The Pioneer Newspaper March 16, 2017

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MOVIE 'GET OUT' TACKLES RACE, SOCIAL ISSUES

What happened?

On March 6, the Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee approved the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

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How safe are Hayward high schools?

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON COMES TO AN END

Campus officer expresses concerns over ‘broken’ security cameras

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Shooting death closes Hayward campus

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Cal State East Bay Hayward campus was briefly closed on Tuesday evening following an officer involved shooting near the City View Apartments on Carlos Bee Boulevard.

According to the Fremont Police Department, around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday detectives attempted to pull over a stolen vehicle that was associated with a string of robberies in Fremont and throughout the Bay Area.

Fremont detectives approached the vehicle near the apartment complex when the driver of the car rammed the police vehicle. Detectives fired at the vehicle and struck passenger, 16-yearold Elena Mondragon of Antioch, who died later Tuesday evening at a local unidentified trauma center, according to the victim's family and the FPD. The driver attempted to flee the scene but crashed at Campus and Oakes Drives when he fled the scene on foot. A second male and another female passenger were taken into custody without incident and a “shelter in place” warning was issued just before 6 p.m. for the CSUEB Hayward campus, according to a statement from the Hayward Police Department.

HPD arrested the other two suspects in connection with the incident and pursued the driver, however, at time of publication he was still on the loose.

CSUEB Police Chief Sheryl Boykins said the University Police Department responded to the officer involved shooting and also confirmed a “shelter in place” warning was advised for

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On Jan. 11 at a school board meeting Ladale Slocum, a campus safety officer for Tennyson High School in South Hayward, discussed the functionality of security cameras at high schools within the Hayward Unified School District.

“Our camera system has been down for at least a couple of years now,” said Slocum.

At another school board meeting, on Jan. 25, Hayward Unified School Board President Lisa Brunner stated, “All our campuses have working radios, I’m not going to lie and say 100 percent of our cameras work because we are having issues.”

There are four high schools within the HUSD that include Brenkwitz, Hayward, Mt. Eden and Tennyson.

Slocum said he voiced his concerns af-

ter several violent incidents happened on Hayward high school campuses.

“I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve never seen so many assaults and batteries on faculty, staff members, classified staff members, certificated staff members and no one is doing anything,” Slocum stated at the Jan. 11 meeting.

Slocum described an event of a “non-student” who came on the Hayward High School campus last year with a gun and attempted to use it on a student.

Brunner asked to have her staff follow up on this matter after she heard the information Slocum provided.

Interim Superintendent Matt Wayne told The Pioneer that the district installed the cameras “several years ago” and they were originally monitored and repaired by a third-party.

“Earlier this year, several staff brought to our attention that numerous security cameras were not working well,” Wayne said.

“Our director of educational informational technology did an assessment of our cameras and found that the firm had not done a satisfactory job of maintaining the cameras. We subsequently ended our contract with the outside firm and district staff has taken over monitoring and repairing the cameras.”

On Feb. 13, Hayward city manager Kelly McAdoo told The Pioneer about the status of the high school security cameras. “The one thing I do know is that all of the video cameras at the schools are currently operational.” At the time of publication, McAdoo did not respond for clarification. Wayne said at the Jan. 25 meeting student safety was the district’s top priority.

“We are in the process of repairing any issues and replacing cameras that are beyond repair, with limited support from an outside contractor,” Wayne said.

“We anticipate having all cameras functional by the end of April.”

The district expects all cameras to be fully functional and in good repair by the end of March 2017, said Les Hedman, director of Educational Information Technology for HUSD. “Most of the camera problems are maintenance-related,” said Hedman.

“They need cleaning and or covers replaced. For repairs and replacements, the electronics team and I are finalizing the action plan. For cameras that cannot be cleaned or repaired by the team, we will hire a contractor to complete the service.”

Hayward resident Wynn Grcich attended the school board meeting on Jan. 25 and said she was shocked by the camera situation and wanted them fixed immediately.

Oakland workshop informs community of rights

By Daisy Ortiz CONTRIBUTOR Local organizations hosted a “Know Your Rights” workshop at the Fruitvale San Antonio Senior Center in Oakland on Saturday to inform their high minority population on what to do if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, show up at work, home or other places where they convene.

There were over 31 hosts which included politicians, charities and labor federations. About 250 people attended the event in the first of two sessions at 10 a.m., according to Josie Camacho, executive secretary-treasurer for the Alameda Labor Council.

“Fear has been instilled into the community, children are very scared and we keep seeing families being separated,” attendee Rosa Margarita Guerra said. “But knowing our rights makes me feel more calm and at peace.”

Hispanics and Latinos are the second largest minority — African Americans being the first — in the city of

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A volunteer talks to attendees of the "Know Your Rights" workshop in the Fruitvale District of Oakland on Saturday.

Oakland, according the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau. The city’s population is 26.7 percent foreign born, and there are about 11 million undocumented

immigrants in the United States, NPR reported last week.

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If passed, the AHCA will repeal Obamacare by dismantling taxes, which include penalties for not having coverage, and providing tax credits between $2,000 and $14,000 a year for low-income families, among other initiatives, according to readthebill.gop.

The next step will be for the House Committee to approve the budget, which according to the Speaker of the House’s website, would only take a majority vote with Republicans holding 52 of the 100 seats. If passed, the bill would go the president for final approval.

The Ways and Means Committee is a tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives and the oldest committee in the U.S. Congress, according to their website. The Energy and Commerce Committee is the oldest legislative committee in the House of Representatives and oversees independent agencies and cabinet-level departments like the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, according to the committee’s website.

A website created by the GOP for the act states that Obamacare was based on a one-size-fits-all approach that resulted in high payments, fewer options and less access. The AHCA proposes to cut the premium costs of Obamacare and increase health care options.

The legislation would also decrease federal deficits by $337 billion from $559 billion in 2017 to $222 billion in 2026, according to a cost estimate report for the act that was released by the Congressional Budget Office on Monday. The CBO expects premium costs to increase by 15 percent to 20 percent until 2020, and decrease approximately 10 percent below those of current law by 2026.

Qualifications for assistance will be based on age rather than income, according to the budget report, and insurers will also be able to charge five times more for enrollees 65 and over than younger ones.

However the CBO estimates that 24 million people under age 65 would also be uninsured by 2020 due to higher premiums, the retraction of penalties tied to the individual mandate and cutbacks in Medicaid and non-group coverage.

By 2026, there will be 14 million fewer Medicaid enrollees in the nonmarket group, which refers to individual policies purchased through a marketplace or directly from insurers, according to the CBO. “The current proposal neither makes healthcare a personal responsibility, as Republicans want, nor moves the country toward collective responsibility as Democrats want,” said Cal State East Bay political science Professor Emeritus David Baggins. “This makes all sides unhappy. It is not likely to pass

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Why community service is important

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A volunteer records data near a trash clean-up on Dickens and Folsom Avenues in South Hayward earlier this month.

By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER On a recent Saturday morning, I attended a clean up event held by the Keep Hayward Clean and Green Task Force, a program created by former Hayward Mayor Mike Sweeney in 2007 to help reduce the amount of litter in Hayward.

As I watched, 10 people including families, the mayor and city council members pick up fast food bags, napkins, cigarettes and other types of litter at Ruus Park in South Hayward, I felt invigorated because I love seeing other people bond through community service.

Suddenly, a wave of disappointment interrupted my joy when I remembered how most of my peers dislike community service. Throughout my life, I always suggested to my friends that we do community service on our free time.

Whether it was beach cleanups or volunteering at an animal shelter, they preferred not to wake up early and opted not to go because it didn’t sound entertaining.

Every spring term, Cal State East Bay freshman are required to partake in the Freshman Day of Service or FDoS, a day where CSUEB freshmen volunteer at non-profits in the Bay Area.

The FDoS is a mandatory service day where freshman students assist Bay Area organizations that are involved in habitat restoration, trash cleanups, prepping and packing items with organizations like the Alameda County Food Bank, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Hayward Public Library, Mt. Eden High School and Port of Oakland, according to the FDoS website.

The community service can last four

or five hours.

FDoS began in 2011 to introduce freshmen to different social issues within the community like food insecurity, according to director of Freshman Day of Service, Mary D’Alleva.

It also aims to help freshmen meet new people and represent the university. The service day is hosted by East Bay’s Center of Community Engagement and general studies department.

