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Summer 2017 Issue 6
Junior Giants give kids major league summer Pioneer updates on America's president
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What happened? Senior Adviser and son-inlaw to President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC) on Monday about the potential collusion between Trump and Russia.
SUMMER GIVES BEST STUDENT EXPERIENCE
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EAST BAY STUDENTS STUDY ABROAD IN CUBA
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RUSSIAN COLLUSION INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
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Nine and 10-year-olds in the Hayward Junior Giants summer program listen to an assistant coach in the dugout during a night game on Tuesday at Weekes Park in South Hayward.
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INTERNSHIP PROVIDES NETWORKING CHANCES
By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
I grew up in South Hayward, just down the street from the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus. During the summer I played little league baseball, but by July, the season was over and I had a couple month break before school started up again. This down time was filled with bike riding, hanging out with friends, swimming and other activities we could do
in our neighborhood. There wasn’t much for students to do in our community that was organized. Enter the Junior Giants. Sixteen years ago the Hayward Junior Giants chapter opened up at Weekes Park in South Hayward thanks in large part to a Hayward school counselor, Denise Patterson, who
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Students reflect on study abroad trip to Cuba A woman's place in a foreign country By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR My favorite monument in Havana lives in the courtyard of the Plaza Vieja. A voluptuous woman wielding a fork rides a giant rooster that stands poised on one leg. There’s no plaque and no explanation of the meaning behind the statue but it’s intriguing and strangely empowering. The woman is unabashedly naked except for her shoes, and seems to have tamed the masculine chicken. It’s unique and also symbolic of the progress that women have made toward equal rights in Cuba. In the workforce, women are doctors, engineers and small business owners. CENECEX and the FMC, two major organizations that were established by Raul Castro’s wife Vilma and carried on by daughter Mariela, are devoted to preserving and enhancing this movement. My project in Cuba focused on women’s rights. I interviewed various women from different walks of life to get a sense of what life is like for women in Cuba and gained an entirely new perspective. The leader of an all-women band shared that they have to work twice as hard as men to establish themselves in the music industry. They practice six days a week and play five; all of the women can play multiple instruments and sing as well. A social psychologist-turned-nail salon owner switched to the beauty industry because she couldn’t find a job that paid
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A statue of a woman riding a rooster in Plaza Vieja in Cuba. Cal State East Bay students visited the country on a study abroad trip to the communist country in June and July.
well enough in her field. She employs one other girl and paints nails in the front room of her house. She charged me only 3 CUC’s or $3 to paint and file my nails. A professor of women’s studies at the University of Havana shared that there are limited organizations and re-
sources to help women who are victims of domestic violence, a frequent occurrence in Cuba. While organizations like the FMC and CENECEX supposedly devote themselves to women’s rights, the interests of the revolution come first.
In theory, this was all very fascinating for my project, yet it wasn’t until the last night of my trip that I witnessed firsthand what life is like for many women in Cuba. Two of my classmates and I were walk-
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The investigation, initiated by the FBI and SIC in May, is centered around allegations that the son of the president, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer in 2016 regarding the United States presidential election and Hillary Clinton, according to the SIC investigation. Trump Jr. was promised information about Clinton from the Russian government that would have damaged her campaign, according to The New York Times. Early Monday morning, Trump took to Twitter to vent about the investigation in a string of tweets. “So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?” Trump tweeted. “After 1 year of investigation with Zero evidence being found, Chuck Schumer just stated that "Democrats should blame ourselves, not Russia.” According to a statement made by Kushner on Monday to the SIC committee, he arrived to the meeting late because it was rescheduled and when he got there, Trump Jr. introduced him to somebody identified as a Russian lawyer. Kushner also confirmed in his statement that he left early and for the brief time he was there, there wasn’t any mention of the campaign or Clinton. In the second statement Trump Jr. gave to the committee last week, he confirmed Kushner was not there for the part about the campaign and Clinton, but also admitted the lawyer brought up the campaign after some talk about Russian adoption policies. According to The Washington Post, in the first statement given to the committee by Trump Jr., he tried to cover up the reason for the meeting, gathering damaging information against Clinton, and his father, Trump Sr. “signed off” on the original statement implicating Trump was involved in a cover up, a potentially criminal offense. At the time of publication, it was still unclear if this investigation would lead to any disciplinary action or charges. However, several notable publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on Monday and Tuesday that Trump inquired to some of his staff members about pardoning himself and others in his cabinet.
