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Amoeba adapts from music to marijuana

Fall 2016 Issue 4

Activists occupy Oakland, celebrate five-year movement

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By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Amoeba Music, known for trading, buying and selling all forms of new and used music will begin to sell a new product soon: marijuana.

According to Amoeba Music employee Debby Goldsberry, the Berkeley location applied for and received a permit to sell marijuana last month. The music store, which originally opened in Berkeley in 1990, now has three locations that include San Francisco and Hollywood.

According to Amoeba Music officials, the Berkeley store will transform its “Jam Room” into a marijuana dispensary, with a separate entrance from the music area.

It will be a collaborative effort with

the Berkeley Compassionate Care Center group, a marijuana collective based in Berkeley and located on Telegraph Avenue, the same street as Amoeba.

The new dispensary at Amoeba will be called the Berkeley Compassionate Care Collective; however, it will take at least a few months to make sure they are in accordance with all of the city ordinances that surround marijuana sales. One of the major requirements is a 600 foot buffer zone from all schools and hospitals, something that Amoeba fits.

With many consumers going the digital route to obtain music, the physical music industry has taken a blow. According to Amoeba co-founder Marc Weinstein, from 2008 to 2015, the Berkeley location lost 50 percent of all total sales. Billboard Magazine confirmed those numbers and also said

the famous Telegraph Avenue location, which had 90 employees in 2008 had just 35 today.

Co-founder David Prinz said the Hollywood location makes on average $20 million annually and the marijuana sales will help subsidize lost income from the other two locations; however, there are no current plans to open dispensaries at the Hollywood or San Francisco locations yet.

Weinstein and Prinz both said they did not believe the addition of a marijuana dispensary would discourage patronage of the Berkeley location.

“If anything, it should generate a ton of sales,” Weinstein said. “That’s the goal.”

Marijuana is a booming industry in California, according to California state records that record the monetary

aspects of the industry. In 2015, dispensaries registered with the state recorded more than $600 million in total sales and more than $55 million in taxes. In 2014, marijuana sales nationwide numbered more than $4.6 billion, $5.4 billion in 2015 and are projected to be more than $7.1 billion in this year.

Colorado passed the same amendment in 2012 and the state began selling marijuana in 2014. As of July, Colorado marijuana sales were already more than $500 million, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Amoeba Music officials said they will keep customers updated of the progress on their website and through emails while the revamping takes place. According to a statement from the collective, they are hopeful to open in a few months.

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BREWERY TAPS DANVILLE FOR ITS NEW LOCATION

COURTESY OF CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS

Former women's basketball head coach Molly Goodenbour talks with an athlete last year at CSU Dominguez Hills.

Women’s hoops lose leader before she starts

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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SWIMMING STARTS SEASON AT HOME

The departure of athletic coaches from Cal State East Bay is starting to feel like a trend.

Molly Goodenbour became the sev-

enth CSUEB head coach in less than two years to leave the school, when she took a job at the University of San Francisco last month. Goodenbour never coached a game at East Bay. This is the eighth head coach at CSUEB to leave or step down in the past year and a half. During former CSUEB

Athletic Director Joan McDermott’s tenure, from April 2015 to August 2016, seven head coaches left East Bay. In addition, head coaches for women’s basketball, track, cross country and softball, as well as men’s soccer, baseball and swimming all stepped down or left

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It’s been five years since activists with the Occupy movement made camp at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland to protest social inequality and wealth disparity. Today, the tents are long-gone and supporters say Occupy Oakland no longer exists.

On Saturday evening, around 150 Occupy sympathizers gathered in the plaza at the corner of Broadway and 14th streets to listen to live music, poetry readings and speeches and discuss the achievements of the movement, according to the Occupy Oakland website.

The Occupy movement was born on Wall Street in New York’s financial district on Sept. 17, 2011 when activists protested the federal banking system and called for economic, social justice and democratic reform.

The movement has since spread to over 100 cities in the U.S. and 1,500 worldwide, according to Occupy Wall Street. On Oct. 10, 2011 it reached Oakland.

Occupy Oakland made headlines on Nov. 2, 2011, less than a month after it began, when thousands of protesters shut down the port of Oakland and called for a citywide general strike. The call to action followed a clash with law enforcement a week prior, which involved the deployment of tear gas, 100 arrests and one reported life-threatening injury, according to the Associated Press.

Luz Calvo, a professor of ethnic studies at Cal State East Bay who was involved with Occupy Oakland, said the official movement began to fall apart about a month after it began, largely due to a lack of leadership and structure, as well as racial tensions.

“It was very white and I think that the problem was that the white people who were organizing didn’t do so with humility or try to outreach to, listen to and take leadership of Oakland people of color,” said Calvo.

Dr. Samsarah Morgan, founder of the Children’s Village at the encampment, said the occupation of the City Hall lasted about a month, before the mayor evicted the protesters and the encampment was destroyed by law enforcement. Protests turned violent quickly and focused on “Fuck the Police” rallies, losing sight of the message of the movement: nonviolent protests against wealthy special interests, according to Morgan.

Calvo said decisions about the movement were made at General Assemblies, which first took place nightly when the encampment was still standing, and began to taper off as time went on. The leaders of Occupy Oakland identified as anarchists and subscribed to a rejection of leaders with all decisions made by the people. They also opposed collaboration with the government and law enforcement.

Protesters smashed the windows of small businesses and damaged property of average middle class families that had nothing to do with the movement, according to Morgan. Only one or two banks were targeted in the process, the original focus of Occupy, and Morgan said the Oakland movement began to resemble anarchy.

“People didn’t want to come to Occupy Oakland because they were afraid of the people there at the encampments,” said Morgan. “[The organizers of Occupy Oakland] were like, allergic to having a focus and a mission. They had no strategy. It was

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What is Proposition 63?

Semi-annual permit proposed for in-state ammunition purchases

By Sean McCarthy STAFF WRITER On Nov. 8, the nation will vote for it’s new president, state senators and for 17 new propositions that could affect how people go about their daily business.

One of these is Proposition 63, which would require all gun owners to acquire a permit every four years in order to purchase firearm ammunition.

The proposition is led by San Francisco-based organization, Safety For All, an anti-gun political group largely funded by the Democratic Party and Gavin Newsome.

Currently, any person over the age of 18 can buy bullets. There is no permit necessary or restrictions other than a valid ID that shows they are of age.

This proposition aims to change the way people purchase bullets in the United States.

The organization says this law will remove illegal guns from criminals and communities, require businesses to report lost or stolen ammunition, require citizens to report lost or stolen guns, ensure felons are not able to obtain guns and strengthen the background check process, according to the Safety For All website.

They believe this proposition would strengthen background checks because it places the names of

those who purchase ammo on the Department of Justice database.

This new proposition could save lives, and is expected to cost taxpayers more money. Due to additional staff needed for background checks, it is expected to hurt the bottom line for ammunition dealers.

