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Latino transfer students lean on young program GANAS celebrates first graduating class

By Louis LaVenture SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR Most people believe that getting into college is difficult and it is. But the harder part is once you get accepted, obtaining a degree.

For Hispanic and Latino transfer students this has been an especially glaring problem according to the university’s transfer and retention rates. According to the University Diversity Officer Dianne Rush Woods, “Just 25 percent of African American and Latino students graduate over six years, while 46 percent of all other ethnicities graduate over the same time span at CSUEB.” GANAS, which stands for “Gaining Access ‘N Academic Success,” is entering its third year at CSUEB and was initiated to, “smooth the process of transition for community college transfer students to Cal State East Bay and increase the

baccalaureate degree attainment of program participants,” according to the GANAS website.

The program began in fall of 2013 with 35 students and on June 7 GANAS honored 25 of those students who graduated after two years and two that graduated after just one year at CSUEB after starting the program at the same time.

Many of the students were the first in their family to attend college and come from low-income environments.

While GANAS is open to all students, its primary focus is on Latino students with 90 or more units of transfer credit.

The program also aims to make teaching, counseling and mentoring cohesive so they can specialize the college experience for students in hopes of helping them obtain a degree.

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Castro Valley’s nudist recreation center opens

By Brianne Kaleo CONTRIBUTOR Dave Crutois is 63 years old and wears a suit to work as an engineer, but on the weekends, he wears nothing but a coat of sunscreen on the lawn at Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center, down Cull Canyon Road between the hills of Castro Valley.

“My daughter wonders where I get the tan all the time,” Crutois said. He claims to be a nudist since he was born but officially became a nudist in 2008.

“I’ve gotten comfortable in my own skin, hair and all,” said Crutois.

Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center is open to the public for its summer season from April to October. Founded in 1947 by a group of seven families, the recreation center has been open year-round for nude swimming, hiking, and relaxation. A board of directors of Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center currently owns the 80-acre non-profit organization in Castro Valley.

Bill Hendricks, President of Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center, designed the park for nudists to express their freedom and represent the idea that everyone is equal.

“Nudists are not exhibitionists,” Hendricks said. “It’s not walking the streets of downtown San Francisco to prove something. It’s about relaxing, feeling comfortable, acceptance of yourself and others.”

Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center has a recreation hall, a pool, hot tub, eight hiking trails, and a basketball court. The club hosts various events

such as the Naked Village Disco Dance, ‘20s Prohibition Dance, Lingerie Dance/ Fashion Show, The Pub Crawl-Poker Run, and arts and craft festivals.

This co-operative clothes-free club has about 100 members and roughly 200-300 seasonal association members, or prospective members. During the week and the off-season from November to March, Sequoians is only open to their members and American Association for Nude Recreation/International Naturist Federation members who must have prior reservations.

During registration for becoming a member of Sequoians all applicants are put through an intensive background check. Any inappropriate behavior such as harassment or gawking that makes anyone uncomfortable is not permitted and offenders are immediately escorted off the premises.

“The beaches have the gawkers, guys with cameras, and people who are non-nudists make nudists uncomfortable and vice versa,” said Beverly Axelrad, Treasurer of Sequoians and nudist.

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Top left: A sign displayed outside the Recreational Hall Saturday afternoon in Castro Valley. Top right: Beverly Axelrad and Bill Hendricks pose at the Recreational Hall in the Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center in Castro Valley Saturday. Bottom: A view of the front of the Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center in Castro Valley Saturday afternoon.

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Nudists are NOT exhibitionists.”

- - Bill Hendricks, President of Sequonians Nudist Recreation Center

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Orange is not the new black Do not mask your identity for personal gain

By Mario Bohanon CONTRIBUTOR

For the last eight years, Rachel Dolezal lived her life as a Black woman.

She was president of the Spokane chapter of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, in Washington since 2014.

She married a Black man and they

had a child together. She attended Howard University, a historically Black university. She chose to perm her hair and tan her skin, which in turn made her look closer to a Black woman.

There is nothing wrong with Dolezal choosing to identify as Black or with Black culture. It is a beautiful thing when a person chooses to fully embrace a culture that is different from the one that they were born into.

The real problem is that Dolezal withheld the truth about her identity as a white woman.

Dolezal’s life became national news when it was revealed that she was not the

ethnicity she had been claiming to be.

It was specifically brought up after she refused to answer a question on whether or not she was white by a reporter.