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Summer quarter beats all other seasons
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Summer quarter is the best. The halls are empty and the parking spots are plentiful. When I was young, from elementary school to college, I hated summer school. How cruel it was to be locked in a classroom all day, while the sun peered through the window calling my name. I used to be afraid of missing out on things because of my commitment to my education during what should have been a welcome and deserved break. Now, as I approach my last quarter as an undergraduate student here at Cal State East Bay, I have begun to realize the summer session is by far my favorite. Instructors have far fewer classes to choose from than they do in other quarters, which is helpful because they have a lot more availability to talk to you about issues that arise during the term. According to the MyCSUEB website, there are 155 undergraduate in-person classes offered in the summer 2017 quarter, while the fall 2017 quarter has more than 400 sections offered for in-person classes. Classes are still pretty full, but I don’t have to worry about navigating my way through a crowd on campus or in the parking lot. Campus often looks like a deserted ghost town--minus the tumbleweeds--early and late, with a rare rush of midday activity. With more than 16,000 students here at East Bay, there must be a fraction of this number here in the summer. In fact, the Executive Director of Financial Aid at East Bay, Rhonda Johnson, confirmed to The Pioneer earlier this year that just more than 7,000 students attended the summer session in 2016. The dorms are empty and the campus events
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An empty classroom in Meiklejohn Hall on the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus at 3:20 p.m. in the afternoon on Monday. Less than half of East Bay students attend summer school annually. are far and few between, so I guess the summer does have its downside. However, I would trade a free concert or a free giveaway in the quad for an empty campus every time. Growing up as an only child, I learned to enjoy and value my personal time. At school in
the fall, winter and spring, the campus is filled with students, staff and faculty, which means private time is hard to come by. It makes me appreciate small schools and the community college I transferred from where even at peak times, the cam-
pus had a fraction of the students that CSUEB has. It’s refreshing to pull up to campus five minutes before class begins, find a parking spot right by the building and not have to navigate through crowded paths and hallways to reach my destination.
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Campus housing tight fit at East Bay Rough process for dorm expansions By Daniel McGuire CONTRIBUTOR In Summer 2017 12 bedrooms in the freshman buildings are being converted back into study lounges. In the Fall 2016 Quarter, roughly half of the dorm room beds at California State University East Bay were prioritized for first time freshmen. Although, in October 2013, the study lounges were converted into bedrooms and 48 upperclassmen dorms converted to hold six students instead of four, additional action was attempted to further expand the available bed space such as the expansion of off campus housing. “However, this past year, the State Fire Marshall requested those rooms be left unoccupied,” according to Martin Castillo, housing Director from 2010-2016 and current Vice President of Student Affairs. The study rooms in the freshmen dorms were converted into windowless bedrooms that, “were originally approved by the SFM a couple years ago,” according to Castillo. It was the Hous-
ings department’s decision to convert the rooms after Castillo requested permission from Chancellor White to expand housing and was denied. These conversions added 120 beds to the university housing increasing the total from 1530 to 1650. Yet this was not enough, said then housing Director Castillo, and an additional 90 beds were rented through the University Village on Carlos Bee Blvd, through a master lease. With a fall enrollment of 1,700 freshmen and 2,200 transfer students in 2015, California State University East Bay has attempted further changes to housing in order to accommodate the increasing number of student applying for on-campus housing according to Jim Zavagno, Associate Vice President of Facilities, Development and Operations, the campus Facilities, Development and Operations department performed the construction. After a failed attempt to receive permission and funding from the Chancellor’s office, these conversions were the only way to make more room for students, according to Castillo. Fifth-year History student Cristian Sanchez, having lived in both a double and a triple suite felt surprised that he and his roommates were able to keep their sanity living with so many people in such a small area, specifically during midterms and finals.
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Study abroad trip Money conversion causes confusion for tourists in Cuba worth the money Cuban lifestyle makes big impact By Daisy Ortiz SPANISH EDITOR
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The view from the backseat of a taxi in Cuba. Cal State East Bay students recently visited the communist country on a study abroad trip that ran through June and July.
