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By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR One in five students go without consistent meals, a CSU study reported in February 2015. Since the report was released, Cal State East Bay has been cooking up a solution. Last Wednesday, East Bay cut the red ribbon on the university’s first student food pantry, a resource that many hope will satiate the hunger that many Pioneers face daily. Volunteers handed out fresh strawberries, apples and oranges to anyone who visited the pantry on opening day, according to Alex Baker, case management coordinator at East Bay’s Student Health and Counseling Services center. The pantry was well stocked with fresh produce and shelf-stable food donations from the Alameda County Food Bank, whom Student Affairs has partnered with, and 800 items from the Enrollment Services department, according to Baker. The program is currently in the process of gathering volunteers and interns to run the food pantry, which operates on an appointment only basis and by referral only. Baker explained that referrals are made by faculty or staff through an anonymous reporting system, or by students who can create a referral for themselves or others by emailing the H.O.P.E. email address. After he receives the referrals, Baker follows up with the students to coordinate a time and date for them to access the food pantry. Foods are categorized and assigned a value by a points system. Students can access the pantry once a week and have an allotted number of points that they can use at that time. Baker said the pantry opened during Make a Difference week, an expansion of Make a Difference Day, which celebrates volunteerism and took place from Oct. 17 to Oct. 22 this year. The food pantry is part of Pioneers for H.O.P.E or Helping Our Pioneers Excel, an “intervention” program that was created following the CSU study to provide hungry and homeless students with food, shelter and emergency funds. Since Baker was hired last February, plans for the food pantry have been in the works. During this time, an advisory board and five subcommittee groups focusing on food, housing, funding, campaign and resources were created. The study, commissioned by CSU Chancellor Timothy White revealed that only 11 of the 23 campuses in the CSU system offered programs that assisted food insecure students. At the time of the study, East Bay’s only alternative dining option was meal cards for the on-campus dining commons. Baker said the Pioneers for H.O.P.E. program is the first of it’s kind at East Bay. Baker said the study was a call to
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San Leandro to open new Tech Campus By Michele Dennis
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CONTRIBUTOR A crowd of nearly 900 people gathered to watch the inaugural lighting of a 55-foot tall polished steel skin female sculpture known as “Truth is Beauty” in celebration of the grand opening of the San Leandro Technology Campus on Oct. 18. Hundreds of people held candles as the statue’s 2,500 LED lights began to glow, softly illuminating the Tech Campus courtyard. The statue is representative of the movement to encourage women to become more involved in the technology industry, said Gaye Quinn who works for Westlake Urban, a property management and development organization in the Bay Area and one of many, including the city itself, responsible for bringing “her” here. The “Truth is Beauty” statue was first introduced at Burning Man Festival four years ago. San Leandro Mayor Pauline Cutter said at the event that the statue, whose bare female form gestures to the heavens, represents not only the new campus, which opens this fall, but the transformation this city envisions for the future. The Tech Campus is located on the west side of the downtown San Leandro BART station and is one of several new projects underway in the city, including a nearly completed 200-unit affordable housing project right across from the
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In its past two games, the California State East Bay men's soccer team was unable to score any goals against California State San Marcos or UC San Diego. On Friday night, the team faced California State San Marcos (5-4-4 overall, 4-2-4 conference), which ended in a physical yet scoreless game. By the end of the game, each team had 15 fouls to their name. East Bay received four yellow cards and one of San Marcos’s players was ejected with a red card. San Marcos had the upper hand on the Pioneers in terms of shots, leading 15-9. Neither team was able to put the ball in the back of the net. This was the first game of the season for the Pioneers that resulted in a 0-0 score. Both teams had a difficult time capitalizing on the opportunities given to them, but were solid defensively. East Bay goalkeeper freshman Carlos Moreno led the Pioneers with three saves for the night. On Sunday before they faced UC San Diego, the number one team in CCAA, the Pioneers honored the eight seniors who would be playing their final home game: Douglas McNiell,
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The Pioneer visits San Quentin
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After a recent visit by our publication staff to San Quentin Prison, a collaboration between this newspaper and the San Quentin News is in the works. By Kevin D. Sawyer SAN QUENTIN NEWS Students and faculty from California State University East Bay’s student-run newspaper, The Pioneer, visited the San Quentin State Prison in July. A couple of years ago the idea struck me to reach out to my alma mater — California State University Hayward — from San Quentin because I wanted those on a familiar education path to experience some hidden truths about prison. Several years ago, I initially invited The Pioneer to visit San Quentin News, an inmate-run newspaper, where I am the associate editor. One by one they have accepted the open invitation, beginning with former Pioneer editor-in-chief, Yousuf Fahimuddin and the paper’s past student sales executive, Yesica Ibarra, later followed by former student photojournalist, Valerie Smith. “Pioneers” make treks to out-of-the-way places like California’s oldest and perhaps most infamous prison. East Bay led the way, absent any apparent preconceived biases, and arrived with objectivity. “It was almost unreal. It’s surreal,” said Tam Duong Jr., visual editor for The Pioneer. “It’s almost a world in itself,” he said. Like many who visit the prison, Duong expressed an interest in returning. Visiting San Quentin News was Pioneer managing editor Kali Persall’s first time inside a newsroom outside of the classroom. “It’s really similar to ours. You guys have it together. I’m impressed.” The prison’s Public Information Officer, Lt. Sam Robinson, allowed The Pioneer access to areas of the prison generally considered off the beaten path from
standard tours. One of those areas is west block where they photographed, video taped, recorded and interviewed many of the 700-plus inmates housed in the five-tier structure. “It was super cool,” said Christina Galanakis a layout designer for the Pioneer at the time of their visit who captured the experience on video tape. She said prison was nothing like she expected from watching television. “It was inspiring,” she said, adding that walking among inmates “has a school atmosphere.” To get to west block, they walked past north block, the dining halls, the commissary, east block’s ominous death row and through the south block rotunda. “I thought it was really pretty until I got to the yard,” said Pioneer production assistant, Marina Swanson. “I wasn’t expecting to walk through the yard. It felt much calmer than I expected.” The Pioneer staff walked among hundreds of convicts on their way to the prison media center. These East Bay students took advantage of an opportunity to visit, of all places, a prison. This speaks to their commitment to cover news in every segment of society, particularly a subculture where untold stories exist about America’s 2.3 million men, women and children that are disappeared; forever defined by their worst moments in life. “We’re happy to get our facts right,” said Gary Moskowitz, The Pioneer’s faculty advisor. Here’s a fact: The United States is five percent of the world’s population, yet it incarcerates twenty five percent of the world’s prisoners. Journalism connects us to facts and the rest of the world. It is a foundation of our democracy, embedded in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides voice through a free press and free speech. Even unpopular, polarizing public speaking. The East Bay faculty recognize the value in its students viewing an all-but-forgotten part of American society which balances their education. “We don’t want this to be the last time,” said Dr. Katherine Bell, The Pioneer’s faculty coordinator. “We want to make life-long connections.” They have already done so by seizing a moment in time to go where others will not dare and too often denounce, without being informed on what happens there. I’m delighted that I reached out to CSUEB, and proud of the students and staff for their work in the field of journalism.
