The Pioneer Newspaper November 3, 2016

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GAME CON TAKES OVER HAYWARD CAMPUS

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ELECTION DOESN'T FEEL WORTH THE VOTE

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STEIN NEEDS GREEN, BLUE VOTES TO MAKE IMPACT

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East Bay takes another look at campus climate

By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR Last Tuesday, Cal State East Bay President Leroy M. Morishita sent an email to East Bay faculty and staff, urging them to participate in an anonymous survey to assess the campus climate for faculty, staff and students at East Bay. According to Morishita, the goal of the survey is to gather data that will provide insight into East Bay’s institutional climate, inclusion, current attitudes and workplace issues. This will allow the university to address and bolster aspects of the campus environment that need improvement.

“We pride ourselves on being a diverse campus,” said Linda Dobb, associate provost at East Bay. “Saying we’re a diverse campus is not enough, we have to honor and respect diversity.”

Dobb said the decision to conduct these surveys was an institutional one. The university’s campus statement of diversity calls for consistent climate surveys every two to three years, this being the third campus climate survey for faculty staff and

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Hayward trunk or treat event encourages autism acceptance

By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR Ghouls, goblins and Mickey Mouse flocked to John Muir Elementary School in Hayward last Saturday to partake in a unique Trunk or Treat event geared toward special needs kids and their families.

Cars adorned with spider webs and Halloween decorations opened their trunks to offer candy, treats and games to costumed attendees. Local organizations like the Hayward Promise, Brews and Brats, Snappy’s Cafe, Made in Hayward and Autism Army volunteered, sponsored and participated in the event, which drew a crowd of around 500, according to Ria Lancaster, a parent of a child with autism and organizer of the event.

Lancaster said she wanted to provide a place where kids diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder could feel comfortable and accepted and where parents could network and support each other.

Her inspiration was her seven-year-old son, Balian, who was diagnosed with autism in 2013.

Lancaster said she and her husband first noticed something different about Balian when he was about two and a half years old. At 19-20 months, he had been able to list all the letters of the alphabet and numbers up to 20 and his speech was considered advanced. A few months later, however, his speech became delayed and it became increasingly difficult for him to make eye contact.

According to the Center for Disease Control, one in 68 children have been diagnosed with autism. While some cases are identified as early as age two, most are not until after age four and children can exhibit a wide range of symptoms that vary in severity. About 44 percent of children who are diagnosed have tested with average to above average intellectual abilities.

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Members of No Excuse Moms take pictures with attendees of the trunk or treat event on Saturday at John Muir Elementary School in Hayward. Lucia Zacarias, left, and her daughter Annara, center, dressed up for the event.

When people hear the word “autistic,” many picture a child with severe social problems that doesn’t like to be touched and can’t connect well with others, but Lancaster said this isn’t the case with Balian. “Balian is really affectionate,” she explained. “He’s sensory seeking” and is drawn to clothes that have different textures. “When people see him he may not come across

as special needs.” However he still faces a unique set of challenges that classify him as mild to moderate on the autism spectrum.

Balian still can’t speak easily and can only say up to four words, such as “I want popsicle please,” explained Lancaster. He attends a special day class at East Avenue Elementary in Hayward that caters to students with autism. The day class

employs one teacher and three aids and accepts no more than nine kids at a time, in order to provide the students with one-on-one attention.

Balian also receives in-home Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy three hours a day, four days a week after school. This treatment helps children learn “socially

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Golden State Warriors off to shocking start

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER

The Golden State Warriors got off to an unexpected start in their regular season opener last Tuesday.

The team fell to the San Antonio Spurs in the opener, 129-100. Many were shocked, because with the addition of Kevin Durant the Warriors seemed unstoppable, but even with a former MVP and the reigning one on your team, you can still lose.

Point guard Stephen Curry went 9-18 shooting in the game, scoring 26 points with four assists in 34 minutes. Small forward Kevin Durant scored 27 points on 11-18 for shooting and added ten rebounds in 37 minutes. But that was not enough for the Warriors to outlast the Spurs. The Warriors bench scored a total of only 16 points in comparison to the Spurs bench, that scored a total of 54 points. San Antonio seemed to make no mistakes the entire game, and they capitalized off of every Warrior mistake.

“We could not find a rhythm,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr told reporters following the game. “Our guys were embarrassed tonight; I know I was.”

In the first quarter, the Warriors led 16-2 and it looked as if it would be another home win, but the Spurs went on a 19-4 run and never looked back. Every time the Warriors made any type of progression, the Spurs responded. They

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went into the second half leading by 18 points. Oracle Arena, nicknamed Roaracle, was quieter than usual, fans shocked by the fact their team was down by this much.

As the team went into the second half, Golden State came out strong at the start with a 6-0 run and closed the lead, but the Spurs bit right back. They took control and extended the lead by 20 and led for the rest of the game, giving the Warriors no chance. “[The] guys may have been a little anxious,” said Durant to reporters af-

ter the game. “We calmed down a bit to start the second half, but they were already ahead and we can not wait to play good basketball. We definitely have to get better.”

Golden State was outrebounded 5535 and went 7-33 from the 3-point line, which was a huge factor in the loss. “Our offense was not clicking,” shooting guard Klay Thompson told reporters after the game. “Three pointers were not falling.

I was lazy, was not really getting after those loose balls like I should have. I got to play with more edge.”

The Spurs really played as a unit, even with the recent loss of future Hall of Famer Tim Duncan to retirement.

Power forward and center LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 14 rebounds and shooting forward Jonathan Simmons scored 20 points off of the bench.

But the key factor for the Spurs was shooting forward Kawhi Leonard who lead all players in scoring with 35 points (10-21 field goals, 15-15 free throws) in 32 minutes.

The Warriors looked to move on a focus on their next two games later in the week against the New Orleans Hornets and Phoenix Suns, in which they seemed to mesh a lot more.

Friday, they defeated the Hornets 122-114, despite Anthony Davis’ 45 points. The team played much more as a unit, with Durant scoring 30 points, Curry, 23 and Thompson, 28. The Warriors bench still did not show up, but they managed to pull out the win.

As they moved on to Sunday, the Warriors stars Durant and Curry showed up again, both scoring over 20 points for the third game in a row. Durant had a total of 37 points (10-16 FG, 15-16 FT) and Curry added 28 points (9-17 FG, 5-5 FT). Thompson added 14 points, as the Warriors won 106-100.

“It is hard to say how fast things will click entirely, but it is good to get the win,” Curry told reporters after the game. “We have a strong identity and focus.”

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Presidential election got me like ‘nah’

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I feel like I am at a restaurant but all of the food is gone. All they have is salt, pepper and house salads. That is what the 2016 presidential election feels like to me.

I don’t want either entrée, but I’m hungry and I have to eat, so I am forced to choose between a salad or condiments. Salad please.

Unfortunately the salad this year is Hillary Clinton. I just don’t trust her, and it’s more than the emails that continue to be leaked.

It’s the lack of transparency and the FBI investigation into her illegal use of a home server that could have led to her indictment, which has led many critics to question her integrity. I didn’t even mention the Benghazi fiasco, for which she has been continually slammed by both sides of the aisle.

What is my other option?

No meat?

A salt and pepper dinner with Donald Trump? Doesn’t sound very filling to me. Trump is the worst.

I think he forgot that the years he spent in the public spotlight as a celebrity shined a light on his true character.

Whether it was his appearances on the Howard Stern radio show, where he rated and dissected women on a numerical scale, or the leaked behind-the-scenes audio where he told the former Today Show co-host Billy Bush he grabbed women by their “p----,” Trump’s true character is well-known.

For me, it’s hard to brush aside all of the negative aspects of both of their characters and be happy settling on a leader. I would rather not vote or cast my ballot for one of the other lesser-known candidates who potentially could get fu-

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ture campaign funding if they receive a specific percentage of the popular vote.

If I am forced to choose, I have to choose Clinton. The sexist and racist remarks Trump has made over time have turned me off of him as a leader completely. His comments on Mexicans and Mexico alone forces me to shun any thought of voting for him, ever.

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Letter to the Editor I wrote this in response to a letter published on Oct. 27 titled “Training is a waste of my time.”

Dear TP, Title IX is by no means a waste of time. If you had actually completed your training correctly, you would have watched several videos, many of which were not simply “Don’t assault people.” The program covered a variety of topics, including abusive relationships, factual information on why assaults happen and information on alcohol.

