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#BlackLivesMatter More than just a hashtag
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NFL LETS AIR OUT OF PATRIOTS
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Top: Onyx Organizating Committee co-chair Cat Brooks and mother of Alan Blueford, Jeralynn Blueford comfort mother of James Rivera, Dionne Smith Downs. Bottom Left: Oscar Grant’s mother Wanda Johnson speaks on behalf of the Oscar Grant Foundation. ficulties prior to the start of the conference, panel chair and communications graduate student Ryan Wallace managed to gracefully keep the flow going by gently reminding speakers of time constraints. Participants in the masters of communication program and members of GCS are responsible for putting together programs that are based in communica-
U.S. Cuban relations on the mend Editors note: Jesse Castro, Tishauna Carrell, Leandra Galloway, Sophia Karkazis and XiaoMeng Wu contributed to this report.
By Andréa Duprée
Whether it was a punishment, or a mundane chore, it can easily be assumed that most people with a childhood have been faced with the daunting task of cleaning a room that was so overwhelmingly messy or unorganized they did not know where to begin. Most parents would say, “Pick a corner and start there.” #BlackLivesMatter has taken the nation by storm. Sprung out from the mess of social injustice, in order to dissect this movement and understand it’s meaning you have to pick a spot in history and start there. On Friday afternoon at Cal State East Bay’s Hayward campus, the communications department, organized by the Graduate Communication Society, CSUEB and the Master of Arts in Communication department, held a day long event consisting of various panels to discuss different aspects of the social phenomenon, #BlackLivesMatter. For a matter so integral to civil rights and social justice in the 21st century, discussion seems like a great corner to begin. #BlackLivesMatter is not just a popular hashtag on social media. It is such a broad, revolutionary movement in today’s society; it can be hard to pinpoint where to start. According to blacklivesmatter.com the movement was started after the 2012 acquittal of George Zimmerman, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s killer. This movement symbolizes the rebellion of the black community against a criminal justice system that continues dehumanize and devalue the lives of people of color. Despite running behind schedule for most of the event, due to technical dif-
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tion theory and research. Graduate student Sarah Ostrom said the event took a year to put together. Even with careful planning the keynote speaker, Dr. Andreana Clay was asked to step in on short notice. Three separate panels of graduate students made up the majority of the conference. Panelists presented their research paper on topics that stem from
As the U.S. and Cuba negotiate the renewal of diplomatic relations and mutual interests, Cubans in the Bay Area are expressing their hopes and concerns for future travel, and business. “It’s a positive thing, it’s a good thing,” said co-founder of the Bay Area Cuba Community Alliance Felix Ernesto Torres Chaviano. The 44-year-old Cuban national has been in the United States for ten years. He said he feels the efforts can potentially influence other parts of the world. “It’s an important moment for all the planet,” he commented. The BACCA is a non-profit organization operated from the home of Chaviano and Nina Basker, in Fairfax. They provide humanitarian assistance for isolated communities in southeastern Cuba. Cuba and the U.S. are expected to name ambassadors to each other’s countries later this month, Cuban President Raul Castro said according to Fox News Latino. The two countries broke off relations in 1961. Negotiations are also underway to first remove Cuba from the U.S.’s State Sponsored Terrorism list and dismantle the trade embargo placed by the United States. Cuba has been placed on the terrorism list for more than 30 years. Other countries include Iran, Sudan and Syria. There are two million Cuban Americans in the United States, according to the Pew Research. Unlike Chaviano, they include those whose family fled from Cuba due to Castro’s revolutionary period and others who say they suffered under the regime for
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Bicyclists rope rodeo in Downtown Hayward By Louis LaVenture SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR When you hear the word rodeo, bicycles aren’t the first thing that come to mind. The City of Hayward and bicycle shop Cyclepath Hayward teamed up to create the first ever bike rodeo in downtown on Saturday. All events were free and included a vintage bike show, bike valet, obstacle course, skills competition, bike repair as well as a trick riding and racing competition. The day kicked off with a bike ride in the downtown loop with City Councilmen Greg Jones and Francisco Zermeno. Ben Schweng, Cyclepath Hayward bike shop owner and one of the rodeo organizers was hopeful that this event would create some bicycle awareness in the fairly new loop downtown and the dangers bicyclists and pedestrians commonly face when they navigate the area. “Bicyclists have been avoiding the loop in many cases,” Schweng said. “We want to educate and inform bike riders as well as motorists on the new area. Downtown should be thriving with people not avoided because of logistics.” The Downtown Business Improvement Area, the Hayward Chamber of Commerce and the Hayward Rotary Club also sponsored the inaugural event that included food booths, live music and several prize giveaways. Although many complaints against the loop have been made by groups and citizens that claim it has done more harm than good. Some believe that events like the bike rodeo will increase awareness and promote visiting to the area.