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The new student food pantry is now open at the Student Health & Counseling Services building at the Hayward campus.
action for CSU campuses to develop more services to address these issues. The study revealed that many students that reported food insecurities also said they managed “incredible stress,” and agreed that this could be distracting in
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“It’s important because our students were experiencing these areas of hardship and needed something in place” —Alex Baker, case management coordinator
Is social security funding our future? By Sean McCarthy STAFF WRITER In a 2016 annual report, the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees stated that the Social Security Trust will likely run out by 2034. This doesn’t mean that Social Security will be gone completely, but it is projected that people will not receive the full benefits that they are entitled to. Payroll taxes from younger members of the workforce will still be enough to fund 79 percent of benefits, according to news reports. Experts like Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College are searching for alternative ways to fund the program. They have suggested raising the current Social Security tax from 6.2 percent to 7.54 percent for employees and 12.4 percent to 13.74 percent for employers. This increase would aim to fund Social Security through the year 2089. “If we increased the employer share [of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act] by 1.34 percent and employee share by 1.34 percent, that would be enough to pay the current benefits for everyone who reaches retirement through 2089,” said Munnell. Munnell’s plan has one potentially fatal flaw: it will put a bigger financial burden on lower class families. There were 829,547 people living below the poverty line in the Bay Area in 2013, which was $11,490 for individuals and $23,550 for couples, according to a 2015 report by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Institute of Regional Studies. About 12.9 percent of residents in Alameda County sat below the poverty line. Those individuals current-
ly pay approximately $712.38 but the increase would bump that value up to $866.34. The average cost of rent for a one bedroom in Oakland is $2,000. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second New Deal birthed the Social Security Act in 1935, which first collected taxes in 1937. The government collected one percent of income in 1937 and gradually increased every three to five years until it halted at 6.13 percent in 1979, according to the Social Security Administration. The current economic system has maximum tax caps which are made to benefit members of the upper class. Between 2000-08, then president George W. Bush gave tax cuts to to all classes but the wealthy saw the biggest tax break. The bottom 20 percent saw an after-tax income of one percent, or $99, whereas the top one percent of income earners saw an increase of 6.7 percent or $66,618, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports. That is what they call trickle-down taxes: it provides the upper-middle class, the upper class and the wealthy with tax breaks that trickle down to the poor. But the trickle-down system is flawed. The rich get taxed less, which is supposed to create more jobs, and conceivably trickle down to employees. Instead, they put the money into a trust and the money becomes stagnant, which hinders our economy instead of bolstering it. The correct solution for the Social Security problem is to remove the maximum taxable amount for Social Security, $118,500. The current system is setup so that a person who makes $1 million only pays 6.2 percent of $118,500. That means $881,500 of their income is untaxed by Social Security. If that remaining value was taxed, $54,653 would go toward Social Secu-
rity. This would fix our Social Security issue if the upper class was taxed in proportion to the lower classes. A 2013 New America Foundation report found that Social Security would raise about $377 billion for the program by lifting the maximum taxable cap. Many politicians argue for a flat-tax system that promotes equality for everybody because everybody pays the same amount. Theoretically that is true, but not one of these politicians ever talks about lifting the cap off Social Security. Why not? Simple. That would mean the rich would actually have to pay an equal amount of tax relative to their pay just as a poor or middle-class person would, and that is not acceptable to the upper class. They hide behind equality when they are actually responsible for the widening of the American wealth divide. In cities with above-average minimum wages such as San Francisco, Seattle and Santa Fe, the economy prospered. The Seattle Times found that employment actually went up at businesses of all scales, while the price of goods also increased slightly to compensate for the increased minimum wage. The same can be said once the Social Security cap is removed and everybody pays their fair share of taxes. That means that my future wife and I can retire at 65 rather than 75. There is no acceptable alternative solution other than lifting the tax cap on Social Security. We all hope to grow old enough to enjoy our golden years but in order to do so, we must protect our right to Social Security. Our future goes beyond our own individual lifetimes. If we make the necessary changes now, then we can enjoy our own retirements on time, and so will future generations.