I don’t know about you, but I think informing people on what is appropriate behavior in a relationship isn’t a bad idea. The “It’s On Us” campaign went into detail about what constitutes abuse in a relationship, and how to speak to someone about it, whether you’re the victim, or if a friend is.

As for making people relive attacks, there are clear trigger warnings that appear before each video, something else you may have noticed if you’d completed the training, so that persons who feel uncomfortable can mute, or not watch the video.

I cannot explain how angry I was reading “Excuse me, I have a life…”.

I’m sure you do, we all do, and part of living in a community is protecting it.

I’m sure you don’t assault people, most people don’t, but some people do actually assault people. People need

to know that assault is something that happens, and that it’s not shameful to be a survivor, or to talk about it in an adult way.

Sexual assault is a real issue, not just here on campus, but everywhere.

On average, one in ten women will be assaulted by their partner, and one in five women will be assaulted in their lifetime.

These aren’t statistics you can dismiss, these statistics come from the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

As for the claim that this is a waste of money, it’s a free program, funded, at least in part, by the White House.

So for the record: Teaching people about assault is a good thing, trigger warnings ensure that rape survivors can watch the videos, most people aren’t rapists, but a large percentage of women are raped, and the program is free.

What is your objection?

Oh right, the hold on your account.

Take an hour out of your day and do the program, you might learn something.

And for the record: If the way you ask someone out on a date can be considered sexual assault maybe you should try another approach.

Patrick Murphy, Cal State East Bay student

I am not naïve; I understand the election is more than just the president. Fortunately for me, there are things on the ballot I truly care about and feel like my vote matters for.

Marijuana legalization, higher wages, grocery taxes and more public resources are all on the ballot this year in the form of propositions, and these are what are

driving me to the polling station. Sure, I am going to vote for Clinton, not because I want her for president, but because I don’t want Trump.

As a Latino in America, I also understand the struggle that minorities and women have gone through just to acquire the right to vote. When I think about suffrage and the Civil Rights Movement

of the 1960s, I am embarrassed not to vote. I owe it to all people of color and their supporters that in many instances gave their lives for people like me to be able to vote and make a change.

So even though this presidential election has me feeling down, it is more than just the president: it’s important to vote for change and get your voice heard.

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'The Birth of a Nation' praised, criticized

By Denika Williams CONTRIBUTOR “The Birth of a Nation” is actor Nate Parker’s first film as a director, but his film is very different from the original.

In this dramatization based on a true story, Nate Parker portrays an enslaved African-American man named Nat Turner who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.

I saw the film during opening week earlier this month because as a young black woman, I felt that it was important to do so. Parker’s film has been met with both high praise and heavy criticism.

One hundred years ago, film director D.W. Griffith released “The Birth of a Nation,” a silent film adapted from a book by Thomas F. Dixon Jr., about families during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras that depicted members of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes who protected their women from stereotypical “dangerous” black males.

“The same way that I’m reclaiming the title, I’m reclaiming a hero,” Parker told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.

Parker has said he wanted to reclaim the original film and use it as a recruitment for black youths to get more politically engaged.

In the opening scenes of the movie, Turner is given “the gift” to see visions from God at a spiritual ritual. The slave master’s wife teaches Turner how to read the bible and preach and Turner’s master begins taking him on the road to visit plantations with defiant and unmotivated slaves.

Throughout the film, Turner and other slaves are beat to a near-breaking point. When his wife is beaten, it inspires him to lead a revolt. He becomes aware of the systematic oppression of black people and feels that he was being used by religion. After a two-day revolution, 60 white men, women and children are killed and Turner is hung for his crimes.

With a budget of $10 million dollars,

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the film won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Fox Searchlight bought the film for $17.5 million dollars, a record for movies in the Sundance Film Festival, according to the New York Times.

Days before the film’s debut, allegations surfaced against Parker and a college friend, who were accused in 1999 of raping a 18-year-old female classmate at Penn State University.

“I was proven innocent; I was vindicated,” Parker told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. “And I feel terrible that this

woman isn’t here. You know, I feel terrible that — you know — her family had to deal with that. But as I sit here, an apology is — no.” Many critics have denounced the film because of these allegations.

Actor Gabrielle Union, a rape survivor and advocate against sexual assault, has a silent cameo role in the film where she is raped.

Union stated that she wanted to use the film to talk about sexual violence.

In an op-ed with the Los Angeles

Times, Union wrote that she accepted the role because of her experience, that the silence of her character “represents countless black women who have been and continue to be violated.

Women without a voice, without power. Women in general. But black women in particular.”

While watching “The Birth of a Nation,” I felt emotional from beginning to end. The film bought back the emotions I feel when I see images of police brutality towards unarmed blacks in the

streets. It hurt to watch the violent images on the screen because I knew they were wrong.

With all the events that my ancestors suffered through for years, beginning in the slavery era and ending with the Civil Rights Movement, we still are not equal.

I encourage everyone to go out and see The Birth of a Nation because it’s a powerful reenactment of a period in America’s history that birthed a nation.

Nat Turner’s story is one piece of American history that needs to be told.

Voters should take Proposition 57 serious

By Kevin D. Sawyer SAN QUENTIN NEWS For decades California has led the nation with tough-on-crime legislation like its draconian Three Strikes law. Women and men in the Golden State have been sentenced to indeterminate 25-to-life sentences for an array of trifling crimes such as drug possession and shoplifting; part of a war primarily directed against black and brown people.

The war’s inception was ushered in with President Richard Nixon and maintained through President Ronald Reagan’s administration. It’s what attorney, civil-rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander noted as escalating to a “nearly genocidal” level, and I’ve been ensnared in it for 20 years.

Slowly, it’s coming to an end. Proposition 57, The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, is another in a wave of ballot initiatives that if passed by voters, will offer some prisoners the semblance of justice they did not receive decades ago.

Mike Ramano, the director of the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School, said the initiative is primarily targeted at giving the prison system a way to give inmates time off of their sentences for participating in positive programs, although he said it won’t help everyone.

“It’s all up to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,” said Ramano. “I’m optimistic, but I don’t want to be overly optimistic because things don’t happen overnight.

Hopefully it will bring some common sense and streamline the process.”

The initiative’s language says in part that the CDCR will have the “authority to award [inmates] credits earned for good behavior and approved rehabilitative or educational achievements.”

In 2011, the United States Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in the Coleman-Plata v. Brown case, stating the CDCR had to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of design capacity in order to bring its healthcare services into constitutional compliance.

When the Supreme Court made its ruling, Jeremiah Sheppard, 67, was serving 25 years to life at Folsom State Prison for receiving stolen property. The crime, according to the Penal Code, carries 16 months, two years or three years. He had already served 15 years, but because of his prior record going back to the 1960s, he was “struck out.” He died of a heart attack on a dirt track at Folsom on April 19, 2011.

He was my cellmate.

Governor Brown is attempting to reduce the state prison population by vote.

Not surprising, the initiative is opposed by law enforcement and district attorneys. They argue that violent prisoners will be released because the law does not define them as such.

I don’t have a vested interest in who is paroled or who remains in prison, but after 20 years of confinement, I’m fairly certain that I can recognize who will succeed on parole and who will continue to prey on society. Some may have thought of Mr. Sheppard as a crook, but he was not violent.

I know very well that Proposition 57 is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. Some prisoners that will benefit from it will still have to come under review by the Board of Parole Hearings BPH. And if they can’t

even convince me they’re suitable for parole, there’s no need to worry about the outcome of BPH’s determination.

For years, many prisoners serving life terms were skeptical about socalled rehabilitation as a viable option to earn a parole date, especially those with a “Buck Rogers” date to go before the BPH. As defendants convicted of a felony in California, we were sentenced under Penal Code section 1170 (a)(1), which promulgates, in part: “The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of imprisonment for crime is punishment.”

As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger added the letter “R” to CDC which extended the name with the word “Rehabilitation.” The addition of the “R” was nothing more than window dressing because for many years prisoners had little access to programs due to overcrowding. Beside that, the law says they are here for “punishment,” not rehabilitation. The name change did not supersede the intent of the legislature. Proposition 57 may change that.

Lest we forget, Proposition 57 attempts to “Prevent federal courts from indiscriminately releasing prisoners.” This is because a provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 allows the federal court to waive a state’s laws to release prisoners in the event there is overcrowding. Essentially, the feds have told California to reduce its prison population or they will do it.