“I think it helps you to get involved but I don’t think it helps keep you aware on [social issues],” Maryah Franklin, a first-year ethnic studies major told The Pioneer. “It’s at the end of the year and it’s a one-time thing, so I feel like it’s not as effective as it could be.”

I understand that four or five hours may not seem like enough time to understand social issues, but from my experience, it is.

One of the organizations freshmen will be working with this year is Open Heart Kitchen, where they will prepare and serve food to local residents who are dealing with food insecurity.

Over 20,000 hours of community service have been logged since 2011 and out of the approximately 1,500 freshmen attending CSUEB, 1,390 are currently registered for a FDoS project, according to senior coordinator of Operations and Partnership, Andrea Wells.

“It is important for them to learn about community issues that are impacted on us locally,” Wells said.

Freshman who do not partake in FDoS must do an alternative assignment, such as an essay, assigned by their general studies professor, in order to pass.

Although there are some downsides to the FDoS, like a grade hinging on

participation, giving back to the community is something I will always look forward to.

I have early memories of community service and a passion for helping environment since I was in middle school.

During my senior year of high school, I was the vice president of PEACE 90805, a club that promoted peace throughout our school by making affirmation cards — index cards that have quotes of encouragement written on them — and hosted discussions of changes we would like to see in our community.

Originally, we had conversations and read quotes from books that had relations to spreading positivity, but I thought if we wanted to bring peace to our community, we needed to get involved with it.

I suggested that we help feed the homeless at a local shelter.

Although some of the members were initially not fond of waking up early, but after the day of service, a lot of people said it was a great experience and wanted to do it again.

Whether it’s cleaning neighborhoods, keeping elderly people company or ensuring the safety of children while they play at parks, I enjoy knowing that I can help someone improve their life or I contributed to helping the environment.

When I came to Cal State East Bay during my freshman year in 2012, I was excited to hear that we had to take part of a community service project, but some of my peers weren’t too thrilled about it, which I never understood.

When told that he had to do Freshman Day of Service last year, 19-yearold Austin Teeyarden, a second-year communications major, thought it was pointless.

“I think its kinda useless because

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most kids [in order to] graduate they have to do community service in the first place, so when I was told that I had to do it I thought it was a waste of time.”

In high school, I had to complete 40 hours of community service in order to graduate.

I understand that having to do community service in college may make you feel a kid again, but I don’t think it’s a waste of time.

Nicole Stokes, a first-year health science major, thinks that it should not be a requirement because not all freshman have cars and the locations are too far.

As a freshman, I moved from Southern California, didn’t have a car and wasn’t familiar with the area.

If it wasn’t for a classmate giving me a ride, I would’ve had to use public transportation, which I had very little experience with at the time.

As a solution, I think freshman should be given pre-paid BART tickets or transportation provided by the university.

The amount of time you spend helping organizations gives you the opportunity to learn more about it and the area you’re in. One day you might receive an internship from that organization because of your involvement.

Also, this may be potentially your first community service event since high school, which looks good on your resume.

Although there could be downsides to going to Freshman Day of Service, I think overall giving back to the community is something I will always look forward to doing and will have my future children do so consistently as well.

‘Get Out’ tackles social, race issues

By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER The new film “Get Out” is a turning point as a horror movie, and hopefully will inspire future filmmakers to take a different approach to making horror movies.

When I saw the trailer for “Get Out,” I was looking forward to seeing a horror film that included a focus on African Americans, something I am not use to seeing. “Get Out” is about a young African American male named Walter, who visits his Caucasian girlfriend Rose’s parents’ house to meet them for the first time. Although the family had superficial welcoming faces, their intentions were not.

I hope future filmmakers decide to take on a different twist on how they create scary movies with subjects they are passionate about such as politics, music, human rights etc. The movie had some African Americans portrayed as quirky characters, such as strange dialect and

facial expressions, traits we tend to see more in non-black characters in movies, which made “Get Out” unique.

In a couple of scenes, Rose’s family members made racist remarks towards Walter about voting for Obama a third term if he could and about how Tiger Woods is a great athlete.

I’m a mainstream horror fan, and have been obsessed with horror movies since I was a teenager. But there are cliches in these films that I’ve come to expect. One is that the racial narrative is usually the same: Caucasian characters fight against paranormal activity, while African Americans are the first to die.

Secondly, the ending of these movies almost always leaves the story open to a sequel.

Common racial narratives exist in any type of movie: Asian women are sexualized, Arabs are portrayed as thieves and Hispanics play maids. Even films directed by African Americans that feature predominantly African American casts don’t always speak to me. They often depict certain characteristics — be-

ing Christian, being musically talented, knowing certain dialects — that I do not posses.

I feel like I have seen the same cliches of African Americans on TV and in movies like “Precious” and “The Maury Show.” I always feel distanced from African American characters who are Christian, gangbangers or portray certain stereotypes that negatively affect how black viewers and other ethnicities view African Americans, most commonly as being obnoxiously loud, gangbangers and thieves.

Although I think it’s great how the Hollywood industry is becoming more diverse, I think even within cultural-based movies, we should stop generalizing and let characters play a character without being framed around their skin color.

According to international news site TheGuardian.com, “negative mass media portrayals were strongly linked with lower life expectations among black men. These portrayals, constantly reinforced in print media, on television, the

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internet, fiction shows, print advertising and video games, shape public views of and attitudes toward men of color.”

In our society, African American men are portrayed as violent, athletic or gang-affiliated. The protagonist in “Get Out” portrayed neither of those characteristics, but was a smart, quick thinker and a talented photographer.

While I know a lot of African American men who portray these types of well rounded qualities, many non-African Americans do not, and the protagonist portrayal is the first step to seeing how non-African Americans view us. Growing up, I’ve been told by non-black people that I don’t act like the ones they see on TV — loud, ignorant or “ghetto.” This has caused irritation for me, but I knew we could only blame media.

Although African Americans are not the only ones that go through this, I hope other movies featuring minori-

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Limited financial aid offered for summer

By Daisy Ortiz CONTRIBUTOR For many Cal State East Bay students, summer quarter provides an opportunity to get ahead on coursework or simply catch up on classes they need for the next academic year.

For those students, financial aid typically plays a significant role. Of the 7,000 students that enrolled in summer courses last year, 29 percent used federal financial aid, according to Rhonda Johnson, executive director of financial aid for CSUEB. This summer, the university will continue to offer federal financial aid — Pell Grant, work-study and direct loans — but will not offer state-funded financial aid, as per a decision implemented back in 2011, according to academic and career counselor Michele Hingst.

Students will not have access to state funds such as Cal Grants, State University Grants, Middle Class Scholarships, Graduate Equality Fellowships, Graduate Business Grants and EOP grants.

Roughly 171 classes are offered in the summer compared to the 400 offered in fall, winter and spring. Communication and kinesiology offer some courses in the summer, but most majors do not, Hingst said.

Counselors like Hingst encourage students to take courses during the summer to keep them as close as possible to a four-year graduation schedule.

They do also try to “promote what’s the right path for each individual,” not imposing a four-year graduation goal that may not be feasible for all students Hingst said.

“We are asking that all students who wish to receive financial aid this summer drop-in at the Enrollment Information Center to speak with a financial aid counselor,” Johnson said.

“We can assist summer students with alternate financing arrangements, including aid eligibility.”

How will new semester schedule affect financial aid?

In 2014 the university decided to switch to semesters by the 2018-2019 school year to match the majority of other CSU schools.

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In that same year, only six of the 23 campuses in the CSU system maintained a quarter system.

“There is no difference in annual aid eligibility when we compare quarters to semesters, what is different is the distribution of aid during the academic year,” Johnson says. “Instead of dividing aid by four quarters, most students will receive the first half of their aid in fall and the second half in spring.”

In order to receive full federal financial aid, students must meet application deadlines and take 12 or more units per quarter/semester. “Not all federal aid

requires full-time [12 unit] enrollment.

Eligible students can borrow direct loans at half time enrollment, which is 6 units,” Johnson said.

Some majors will offer classes that better align with a semester program.

Quarter units will be converted into semesters, all according to the pledge CSUEB has made about “no one being affected,” Hingst said.

“I want to stress there will be no reduction in the amount of aid our students receive once we convert to trailing summers and semesters. The only difference is the distribution of aid,” John-

My last spring break

By Michelle Johnson STAFF WRITER After stressing through finals this past week, I will enjoy my last official spring break as a college student when the quarter ends tomorrow.