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“This is an event to showcase how Downtown Hayward is a great family destination,” Kim Huggett said, President of the Hayward Chamber of Commerce. “The fact that so many organizations are participating demonstrates that it
will be a true community-wide event.” The East Bay bicycle club led rides from Burbank Elementary School and Cannery Park to the event, which was centered at B Street and Main Street.
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Left: Josh Boothby, a BMX rider sponsored by Red Bull, hops over an obstacle during Hayward’s first bike rodeo on Saturday. Top: Hayward resident Joseph Montes fixes his bike on Saturday in Downtown Hayward. Non-profit organization Turning Wheels for kids provided 10 mechanics to make repairs and tuneups at the bike rodeo. Bottom: Mitch Polzack and The Royal Deuces perform in front of the The Book Shop on B Street during the bike rodeo in Downtown Hayward on Saturday.
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Inflated out of proportion
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CONTRIBUTOR The reigning Super Bowl Champions—the New England Patriots— have received discipline for their role in the Deflategate controversy that rocked the NFL following February’s AFC championship game versus the Indianapolis Colts. Quite frankly, I can’t figure out what is more ridiculous: The punishment dished out by commissioner Roger Goodell or people using this controversy as a basis to discredit the Patriots starting quarterback Tom Brady’s career accomplishments. As a result of the Wells report, Super Bowl MVP Brady received a fourgame suspension, the Patriots lost their first-round pick in the 2016 NFL draft, a fourth-round pick in 2017 and was slapped with a $1 million fine. The Wells Report is a 243-page document that summarizes the findings of an investigation conducted by private investigator Ted Wells into the footballs used in the AFC championship game. The report concluded that it is “more probable than not” that the Patriots Officials Locker Room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski participated in a deliberate effort to release air from Patriots game balls after they were examined by referee Walt Anderson. The report also concluded “that it is more probable than not” that Brady was at least “generally aware” of this inappropriate activity. Let’s be real. Either McNally or Jastremski intentionally let some air out of the balls before the game, because Brady feels more comfortable playing with a football that has slightly less than 12.5 PSI league minimum. Just like Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers prefers his football to be inflated more than the league maximum of 13.5 PSI, as made apparent when he explained to CBS Broadcaster Phil Simms, “I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.” This is not that big of a deal and it’s “more probable than not” that Brady and Rodgers aren’t the only quarterbacks particular about their game balls. Why do I think this? Because in 2006, Brady, along with Peyton Manning and other quarterbacks, successfully lobbied and changed the rule that prevented road teams from providing their own balls during away games. The rule in place stated that the home team would provide balls for the game. Brady stated. “Every quarterback likes [the ball] a little different. Some like them blown up a little bit more, some a little more thin, some new, some broken in.” Every quarterback has his preference. Brady isn’t coming out and admitting his involvement in this process because the league has no incriminating evidence against him. “More probable than not” is the phrase being used to incriminate Brady. That is just ludicrous and would never stand up in a court of law anywhere. When the NFL had video evidence of Minnesota Vikings and Carolina Panthers employees deliberately heating footballs during a game in December 2015 in an attempt to soften them up, which is tampering, and a very similar offense to that of the Patriots, the league punished them with a “stern warning.” When the NFL caught the Atlanta Fal-
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cons creating fake crowd noise inside their stadium through much of last season, they were fined $350,000 and forfeited a fifth round draft selection. So how does commissioner Goodell justify the tremendous punishment he handed out to the Patriots? When you compare Deflategate to similar offenses this past season, there is no basis to do so. It is clear that this was a makeup call for the commissioner’s horrendous handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence case in which he initially suspended Rice for two games during the 2015 season. When footage was released of the incident
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between Rice and his wife, the public was outraged, and Goodell adjusted by suspending Rice indefinitely. Rice is still a free agent. The public heavily criticized Goodell for the Rice incident. When news broke that the Patriots were suspected of pushing the rules, he saw this as an opportunity to save face because the public wanted their throats. This is due to two reasons: The team’s success with Brady at the helm, which includes four Super Bowls, and because in 2007, the team was caught videotaping the New York Jets defensive signals from an illegal position, a serious offense that became known as Spygate. The team was docked $750,000 and a first-round pick for their actions. Critics love to label the Patriots first three Super Bowl’s as “tainted” because of Spygate. Call those three tainted, fine. But labelling this recent Super Bowl as tainted? Nice try. Trust me, the balls were properly inflated in the Super Bowl when Brady tossed four touchdowns and 327 yards on arguably the best secondary in NFL history. While the sanctions imposed by Goodell are ridiculous, questioning Brady’s career is even more farfetched. The guy is a living legend, and the shame and flak he is receiving over the half a pound of air is preposterous.