Of course there are those who may say we should all rot in prison, but that’s not going to happen because

as the courts have aptly ruled that unconstitutional. Meanwhile, taxpayers get to bankroll the state’s multi-billion dollar budget. Something has to change because Tough on Crime has failed and is behind the times. The new school of thought espoused by Kamala Harris,

California’s Attorney General, is to get “smart on crime.”

“This is part of a movement,” said Ramano.

“It’s not going to be a radical transformation but it’s a step in the right direction.” Let’s hope so.

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Local restaurant to close after 16 years

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR Saras Rao peers through the vintage blue and white-checkered curtains as a car pulls into the stained, overgrown parking lot of Curry Corner, one of three remaining shops in the dilapidated strip mall on Mission Boulevard in Hayward.

She recognizes 20-year Hayward resident and two-year customer Casey Lee enter the restaurant, and Rao immediately goes to work filling two styrofoam to-go boxes to the brim with rice, yellow black-eyed peas, orange potatoes, curry chicken and pork. The third plate she packs to the brim is solely with meat for Lee’s corgi chihuahua dog, Sherman. “The dogs eat for free, the customers pay double,” she joked.

Rao has owned the Fijian food restaurant at this location in Hayward for the past 16 years; however, by the end of November, the cozy restaurant will close its doors for good. Rao decided to close because the building is in noticeable disrepair and little has been done by the landlord to address maintenance issues.

The building was ransacked multiple times by homeless people or thieves who cut the copper off of the outside pipes to sell, which has caused flooding in the kitchen, according to Rao. Rats and possums call the building home and the ceiling bulges with evidence of past water damage, which started ten years ago, according to Rao. Lee’s husband has fixed some of the holes in the walls on occasion during his spare time.

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Garden potatoes, black-eyed peas, rice, pork and chicken fill an $8 plate at Curry Corner in Hayward. The restaurant will close for good later this month. ed with another pipe?” said Rao. “It’s become a stress. What a terrible thing to happen to any human being that a bunch of people from nowhere break into a place you’ve been 16 years. Nobody is doing anything for this building. But all those good years here — I’m leaving with a smile.”

According to the city of Hayward, the building is owned by DNS Capital Partners, LLC. City officials confirmed that the site is scheduled for demolition and condominiums will be built in place, however a project itinerary has not yet been released to the public. Rao said she received a letter last year notifying her of the project.

Micah Hinkle, economic develop-

ment manager for the city of Hayward told the Pioneer that one of the main challenges for restaurant owners looking to open in Hayward is finding the space. Hinkle said opening a restaurant is expensive and can cost between $300,000 and $500,000 to develop.

Rao said she decided to close instead of relocating because the process would be long, difficult and she is ready to retire. “It’s too late, I’ll be 65 next week,” she said. Eating at Curry Corner feels like eating in a grandmother’s kitchen.

The walls and chairs are painted mustard yellow and pumpkin orange, a project undertaken by Rao and her daughter. A watermelon calendar hangs on the wall, the page still turned to August,

next to a map of the Fiji Islands and a watercolor picture of Jesus Christ.

A collage of photos of her granddaughters who live in Fiji decorate the kitchen and the cash box is a stainless steel food prep tray. The payment method is cash only and there’s no official menu: customers eat whatever Rao decides to cook that day, which always costs $8.

“Whatever she makes, I eat,” said Lee. “I don’t even ask.” There’s no particular formula or schedule to the fixed menu, Rao makes whatever she has on hand. “We didn’t have eggplant last week so we’re going to have eggplant today,” said Rao. Longtime customers have taken to Yelp and social media to express disappointment in the restaurant’s closing; however, Rao plans to host cooking lessons at her home in the future. The price will fluctuate, but right now she plans to charge $65 per person for a four to five-hour lesson.

“I’m gonna get her home number and ask her to cook for me,” Lee joked.

Rao was born in the Fiji Islands but moved to San Francisco as a young woman. She speaks four languages: Hindi, Fijian, Spanish and English.

Cooking is second-nature for Rao, who learned how to cook at a young age on an old fashioned wooden kerosene stove.

“I can look at a piece of meat and know how much spice to put on it,” said Rao, who never uses a recipe. Rao originally worked as a certified nursing assistant until she was 49 years old, when her daughter convinced her to make a career out of her cooking hobby and open her own business.

The restaurant is staffed solely by Rao, who receives occasional help from

her daughter.

Rao said the food contains no dairy, tomato paste or MSG, and Curry Corner is labeled on Yelp as a Vegan restaurant, even though they serve meat. That’s what drew fitness trainers Jake Vuolo, 24, and Quinzel Comer, 26, on a weekend road trip from San Diego, to the restaurant.

“He wanted to get some Sonic, but I just wasn’t feeling Sonic,” said Vuolo. “I wanted something a little bit cleaner in my body than some fast food. Those are some of the best potatoes I’ve ever had.”

The meat comes from a local butcher, the potatoes are homegrown — a gift from Rao’s friend at church — and the black-eyed peas come from a farmer’s market. Rao uses three to four fresh, basic spices like curry, turmeric and coriander in her cooking.

“Ma’am I don’t like curry,” Comer said to Rao. “I’m not a fan of curry, but this is good.”

Hinkle said that most businesses in Hayward, like Curry Corner, have a considerable lifespan in the city. While the restaurant industry in Hayward hasn’t experienced any more turnover than other areas, Hinkle acknowledged that things are changing.

Hinkle said Hayward’s ethnic food options reflect the diversity of the city, the sixth largest in the Bay Area. He’s found that many of the successful food options are small, family-owned businesses that offer unique, high quality products at affordable prices, rather than fast-food commercial establishments.

“You eat a dollar worth of food or you eat ten dollars worth of food,” said Rao. “It’s going into your body; you have to eat right. I can’t feed anybody anything that I won’t eat.”

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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Green vote in a blue state A vote for Jill Stein is not a vote for Donald Trump

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR On Tuesday, voters will blacken the bubble that will determine what life in the U.S. will look like for the next four years: a dismal picture under Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and a downright horrifying one under Republican nominee Donald Trump.

I am 23 years old and this is the first year I will cast my ballot for the next president of the United States, but I’m far from empowered. I don’t feel like either candidate has my best interests at heart.

Trump’s entire campaign has been built on scapegoating, xenophobia and sexism. His dismissal of a 2005 conversation with Billy Bush on Access Hollywood where he bragged about grabbing women by the p---- as “locker room talk” was degrading, insulting and deplorable.

Clinton, on the other hand, is hardly the poster child of America: she has 33,000 missing emails and a track record for being the ventriloquist of corporate America.

To be quite honest, my faith in the political system disintegrated when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders conceded to Clinton in July.

But it’s not over yet. Rising from the ashes of a snuffed Sanders campaign emerges an unexpected option: Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who takes up where Sanders left off on issues like reproductive freedom, dismantling the big banking system and raising taxes on the wealthy.

Stein’s campaign didn’t come out of left field. She campaigned in the 2012 election representing the Green Party, receiving 469,501 votes, according to news site The Daily Beast. She announced her candidacy for the 2016 election on June 22, 2015, reports Graphiq, a digital data compilation website. While she’s managed to stay out of the spotlight until now, her 17-month campaign is longer that of all of the other candidates currently running for president.

Stein represents The Green Party of the United States, an independent political party that denounces the two-party system and advocates for peace and nonviolence, ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy and social justice, according to the GPUS website.

While Clinton and Trump have managed to polarize the country, it seems that Stein, a physician and environmental health advocate from Massachussetts, couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. Former Sanders supporters and disenfranchised voters turning from both Clinton and Trump are beginning to scramble desperately for a plan C. It’s possible that Stein could provide the escape hatch.

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“People have been politically traumatized,” said Stein at a Boston rally on Sunday. “I feel like I’m a political therapist, and I help people break up with an abusive relationship and get their lives back.”

Stein vows to “turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete,” while creating 20 million new jobs by transitioning to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030, according to Stein’s campaign website. She also aims to establish a “Medicare for All” single-payer public health program, require the labeling of GMO’s, guarantee free public education from preschool to university and set a $15 minimum wage.

Sanders supporters will find Stein’s platform familiar and probably slightly more idealistic. Graphiq graded her as even more liberal than Sanders on a number of issues.

Others like The Daily Beast have called her campaign goals unrealistic and criticised her investment portfolio, which was made public with the release of her 2015 Federal Tax Returns. Stein has invested millions in the Vanguard 500 Fund, which invests in energy companies like Chevron and Exxon, the TIAA-CREF Equity Index, which has

holdings in big banks like JP Morgan and Chase and pharmaceutical company Merck, despite having denounced the carbon, financial and pharmaceutical industries.