This was further agitated by the fact that the NAACP is an organization formed with the desire to provide equal rights and eliminate discrimination based on ethnicity.

What made it a national debate is that Dolezal brought a new option to the table for people, the possibility of being transracial. Transracial is when a person changes their racial identity to one of which that person truly believes that they are, similar but quite different

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to the topic of being transexual.

Every day, men and women straighten their hair, bleach their skin and wear contacts to change the color of their eyes, but Dolezal chose to tan herself and perm her hair, which is associated with her attempt to identify as a Black woman physically.

The idea of people changing their appearance to what they believe to be the look of another ethnicity can be offensive, which is why her doing so was controversial. Ther is a lot of cultural sensitivity and conflicts in belief about the physical aspects of an ethnicity. But, at the very least, Dolezal has chosen to represent herself as an educated well-mannered woman identifying with the Black culture.

It is difficult to agree with critics who ridicule her lifestyle choice and compare it to blackface. Dolezal did not intentionally mean to insult or satirize the Black population by changing her skin color. I feel she was under the impression that to truly be the person she believes she is, altering her skin color was necessary.

If you claim to be Black, but are the fairest in the land, it is going to be more difficult to convince others as opposed to if your skin was darker.

The bigger issue at hand is that choosing to identify as one ethnicity or another does not genetically alter a person’s heritage or lineage.

During an interview with NBC on June 16, Dolezal said she began to identify as Black at the age of five.

Though I am supportive of her choice to embrace Black culture, it is hard to believe that anyone can choose at the age of five to identify as an ethnicity different from their own, especially in a household in which both parents of the child identified as white.

However, we should not condone lying. Dolezal’s choice to identify as Black is deplorable. On an application, you should choose the ethnicity you were born as, not the one you have transitioned to.

By choosing to lie, Dolezal sends the message that it is acceptable to lie about who you really are. In doing so she has deceived the very people she has worked to stand for and be apart of. Now everyone will only know of her as the white woman that tried to be black.

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Nudist From Page 1

“Sequoians is organized and safer especially for women. This place is gorgeous with wildlife and I get to walk around naked all week.”

Sequoians is a member of the INF, an organization consisting of member federations in over 30 countries. Within these federations around the world, there are over a thousand clubs, clothing optional resorts, nude beaches, and holiday centers.

The recreation center is also a member of the AANR, the largest, most long-established organization of its kind in North America. The AANR’s mission is to advocate nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings while educating and informing society of their value and enjoyment.

Jo Ann Keesee, who is 54 years old and works as an account executive for advertising, claims that Sequoians is a family. “This place is unique,” said Keesee. “It is my life, it’s my lifestyle, it’s who I am now, it’s my family, it’s my friends, it’s my boyfriend.”

Keesee came to Sequoians and has stayed since August of 2011. “I can’t imagine a life other than this,” said Keesee. “When you take off the clothes, you take off so many other things, you don’t know who is rich and who’s poor and you don’t care.”

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Top: An upper level view displays the outer area of the Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center in Castro Valley Saturday. Middle left: A sign in Italian displayed outside of the Recreation Center Saturday. Middle right: A lounging area outside of the Sequoians Nudist Recreation Center in Castro Valley Saturday. Bottom: An outdoor eating area displayed outside of the Recreation Center in Castro Valley Saturday afternoon.

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Pioneer of the week: Natali Morris Alumna guides community through the tech world

By Kris Stewart

ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Cal State East Bay alumna Natali Morris has lived a life filled with gadgets and gizmos through her career as a tech journalist. Morris, formerly Del Conte, has had her foot in the tech world for years and has worked for a variety of media outlets some including CNET TV, CBS News, MSNBC, the BBC, the CW, WIRED, Oakland Tribune and more, where she utilized skills acquired during her time at CSUEB. As a tech journalist Morris specializes in consumer technology opposed to enterprise technology.

She reports on what the average consumer would use, buy or interact with.

For Morris, being brought up in the Bay Area included spending time at the beach, traveling to wineries, camping and trips to Santa Cruz. “I think I took advantage of everything the Bay Area had to offer,” said Morris. Away from the Bay Area for seven years and now living on the East Coast, Morris misses her city by the bay and expressed that she’s always happy to see her hometown when flying into San Francisco.

Currently a freelance journalist at NBC and a full time mommy of three, Morris’ workload varies depending on assignments she pitches to the network.