I’ve been in school almost my entire life so spring break has been a yearly tradition for roughly 16 years.

Life as a student will soon come to an end, including all school related activities, which made me think about how I want to close out my last few months at Cal State East Bay. Also known as “March break” and “mid-term break,” spring break is a tradition among universities and schools.

The academic holiday can be celebrated with trips, annual spring break festivals, nightclub parties, beach activities and other types of fun things. I’ve never done anything exciting in the past such as go on a trip because I either didn’t have any money, my friends were busy or just didn’t want to do anything major.

This year won’t be any different. I don’t get paid vacation from my job, so I will be working.

But I will definitely enjoy having the week away from school. This spring break will be strategically planned to pack in all the things I want and need to do before the month ends and school starts again.

The first day of my break I plan to have a graduation photoshoot, courtesy of my good friend Aundrea. If you are decent with a camera then it’s worth it to take original pictures than go to an expensive photo studio.

I am going to wear a nice spring dress and take pictures that I will put into my graduation announcements, send to family and stick on my grandmother’s refrigerator of graduates.

I plan to do the photoshoot first because I want my hair to look it’s best before I sweat out my press — hair straightening for rough or kinkier hair textures — when I go dancing later on in the week.

The next couple of days I will have lunch dates with friends I haven’t had the chance to hang out with due to having no life because of my school work load.

This will most likely consist of dinner at a restaurant, cocktails and window shopping. Some of my friends are in school as well or working full-time, everyone is busy so to be able to schedule some time out for laughs and good company is a treat for me.

Somewhere in the week I have to finish writing and preparing all my materials for the internships I am applying for.

This means editing my resume, writing cover letters, making sure I have my letters of recommendations, filling out online applications and mailing them in.

The weekend will be dedicated to dancing and drinking with my co workers after work at Pappy’s, a cool bar in Berkeley.

The next night I will go out and dance with a few of my close friends I’ve known since high school.

I will close out the week with a chill movie night with my mom before my last quarter starts at CSUEB. As I reflect on the few months left before I graduate, I realize the little things I never cared about while in college and how soon life will change.

As a commuter that lives about 40 minutes off campus, I never felt really connected to my school or tried to keep in touch with many of the people I’ve met. It’s only now that I am thinking about all the things I am going to miss about being a student.

Spring break has always been one of the highlights of the school year and a break from stressful classes and homework.

It was a time to relax and enjoy life before going back to the school flow and it was something constant in my life for years.

Apart from a few internships I plan to get, I don’t know how my life will play out down the line and I’m a little nervous about the unknown.

With this being my last spring break as a student, I want to enjoy it to the fullest.

son said.

Summer study abroad This summer there will be a faculty-led study abroad program to Cuba that will not receive financial aid. Students and communication department chair Mary Cardaras will spend two weeks in Cuba and complete two weeks of coursework in the United States. Le Shawn Cheatham, study abroad advisor, said any study abroad program must be at least 10 weeks long in order to receive financial aid.

“From my understanding, the sum-

mer study abroad programs will not receive financial aid because we’re transitioning to semesters,” said professor William Lawson. He was the professor in charge in the faculty led summer program to London in 2015 and 2016. His 2016 program was eligible to receive financial aid because Lawson did an “online” course for five weeks and then spent five weeks in London with the students.

“When study abroad students have remaining 2016-2017 federal aid eligibility, they may receive it during summer quarter,” Johnson said.

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THE PIONEER rican-American male, five-feet-teninches tall, with short hair and a heavy build. The two detectives sustained non-life threatening injuries and were treated and released at a local hospital, according to FPD.

the University Village. Carlos Bee Boulevard and Second Street were closed by law enforcement officials and UPD advised vehicles to use Harder Road to leave campus.

The driver was described as an Af-

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A Cal State East Bay shuttle was stopped by a police baracade when a rider captures law enforcement officials detaining a suspect connected to an officer involved shooting near the Hayward campus on Tuesday evening that left a 16-year-old girl dead.

Rights From Page 1 “We’re going to stand with our immigrants and refugees because this is our home,” Camacho said. “Because of Trump’s mean comments people are fearful. We are about building strength and unity.”

Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign with a strong anti-immigration policy stance. On Jan. 25, he signed executive orders to begin construction on a border wall between Mexico and the U.S., and there have been ICE raids across the country.

These raids have resulted in the removal of undocumented people with 75 percent having a criminal record, as reported by the Department of Homeland Security. During Obama’s last year of administration, 99.3 percent of removals were crime-related as reported by ICE. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an immigration policy that the Obama administration established in June 2012. It allows undocumented students that entered the U.S. as a child before 2007 to obtain a work permit and be deferred from deportation, but must be renewed every two years. “DACA is not a protected legal status, but active DACA recipients are typically a lower level of enforcement priority,” ICE tweeted a week ago.

An immigration lawyer present at the event reminded people their right to remain silent. If ICE were to show up at their home, they are not obligated to open their door unless ICE officials have a proper warrant.

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A volunteer at the Oakland "Know Your Rights" workshop talks to attendees before the 10 a.m. session in the Fruitvale District of Oakland on Saturday.

A proper warrant would have three things: the correct and current address of the person they're looking for, the correct name and must be signed by a judge.

People should be prepared and have a plan. They advised people to renew their DACA, speak to a lawyer if wanting to apply to DACA and informing a trusted person where important documents are kept in case of arrest.

“We need to learn to not have fear and defend our rights but also get information from professionals, not always the sister of the aunt of the neighbor,” Guerra said. “In Mexico I was taught to work for what I have. Forty years ago I came in the trunk of a car and now my daughter works for the school district. I am very grateful to this country.”

Service Employment International Union 2015 represents half a million

home-care workers and is the largest union with immigrants and women.

One of their main focuses is obtaining immigration reform. “Others have become less afraid to share their stories,” Arnulfo De La Cruz, a member of the SEIU 2015 said.

He believes we must fight back against this “racist system that only wants to use us for their benefit” and that the elections have consequences.

That is why their organization encourages people to become citizens and vote when time comes.

Yet the fear was evident. It was asked from people in the workshop that no pictures or recordings to be taken because attendees did not want them ending up on social media. A woman going up for the second session asked first what the workshop was about and whether it was safe to go up.

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The bill also proposes to transition Medicaid to a per capita allotment, a designation that would transition control over the program to the state level.

This means that states would receive a fixed amount of money from the federal government based on the amount of enrollees in the program, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Currently, under Obamacare the federal government and states share the cost of Medicaid; poorer states pay less, according to a Jan. 24 Kaiser Healthy News report.

Transitioning to the per capita allotment or “block grant” approach would give the states more power to decide who qualifies for Medicaid services.

According to USNews.com, Medicaid currently covers 70 million low-income adults and children, or one out of every five people in the country.

AHCA would also expand Health Savings Accounts or HSA’s, tax-exempt trust accounts that reimburse qualifying enrollees for medical expenses, according to the IRS. “Their current proposal is a diminution of ACA, but not a new thought,” said Baggins.

“It does nothing to move tax supported care from high cost, low benefit coverage. It is cheaper and less benefi-

cial than ACA; better for [people with a] higher income.”

Throughout his campaign, one of President Donald Trump’s major promises to voters was to repeal Obamacare, “the most significant health care law in a half-century,” according to a Jan. 13 article by The New York Times.

The Trump administration took the first steps to gut the program on Jan. 20, when he issued an executive order to decrease penalties for non-coverage, pending congressional repeal of the program, according to CNN Politics.

In June 2016, Paul Ryan, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, released, “A Better Way: Our Vision for a Confident America,” a Republican healthcare reform agenda.

The proposal was built on five principles: repeal Obamacare, expand feasible healthcare options, protect patients with preexisting conditions, spur innovation and competition and preserve Medicare, according to the proposal.

Until last week, when House Republicans passed legislation for the AHCA, it was unclear how they planned to implement those policies.

“Republicans campaigned heavily in denunciation of Obamacare, but in this moment of power have nothing to replace it with,” said Baggins.

“They don't have the integrity to admit they oppose healthcare that is partially socialist: too much of their base is made of low income cultural voters, who would suffer from flat out repeal. So they have proposed a diluted form of the old Affordable Care Act.”