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Letter to the Editor Andrea Dupree’s article about the Corinthian Colleges (May 14, 2015) was interesting; however, she left out an important component to the story. The federal Department of Education, as well as the office of the state Attorney General, has known for years that Corinthian was in big trouble. They should have closed
it down long ago and stop stop granting loans. It is very sad that students-- like Andrea Dupree and millions other-- are saddled with loans. The Hayward Daily Review, in an editorial (March 14. 2015), also addresses this; and it, as most of other liberal
media, left out the negligence of the Attorney General and of the Department of Education. It even went further and declared that for-profit colleges should not exist.That make no sense, because some of them are good alternates to public institutions. What should maybe be abolished are government grants to students
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who attend for-profit. The Review does proffer one good idea: that California should make our public colleges affordable for all qualified students. Why not free? Ernest Avellar CSUeastbay ‘72
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Black lives From Page 1 the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Professors from the communication department at CSUEB were given time to briefly respond and provide feedback at the end of each panel. The panels not only serve as a platform to provoke thought and awareness within the student body and community, but they allow the opportunity for graduate students to become familiar with research paper presentation. The first panel was centered on research papers covering online activism and was responded to by Dr. William Lawson. Panel two was on identity and race in the 21st century and Dr. Lonny Brooks had the task of responding to the panelists. Finally the third panel was on feminism and gender activism in the hashtag and Dr. Katherine Bell was respondent. Due to the late start of the event, there was not much time for an open forum of questions after each panel. The 4 p.m. spotlight session, Families Seeking Justice, which began after a brief lunch provided to all attendees and panelists, was live streamed by Pioneer WebTV from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. This panel was designed to give a platform to the families of victims that are still fighting for justice for their fallen loved ones. Panelists included Oscar Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson, Alan Blueford’s mother, Jeralynn Blueford, James Rivera’s mother, Dionne Smith Downs and Oscar Grant’s uncle, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson. Also on the panel was Cat Brooks, co-chair of the Onyx Organizing Committee, dedicated to raising awareness. She helped field some of the discussion that came from The air was thick with emotion throughout the spotlight session while mothers spoke of the loss of their children as a result of violence from a system that is supposed to protect and serve. Johnson said “the criminal justice system is racist to the core,” and a radical change needs to be made in our nation. During the question and answer portion of the session a young African American woman stood up to comment. She mentioned being in fear for her teenaged brother’s life because of the statistics facing young Black men in regards to police brutality. She asked what she could do to help. Whether it was to provide groceries to the families or volunteer, she pleaded with the panelists to allow them to help her ease their pain. Brooks had each panelist give contact information and explain committees and foundations they are actively involved in. Throughout the day, roughly 120 students, faculty, staff and community members attended the event. The bodies that filled the seats began to trickle after each panel was over. Following the spotlight session, the event was concluded with a keynote speech. An active participator in protests and other events, keynote speaker Clay was not just a Ph.D. behind a podium. She spoke particularly about the importance of love to start the healing process for grieving families and communities. The families that were part of the Seeking Justice panel remained in the audience for the talk and Clay seemed to speak directly to them when she said, “Loss is something that is felt through time and it is hard to categorize.” The event concluded with dinner provided for all and the chance to continue discussion and network with those that stayed.
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Top left: Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Oscar Grant’s uncle, responds to audience questions. Top right: (Right to left) Wanda Johnson, Jeralynn Blueford and Cat Brooks participate in the Families Seeking Justice panel. Bottom: Audience members watch a video clip during graduate student David Rudolph’s research paper presentation.