But many like myself aren’t voting for Stein based on issues alone, but rather a desire to throw a wrench in a flawed two-party system. Scott McLarty, media coordinator for the GPUS told the Pioneer that the system is flawed because in many states Democratic and Republican legislators have manipulated the rules to favor their own candidate and obstruct alternative parties.

“We have two of the most unpopular candidates ever,” said McLarty. “The Republican Party has been taken over by people who are impressed with someone like Trump, whose program is incoherent and irrational. And then you have Hillary Clinton who has a background of misrepresenting herself and of secret speeches to Goldman Sachs on Wall Street, and is also a supporter of military aggression in other countries. We shouldn’t have to choose between two awful candidates like that.”

McLarty explained that the fact that the two Democratic and Republican nominees only participate in the main presidential debates is an example of a

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Also, in certain states, third party candidates are required to collect more signatures to get on the ballot than their Democratic and Republican opponents.

In Pennsylvania this year, Democratic and Republican candidates needed 2,000 signatures, however Stein was required to hand in 23,000, according to McLarty.

A survey conducted in May 2010 by the Wall Street Journal in collaboration with NBC, revealed that 83 percent of Americans believe that the two-party system is flawed.

Despite these challenges, McLarty said that in 2016 the GPUS has taken on the ballot in more states than any presidential election in history. Stein is on the ballot in 44 states and in three others, you can write in her name. In three other states, however, the laws are so strict you won’t find hers or Libertarian party nominee Gary Johnson’s names on the ballot and can’t write them in either.

Third parties are important because they force the two major parties to adapt their campaigns according to the needs of the people, the GPUS states. Clinton’s campaign, which amended to include some of Sanders’ most popular initiatives like affordable higher education, is

a prime example.

Stein is currently pulling 2.1 percent in the polls, according to RealClear Politics, but she will need to receive five percent of the popular vote in order to qualify for millions of dollars in federal funding in the next election in 2020.

McLarty explained that this is important because it will help the GPUS “make the leap from a minor party to a major party that can offer real competition.”

Stein won’t win the 2016 election, that much is clear. California is a notoriously “blue” state and the Electoral College will vote Clinton, the popular vote.

A vote for Stein does not equal a vote for Trump by default. A vote for Clinton won’t make much of an impact but a vote for Stein will truly count. There are other reasons to vote for a third party candidate besides choosing the next president. In this case, for myself and others, a vote for Stein is a protest vote against a rigged two-party election system, or in McLarty’s words, “a declaration of what one stands for.”

“If democracy has any meaning, then people should be able to vote for whichever candidate represents their ideals and interests and needs the best without being told that only two candidates are legitimate,” he said.

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‘Trunk or Treat’ de Hayward alienta la aceptación del autismo Por Kali Persall JEFA DE REDACCIÓN

Traducción por Wendy Medina EDITORA DE COPIA

Espíritus necrófagos, duendes y Mickey Mouse acudieron a la Escuela Primaria John Muir en Hayward el pasado sábado para participar en un evento único “Trunk or Treat,” “Tronco o Dulce,” dirigido a niños con necesidades especiales y sus familias.

Los coches adornados con telas de araña y decoraciones de Halloween abrieron sus baúles para ofrecer dulces, golosinas y juegos a los asistentes disfrazados. Organizaciones locales como la Promesa Hayward, Brews y Brats, Snappy's Cafe, Made in Hayward y Autism Army se ofrecieron, patrocinaron y participaron en el evento, que atrajo a una multitud de alrededor de 500, de acuerdo con Ria Lancaster, madre de un niño con autismo y organizadora del evento.

Lancaster dijo que quería proporcionar un lugar donde los niños diagnosticados con desorden del espectro autista podrían sentirse cómodos y aceptados, y donde los padres podrían establecer una red y apoyarse mutuamente. Su inspiración fue su hijo de siete años, Balian, a quien se le diagnosticó el autismo en 2013.

Lancaster dijo que ella y su esposo primero notaron algo diferente sobre Balian cuando él tenía aproximadamente dos años y medio de edad. A los 19-20 meses, había sido capaz de enumerar todas las letras del alfabeto y los números de hasta 20, y su discurso fue considerado avanzado. Pocos meses después, sin embargo, su discurso se retrasó y se hizo cada vez más difícil para él hacer contacto visual.

Según el Centro de Control de Enfermedades, uno de cada 68 niños ha sido diagnosticado con autismo. Mientras que algunos casos se identifican tan pronto como la edad de dos años, la mayoría no son hasta después de los cuatro años. Niños pueden presentar una amplia gama de síntomas que varían en gravedad. Alrededor del 44 por ciento de los niños que son diagnosticados han probado con habilidades intelectuales por encima del promedio.

Cuando la gente oye la palabra "autista," muchos representan a un niño con graves problemas sociales, que no les gusta ser tocado y no puede conectarse bien con otros, pero Lancaster dijo que este no es el caso con Balian. "Balian es muy cariñoso," ella explicó. "Él busca sensorio" y es atraído a la ropa que tiene diversas texturas. "Cuando la gente lo ve, puede que no aparezca como niño de necesidades especiales." Sin embargo, todavía enfrenta un conjunto único de desafíos que lo clasifican como leve a moderado en el espectro del autismo.

Balian todavía no puede hablar con facilidad y sólo puede decir hasta cuatro palabras, como, "Quiero popsicle por favor," explicó Lancaster. Él asiste a una clase de día especial en East Avenue Elementary en Hayward que atiende a estudiantes con autismo. La clase de día emplea un maestro y tres ayudantes. No aceptan a más de nueve niños a la vez, con el fin de proporcionar a los estudiantes con una atención individualizada.

Balian también recibe terapia de análisis conductual aplicada en el hogar tres horas al día, cuatro días a la semana después de la escuela. Este tratamiento ayuda a los niños a aprender "comportamientos socialmente significativos" como la lectura, las habilidades académicas y sociales, y los comportamientos de vida aplicados, de acuerdo con el Centro para el Autismo y Trastornos Relacionados, Inc. Lancaster dijo que cada vez que se

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reúnen, establecen una nueva meta para Balian y revisan su progreso cada tres meses. A través de la terapia, Balian fue entrenado en el baño y acaba de cumplir su objetivo más reciente: aprender a saludar a las personas. "Cuando ves a un niño autista, es completamente diferente en comparación con otro," dijo Lancaster. Es como la noche y el día.

Lancaster dijo que los recursos para los padres que tienen niños autistas están faltando en el Área de la Bahía y ella conecta principalmente con otros padres a través de las páginas del acontecimiento en Facebook.

En 2013, el mismo año que Balian fue diagnosticado, Lancaster estableció Twinkies Krafts, una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece eventos locales en la comunidad de Hayward para niños con necesidades especiales y sus padres.

El evento “Trunk or Treat” fue el primero organizado por la organización.

Lancaster también creó y vendió joyas y artesanías hechas a mano con conciencia de autismo a través de su perfil Twinkies Krafts en Etsy y donó el 75 por ciento de los ingresos al Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, que ayudó a Balian con clases de lenguaje y terapia ocupacional cuando primero fue diagnosticado.

“Quiero que estos niños se involucren más en la comunidad,” dijo Lancaster.

“Sí, existimos, y sí, somos diferentes.

Difundir la conciencia es grande, pero lo que estos niños realmente necesitan es la aceptación.”

Otros tableros de “Trunk or Treat” tomaron medios creativos para lanzar un foco en autismo el fin de semana pasado. Bruce Bookman, un ingeniero de calidad de software de Los Gatos que se duplica como artista de pintura en aerosol, vendió creaciones abstractas de pintura en aerosol que van desde temas de planetas a delfines saltando contra una puesta de sol.

Inspirado por artistas callejeros en un festival, Bookman aprendió las técnicas en YouTube y ha estado pintando durante los últimos tres meses. Cada creación que dijo, no toma más de una hora. Según su sitio web, Art2Benef-

itAutism.com, Bookman dona el cinco por ciento de los ingresos directamente a la Autism Science Foundation, una organización sin fines de lucro que proporciona financiación a los científicos que investigan causas y tratamientos para el autismo.