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Unwanted residents scamper onto Hayward campus Mice move into Dining Hall and dorms, frightening students and staff and raising doubts about health and safety.
Feces, rodents found in housing buildings By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER At 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, Cal State East Bay freshman Briana Secaira returned from a trip to Los Angeles to her four-bedroom dorm on the second floor of the Juniper residence hall on East Bay’s Hayward campus. She noticed that her items were moved while she had been gone and mouse traps had been placed on her desk. As Secaira began to unpack, she heard squealing and assumed it was outside until she saw a mouse caught in a trap near her bed. “It’s like two in the morning and I just came from a long drive,” said Secaira. “I just want to go to sleep and I hear a mouse, so I ran outside crying because I have nowhere to sleep. I don’t want to sleep in there. It’s nasty.”
After the incident, Secaira and her roommates filed a campus maintenance request on the student housing website. Maintenance covered the holes in their walls with blue painter’s tape and pieces of a blind used for windows so mice couldn’t get through, according to Secaira. Less than a week before the incident, on Sept. 28, student housing sent an email to freshman residents in the Juniper and Sequoia residence halls, notifying them about a rodent invasion in the dorms. The email stated, “Student Housing is also working with the University's Facilities department to identify areas around the buildings where mice can get in and working on ways to prevent the intrusion. We are also looking at installing and modifying some of the door openings.” Two main things may have contributed to the presence of more mice on campus, according to Mark Almeida, interim director
of housing: the California drought and campus construction. “We’re in a drought in California, so the field mice are looking for vegetation, some sort of wet ground, and they tend to come towards [places] that are hydrated, like planting beds,” Almeida said. Construction on campus over the summer also likely caused the shaking ground to displace the mice. Two parking lots near the RAW center were re-paved, so all nearby vegetation was removed, according to Almeida. “When all of that is going on, the mice needed somewhere to go,” said Kelvin Pace, custodial grounds manager on campus. “They’ve come to a place of shelter, if you will, and so this isn’t just happening in student housing, but the campus.” Pace said they can get rid of the mice in one building but they can easily migrate to other buildings. “I had to go walk around some of the buildings in housing,” said Pace. “I saw people leave food out instead of put-
ting them in tupperwares. [Mice] have a high sense of smell, people don’t know that. So not putting things in just a regular store-bought container like bread, bagels, and whatever… they’re going to go after it.” Housing has been supplied with glue mouse traps from Applied Pest Management, who they have a contract with through the facilities department. Pace said glue traps are the most humane way to dispose of mice and are safer than exposing humans and animals to poisonous pest control. “We don’t want to use poison because they can die somewhere in the walls too and you’ll have a bad smell,” Pace said. “It’s random, they’re everywhere now — the RAW, different buildings — they’re kinda like gypsies.” An anonymous source told the Pioneer that a resident assistant was bitten by a mouse in September and was given a contract by housing to not speak about it.
“...I shouldn't have to be paying $12,000 a year to live with mice here” —Nev Briones, freshman CSUEB student
Almeida confirmed that a housing employee was injured and, consistent with university protocol, was taken to the hospital immediately and was given an injury form to fill out, which can be found on the Risk Management website. Another anonymous source told The Pioneer there have been sightings of mice and feces in the Dining Commons. Workers have allegedly been told to deny the sightings if asked by visitors. Mike Lee, manager of Dining Commons, declined to comment. On Oct. 12, freshman Nev Briones came home to her room in the Sequoia residence hall and found mice feces on her desk. “It’s our parents’ money, you know. I don't live with mice at home, I shouldn’t
have to be paying $12,000 a year to live with mice here,” Briones said. Mice can carry transmitted viruses, diseases and bacteria and their feces should be handled with gloves and a facemask, according to pest control service, Orkins.com. Pace said they’ve received no reports on contamination despite pest control being on campus every single day to do rounds due to the high volume of mice sightings.
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CSUEB makes a difference in community
Cal State East Bay students volunteer at Tennyson High School in South Hayward during the annual CSUEB Make a Difference Day event held on Saturday.
Students, staff take to streets to ignite change By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The 2016 Cal State East Bay Make a Difference Week concluded on Saturday with the event that got students, faculty, staff and community members to volunteer in local neighborhoods. Make a Difference Day kicked off at 7 a.m. in the RAW plaza where volunteers met up and took shuttles to different areas around Hayward to help clean up the local areas that are just down the
hill from the Hayward campus. It was a week of events that was kicked off on Oct. 17. The new East Bay food pantry also opened in the Student Health Center on Oct. 19, which aims to provide any student in need of food with a variety of food items. The actual Make a Difference Day event took volunteers to the Tennyson High School community and garden to clean up and help develop the garden. Other volunteers went to the San Loreno garden to help their garden project. Volunteers were given free breakfast and lunch as well as credited for community service. This was the 14th annual Make a Difference Day at CSUEB and the event welcomes all people not just students, staff and faculty.
Above right: Cal State East Bay students register for Make a Difference Day held on Saturday at the RAW plaza on the Hayward campus. Above: Cal State East Bay students volunteer at the Tennyson High School garden on Saturday in South Hayward.