More than 300 Americans are shot on a daily basis and 32,000 Americans are killed annually, according to the Safety For All website.

However, the FBI Crime data page says that there were 13,455 total murder victims in 2015, which is significantly less than what Safety For All claims.

Safety For All’s leader Linsey Cobia responded to The Pioneer by pointing us to the website and declining to comment herself.

Local Democratic Party members of California, which include Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Barbara Boxer as well as the mayors of Oakland, San Francisco, East Palo Alto and Union City, have backed this bill. However, those in opposition claim this proposition will punish responsible and legal gun owners more than criminals.

Sean Brady of Michel Lawyers of Los Angeles, representing the National Rifle Association and California Rifle and Pistol Association said, “In order to become an authorized ammo purchaser, you have to apply with the state and wait 30 days to get ammo.”

Brady continued, “Imagine a young female who has an ex-boyfriend and needs to defend herself.

Every law enforcement agency is against Proposition 63.”

The California Police Chief’s Association issued a

statement on Sept. 16 to oppose Prop 63.

Brady takes the stance that many pro-gun supporters make: people must have the right to defend themselves, and a permit that takes 30 days to obtain is too long for somebody who is vulnerable and needs it immediately.

Pro-gun advocates claim that they should not be punished for their Second Amendment rights because of criminal negligence.

“How are we going to regulate it?” Larry Hamby said, Security Six Hayward gun shop owner and CEO. “Do we have to contact the department of justice in order to sell it?

People can go to gun shows and buy ammunition without being checked but we would be forced to check. It would absolutely hurt our profits.”

Ammunition would only be legal to purchase from an authorized user face-to-face, which would theoretically eliminate purchasing ammo from a gun show stand, according to the Coalition for Civil Liberties, whose campaign “Stop the Ammo Grab” urges voters to vote “no” on Prop 63.

Brady stated that this law is similar to Senate Bill 1235, which was approved on July 1 by California Gov. Jerry Brown. SB 1235 claims that if Proposition 63 fails, the Attorney General would still be required to retain information about ammunition purchases.

However, Proposition 63 adds another layer SB 1235 because it ensures that every person who purchases ammunition would be put on a national database.

An application for the permit costs $50 and would last for only four years, according to Brady.

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By Queenie Wong THE MERCURY NEWS When Pope Francis joined Instagram at age 79 in March, a thought crossed the mind of the tech firm’s chief operating officer. For Marne Levine, the moment made the company’s value to the world even clearer.

Visitors from throughout the world often hand the pontiff a photograph as a way to bridge a language barrier. Images, Levine noted, are the fastest way to connect and communicate with another person. And Instagram is filled with images.

“What Instagram has created is this new global language,” Levine said during a tour of the company’s new Menlo Park headquarters. “When you go on Instagram, it really doesn’t matter what your generation is, what country you’re from or what language you speak.”

Earlier this month, Instagram turned 6 years old, yet another milestone for a company that has been growing rapidly since Facebook purchased the photo-sharing app for $1 billion in 2012.

Instagram this year reached more than 500 million users worldwide, surpassing fellow social networks Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snapchat. Three weeks ago, Instagram hit

500,000 advertisers, more than doubling the amount in six months.

“This is a platform that’s seeing a lot of usage, and it’s one that advertisers are very intrigued with,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst for eMarketer.

“What Instagram represents to advertisers is a fun, creative playground and a place to show off the best side of themselves.”

Mobile ad revenue for the company is projected to grow worldwide from $1.86 billion this year to $6.84 billion in 2018, eMarketer estimates. While the tech firm has a lot to celebrate this year, Instagram _ which ditched its vintage camera logo for a more minimalist look _ is still trying to prove it has evolved beyond just a place to share beautifully filtered photos and that it can drive sales for businesses. And as it focuses more on video, the company gets compared to its rival Snapchat, an ephemeral messaging app popular among teens.

“I think one place where Snapchat is stealing the thunder is in video advertising,” Williamson said.

Instagram released a feature this year called “Stories,” which allows users to post photos and videos that will disappear after 24 hours _ similar to Snapchat. Much to the chagrin of some users, the company started sorting photos based on an algorithm instead of

chronologically.

But Instagram’s success has been undeniable, and new celebrities, such as rapper Kanye West and actor Tom Hiddleston, continue to sign up for the site every year. And as users and advertisers grow so has the company’s workforce.

In Menlo Park, Instagram employees recently moved into their own three-story office space separate from Facebook, and the more than 65,000-square-foot building reflects a tech firm where design and simplicity matters. The company now has nearly 400 employees worldwide, most of whom work in the new Gensler-designed headquarters.

In the lobby, a large illuminated Instagram logo is displayed on a white wall along with a large feed that shows videos and photos posted on the site, from breakfast foods to outdoor adventures.

Inside, employees and visitors snap photos behind a large cloud, a moon or flickering stars. At Blue Bottle Coffee, a wall is filled with Polaroid selfies.

Meeting rooms are named after popular hashtags, emojis or places such as Dogpatch or South Park, a reference to the company’s humble beginnings.

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were working out of Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco when they launched the app in 2010.

Initially, Instagram was a check-in app

called Burbn, but pivoted into a tool to share photos.

While Facebook has helped fuel Instagram’s growth, Levine said there are elements that make Instagram’s workplace culture different from its owner.

“Facebook has such a strong culture, but I think we’ve maintained the things that have made Instagram special from the beginning,” said Levine, who joined Instagram from Facebook. “That includes being community first, very visually oriented, focused on design, creativity and simplicity.” Instagram was a smart purchase for Facebook, analysts said, because it gave the social media giant an app with younger users, a more creative and artistic place for people to communicate, and another property to sell ads.

When Facebook bought Instagram, the startup only had 13 employees. And for Instagram, the journey is far from over.

As the company unveils more ways for users to express themselves, Levine said she expects Instagram will have “fuller and more complete global language” in visual communication.

“People are posting the highlights of their lives, but there’s so many more moments that make up the human experience in between,” Levine said. “Those moments can feel really raw _ unscripted _ or it can be a story that you’re telling that is more planned out.”

Why are there two plastic bag ban propositions on the California ballot?

By Javier Panzar LOS ANGELES TIMES When voters go down the list of the 17 statewide propositions on their ballots this November, they could be confused when they reach two measures placed there by a trade group seeking to overturn the state’s landmark 2014 ban on plastic bags.

The most straightforward is Proposition 67, a referendum asking voters to either vote yes to preserve the law or no to reject the statute, which bans disposable plastic bags and lets grocers charge customers 10 cents for paper bags or more durable reusable plastic bags.

But even if voters keep that law in place, they could also alter the law by approving Proposition 65, an initiative that would send the proceeds from that 10-cent fee to a state fund for environmental projects.