Matthew Pizzi, estudiante de quinto grado de la Escuela Luterana Prince of Peace de Fremont, más conocido como "Matty the Magician" a sus compañeros de clase, realizó trucos de magia en el evento. Su favorito, de acuerdo con su madre Pam Pizzi, es el truco donde se enciende una hoja de papel normal en el fuego y lo convierte en dinero.

Pizzi se ha presentado en su escuela cada año desde el primer grado e incluso ha abierto para el reconocido y premiado mago Dan Chan, el Magic Man del Área de la Bahía.

Los asistentes al evento también tuvieron la oportunidad de tomar fotos en una motocicleta Honda CBR1000RR suministrada por Marty Seagraves, creador del grupo Autism Army, que tiene como objetivo aumentar la conciencia sobre el autismo. El lleva motocicletas a campamentos especiales, así como espectáculos de automóviles y bicicletas. El grupo se inició en 2007 y fue inspirado por el hijo de Seagraves, que fue diagnosticado con Asperger cuando tenía dos años.

"Mi hijo tiene autismo," él dijo. "Sólo quería bajarme del sofá y hacer algo al respecto." Cuando el hijo de Seagraves fue diagnosticado, era un hablador tardío y atado. Los médicos predijeron que nunca sería social, dijo Seagraves. Hoy en día, él tiene 13 años de edad, de alto funcionamiento y se incorpora en una escuela secundaria "regular."

"Lo tomamos día a día, ¿sabes?" dijo Seagraves. "Le decimos a la gente, todos son diferentes, todos los niños son diferentes como yo y usted. Somos personas diferentes y también lo son. Es más aceptación que conciencia ahora, porque la conciencia ha sido tan prominente que todos realmente necesitan moverse hacia la aceptación a través de sus comunidades. Todo el mundo que conozco conoce a alguien en el espectro."

Asistentes en el evento "Trunk or Treat" en Hayward participan en las actividades el sabado en John Muir Elementary School.

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Restaurante local para cerrar después de 16 años Por Kali Persall JEFA DE REDACCIÓN

Traducción por Wendy Medina EDITORA DE COPIA Saras Rao mira cuidadosamente a través de las cortinas azules y blancas cuadradas cuando un automóvil entra en el estacionamiento descuidado de Curry Corner, una de las tres tiendas restantes en el dilapidado centro comercial de Mission Boulevard en Hayward.

Reconoce a un residente de Hayward de 20 años y cliente de dos años, Casey Lee, al entrar el restaurante, y Rao inmediatamente va a trabajar, llenando dos cajas de poliestireno a la borda con arroz, frijoles de vaca amarillos, papas naranjas y cerdo y pollo curry cocido dos maneras diferentes.

El tercer plato que embala hasta el borde es únicamente con carne para el perro corgi chihuahua de Lee, Sherman.

"Los perros comen gratis, los clientes pagan el doble," ella bromea.

Rao ha sido dueña del restaurante de comida de Fiji en esta ubicación en Hayward durante los últimos 16 años.

Sin embargo, a finales de noviembre, el acogedor restaurante cerrará sus puertas para siempre. Rao decidió cerrar porque el edificio está en mal estado y poco ha sido hecho por el propietario para resolver los problemas de mantenimiento.

El edificio fue saqueado varias veces por personas sin hogar o ladrones que cortaron el cobre de las tuberías exteriores para vender, lo que ha causado inundaciones en la cocina, según Rao. Ratas y zarigüeyas llaman el edificio casa y el techo se hincha con evidencia de daños del agua antigua, que comenzó hace diez años, según Rao. El marido de Lee ha arreglado algunos de los agujeros en las paredes en ocasiones durante su tiempo libre.

"Todas las mañanas antes de venir a trabajar tienes este sentimiento: ¿Qué voy a ver hoy? ¿Está mi cocina inundada con otra pipa?" dijo Rao. "Se ha convertido en un estrés. Qué cosa tan terrible que suceda a cualquier ser humano que un montón de gente de la nada roben un lugar donde has estado 16 años. Nadie hace nada por este edificio. Pero todos esos buenos años aquí... me voy con una sonrisa.”

Según la ciudad de Hayward, el edificio es propiedad de DNS Capital Partners, LLC. Funcionarios de la ciudad confirmaron que el sitio está programado para la demolición y que condominios serán construidos en el lugar, sin embargo, un itinerario del proyecto aún no ha sido puesto en libertad al público. Rao dijo que recibió una carta el año pasado notificándola del proyecto.

Micah Hinkle, gerente de desarrollo económico de la ciudad de Hayward, dijo al Pioneer que uno de los principales retos para los dueños de restaurantes

que buscan abrir en Hayward es encontrar el espacio. Hinkle dijo que abrir un restaurante es caro y puede costar entre $300.000 y $500.000 para desarrollarse.

Rao dijo que decidió cerrar en vez de reubicarse porque el proceso sería largo, difícil y ella está lista para retirarse.

"Es demasiado tarde, tendré 65 años la próxima semana," ella dijo.

Comer en Curry Corner se siente como comer en la cocina de una abuela.

Las paredes y sillas están pintadas de amarillo mostaza y naranja de calabaza, un proyecto realizado por Rao y su hija.

Un calendario de una sandía cuelga en la pared, la página todavía dada vuelta a agosto, al lado de un mapa de las islas de Fiji y de un cuadro de acuarela de Jesucristo.

Un collage de fotos de sus nietas que viven en Fiji decoran la cocina y la caja de dinero es una bandeja de preparación de alimentos de acero inoxidable. El método de pago es en efectivo y no hay menú oficial: los clientes comen lo que Rao decida cocinar ese día, que siempre cuesta $8.

"Lo que sea que haga, yo como," dijo Lee. “Ni siquiera pregunto.”

No hay una fórmula en particular o un horario para el menú fijo, Rao hace lo que tiene a mano. "No tuvimos berenjenas la semana pasada, así que vamos a tener berenjenas hoy," dijo Rao. Los clientes de largo plazo han tomado a Yelp y las redes sociales para expre-

sar su decepción en el cierre del restaurante. Sin embargo, Rao planea enseñar lecciones de cocina en su casa en el futuro. El precio fluctuará, pero ahora planea cobrar $65 por persona por una lección de cuatro a cinco horas.

"Voy a conseguir su número de casa y pedirle que cocine para mí," bromeó Lee. Rao nació en las Islas Fiji, pero se trasladó a San Francisco como una mujer joven. Habla cuatro idiomas: hindi, fijiano, español e inglés. La cocina es de segunda naturaleza para Rao, que aprendió a cocinar a una edad temprana en una antigua estufa de madera de queroseno.

"Puedo mirar un pedazo de carne y saber cuánta especia ponerle," dijo Rao, que nunca usa una receta.

Rao trabajó originalmente como asistente de enfermería certificada hasta que tenía 49 años, cuando su hija la convenció para hacer una carrera fuera de su afición de cocina y abrir su propio negocio. El restaurante es atendido únicamente por Rao, que recibe ayuda ocasional de su hija.

Rao dijo que la comida no contiene lácteos, pasta de tomate o MSG, y Curry Corner está etiquetado en Yelp como un restaurante vegetariano. Eso fue lo que atrajo a los entrenadores de fitness Jake Vuolo, de 24 años, y Quinzel Comer, de 26 años, en un viaje de fin de semana desde San Diego hasta el restaurante.

"Quería conseguir algo de Sonic, pero no me sentía Sonic," dijo Vuolo. "Quería

algo un poco más limpio en mi cuerpo que un poco de comida rápida. Esas son algunas de las mejores patatas que he tenido.”

La carne proviene de un carnicero local, las papas son de cosecha propia, un regalo del amigo de la iglesia de Rao, y los frijoles de vaca provienen de mercado de agricultores. Rao utiliza tres a cuatro especias frescas, básicas como el curry, la cúrcuma y el cilantro en su cocina.

“Señora, no me gusta el curry,” dijo Comer a Rao. "No soy un fan de curry, pero esto es bueno."

Hinkle dijo que la mayoría de las empresas en Hayward, como Curry Corner, tienen una vida considerable en la ciudad. Mientras que la industria de restaurantes en Hayward no ha experimentado más volumen de negocios que otras áreas, Hinkle reconoció que las cosas están cambiando.

Hinkle dijo que las opciones de comida étnica de Hayward reflejan la diversidad de la ciudad, la sexta más grande del área de la Bahía. Ha descubierto que muchas de las opciones de comida exitosas son pequeñas empresas de propiedad familiar, que ofrecen productos únicos y de alta calidad a precios asequibles, en lugar de establecimientos comerciales de comida rápida.