“My parents used to drill into us that you get out of something what you put into it,” said Morris. “Freelancing is such a quintessential example of that. If I want to work, I have to hustle for assignments. If I don’t want to work, I am a busy mommy and some weeks that is more than enough.”

Other days, Morris will get an assignment from a producer or editor with one or two days to research, conduct interviews and get ready to go on air. “I love that part,” she exclaims. Morris says she learned to “organize information and synthesize it in an organized way” during her time at Mission San Jose

High School in Fremont.

Morris stores and archives information from interviews, which is especially useful if anything she writes, is contested or challenged. “If someone denies having said something that they were quoted saying, I can refer to the transcripts of our interviews verbatim,” she explained. Interview transcripts, links to research, and assignments from editors are all kept in one place. She even writes her stories in the same notebook.

“I like having it all in one place, even the finished piece,” said Morris.

Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness Morris was not allowed to move away for college and had to decide between San Jose State and Cal State East Bay. “I think the difference between going to a commuter school and going to a fancier university is that everyone there is elective,” Morris said. “They are working or they are working to put themselves through their education. They’re more invested in their education. It’s harder for them than someone whose parents paid their own way. Because of that I felt like everyone cared a lot.”

Morris studied in the Mass Communication department and graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. Like most who graduated from CSUEB prior to the university name change, Morris still recognized her alma mater by the original name. “I still can’t really identify with Cal State East Bay just because my degree says Hayward and my father’s degree says Hayward,” she said.

Morris noticed the difference between commuter colleges and what she referred to as fancier colleges when she attended the University of Southern California where she received her graduate degree in Sociology with an emphasis in Mass Media. “I can see the difference between people who are just sent on someone else’s dime and people who are going there of their own grit and bootstrap and I really loved that about my university,” she said in regards to her time at CSUEB. There’s a constant debate regarding whether college degrees are needed for a successful life. While Morris isn’t sure if a degree is necessary, if she could go back in time she would make changes to how she learned.

“I think that, had I to do it again, I

definitely would’ve gone to college but I would’ve tried harder to find an internship,” Morris said. “I didn’t do that. I would’ve tried harder to make my education more of an apprenticeship but I do really love what I learned as a college student. I learned to learn and I think that’s really important.”

As a journalist, Morris has noticed a change in the industry from when she first began her career over ten years ago.

“We have to now be authentic in a way that was never accepted before,” she continued. “I’m interested to see how that continues to evolve because like I said there’s so much noise with technology being so pervasive that people can just tune out whoever they don’t want to talk to or whoever they don’t want to listen to.”

As she reflects on her career, she attributes her success to the ability and bravery of saying yes. “I tell people just be flexible and be willing to say yes until it doesn’t work for you and then you try something else. But if I hadn’t been either brave or stupid, I wouldn’t have tried to make a transition from either a writer to a broadcaster,” said Morris. “I was so grateful that I said yes more often than I said no. I’m just so proud of myself for having the guts to do it.”

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GANAS From Page 1 programs, Training and the Puente Project at UC Berkeley Julia Vergara said with the increased success of the program they are hopeful they can replicate the CSUEB model at other community colleges and San Diego State except with participants being incoming freshman instead of transfer students.

Since the program’s inception in 2013, there were 474 Hispanic transfer students enrolled at CSUEB and by fall 2014 84 percent of those students graduated or were still enrolled either parttime or full-time while the rest either dropped out or put school on hold.

While those rates include freshman as well as transfer students, many transfers have a tough transition time and

just two years to figure out their new campus, which leads to the low retention rates according to the GANAS website.

Co-founder of GANAS at CSUEB and Special Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affair, Diana Balgas, said in an interview with CSUEB last week, “I am often taken aback in how much they have grown individually and collectively in a relatively short period of time. We are a familia.”

For the spring quarter of 2014, the average GPA of GANAS students at CSUEB was 3.26 while the average GPA for all students was 2.96.

Latino students at CSUEB in that same quarter had an average GPA of 2.85 and according to GANAS their students performing better than average despite 81 percent of students in the GANAS program working part-time.

Students in the program also get paired with a mentor in order to aid in the transition process.

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La mayoría de la gente cree que entrar a la universidad es difícil y lo es, pero la parte más difícil es obtener un título una vez se ha sido admitido.

Para estudiantes hispanos y latinos transferidos esto ha sido un problema especialmente flagrante de acuerdo a las tasas de transferidos y retenidos de la universidad.