Both propositions qualified for the ballot thanks to signature gathering efforts paid for by the plastic industry’s trade group, the American Progressive Bag Alliance.

The group has put up a fierce fight as similar plastic bag bans have been passed in cities and counties across California. They took the fight to the ballot box after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a statewide ban that was approved by the state Legislature in 2014.

Environmentalists who back the ban argue that the bags contribute to a litter problem and clog the state’s waterways while endangering animals. But the plastic industry’s group says the bags do little harm, and the ban will cost the state around 2,000 manufacturing jobs.

Lee Califf, executive director of the alliance, has criticized the bill, calling it “a backroom deal between the California Grocers Assn. and their union friends to scam consumers out of billions of dollars in bag fees.”

Four out-of-state plastic bag manufacturers have provided 97% of the contributions to the American Plastic Bag Alliance, which is the only committee working to defeat Proposition 67 and pass Proposition 65, according to MapLight, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics.

The companies, including South Carolina-based Hilex Poly and Texas-based Formosa Plastics, have poured more than $5 million into the political committee.

Voters also have to consider how the two measures affect one another: If both pass, the revenue from bag sales would go to grocers if Proposition 67 is approved with more votes.

If Proposition 65 passes with more votes, the funds would go to the environmental fund.

Updates on California politics An analysis by the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office also raised the possibility that if Proposition 65, the initiative redirecting the funds, gets more votes than the referendum, a court could prevent a ban from going into effect at all.

Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, said that although the ballot often has multiple measures dealing with the same issues, this case is peculiar.

“What is unusual is for the same group to be proposing more than one measure on the ballot and having those measures operate somewhat in conflict,” she said.

Mark Murray, executive director of the environmental group Californians Against Waste, accused the plastics trade group of trying to confuse voters.

Given the other high-profile issues on the ballot such as legalizing marijuana and repealing the death penalty, the average voter, even if he or she approves of a plastic bag ban, might not know which one to vote for, Murray said.

It is worth noting, he said, that the initiative, Proposition 65, comes before the referendum, Proposition 67. That could affect voters too, he said.

“They may remember, ‘There is the thing I am supposed to vote ‘yes’ on, but I voted ‘yes’ on this first one, I think I should vote no on the second one,” he said.

Jon Berrier, a spokesman for the alliance, said the initiative is not meant to confuse voters but instead to offer them the chance to make sure that the fees collected “have some public purpose” and provide direct environmental benefits.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office analysis said that fee revenue could reach several tens of millions of dollars annually, but that depends on the level of future bag sales and the prices of carryout bags.

Opponents of Proposition 65, including the San Diego branch of the Surfrider Foundation, have criticized the measure as a ploy to divide environmentalists and smaller grocers who could use the fees to cover the cost of durable bags.

The law would not affect local bag bans, which are on the books in 150 cities and counties in the state, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

Those local laws cover about 40% of California’s population, mostly in more liberal coastal counties in the Los Angeles area and the Bay Area, according to the analysis.

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By Denika Williams CONTRIBUTOR A seemingly endless stream of videos depicting police officers mistreating unarmed African Americans prompted former “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Isaiah Washington to ask African Americans nation-wide to boycott work and school.

“Imagine if every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick one day to simply ‘stay at home’ from every single job, work site, sports arena and government office in the United States of America,” Washington wrote in a Sept. 20 Facebook post. “I’m very sure that within 72 hours from Wall Street to the NFL… Black Lives Would Matter. September 26, 2016 is the day.”

The goal of the boycott was to protest

a system that African Americans feel is unjust by showing people and employers that they matter and want to be treated with more respect. According to Washington, black people in America would be safer boycotting systematic oppression in their homes rather than protesting out in the streets.

“Protesting is only getting people killed,” Washington said during a Sept.

29 interview.

“You’re going to protest for your rights, and then you’re going to get arrested, and then you’re going to put money in the very system that is protecting your rights?”

Washington teamed up with a black mother named Madelon “Blue” McCullough, who originally started #Missing24, a grassroots social justice campaign based in Atlanta, and dreamed up the stay-at-home boycott. “No one gets killed, no one gets injured, no one gets

incarcerated,” McCullough said during the Grio.com interview.

African American students at CSUEB planned their own black Out day on campus. On Sept. 22, the university walkway in front of the campus student union was occupied with black sororities and fraternities — of which I am an active member — supporting Black Lives Matter.

Students wore black shirts and held signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”

“I believe the purpose was to provide awareness on a campus so focused on multiculturalism that individual struggles of specific groups sometimes gets lost,” said Monika Brooks, engagement coordinator and advisor for the campus and National PanHellenic Council, which encourages black leadership on campus.

“I will always participate in efforts to fight supremacy and injustice. It is im-

portant to voice your opinion, frustration and anger to enact change.”

While admitting that she did know of the boycott, she chose not to participate because as a faculty member, she felt as though it was more important for her to be on campus. “I would rather do teachins or something of that provides educational context and expands the conversation among blacks and other people of color,” Brooks said. “I don't agree that marches/protests are what get us killed.

I believe that the oppressive system gets us killed.”

Melvin Faulks, a current student and director of programs for the black Student Union stated, “I fully stand in support of Washington's boycott because it is one of many ways to bring awareness to police brutality and the loss of black and brown lives at the hands of law enforcement, but also to force the institutions that the black community have

been supporting for years to support our cause.”

The BSU aims to represent a space for black students to come together for a common purpose and strategize ways to improve the livelihood of black students and strength of the black voice on campus.

The actual number of the people who participated in the stay home boycott is difficult to quantify, but there is a survey available on Twitter that aims to tally a total. Hashtags #StayAtHomeSeptember262016 and #Missing24 were used to allow people to post their opinions about the situation.

Regardless of how many people joined the movement on Sept. 26, Washington said he was satisfied with the results of the campaign and is planning another boycott. He and the #Missing24 team have future boycotts scheduled for Nov. 7 and Dec. 5.

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like a game to them, like little children running around at night with masks on….it turned middle class people against what was happening.”

What exists in the place of Occupy Oakland today are different subgroups that stemmed from the movement like Occupy the Heart, Decolonize Oakland the Oakland Coalition to Stop Goldman Sachs that tackle other issues within the community, according to Calvo. Calvo said the activism continues in Oakland, largely through the connections people made with each other through their involvement with Occupy Oakland.

Morgan, a birth and postpartum doula — a midwife who assists women during and after childbirth — and the founder and director of the Nia Center for Birth and Family Life, said Occupy inspired her to expand her work within the community. She works as a doula and licensed doula trainer at the Oakland Birth Foundation, an organization that educates women about reproductive choices and provides sliding scale funding for traditional midwifery services, with a focus on women of color.

Before she moved to Oakland and became a doula, Morgan was a stockbroker in New York’s financial district. “I like having a good conscience,” she said. “I like being proud of what I’m doing instead of feeding a corporate machine.”