By Daisy Ortiz SPANISH EDITOR My parents always demanded that my siblings and I speak only Spanish in our household. We would learn English in school, so for the most part we followed their rule, not realizing how much it would pay back later. When first arriving to Cuba, the language barrier wasn’t under my list of concerns. I knew the language and even though some words would be slightly different, I knew I could figure it out. However, knowing Spanish proved to be helpful on my trip when I needed to get a taxi. Between my friends and me, I became the master negotiator. Getting a cab is a simple task, but not knowing the language or how to negotiate can make the difference between
getting charged 10 CUC or five CUC, which equals about 10 and five American dollars. It didn’t take long for me to know what a good price to get to old Havana was, and once I did, I did not budge from it. Typically, I wanted to pay one to two CUC per person. Usually this is an easy task if we didn’t pick up the yellow cabs in front of the hotel. We usually walk down to El Malecon, which is the seawall two blocks away to pick up a taxi. The ride would range from five to seven CUC. Many times, I gave an offer and the taxi driver said yes or raised it. I preferred to start my number low so I could move up without hurting my wallet. Every time a taxi tried charging me 10 CUC, I made a face of shock, replied with a “no thank you” and walked away. Then they would call me over and ask
how much I was willing to pay and we negotiated from there. A wink or slight smile here or there didn’t hurt the cause either. The cabs in front of the hotel, however, did not negotiate and acted like they were the only taxis around. Knowing how to get around cheaply was crucial, especially as a college student. I couldn’t afford those extra $5 every time we caught a ride; our hotel was not very close to many of the sites, so we depended a lot on public transportation. Tourists are often at a disadvantage because they aren’t familiar with the area or average prices of things. However, knowing the language can be a major advantage and made my time in Cuba easier and cheaper. I’m grateful that I was able to navigate Havana at a low cost.
Cuba From Page 1 ing back from dinner when a women ran by us down the sidewalk. Chasing her, a man suddenly yanked her backwards by the hair and started hitting her in the face. All three of us exchanged a look, wide-eyed and frozen; terrified to do something and terrified to not. The couple continued to scuffle. The woman hit back and he subdued her and delivered a punishing blow until she strode away. Then he followed her, they’d argue and the cycle continued for what seemed like an eternity, though it couldn’t have been more than a few minutes. People walking nearby didn’t even stop to look. My classmate approached a man, dressed professionally and likely walking home from work. The man ignored my friend’s pleas to help and waved him away. We next approached a couple and were told not to do anything and that getting involved would only make matters worse. In all likelihood, the woman would end up defending her man and somehow placing the blame on us, we were told. “This is the way things are here.” Eventually we persuaded them to call the police, but the only good it did was make us feel like we did something
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An old Chevrolet classic car graces the streets of Vedado in Cuba. progressive about the situation. The experience was sobering but also eye opening. Behind the monuments and icons of
women’s empowerment, there’s a dark face of the women’s movement; one that I hope to bring to light through my photos and article.
Two weeks ago, I was a travel enthusiast and a student who wanted to accumulate as many credits as possible in order to graduate next spring. The study abroad program in Cuba seemed like the perfect opportunity, especially for my communication major and because the program was journalism specific. I was skeptical to embark on this journey because of the $5,500 cost, but like always, I said ‘whatever’ and jumped all in. I had very little expectations of Cuba; I really couldn’t begin to imagine how it was going to be, even after others said how heavily regulated it was by the government and how much poverty was there. Cuba became a huge learning experience. Every walk I took down Havana’s small streets, every conversation with professionals working as taxi drivers or cleaning ladies and every observation I made led to learning something new. I learned that the average taxi driver and cleaning lady make around 20 CUCs per month, which is equivalent to about $20 American. As an American, I couldn’t imagine living with such a tight budget. Personally, that amount alone goes toward my gas tank on a regular week. Given the financial crisis, professionals choose to work in tourism, such as driving taxis or working in hotels, because they know they can make tips from tourists and often people leave behind shoes or other gifts which they very much appreciate. It may seem like Cubans are living in extreme poverty and unhappy with their lifestyle and government, but being there I picked up a different vibe.