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No “creepy clowns” at campus costume contest Ban instated as a safety precaution for attendees By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER On Halloween, Associated Students Inc. will host the campus’s very first Halloween Costume Contest. The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Agora Stage at the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus. The Bay Area’s own DJ Slay, will spin hip-hop music and campus food service Aramark will serve hotdogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers. This will be the third planned event by ASI’s new Director of Programming, Hunter Rangel, who believes that Halloween is an underestimated holiday. “I’ve never seen a Halloween costume contest on campus and wanted to create more enlightenment and activity,” said Rangel. Rangel said he has been planning this event since late August. The contest is free to attend and will begin around 1:30 p.m. Contestants will be judged on their creativity and can win one of three prizes. First place wins a Beats by Dre pill speaker, second place takes home a $75
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gift card to the bookstore and third place a $50 gift card to the bookstore, according to Rangel. ASI will be tabling and giving away free prizes like chapstick, beanies, school supplies and Klean Kan-
teens to the first 50 students who stop by their table. The CSUEB University Police Department has prohibited clown costumes and makeup from this contest due to the
“creepy clown” trend that has gone viral on social media as of late. It started with people dressing as clowns to lure children into the woods in South Carolina and spread as a prank
in over 30 states. “We don’t want people panicking,” said East Bay’s Cpl. Norman Marsh. “We just to make sure there's no incidents like that and you guys are safe.”
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Each year, the Alameda County Fairgrounds are transformed into a collection of spooky scenes. Under the umbrella of the "Pirates of Emerson Haunted Themed Park," various haunted houses and attractions called the "Laboragory" and "Holiday Horror," among others, pop up in late September and run through the Halloween holiday. Situated on 6 acres at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton, the theme park's ghoulish costumed characters and various attractions draw "tens of thousands" of visitors each season, its founder Brian Shields said. It employs about 75 seasonal workers. There is even a phone app modeled after it, "Haunted Planet," that lets you search for virtual pirate ghosts. It's more than a simple haunted house, featuring 6 acres of shows, mazes and haunted houses, Shields said. The seasonal theme park's origins are more modest, though. It started 25 years ago at the home Shields shared with his mom and dad, Patty and Karl. "We had some pirate stuff, so we dressed up, just some friends, and we scared the neighborhood kids -we were the Pirates of Emerson," Brian Shields said. The Shields family put up the haunted house each year, collecting cans of food from visitors to donate to charity. After about
seven years, when the house drew some 3,000 visitors and had collected 15 tons of food, the city noticed and informed the family it would either have to shut down or become a commercial enterprise on a different property. So they moved the attraction to a BART-owned lot in Fremont, near where the Warm Springs station now is. Eventually, it came to its current home at the fairgrounds, where it has been operating for five years. And each year, it has grown, Shields said. He attributes the success to the variety of attractions and the fact that each year is a bit different. Diana Mueller has been coming to the Pirates of Emerson since 1995, before the event moved to the fairgrounds. "They are one of the few haunts left in the Bay Area that I would recommend to go to. They seem to keep adding new features every year or so," Mueller said. "Most haunts change their haunt but don't really expand much, so it's a pretty neat feature to look forward to every year." Having a plethora of activities is what makes for a good attraction, said Larry Kirchner, head of the Haunted Attraction Association and Hauntworld.com, which provides information about haunted attractions and operates several ones in St. Louis. "Most Haunted Houses that distinguish themselves from all the rest usually have many different types of things going on, so it's not just (about) if we can make
you scream," Kirchner said. Rather than simply about scaring people, "it's really mostly about entertaining people," he said of a good haunted attraction. "Do your customers walk away and say, 'We had a great time'?" Haunted attractions have also gotten more complex and often more expensive for both developers and attendees, Kirchner said. Tickets at Pirates of Emerson start at $30 to see the four haunted houses and a couple other attractions, but customers can buy add-ons for speed passes and additional attractions. The priciest ticket is $80 for a "VIP" speed-pass that provides unlimited access to all the attractions. The theme park is open mostly on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 7 to 10 p.m., but the last couple weeks in October also offer admission on Thursdays at the same time. It rarely closes for weather, but Shields indicated that rain can be a deterrent for crowds. Shields and his parents work year round on Pirates of Emerson, designing and promoting it themselves, he said. They begin building it in August, open it the last week of September and tear it down in early November. "It's like a nighttime Renaissance fair where there is so much going on outside -- you can go get a cocoa, we have a freak show and mazes," Shields said. "It's unlike any of your traditional haunted houses."
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Proposition 58 deserves a yes vote I am an Argentinian-American dual citizen, and like many first-generation Americans, my first language was Spanish. I learned English in the San Francisco public school system, and speak Spanish at home. Multilingual education was essentially outlawed in California public schools in 1998, and a one-size-fits all system was put in place, forcing all students without a waiver into English-only classes. Though I became fluent in English in this environment, it came at the cost of my bilingualism. While I can still speak Spanish fluently, the lack of education in my native language hurt my ability to write comfortably in Spanish. Many students I know were not able to learn English in this environment, while others lost the ability to speak in their native language entirely. The fact is, too many English Language Learners (ELLs) are being left behind with our current English-only language education system in California. Less than 40% of ELLs are estimated to have reached fluency in English after ten years in English-only immersion. We need to give teachers and parents control over language education, including multilingual education, so as to best teach English – and other languages – in our public schools. That’s why I’m working to help pass Proposition 58, on the November ballot, to give the power back to students, parents and teachers to learn language in the way that works best for them. Additionally, Prop. 58 restores the pride in speaking multiple languages.
Proposition 58 also ensures that the high standard of English proficiency be maintained – therefore, students would learn and maintain a language, while meeting English fluency requirements. Research shows that being bilingual directly coincides with higher paying jobs, increased creative thinking and a flexibility of connection in a global community. Even the California Medical Association, representing California’s doctors, supports multi-lingualism because a brain that can quickly decode language can also decode complex medical jargon, not to mention an increased ability to communicate with patients of all backgrounds. I know first-hand what an invaluable skill it is to be bilingual. Every internship I have worked in my professional career, every interviewer I’ve met, and every job application I complete now asks about and values my bilingual ability. I’ve used my bilingualism in jobs with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Office of Congressman Garamendi, the Office of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Univision’s Presidential Convention Coverage, and a number of private political consulting firms. My ability to offer more than one language within a work setting has been crucial in expanding my work-experience, and it has become my foot-in-thedoor for future job opportunities. It’s time to look forward and give all students a chance to learn languages. Join me in supporting a brighter future, vote YES on Prop 58.