She resonated with the movement in New York and wanted to provide a safe

space for parents and children to organize in Oakland. “You can’t have a good revolution without women and children,” she said.

Ashel “Seasunz” Eldridge, an ethnic studies professor at San Francisco State University and Occupy Oakland activist, said his experience with the movement inspired him to incorporate discussions about systems of government into his teachings.

“Democracy itself is an experiment,” he said. “[Occupy Oakland] was a deeper microcosm of the democratic process where people had to listen to each other and really look in the face the people that different policies were affecting... and address privilege issues and address sexism and racism and all these things that were really the backbone of the movement,” he said.

Eldridge was moved by the number of homeless families he came in contact with while staying at the Occupy Oakland encampment, which inspired him to establish a service to nourish those in need with free, all-natural juices.

This opened the door for his affordable, “solar-powered” juicing business, S.O.S. Juices, which educates people about plant-based diets as cures for illnesses like diabetes, obesity and heart disease and sells affordable juice and refurbished juicers.

Homelessness is a persistent concern in the city of Oakland. The Alameda

A young rally attendee wears a mask at the Occupy Oakland event in 2011.

Countywide Homeless Count and Survey published a study in March that revealed that there were 4,040 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people in Alameda County on Jan. 8, 2015.

“What you saw was the underbelly of

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the U.S.,” said Eldridge. “When I went out and saw people hungry, living in tents and all that, I was like ‘this is the perfect opportunity to really look at the issue and actually address it.’”

Morgan said the activists often fed

the homeless, on-site medics provided care and sometimes tents were even donated for families to live in.

“I think Occupy lives in the consciousness of the people first and foremost,” said Eldridge.

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POCKET PROPOSITIONS Your personal elec tion day guide to California’s 17 propositions. We’ve made this cheat sheet to take with you to the ballot s on November 8th.

PROP 51 E D U C AT I O N $9.8 billion borrowed in state issued bonds for education contruction and repair

YES

NO

PROP 52

PROP 53

PROP 54

PROP 55

H E A LT H C A R E

ELEC TIONS

A C C O U N TA B I L I T Y

TA X E S

Stops legistature from using funds for Medi-Cal in other areas

Requires state wide vote on government bonds bigger than $2 billion

Legislation posted online for minimum 3 days before final vote

Extends personal income tax increases on incomes over $250,000

YES

NO

YES

NO

YES

YES

NO

NO

PROP 56

PROP 57

PROP 58

PROP 59

TOBACCO

TRIALS

E D U C AT I O N

C A M PA I G N F I N A N C E

Raises tax on tobacco by $2

Creates new parole rules for nonviolent felons

Removes ban on bilingual education

Requires California officials to repeal Citizens United

YES

NO

YES

NO

YES

NO

YES

NO

PROP 60

PROP 61

PROP 62

PROP 63

MOVIES

H E A LT H C A R E

D E AT H P E N A LT Y

FIREARMS

Requires condoms in pornographic movies

Places price limits on prescription drugs

Repeals death penalty, sentences decreased to life without parole

Requires background checks for ammo purchases

YES

NO

YES

NO

YES

YES

NO

NO

PROP 64

PROP 65

PROP 66

PROP 67

MARIJUANA

ENVIRONMENT

D E AT H P E N A LT Y

B U S I N E S S R E G U L AT I O N

Legalizes marijuana and hemp

Uses bag fees for environmental programs

Faster death penalty, requires death row inmates to work and pay restitution

Ratify ban on single-use plastic bags

YES

NO

YES

NO

Permits, pornos and pot: oh my!

YES

YES

NO

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR The general election is just four weeks away and voters are beginning to feel the pressure.

California voters specifically will have a number of major decisions to make concerning issues in their state on Nov. 8. Seventeen new propositions are on the ballot this year and range from death penalty procedures to the use of condoms in por-

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Five hundred propositions have placed on statewide ballots in California since 1974, according to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office. A proposition can either be placed on the ballot by state legislature or by California residents directly if the measure receives the required number of signatures: 585,407 in California for the years 20152018.

This is the longest list of state propositions on a single ballot since March 2000, the New York Times Reports. Six of the 17 propositions have the potential to amend the state constitution and nine would enact new state laws.

Voters can vote by mail, at early voting locations mandated by individual counties and at polling locations on Election Day, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Oct. 24 is the deadline to register to vote and Nov. 1 is the last day to apply for a vote-by-mail ballot, according to the website for the California Secretary of State.

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Danville Brewing Company gives East Bay beer fans a new destination

brewery must be small in production with six million or fewer barrels made a year and economically independent, meaning less than 25 percent of the craft brewery is owned or controlled by a beverage alcohol industry The growing demand for craft beer has swept across member that is not itself a craft brewer.

Finally, the brewer must be traditional, meaning that California. Luckily for local hop and malt-heads, a new the beer flavor is derived from traditional or innovative brewpub has popped up in the East Bay. A line of beer enthusiasts wrapped around the block brewing ingredients and their fermentation.

California is at the forefront of the craft beer boom: on Sept. 20 at the grand opening of the Danville Brewing Company, a new craft brewpub that brews its own 87 new craft breweries opened in 2015. That gives the beer on site and serves a full menu of gourmet bar food. state 518 craft breweries total, the most in the country, The new brewery features five house beers and also according to the Brewers Association. California is only carries several guest beers on draft to fill out their 20- second to Pennsylvania in barrels of craft beer protap bar. Beer and cocktails such as the Danville IPA, duced per year.

As the craft beer scene continues to explode throughDanville Donkey and 680 Martini were named to solidify the local pride that the brewpub aims to empha- out the United States, the Maita family saw the Dansize. The menu ingredients are supplied locally and the ville Hotel Town Center as a perfect spot for a brew pub. Negi also wanted to get his stake in the industry. bread is baked fresh in the kitchen.

Marcus and Sara Maita, one of the families behind “There hasn’t been a place in Danville that provides a high-quality dining exthe brewpub, have been involved perience with beer that is in the beer industry since the brewed on site,” said Negi.

1930s. For the Danville Brewing The closest brewery in the Company, the Maita’s partnered area is Schubros Brewwith restaurateur Randy Negi, ery in San Ramon, which who has no shortage of experidoesn’t offer food to acence when it comes to working company its house brews. in the food and wine industry.

There are a limited Negi is the managing general number of breweries in partner of Bridges Restaurant -Randy Negi, restauranteur the East Bay, with only a and The Vine, a wine bar, both in handful providing eats to Danville. He also owns four Cafe go with their housemade Venues in San Francisco. suds. These include places The brewery covers 3,800 square feet and ferments its beer on site in a 10-bar- like E.J. Phair in Concord and Drake’s Barrel House in rel system that is showcased through a glass wall in the San Leandro. There are also several taprooms around brewery. The head brewer, Matt Sager, is a UC Davis the East Bay, such as Schubros Brewing in San Ramon Master Brewers program graduate and has won sever- and Black Diamond in Concord. But while they serve al awards. Sager, who’s Czech Pale Lager just won the their own beer, some of these taprooms don’t offer any Amador County Fair competition for best European food to complement their craft creations.