People didn’t seem unhappy at all. Many of them always greeted me with a smile and a warm hello. On weekend nights, many locals hang out at “El Malecon” – the seawall – drinking and dancing. They are many times in a joyous mood and take their time; the clock isn’t as important to them as it is in the
“As an American, I couldn’t even imagine living with such a tight budget. Personally, that amount alone goes toward my gas tank on a regular week.” United States. Without a doubt, Cuba has its treasures. It’s a diamond in the rough, but a diamond nonetheless. It explodes in color, hospitality and relaxation. Life there is much less stressful than it is in the states. My experience has reminded me to be more patient, to appreciate the little things in life, and that I do not need material things to be happy. Clearly the Cubans don’t. And therefore, I say “Viva Cuba!“
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The strip mall in Hayward down the hill from the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus is damaged from a fire last month and vandals that broke into the abandoned businesses. The site is the former home of several Fijian, Pacific Islander and other ethnic shops that included a curry restaurant, a hookah lounge and a Fijian dessert shop. According to Waseem Khan, a developer of the property, the site will be renovated this year and eventually be the home to more than 14,000 square feet of a "Multi Ethnic Shopping Center." At the time of publication, the city of Hayward did not respond to inquiries about the current state of the site. PHOTOS BY KEDAR DUTT/THE PIONEER
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Los Junior Giants les dan a los niños un verano de las ligas mayores Por Louis LaVenture EDITOR EN JEFE
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Crecí en el sur de Hayward, justo bajando la calle de Cal State East Bay. Durante el verano yo jugaba béisbol en la liga pequeña, pero al llegar julio, la temporada terminaba y tenía un par de meses de vacaciones antes que clases empezaran de nuevo. Este tiempo libre estaba lleno de saliendo con mis amigos, andando en la bicicleta, nadando en nuestra alberca del apartamento y otras actividades que podíamos hacer en nuestro vecindario, pero no habían muchos eventos organizados para los estudiantes en nuestra comunidad. Entran los Junior Giants. Hace 16 años los Hayward Junior Giants abrieron sus puertas en Weekes Park en el sur de Hayward gran parte por la consejera en Hayward School, Denise Patterson, quien estaba buscando programas para implementar durante el verano. El programa es supervisado por el Bureau de servicios para la familia y juventud de Hayward lo cual es administrado por Emily Young. “Es mucho más que solo el béisbol,” dijo Young. “Tenemos práctica y juegos pero también intentamos enseñarle a los niños sobre comer saludablemente, salud mental, salud física y lectura.” Además de entrenamientos de una hora cada semana donde jugadores aprenden técnicas de beisbol de entrenadores quienes son policías y estudiantes de Hayward High School, también juegan de menos un partido por semana según Young. Young dijo que el programa de comer saludablemente incluye un calendario con pegatinas para seguir el proceso del consumo y hábitos de ejercicio. El programa de lectura está programado como bases, cada base representa un nivel diferente de logros. Participantes reciben premios e incentivos para mantenerlos enganchados en las actividades
que incluyen la palabra de la semana y hablando con consejeros de salud mental sobre tomando decisiones saludables. Young dijo que cuando tomó el cargo hace seis años tenían alrededor de 300 niños en el programa de cinco semanas pero un incremento constante ha resultado en 582 participantes esta temporada. “Esta es una gran oportunidad para niños que están interesados en el béisbol para mantener sus técnicas, conocer a personas, hacer amigos y hacer algo positivo por la comunidad,” dijo Elizabeth Eiras, madre de un jugador de los Junior Giants en su primer año. “Si no estuviera en Junior Giants estaría tocando el piano, algo que no quisiera estar haciendo.” El hijo de Eira, Zachary está en su primer año de jugar béisbol y se enteraron sobre el programa por una liga pequeña en la que jugaba para Treeview en el sur de Hayward. Según los Junior Giants, la liga comenzó hace 24 años y ha mantenido sus principios originales de ser un programa de béisbol no competitivo, gratuito y para ambos niños y niñas. El programa tiene más de 25,000 participantes en California, Nevada y Oregon y a todos los niños se les ofrece los materiales, uniformes, incentivos de programa y entrenamiento de entrenadores. Las edades son de cinco a 14 y los equipos están divididos por edad: 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 y 11 para arriba. Las primeras dos semanas del programa los niños participan en una hora de ejercicios de habilidades lunes a jueves, después de eso tienen una práctica y un partido a la semana durante la temporada. Según Young, ella cree que la mayor parte del éxito es el hecho de que el programa sea gratuito. Los Junior Giants también proporcionan desayuno y lonche gratis a través del districto de Hayward Unified. El equipo, con oficiales, consejeros de salud mental y estudiantes de high school también proporcionan una gran cantidad de mentores calificados y de calidad para los niños según Young.