"Comes un dólar de comida o comes diez dólares en comida," dijo Rao. "Está entrando en tu cuerpo; Tienes que comer bien. No puedo alimentar a nadie de nada que yo no pueda comer.”

Golden State Warriors a un comienzo sorprendente Por Kali Persall ESCITORA DE PERSONAL

Traducción por Wendy Medina EDITORA DE COPIA Los Golden State Warriors tuvieron un comienzo inesperado en su apertura de la temporada regular el martes pasado.

El equipo cayó ante los San Antonio Spurs en el primer partido, 129-100.

Muchos se sorprendieron, porque con la adición de Kevin Durant, los Warriors parecían imparables, pero incluso con un MVP anterior y el reinante en su equipo, todavía se puede perder.

El armador Stephen Curry fue 9-18 tiros en el juego, anotando 26 puntos con cuatro asistencias en 34 minutos. El alero Kevin Durant anotó 27 puntos en 11-18 por tiro y agregó diez rebotes en 37 minutos. Pero eso no fue suficiente para que los Warriors sobrevivieran más que los Spurs.

El banco de los Warriors anotó un total de sólo 16 puntos en comparación con el banco de los Spurs, que anotó un total de 54 puntos. San Antonio parecía no cometer errores en todo el partido, y capitalizaron de cada error de los Warriors.

"No pudimos encontrar un ritmo," dijo el entrenador en jefe de los Warriors, Steve Kerr, a los periodistas después del partido. "Nuestros chicos estaban aver-

gonzados esta noche; Sé que lo estaba.”

En el primer cuarto, los Warriors encabezaron 16-2 y parecía como si fuera otra victoria en casa, pero los Spurs siguieron una carrera de 19-4 y nunca miraron hacia atrás. Cada vez que los Warriors hacían cualquier tipo de progresión, los Spurs respondieron. Entraron en la segunda mitad liderando con 18 puntos. La Arena Oracle, apodada “Roaracle,” estaba más callada que de costumbre, los aficionados conmocionados por el hecho de que su equipo estaba abajo por tantos puntos.

Cuando el equipo entró en la segunda mitad, al principio, Golden State salió fuerte con una carrera de 6-0 y cerró el liderato, pero los Spurs se recuperaron.

Tomaron el control y ampliaron la ventaja a 20 y se dirigieron al resto del juego, dando a los Warriors ninguna oportunidad. "[Los] chicos pudieron haber estado un poco ansiosos," dijo Durant a los periodistas después del partido. "Nos calmamos un poco para comenzar la segunda mitad, pero ya estaban por delante y no podemos esperar para jugar un buen baloncesto. Definitivamente tenemos que mejorar."

Golden State fue superado 55-35 y fue 7-33 de la línea de 3 puntos, que fue un factor enorme en la pérdida. "Nuestra ofensiva no encontraron un ritmo," dijo el escolta Klay Thompson a periodistas después del partido. "Los tres punteros no estaban cayendo. Yo fui perezoso,

realmente no estaba persiguiendo esas bolas sueltas como debía tener. Tengo que jugar con más ventaja.”

Los Spurs realmente jugaron como una unidad, incluso con la reciente pérdida del futuro miembro del Salón de la Fama Tim Duncan, a la jubilación. El alero fuerte y pívot LaMarcus Aldridge tuvo 26 puntos y 14 rebotes y el alero Jonathan Simmons anotó 20 puntos en el banquillo. Pero el factor clave para los Spurs fue el delantero Kawhi Leonard, que lideró a todos los jugadores en la puntuación con 35 puntos (10-21 FG, 15-15 FT) en 32 minutos.

Los Warriors buscaron concentrarse en sus próximos dos partidos de la semana contra los New Orleans Hornets y los Phoenix Suns, en los que parecieron enmarcarse mucho más.

Viernes, los Warriors derrotaron a los Hornets 122-114, a pesar de los 45 puntos de Anthony Davis. El equipo jugó mucho más como una unidad. Durant anoto 30 puntos, Curry, 23 y Thompson, 28. El banco de Warriors todavía no apareció, pero lograron sacar la victoria.

A medida que avanzaban el domingo, las estrellas de los Warriors, Durant y Curry, aparecieron de nuevo, ambos anotando más de 20 puntos por el tercer juego en una fila. Durant tuvo un total de 37 puntos (10-16 FG, 15-16 FT) y Curry agregó 28 puntos (9-17 FG, 5-5 FT).

Thompson agregó 14 puntos, ya que los Warriors ganaron 106-100.

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"Es difícil decir la rapidez con que los clics serán enteros, pero es bueno ganar," dijo Curry a periodistas después del partido. "Tenemos una fuerte identidad y enfoque."

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Local artist creates conversation through murals

By Christine Andersen CONTRIBUTOR If you’ve ever driven around Hayward on Mission Boulevard, you may have noticed beautiful and vivid murals adorning walls and structures. Many of these murals are the work of local artist Jean Bidwell.

Bidwell started out painting murals for her friends and family. She transitioned to painting murals for the city in 2009 as part of the Hayward Mural Project after she received a call from Stacy Bristow, the deputy director of Development Services for Hayward, who is in charge of the project.

“They asked if I could paint 11 utility boxes to see if I had what it took to become involved with the mural project,” said Bidwell, who has now painted around 23,000 square feet of property that includes three large walls and 50 utility boxes around Bay Area cities like Hayward and Oakland. Bidwell wants to use her creative talent to improve the streets of Hayward.

Bidwell isn’t the only one working on the mural project. Initially, there was a group of around five people, but the project has recently expanded. The city commissioned over a dozen artists last year, not including subcontractors and volunteers, according to Bristow.

Mural Project organizers initially required that participating artists be born, raised or educated in Hayward, but the project now accepts artists from all over, according to Bidwell. Each artist adds their own flair, which gives the different projects variation.

After Bidwell finished painting the utility boxes, Bristow asked her to do more paintings for the Mural Project, which she agreed to immediately.

“It wasn’t even about getting paid for a project,” said Bidwell. “It was just about being in the community and kind of like a giving back thing. And then they’re giving back to you, and it’s just this constant back and forth.”

The first large project Bidwell took on was for Deedee and Doug Ligebel, a couple that used to lived in Hayward, who commissioned her through the Mural Project. They took her out to the project site, a 12,000 square foot wall. Bidwell noticed that there were syringes lying around. The wall was located near the

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Artist Jean Bidwell paints a mural on a wall on Industrial Boulevard near Taylor Street in South Hayward last month. railroad tracks where the homeless often make camp.

“Not only did I understand another part of the community that saddened me intensely, but I ended up meeting a lot of people,” said Bidwell. “I didn’t realize the real deep meaning the mural project was presenting until that moment.”

That project took a total of ten months to complete with the help of

a group of volunteers that were all 70 years old and older, who Bidwell met at a birthday party in her neighborhood.

When she told them about the project, they all offered to help.

“I’d still be over there if it weren’t for them,” she said, crediting the volunteers for the mural’s quick completion.

The mural consisted of relevant places in Hayward. Members of the community made suggestions for 68 panels,

which usually measure around 20 feet long and eight or nine feet high.

Throughout the painting process, she commonly takes suggestions on what to paint from people she has met within the community.

Bidwell is currently working up to eight hours a day painting a mural on a wall at the intersection of Industrial Parkway and Taylor Street that depicts the history of Hayward.

Bidwell started this mural six months ago and expects it to be completed in another eight to nine months.

The mural she’s working on is about the history of Hayward, but Bidwell has recently started adding dogs from the neighborhood to the paintings at the suggestion of a passerby.

“This guy stopped by and asked if I would put his dog on the walls,” said Bidwell. This gentleman had actually found the dog on that street. After this happened, people kept asking if she could add their pets. “It was a huge community effort,” said Bidwell.

The community conversation doesn’t stop there. As Bidwell painted a clock on a mural, she would shout out to people nearby, “What time does someone want it to be?” Someone would reply back with a time and she would add whatever they suggested to the clock.

According to Bidwell, graffiti has decreased by 93 percent within the city since the project started. Only once has one of Bidwell’s murals ever been tagged. Her mural at the train tracks near Grand Terrace Apartments was vandalized by a gang on Valentine’s Day in 2010.

“This was the first time something like that had happened to me, and I just took it so personally,” Bidwell said.