“There seems to be a lot of excitement, and as a Lager, is known for his Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Ale that placed first at the American Homebrewers’ Association restaurateur, I encourage a lot more restaurants,” Negi said. “We don't see it as competition — it makes it more Club-Only competition in 2011.

The craft beer industry is growing feverishly around of a destination for people from Walnut Creek or Pleasthe country. According to the Brewers Association — a anton or the outskirts of our town.”

The Danville Brewing Company is part of the $25 non-profit organization of brewers that aims to “promote and protect American craft brewers, their beers million Danville Hotel Town Center developmental and the community of brewing enthusiasts” — the Unit- project that is creating more retail opportunity for the ed States craft beer market was worth $22.3 billion in city, according to Diablo Magazine reports. The brew2015, a 16 percent increase in sales growth from 2014. ery was given the largest space in the project.

“We’re gonna take it slow and feel it out,” Negi said.

Production of craft beer also rose by 13 percent in 2015.

Defining craft beer is difficult. There are certain “Right now, we’re just focused on brewing a quality requirements a brewer must meet to be considered product. We like where we are at and we are very excit“craft.” According to the Brewers Association, the ed about the future.”

By Cameron Stover CONTRIBUTOR

“There hasn’t been a place in Danville that provides a highquality dining experience with beer that is brewed on site.”

8 NEWS Game Con now free for East Bay students

By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER

Gamers from all over the Bay Area can finally meet in one place: East Bay Game Con. The two-day convention will take place on Oct. 28 from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Old Union, and Oct. 29 from noon to 2 a.m. The Old Union and New Union will offer a variety of games, such as Dance Dance Revolution, Pac Man, Poker and console games.

Game Con is a collaboration by East Bay’s University Union, Associated Students Incorporated and GameZone, a multi-platform gaming venue on campus, as an effort to reach out to the Bay Area gaming community and unite them in one place through a video game event, according to GameZone agent, Edgard Martinez.

“We wanted to cater to a different demographics, the gaming community is one that we haven’t reached out to,” said Hendrix Erhahon, president of ASI, CSUEB’s student government.

To provide students with taste of Game Con, there will be a launch day on Oct. 27 on the Hayward campus’ Agora Stage. Students will be able to play a variety of games and consoles on a mobile gaming truck, while guest DJ Shorty plays in the background, according to CSUEB Administrative Services Assistant, Jennifer Cueva.

Day one will be geared toward multiplayer games and include free-play games, as well as cosplay contests, according to an Oct. 11 email from ASI to the campus community. Day two will consist of tournaments with “massive prizes,” as stated by the email.

According to Jeremy Wong, assistant coordinator of GameZone, the tournaments will be run double-elimination style with specific rulesets.

Players can sign up for tournaments the day of. There are approximately 21 main prizes, which include brand new consoles like the PS4, Xbox 1 and Wii U. A professional gaming service will provide the gaming set-ups and facilitate the tournament in collaboration with GameZone agents.

The event originally asked for two separate admission fees, one being $7 for early admission and $17 for general admission, but on Oct. 7 students received a campus-wide email from the University Union announcing that the event is now free. Attendees must be over 18 years old to enter.

“The committee decided to eliminate the price in order to make marketing more attractive and to cater to students on a budget,” said Wong. “We are also acknowledging that since this is a first-time event, many people have mixed expectations, so by making it free gives more incentive to just check it out risk-free.”

GameZone already hosts a gaming event called Game Jam in the Multi Purpose Room in the University Union, but is only open to CSUEB students.

“The difference between Game Jam and Game Con is that Game Con is meant to bring the community of Bay Area gamers together in one place,” explained Martinez.

Game Con will not replace Game Jam, but Wong anticipates that representatives from Game Jam will showcase at Game Con.

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Nameless for half century, Hollywood Jane Doe revealed as missing South Bay grad

By Brenda Gazzar and Robert Salonga

MERCURY NEWS On an unusually cool June afternoon 48 years ago, Ellen Sevall was on a telephone call with her cousin Cheryl Ann McMillan, a confidant since childhood who was living the proverbial bohemian life in 1960s Los Angeles.

McMillan had been a no-show for a dress fitting in advance of Sevall’s upcoming wedding in San Jose, generating an expected sense of nervousness from the bride to be. But Sevall remembers her cousin offering reassurance that she’d be on hand for the big day.

After all, McMillan was the maid of honor.

“She said she couldn’t make the dress fitting for whatever reason, and I asked her if she was going to make the wedding,” Sevall said Tuesday from her current home in Cheyenne, Wyoming. “She said, ‘For sure.’ Then she never did.”

It was the last time Sevall heard from the cousin she had known “since we were babies,” and was likely the last contact McMillan’s family would have with her.

Relatives would spend the next half century with no insight about McMillan’s disappearance. Much of the family moved out of the Campbell area, where McMillan graduated from Campbell High School in 1964. McMillan’s mother Geraldine, who had brought her to California from the broader family’s roots in Detroit, with a stint in Florida in be-

tween, died two years ago.

“She never knew for sure,” Sevall said.

But on Sept. 22, after a convergence of amateur web sleuthing and facial reconstruction by volunteer cold-case solvers, the Los Angeles Police Department was able to confirm that the 21-year-old McMillan had not vanished, but was a woman who was found dead in Griffith Park on June 8, 1968 but was unidentified for nearly 50 years.

While the precise circumstances of McMillan’s death are likely lost to time, relatives long suspected her disappearance was connected to her involvement in the Mexican drug trade. Sevall said McMillan confided in her that she was running drugs from Ensenada in Baja California to Guadalajara more than 1,400 miles away.

“I just figured somehow while running drugs she got killed or captured, or was sitting in a Mexican jail,” Sevall said.

The clue that would lead to McMillan finally being identified as the Griffith Park Jane Doe was initially overlooked.

When she was discovered in 1968, she was slumped over a picnic table near Mount Hollywood Drive, clad in a redand-white polka dotted bikini, a white or light tan overcoat and dark sandals.

On her hand was a gold wedding ring with the inscription “C.B. to E.J. 9-420.” She was connected to a room at the Hollywoodland motel in Studio City.

While authorities recorded her name as possibly being “Sherryl Miller,” she was named Jane Doe #18 by the Los Angeles

County coroner’s office, dead from an apparent morphine overdose.

In 2010, 53-year-old Carl Koppelman saw the woman’s photo on the coroner’s website and used facial-reconstruction software to produce a portrait he shared on Web Sleuths, an online forum devoted to unsolved cases on which he served as a moderator. He posted the generated photo to the forum and multiple times on social media over the next few years.