"Creci en el sure de Hayward, justo bajando la calle de Cal State East Bay. Durante el verano yo jugaba beisbol en la liga pequena, pero al llegar julio, la temporada terminaba y tenia un par de meses de vacaciones antes que clases empezaran de nuevo."
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Niños de 9 y 10 años en el programa de verano de Hayward Junior Giants escuchan al entrenador asistente en el pabellón durante un partido en la noche el martes en el parque Weekes en el sur de Hayward.
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La investigación que fue iniciada por el FBI y el SIC en mayo, está basada alrededor de alegaciones de que el hijo del presidente, Donald Trump Jr., se reunió con un abogado ruso en el 2016 respecto a las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos y Hillary Clinton, según la investigación del SIC. Trump Jr. fue prometido información sobre Clinton por el gobierno ruso que hubiese dañado su campaña según el diario The New York Times. El lunes por la mañana, Trump uso a twitter para desahogarse sobre la investigación con una cantidad de tuits. “¿Entonces por qué las comités y los investigadores y claro nuestro asediado A.G., no están investigando los crímenes y relaciones con rusia de
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la chueca de Hillary?” tuiteó Trump. “Después de un año de investigaciones con Zero de evidencia encontrada, Chuck Schumer acaba de decir que “los demócratas deberían de culparse a sí mismos, no a Rusia.” Según el comunicado hecho por Kushner el lunes al comité SIC, el llego a la junta tarde porque fue agendada a otra hora y cuando él llegó, Trump Jr. lo introdujo a alguien identificado como un abogado ruso. Kushner también confirmó en su comunicado que el se fue temprano y durante el breve tiempo que estuvo allí no mencionaron la campaña ni Clinton. En el segundo comunicado que Trump Jr. dio al comité la semana pasada, el confirmó que Kushner no estuvo allí para la parte sobre la campaña y Clinton pero también admitió que el abogado mencionó la campaña después
de una plática sobre pólizas de adopción de rusa. Según el diario The Washington Post, en el primer comunicado dado al comité por Trump Jr., el intento cubrir la razon de la junta, acumulando informacion dañina contra Clinton y su padre, Trump Sr. “firmó” el comunicado original implicando que Trump estaba involucrado en un encubrimiento lo cual posiblemente puede ser una ofensa criminal. Al tiempo de la publicación, aún no era claro si la investigación resultaría en acciones disciplinarias or cargos. Sin embargo, varios diarios notables incluyendo The New York Times y The Washington Post reportaron el lunes y el martes que Trump le dijo a su personal que lo perdonaran a él y a otros de su gabinete.
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THE PIONEER Baseball From Page 1 was looking for programs to implement in the summer. The program is overseen by the city of Hayward Youth and Family Services Bureau, which is headed by Administrator Emily Young. “It’s about much more than just baseball,” Young said. “We have practices and games, but we also try and teach the kids about healthy eating choices, mental health, physical health and reading.” In addition to weekly one-hour skills drills where players learn baseball techniques from coaches who are police officers and Hayward high school students, they also play in at least on game per week, according to Young. Young said the healthy eating program includes a calendar with stickers to track eating and exercise habits. The reading program is themed like bases, with each base representing a different level of achievement. Participants receive prizes and incentives to keep them engaged in the activities that include the word of the week and talking with mental health counselors about making healthy choices. Young said when she took over six years ago they had about 300 kids in the five week program but a steady increase has led to 582 participants this season. “This is a great opportunity for kids who are interested in baseball to keep up their techniques, meet people, make friends and do something positive for the community,” Elizabeth Eiras, mother of a first year Junior Giants player said. “If he wasn’t in Junior Giants he would be playing piano, something he wouldn’t want to be doing.” Her son Zachary is in his first year of playing baseball and they heard about the program through the little league he played for, Treeview in South Hayward. According to the Junior Giants, the league began 24 years ago and has maintained its original principles as a noncompetitive, free coed
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Left: A Junior Giant in the nine-ten-year-old division runs to first base after hitting a ball on Tuesday night at Weekes Park in South Hayward. Above: Zachary Eiras looks at the ball he hit during an at bat in a Junior Giants game on Tuesday night at Weekes Park. baseball program. The program has more than 25,000 participants in California, Nevada and Oregon and all of the kids are offered equipment, uniforms, program incentives and coaches training. The ages range from five to 14 and teams are broken up into divisions; 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11 and up.