De acuerdo con la directiva de la Diversidad de la Universidad Dianne Rush Woods, “sólo el 25 por ciento de afroamericanos y latinos se gradúan en seis años, mientras que el 46 por ciento de todos los grupos étnicos restantes se gradúan en el mismo lapso de tiempo en la UECBE.” GANAS que significa “Ganando Acceso y Éxito Académico,” está entrando en su tercer año en la UECBE y se inició para “facilitar el proceso de transición para los estudiantes transferidos de colegios comunitarios a la UECBE y aumentar los logros del grado de

o más unidades de créditos transferidos.

El programa también tiene como objetivo hacer cohesiva la enseñanza, el asesoramiento y la tutoría para estudiantes con la esperanza de ayudarles a obtener un título.

La Directora de Programas de Colegios Comunitarios, Entrenamiento y el Proyecto Puente en la UC de Berkeley Julia Vergara dijo que con el aumento del éxito del programa tienen la esperanza de que puedan replicar el modelo de la UECBE en los colegios comunitarios y la universidad estatal de San Diego, excepto con estudiantes de primer año

en lugar de estudiantes transferidos.

Mientras que esas tasas incluyen tanto a estudiantes de primer año como a estudiantes transferidos, muchos transferidos tienen un tiempo de transición difícil y tan sólo dos años para averiguar su nuevo campus, lo que lleva a las bajas tasas de retención de acuerdo con la página web de GANAS. La co-fundadora de GANAS en la UECBE y Asistenta Especial del Vicepresidente de Asuntos Estudiantiles, Diana Balgas, dijo en una entrevista con la UECBE la semana pasada, “a menudo me desconcierta lo mucho que han crecido individualmente y colectivamente en un periodo de tiempo relativamente corto.

Somos una familia.”

El trimestre de primavera de 2014, la nota media de los alumnos de GANAS en la UECBE fue un 3.26 mientras que el promedio para todos los estudiantes fue un 2.96. Estudiantes latinos en la UECBE en ese mismo trimestre tuvieron una nota media de 2.85 y de acuerdo con GANAS sus estudiantes lo hicieron mejor que la media a pesar de que el 81 por ciento de los estudiantes en GANAS trabajan a tiempo parcial. Los estudiantes en el programa quedan emparejados con un mentor con el fin de ayudar en el proceso de transición.

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bachillerato en los participantes del programa,” según el sitio web de GANAS. El programa comenzó en otoño de 2013 con 35 alumnos y el 7 de junio GANAS honoró a 25 de esos estudiantes que se graduaron al cabo de dos año y dos que se graduaron al cabo de solo un año en la UECBE después de comenzar el programa al mismo tiempo. Muchos de los estudiantes eran los primeros de la familia en ir a la universidad y vienen de entornos de bajos ingresos.

Mientras que GANAS está abierta a todos los estudiantes su enfoque principal está en los estudiantes latinos con 90

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Durante los últimos ocho años, Dolezal ha vivido su vida como una mujer negra.

Ella fue presidente de la Asociación Nacional para el Avance de la Gente de Color, ANAGC (NAACP), capítulo en Spokane, Washington desde 2014.

Se casó con un hombre negro y tuvieron un hijo juntos. Fue a la universidad de Howard, una universidad históricamente negra. Escogió hacerse la permanente con su pelo y broncear su piel, lo que le hizo parecerse más a una mujer afroamericana.

La vida de Dolezal se convirtió en noticia nacional cuando reveló que no era étnicamente como decía ser.

Fue traído específicamente en duda después de que ella se negara a responder a una pregunta sobre si ella era blanco por un reportero.

Esto se agitó aún más por el hecho de que la ANAGC es una organización formada con el deseo de ofrecer la igualdad de derechos y eliminar la discriminación basada en el origen étnico.

Lo que lo hizo un debate nacional es que Dolezal trajo una nueva opción a la gente, la posibilidad de ser transracial.

Transracial es el cambiar su identidad racial a aquella que verdaderamente cree ser, similar pero a la vez muy diferente al tema de la comunidad de gente transexualidad.

Todos los días, los hombres y mujeres enderezan su pelo, blanquean su piel, y llevan lentillas para cambiar el color de sus ojos, pero Dolezal escogió broncearse y hacerse la permanente con su pelo, lo que se asocia con su intento de identificarse como una mujer físicamente negra.

La idea de que una persona cambie su apariencia para que sea lo que creen ser la apariencia de otra cultura puede ser ofensivo, por lo que se hizo muy con-

troversial. Pero, por lo menos Dolezal escogió representarse a si misma como una mujer educada de buenos modales que se identifica con la cultura.