Rita Hood, a former co-worker of Koppelman’s, saw the photo on his Facebook page in July and took note of the wedding ring inscription. With nothing but initials to go on, the amateur genealogist began poring over thousands of records that are published online in 36 states.

Hood found the 10 most popular women’s names of the era beginning with E, including Elizabeth, Ethel and Edna. She then searched records for women with those first names and last names beginning with J., who married men with the initials C.B. on Sept. 4, 1920. She searched diligently in her spare time and after four weeks, found a match: Edna Lydia Jay married Charles J. Bush in Detroit on Sept. 4, 1920.

More records searching led Hood to contact John Manzo Jr., Edna Bush’s grandson now living in Clovis, just outside Fresno, and both soon realized that the woman who last wore the ring was his missing sister, Cheryl Ann McMillan.

Manzo, who was barely in grade school when McMillan vanished, re-

members her as a doting big sister “who loved her little baby brother” as he toddled around their home on Cherry Lane in Campbell. But most of his accounts of her are secondhand or generated from the decades-long search for any trace of McMillan. It never occurred to him that she was anything more than missing.

“We always looked for her alive,” Manzo said. “We never looked for Jane Does.”

Manzo said he was heartened by the notion that his sister never thought to pawn their grandmother’s ring all those years ago when she was in a haze of drug use, especially given its role in restoring her name and some semblance of clarity to his family.

She “wasn’t just another heroin drug addict found in the park,” Manzo said.

“She was my sister.”

That sentiment was echoed by Sevall, whose June 22, 1968 wedding went on with her sister in place of McMillan. To this day, she retains a pretty clear image of her cousin, known for her friendliness, a literal flair for drama -- as an actor in school plays -- and as a trusty compatriot on teenage adventures to Santa Cruz and beyond.

“It does offer some closure, but I’m also wondering, what could I have done?

Was there anything else I could have said? Should I have stayed in L.A.?” she said. “We always wondered. We were pretty close and a tight-knit family. We would just always hope that someday, she would find us.”

FROM THE WIRE

Robots to help families check in on Bay Area seniors

By Marissa Lang SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE She sat on the plush sofa at the back of the room in Walnut Creek, watching, as her neighbors strolled and laughed and talked with the robot.

It was the first time Lou Fleming, 90, had ever seen such a thing. And she had been working with computers for decades. None, though, were anything like this.

The robot, a skinny contraption with a tablet perched atop a long pole fixed to a three-wheeled base, was being driven remotely by one of its creators, Jared Go. Go, who was actually sitting in the OhmniLabs office in Santa Clara, said he felt like he was in the room.

His face appeared on the tablet’s screen and his voice came through a large round speaker as he made the machine walk, nod and dance with interested seniors.

For about a month, OhmniLabs has been conducting trial runs at senior living facilities. The idea, said Ohmnilabs CEO Thuc Vu, was to introduce the robots to the people OhmniLabs hopes will eventually be their core audience: seniors.

On Wednesday, the company began a free pilot program for Bay Area families, letting people sign up to receive a robot to use in their own homes.

Initially, Vu said, the company will be looking to see how seniors react to having the robot in their day-to-day lives -- what they like and dislike -- as well as other ways families find use for the bots. Initially, he said, the focus will be on communication, though it may not be exclusively used for social calls.

Family members could use the robots to check in on older relatives in ways that a phone call -- or even a video chat -- may not allow, Vu said, including checking up on the environmental

safety of a home, providing medication reminders, and so on.

“The seniors can continue to do whatever task they’re doing, and the caregiver or family member can control the robot to communicate with them or go with them wherever they go,” Vu said.

“You can make sure they’re OK, make sure they’re following their diet, taking their medication, make sure the house looks safe. Life doesn’t happen in one room.”

Home Care Assistance, a Silicon Valley agency that provides professional caregivers to Bay Area seniors and their families, is exploring the possibility of eventually using the robots to allow caregivers and aides to perform quick check-ins that may not require a full visit, said Naoko Shirota, the agency’s director of business intelligence.

“There’s so much change that’s happening to the lifestyle of people, especially the younger generation, especially in the Bay Area -- changes like self-driving cars, delivery drones, robots. These are things that can especially benefit seniors who may not be technologically savvy but may not have access to certain things,” Shirota said.

“With (the robots), we want to introduce it to our clients as a service that allows families and our caregivers to use it to interact with the seniors, and as a way to see family and grandchildren who they may not get to see very often.”

For information on the pilot program being run by Home Care Assistance and OhmniLabs to test robots in the homes of Bay Area seniors, call (650) 462-9501.

Nearly a third of Americans age 65 and older live alone, according to 2014 data from the Department of Health and Human Services. And for women age 75 and up, that number grows to about half.

“We realized there’s a huge, growing need for a technology like this among our elders,” Vu said. “Caregivers are not always available, and they can be more

expensive than some people can afford.

But we can’t all afford to live close to our aging relatives or check in on them every day.”

A 2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that social isolation and loneliness may be a factor in higher risks of mortality in adults aged 52 and older.

Fleming, who recently turned 90, has two daughters who live in different states. She moved to the independent living facility, Heritage Pointe of Downtown Walnut Creek, about three months ago so she could go on walks and maintain her active lifestyle. She likes learning and trying new things.

But when it was her turn to give the robot a try, she hesitated.

It didn’t look as human as she expected it to, and she wasn’t sure how she’d feel talking to a face on screen.

“I have a computer at home but (some technology) is getting to the point where I don’t understand it,” she said. “I don’t know if I would want one of these at home. It might be better to just get a dog.”

Fleming wasn’t the only one who felt skeptical.

Dave Hill, 98, who lives alone but uses a walker to get around, said he likes the idea of having the robots in the lobby for residents to use, but he wasn’t sure how he would feel about having it in his own apartment.

“When you’re doing the demos down here that’s one thing, but when you’re living with it 24-7, that’s another,” said Hill, whose son and grandchildren live in Vermont. “Talking on the phone is hard. It’s hard for me to hear, and I don’t really like to do it. So this could be good, but would I feel like it’s intrusive? I don’t know.”

But unlike a phone, the robot doesn’t need to be answered to turn on. If the device receives an incoming call from someone on the seniors’ friends and

family list during the hours they have indicated they want the robot on, the robot will simply turn on.

Family members can then use the bot to roam around.

Sylvia Fields, 97, said she’d love it if her family could virtually pop over whenever they wanted -- within reason.

“What if you have a gentleman over?” she said.

In an effort to mitigate privacy concerns, Vu said, the robot comes with several settings that allow users to limit when the device can accept calls and from whom.

He also suggests users set up the robot’s charging dock to face the wall so the camera does not face outward while the product is not in use.

“It’s very clear when someone dials in, and all they would see is the wall at first,” Vu said. “Also, you can set it so it would not accept any calls at night or for an hour during the day when you don’t want it to.”