She and a couple of volunteers spent four hours cleaning the mural, and the vandals came back to watch from across the train tracks.

Bidwell also found out that one of the men she had become friends with over the course of her project was an original leader of the gang.

He knew nothing about these members tagging Bidwell’s mural, and promptly put a stop to any further vandalism from the gang.

“Now he comes to every single one of my projects and makes sure no one bothers me,” said Bidwell.

When asked if she has a favorite mural, Bidwell responded, “It’s not what you ended up with, it’s what you experienced while you were doing it.”

Bidwell has several other projects lined up, such as a multi-dimensional mural located at the Oakland Coliseum, and isn’t planning on stopping anytime soon. “I want to live my life knowing I won’t have any regrets,” she said.

“I think I’m an illustrator at heart and a storyteller.”

FROM THE WIRE

UC regent apologizes for 'inappropriate' comments about women's breasts

By Teresa Watanabe LOS ANGELES TIMES University of California Regent Norman J. Pattiz is known for his outgoing manner and jovial jibes -- but in this time of heightened awareness about inappropriate conduct, he's learning that some of what's funny to him is sexually offensive to others.

Pattiz is chairman of the Courtside Entertainment Group, which produces radio shows and podcasts.

He recently apologized after a woman said that, when she was taping a bra commercial at his PodcastOne studio, he asked if he could hold her breasts.

Heather McDonald aired an audiotape of his comments on her "Juicy Scoop" podcast last week.

She said she was inspired to speak out by other women who came forward to describe their experiences with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.

The Los Angeles comedian, who left PodcastOne shortly after the incident, said she did not accept Pattiz's apology or excuse that he was trying to be funny.

"Sexual harassment is not a joke," she said in an interview. Several other former

employees and independent contractors of PodcastOne also say that Pattiz's remarks about women's bodies or looks sometimes made them uncomfortable.

One woman, 23-year-old Ji Min Park, said she left the company in August after a year in large part because of too many sexually inappropriate comments. Pattiz, 73, told The Times he "deeply regrets" the comments to McDonald and vowed not to repeat such behavior.

"There is no excuse for any such comments or making anyone feel uncomfortable," he said Tuesday.

"If I did that, I sincerely apologize, and it will be a valuable learning experience."

"I can assure you that you can teach an old dog new tricks," he said, committing to work to bridge any generation gap. UC officials declined to comment about Pattiz's behavior.

The university's definition of sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual jokes or comments about a person's body or appearance.

In recent years, UC President Janet Napolitano and the Board of Regents have led the 10-campus system to take a strong stand against sexual harassment, with stricter requirements for

reporting misconduct, expanded education and training and increased services for victims. Pattiz was first appointed as a regent by Gov. Gray Davis in 2001.

In 2014, he was reappointed to a 12year term by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The prominent broadcast media entrepreneur founded Westwood One Inc., the nation's largest radio network, four decades ago.

In 2013, he started PodcastOne, a Beverly Hills network that hosts more than 200 podcasts. Park said she was initially flattered by Pattiz's compliments about her looks but became increasingly uncomfortable with them.

Some months ago, she said, he told her she was the "hottest Asian" he'd ever seen and said, "If I wasn't married, I'd be chasing you down a hallway right now."

She said she put her hands over her ears, said "Oh, my God," and walked away, and that Pattiz subsequently apologized. At other times, Park said, Pattiz didn't seem to understand that his remarks were offensive.

He once joked that if he left his wife for her, she could have her name on a recording studio, she said. He also told her in front of others that she looked like a schoolgirl and then said he'd watched "too many videos" featuring schoolgirls.

She and others assumed he was talking about porn. "Everyone was stunned, and I walked away," Park said.

A current employee, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation, corroborated her account.

Raymond Hernandez, who worked as a producer at PodcastOne for two years before he was laid off in July, said he frequently witnessed Pattiz making comments about women's breasts and bodies.

He said he was shocked when Pattiz walked up to employees several months ago and asked if anyone wanted to see revealing photos of a PodcastOne female executive on his phone.

The executive did not respond to requests for comment, but two current employees who asked not to be identified to avoid retaliation corroborated the story.

Pattiz made remarks to at least two pregnant podcasters about the size of their breasts, noting they had gotten bigger during pregnancies, Hernandez said.

Park witnessed one of the incidents, as did a current employee who asked for anonymity to avoid retaliation.

The other podcaster confirmed the remarks made to her but said she did not want to be identified because she did not feel strongly that Pattiz had wronged her.

But she said she was uncomfortable

with such remarks and wanted men to understand that they are inappropriate.

Pattiz, when asked to respond to the particular incidents, said he would not go beyond his general apology.

He said he could not respond meaningfully to information coming from anonymous sources but that he would take any concerns to heart.

His comments to McDonald first were made public in her Oct. 27 podcast on sexual harassment.

She told listeners that in May she was taping a commercial for a memory foam bra when Pattiz entered the recording room.

He unnerved her, she said, and she kept flubbing her lines because he had made previous comments about her appearance.

This time, he said, "Can I hold your breasts? Would that help?" according to McDonald's audio recording. "These are memory foam," he said of his hands.

Shortly after the podcast aired, Pattiz apologized to McDonald.

Her show, she said, prompted many emails and online posts from other women sharing stories of harassment.

"You think it doesn't happen," McDonald said, "but it happens all the time."

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administrators at East Bay since 2013.

Only a third of faculty and staff responded to the survey last time it was conducted, in 2014.

The university is looking to incentivize the survey this time around by offering tickets to a Raiders game and other prizes, according to Dobb.

The 2014 Campus Climate Survey Executive Summary reported that 658 students and 590 staff partook in the survey two years ago. Students generally felt that East Bay fostered inclusiveness, respect and a positive teaching and learning environment, and most students indicated an intent to return or graduate from the university.

The majority of faculty, staff and administrators who participated in the survey reported that they respected coworkers and colleagues and agreed that diverse perspectives were cordially accepted and acknowledged within various departments.

However the survey also identified a deficiency in diversity training and called for more publicly displayed policies and standards that promote diversity efforts on campus, as well as more training on how to recognize sexual harassment.

The survey also found that students who reported having disabilities weren’t satisfied with administrative functions, such as registering for classes, accessing online materials and textbooks and applying for financial aid. Students also reported that

East Bay could improve on cultivating a positive, inclusive campus for LGBTQ students.

According to Morishita, the university addressed the feedback from the last survey by increasing diversity and inclusiveness in professional development opportunities, improving accessibility issues on the campus, increasing the number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus and taking care to match faculty and administration demographics more closely to the student population.

According to Dobb, the survey will help East Bay determine what the school can do to improve attitudes and the working environment through education.

Dobb said there haven’t been any major issues on campus regarding a lack of diversity.

The survey aims to prevent these issues before they happen.

“We want to make sure that everyone’s voice is heard,” said Dobb.

The survey will be conducted online through Educational Benchmarking Inc., which will allow East Bay to compare the results to other universities.

The survey will be conducted from Oct. 26 until Nov. 18.

Dobb said the results of the survey will be compiled around Feb. 1, 2017 and the university will release a report.

Dianne Rushwood, East Bay’s chief diversity officer and Kim Geron, diversity and equity liaison officer will meet to brainstorm solutions to address needed changes between February and the end of the school year.

The changes will go into effect by fall 2017.

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significant behaviors” such as reading, academic and social skills and applied living behaviors, according to the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. Lancaster said that each time they meet, they set up a new goal for Balian and review his progress every three months. Through ABA therapy, Balian was potty-trained and just met his most recent goal: learning how to greet people. “When you see one autistic kid, it’s completely different compared to another,” said Lancaster. “It’s like night and day.”

Lancaster said resources for parents that have autistic children are lacking in the Bay Area and she primarily connects with other parents through event pages on Facebook.

In 2013, the same year that Balian was diagnosed, Lancaster established Twinkies Krafts, a nonprofit that provides local events in the Hayward community for special needs kids and their parents. The Trunk or Treat event was the first ever hosted by the organization.

Lancaster also used to create and sell handmade autism-awareness jewelry and crafts through her Twinkies Krafts profile on Etsy and donated 75 percent of the proceeds to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, which she said helped Balian with speech lessons and occupational therapy when he was first diagnosed.

“I want to have these kids be more involved in the community,” said Lancaster. “Yeah, we exist, and yeah, we’re different. Spreading awareness is great, but what these kids really need is acceptance.”