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Concord campus food pantry opening delayed

By Gabriel Armenta-Rose CONTRIBUTOR According to a study commissioned

by Cal State University Chancellor Timothy White in February 2015, one in five CSU students go without consistent meals. Since then, Cal State East Bay has been on a mission to find solutions to this problem.

In October of 2016, Cal State East Bay opened up its first food pantry on the Hayward campus to help students with their essential needs. CSU East Bay planned to open a pantry in the administration building of the Concord campus in February, but recent storms caused the grand opening to be postponed until the inspections were fully complete. Initially the pantry was supposed to have their grand opening on December of 2016, but that was pushed back.

The pantry itself receives food from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. Students who would like to visit the food pantry can make an appointment through BaySync. To make an appointment through BaySync, you will have to first sign up with your netID and once you sign up, you will click on the “H.O.P.E. Program” tab and then select the appointment time that works best for you to visit the pantry. The food pantries are run by a group called “Pioneers for H.O.P.E.” whose mission is to help students with their concerns and welfare. Such concerns that they have been focusing on are making sure that students have access to food, temporary housing for students, as well as donation drives for students in need. Alex

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Baker, case management coordinator at “Pioneers for H.O.P.E.” told The Pioneer that the surrounding area of the room had been flooded due to the storms,

which led to inspections to make sure that there was no mold or mildew within the walls to not contaminate the food.

They had a soft opening for the Con-

cord pantry in February, however, and students have been able to go into the pantry and receive their food. The only difference is that there hasn’t been a

“ribbon cutting” according to Baker.

The official ribbon cutting will take place once all of the inspections are fully complete.

Dive bar ‘Art Pop Up’ brings out Bay Area artists

By Veronica Hall LAYOUT DESIGNER The glow of red still hung from the ceiling lights and the mirror walls that framed the walkway of The Ruby Room were covered in local art. The entrance tables of the Oakland dive bar became display areas for ceramics and the back lounge stands were full of beaded and wire jewelry for sale. Even the DJ booth was covered with prints and paintings.

The featured art was part of The Art Pop Up, an event hosted on March 11 by Indigo Tidd, aka “champagnenagchampa,” a 3D and CGI artist out of Oakland who also bartends at The Ruby Room.

She works as a visual director for New World Dysorder, an Oakland-based nightlife, arts and entertainment company that produces and curates experiential events aiming to celebrate diversity and freedom of expression for all.

But this time, she wanted to do her own first art pop up specifically for her

and her friends. Tidd chose the event date a week after Oakland’s community festival First Friday because the first Saturday after is bad for business. By making it the second Saturday it gives people something to look forward to after the First Friday excitement dies down and is better for bringing local people out to support.

“It’s hard as visual artists to have a platform to sell your work because we do most of our dealings online and then nobody wants to meet up in person,” said Tidd. “I wanted to have a spot where we’re just able to vend our stuff.

I never make any money selling my prints so I’m trying to make something work for myself and everyone here as artists.”

As bar regulars and guests filled The Ruby Room, funky indie rock played as more than 15 artists discussed and sold their work. The variety of artwork included colorful bursts of different subject matter ranging from skulls to abstract graffiti. Sketches included cats,

faces and tribal designs. There were embroidered patches and leather chokers as well. Tidd and other artists also sold t-shirts up with comic and animated drawings on them.

But photos and edits stole the show with numerous spreads throughout the bar. While many included still life and nature aspects in the matte prints, artist Max Sage aka “StreetBleach” took a different approach for his display.

Known for his modern pop-up work with memes and edits of celebrities like Mac Dre and Gucci Mane, he decided to try a new style of erotic political propaganda.

The work featured a nip slipped Sarah Palin posing in the desert as an oil crane sits behind with what looks like to be a male body hanging from it. Using the event to step away from the entertaining aspects of his work, Sage chose to display what he really enjoys making and cares deeply about, breaking out from what people would normally expect from him.

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The Ruby Room, a bar in Oakland near Lake Merritt, held a pop up art show on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and was organized by bartender Indigo Tidd.

“The double edged sword of being an artist is that the value of art is subjective,” said Sage. “It’s not your artistic integrity or your technical skill that makes art good, it’s all about the idea being expressed. What I do is a reflection of my personality in a various ways, when I make memes and edits I do it for myself and what I like.

Artists like Tidd and Sage are not strangers to the Bay Area art movement, but as internet artists they have taken a new path to connecting, social media. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook help artists come together and collaborate while also promoting their work and shows. Tidd is part of a girl art group chat on Instagram where she encouraged her fellow members to come out and put up their work.

Tumblr was what made Sage’s work go viral online. While he is no stranger to Instagram with over 8,000 followers, his edits have been consistently reblogged on Tumblr and talked about even years after posting them. One of his favorites and first popular works of

art, an edit of Gucci Mane as Scarface, gained popularity on Tumblr so much that Gucci Mane’s PR team recognized and reached out to him.

Yet there is one thing that social media cannot do: bring people together face to face and see the work live. Ian T. of Oakland has been coming out to art shows for as long as he can remember.

“I’m old now but I love to come out to support,” said Ian. Even if I don’t know anyone contributing, I still like to see what’s out there. Sometimes pieces will stick out to me and I’ll just have to buy it, feels good to get something new and cool for my house and help a local artist with their career.”

After the night wound down and the mirror walls that were previously covered by art for sale were visible again, artists exchanged pieces with each other and signed and drew on each other’s shirts.

Although Art Pop Ups are only oneday exhibits, they allow artists from all over to come together, network, explore different art styles and gain inspiration.

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El equipo de baloncesto femenino la Universidad Estatal de California Bahía del Este vio que su temporada llegaba a su fin en la primera ronda del torneo de la División II de la Asociación Nacional de Colegiaturas Atléticas.

"Es agridulce que la temporada haya terminado, pero esta temporada me enseñó a luchar contra la adversidad y seguir trabajando duro sin importar las circunstancias," dijo la guardia mayor Shomari Harris al Pioneer.

Los Pioneers perdieron, 74-48, a los no. 16 clasificados Western Washington Vikings (26-6 general, 18-2 conferencia) el viernes en Alaska, en la arena de Alaska Airlines.

Antes de la derrota, los Pioneers estaban en una racha ganadora de nueve juegos que incluía el campeonato de la Asociación de Colegiata Atlética de California, que ganaron por segundo año consecutivo cuando derrotaron a la UEC San Diego 62-53 el 4 de marzo.

East Bay no jugó su mejor partido contra Western Washington, ya que dispararon sólo el 29 por ciento del campo en comparación con el 50 por ciento de los Vikings. También fueron dominados en la pintura 39-26, que era inusual para los Pioneers, que son usualmente dominantes aquí en el estado. Cada equipo que entra en el torneo ANCA es dominante y es ganar o ir a casa.

"Desafortunadamente, jugamos uno de nuestros peores partidos de la temporada; Pasó a ser nuestro último," dijo Harris. "No jugamos al baloncesto de East Bay y nunca captamos el flujo del juego. Se precipitaron en nuestras mentes.”

En el primer cuarto, Western Washington salió fuerte y fue en una carrera de 9-0 contra los Pioneers y era evidente que sería un desafío para East Bay en sacar una victoria. Harris entró en la pintura para un layup y se quedó con 6:01 sobrando en el primer trimestre que puso el juego en 9-3, el menor margen de puntos entre los Pioneers y Vikings durante todo el juego.

Después de eso, el tiroteo de los Vikings se calentó y aumentaron su venta-

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Shanele Stires, entrenadora en jefe de baloncesto de las mujeres de East Bay, de la Universidad Estatal de California, habló con las jugadoras durante un tiempo fuera en un partido en casa a principios de este mes. Las mujeres perdieron ante Western Washington el viernes 74-48 en el torneo de la División II de la ANCA. ja de 13 al final del primer cuarto, 20-7.

Cuando el equipo entró en el segundo cuarto, el juego estaba fuera de las manos de East Bay debido a disparos y pérdidas de balón. Western Washington continuó aumentando su liderazgo, y entró en el descanso de medio tiempo por 16 puntos.

Harris ha sido la clave para el éxito de East Bay toda la temporada y jugó los 40 minutos completos en el juego. Ella anotó 23 puntos, pero fue sólo 1-para-5 desde el rango de tres puntos, lo cual fue muy poco característico para la jugadora del año de la conferencia ACAC. Los Pioneers como una unidad también eran

sólo 2 de 17 por detrás de la línea de tres puntos, lo que les impidió hacer cualquier tipo de regreso.