Training is a waste of my time Dear time wasters, The Title IX training makes about as much sense as having people watch videos to prevent bullying; bullies will still bully. Why don't you guys make freshman do this or people under 21? This is an insult. By the way, how do you feel about people who HAVE been victims of sexual assault reliving their experience because of these forced videos? Then you threaten us with a registration hold? Someone didn't think this through or some planning group must have fell victim to group think. This training forces so much down our throats, it may even make people nervous about asking someone out on a date for fear of being accused of sexual assault. The more a student doesn't know
about a subject, the more they are forced to watch videos? Excuse me, I have a life, a non-sexually-assaulting life. What's next, forcing people to take psychological testing to see if their the type that would assault people? Give me a break people, this training has gone way too far. Hey Title IX people, if you force police officers in police departments that shoot unarmed black people to watch a culturally informative video, do you think that it will reduce the number of killings disproportionately affecting the black community? If you answered yes, you're an idiot. If you answered no, then you should agree that Title IX training is a complete waste of time and money for most of students, faculty, and staff. Use that money to decrease tuition.
T.P., CSUEB student
Briana Megid, UC Davis senior
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California National Guard members won’t have to repay bonuses — for now By Sean Cockerham McClatchy WASHINGTON BUREAU
The Pentagon has agreed under pressure from Congress to suspend its demand that thousands of California National Guard veterans repay re-enlistment and retention bonuses given during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bonuses were illegal, and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in a statement that "while some soldiers knew or should have known they were ineligible for benefits they were claiming, many others did not." Carter said Wednesday that the Pentagon would put in place a new process that "puts as little burden as possible on any soldier who received an improper payment through no fault of his or her own." The Sacramento Bee revealed the fraudulent payments in 2010. The California Guard's incentive manager, retired Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, pleaded guilty in 2011 to filing false claims. The Pentagon has been demanding repayment of the incentives, which tended to range from $15,000 to $20,000 per soldier. The debt is a major hardship for many veterans, who said they are being punished now for accepting bonuses recruiters offered as they eagerly sought to bolster the wartime ranks. Carter said efforts to reclaim the money will stop until a better pro-
cess for soldiers to appeal is created by the beginning of the new year. He said the goal is to resolve all cases by July. "Ultimately, we will provide for a process that puts as little burden as possible on any soldier who received an improper payment through no fault of his or her own," Carter said. "At the same time, it will respect our important obligation to the taxpayer." He provided no details on how many soldiers might still be asked to repay their bonuses. Peter Levine, the acting undersecretary of defense, told reporters at the Pentagon that there would be no blanket forgiveness of repayment demands. He said each case will be resolved on "its own merits." The $100 million in bonuses and tuition assistance were wrongly provided to the California National Guard soldiers from 2005 to 2010. Several officers pleaded guilty to misuse of funds. The Pentagon has been clawing the money back from soldiers for years while Congress ignored the issue. The Bee described the repayment demands in 2013, and in the past four years the Army collected $22 million from soldiers. Soldiers struggled with garnished checks and a broken appeals process. There were halfhearted efforts to help the soldiers, including a failed measure submitted to the national defense budget two years ago that would have more quickly resolved
complaints from soldiers. Members of Congress nevertheless appeared surprised by a Los Angeles Times article last weekend about the effort to reclaim money from soldiers. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" this week that he had no idea what was going on. "That is outrageous. I've met with individuals all the time _ never did I hear this come up. This is outrageous going forward. I cannot imagine anyone who knew about this in the House would not have acted upon this," McCarthy said. Members of Congress from both parties rushed this week to declare themselves appalled and pledge to stop the Pentagon. McCarthy and 24 of his colleagues sent a letter to the Defense Department on Monday asking that attempts to collect the debt from soldiers be halted. Many California lawmakers aren't satisfied with the result. Both of California's senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, said it's not enough to suspend the debt collection. The senators are preparing legislation to permanently stop the bonus repayments. "The small number of service members who knew they weren't supposed to receive bonuses will be exempt from the bill," the two Democratic senators said in a joint statement. "We're hopeful the Pentagon will resolve this issue on its own, but want to ensure those who wore our nation's uniform that they
won't be punished for the actions of others." California Republican Assembly Leader Chad Mayes complained that halting the debt collection does nothing for the soldiers who have already been forced to repay their bonuses. "It's long past time to do the right thing," Mayes said. "Help our veterans, don't bankrupt them." Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., said action is needed as soon as Congress returns after the election. "We must pass a law that removes the repayment obligation for those National Guard members who, through no fault of their own, are caught in a bureaucratic nightmare," he said. "We must also ensure that Guardsmen who have paid back all or portions of these bonuses are issued a full refund." The president, though, is reluctant to just let all the soldiers to keep their bonuses. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the California National Guard's financial incentive program was a fraud and that each of the soldiers' cases should be considered individually. "There is some evidence to indicate that some people shouldn't have received bonuses and the Department of Defense does have a responsibility to taxpayers to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars," Earnest said. "And if there was a payment that was made in error, they have a responsibility to taxpayers to go and recover that money."