Other Trunk or Treat tablers took to creative means to cast a spotlight on

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autism last weekend. Bruce Bookman, a software quality assurance engineer from Los Gatos doubling as a spray paint artist, sold abstract spray paint creations that range in subject matter from planets to dolphins leaping against a sunset.

Inspired by street artists at a festival, Bookman learned the techniques on YouTube and has been painting for the past three months.

Each creation he said, takes no more than an hour. According to his website, Art2BenefitAutism.com, Bookman donates five percent of the proceeds directly to the Autism Science Foundation, a nonprofit that provides funding to scientists researching causes and treatments for autism.

Matthew Pizzi, a fifth grader at Prince of Peace Lutheran School in Fremont, better known as “Matty the Magician” to his classmates, performed magic tricks at the event. His favorite, according to his mother Pam Pizzi, is the trick where he lights an ordinary piece of paper on fire and turns it into money.

Pizzi has performed at his school every year since the first grade and has even opened for the Bay Area’s own renowned, award-winning magician Dan Chan the Magic Man.

Event-goers also had the opportunity to take pictures on a Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle supplied by Marty Seagraves, creator of the Autism Army group, which aims to raise awareness about autism by bringing motorcycles to special needs camps, as well as car and bike shows.

The group was started in 2007 and was inspired by Seagraves’ son, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s when he was two years old.

“My son has autism,” he said. “I just wanted to get off the couch and do something about it.” When Seagraves’ son was diagnosed, he was a late talker and tongue-tied and doctors predicted that he would never be social, said Seagraves.

Today, he is 13 years old, high-functioning and is mainstreamed in a “regular” junior high school.

“We just take it day by day, you know?” said Seagraves.

“We tell people, they’re all different, all the kids are different just like me and you. We’re different people and so are they. It’s more acceptance than awareness now, because awareness has been so prominent that everyone actually needs to move toward acceptance through their communities. Everyone I meet knows someone on the spectrum.”

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Volleyball keeps up the momentum Women defeat CSU Monterey Bay at home

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The California State East Bay women’s volleyball team has been on a roll.

They have won six of their last seven games in conference play, which has moved them up to third in the California Collegiate Athletic Association north division standings, giving them a chance to possibly make it into the postseason for the first time.

After their loss last Saturday against the second ranked team in the North Division, Sonoma State (12-9 overall,10-4 conference), the Pioneers bounced back Saturday in their home game versus California State Monterey Bay (10-11, 5-9).

East Bay got off to a slow start in the first set as the Monterey Bay Otters took a 4-0 lead and looked like they would give the Pioneers a difficult game. As the set continued, the Pioneers and Otters evened out at 15-15 but Monterey’s offense took control and scored seven of the next 10 points between the two teams. Monterey went on to win the set 20-25.

“We lacked communication throughout the first set,” said senior defensive specialist Darlene Lee. “We had a hard time fronting the hitters and reading their angle when they hit cross body, we were able to adjust after as time went

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Cal State East Bay sophomore outside hitter Kiki Leuteneker attempts to block a spike during their 3-1 victory against the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters on Saturday at Pioneer Gymnasium in Hayward. on.”

The Pioneers came out more relaxed in the second set and played more of their game, seizing critical opportunities. The two teams went back and forth throughout the set, and the game remained tied the majority of the time.

East Bay managed to pull out the win in the set as they kept their composure and

took the 25-23 lead, tying the match at 1-1.

In the 3rd set, East Bay took much more control and carried on the momentum from set two. The Pioneers did not trail the entire third set and had a reply to every move the Otter’s tried to make.

“We were just trying to keep our composure and not allow Monterey to go on

runs,” said junior outside hitter Cassidy Caton. “We stayed calm, but also kept our high energy.”

The Otters were determined to not let the Pioneers earn an easy win and challenged the home team in the fourth set. East Bay trailed most of the set and looked as if they were going to lose and play a 5th set, as they were down 13-17.

Composed, the Pioneers rallied their way back toward the middle of the set and scored six straight points, giving them the 23-20 lead. The two teams went back and forth after the run, each scoring two points, but with East Bay’s lead, they were able to hold off the Otters and win the set 25-22, putting the match to an end.

The Pioneer women led in kills, 6859, and digs, 94-82, in the match. Sophomore outside hitter Kiki Leuteneker had a game high of 18 kills and sophomore Deja Thompson had a hitting percentage of .483, with 17 kills on 29 swings.

Darlene Lee finished with 24 digs on the night. Lee has been a huge impact player for the Pioneers all season, helping them become the No. 5 ranked team in digs per set.

“I have been working hard since we started in August,” Lee Said. “I have been moved from the left side to the right side and I am happy I have been able to adjust and make an impact for my team.”

The Pioneers are now 12-10 overall and 8-6 in conference play, standing at third place in the North division. They play the 18th ranked team in the country, California State San Bernardino (144 overall, 11-2 conference) at home this Saturday.

“For San Bernardino we will be working a lot with serving tough to our opponent and be sure to work on mixing up our swings and hitting to certain areas of the court,” Lee said. “They are a tough team to beat, there’s no question in that, but they are definitely beatable if we play our game.”

Oakland A’s presence felt in the World Series Athletics don’t keep their best players

By Cameron Stover CONTRIBUTOR Oakland A’s fans who have tuned into the World Series may have recognized a familiar face or two. As a matter of fact, they might have recognized seven familiar faces on the field playing for both the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs.

Seeing these former A’s playing on baseball’s biggest stage begs the question: Why don’t the A’s keep these players for themselves? The answer is one that A’s fans have been struggling with for decades: ownership apathy.

Revenue sharing redistributes income from richer franchises to the less profitable franchises in an effort to create competitive balance.

According to the MLB’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, each team contributes 34 percent of its net local revenue into a pool that gets divided equally among every team. Higher-earning clubs put in more than they get back while lower-earning clubs receive more than they put in.

According to Forbes, A’s owner Lew Wolff and co-owner John Fisher make up the fourth-richest ownership in baseball. Yet the A’s payroll ranks 27th out of 30 in the majors. Wolff and John Fisher have continued to cash these revenue-sharing checks, pinching pennies off the payroll along the way. These billionaires don’t care about baseball, they just want to keep getting returns on their investment.

According to an ESPN poll surveying the quality of sports franchises, Wolff was voted dead last, at 122 out of 122.

This survey was conducted after 2014,

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when the A’s were coming off their last of three straight postseason appearances.

Another signal of ownership apathy, the Oakland Coliseum graded out at dead last in stadium quality and fan-friendliness. Type “sewage dugout” in Google to get a better picture.

Wolff has also said the A’s are looking to stay in Oakland, mostly due to the fact their dreams of a stadium in Fremont and San Jose were shut down already since the San Francisco Giants have legal claims to the region through their minor league team. This man wants nothing to do with the city of Oakland or the fans.

In 2014, the A’s were in the thick of the playoff hunt. Oakland General Manager Billy Beane saw the opportunity and made a few “win-now” moves.

The team traded away Yoenis Cespedes to acquire pitcher Jon Lester, who was supposed to propel the A’s towards pennant contention. Instead, the A’s lost in the Wild Card play-in game and watched Lester leave for the Cubs after the season. Lester was the man who stepped on the mound to pitch Game 1 for the Chicago Cubs in one of the biggest moments in the franchise’s history.

Ben Zobrist, a pivotal player in the Cubs’ lineup, used to play second base for Oakland until they traded him to Kansas City, where he went on to win

his first World Series ring. This year, he looks to make it two championships in a row.

They also traded shortstop Addison Russell for Cubs starting pitchers Jason Hammel and Jeff Samardzija, the latter of which is currently on the San Francisco Giants, the team with the sixth highest payroll in baseball.

Former Athletic and current Indian Coco Crisp has played a huge role for Cleveland throughout the playoffs.

Crisp’s tenure in Oakland ended after he accused the team of benching him so they could avoid paying a contract incentive.

“This team has never been motivated to give up a dollar,” Crisp’s agent, Steve Comte, told SFGate. “I know Billy Beane has always been fond of Coco, but what they’re doing now is really a joke. I’ve advised Coco to take the high road, but the way things are going is a disservice to him.”

Fourteen percent of this year’s World Series rosters are comprised of former A’s players. Someday, Oakland hopes to boost those numbers by competing in the World Series themselves.

Seven players: Jon Lester, Ben Zobrist, Addison Russell, Chris Coghlan, Coco Crisp, Rajai Davis, Dan Otero were all former Athletics who are playing in the World Series.

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