The video chat itself is done through software designed by OhmniLabs and, Vu said, is encrypted end to end. The stream is never saved, recorded or uploaded into any cloud service.

Anyone with a computer can use the software, which provides instructions on how to control the robot from afar.

One of Vu’s earliest test subjects was his own grandmother, who lives in Vietnam and only gets to see her grandson in person once or twice a year.

Four months ago, he sent her a robot of her own. In the beginning, he said, she didn’t like it. She wasn’t sure she would use it. She had managed for so long without a robot in the house.

Then he called her on it, he said, and everything changed.

“The moment my face showed up on that screen, she loved it,” he said. “I can chat with her, I can take a walk with her.

It was like I was there. It’s not just a robot anymore. It’s me.”

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Cal State East Bay senior defender Andrea Hernandez attempts to steal the ball from a Cal State Monterey Bay forward during a home game last season at Pioneer Stadium on the Hayward campus. The Pioneers are now 3-6-3 overall and 2-4-0 in California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference games.

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The California State East Bay women’s soccer team won their first conference road game last weekend after suffering an unfortunate overtime loss against California State University San Bernardino.

Easy Bay traveled to Southern California over the weekend for the second time this season. On Friday they faced California State San Bernardino (6-5-1 overall, 5-2-1 conference) where they were forced to play their third overtime match in a row.

Senior midfielder Tia Sidtikun put the Pioneers ahead early when she capitalized off a corner kick by Andrea Hernandez in the 7th minute.

However, ten minutes later, San Bernardino tied the game when senior midfielder Rachael Figg received a quality pass from senior defender Megan Todd, shot to the bottom right of the net and scored.

The two teams remained tied at 1-1 for the remainder of the game and went into double overtime, where the Pioneers ultimately lost the battle.

San Bernardino's senior midfielder Su-

san Ibarra drove down an almost wide open field and shot a laser that beat East Bay’s keeper, Jazmine Corbett, giving her team the win in the 108th minute.

“She countered attack very quickly and it cost us,” said Sidtikun. “We had way too many opportunities to finish the game early, especially in overtime when we had a oneon-one with the goalkeeper.”

Playing on the road has been tough for the Pioneers, but they found a way to finally win on Sunday against Cal Poly Pomona (55-2, 4-3-1).

In the fourth minute of the game, East Bay was fouled inside the box and was rewarded with a penalty kick that was scored by senior forward Megan Ravenscroft.

Six minutes after the goal, senior midfielder Sialei Manuleleua tried to split her defenders in the run of play and was tripped by another Cal Poly defender 30 yards out.

Sophomore defender Savannah Schultz stepped up to the plate to take the free kick and placed the ball perfectly into the top left corner of the goal.

It was the defender’s first goal of the season.

“The goal was well in my shooting range,” said Schultz. “I normally take the free kicks

and I did not really think too much when I was given the opportunity, I was confident in my shot.”

The Cal Poly Broncos continued to attack and pressure the Pioneers, but East Bay did not let it break them and only allowed one goal in the last five minutes of the game.

Despite the goal, the Pioneers defended very well throughout the game, with goalkeeper Corbett recording three saves, and fortunately putting two goals in the net.

“When we are persistent, encouraging and positive with one another on the field, good things happen for us,” said Sidtikun. “I have to continue to be a leader on the field to help my team as a midfielder.

Organizing, communicating and using my vision and what I see to distribute and help give us more opportunities to win.”

The women are currently 2-4 in conference and 3-6-3 overall and have six games left to put themselves in playoff position.

“It won’t be easy and we know that we are in a very good conference,” expressed Schultz.

That tough conference play continues on Sunday when the Pioneers host Chico State (6-6-1, 2-6-0) at 11:30 a.m. at Pioneer Stadium.

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Softball squad defeats Ohlone College

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The Cal State East Bay softball team cheered, slid, and batted their way to a win this Sunday, defeating the Ohlone College Renegades on their home field.

Coach From Page 1 to pursue other opportunities.

The Cal State East Bay athletic department acted quickly, thanks in large part to the recent national search that ended in the selection of Goodenbour. Last week CSUEB announced the hiring of one of the three original finalists for the job in Shanele Stires, a four-year assistant coach from USF, less than three weeks after they lost Goodenbour.

“Since the appointment of coach Goodenbour was only made in June following a national search which produced three finalists, it was determined to invite the other two finalists back for a second round, on-campus visit and from which Coach Stires was selected,” CSUEB Interim Athletic Director Don Sawyer said.

Lindsey Foster, the associate head coach at CSU Northridge was the other finalist in the search that ended with Goodenbour.

Stires brings a defensive mindset to the Pioneers as she employed that strategy of game plan during her stint at USF. Stires

was also the recruiting coordinator for the Dons and has already started here at East Bay. USF lost their women’s basketball Head Coach in former Olympian and WNBA star Jennifer Azzi on Sept. 14 when she resigned. Azzi and her significant other are expecting a child and she decided to step away from the profession entirely.

This left a hole for the Dons, who hired former CSUEB Athletic Director McDermott in August and was ultimately responsible for the hiring of Goodenbour at CSUEB in June.

Sawyer said he was contacted last month by USF Director of Athletics Scott Sidwell “as a courtesy,” letting him know they were going to contact Goodenbour about their coaching vacancy. There are no rules regarding contacting employed coaches at other institutions, according to Sawyer.

“Relationships are always a factor in any hiring process,” USF Director of Athletics Scott Sidwell said. “We did have a conversation to request permission to speak with Molly before any conversations began about our head coaching position.”

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12 SPORTS Oakland high school football team criticized for protesting

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Volleyball goes 1-1 over weekend

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER

By Hakeema Muhammad CONTRIBUTOR Oakland’s Castlemont High School Knights have been thrust into the media spotlight for their protest of the national anthem in light of recent police shootings.

Faced with a plethora of law enforcement-related murders in their communities and across the country, many of the Knights admitted to feeling helpless and uncertain of what they could do to make their voices heard. Castlemont High School is located in East Oakland and this issue hits close to home for many of them.

The majority of the team members are no strangers to police interaction and live in some of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods.

“They go through experiences that I can’t even comprehend. I’m from Palo Alto. I don’t want to call myself a privileged white guy, but that’s what I am, when I compare myself…” said assistant coach Ben Arnold. “To consistently watch them struggle on a day in and day out basis to find food, safety…and then to have this love for each other, these great attitudes and personality. Our guys show incredible resiliency just to be here everyday.”

On Sept. 16, their voice rang loud and clear when the team followed San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s footsteps — the Knights’ players and coaches took a knee on the sideline during the national anthem at their game against Cochrane High School.

According to senior defensive end Chris Lee, it was seeing Kaepernick kneel for the very first time that showed the team a way they could nonviolently express their dissatisfaction with the state of relationship between the police and minority communities. This decision took the country by storm and made their local message a nationwide one when their protest went viral online.