"Fue duro por ahí,” dijo la delantera de primer año Morgan Greene. "Siento que nuestro equipo era tan joven y para todos nosotros, excepto Remy [Puou], esta fue la primera vez que jugamos en un juego en esta plataforma. En última instancia, no es una excusa, pero simplemente no estábamos tan experimentadas y Western Washington estaba golpeando disparos y nosotros no."

Western Washington siguió marcando en la segunda mitad y East Bay no lo hizo, lo que llevó a la pérdida y el final de

la temporada para los Pioneers.

Greene tuvo 10 rebotes, la segunda arquera Elayshia Woolridge tuvo 8 puntos y el centro, estudianta de cuarto año Remy Puou, tuvo 4 puntos y 3 rebotes.

Los Pioneers obtuvieron una cantidad increíble de éxito esta temporada terminando su temporada 22-9 en general y 16-4 en conferencia. East Bay perderá dos grandes contribuyentes en Puou y Harris, pero tienen un prometedor grupo de jugadores jóvenes como Greene y Woolridge y un equipo de entrenadores dirigido por Shanele Stires, entrenadora en jefe del primer año.

"A pesar de que perdimos, enseñó

a cada uno de nosotras jugadoras más jóvenes el nivel que tenemos para llegar y cómo todas tenemos espacio para mejorar," dijo Greene. "Perder a altos líderes como Shomari y Remy sin duda será una gran pérdida para nosotros, pero estoy entusiasmada con las jugadoras entrantes que la entrenadora traerá.

Creo que podemos hacer algunas cosas grandes el próximo año, siempre y cuando permanezcamos determinadas. La entrenadora nos ha hablado y nos ha obligado a hacer lo que necesitamos para que los devueltos se hagan más serios para mejorar la próxima temporada, y lo haremos.”

¿Qué tan seguras son las escuelas secundarias de Hayward?

Agente expresa su preocupación por las cámaras de seguridad 'rotas' Por Cody Davis y Louis LaVenture CONTRIBUYENTE Y EDITOR-EN-JEFE

Traducción por Wendy Medina EDITORA DE COPIA

El 11 de enero, en una junta directiva de la escuela, Ladale Slocum, un oficial de seguridad escolar de la Escuela Secundaria Tennyson en el sur de Hayward, discutió la funcionalidad de las cámaras de seguridad en las escuelas secundarias del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Hayward.

"Nuestro sistema de cámaras ha estado inactivo durante al menos un par de años," dijo Slocum.

En otra reunión del consejo escolar, el 25 de enero, la presidenta de la Junta Unificada de Hayward, Lisa Brunner, declaró: "Todos nuestros campus tienen radios funcionales, no voy a mentir y

decir que el 100% de nuestras cámaras funcionan porque tenemos problemas."

Hay cuatro escuelas secundarias dentro del DEUH que incluyen Brenkwitz, Hayward, Mt. Eden y Tennyson. Slocum dijo que expresó sus preocupaciones después de varios incidentes violentos que han ocurrido en los planteles escolares de Hayward.

"He estado aquí por 10 años y nunca he visto tantos asaltos y baterías contra la facultad, miembros del personal, miembros del personal clasificados, miembros del personal certificado y nadie está haciendo nada," dijo Slocum en la reunión del 11 de enero.

Slocum describió un acontecimiento de un "no-estudiante" que vino el año pasado en el campus de la escuela secundaria de Hayward con un arma e intentó usarla en un estudiante. Brunner pidió que su personal diera seguimiento a este asunto después de que ella escuchó la información proporcionada por Slocum.

El Superintendente Interino Matt Wayne dijo al Pioneer que el distrito vía instaló las cámaras "hace varios años" y que originalmente fueron monitoreadas y reparadas por un tercero.

"A principios de este año, varios empleados nos señalaron que muchas cámaras de seguridad no funcionaban bien," dijo Wayne. "Nuestro director de tecnología educativa informativa hizo una evaluación de nuestras cámaras y encontró que la firma no había hecho un trabajo satisfactorio de mantener las cámaras. Posteriormente, terminamos nuestro contrato con la firma externa y el personal del distrito se encargó de monitorear y reparar las cámaras."

El 13 de febrero, el gerente de la ciudad de Hayward, Kelly McAdoo, le dijo al Pioneer sobre el estado de las cámaras de seguridad de la escuela secundaria. "Lo único que sí sé es que todas las cámaras de video en las escuelas están actualmente operativas." Al tiempo de la publicación, McAdoo no respondió para aclaraciones.

Wayne dijo en la reunión del 25 de enero que la seguridad de los estudiantes era la máxima prioridad del distrito.

"Estamos en el proceso de reparar cualquier problema y reemplazar las cámaras que están más allá de la reparación, con el apoyo limitado de un contratista externo," dijo Wayne. "Prevemos que todas las cámaras funcionarán

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a finales de abril." El distrito espera que todas las cámaras sean completamente funcionales y estén en buenas condiciones a finales de marzo de 2017, dijo Les Hedman, director de Tecnología de Información Educativa de DEUH. "La mayoría de los problemas de la cámara están relacionados con el mantenimiento," dijo Hedman. "Necesitan limpieza y / o cubiertas reemplazadas. Para reparaciones y reemplazos,

el equipo de electrónica y yo estamos finalizando el plan de acción. Para las cámaras que no pueden ser limpiadas o reparadas por el equipo, vamos a contratar a un contratista para completar el servicio."

Wynn Grcich, residente de Hayward, asistió a la reunión del consejo escolar el 25 de enero y dijo que estaba sorprendida por la situación de las cámaras y quiere que se arreglen inmediatamente.

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Hayward bus company set to relocate to Livermore

By Louis LaVenture

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Gillig Corporation, the heavy duty passenger bus manufacturer will call Livermore home by May, with an exact date not yet determined, according to Director of Publications Arminder Dhillon.

The Gillig executive team and owners made the decision to move to a new, larger facility in 2014 with a move date set for 2017, according to Dhillon.

According to Gillig, the 120-year-old company hasn’t always called Hayward home, it originally opened as a carriage builder and upholsterer in San Francisco in 1890 by Jacob Gillig.

After patenting a roof and side curtain window system for a car in 1919, the Gillig business, now joined by Jacob’s sons Leo and Chester, eventually the family turned their attention to bus making, which they began in 1932.

According to Gillig, by 1938 the business outgrew its San Francisco facility and relocated to its current location on Clawiter Road in West Hayward.

That location has been the home for Gillig for the past 79 years, however, history repeated itself in 2014 when the company realized they were outgrowing their current Hayward facility, according to Dhillon.

Several employees confirmed off the record they were told nearly two years ago. The price tag for the new facility is still a mystery and Dhillon said since the company is a privately owned organiza-

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tion, they do not have to disclose that information.

Gillig has been at the forefront of the industry when it comes to producing environmentally friendly buses. In 2002, they released their first hybrid model and in 2004, they produced a hydrogen fuel-cell bus aimed to to test the viability of clean-fuel technology. After more research, Gillig created a Hybrid startstop technology bus that turned the engine off while idling, used only electric propulsion and produced zero emissions when the battery was sufficiently charged, according to Gillig.

The Hayward-based bus company is just one of 315 in the world and the only other major one in North America along with New Flyer Industries Inc. in Canada, according to Forbes.

Dhillon said the company could have seeked a new residence out of state, however, they chose to keep it in state, despite a much cheaper cost if they moved out of California.

The facility is brand new, built from the ground up and according to Dhillon it has a, “Purposed design, larger facility, laid out more efficiently, slat conveyor moving assembly line and custom designed toolings and fixtures.”

While there are no new plans or projects on the horizon, Dhillon said the primary purpose of the move was for “Capacity and efficiencies.”

Dhillon said the area in Hayward is a “prime piece of real estate” and at some point the site would “likely be developed” by another company.

On Feb. 7, Cal State East Bay’s Information and Technology Services launched a transit module on the CSUEB mobile app, where students can view shuttle, BART and AC Transit line 60’s stop times.

The app gives students a time estimate for the shuttle's arrival and a full schedule of departure and arrival times.

The app tracks the AC Transit 60 bus’ current location through a live stream the AC transit website, which was integrated into the app.