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America's youngest voters are overwhelmingly backing Hillary Clinton for president, as a majority also express fears about the country's future, a nationwide survey released Wednesday by Harvard University's Institute of Politics shows. The Democratic nominee is backed by 49 percent of likely voters ages 18 to 29, followed by Republican nominee Donald Trump at 21 percent, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson at 14 percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 5 percent. In a hypothetical two-way contest between Clinton and Trump, the Democrat received 59 percent support and the Republican was backed by 25 percent. Clinton is also tracking ahead of President Barack Obama's 2012 polling numbers among women and white voters in the age group, the survey found. "After eight years of a complicated relationship with millennials, in the closing days of the campaign, Hillary Clinton is closing strong," said John Della Volpe, the institute's polling director. "Her favorability with 18- to 29-year-old likely voters is up significantly since the summer and the combination of her strong debate performances and failure for both Trump and the third party candidates to expand their bases gives her a lead of 28 points." Asked about the nation's future, 51 percent of those ages 18 to 29 said they feel "fearful," while just 20 percent picked "hopeful." In responding to the question, which hadn't been asked in previous polls, every demographic group felt more fearful than hopeful, the institute said, with white women exhibiting the most anxiety, at 60 percent fearful.
Concerns about the future of the nation are focused on the attainability of the "American Dream," the survey found. Only about one-in-three white females in the age group think they'll be better off financially than their parents, while just 36 percent of white males say that. In 2012, those 18 to 29 years old accounted for 19 percent of the electorate nationally, according to exit polls. Harvard's survey of 2,150 U.S. citizens was conducted online through random sampling Oct. 7-17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Johnson could lose some of his support among young people, the survey shows, as the election becomes closer. Among his likely voters, 37 percent say they're likely to change their minds before Election Day. Just 6 percent of Clinton's supporters and 5 percent of Trump's backers say that. Comparing these results to Obama's position in the same poll four years earlier, Clinton is performing better among female voters (+14 points), white voters (+12 points), and non-college voters (+10 points). When compared to Republican Mitt Romney's position in the same 2012 poll, Trump is under-performing by 17 percentage points among young Republicans. The proportion of those in the age group who say they'll definitely vote _ 49 percent _ is one percentage point higher than in the same survey four years earlier, the institute said. Fifty-one percent of young women said they'll definitely vote, up from 45 percent in 2012. Young Hispanics are 8 percentage points more likely to say they're going to vote, while independents are 7 percentage points more likely to say so. Republicans in the age group are 9 percentage points less likely to say they'll definitely vote than in 2012.
He said the soldiers have to be treated fairly, though, and that doing so is a top priority of the president. "The president's expectation is that each case would be considered individually and each person who committed to serving this country is going to make sure that any promises that were made to them are kept, and that those individuals are going to be treated fairly," Earnest said. It's not clear why the issue was so long ignored. The California National Guard said it approached congressional and federal leaders in 2014 about easing the soldier debts, while congressional staff members suggest the Guard didn't push hard or present the full scope of the problem. Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., offered an amendment to deal with the issue in 2014 but withdrew it after being told that the Obama administration already had the authority to forgive the debts. Denham said in a statement that it's "disgraceful" that the administration didn't take action earlier. Carter said hundreds of California National Guard members have received relief from the debts through appeals. But he conceded that the appeals process isn't working. "This process has dragged on too long, for too many service members. Too many cases have languished without action," Carter said. "That's unfair to service members and to taxpayers."
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BART station. A newly renovated promenade now connects BART and the city’s downtown plaza and features art installations and new restaurants. Other recent additions to the city like Drake’s Brewery and Ghiradelli Chocolate have breathed new life into this quiet community. The campus and its new sculpture are the latest in an infusion of new businesses to San Leandro. OSISoft, a global industrial data analysis organization headquartered in San Leandro since 1980, partnered with Westlake Urban to design and build the campus, which will be implemented in three phases at a total cost of $200 million, according to Patrick Kennedy, CEO of OSISoft. “We have letters of intent for potential leasing contracts from several businesses for the new buildings,” he said. “We anticipate we’ll have no problem filling them.” To attract new businesses to the San Leandro campus, the SLTC offers a 10 gigabytes per second fiber network that the New York Times reported to be the fastest broadband speed in the nation, and office space at approx $4 per square foot, less than half the cost of similar space in Silicon Valley, according to Kennedy. Kennedy invested his own money to connect San Leandro with fiber. In 2010 he approached the city about leasing their existing underground lines so he could install a fiber network loop in exchange for 10 percent of the system for the city’s use. He spent $3 million to install the fiber pull which initially covered an 11 square mile area in the city and to start LITSan Leandro, the company that manages the fiber line’s business. An additional $2.1 million federal grant from the Economic Development Administration enabled the city to add nine additional miles of conduit to the system, increasing the system to 20 miles, according to Jill Battenberg, San Leandro’s business development manager. The loop, which now serves over 250 businesses, provides what Kennedy calls “an open fiber network” that serves the commercial industrial area in San Leandro. Fiber allows companies within the loop like those at the incubator complex The Gate, an art and tech community situated on a 24-acre property in Silicon Valley, to connect networks and multiple buildings together. It has been expanded to include the San Leandro School District and the San Leandro Main Library. The San Leandro Tech Campus has been in development for nearly ten years. The first phase of of the project is nearly done and will be open by the end of the year. Its 134,000 square-foot, six-story building will be occupied by OSISoft. Its second building is underway and will be about the same size; the third will be slightly smaller. One multi-tiered parking lot is complete and open, and an additional parking structure will be added with phase three. Westlake Urban is processing entitlements to build an additional 200 living units. As for the inaugural sculpture, Kennedy said it’s intended to make a strong statement about art and the human spirit. “We have to look around us and enjoy what we have here,” he said. “The world is not just about bits and bytes.”
