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Winter 2016 Issue 8
Missing woman found dead in Fremont Suspect charged with murder
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By Louis LaVenture NEWS AND SPORTS
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By Yousuf Fahimuddin CONTRIBUTOR
Peyton Manning said he’d vote for him, but the endorsement of the Super Bowl champion quarterback wasn’t enough and now Jeb Bush’s out of the race. With Bush finally out, all eyes are on three of the remaining candidates to take up the mantle of the Republican establishment and dump popluar candidate Donald Trump. Jeb was the most well funded candidate in the Republican race as he has received $152 million according to OpenSecrets, center for responsive politics. By contrast Trump has raised $27 million. Now that Jeb is out, his handlers, namely the Right to Rise Super PAC, need to pick someone else to back, but some think it’s too late. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he believes Trump has the upper hand. “He’s got the momentum. I think there’s more [than] a 50 percent chance he’s the nominee.” The Republican establishment is essentially now forced to face the insurgency within their party. Marco
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The Hayward Police Department confirmed on Monday that 22-year-old Stacey Xanthe Aguilar, who was reported missing in San Jose on Feb. 16, is now dead. As of yesterday, Hayward Police Department detectives arrested Esmid Valentine Pedraza, 23, on a homicide charge for the murder of Aguilar, according to a press release from HPD. Pedraza’s arraignment is set for Feb. 26 at 2pm at the Hayward Hall of Justice, held without bail. On Friday, the HPD changed the case status from a missing person to a homicide investigation, however they did not find the body until Saturday. Her body was found in an area off of Morrison Canyon Road in Fremont after the HPD detectives investigation led them to the site. At a press conference on Monday, HPD Chief Diane Urban confirmed that a person of interest in the case had been arrested on an unrelated charge, but their identity was being withheld until the Alameda County District Attorney’s office has formally charged them. No time table was given on when the charges will be filed. Urban said they believe the crime took place in Hayward and the body was transported to Fremont. Residents in the North Hayward neighborhood on Silva Avenue near Jackson Street, said that they called to complain about the house party where Aguilar was last seen on Feb. 14. A neighbor near where
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missing to the San Jose Police Department on Feb. 15 when she never returned home from a birthday party. Aguilar was last seen when she left the party with her boyfriend around 1 a.m., according to partygoers. Her boyfriend, who has not been identified, was arrested in relation to a domestic violence incident on the day Aguilar went missing, however Urban did not elaborate on the details of that case. She did not rule him out as a suspect. According to Aguilar’s stepfather, Salvador Rodriguez, the family is disappointed in the way the police have handled the investigation.
Being an illegal immigrant carries a heavy burden full of fears and obstacles. Beatriz Orozco, 31, was one of the many undocumented students at California State University, East Bay who experienced college without the help and resources needed to build a successful future through education. Orozco started off her college career at Chabot and Ohlone College. She then transferred to CSUEB, where she studied Communications and earned her Bachelor’s in 2011. Orozco even went on to graduate school despite being criticized by her peers. “People used to tell me, ‘Why are you going to school? Why are you working so hard? What a waste of time, you can’t even get a real job,’” Orozco said. “And they were right.’” Last year, Orozco graduated with her master’s degree and now works as a Dean of Students at ACE Empower Academy. She was able to achieve this job because of the opportunities given to her through the DREAM Act. When the California DREAM Act was passed in October 2011, undocumented youths were offered an opportunity to gain a path towards legal residency. Becoming a “DREAMer” gives an undocumented student a new status as an AB540 student, which allows them to pay in-state tuition and apply for federal grants. AB540 students
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the birthday party was held, who asked to remain anonymous, said that her daughter called the police at least once to make a noise complaint. Urban said that there were no calls made to HPD about the party. “We found evidence that indicated this was something more than a missing person,” Urban said. “The people of the community can sleep at night knowing that there is not a murderer out on the loose.” According to the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau, the victim had “numerous gunshot wounds,” but a full cause of death is still pending. The family of Aguilar reported her
An Apple a day keeps Big Brother away Leading tech company refuses to comply in federal case By Shannon Stroud EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
On Tuesday, the FBI asked Apple to unlock the iPhone that belonged to suspect Syed Rizwan Farook in the San Bernardino shootings. On that same day, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, publicly stated Apple would not unlock the iPhone for the benefit of the case. “We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand,” Cook stated in a public letter to Apple customers. He couldn’t be more right. Apple refused to help the government put away a suspect in a mass murder trial and it’s a big deal. Farook’s iPhone could be a lead towards terrorist organizations that were apart of the San Bernardino shootings which left 14 people dead and 22 wounded. The information on the phone also might bring closure to the friends and family of the deceased, maybe information would reveal why their loved ones were the victims of a terrible crime. Instead of removing the passcode on the suspect’s iPhone, Apple kept their products secure to make sure
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their customers feel safe. But all of this begs the question: what’s more important to the American consumer — privacy or justice? Media outlets have shamed Apple for leaving this horrific case open. They’ve also praised them for keeping customer security in mind. Before you jump to conclusions about the company being a bad Apple, keep in mind that Apple is willing to help: when the FBI requested data from the suspect’s cloud storage, they provided it. Since 2008, Apple has helped the government unlock 70 iPhones — each of these phones ran on dated operating systems. In the newest operating system, unlocking the phone calls for a backdoor encryption. It was when the FBI asked Apple
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By Louis LaVenture
NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR When the parking lots opened in September on Cal State East Bay’s campus, things were supposed to be more convenient for students and faculty. The new lots added 325 new parking spots to serve a predominantly commuter student body and electronic signs at the entrances inform drivers how many parking spots were available. However, those signs have caused more confusion than convenience. Since the first day of the fall quarter, the signs
have constantly read that the maximum number of spots are available, even during peak parking times when the lots are clearly full. “The problem is that folks are driving over both lanes as they enter [and] exit the lots,” according to Derrick Lobo, parking & transportation services manager for the university. “That throws the count off and eventually locks up the system.” To fix the problem, barriers will be installed between the entrance and exit lanes during the break between winter and spring quarter. The posts are designed to force people to pick a lane and
not drift into both. Lobo said that once the barriers are installed, the electronic counters will be reset and “they will hopefully work as advertised.” The new lots were completed in September on the site of the former Warren Hall, which was demolished on Aug. 17, 2013, primarily because of concerns over the safety of the building during an earthquake. On Jan. 22, 2013 the CSU Board of Trustees approved $50 million to replace Warren Hall, which was rated the least safe building in an earthquake for any campus by the CSU Seismic Review
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