It moved Kaepernick to attend a Knights game on Sept. 26 at their home field, the Castle. He huddled with the team and spoke to them about the weight of their actions and told them that “what they do matters.

Every action they take matters.”

A solemn Kaepernick kneeled in solidarity with the football team — with the support of their coaches — and took it a step further when they laid on their backs as the anthem played. This was seen by many critics as a nod to the die-in’s staged by the Black Lives Matter movement, where people lay down and pretend to die.

The young men are proud of the statements they continue to make and the actions they inspire by their refusal.

The team has support from their community and school, but there are many on the outside who are angered by their decisions. The Castlemont Knight’s have received a constant flurry of death threats and hate mail directed at the coaches as well as the boys through various social media accounts.

Assistant coach Arnold admitted that at the time he was not even certain what his stance was about Kaepernick before this, but he supports the football team 100 percent in speaking out on things going on in their community.

This won’t be the last time we hear from the Castlemont Knights.

The women’s volleyball team traveled to Southern California over the weekend to face both California State Dominguez Hills and California State Los Angeles.

On Friday the Pioneers faced off against Dominguez (6-10 overall, 3-5 conference) but had a hard time offensively.

Dominguez controlled the tempo for the entire game, which allowed them to sweep the Pioneers in three sets, 15-25, 20-25 and 13-25.

“This game was definitely a low of the season,” said sophomore outside hitter Kiki Leuteneker, who has ten or more kills five games in a row. “Things will never go perfect, but nothing seemed to go right for anyone in this game and it showed.”

Throughout the three sets, the Pioneers made 18 attack errors, seven service errors and ten receiving errors, which ultimately was a huge reason for their fall. The mistakes outweighed any of their good plays and Dominguez took full advantage of that. “We were not working together at all,” said sophomore middle blocker Deja Thompson. “We played as six individuals instead of as a team and if we do that, it is hard to win games.”

Leuteneker led the way in kills with ten, Thompson added eight, and outside hitter Julie Navarro added another three. Sophomore setter Katie Ireland recorded her 13th double double of the season with 19 assists and ten digs.

Despite the tough loss, the Pioneers had to focus on the game ahead, scheduled for the following day. East Bay was up against one of the top teams in the conference, California State Los Angeles (10-6, 6-2).

In the first two sets, East Bay fell to LA in two close games, losing 25-27 in the first set and 22-25 in the second set, but the Pioneers stayed optimistic and let that fuel them.

“After the second set our coaches talked to us all and told us that if we wanted this game and none of us had

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The CSUEB volleyball team reacts during their game against UC San Diego on October 1 at Pioneer Gymnasium. doubts, then we could come back,” said Leuteneker.

The Pioneers did just that. Down early in the third set, East Bay continued to fight and went on a 5-0 run, putting the game at 15-15. East Bay and LA went back and forth after that until LA gained momentum again and led the game 2420. That did not seem to phase the Pioneers as they were determined not to lose this game.

Senior outside hitter Darlene Lee served her squad into 5 consecutive points, which gave them the 25-24 lead.

LA’s outside hitter Daisy Portillo tied it back up after the 5-0 run, but the Pioneer’s sophomore middle Kathy McKiernan came right back and hit two kills in a row, giving East Bay the 27-25 win.

The fourth set was another battle between the two teams. East Bay gained a

significant lead several times throughout the game, but just could not kill off the Eagles. The Pioneers were up 24-22 and looked as if they were ready to end the game, but LA’s junior setter Kelsey Molnar scored and cut the lead back down to one.

East Bay’s McKiernan became the hero again and sealed the deal for her team when her kill gave them the 25-22 win.

Thompson and Leuteneker were the huge factors in the fifth set. Thompson, who was playing near her hometown in front of her family, scored four of East Bay’s final seven points.

“I wanted to show this league, my family and everyone watching, that East Bay is a force to be reckoned with,” said Thompson. “I did not make as many plays in the previous games, but I trust-

ed my abilities and continued to be aggressive and it worked out for the best.”

Leuteneker put the game away and gave the Pioneers the win as she hit the ball towards the back line with full force.

The kill gave the Pioneers the 15-13 win, and assured them the full comeback.

“Being so close in the first and second set we all knew that we could take this team,” said Leuteneker. “It’s so easy to shut down and get inside your head with negative thoughts when you are down, but we continued to play our game. Unlike the game versus Dominguez, we played together and it earned us a victory.” The sophomore had her season high with 19 kills in the game.

The win put the women at 3-5 in conference and 7-9 overall. They will face Stanislaus State (7-0, 4-3) on Friday and Chico State (12-4, 6-1) on Saturday.

Women’s swimming team splits home opener

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF It was a welcoming return for the Cal State East Bay women’s swimming team on Friday.

The Pioneers kicked off the 2016-2017 season by going 1-1 at Pioneer Pool on the Hayward campus.

It was the first meet of the year for CSUEB’s new women’s swimming head coach Shane Pelton. He took over at East Bay in August following a search by then Athletic Director Joan McDermott.

Pelton replaced Ben Loorz who was hired as the head coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in May. “We have an awesome lineup for next season and whoever takes over this program is going to have a great time,” Loorz said before he left for UNLV. That awesome lineup got off to a great start in the first match against Mills College from Oakland. The Pioneer dominated the Cyclones and cruised to a blowout win, 216-43. However, East Bay fell to the University of the Pacific in their second match, 162-99.

In the third event of the day, the 200yard freestyle, senior Madison Hauanio took first place as she edged out UOP junior Becca Aguilar by less than half a second, 1:54.69 to 1:55.13.

A pair of Pioneers took first and second place in the next event, the 100-yard backstroke. Sophomore Morgan McClure and senior Mariam Lowe nabbed the top two spots and it was a close race between teammates. McClure just outtouched Lowe by two tenths of a second, 58.65 to 58.86.

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A Cal State East Bay swimmer competes in the first two meets of the year on Saturday at Pioneer Pool on the Hayward campus against University of the Pacific and Mills College. CSUEB went 1-1 in their first two matches of the season.

“We have an awesome lineup for next season and whoever takes over this program is going to have a great time” -Ben Loorz, former CSUEB swiming coach

CSUEB swimmers also placed first and second in the sixth event, the 200yard butterfly, as freshman Victoria Zukeran and junior Madison Faulkner took the top two spots respectively.

McClure took another first place finish in one of the last events of the day, the 200-yard individual medley. McClure beat UOP freshman Whitney Jor-

gensen 2:07.32 to 2:08.50.

The next match of the season for East Bay is Oct. 21 against Biola University at 3 p.m. at the Trefethen Aquatic Center in Oakland. The Pioneers will go on the road for the next five matches and return to Hayward on Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. when they host Colorado College at Pioneer Pool.