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Donation boxes change scene in Berkeley By Louis LaVenture
SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal from both the Downtown Berkeley Association and the Berkeley Food and Housing Project to install donation boxes for the homeless in various locations around the city. Positive Change is the name of the program that has been authorized for 10 total donation boxes, which according to their website will, “help fund social services that reduce homelessness.” According to the DBA the money collected in the boxes will go to transportation services, identification cards, housing application fees, hygiene products and the Homeward Bound Program that reunites homeless people with family and friends in hopes of providing a long term living situation. Of the 10 boxes, four have been installed in the downtown area near the BART station. The boxes are attached to poles and are “tamper proof” according to Positive Change. Downtown Berkeley Association Chief Executive Officer John Caner led the push for the one year pilot program in the city. “Some people won’t donate to the homeless for various reasons but these boxes make people more comfortable with giving,” Caner said. In six months, city officials will complete an evaluation of the program and determine if they will add six more donation boxes. City Councilman Jesse Arreguín and Vice Mayor Linda Maio with the support of Caner created this proposal that passed by a nearly unan-
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Left: The city of Berkeley installed a “tamper proof” donation box on a street pole in Downtown Berkeley to help fund social services through the Positive Change program. Right: Pedestrians pass by a donation box on the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. imous 8-1 vote on March 17. The proposal cited the city of Denver who turned old parking meters into donation boxes and raised over $100,000 a year for services for the homeless. However, not everybody feels that this is a good idea. “All of these services sound superficial to me,” Berkeley resident Josephine Regianni said. “New socks, some toothpaste and a BART ticket? What is that
going to do in the long run? Sounds like we’re trying to get them out of downtown instead of giving to local programs that would actually help them rebuild their lives.” Some of the programs critics feel that this is the city’s attempt to rid the homeless of the downtown area in order to be more “tourist friendly”. However Arreguín disagrees, “This is aimed to help the homeless and some people feel more
comfortable donating to a program, not the individual.” San Diego has also adopted a similar program that received some flak from local groups who labeled the service a “bus them out of town” concept. “The Gaslamp Quarter is a huge money maker for this city,” Teresa Rodriguez said. “The city would prefer the homeless not be there asking for money and this is how they get them out.”
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their political or religious views. “I won’t be traveling to Cuba as long as my grandmother is alive,” Alex McClendon said. “She would be too nervous for me to get stuck there, even though I’m a U.S. citizen and half Dominican.” He is a first generation Cuban American whose grandparents and mother came to the U.S. during the 1960s because of Castro and communism. They have not gone back to Cuba since. Maria, a Cuban refugee who asked to keep her last name off record due to her political oppositions to the Castro regime said, “I had no freedoms. No freedom of thinking, no freedom of opportunity, no educational freedom.” She came to the United States in 1964; five years after the revolution had ended. She said she finds some frustration in this moment in history, “Cuba is made to look like a hero… I hate them, but they are very smart… they play with Americans.” Her views contrast sharply with other Cuban Americans whose outlook is similar to that of Chaviano and Basker. Manuel Suarez, director of CultuCuba, an organization started to promote Cuban culture, recalls coming to the Bay Area for its abundance and appreci-
ation of Cuban culture. CultuCuba also focuses on developing relationships with other societies of the world, according to their website. Suarez enjoys the Cuban and Latin American music and dance performances that he attends and participates in regularly. Suarez also acknowledged the diversity of the crowds, who come and support these events. Suarez has witnessed the ups and downs of U.S.-Cuba relations over the years and still holds an optimistic perspective of events to come. Suarez foresees benefits for the U.S. and Cuba, as well as other parts of Latin America, in the form of travel and commerce. Basker and Chaviano concurred with Suarez’s views and discussed the possibilities of local exports and the chances that businesses in Cuba can actually sell their goods overseas and in the U.S. which will further advance the relationship between these two nations. These developments between the U.S. and Cuba are “a new chapter for the history of Latin America, and Cuba, and good for all the countries,” Chaviano said. They are both optimistic that their organization, which was established in 2013, can help cultivate the future of Cuban-American relations by planning a variety of community based projects, like cultural exchanges and localized business trips.
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By Shannon Stroud METRO EDITOR May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and writer and Vlogger, Ari Eastman has created a video that asks viewers to openly talk about mental illness by using the hashtag “ImNotCrazy” on social media. In her video, Eastman explains that there is an ongoing stigma about mental health and this month she wants people to feel empowered to talk about those below the surface issues like depression and anxiety. So let’s talk about depression. According to the Washington School of Medicine, some form of depression affects an estimated 17.5 million Americans, and two-thirds of people suffering from depression do not seek the necessary treatment. That means: one in ten Americans is affected by depression, according to Healthline. I am one of those lucky one in ten. I call it my morning blues, my late night weepies, or my grievances. I’ve called my
sadness a lot of things because to be honest, telling people that I struggle with depression, well it’s incredibly depressing. But at the ripe age of 16, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. It’s not that I woke up one morning and all of a sudden I had this overwhelming sense of sadness, instead it was a slow decline of losing interest in different things that I used to love. My depression took away sports, after school activities, friendships and undiagnosed at the time I didn’t understand why. Not only did I not understand why I was so sad, I also felt guilty for feeling that way. I grew up in a healthy home, with a loving family, and amazing friends but then for no reason, everything around me that once filled me with joy made me feel empty – and I was so ashamed.
The shame that I felt kept me distant from my family and afraid to open up. How do you tell the people who have loved, cared and provided for your entire life that you can’t think of a single happy thought? Because of that guilt, I learned to keep my depression a secret. I would go through the routine of daily life, feeling numb. I would sit in class, pretending to learn something but on the inside I felt like there was a dark cloud over me that made everything feel pointless. I became a high functioning ‘sadaholic’— I told myself as long as no one knew what I was feeling then I’d be okay. I knew the thoughts that I had weren’t me; they weren’t who I was. It was like my brain was split into two, one side was the old me, and the other side was the black hole
filled with worry, self-doubt, self-hate, anger, and frustration. Because I didn’t know how to rid myself of it, I decided to hide it. If it weren’t for my mother I would have never gotten help for my depression. I thought I was doing a good job hiding my pain, but sometimes you can’t hide from a mother’s intuition — one Saturday morning I woke up next to a letter from her on my bed. In her letter, she told me that she watched me change over the last months and that she wanted to help pull me out of it. In her letter she constantly told me she loved me and wanted to help me find happiness. While her letter didn’t fix my depression overnight, it did start a much-needed conversation about my options to battle my demons.
My road to recovery started with opening up and admitting that something wasn’t right in my life. After talking to my mom we decided the next step for me would be therapy. Starting therapy was scary because I was afraid I was too broken to be fixed. I cried my entire first session. It was so cathartic to talk to someone who wasn’t a major stakeholder in my life. It was a huge relief venting to someone who I couldn’t disappoint. Plus, my therapist only had good intentions to help me get better. I stopped going to therapy a year ago, not because I’m better, but because I am better equipped to handle the world. Therapy was more than just talking about how I was feeling, it was learning about the tools I needed to understand when it’s the depression talking and not me. My depression isn’t gone; I still fight my morning blues or late night weepies every day. It’s something that I’ve accepted as part of my life but unlike before, it no longer debilitates me and I now know that #ImNotCrazy.
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Hayward responds to U.S. police brutality By Shannon Stroud and Bryan Cordova METRO EDITOR AND MANAGING EDITOR In response to national news involving police brutality, the City of Hayward partnered with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, Hayward-South Alameda chapter held the Action Readiness Summit last Saturday to build connections between Bay Area officers and members in the community. The Action Readiness Summit took place at Mount Eden High School in Hayward. The event attendees consisted of Hayward residents, representatives from every Alameda county law agency including FBI representatives, the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, the Alameda County Probation office and California Highway Patrol officers. “Law enforcement agencies draw their strength from the communities they serve,” said Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban, in a press release about the event. “For us to be effective, we need the community to feel that we are united in pursuit of a common goal. Now is the time for us to be having these discussions; not in the wake of tragedy.” Throughout the event, attendees were able to talk and mingle with different law agencies to discuss police-community relations. During lunch, attendees and officers shared tables and meals.
After lunch, the Action Readiness Summit featured three “breakouts” or demonstrations. California State University, East Bay’s Chief of Police Sheryl Boykins and Hayward Unified School District’s superintendent Stan ‘Data’ Dobbs facilitated breakout three called “Building trust and Cooperation with Law Enforcement and Youth”. Breakout three featured two different films of officers misbehaving, after each film Boykins asked the questions, “What would you want officers to differently?” with Hayward’s Chief of Police Diane Urban present for the discussion. The question lead into a role-play where officers pretended to encounter belligerent youth and the audience had to respond with how the youth and officers should interact in certain scenarios. “My daughter is college age and I say ‘honey, how come if there is an incident and there are a group of people who saw it they won’t call the cops?’ and she said ‘We are more afraid of the cops than we are the crooks’ That’s a horrible indictment and so I want to know what we can do to change that,” said Boykins. She added that her goal would be for Hayward officers to be able to walk the streets and be greeted with the welcome she receives from CSUEB students. While this isn’t the first time Hayward has had a community event that encouraged mixing of law enforcement and residents, it is one of first that is a timely response to national events like
Ferguson and Baltimore. “This was in the works long before a lot of the unrest that has gone on in this country,” said Urban. “This is just our opportunity to move it forward and celebrate the great relationships that we have here in Alameda County.”
While the event didn’t have a large turnout, which could be attributed to the multiple events that happened last weekend, it didn’t stop those who did attend from enjoying it. “Yesterday I attended the summit in the afternoon due to having to work.
It was very [enlightening] to see thing from different perspectives,” said Eleanor Galindo, in response to the Action Readiness video on Facebook. “I wish more people would have attended. In order to change we all need to get involved.”
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Bike Rodeo From Page 1 Burbank Elementary School and Cannery Park to the event, which was centered at B Street and Main Street. The city closed off the surrounding streets to accommodate the event, which also
featured the normally scheduled farmers market. Turning Wheels for Kids, Bike East Bay, the California Highway Patrol and Raleigh America all contributed to the event by hosting activities throughout the day and donating money and services. “Anyone with a bike that’s broken down or needs a tune-up can get it done
for free,” Huggett said. A non-profit organization, Turning Wheels for Kids was founded in 2003 by Susan Runsvold and its original mission was to “buy bikes at Christmas and give them to underprivileged children,” according to Runsvold. The organization is now involved with many aspects of bicycles and children and on Saturday they provided ten bike
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that with a great turnout the event will become annual. One of the cooler events was a piñata that participants took turns trying to break while riding their bikes. “Obviously we didn’t have to wear blindfolds,” participant Josh Gardener said.
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Participants of the first Hayward Bike Rodeo competed in a variety of events and competitions on Saturday in the downtown area.
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Swimming adds new assistant coach By Louis LaVenture
SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR The Cal State East Bay women’s swimming team made a splash out of Pioneer Pool last week. CSUEB fifth year Head Coach Ben Loorz announced the addition of a new Assistant Coach Karissa Kruszewski. She joins a squad that finished in third place this past season at the Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference Championships in February. “We did a national search for this coaching position, and Coach Kruszewski was one of our front-runners from the very beginning of the process,” Loorz said. “I did not know her beforehand, but she is from California originally and so we do know a lot of the same people.” Kruszewski comes to Hayward from Wisconsin where she coached two high school swimming teams. Not only was she the head coach for the boy’s swimming team at Stoughton High School but she was also simultaneously the head coach for the girl’s swimming team at Oregon High School. Both schools are in Wisconsin, a place that she is very familiar with. She was an Academic All-Big 10 Conference team member for three consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2013 during her time as a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Swimming Team. Kruszewski earned a degree in Sociology during her time as a Badger while competing against top-level talent at a major conference at the Division I collegiate level. Her first college dive wasn’t in Madison, it was at UC Irvine where she originally attended and made a splash as a member of the Swimming Team. Kruszewski was named a scholar athlete in
her freshman season as an Anteater but the program was eliminated in 2009 forcing her to transfer to new waters. The coaching and swimming experience will be a vital asset to a Pioneer squad that graduated just one senior. The Pioneers return 15 of the 19 team members from last season that finished the regular season 6-6 overall before placing third at the conference championships in La Mirada. Senior standout Alyssa Tenney from Chino Hills is one of the lone departures from the CSUEB squad. “We are looking at 15 returners next season, as well as potentially 15 new recruits,” Loorz said. “So I am very excited to have a larger team this next year, and Coach Kruszewski will be an integral part of making sure that every athlete gets the coaching that they need to be their very best.” Loorz has led the Pioneers to top three finishes in the conference championships the past three seasons and is hopeful that Kruszweski can help the team succeed. “She has a great technical understanding, as well as knowledge of what it takes to succeed at the highest levels of this sport,” Loorz said. “She is demanding, and yet already has a great rapport with the team.”
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Karissa Kruszewski (front), new CSUEB Women’s Swimming Assistant Coach, competes for UC Irvine against Villanova University during a meet in Southern California in 2009 during her freshamn season as an Anteater.
“She has a great technical understanding, as well as knowledge of what it takes to succeed at the highest levels of this sport.” -Ben Loorz, Women’s Swimming Head Coach
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