There are currently four Hayward shuttles and one Castro Valley shuttle that runs Monday to Thursday, two Hayward shuttles and one Castro Valley on Friday and one Hayward shuttle that runs on weekends.

Hayward shuttles run seven days a week while the Castro Valley shuttle only runs during the week. Each shuttle drops and picks up students around campus while doing a round-

trip to the Bart and campus.

ITS noticed that on the CSUEB website, the Parking and Transportation services page was the second mostviewed page after Student Housing, which ranked number one during the 2016-2017 school year, according to alternative transportation lead, Brenda Amaral.

In January 2017, ITS offered the Parking and Transportation services an opportunity to have a section on the CSUEB mobile app, according to Derrick Lobo, parking and transportation manager at CSUEB. The transit module took one month for ITS to develop at no cost.

Students are able to download it for free, according to Amaral and CSUEB web developer, Avi Fhima.

There are currently three shuttles that have GPS, but are not currently advertised due to the GPS being too slow at tracking them.

The GPSes were installed in 2014 through a contract with Fleetmattics, a Verizon company that provides mobile workplace solutions for businesses.

In the future, parking services plans to sign a contract with a new vendor that will provide a faster service.The contract is set to end on Dec. 31, 2017.

Although shuttles are not tracked on the app, Lobo and Amaral are looking for new vendors and hope to have a new GPS installed and integrated into the transit module by fall 2018.

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Softball teams goes 3-1 at home over the weekend

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The Cal State East Bay women's softball team hosted California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference rival the UC San Diego Tritons on Friday and Saturday at Pioneer Softball Field on the Hayward campus. The Pioneers won three of the four games during the homestand and outscored the Tritons 15-10 in the series. Next up for the women is a trip to Carson to take on Cal State Dominguez Hills on Saturday and Sunday. Left: Cal State East Bay sophomore right-handed pitcher Bailee Glover fires a pitch during the game against the San Diego Tritons on Saturday at Pioneer Softball Field on the Hayward campus. Top: Cal State East Bay senior catcher Ali Cerminara hits the ball during the game against the San Diego Tritons held on Saturday at home. Above: The Cal State East Bay women's softball team huddle before their conference home game against UC San Diego on Saturday.

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'Ghost Town to Havana’ film inspires, connects

By Cristian Medina CONTRIBUTOR For many people, baseball is just a game. Some even find it boring. For others, it’s a way of life. It’s something that you’re born into and something that fills you with an indescribable sense of pride.

For members of an Oakland youth baseball team, it was a way out of a less-than-desirable life.

The documentary film “Ghost Town to Havana” follows this baseball team from the tough Ghost Town neighborhood in Oakland as they learn the game and its lessons, which culminates into a trip to Havana, Cuba to play against another team.

The documentary, produced by local and Academy Award nominated filmmaker Eugene Corr and released in 2013, chronicles the struggle and frailty in the American inner city and makes the argument that sports, especially baseball, can be important in building character and improving lives.

On March 2, Cal State East Bay welcomed Corr, a coach and player from the documentary for a screening of the film.

The event was organized and hosted by history professor and baseball enthusiast Benjamin Klein in the Old University Union building at Cal State East Bay’s Hayward campus.

Corr’s love for baseball stems from his youth and watching his father coach college baseball in Richmond in the 1950s.

His father coached at Contra Costa College and Corr grew up to play college baseball against his own father.

He became inspired to make a film about baseball after visiting a baseball field in Havana during a trip to Cuba in 2007.

“I felt like it was a time warp, like I had walked back into Richmond, California in 1952,” Corr said. “The same level of skill, the same enthusiasm, the same racial mix and the same love and absolute love of the game.”

In Havana, he met a local mentor and baseball coach, Nicolas Reyes.

His dedication to the kids he coached was unlike anything he had seen before.

Reyes spent most of his time teaching children the game for almost no compensation while also caring for his own family and his wife who was in poor health.

This led him to make a film about the impact of mentors like Reyes in baseball.

Corr soon came into contact with a coach in Oakland named Roscoe Bryant.

Coach Roscoe, as many call him, put together the baseball team in 2005 in response to the shooting death of a boy in front of his house.

With nothing but baseball equipment from flea markets and motivation, Bryant founded the Oakland Royals youth baseball team through the Cal Ripken/ Babe Ruth baseball organization.

His goal was to teach the boys values that are hard to come by in a tough neighborhood. He called the team the “Royals” because he saw these children as the future kings and queens of their communities.

Seeing the similarities between Reyes and Bryant, Corr decided to document both coaches side by side. Corr introduced the two coaches through videotape and Bryant vowed to take his team from the Ghost Town neighborhood of Oakland to Havana, Cuba to play Reyes’ team.

When Bryant earned that sometimes up to three kids in Cuba would share one glove, he and the team decided to donate old equipment so that everyone of Reyes’ team could have their own glove and bat.

In 2011, when the Obama administration modified the travel policy to Cuba, it became possible for the Oakland Royals to make their trip to play Reyes’ team.

The team arrived in Havana and encountered an entirely different culture and different style of living.

Baseball in Cuba is sometimes seen as a way out of the poverty and strife.

A high volume of major league players come from Cuba where baseball is almost taught since birth.

While both inner city areas like Ghost Town and Havana struggle economically, they differ in terms of family struc-

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Attendees watch the documentary "Ghost Town to Havana" on the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus on March 2. ture.

In Cuba, the family structure is different and in some ways stronger than what the boys from Ghost Town were used to. The film shows a family consisting of not just a mother and a father but also siblings and other extended family.

In Cuba, children are cared for “impossibly well.”

The documentary explains how in inner cities, one or sometimes both parents are absent from the lives of their children. Children are often in many ways independent in their search of something to feel connected to.

Seeing the state of living in Cuba in contrast to the attitudes and happiness of the people gave the team a new perspective. “We take a lot of things for granted,” said Bryant. “Bottled water, toilet paper, soap. These are all items

that we were hard-pressed to get while we were in Cuba.”

Even though there was widespread poverty and a lack of basic needs, there was still a sense of positivity from the Cuban people.

“I was humbled because to see a culture of people with so little… they had the most positive outlook on life,” Bryant said. “The family structure was still intact, the way they loved, the way they played, the passion, was a beautiful refreshing thing for me.”

Rontral Acrement, one of the players who was on the Royals team and is now 17, attended the screening and talked about how his experience taught him the value of “having things.” He learned a lesson in what it means to need something versus want something. Acrement said that after the Cuba trip, he never

asked for things he knew he didn’t need.

“I think it brought a sense of pride to our community first and foremost,” Bryant said when asked about the impact the trip had on him and the rest of the team. “It also opened the eyes of a lot of children.”

Sports can be so much more than just games. Before the trip, the Royals saw baseball just as something fun they got to do on weekends.

After, they saw just how important it can be in a community like Havana which has baseball rooted in its culture.

The hope of Corr is that with leaders and mentors like Bryant and Reyes, kids can continue to be inspired to make positive changes in their communities whether or not it’s through sport. “If there were more Bryant and Reyes, the world would be a better place,” said Corr.

Queer community make themselves known

By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER On March 3 and 4, CSUEB students, universities, nonprofit organizations, a plethora of 18 to mid-20-year-olds and parents entered the New Union at Cal State East Bay’s Hayward campus armed with goodie bags filled with notebooks, pens, brochures and plastic water bottles for the 2nd annual Queer Conference.

The two-day event featured presentations by activists in the LGBTQ community, CSUEB faculty and students. This year’s conference was called “Connecting Our Communities” and focused on building a stronger community.

A pre-conference was held at the New Union with a three-hour workshop on “Trans Allyship,” which taught attendees about about the “trans” and gender non-binary identities.

On March 3, CSUEB vice president of Student Affairs, Julie Wong, hosted the opening address. Shane Ortega, featured on HBO’s documentary “Translist” and the first transgender person to transition while on active duty for the United States military, was the keynote speaker for this year’s event.

On March 4, attendees chose from 19 different events that ranged from panels, roundtable discussions, presentations and workshops.

The events were hosted by CSUEB professors, faculty and LGBTQ activists, according to Liam Hawkyard, co-founder of the Queer Conference.

Topics included current social issues

and politics within the queer community and advice on how to “survive” in it.

There were presentations about extending support for people with non-binary gender identities and acknowledging the struggles that occur within the queer community that are often not discussed by mainstream media.