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 27, 2016
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Soda industry trying hard to block Bay Area taxes By Heather Knight & John Wildermuth SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
The soda industry has now spent $19.3 million to defeat San Francisco's proposed tax on sodas and other sugary drinks, making it by far the most expensive ballot measure in city history. The soda industry spent about $10 million to defeat the city's first try at a soda tax in 2014, and PG&E spent about $10 million to defeat a public power measure in 2008. Those were the previous record holders. Along with money to defeat similar soda tax measures in Oakland and Albany, the soda industry has spent about $24.7 million in the Bay Area, according to campaign finance reports. On Monday, the campaign to defeat the soda tax measures released a study funded by the soda industry and conducted by Brad Williams, a consultant working with the campaigns in Oakland and San Francisco. He looked at the prices of taxed sugary drinks versus untaxed non-sugary drinks in Berkeley, where a soda tax is already in effect. He found little price difference. He also found that the prices of taxed sugary drinks at the same chain stores in Berkeley versus outside Berkeley were essentially the same. He said this means customers won't see "strong price signals" telling them what to buy and what to leave on the shelf. "Without strong price signals, you're not going to see a significant change in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, which is the point of the tax," he said. He also surveyed the owners of 180 small grocery stores in San Francisco and Oakland and found that 70 percent of them say they would raise the price on items beyond just taxed soda if the measures pass. Since the tax is on distributors, the owners can decide whether to pass the extra cost onto customers, and whether to make soda a lot more expensive or spread it among other groceries, too. In a separate study conducted by UC Berkeley, the owners of 33 stores in Berkeley that sell sodas said they had not raised prices on anything other than beverages. Nine of them swallowed the extra cost and didn't raise prices at all. Dan Newman, spokesman for the campaign to pass the soda tax in San Francisco, said Williams' study is worthless, considering the soda industry paid for it. "A phony study paid for by the soda industry can't sugarcoat the objective science that proves soda taxes reduce soda consumption and improve the health of kids with no impact on businesses or the price of groceries," he said. -- Heather Knight
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Fold here: Experienced voter that you are, you may have assumed you knew all you needed to know about putting a ballot into a return envelope. You would be wrong. San Francisco election officials have produced a two-minute, 30-second video showing just how voters need to arrange the various vote-by-mail ballots to "streamline the processing of these four- or five-card ballots." Long story short: Fold each ballot card individually before you put them in the envelope. If you fold them all together, disaster looms. "The Department of Elections uses a mail sorter and a ballot opener to maximize efficiency of several ballot processing steps," John Arntz, the city's elections guru, said in a statement. "If a voter folds all the ballot cards together before inserting them into the return envelope, the envelope becomes very thick and can jam the equipment, slowing the process." And what are the nine steps of the
vote-by-mail process? Glad you asked. 1. The voter's request for a vote-bymail ballot is processed. 2. The ballot is printed. 3. The ballot cards and voting instructions are placed into an envelope for mailing. 4. The ballot packet is delivered to the post office en route to the voter. 5. The Elections Department receives the ballot from the voter. 6. The voter's signature on the return envelope is verified. 7. The envelope is readied for opening. 8. The ballot is removed from the envelope, and 9. The department counts the ballot. Get used to this. By 2020, every California voter who doesn't live in Los Angeles County will be getting all their ballots by mail, with only limited opportunities to vote in person. Los Angeles joins the fun in 2024. -- John Wildermuth
Pessimistic or optimistic: The closer it gets to election day, the more impassioned the begging letters from candidates become. Take, for example, this recent missive from Donald Trump, addressed to "Dear Fellow American" and suggesting that the recipient is one of "a handful of grassroots Republicans ... who have not yet contributed to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee." Saying that this is "one last shot at gaining your support" (which isn't something you should believe from any politician), Trump lays out the reasons folks should fork over the dough -- and helpfully says it can be as much as $36,100. --Democrat Hillary Clinton "is going to stack the federal court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, with radical, liberal activists." --"Crooked Hillary has pledged to let in tens of thousands of immigrants from ISIS-controlled regions of the world." --If Clinton and the Democrats win,
they "will destroy everything you have fought and worked for as a Republican." Since there's no such thing as a pessimistic politician, Trump also engages in a bit of wishful thinking, arguing that even though he "has taken a lot of hits from the sleazy media," who have "twisted my words over and over again," his political future still looks rosy. "We are dead even -- or LEADING in most polls," Trump writes, although he doesn't include the source of those upbeat surveys. And he also reminds people that "I did not have to run for president. I have a great life and a very successful business." Instead, echoing every politician -Republican, Democrat or independent -- who has ever run for office, Trump makes it clear he is only running out of a sense of duty to the country/state/ city/district and its people. "This election is about more than just me," he writes.
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CSUEB defender senior Juan Alfaro, right, tackles a UC San Diego Triton player during their match on Sunday afternoon at Pioneer Stadium.
