentes el primero de noviembre en Oakland. campus se merecen alimentos frescos, orgánicos, preparados y cultivados localmente. Es triste triste que nosotros no tenemos acceso a alimentos de calidad en nuestro campus. Dicho esto, me alegro de que las obras Aramark ganaron el derecho a sindicalizarse. Los derechos de los trabajadores también deben ser importantes para nuestra comunidad universitaria. Q: Estudiantes universitarios pobres afirman que no pueden darse el lujo de comer sano. ¿Cuál es su respuesta a esa declaración? Animo a los estudiantes para que comienzen a cocinar para ellos mismos. Compren una olla de barro y comienzen a cocinar frijoles y guisos! Los frijoles son de bajo costo, nutritivos y sabrosos. Tacos también son una buena comida para que los estudiantes hagan! Cuando yo era un estudiante universitario, me comprava una bolsa de papas y un paquete de tortillas de maíz para hacerme tacos de papa para cenar. Era muy barato y muy sabroso. Yo vivía en los dormitorios, sin
embargo, y siempre prendia la alarma de incendio. Q : ¿Cómo nos movemos hacia adelante en respecto a la alimentación como un individuo, como un campus, como cultura y como comunidad? Tenemos que empezar a organizarnos políticamente, y tener nuestras voces escuchadas, pero primero tenemos que empezar a hablar entre sí. Tenemos que decidir lo que es importante para nosotros y luego hacer que suceda, ya sea un jardín de la comunidad, una cooperativa de alimentos o despensas de alimentos. Q : ¿Qué súper poder que tiene y por qué? Creo en el poder de la gente. Todavía tengo fe en que la gente será capaz de unirse para crear algún tipo de mundo en el que todo el mundo tiene los derechos humanos básicos, como alimentos saludables, atención médica de calidad y un lugar seguro para vivir.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2015
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Broncos trample Pioneers in Hayward By Louis LaVenture NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR Things got off to a great start for the Cal State East Bay women’s volleyball team on Saturday night. The Pioneers managed to take the first set against California Collegiate Athletic Association opponent Cal Poly Pomona 25-23 for an early 1-0 advantage. However, they couldn’t carry that early success over to the rest of the match and lost the final three sets to the Broncos at the Pioneer Gymnasium in Hayward. Pomona improved to 15-11 overall and 11-7 overall in conference play, while CSUEB fell to 5-21 overall and just 3-15 in CCAA matches. “Nothing comes easy in this conference,” Broncos Head Coach Rosie Wegrich said. “A road win is big, especially when you drop the first set. I’d say it woke us up.” CSUEB outside hitter Kiani Rayford was dominant in the opening frame; the sophomore had several big kills and finished the first set with 8 total. A pair of freshman, middle blocker Deja Thompson and outside hitter Kiki Leuteneker, also made some big plays in the set and picked up the other 7 of the team’s 15 kills in the first set. The first set loss was a wakeup call for Pomona who came back with a vengeance. The Pioneers kept the score close, but after a late substitution in the second set, the Broncos rattled off 5 points in a row to take a 22-16 lead. CSUEB scored the next 3 points to narrow the lead to 22-19, but Pomona bounced back and managed to close out the Pioneers 25-19. “They played tough and we made a lot of mistakes,” Broncos freshman middle blocker Kristen Hamlin said. “We know what we want to do out there. Sometimes a team can make you adjust, but once we got back to our game plan things started flowing.” The Broncos adjusted well and after a close start in the third set, jumped out to a 17-10 lead after a huge kill from Hamlin. CSUEB scored just three more times in the set and Pomona was able to capture the third 25-13 after another big kill by senior middle blocker Christen
Williams on a perfect assist from sophomore setter Alina Smith. Hamlin collected a game-high 19 kills in the victory while senior setter Nicoletta Stork and junior outside hitter Hannah Harrer both chipped in with 10 kills each. Despite CSUEB netting more attacks, 157-151, the Broncos had the advantage in total kills 61-45. Rayford and Leuteneker led the offensive effort for the Pioneers in the match. Rayford recorded a team-high 16 kills while the freshman Leuteneker was second with 14 in the match. Once again, CSUEB kept the contest close in the final set, which was back and forth until about midway through. With
the score 11-9 in favor of the Broncos, the Pioneers made some substitutions and Pomona found scoring chances. The Broncos went on to outscore CSUEB 14-7 the rest of the way and secure the final set triumph 25-16 and the match 3-1. Both teams have just two games remaining before the CCAA postseason tournament begins on Nov. 19 in La Jolla at Rimac Arena. The Pioneers’ final game is today at 7 p.m. at Pioneer Gymnasium in Hayward against Cal State San Marcos (6-21 overall, 3-15 conference). The Broncos will have to travel to Seaside on Saturday to take on Cal State Monterey Bay (5-18, 4-14) at 7 p.m. at The Kelp Bed.
Season Statistics - Freshman Kiki Leuteneker leads team in kills with 244. - Senior Angie Maina leads the team in digs with 534. - Freshman Deja Thompson leads team in blocks with 69. - CSUEB has 3,621 total attacks this season while opponents have 3,543.
PHOTOS BY TAM DUONG JR./THE PIONEER
Top: Sophomore Brandi Brucato dives for a dig on Saturday at Pioneer Gymnasium in Hayward. Bottom: Associate Head Coach Kimberly Lambert talks to the team during a timeout in a loss to the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos.