The Pioneer Newspaper April 14, 2016

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Spring 2016 Issue 2

SPORTS

Warriors on the brink of history

SEE FEATURES PAGE 2

STUDENT ARTISTS ARE "IN THE DARK"

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

SEE OPINION PAGE 10

BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT

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Students, faculty and staff protest during CSU Chancellor Timothy White's visit to CSUEB on Feb. 29.

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NEWS

UC Berkeley sexual harassment policies questioned

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR UC Berkeley, named one of the “Elite Six” universities by Times Higher Education in 2015, is under fire for questionable disciplinary protocol for sexual misconduct, following the release of documents of an investigation that looked into 17 sexual harassment cases from the last five years.

The investigation’s findings, conducted by the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination, were released to The Daily Californian in response to a Public Records Act request filed last month.

It found 19 UC Berkeley employees in violation of the college’s sexual harassment policies dating back to 2011, according to The Daily Californian.

Released on April 5, the redacted 463-page report revealed details about the nature of the cases and found the accused to be six faculty and eleven staff members. The East Bay Times reported that three of the accused faculty members resigned, while the other three remain employed by Berkeley as tenured professors.

Out of 12 investigations conducted by the OPHD, four staff members were fired, four resigned and four received various punishments, ranging from salary decreases to temporary suspension, according to The Daily Californian.

One of the cases investigated by the OPHD was that of Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry, who resigned from his position on March 10. Choudhry remains employed at Berkeley as a member of the law school faculty under tenure, according to the Washington Post.

Last year Tyann Sorrell, Choudhry’s former executive assistant filed a formal complaint that alleged Choudhry

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CSU strike averted, new tentative agreement reached

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The California Faculty Association has been engaged in a “Fight for 5” on behalf of faculty members at all 23 Cal State University campuses to get a five percent raise across the board, among other things. That fight came to an end on Friday when the CFA and CSU reached a tentative agreement that would put a stop to the impending strike set for April 13 to 15, 18 and 19.

According to CFA President and Cal State East Bay instructor Jennifer Eagan, the agreement met all of the staff’s demands and includes a five percent general salary increase on June 30, a two percent general salary increase on July 1 and a 3.5 percent general salary increase on July 1, 2017 for all faculty on active pay status or leave. The deal also includes a 2.65 percent service salary increase during 2017-2018 for all eligible faculty members.

The new agreement increases the length of the contract between the two parties for another year and will now expire on June 30, 2018. Eagan said bargaining for the next contract will begin on July 1, 2017.

“That’s not a lot of rest time,” Eagan said in a statement on Friday. “We will need your help building power through membership and your fierce advocacy again very soon.”

In order to make the new agreement official, it must be approved by the CFA Board of Directors, ratified by the CFA members and then approved by the CSU Board of Trustees; something Eagan said members would be notified on how to do soon.

“The tentative agreement enables all of us to focus our efforts on serving students and spares students the negative impacts of the threatened strikes,” CSU Chancellor Timothy White said in a statement on Friday. “The tentative agreement is consistent with our ongoing efforts to increase faculty compen-

sation in a fiscally responsible manner by spreading the cost impact across multiple academic years, while enabling us to fund other priorities that support student success and completion.”

The agreement came after a two-day “blackout period” where there was no media contact by any parties for 48 hours, in an effort to resolve the dispute and diffuse the strike, according to both organizations.

Last year, the CSU included a two percent raise across the board for faculty and staff in their 2015-2016 budget, however, the CFA has asked for a five percent raise as well as additional raises for adjunct and part-time staff members. A new stipulation in the contract could prevent this conflict in the future by adjusting the bargaining calendar so the CFA and CSU management teams will be able to negotiate before the CSU sends their budget request to legislature for approval.

A timetable to ratify the tentative agreement had not been established by the CFA as of publication time.

Now everybody can shut up.

The conversations that surrounded the Golden State Warriors all season long seem to come back to a single question: Can they break the all-time single season wins record of 72 set by the 19951996 Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls?

An answer in one word: yes.

On Sunday, the Warriors did two things that have not happened in nearly two decades. They won their 72nd regular season game; and they did it by beating the Spurs in San Antonio where they haven’t won since 1997, a streak that extended over 30 games.

Was it a pretty win? No, it wasn’t. Golden State only made 4 of their 19 first quarter shots thanks in large part to a smothering San Antonio defense anchored by swingman Kawhi Leonard.

The Warriors were held to just 14 points in the quarter, their fewest in any game this season.

But you can’t count out Stephen Curry. He managed to turn the dismal first half around for Golden State and scored a game-high 16 points in the third quarter — not including a near full court heave that went in but was waved off because it came after the buzzer.

Things got back to normal in the fourth quarter and the Dubs started to move more without the ball and make sharp passes to cutters, the signature of the motion offense that has made them successful the past few seasons. Curry stayed hot

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BART woes continue for Bay Area customers

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

According to BART, on an average weekday about 440,000 passengers use the system, which are roughly 100,000 more than it served just five years ago.

On March 17 officials revealed that BART service between the Pittsburg-Bay Point and North Concord stations would be shut down for an indefinite amount of time while the agency attempted to figure out the problem that caused nearly 50 trains to stop working, due to electrical surges. Buses between the stations served in place of the damaged cars, which caused long lines and waiting times for riders.

“BART was built to transport far fewer people, and much of our system has reached the end of its useful life. This is our reality,” Taylor Huckaby, a BART spokesman and social media specialist, said on Twitter on March 16.

The electrical problem that caused the damage has baffled BART employees. Engineers and mechanics have inspected the tracks and the cars, but have still not been able to determine the exact cause of the problem, according to BART. During peak hours nearly 1,700 people use the Pittsburg-Bay Point and North Concord stations, as stated

by BART. After the problem arose on March 16, BART went from 571 cars in service to 521 cars, down from its normal amount of cars in service of 579. Some of the older model cars have also had some damaged parts from electrical failures, which BART is trying to find a third par-

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ty distributor in order to get them to mechanics so they can make repairs. However, despite outside party consultants, rigorous checks, inspections and new diagnostic equipment, BART officials have yet to determine the specific cause of those damages.

The transit system that opened in 1972 was originally intended to serve a fraction of the people it does now, thanks in large part to the increase in population. The Bay Area Census reported there were 4,628,199 living in the Bay

Area in 1970, a number that has since skyrocketed to over 7 million people as recent as 2010.

Originally, the plan was to alleviate the traffic congestion caused by the automobile boom after World War II. A joint Army and Navy review board in 1947 proposed a high speed rail system that could connect Oakland and San Francisco through an underwater tube to help prevent congestion on the Bay Bridge, according to BART’s website.

Outdated cars and technology com-

bined with too many riders have been a recipe for disaster for BART, who in the midst of the electrical problems introduced their new cars, which will eventually be a fleet of 775 and replace all of the older models, at a replacement rate of 16 cars a month until all of them are incorporated into the system.

According to BART, the California Public Utilities Commission will monitor the tests of the first car, which arrived in Hayward on March 15. The new cars are quieter, bigger, have three exits and entrances per car and feature LED screens with stop and destination updates. BART General Manager Grace Crunican said that the new fleet of cars should alleviate many of the issues that have plagued the system as of late.

“The problem is there are just too many people,” BART patron John Sandoval said. Sandoval takes BART from Fremont to the Montgomery Street Station, Monday through Thursday for work.

“When I first started taking BART, I could get here in the morning a few minutes before my train and be fine. Now, well now I have to get to BART an hour early just to get a spot in line to board.”

Crunican said that BART staff has been granted overtime hours in order to figure out the problem and have since shifted their focus to the actual cars since there seems to be no problems with the tracks. However, with a new fleet of cars set to replace the old ones, will these cars have the same problem? Is it smart to put new cars on tracks that have undefined issues? These are the questions that BART is still trying to find answers to.

2 FEATURES

THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Louis LaVenture

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MANAGING EDITOR

Kali Persall

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COPY EDITOR

Wendy Medina

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ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

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VISUAL EDITOR

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Elizabeth Avalos

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Gilbert Antón Left: CSUEB student Aman Woldenariam, left, helps multimedia graduate student Amy Liss troubleshoot her piece “Animal Adventures” at the University Art Gallery on April 5. Above: “Enslaved Screen” by Clifford Ingham is one of various multimedia pieces at the University Art Gallery.

Below: CSUEB senior student Lillian Yee plays her harp during the opening reception of the In the Dark: New Media Works art exhibit.

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OPINION 3

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THE PIONEER

Should men carry feminine hygiene products?

The new chivalry

By Elizabeth Avalos STAFF WRITER Almost every woman can share at least one traumatic story that starred Aunt Flo. After all, she is the most inconsiderate aunt of all aunts. Some months she arrives early and unannounced, while other months she arrives late with a thirst for vengeance. Or shall I say, leak of vengeance?

About a month ago, a young man by the name of Chance Ward took to Facebook to share a personal story about an experience during his visit to the gym.

“So I’m in the gym today (getting my life to Truffle Butter on this elliptical ofc) when the girl next to me asks her friend if she has an extra tampon,” Ward’s Facebook post starts off. “Realizing that I overheard, she looked up and literally apologized to me, clearly embarrassed af.”

As he realized how embarrassed the girl felt, Ward told her not to worry. Then he did the unimaginable. He reached into his fanny pack and offered her one of the tampons he carries in case any of his female friends ever needed one.

“By the look on her face you would have thought I did a magic trick and pulled 36 titty-tasseled bunny rabbits out that damn bag,” he stated in his post. “This is so sad. Why don’t y’all love y’all friends that menstruate?” His post received more than 47,000 likes, about 7,000 “loves,” nearly 9,800 shares and 71 comments, most of which are positive.

But Ward is not the first guy to ask men to carry sanitary products for their menstruating friends. Last year, 15-year-old Jose Garcia from Miami started the #realmensupportwomen hashtag after he posted a picture of himself holding pads and urging all guys to carry sanitary products to help women.

His hashtag quickly began to trend and he received an outpour of praise from

girls and women who thanked him for his thoughtfulness.

Although the thought to ask a guy for a pad or tampon never occurred to me before, I caught myself nodding my head in agreement as I read the messages of these two young men.

Keeping in mind how many girls and women menstruate, why shouldn’t men develop the chivalrous habit of stashing a few tampons or pads in the glove compartments of their cars or under their bathroom sinks for their lady friends?

No matter how well a woman tracks Mother Nature’s monthly visits, no single smartphone app can guarantee that Aunt Flo will be punctual. While some women experience regular periods, others who are irregular are often left guessing when their periods are going to make their appearance. This means that girls and women are often caught off guard and unprepared for her undesired visit, which on average, lasts three to five days.

Still, expecting all men to carry or stash pads and tampons for their female friends feels like a far reach when we take into account the taboo that surrounds menstruation that still dominates society.

Why periods are still taboo today, and where period-shaming stems from are the two main questions at hand. Lack of discussion about menstruation from an early age could be what is translating into the lack of comfortable discussion about menstruation even as adults.

In early February, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported that only 22 states and Washington D.C. require public schools to teach sex-education. However, there is no mandated curriculum, which means it varies from school to school with no clear indication of how thoroughly menstruation is taught to both boys and girls, or if it is included in sex-ed curriculums at all.

Efforts to destigmatize periods have been especially heavy within the past year and Cosmopolitan magazine even dubbed 2015 “The Year The Period Went Public,” after conversations about pe-

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riods reached never before seen levels, especially online.

But this does not directly mean that men have stopped shying away from the topic of menstruation, or even that period-shaming has come to an end. Not even among women themselves.

Many girls and women, myself included, still hide their pads or tampons up their sleeves on their way to the re-

stroom and attempt to open them as quietly as possible, especially in shared public restrooms, as if the girl in the stall next to them does not know Aunt Flo on a personal level too. However, this type of period shaming is not entirely attributed to personal insecurities on behalf of girls and women. We have society to thank for this.

In March of 2015, feminist artist Rupi

Kaur posted an image on Instagram that was part of her “Period” photo series for a university project. Kaur’s post featured a woman laying in bed facing the wall with period blood leaked onto her grey sweat pants and bed sheets. Controversy was immediate after Instagram deleted the photo, not once but twice, for “violating the site’s community standards,” according to Instagram.

“When the photo was removed a second time it became more than a school project, it became a fight,” Kaur told HuffPost UK Lifestyle last July. Kaur did not take the removals of her image lightly and questioned why Instagram would, “remove an image that doesn’t actually violate anything, but at same time host images that are so sexually violent?” Kaur used PornHub’s Instagram account as an example of this hypocrisy.

Situations such as Kaur’s are what condition girls and women to believe that periods are gross and should be kept private. In reality, periods are completely normal, natural, healthy and often carry good news. Especially for those women who accidentally skipped their birth control pill a few times or failed to take the necessary precautions to avoid an unplanned pregnancy.

Walking through the pad and tampon aisle and standing in line with a large box of pads or tampons is an uncomfortable experience for many girls, even though periods are a natural human function of the female body. Something about everyone in the store watching you buy pads or tampons feels like too much about you is being exposed. Especially when it has to do with your period, the very thing that we girls and women have always been taught to keep secret.

For this reason, encouraging men to support their female friends feels like the next appropriate step to take. If men develop the new chivalrous habit of stashing sanitary products for their friends, perhaps that walk through the tampon aisle will become less embarrassing, and a male cashier will not make a girl want to snatch her receipt and immediately run away.

I’m about to graduate: What’s next?

By Karina Salgado CONTRIBUTOR With spring graduation only two months away and soon to be a CSUEB alumna, the only thing on my mind is: What comes next? After spending the last six years of my life walking around the East Bay campus and feeling like graduation was centuries away, now that it’s rapidly approaching, I keep questioning myself about the next direction I need to take in life.

Family, teachers and friends told me that in order to be successful in this country, I needed to attend college, but now that I’m almost done and will soon possess a communications degree, I wonder about the next step I need to take to guarantee myself a successful future. After having this conversation

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with almost every other classmate, I came to see I’m not the only student feeling unsure about what I should invest my time and energy into after

graduation.

I remember a conversation I had with one of my colleagues two months ago where she asked what my plans

after graduation were. As soon as she asked that question I paused. The first thing that crossed my mind was a moment of realization — graduation was just around the corner and not a century away anymore. So I instantly asked her what her plans after graduation were. She said she was still unsure, but more than likely she was going to find a corporate job somewhere.

Coincidentally, the next day during one of my class lectures, the instructor asked the students to raise their hand if they knew what career path they were going to take after graduating college. A few students raised their hands, but many kept them down.

Right after analyzing all the hands that were not raised, I knew I was not the only person in this campus feeling confused about life after college.

Now that I find myself searching for the perfect diploma frame, tassel and cap and gown, it’s sad to say goodbye to the school that changed my perspective in life through valuable learning experiences. Instructors and counsel-

ors tell me it’s not easy to find a career job right after graduating college. They say statistics prove that theory, so where does that leave us, the graduating students? The fact that I hear that phrase on a weekly basis leaves me fearing the moment I grab my diploma and walk down the stage the day of my graduation commencement.

For a few months, I was not looking forward to graduating college because the future no longer felt secure. After graduation, I will pursue a career in the media industry. I will start a business, I will travel around the world, I will share my story and I will be the woman I proposed myself to be.

College is a chapter in life that prepares us for the future. It is also a chapter that has an ending, which needs to be concluded for individuals to continue with their lives and be who they are destined to be. Cal State East Bay, you will be missed. Thank you for the opportunities, the friends, and the way you positively changed my life. Go Pioneers!

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Students should support faculty strikes

By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR Broke college students in California aren’t the only ones living off ramen and frozen dinners; our CSU professors are also feeling the pinch.

After more than a year of grim negotiations, over 25,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses poised to strike for higher wages on April 13-15 and 18-19.

So potent was the pressure from students, faculty and community members that the California State University system finally saw the light and agreed to meet the CFA’s demands through a tentative compromise on April 8.

Under the agreement, all faculty, including tenure, lecturers, coaches and staff are eligible to receive a 10.5 percent general salary increase over a threeyear period, according to a CSU press release. It’s about time. The California Faculty Association and the California State University system have been involved in salary negotiations since last May when the CFA requested a 5 percent wage increase for the 2015-2016 year.

The CSU only agreed to a meager two percent compromise.

If the unfavorable responses to CSU Chancellor White’s visit to East Bay on Feb. 29 were any indication of the climate on campus, there’s no doubt that the strike would’ve happened if the CSU didn’t come around, as it should've.

Faculty are understandably fed up with the way the California State University system has ignored their requests. Students should be prepared to drop the books, pick up the signs and join their professors at the picket line if this ever happens again, and it could.

Salary increases over the last decade have been scant and on top of that, faculty experienced a 10 percent pay cut during the recession due to furloughs, according to a third-party fact-finding discussion recommendations report.

The report concluded that the pay increase was workable and essential in order to provide students with a quality education, but the CSU argued that it didn’t have the $110 million dollars for the 5 percent general wage and 2.65 percent service salary increase that the CFA requested.

Clearly, that was a bluff. The CSU threatened that in order to accommo-

date the CFA’s demands, significant programs and projects would have to be cut. But somehow they’ve been able to pull the funds together and work around it, evidenced by the compromise.

Teachers, coaches and staff are the lifeblood of a school. They are more than just instructors, they’re also mentors and role models. Their hard work and influence extends far outside of the classroom, and though you can’t put a price on the value they bring to the young workforce, the CSU system can certainly do better to recognize them for their hard work.

According to the CFA’s 2015 “Race to the Bottom” report, CSU faculty on average earn about $45,000 a year before taxes, with more than 50 percent making under $38,000 gross earnings annually.

About half the CSU faculty is considered part-time, but if all faculty were paid full-time wages, in 2014 the gross earnings would only amount to $55,000 or less, which is the same as what a truck driver makes, and almost $20,000 less than what a K-12 teacher makes, according to the report. In addition, the fact-finder report confirmed that CSU faculty are underpaid compared to other university faculty. They deserve better.

Meanwhile, tuition rates have steadily climbed hundreds of dollars during the past ten years, and last year the final budget agreement awarded the CSU $216 million of new funding, according to the CSU. While 38.5 percent of that was allocated to increase enrollment rates by approximately 12,000 students, only 24.5 percent of the budget went toward compensation. If Chancellor White, who makes $430,746 a year according to The Los Angeles Times, won’t make professors a priority, students must do it instead.

Fighting for professor’s wages equates to fighting for your education. When the faculty agreed to strike, they also had students in mind.

Students can learn a lesson from this situation far more valuable than any essay or quiz you might take in a classroom: Fight for what you believe in.

Ask yourself, what quality of an education do you want? How much do you value your educators? Forget the classic apple-for-the-teacher gesture of appreciation. The best thing students can do for their education is to stand by faculty.

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JUEVES 14 DE ABRIL DE 2016 Edición primavera, volumen 2

BART males continúan para clientes

By Louis LaVenture

EDITOR EN JEFE Traducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina De acuerdo con el BART, en un día promedio cerca de 440,000 pasajeros utilizan el sistema, que son aproximadamente 100,000 más de lo que sirvió hace sólo cinco años.

En marzo de 17 funcionarios revelaron que el servicio de BART entre las estaciones de Pittsburg-Bay Point y el Norte de Concord sería cerrada por un período indefinido de tiempo, mientras que la agencia trató de averiguar el problema que causaron casi 50 trenes dejen de funcionar, debido a sobrecargas eléctricas. Autobuses entre las estaciones sirven en lugar de los coches dañados, lo que provocó largas colas y tiempos de espera para los pasajeros.

“De BART fue construido para el transporte de un número mucho menor de personas, y gran parte de nuestro sistema ha llegado al final de su vida útil. Esta es nuestra realidad," Taylor Huckaby, un especialista portavoz de BART y medios de comunicación social, dijo en Twitter el 16 de marzo.

El problema eléctrico que causó el daño ha desconcertado a los empleados del BART. Ingenieros y mecánicos han inspeccionado las pistas y los coches, pero aún no han podido determinar la causa exacta del problema, de acuerdo con el BART. Durante las horas pico cerca de 1,700 personas utilizan las estaciones de Pittsburg-Bay Point y el norte de Concord, según lo declarado por el BART. Después de que el prob-

lema se presentó el 16 de marzo, BART pasó de 571 coches en servicio a 521 coches, por debajo de su valor normal de los vehículos en servicio del 579. Algunos de los más viejos modelos de automóviles también han tenido algunas partes dañadas de fallas eléctricas, que es el BART tratando de encontrar una tercera parte como distribuidor con el fin de conseguir que la mecánica para que puedan hacer las reparaciones.

Sin embargo, a pesar de consultores externos partido, rigurosos controles, inspecciones y nuevos equipos de diagnóstico, los funcionarios de BART todavía tienen que determinar la causa específica de esos daños.

El sistema de transporte que se abrió en 1972 estaba destinado a servir a una fracción de la gente lo hace ahora, gracias en gran parte al aumento de la población. El área de la bahía de censo reportó que había 4,628,199 de estar en el área de la bahía en 1970, un número que ya se ha disparado a más de 7 millones de personas tan reciente como 2010.

Originalmente, el plan era para aliviar la congestión del tráfico causado por el boom del automóvil después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una junta mixta opinión Ejército y la Armada en 1947 propuso un sistema ferroviario de alta velocidad que podía conectar Oakland y San Francisco a través de un tubo bajo el agua para ayudar a prevenir la congestión en el puente de la bahía, según el sitio web de BART. coches que han sido superados y tecnología combinadas con demasiados pilotos han sido una receta para el desastre para el BART, que en medio de

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Clientes en la estación de BART de Hayward para un tren. los problemas eléctricos introdujo sus nuevos coches, que con el tiempo será una flota de 775 y reemplazar todos los modelos más antiguos, a un reemplazo tasa de 16 coches al mes hasta que todos ellos se incorporan en el sistema.

De acuerdo con el BART, la Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California supervisará las pruebas del primer coche, que llegó en el 15 Hayward. Los nuevos coches son más silenciosos, más grande de marzo, tiene tres salidas y entradas por coche y pantallas LED de características con las actualizaciones de parada y de destino. Gestor

de BART general Gracia Crunican dijo que la nueva flota de coches debería aliviar muchos de los problemas que han plagado el sistema en los últimos tiempos.

“El problema es que hay demasiada gente,” dijo Bart patrón John Sandoval.

Sandoval toma de BART de Fremont a la estación de la calle Montgomery, de lunes a jueves para el trabajo. “Cuando empecé a tomar el BART, pude llegar hasta aquí en la mañana unos minutos antes de mi tren y estar bien. Ahora bien, así que ahora tengo que llegar a BART de una hora temprano para con-

seguir un lugar en la fila para subir."

Crunican dijo que el personal de BART se ha concedido las horas extraordinarias con el fin de averiguar el problema y desde entonces han cambiado su enfoque a los coches reales, puesto que no parece haber ningún problema con las pistas. Sin embargo, con una nueva flota de coches a reemplazar a los antiguos, serán estos coches tienen el mismo problema? ¿Es inteligente para poner los coches nuevos en pistas que tienen problemas indefinidos? Estas son las preguntas que el BART todavía está tratando de encontrar respuestas.

ESPAÑOL 7

THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER

Huelga de CSU evitada por acuerdo tentativo

By Louis LaVenture

EDITOR EN JEFE Traducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina La Asociación de Profesores de California se ha comprometido en una “lucha por 5” en nombre de todos los miembros de la facultad en 23 campus de la Universidad Estatal Cal para obtener un aumento de cinco por ciento en todos los ámbitos, entre otras cosas. Esa pelea llegó a su fin el viernes, cuando la CFA y la CSU alcanzaron un principio de acuerdo que pondría fin a la huelga inminente conjunto para el 13 de abril y el 15, 18 y 19.

Según el Presidente del CFA y el instructor de Cal State East Bay Jennifer Eagan, el acuerdo cubrió todas las demandas del personal e incluye un aumento general de sueldos y cinco por ciento el 30 de junio, un aumento general de salarios del dos por ciento el 1 de julio y un aumento general de salarios del 3.5 por ciento en 1 de julio de, 2017 por todos los profesores en estado de pago activa o salir. El acuerdo también incluye un aumento salarial de un 2.65 por ciento durante 2017-2018 para todos los miembros de la facultad elegibles.

El nuevo acuerdo aumenta la duración del contrato entre las dos partes por un año y ahora expirará el 30 de junio de 2018. Eagan dijo negociación para el próximo contrato comenzará el 1 de julio de 2017.

“Eso no es una gran cantidad de tiempo de descanso,” dijo Eagan en un comunicado el viernes. “Vamos a necesi-

tar su ayuda poder edificio a través de membresía y su incidencia feroz de nuevo muy pronto.”

Con el fin de hacer que el nuevo funcionario de acuerdo, que debe ser aprobado por el Consejo de Administración CFA, ratificado por los miembros del CFA y luego aprobado por el Consejo de Administración CSU; algo Eagan dijo que los miembros serían notificados sobre cómo hacerlo pronto.

“El principio de acuerdo permite a todos a centrar nuestros esfuerzos en servir a los estudiantes y perdona a los estudiantes los impactos negativos de las huelgas en peligro,” dijo el Canciller de CSU Timothy White en un comunicado el viernes. “El principio de acuerdo es consistente con nuestros esfuerzos en curso para aumentar la compensación facultad de una manera fiscalmente responsable por la difusión del impacto de los costes a través de múltiples años académicos, mientras que nos permite financiar otras prioridades que apoyan el éxito del estudiante y la terminación.”

El acuerdo se produjo después de un “período de censura” de dos días donde no había contacto con los medios por cualquiera de las partes durante 48 horas, en un esfuerzo por resolver el conflicto y difundir la huelga, según ambas organizaciones.

El año pasado, la CSU incluido un aumento del dos por ciento en todos los ámbitos de la facultad y del personal en su presupuesto de 2015 a 2016, sin embargo, el CFA ha pedido un aumento del cinco por ciento, así como aumentos adicionales para miembros del personal ad-

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CSU canciller Timothy White, centro, conversaciones con el presidente CSUEB Leroy Morishita durante su visita de febrero al campus de Hayward. junto y de tiempo parcial. Una nueva estipulación en el contrato podría prevenir este conflicto en el futuro mediante el ajuste del calendario de negociación por

lo que los equipos de gestión de CFA y CSU serán capaces de negociar antes de la CSU envía su solicitud de presupuesto al poder legislativo para su aprobación.

Un calendario para ratificar el acuerdo provisional no se había establecido por el CPA a partir del momento de la publicación.

La institución ha fallando a sus estudiantes?

UC Berkeley deficiencias de acoso sexual

By Kali Persall

JEFE DE REDACCIÒN Traducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina UC Berkeley, nombrado uno de los “Elite Seis” universidades por Times Higher Education en 2015, está en la mira para el protocolo disciplinarias cuestionable para la mala conducta sexual, tras la publicación de los documentos de una investigación que examinó 17 casos de acoso sexual a partir de los últimos cinco años .

Las conclusiones de la investigación, llevada a cabo por la Oficina para la Prevención del Acoso y la Discriminación, fueron puestos en libertad a The Daily Californian en respuesta a una solicitud Ley de Registros Públicos presentada el mes pasado. Se encontraron 19 empleados de la UC Berkeley, en violación de las políticas de acoso sexual de la universidad que se remontan a 2011, según The Daily Californian.

Publicado el 5 de abril, el informe de la página 463 redactado reveló detalles sobre la naturaleza de los casos y se encontró que el acusado de seis profesores y once miembros del personal. El East Bay Times informó de que tres de los miembros de la facultad acusados renunció, mientras que los otros tres permanecen empleados por Berkeley como profesores titulares.

De las 12 investigaciones efectuadas por la OPHD, cuatro miembros del personal fueron despedidos, cuatro renunció y cuatro recibieron penas diversas, que van desde la disminución de sueldos a la suspensión temporal, de acuerdo con The Daily Californian.

Uno de los casos investigados por la OPHD fue el de la Facultad de Derecho de Berkeley Dean Sujit Choudhry, quien renunció a su cargo el 10 de Choudhry que siga empleada en Berkeley como miembro de la facultad de la escuela de derecho en virtud de la tenencia de marzo, según el Washington Post.

El año pasado Tyann Sorrell, ex asistente ejecutivo de Choudhry presentó

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Desde la izquierda, Universidad de California, estudiante de Berkeley Shannon Thomas, de 21 años, ex estudiante Nicoletta Commins, de 22 años, y el estudiante aryle Butler, 20, se preparan para hablar durante una conferencia de prensa en la Escuela de Periodismo de Berkeley, California. El miércoles, 26 de Febrero de 2014. Treinta y un estudiantes de sexo femenino han presentado una demanda federal contra la universidad, alegando Cal violó las leyes federales contra la discriminación por no protegerlos contra el acoso sexual y asalto. una queja formal que alegó Choudhry había participado en los avances sexuales no deseados, tales como abrazos frecuentes, los besos y las caricias de Sorell, que se extendió desde septiembre 2014 hasta marzo 2015, según The Daily Californian.

Después de la investigación concluyó en julio de 2015 se encontró Choudhry culpable de acoso sexual, Executive Vice Canciller y Rector Claude Steele indicó que Choudhry recibiría un recorte del 10 por ciento de su sueldo por un año y se verá obligado a escribir Sorrell una carta de disculpa como repercusiones sus acciones, según el diario californiano.

“Estoy impresionado de lo que parece haber sido una supresión deliberada de años de abuso sexual y el acoso de información por parte del nivel ejecutivo en la UC Berkeley,” dijo Sorrell en un comu-

nicado.

Sorrell demandó Choudhry y la Junta de Regentes de la Universidad de California el mes pasado por acoso sexual.

Otros casos de naturaleza similar han escalado a nivel estatal.

Vibha Puri, profesor de la Universidad Estatal de East Bay sociología especializada en estudios de género y prejuicios y la discriminación, dijo el acoso sexual es una de las tácticas de intimidación más comunes utilizados como mecanismo de poder para controlar a los demás, principalmente mujeres. “La dinámica es la misma [para hombres y mujeres víctimas de acoso sexual], pero sin embargo, las mujeres están dirigidos de forma desproporcionada más que los hombres porque las mujeres no toman represalias de la manera que hacen los hombres.”

De acuerdo con Puri, esto se vincula a una mayor aceptación cultural del derecho.

“Los hombres tienen una gran cantidad de energía y creo que realmente habla a todo este tema de las diferencias de género aún hoy en día,” dijo Puri.

Puri cree que las instituciones educativas de prestigio menudo infligen castigos menos severos a los miembros de la facultad notables y que esto no es un fenómeno limitado a la Universidad de Berkeley.

“Es la disparidad; es degradante y es humillante y creo que es muy triste que los hombres en el abuso de poder de esto," dijo Puri.

Un comunicado emitido por la UC Berkeley Relaciones Públicas el 5 de abril anunció la creación del Comité del Canciller sobre la violencia sexu-

al, el acoso y Asalto, encabezada por el canciller Nicholas Dirks. El comité examinará cuestiones y hacer recomendaciones para mejorar las políticas y prácticas relativas a la prevención del asalto sexual campus, según el anuncio.

El comité comenzará inmediatamente y reportar los resultados a la canciller, hasta octubre de 2016.

“Tenemos la obligación de promover una cultura del campus en el que el acoso sexual, la violencia sexual, el acecho y cualquier abuso de poder ni se toleran ni ignoradas, pero de forma proactiva prevenirse," dijo el canciller Dirks en una declaración de marzo 24 años. “Estamos comprometidos a asegurar que Berkeley es una comunidad acogedora, segura, respetuosa e inclusiva para cada uno de nuestros estudiantes, personal, profesores y visitantes.”

8 FROM THE WIRE

THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER

U.S. report paints bleak picture of human rights

By Tracy Wilkinson LOS ANGELES TIMES

The Obama administration castigated China and Russia on Wednesday for their attempts to use legislation to criminalize basic expressions of free speech, religious practice and other civil liberties.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in releasing the State Department’s annual report on human rights in countries around the world, said the Middle East also ranked among the worst regions for civilians facing war, violent extremism and the forced displacement of millions of people.

“The most widespread and dramatic violations in 2015 were those in the Middle East where the confluence of terrorism and the Syrian conflict caused enormous suffering,” Kerry said.

“Given the horrors of these past five years, I cannot imagine a more powerful blow for human rights than putting a decisive end to this war,” Kerry said. A

partial cease-fire in Syria is beginning to unravel, and peace negotiations in Geneva, sponsored by the United Nations and backed by the United States, are in doubt.

Syria’s embattled president, Bashar Assad, held elections Wednesday that many in the international community viewed as a farce. Washington wants Assad to step down.

“Syria is by far the greatest crisis on our mind,” Tom Malinowski, assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, said in elaborating on the report, the 40th produced by the State Department based on information from its diplomats abroad.

“In Syria, we see how human rights abuses in one small country can have consequences far beyond that small country’s borders: from a refugee exodus that is altering the politics of Europe, to the spawning of a terrorist group that threatens us all,” he added.

Malinowski said China and Russia came in for special criticism because as major countries, they have influence on

entire regions.

The report noted that Moscow and Beijing have stepped up repression of dissidents, citizens protesting against torture, journalists critical of the government, religious minorities and others.

In many cases, new legislation has been used to institutionalize restrictions on free speech and assembly.

Malinowski said other repressive countries are likely to imitate Moscow and Beijing.

Some U.S. allies also were condemned, most notably NATO member Turkey. “The government has used anti-terror laws as well as a law against insulting the president to stifle legitimate political discourse and investigative PHOTO COURTESY OF OLIVIER DOULIERY/ABACA PRESS/TNS journalism,” the report says.

President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up as Secretary of State John Kerry Turkish President Recep Tayyip Er- looks on prior to the State of The Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, in dogan has arrested prominent journal- the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. ists and attempted to silence critical meErdogan’s government recently shep- Obama two weeks ago on the sidelines of dia and opposition voices.

He has invoked terrorism to pun- herded a takeover of one of the country’s a nuclear summit in Washington, denied ish moderate Kurdish leaders, lumping top newspapers. he was cracking down on opponents in Erdogan, who met with President Turkey. them in with armed Kurdish groups.

SF supervisors seek to make employers pay for family bonding time would boost the portion the state pays to up to 70 percent of a parent’s salary depending on how much she makes. It passed the Legislature and is awaiting action from Gov. Jerry Brown.

By Heather Knight

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE San Francisco on Tuesday is nearly certain to become the first municipality in the nation to mandate that employers offer fully paid bonding time to employees with babies. But the expected easy passage by the Board of Supervisors belies heated opposition from some small-business owners.

Currently, California pays 55 percent of a new parent’s salary for six weeks of bonding time, and Supervisor Scott Wiener’s legislation, introduced in January, would require businesses in the city that employ at least 20 people to pay the remaining 45 percent. Wiener’s legislation would apply to bonding time for all new parents, including fathers, those who’ve adopted, lesbian partners and those who have babies through surrogacy.

California grants an extra six to eight weeks of disability pay, also at the 55 percent rate, to women who’ve given birth and who have contributed to the state disability program. Wiener’s legislation does not affect the pay for that portion of a new mother’s leave.

The proposal has received national attention and praise from such groups as the Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Center and Planned Parenthood’s Northern California Chapter. The United States is the world’s only industrialized country that doesn’t guarantee paid maternity leave, and supporters of Wiener’s legislation say it would allow new parents to spend time with their children without worrying about the financial hardship.

Small businesses concerned But to some small business owners, it’s one more City Hall mandate on employers who already struggle to make it in this notoriously expensive city. Mark Dwight is the founder and CEO of Rickshaw Bagworks, whose factory in Dogpatch makes messenger bags and other

Benefits, costs An economic analysis by the San Francisco Controller’s Office found that about 4,600 San Francisco residents file baby bonding claims with the state each year and receive an average of $743.39 in weekly benefits for an average of 5 ½ weeks.

The report found that employees would gain an average of $608 per week from their employers under Wiener’s proposal.

The report estimated it would cost San Francisco employers $15.8 million to $32.3 million a year, depending on whether passage encourages more people, particularly new fathers, to file state bonding claims.

The report said it could cost the city between 250 and 480 jobs but said that was small in a city that creates 17,000 jobs a year. It also found that new parents would have more money to spend, boosting the city’s economy, and that it would have positive benefits for the parents and babies.

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Erick Munoz, the husband of Marlise Machado Munoz, poses for a photo at his home on Jan. 3, 2014. luggage. Dwight is also the president of the city’s Small Business Commission and said Wiener, who is running for state Senate, should work on expanding parental leave at the state level if he’s elected.

“This is one more thing that puts San Francisco businesses at a disadvantage to their regional counterparts,” he said.

“If we want all our small businesses to move out of our city, then we’re doing the right thing.”

The Small Business Commission voted 6-1 last week to oppose Wiener’s legislation, though its vote doesn’t do anything other than officially register

its opposition. Kathleen Dooley, another commissioner and a florist in North Beach, called it “pretty outrageous” that under Wiener’s proposal an employee qualifies for paid leave for working just eight hours a week a nd does not have to refund the money as long as he or she stays with the company 90 days after returning from leave.

“It puts us at such a disadvantage,” she said of San Francisco businesses compared with other firms throughout California. “We have all this stuff that no one else has to do, and that’s just unfair.”

Other San Francisco employer man-

dates include health care coverage, paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage — though California is on track to catch up with that. The commission wanted Wiener to amend his legislation to apply only to employees who work at least 20 hours a week and to businesses with at least 50 employees, but he declined.

He pointed out that he did defer the start date from January 2017 to July 2017 for those businesses with 20 to 49 employees.

Wiener also pointed out that San Francisco employers probably will pay less than 45 percent. A bill by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles,

Example for other cities Wiener said he thinks the cost to employers would be fairly low compared with all the positive benefits, particularly for low-income parents who often return to work very soon after birth because they cannot afford to live on 55 percent of their pay.

“Bonding time makes parents and kids healthier,” he said. “It’s hard to quantify that.”

Wiener said he is hopeful that San Francisco requiring full pay for bonding time would encourage the state and other municipalities around the country to improve their benefits.

“Sometimes when we do things, it creates momentum,” he said. “It draws attention because we’re the best city in the world.”

NEWS 9

THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER

UC Theatre grand reopening postponed

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR The grand reopening of Berkeley’s historic UC Theatre on March 25 was postponed due to electrical issues, which resulted in one show being canceled and another rescheduled, confirmed David Meyeri, owner of the venue and president of Berkeley Music Group.

After 15 years of vacancy, the repertory theater-turned-music venue

Scandal From Page 1 had engaged in unwanted sexual advances, such as frequent hugging, kissing and petting of Sorell, which spanned from September 2014 to March 2015, according to The Daily Californian.

After the investigation concluded in July 2015 it found Choudhry guilty of sexual harassment, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele stated that Choudhry would receive a 10 percent cut to his salary for one year and would be required to write Sorrell an apology letter as repercussions for his actions, according to The Daily Californian.

“I’m shocked at what appears to have been a deliberate suppression of

was scheduled to reopen after over a year of renovations that were headed

by Mayeri, who has over 35 years of experience managing live entertainment venues.

According to Meyeri, a construction project on the street outside the venue exposed gas lines obstructing the building’s electrical vault, the underground room that contains electrical transformers and other public utility equipment.

The pipes restricted the building from receiving permanent power and

required a complete upgrade of the power system, which cost an estimated $250,000, said Meyeri.

The grand reopening kick-off show by rock band They Might Be Giants was cancelled on March 25 and ticket-holders received a refund and a promise to reschedule. The next day’s Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue show was also canceled with no promise of a later showing, according to Mayeri.

“People are very understanding of what happened and they’re very excit-

ed to have this reopen as a music venue,” said Meyeri. “They didn’t want us to reschedule and we didn’t want to as well, but that’s the hand we were dealt.”

The 111-year-old building served as a movie theater from 1917 until 2001, when the long-time former owner Gary Meyer closed the building because he didn’t wanting to invest in a expensive seismic retrofit, a routine requirement for historic buildings, according to an article written by The Pioneer last month.

In it’s prime, the historic venue was frequented by well-known people like Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and Linwood Dunn, the special effects wizard behind the 1933 film King Kong.

According to Mayeri, the theatre has successfully held three shows since it opened last Thursday and has at least ten more lined up in the coming weeks. The goal is to host 100 shows a year, said Mayeri.

years of sexual abuse and harassment information on the part of executive level at UC Berkeley,” said Sorrell in a statement.

Sorrell sued Choudhry and the UC Board of Regents last month for sexual harassment. Other cases of similar nature have escalated to the state level.

Vibha Puri, Cal State East Bay Sociology professor specializing in Gender and Prejudice and Discrimination studies, said sexual harassment is one of the most common intimidation tactics used as a power mechanism to control others, primarily women. “The dynamics are the same [for men and women victims of sexual harassment], but nonetheless women are targeted disproportionately more than men because women don’t retaliate the way men do.”

According to Puri, this ties into a larger cultural acceptance of entitle-

ment.

“Men have a lot of power and I think it really speaks to this whole issue of gender differences even today,” Puri said.

Puri believes that prestigious educational institutions often inflict less harsh punishments upon notable faculty members and that this is not a phenomenon limited to UC Berkeley.

“It’s disparity; it’s demeaning and it’s humiliating and I think that it’s very sad that men in power abuse

this,” said Puri.

A statement released by UC Berkeley Public Affairs on April 5 announced the creation of the Chancellor’s Committee on Sexual Violence, Harassment and Assault, headed

by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. The committee will examine issues and make recommendations for improving campus policies and practices relating to the prevention of sexual assault, according to the announcement. The committee will begin im-

mediately and report findings to the chancellor, come October 2016.

“We have an obligation to promote a campus culture in which sexual harassment, sexual violence, stalking and any abuse of power are neither tolerated nor ignored, but proactively prevented,” said Chancellor Dirks in a March 24 statement. “We are committed to ensuring that Berkeley is a welcoming, safe, respectful and inclusive community for every one of our students, staff, faculty and visitors.”

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University of California, Berkeley students Shannon Thomas, 21, left, and Sofie Karasek, 20, embrace after speaking during a press conference at the Graduate School of Journalism in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Thirty-one female students have filed a federal complaint against the university, claiming Cal violated federal anti-discrimination laws by failing to protect them against sexual harassment and assault.

10 OPINION

THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER

Bernie Sanders right fit for President

By Sean McCarthy CONTRIBUTOR Selecting the presidential candidate who is right for you can be a difficult decision. A president’s background, ethnicity, religion and name recognition should not matter. A president must have solid policy on the most important issues to the American public such as healthcare for all and the increasing wealth gap.. Only one candidate successfully tackles these issues head-on: Bernie Sanders.

Sanders is very charismatic — not in the traditional George Clooney way — and is a down to earth person. He embodies what it means to be a normal person. His hair is shaggy, his suits do not always fit properly. He often looks more like Alfred than Batman. However, Sanders is not afraid of to speak his mind and will fight tooth and nail for the American people as he demonstrated when defending gay and lesbian military members, who have served and died, when Duke Cunningham called to remove them from service during a C-SPAN telecast in 1995.

Clinton certainly has the background to become commander in chief; she was the former secretary of state and senator of New York. She is an advocate for the cure of Alzheimer’s disease, stopping campus sexual assault and criminal justice reform. While Clinton’s resume looks amazing, she is not a better candidate than Sanders.

Clinton said that she was “dead broke” after leaving the White House during an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2001. However, she forgot to mention that she purchased a $2.85 million dollar house just prior to leaving the White House, according to Jon Greenberg of PolitiFact.

Clinton’s comments come off as if she is one of the working class — the blue collared workers, the UPS delivery drivers, the EMTs. The Clintons have made $230 million since they left the White House through speaking engagements, books, and consulting, according to Dan Alexander of Forbes.

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In 2000, 33.7 percent of Americans made less than $35,000. However, in 2014, 51.43 percent of Americans make less than $35,000, according to the Social Security Administration.

Sanders intends to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.50 to $15 by 2020, whereas Clinton intends to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.

“I’m more comfortable saying let’s get to $12, in a reasonable, expeditious way” said Clinton at Grinnell College, Iowa. Clinton is not comfortable fighting for the rights of citizens so she will settle halfway to the finish line.

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However, an individual who works 40 hours a week, every week of the year, will still make under $25,000.

Twelve dollars an hour will not suffice.

The average rent for a one bedroom apartment in Oakland is $2,000 according the SFGate. If a person made $12 an hour and lived in Oakland, it would take 166.67 hours — 4.166 work weeks — a month to pay for rent before taxes.

Sanders has been fighting for a Democratic Socialist America, where basic services such as medicare and college education are available to anyone who needs them. Sanders’ campaign is based on equaling the playing field for everybody in the nation by providing everybody with the opportunity to succeed. One percent of the nation currently owns as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of all Americans, according to the Sanders’ campaign website. Three million Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 288 million Americans.The richest 20 billionaire own more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of Americans.

Sanders will input a progressive tax plan that appropriately taxes people according to their income. The more somebody makes, the higher percentage they will be taxed, said Alan Cole

and Scott Greenberg of the Tax Foundation.

Social Security funds have dwindled because people who make more than $118,500 are not taxed on money over that value. For instance, people who currently make $10,000 $75,000 or $118,500 a year get taxed on that full amount, whereas a person who makes $5 million a year is only taxed up to $118,500. The other $4,750,000 goes untaxed by Social Security. Sanders plans to lift the Social Security income tax cap above $250,000 according to Alan Cole and Scott Greenberg of Tax Foundation.

Clinton supported the war with Iraq, stating that Saddam had spent years developing a nuclear program and funding Al Qaeda, which were later proven false.

As Secretary of State, she supported the invasion of Libya, which ultimately served to destabilize the region, according to Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic. Libya has been in a constant state of civil war and unrest since we invaded them. Google “Libya” and you will find more pictures of destruction than life.

If Clinton is elected, the same fate awaits Syria, said Jeffrey Sachs of the Huffington Post.

According to Neta Crawford of Brown University, the last war led to the death

of 165,000 Iraqi civilians. Four thousand four hundred eighty-six American soldier lives were lost and there is now $7 trillion owed in projected interest payments since the war was funded by borrowed money, reports Michael B. Kelley of Business Insider.

Lastly, Clinton is currently under investigation by the FBI for owning a private web server which may have contained top secret documents. Before the investigation began, Clinton deleted the emails which were slated to be reviewed by the FBI, said Natasha Bertrand of Business Insider. Clinton appears to have been hiding the evidence which looks very guilty. Sanders’ only run-in with the law was in August of 1963, where he was charged with resisting arrest after protesting segregation at a school in south-side Chicago says Tim Murphy of Mother Jones.

Sanders has been the only consistent politician and person in the presidential race. For the last 50 years he has been an advocate of equal rights, and fights oppressive governmental economic policy. He is opposed to social, racial and economic inequality, regime change and senseless wars. Because of this, Sanders is the only choice to be the 45th President of the United States.

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Baseball wins doubleheader on home turf

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The Cal State East Bay baseball team defeated Cal State Los Angeles in a doubleheader, 14-0 and 6-4 on Saturday at Pioneer Baseball Field. Above: Senior utility player Rudy Navarro runs to third base during a home win over Chico State on April 5.

Raiders From Page 12 wide receiver Amari Cooper, who has lived up to the hype.

Mack is arguably the best pass rusher in the game and will haunt opposing quarterbacks for years to come. Carr has shown the organization that he is capable of being their franchise quarterback and Cooper will surely be the offense’s security blanket for years to come.

The 49ers haven’t nailed any of their recent draft picks like the Raiders have, and it’s a huge reason they aren’t able to maintain their status as an NFL elite team. First round picks spent on guys like Arik Armstead, Jimmie Ward and AJ Jenkins, who just haven’t panned out are clear examples.

Perhaps the strangest part of this whole thing? In 2015, the Raiders had over $70 million dollars to spend on free agents.

According to ESPN writer Bill Williamson, the team was poised to offer huge contracts to top free agents Ndamukong Suh and Randall Cobb. Both players balked at the idea of playing for the Raid-

ers, as Suh didn’t even come for a visit and Cobb signed a below market value contract with the Green Bay Packers.

This year, the tables turned. After Carr, Cooper and Mack had pro bowl seasons, free agents realized that the Raiders were building something special. The team that no one wanted to play for last year was able to sign marquee free agents Kelechi Osemele, Bruce Irvin, Sean Smith and Reggie Nelson this offseason — all top players at their positions on the free agency market.

Loaded with cash to spend, the team that no one wants to play for is still in the Bay Area, except they now reside in Santa Clara. The 49ers’ biggest free agent signing this offseason has been Thad Lewis, a quarterback that new coach Chip Kelly coached in Philadelphia during his time with the Eagles.

The NFL community has a “what have you done for me lately” mindset. And right now, the once laughable Oakland Raiders seem poised to contend while the San Francisco 49ers look destined to stay at the bottom of the standings for years to come.

Warriors From Page 1

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until the end and finished with a gamehigh 37 points that helped the Warriors nab a piece of history with the 92-86 win.

You must keep in mind who they beat as well; a Spurs team, stacked with all stars and hall of famers, many of whom have several championship rings on their fingers. This was no easy task and it took a feat the team hasn’t accomplished in 19 years, winning in San Antonio. This was also the first blemish on the home record for the Spurs this season at 39-1.

What will the critics say now? Well they have until Wednesday to say whatever they want, but at this point it doesn’t really matter. The Warriors can win any way they want to. Ugly, pretty, bad shooting,

great shooting, inside, outside, low scoring, high scoring, it doesn’t matter what type of game they have, they can still win.

They have proven an NBA record-tying 72 times this year and on Wednesday at home against the Memphis Grizzlies, they have a chance to set a new record all by themselves.

Seventy-three wins are in sight for the Warriors and so is a place in NBA history.

However, that Bulls team that went 7210 in 1995-1996 did one thing the Dubs will still have to do after Wednesday: They won a championship. Who would know better how hard it is to not only win that many games, but to also culminate the season with a world championship? The Warriors’ Head Coach Steve Kerr who was on that Bulls team with Jordan. Kerr knows what it takes to get to this point, having done it as a player who was known for his lights-out shooting abilities.

“I knew the guys wanted to go for this record for a while now,” Kerr said after the game. “I really didn’t need to ask. These guys are fierce competitors.”

The win also assured the Warriors of yet another NBA first. They will become the first team to never lose consecutive games in a regular season, a good omen for the playoffs, which are best of seven series.

Now that the season has just one game left, the Warriors can be the greatest regular season team ever. But, can they follow that up with a championship run through the playoffs to be considered one of the best teams of all time? For that answer we will just have to wait and see.

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THURSDAY APRIL 14, 2016

THE PIONEER Raiders rise, 49ers fall

By Erik Khan

STAFF WRITER

PHOTO BY MELODY PLATT/THE PIONEER

CSUEB senior utility player Tori Dettloff looks for an open teammate during a 10-9 home loss to the Sonoma State Seawolves on Saturday at Pioneer Pool.

Water polo falls at home to Seawolves

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

A close game turned into a heartbreaker for the Cal State East Bay water polo team on Saturday at the Pioneer Pool.

With the game tied at 9 and 2:41 left in the final period, Sonoma State junior

utility player Carleigh Robinson received an assist from fellow junior utility player Ellen Peterson and laced a shot past CSUEB junior goalkeeper Nikki Vaughan for the one point victory.

Robinson recorded a game-high 5 goals on the day for the Seawolves who are now 11-13 overall and 2-1 in Western Water Polo Association Conference games. The Pioneers fell to 13-10 overall and are now 0-2 in WWPA contests.

The Pioneers got things going when senior two-meter player Taylor Cross scored the game’s first goal on an assist from senior utility player Tori Dettloff to make the score 1-0. The Seawolves scored 4 of the next five goals to take a 4-2 lead before the Pioneers bounced back. CSUEB scored 3 consecutive goals to take back the lead 5-4 just before halftime.

Both teams exchanged goals in the fi-

Softball splits doubleheader with Cougars

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rain, rain, go away.

That must have been what the Cal State East Bay softball team was saying after the weather cancelled the final two games of their home series on Saturday with the Cal State San Marcos Cougars.

The Cougars (10-30 overall, 7-23 conference) pulled off a last inning comeback to take the first game 7-4 on Friday in Hayward. However, the Pioneers (1422, 9-15) did not let the late game heroics get them down and bounced back with an 11-3 blowout victory in the final game of the shortened series.

CSUEB junior catcher Ali Cerminara got the scoring started in the bottom of the fourth inning when she blasted a three-run homer to left field. It is the fifth home run and 28th run batted in for the junior slugger who also hit another homerun in the second game of the series.

“When I’m in the batter’s box I try to zone everything out and just focus on my at bat,” Cerminara said. “The first home run I was just trying to score the runner on third. I had no idea the ball went over the fence. The second one we were just having fun because we were winning by so much so I was very relaxed during the at bat.”

Senior pitcher Sierra Clark was in control of the game and had a shutout going into the fifth inning. That’s when the Cougars’ bats woke up and thanks to 2 fielding errors by East Bay, they managed to score three runs and tie the game, 3-3. East Bay had 4 errors in the game, which led to several Cougars

PHOTO BY MELODY PLATT/THE PIONEER

CSUEB senior utility player Rose Marston swings at a pitch on Saturday. scores.

However, the Pioneers were able to regain the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, when junior infielder Marisa Lerma hit a sacrifice fly that plated freshman outfielder Courtney Leyba for a 4-3 advantage.

Things stayed that way until the

seventh inning when the Cal State San Marcos hitters came alive. Two errors got the inning started, and the Cougars capitalized on the Pioneer mistakes as they scored 4 runs in their final at bat.

Clark came out of the game on the hill for East Bay and was replaced by senior pitcher Kelsey Cairns, who was able to

nal two periods until the game tied at 9 before the game-winning goal by Sonoma State sealed the home loss.

The final game of the regular season for East Bay is tomorrow at noon at Chabot College in Hayward when they will take on the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters (5-22, 0-2). The WWPA Conference championships are set for April 29 through May 1 at Chabot College in Hayward.

get out of the inning without allowing any more runs.

However, the damage was done and the Pioneers could not bounce back in their final at bat, which made the final 7-3. Clark is now 8-9 overall on the mound for East Bay this season, with a miniscule 1.94 earned run average.

Game two of the series still saw some sloppy play from the Pioneers. San Marcos got on the board in the first inning, thanks to another error by CSUEB. The Pioneers recorded 8 errors in the two game series with the Cougars. A bad throw by the first baseman led to an early 1-0 lead for the Cougars after one inning.

It was East Bay’s bats that woke up early in this game. Things got started in the bottom of the second inning when a couple of hits, a sacrifice and a walk led to the bases being loaded for senior infielder Gabby Gonzalez. Gonzalez was locked in and hammered a pitch over the left-center field fence for a 4-1 East Bay lead.

San Marcos scored twice, once in the third and fourth innings to cut the lead to 4-3, nonetheless, the Pioneers were hot offensively and put up 3 runs in the bottom of the fourth and 4 runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to secure the 11-3 blowout victory.

CSUEB pitcher, senior Tatiana Beilstein, picked up her fifth win of the season in a complete game performance.

Beilstein allowed just 1 earned run and 7 hits in 5 innings of work on the mound.

East Bay senior utility player Rose Marston leads the team with a .383 batting average and 41 hits. Gonzalez is second on the team in both of those categories at .383 and 40, respectively.

Next up for the Pioneers is another home series scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. East Bay will welcome the 24th ranked Chico State Wildcats (30-10, 219) to Pioneer Softball Field for doubleheaders both days. Games begin at noon on Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Things change fast in the NFL. The player turnover in the league is like no other professional sport.

Legends seem to fall off a cliff and decline in a year’s time. Coaches are on the tightest leash in league history and those who don’t produce early results quickly wind up out of work.

The most constant change seen in the NFL is that good teams fall off and bad teams turn it around. Need an example? The two teams in our backyard, the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders fit this description to a tee. Just three years ago in 2013, the 49ers were five yards away from claiming their sixth Super Bowl title, while the Raiders were posting their eleventh consecutive single-digit win season.

Back then, the Niners were the class of the league: A physical team built through the draft that featured a dominant defense and conservative offense. Jim Harbaugh coached the team that consisted of key players like Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, Patrick Willis, Justin Smith and Aldon Smith.

At this time, the Raiders, who were coached by Dennis Allen, were absolute garbage. The team’s quarterback at the time, Terrelle Pryor, currently plays wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns.

Darren McFadden and Rashad Jennings were in the backfield and Rod Streater was the primary receiving threat. The team’s best defensive players were Nick Roach and Lamarr Houston.

Fast forward three years later and as Drake would say, nothing was the same. Literally. The 49ers have lost nearly everyone who was a meaningful contributor to their championship runs. They traded Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs in order to start the speedy Colin Kaepernick. Harbaugh and the team “mutually” parted ways after the 2014 season, though many felt the coach was forced to resign due to issues between higher management and himself.

Frank Gore, the team’s most experienced player and perhaps the greatest running back in team history, wasn’t offered a contract extension with the team and now plays for the Indianapolis Colts.

Same goes for Michael Crabtree, who left the 49ers and signed with the Raiders in 2015.

Willis, perhaps the best linebacker in the league at the time, made the decision to retire, and defensive end Justin Smith hung up his cleats as well. Aldon Smith, who has been suspended multiple times by the league, was released from his contract and you guessed it, signed with the Raiders.

Kaepernick and Navorro Bowman are the lone meaningful players that remain on the roster from their Super Bowl run. It appears that Kaepernick’s days are numbered, as there are numerous reports that he will be traded before the NFL draft to the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos.

The Raiders are a completely different team, losing all of their “talent” as well. The exception is that they followed the 49ers’ plan of building through the draft and replaced their players with young studs. A team who continually drafted players who never panned out found pro bowl talent in Khalil Mack and Derek Carr in 2014. In 2015, they followed suit and used their first round pick on phenom

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