The event was co-funded by ASI and Diversity and Inclusion Student Center with a budget of $15,000, which was used for a breakfast of danishes, muffins, fruit and water.

The money was also used for a lunch of sandwiches and various supplies for the event, which included pens, notebooks, Queer Conference bags and pamphlets, according to Hawkward.

Out of the 160 spots available due to the fire code, 127 people attended the conference.

Before he graduated CSUEB in 2016, Hawkyard and his friend Bucket Mayweather wanted to create an event where people could learn about being a young person in the queer community in today’s society.

They organized the first annual Queer Conference last year.

“People are like ‘oh I totally support LGBTQ equality’ but it's like ok, well what are you doing? And the answer is usually nothing,” said Hawkyard.

Hawkyard, who identifies as transgender, grew up in a small conservative town called Sanger in Fresno County, but always felt like he received a lack of support from the local community, who had conservative views and did not agree with being queer. Although he received support from his parents when he

came out as a lesbian in high school, he was often picked on by his peers for being overtly “queer.”

“I always wanted to have short hair and dress as a boy and so then people would pick on me and call me ‘she-male’ and stuff like that,” Hawkyard said.

After Hawkyard graduated high school, he attended Mills College in Oakland, an all-women's university, where he was exposed to a more supportive queer community.

While there, he found people he could relate to and learned more about the queer community, which led him to appreciate the Bay Area.

“It’s more acceptable, it’s more open, you can find community out here,” said Hawkyard. “It’s definitely light years ahead of where I grew up.”

Hawkward transferred to Cal State East Bay as a junior in 2013, where he began his transition to a male.

He received counseling services from the Pacific Center, a non-profit organization in Berkeley that serves the LGBTQ community, where he met other people who were transitioning. During his transition, Hawkyard felt that CSUEB lacked resources for queer students.

Hawkyard worked with CSUEB student housing, Pioneer Heights, to get gender-neutral housing on campus, where students now don’t have to live with the same gender.

For the past few years, Hawkyard has worked with the Diversity & Inclusion Student Center, Student Affairs and facilities to get more gender-inclusive bathrooms on Cal State East Bay’s campus.

On Feb. 24, BaySync, a website that updates students on campus events, announced that two new single stall all-gender restrooms installed on the second floor of the University Union are now available to the public, according to Hawkyard.

“I feel relieved [that it’s opened],” said Hawkyard. “It’s something that will make the lives of future trans students much easier.”

With the lack of support from the current political administration, Hawkyard wanted this year's conference to not only talk about the importance of sexual health, but mental health as well.

“Queer and trans people are at risk of suicide.. so we really want that to be touched on,” said Hawkyard.

According to TheTrevorProject.org, a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for the queer community, the suicide attempt rate for queer youth is four times greater than that of straight youth.

Representatives from the CSUEB Queer Straight Alliance, which was founded during fall 2016, volunteered at

the Queer Conference.

Co-president of QSA and hospitality major Raechelle Martinez said the organization found the conference important because it allows members to meet new people and expand their network.

“We get to see people we wouldn’t normally see at school and we get to make more connections and broaden our horizons and be visible as a community,” said Martinez.

Second-year QSA member, Christopher Hester, hosted a workshop called, “Keep Calm: Fidget On,” a presentation on how and why “fidget toys” are effective to decrease stress. Fidget toys are small devices that fit the palm of a hand in comes in forms of balls stuffed with cotton or fleece bags.

These help people keep focus, calm and active, according FriendshipCircle. org, a non-profit organization that provides support for special needs and their families. “I wanted to share that with other members of the community because being a part of the community can be stressful and trying and we all need our ways to get through our hard times,” said Hester.

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The fight continues for the Golden State Warriors arena

By Victoria Groenewold and Thania Arce CONTRIBUTORS Hard hats on, neon vests worn, cranes in the air. After a six year struggle, the Golden State Warriors Arena is finally being built.

The organization will move its team from Oakland’s Oracle Arena to San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. Construction on the $1 billion team-funded 18,000 seat arena began Jan. 17. The move to the new facility will occur in the 2019-2020 NBA season, according to NBC Bay Area News.

The new arena will be more modern and interactive for fans, better food options to enjoy during the game and if a person can’t afford a ticket, they can still experience the game as they watch from a restaurant window. The idea for this state-of-the-art arena, also called Chase Center, started in 2010 under ownership of Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, according to the Mercury News.

“I like it because this means the team is growing and becoming bigger and better. They’re the best team in basketball and deserve an amazing new stadium which Oakland can’t offer,” said Daniel Hoffknecht, a resident of Oakland.

However, the Mission Bay Alliance has strongly opposed the building of the new arena.

The group includes former UCSF researchers, faculty and stakeholders involved in protecting the future of healthcare and biomedical research at Mission Bay, as stated by their homepage.

This group filed lawsuits against the idea of an arena on grounds it would affect the environment, traffic and overall safety of the community. Although San Francisco Superior Court judge Garrett Wong did rule, on July 18, 2016, in favor of the arena being built in the city, Mission Bay Alliance sources stated that they will continue to fight it.

The move has wide impact on parking, traffic, the neighboring hospital and overall fan ticket affordability.

Kanchana Mukka works in the technology department for SFPD and has concerns over the parking and overall traffic for Mission Bay. “Traffic will definitely be affected because it’s already bad as it is. We don’t have proper parking,” said Mukka. It is reported from the MLB website that AT&T Park hosts 81 home games per season and over 200 events per year which will soon be held

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at the Chase Center arena, according to the Chase Center website.

The arena is a concern for the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and the Mission Bay neighborhood. Allen Jones, a TV host and who’s going to continue the fight among the Mission Bay Alliance, expressed his concern

over the development of the new arena.

“It was a horrible idea, but the thing is when people want to cram something in, they don’t care about all the logistics,” Jones said.

The new Warriors’ home is 1,000 feet away from the hospital and down the street from AT&T Park, according

Bay Area is in free agent frenzy Raiders, 49ers sign new players

By Gabriel Armenta-Rose CONTRIBUTOR Every year a month after the Super Bowl, the NFL enters a part of the season called free agency.

Free agency is where players who are not under contract with their former team, either released or not resigned, are able to visit other teams to potentially find a new place to play with a new contract.

Unlike the NBA, where if teams are over the salary cap limit they can still sign players for a minimum contract, in the NFL you have to stay under the cap, which is determined every year by the commissioner’s office.

Teams are not allowed to go over the cap and have to structure contracts in a way that is best for the team in order to keep their best players.

San Francisco 49ers With a new head coach, general manager and just over $90 million in salary cap room to spend, the San Francisco 49ers were expected to sign some big name free agents this offseason.

The 49ers started the free agency period on March 6 through 8 when they released wide receiver Torrey Smith, center Marcus Martin and safety Antoine Bethea, which freed up more than $9 million.

The organization had 31 free agents from the 2016 roster and as of publication time, resigned only three players in defensive tackle Mike Purcell, linebacker Carl Bradford and wide receiver Jeremy Kerley.

New 49ers general manager John Lynch did exactly what people expected — brought in free agents for meetings and did not let them leave the building without signing a contract.

Some notable free agents they have signed so far are former Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon for 5 years for $47.5 million, 2016 pro bowl fullback from the Baltimore Ravens Kyle Juszczyk for 4 years at $21 million and journeyman quarterback Brian Hoyer from the Chicago Bears to a 2-year $12 million dollar deal.

After the 49ers signings they still have over $70 million in salary cap space and are heading into the NFL Draft on April 27 in Philadelphia with 10 picks.

Oakland Raiders As for the Raiders, they are one of the most talented teams in the NFL and

have $37 million in cap space.

The Raiders on the other hand only had eight free agents with only former first round pick D.J. Hayden signing with the Detroit Lions on a 1 year deal for $5.25 million.

The team did sign former Pro Bowl kick returner and wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson from the Minnesota Vikings on March 13 and signed tackle Marshall Newhouse from the New York Giants.

The Raiders haven’t been as active in free agency this year as previously, as the team has contracts to extend for their younger players such as wide receiver Amari Cooper, quarterback Derek Carr and defensive end slash linebacker Khalil Mack.

One player who has been potentially linked to the Raiders is potential future Hall of Fame running back Adrian Peterson from the Minnesota Vikings, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Peterson has made the Pro Bowl seven times in his career with the last coming in 2015 and was also the Most Valuable Player in the league in 2012.