Juan Alfaro, Victor Calderon, Chris Arce, Steffen Sauer Preston Hale, Kalvin Conley, Ariel Rosenmann and Zach Leon. “It was a bittersweet feeling because it would be my last official game here,” said senior forward Victor Calderon. “I will miss the feeling of stepping out on that field.” San Diego came out very strong. They outshot the Pioneers 16-1 and
were in the Pioneers defensive end for the majority of the game. “San Diego is a really organized team and showed more discipline defensively,” said senior defender Sauer. “It made it hard for us to create chances.” But what got East Bay was their fouls. The Tritons put up three goals against East Bay, which all came from free kicks. In the third minute of the game, Pio-
neer sophomore defender Brett Fuchs fouled a San Diego defender which led to a free kick. San Diego capitalized off the opportunity when Junior forward Malek Bashti received a pass off of the free kick and shot into the left side of the goal and scored. The Pioneers then fouled again 30 minutes later, which resulted in another free kick and a direct goal into the left side of the goal by senior mid-
fielder Nick Palano. East Bay went into the second half down 2-0 and reduced their fouls up to the 70th minute, until they fouled again. This allowed San Diego’s senior midfielder Riley Harbour to head the ball into the net off of junior forward Uly de la Cal’s free kick. The 3-0 loss put the Pioneers record at 6-8-2 overall and 2-6-2 conference, which slims their chances of making
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playoffs. “It’s unfortunate that we were unable to get the win and get an even record in our conference,” said Sauer. “But I am grateful for having the opportunity to play college soccer and to have met so many great guys, especially being from Germany. Everything was new to me when I first came out here, but I have enjoyed myself and that is because of East Bay soccer.”
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Sin City makes way for silver and black Nevada lawmakers pass laws to welcome new football stadium By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Earlier this month, Nevada lawmakers approved legislation to raise the hotel bed tax in Clark County. The increase will go towards a new $1.9 billion football stadium, which the city hopes will be the new home of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders. In order for a team to move to Sin City, at least 24 of the 32 NFL owners would have to approve relocation. It is still unclear if the NFL will allow a vote to take place considering NFL Executive Vice President Eric Grubman was in the Bay Area to visit with local leaders and discuss the future of the Raiders, according to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. Schaaf did confirm that Lott was at the meeting and Grubman also attended the home opener in Oakland, a 35-28 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 18. According to Oakland city officials, the city rejected the offer from the
group, led by NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, and will not pursue a deal with them. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said she did not recommend the proposal be submitted, but still entered into a 90day negotiation period with the group earlier this month. Las Vegas Sands Corp. President and CEO, Sheldon Adelson, is behind the relocation attempt to draw the Raiders to Las Vegas. Silver and black owner Mark Davis attended the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee in Las Vegas on Tuesday and addressed a group of fans outside where he said he told Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to “Just win baby.” Schaaf said if Oakland were to keep the Raiders, it would have to be done through private money since the city still owes nearly $80 million from the original relocation to Oakland in 1995. “The Raiders are Oakland,” Schaaf said. The bill signed by Gov. Sandoval allots $750 million in tax money, however the remainder of the total $1.9 billion will come from Davis, who said he will give $500 million and Adelson, who has committed to $650 million. The next step for the relocation is up to the NFL. Commissioner Roger Goodell has not commented publicly on the situation.
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Tritons slay women’s soccer in final home game Pioneers lose on senior day in Hayward By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The Cal State East Bay women’s soccer team had mixed emotions on Sunday. Their game against top-ranked UC San Diego was the women’s final home game and the final game for seven seniors: Jasmine Corbett, Sialei Manuleleua, Megan Ravenscroft, Tia Sidtikun, Rachel Robbert, Andrea Hernandez and Savannah George. UC San Diego is the top-ranked team in the California Collegiate Athletic Association and 9th ranked team in the nation, 10-0 in conference and 14-2 overall. Unfortunately the top-ranked team lived up to their record and handed East Bay a tough loss. “They were really just the better team,” said senior midfielder Sialei Manuleleua. “They broke us down completely and the score showed that. Their movement off the ball was amazing and we should have anticipated that more.” San Diego controlled the tempo from the start of the game. They outshot the Pioneers 11-1 in the first half, and by the end of the game had outshot East Bay 20-4, with 11 of those shots on goal in comparison to East Bay’s one shot on goal. The first goal was scored in the 19th minute when the Tritons sophomore forward Mary Reilly received a pass in front of the Pioneer’s goal from junior forward Katie O’Laughlin and scored in the top right corner of the goal. From that point on, San Diego retained full control of the game. Junior midfielder Elisa Martinez and O’Laughlin each put in goals in the span of seven minutes. Twenty minutes later, the Tritons added another goal just before the half was over. Senior right midfielder Kristen Sampietro received a pass from the left side of the field, dribbled towards the goal and shot the ball past Pioneer goalkeeper Corbett, putting San Diego up 4-0. “Today’s emotions were high,” said Corbett. “I know I was really nervous and anxious because of how good San
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Cal State East Bay senior midfielder Sialei Manuleleua passes the ball to an open teammate during a 1-0 loss to the Cal State San Marcos Cougars held on Friday at Pioneer Stadium on the CSUEB Hayward campus. Diego is, so I felt the pressure early.” The Pioneers were much more solid on defense in the second half, but could not contain San Diego completely. UC San Diego added two more goals in the half as junior midfielder Jordyn McNutt put a shot in 53rd minute and freshman forward Roni Merrill scored another in the 84th minute of play. This gave the
Tritons the 6-0 win. Despite the loss, the Pioneer seniors still celebrated their senior game with their teammates and family who came to support. “I can’t even put into words what today felt like,” said senior midfielder Hernandez. “Even in times where we lose like today, this team is the one to always uplift me when I can not do it
for myself and I will miss that so much. They made today great, even if we fell to San Diego.” The Pioneers are now 2-8 in conference and 3-10-3 overall and look ahead to win their two final away games vs. San Francisco State (4-4-2 conference, 7-5-3 overall) on Thursday and California State Monterey Bay (1-9 conference,
4-10 overall) on Saturday. “I just want to finish this season strong and actually put some wins on the board before the season is over,” said Hernandez. “None of us like the feeling of losing and this is opportunity to end on a good note. If we end this season strong, the team will only start strong for the following season.”