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THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 2016
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Winter 2016 Issue 3
Student and staff say goodbye to professors
Why ‘The Donald’ is the renewer of democracy
By Lisette Torres
By Yousuf Fahimuddin
ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
CONTRIBUTOR
It is a somber time for Cal State East Bay, as students, faculty and staff say goodbye to three professors and pioneers this month: Dr. Delmo Della-Dora, Dr. Douglas Sprague and Dr. Diane Satin. The Office of Academic Affairs informed the university of the passing of Della-Dora, Professor Emeritus of Teacher Education who was a faculty member from 1973 to 1992 and was recognized for his community involvement. He served as president to local, non-profit organization, Ruby’s Place, a domestic-violence shelter, for many years. Memorial services will be Jan. 23 at 3 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church in Castro Valley. His cause of death is unknown at this time. The Academic Affair’s office also confirmed the passing of Dr. Douglas Sprague, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology on Jan. 6. Dr. Sprague was a faculty member for 40 years. His memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 30th, at 2 p.m., at Starr King Unitarian Universalist Church in Hayward. His cause of death was also undisclosed at the time of publication. School officials announced the passing of professor Dr. Diane Satin on Jan. 9. The Department of Accounting and Finance shared the sad news with faculty members and students on Jan. 14. According to the department, Dr. Satin was deeply involved with numerous university groups and served on various committees. Dr. Satin was an active professor, teaching three accounting courses this quarter. Her career at CSUEB began in September 1990 and she contributed greatly to the department since. The university held a memorial service for Dr. Satin on Wednesday in the New University Union. Many attended the service to remember and pay their respects. “She would always request larger classes to accommodate her students,” Dr. Nancy Marigold, accounting and finance chair, recalled as she held back tears, “she was doing what she loved to do.”
“The Donald” is a gift to democracy. Donald Trump’s existence as a candidate is a movement within itself. Trump is like a piece of art, he’s got value, but is often misunderstood. He is to the political process what Occupy Wall Street was to, well, Wall Street. Maybe not intentionally, but that’s what he is. Hear me out. Donald Trump is a grotesque candidate and that’s what makes him fantastic, because even though most Americans despise his tendency to devolve into hate speech, we still love to hear it because it’s entertaining. The media is obsessed with him — since the start of his campaign there have been 2,159 reports about him, and that’s just from CNN alone, according to media analytics cruncher Zignal Labs. In total, Trump was the story in reports by CNN, FOX and MSNBC more than 5,000 times during the period of June 16, 2015 to Sept. 14, 2015. Three months of “Trump-mania” figures out to about 55 new stories about him, every day. Naturally his rise in the polls match the proportion of media coverage he’s received. In a field filled with the usual serial politicians peddling lies to the American people like Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and actual closeted extremists like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee, it’s been interesting to watch a candidate make a mockery of the presidential voting process that has become so fake and plastic.
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Poets get paid through contest By Wendy Medina COPY EDITOR
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Attention Bay Area: The Super Bowl is coming Region will be flooded with people for the football festivities By Louis LaVenture SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR Despite the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers’ absence from the 2016 NFL postseason, the Bay Area will feel the impact of Super Bowl 50. The big game will be at the home of the 49ers, Levi’s Stadium, on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, which brings with it a unique set of situations. With
the entire sports and media world focused on the final game, it was estimated by Sports Illustrated Magazine that hundreds of thousands to potentially millions of people could visit the city and surrounding areas. This means the East Bay will feel that presence of visitors as well. According to a statement released by the NFL, San Jose, Santa Clara, Oakland and San Francisco will all host events related to the game, which should drive up hotels, restaurants and retail profits for the Bay Area. According to the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona which hosted Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, the city as well as the surrounding cities like Phoe-
nix, Scottsdale, Mesa and Tempe all reported increases in tourism spending upwards of 120 percent above the normal rate for that same time of year traditionally. As most of the events, like concerts by Alicia Keys and OneRepublic in San Francisco, fans will have to look to surrounding cities for places to stay and shop. “Bay Area traffic is already very congested, especially during peak traffic times,” Michael Cassidy, UC Berkeley Professor of Transportation Engineering said. “If those numbers are accurate, with an additional million or so people in the greater Bay
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Cal State East Bay’s English department is offering cash for all original poetry. The 11th annual Helen “Jackie” DeClercq Prize for Poetry is open to all enrolled undergraduate and graduate level CSUEB students, regardless of major. Original poems may be submitted — on any subject, however family-life oriented pieces are especially welcomed — to the English Department office located in room 2579 in the Music Building. Poems submitted have a chance to win a cash prize and be published in CSUEB’s literary magazine Occam’s Razor. Prizes for the best three poems range from $250, $100 and $50. Entries must be typed and on a separate sheet of paper include your name, address, phone, email and title of poem. The limit of submissions is 3 per student and no email entries will be accepted. Previous first place winners are not eligible to enter and all entries are considered to be published in this year’s issue Occam’s Razor. The deadline for the DeClercq Poetry Contest is Feb. 12. Winners will be announced during spring quarter 2016.