On the other hand, the Raiders are going into the draft with their seven original draft picks and just more than $35 million in salary cap space.

to the Mission Bay Alliance website. “I hope to God it won’t get built. It’s bad enough when there is a baseball game,” said Mary Ellen Doyle who is currently a patient at UCSF Medical Center.

An estimated 2 million fans will attend the new Warriors arena every year.

Meanwhile, fans are concerned about

the affordability of season tickets.

Steve Meister who has been a season ticket holder of the Warriors for the past six years, questions if he’ll be able to renew his tickets.

“My seats will average $175 each next season and depending on the price of the seat license fee, will determine if we keep our seats. This season we sold most of our tickets to help pay for playoff tickets due to the increase cost,” said Meister. According to the Mercury News, the average price to see a Warriors game cost people $286.00 Golden State Warriors’ organization is pleased with the change. “Every city needs it. We need it. It will be great for San Francisco,” said co-owner Peter Guber at the breaking ground ceremony on Jan. 17 at the new arena site.

San Francisco fans expressed their excitement with the change too. “I love the Warriors. Any sports arena is positive for the youth and community,” said Kathleen Villasenor who is part of the Mariposa Hunters Point Yacht Club in San Francisco.

Brandon Jones, who works for Save Oakland Sports and is a member of Warriors Grounds, argues “Oakland has been the Warriors home base for over forty years. They’re a Bay Area regal team,” said Jones.

Die-hard Oakland Warrior fans have not embraced the change. “I think it’s obnoxious. They’ve been here so long and fans supported them when they were garbage and now that they’re winning, they want to move to San Francisco. Teams were more loyal to markets and now they go where the money is,” said L.D. Louis, a resident of Oakland.

Indeed, money is a major part of this arena’s new location.

Morgan Chase holds naming rights over the Warriors for the next 20 years, earning a reported $15-20 million annually, according to Sports Business Daily.

The arena is bound to change the Mission Bay neighborhood.

It was an industrial area and a parking lot for AT&T stadium visitors and now to a variety of businesses from coffee shops to bustling small housing complexes.

It also includes the SFPD as well as the Fire Department, as stated by SPUR News.

The Warriors are returning home to San Francisco where they played from 1962 to 1971, before moving to Oakland.

They started in Philadelphia where they played from 1946-1962.

Movie

From Page 2 ties show us their perspective of social issues or any type of politics in a creative way; whether it’s a romance, action or horror movie like “Get Out.” I think this will allow people to be entertained but also leave with some educational value of what is going on in today’s society.

I hope that movies in the future focus less on building the character around their skin color and movies featuring minorities become more popular. Although horror movies are my favorite, I hope “Get Out” inspires people to make unique plots and add something we don’t usually see in theatres.

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Women’s basketball season comes to an end

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The California State East Bay women’s basketball team saw their season come to an end in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II tournament.

“It is bittersweet that the season is over, but this season taught me how to fight through adversity and continue to work hard no matter the circumstances,” senior guard Shomari Harris told the Pioneer.

The Pioneers lost, 74-48, to the No.16 rated Western Washington Vikings (266 overall, 18-2 conference) on Friday in Alaska, at the Alaska Airlines Arena.

Before the loss, the Pioneer were on a nine-game winning streak which included the California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference championship, which they won for the second year in a row when they beat UC San Diego 62-53 on March 4.

East Bay did not play their best game against Western Washington, as they shot just 29 percent from the field in comparison to the Vikings 50 percent. They were also dominated in the paint 39-26, which was unusual for the Pioneers who are dominant down low. Every team that enters the NCAA tournament is dominate and it is win or go home.

“Unfortunately, we played one of our worst games of the season; it happened to be our last,” Harris said. “We did not play East Bay basketball and we never caught the flow of the game. They rushed our minds.”

In the first quarter, Western Washington came out strong and went on a 9-0 run against the Pioneers and it was evident it would be a challenge for East Bay to pull out a victory. Harris drove into the paint for a layup and got fouled with 6:01 left in the first quarter that put the game at 9-3, the smallest

point margin between the Pioneers and Vikings during the entire game.

After that, the Vikings shooting got hot and they increased their lead by 13 by the end of the first quarter, 20-7.

As the team went into the second quarter, the game was out of East Bay’s hands due to missed shots and turnovers. Western Washington continued to increase their lead, and went into the halftime break, up by 16 points.

Harris has been the key for East Bay’s success all season and played the entire 40 minutes in the game. She scored 23 points, but was just 1-for-5 from three point range, which was very uncharacteristic for the senior CCAA conference player of the year. The Pioneers as a unit were also only 2-for-17 from behind the three-point line, which hindered them from making any type of comeback.

“It was rough out there,” freshman forward Morgan Greene said. “I just feel that our team was so young and for all of us except Remy [Puou] this was the first time we played in a game on this platform. Ultimately, it isn’t an excuse, but we just were not as experienced and Western Washington was hitting shots and we were not.”

Western Washington continued to score in the second half and East Bay did not, which led to the loss and the end of the season for the Pioneers.

Greene had 10 rebounds, sophomore guard Elayshia Woolridge had 8 points and senior center Remy Puou had 4 points and 3 rebounds.

The Pioneers obtained an incredible amount of success this season ending their season 22-9 overall and 16-4 in conference. East Bay will lose two huge contributors in Puou and Harris, but they have a promising group of young players like Greene and Woolridge and a coaching staff led by first year head coach Shanele Stires.

“Even though we lost, it taught each of us younger players the level that we

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Cal State East Bay senior guard Shomari Harris looks for an open teammate during the game against the Stanislaus State Warriors on Feb. 25 at Pioneer Gymnasium on the Hayward campus. have to get to and how all of us have room for improvement,” Greene said.

“Losing senior leaders like Shomari and Remy will definitely be a big loss of

us, but I am excited about the incoming players coach is bringing in. I think we can do some great things next year as long as we remain determined. Coach

has talked to us and enforced on how much us returners need to get serious about getting better for next season, and we will.”

Pioneers bucked by Broncos at home

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The California State East Bay water polo team’s six game win-streak ended on Saturday versus Santa Clara University.

Before the Pioneers faced the Broncos, the team had the opportunity to play against the Chinese National Team in a scrimmage on March 9.

“We were able to learn a lot against the Chinese National Team,” Senior utility Brandi Carroll said. “The were very talented and skilled and it was good to see an example of how we should play, and motivated us to work even harder.”

Ahead of playing Santa Clara (5-13 overall, 0-1 conference), the Pioneers had an idea of what they were up against as they played the Broncos earlier in the season, but fell 6-4 on Feb. 4 in Santa Clara.

The Pioneers came out strong in the first quarter as they were aggressive and put the first point on the board when senior two-meter Olivia Mackell scored.

After that the Pioneers and Broncos continued to exchange goals throughout the first quarter and went into the second quarter tied 3-3.

The second quarter was a different story for the Pioneers.

Santa Clara took control of the the game and went on a 6-0 run in the quarter, keeping the Pioneers from scoring even a single goal in the entire frame, which put the Broncos up 9-3 and the Pioneers in a tough position.

“We kept making little mistakes that resulted in goals, and just were not able to convert plays like we had in the

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Cal State East Bay senior goalkeeper Nikki Vaughan attempts to block a shot during the game against the Santa Clara Broncos on March 11 at Pioneer Pool on the Hayward campus. first quarter,” senior goalkeeper Nikki Vaughan said. “It was very unfortunate because we were neck-and-neck with them.”

In the third and fourth quarters the Pioneers sharpened up a bit and only allowed 2 more goals throughout the two quarters.

Vaughan had a big 1-on-1 breakaway

save in the third quarter that gave the Pioneers some much needed momentum.

East Bay added 4 goals, but it was not enough to override the Broncos and they fell 11-7.

Carroll led the team in goals with 2, one of which came after she was hit in the face by a Santa Clara player.

Vaughan had 8 saves in three quarters.

The Pioneers will play the Chinese National team again on March 16 in preparation for the Roadrunner Invitational in Bakersfield, which starts on March 18.

East Bay will face some of the top the teams in the nation including #7 ranked Arizona State and #10 ranked

Princeton, as well as California State Bakersfield and San Diego State.

“It will be very challenging, but fun to go out there and play against some of the best players in the nation,” Carroll said. “Princeton has 2016 Olympic Gold medalist Ashleigh Johnson on their team, so it will be great to go against a player like her.”