Es difícil estar de acuerdo con los críticos que ridiculizan su estilo de vida y lo comparan con los que insultan los grupos con cara pintada de negro.

Dolezal no tuvo la intención de insultar a la población negra o Afroamericana al cambiar su color de piel.

Siento que estaba bajo la impresión de que para ser realmente la persona que ella cree ser, alterar su color de piel era suficiente.

Si dice ser negro, pero es la mejor del lugar va a ser más difícil para los demás a ponerse de acuerdo con quien ellas quieren ser en vida.

El problema más grande surge cuando al escoger identificarse como una etnia u otra no cambia genéticamente la herencia o linaje de una persona.

En una entrevista exclusiva con la NBC el 16 de junio de 2015, Dolezal dijo que comenzó a identificarse como negra a la edad de cinco años. Aunque soy partidario de su elección de abrazar la cultura negra, es difícil creer que alguien pueda elegir a la edad de cinco a identificarse como una etnia diferente a la suya, sobre todo en un hogar en el que ambos padres son de color blanco.

Sin embargo, no debemos tolerar la mentira. La elección de Dolezal de identificarse como Afroamericana o negra en sus solicitudes de empleo es deplorable y falta respeto.

En una aplicación, se debería escoger el origen étnico con el que se ha nacido, no al que se ha cambiado.

Al elegir mentir, Dolezal envía el mensaje de que es aceptable mentir acerca de quién se es en realidad para avanzar en su propia agenda, lo que en su caso es la promoción profesional.

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Volleyball aims to spike last season

By Louis LaVenture

SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR

For the last three years, there has been no postseason volleyball at California State University, East Bay. The CSUEB women’s volleyball squad has gone 33-53 over those three years and has not produced a winning record since 2011. Despite four seniors that provided a majority of the production on the 2014 team, they did not reach the playoffs and finished last season 10-17.

Samantha Bruno, Veronica Sanchez, Amber Hall and Ashia Joseph dominated statistically for the Pioneers last year, but all of those seniors and their production are gone.

This leaves a huge void in the starting lineup that will have to be filled by a combination of incoming freshman and some veterans who showed flashes of promise in some key matches late last season in 2014.

Despite the lack of collegiate experience, many of the underclassmen contributed some impressive numbers in 2014. In her first season with the Pioneers, freshman Kiani Rayford, finished the year third behind seniors Hall and Bruno with 149 kills and 500 assists.

Another freshman, Jovan Turner, also had a great statistical season for CSUEB and finished the year fourth on the team with 145 kills and 361 assists. The fresh-

man from Torrance, Micah Hammond, led the team in blocks with 63 in 2014 and as sophomores Rayford, Turner and Hammond will be expected to produce on the floor.

“The seniors can not be replaced- but these incoming freshman will develop along with the athletes brought in last year to form a excellent team in 2016,” CSUEB Head Coach Jim Spagle said.

“Many of the freshman will be asked to jump right into the red hot skillet known as the CCAA right from the start.”

Defensively, the departure of the senior Sanchez leaves a literal hole in the middle of the defense. Sanchez played the defensive specialist position in the middle of the floor that is responsible for the majority of digs and defensive responsibilities. Junior from Fontana Angie Maina and freshman Brandi Brucato from Reno, Nevada combined for over 500 digs last season and played the position in many matches late in the season that seemed to give the team a boost down the stretch.

In January, Spagle announced that high school seniors Taylor Brown, Claire Dietrich, Kiki Leuteneker and Julie Navarro all signed national letters of intent to join the Pioneers in 2015. All four players are listed at over six-feet tall while Dietrich and Leuteneker are listed at six-feet-two-inches and sixfeet-three-inches respectively. Brown, Dietrich, and Navarro are all from California while Leuteneker is from Makawao, Hawaii. Spagle also recruited three more freshmen, a sophomore and two junior college transfer students.

“My expectations for this team are that all members develop into a true team,” Spagle said. “Each embraces accountability, and as a team we compete at a high level every match.”

Spagle said he is confident that the combination of the newcomers and the returning players will be a recipe for success and a postseason return in the 2015 season.

Lost senior production

Veronica Sanchez

Amber Hall

Samantha Bruno

Played in 25 of 27 games, finished with 186 digs.

First on team with 361.5 total points and 324 kills.

Second on team with 297.5 total points and 266 kills.

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