The first two weeks of the program kids participate in one-hour skills drills Monday through Thursday, after that they have one practice and one game a week for the duration of the season. According to Young, she believes a major part of the success has to do with it being free of cost. The
Junior Giants also provide participants with free breakfast and lunch through the Hayward Unified School District. The team, comprised of police officers, mental health counselors and high school students also provides a surplus of qualified and quality mentors for the kids, according to Young.
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A Bay Area town, criticized for building a water park during a historic drought, did not back down By Robin Abcarian LOS ANGELES TIMES Chlorine. It's the smell of summer, and it hit me squarely in the nose when I walked into a new water park in Dublin, Calif., early Tuesday morning. A few women did laps in the indoor pool, under a translucent roof. Outside, in another large pool, teenage swim team members practiced under the gaze of their slightly older coaches. Next to the water slides, the park director was instructing three new hires -- young women who will monitor the slides -- on how to communicate using hand signals. Two years ago, this San Francisco Bay Area bedroom community came under some unaccustomed criticism for its plans to build this park. California was more than three years into a historic drought, and despite that, Dublin had decided to plunge ahead with construction on a water park with six water slides, a kiddie play area and two huge pools -- indoor and outdoor -- for exercise, lessons and competitions. What the heck were Dublin officials thinking? "My talking point then was that we still have two winters to go before the park opens," said Dublin Assistant City Manager Linda Smith as we toured the park Tuesday morning. "We needed to just wait and see what happens." That answer was not acceptable to many Californians, who were having it drummed into their heads that water was too precious to waste on lawns or swimming pools or even showers. This was, you will recall, a time of widespread shaming, of holier-than-thou water conservationists berating neighbors for refusing to take 20-second showers, for buying almonds, for washing their dusty cars. Never mind that Dublin was a poster child for municipal conservation, that almost all of its parks were irrigated with recycled water, that its residents had surpassed drought conservation goals. To many, building a water park during a drought just seemed tone deaf. But money had been allocated, contracts had been signed. Construction of the Wave, as the park is called, rolled on. Finally, on May 27, with the drought declared a plague of the past (at least for now), the Wave
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A rendering of The Wave Waterpark in Dublin that opened on May 27. opened for business. If you're a thrill seeker, the water slides at the Wave probably won't faze you. You might enjoy, say, sailing down a three-story slide at an 80-degree angle, only to slow down and come to a stop when you hit a long, flat segment at the bottom. Or you might find it exciting to come down a twisted, turning enclosed tube, hands crossed over your chest like a corpse, expelled into something that looks like a giant toilet bowl and whipped around inside a few times before coming to a stop and climbing out. On opening day, Smith was standing next to the parks' two steepest water slides -- the Emerald Plunge and the Dublin Screamer -- when she saw a 10-year-old boy shooting down the Emerald Plunge. He made it just to the bottom when instead of
stopping, he bounced out of the slide and over its edge, then skidded to a halt on the concrete. On videotape, the accident looked terrifying and painful. "It happened so quickly," Smith said. "And then he popped up so quickly. There was not a lot of time to react. He was stunned and he got a little weepy." The boy was given first aid on site, then examined at a hospital and released, according to news reports. The park immediately shut down the Emerald Plunge and the slide next to it. They remain closed while a state investigation continues. Despite the accident, attendance at the Wave went up the next day. I always thought this water park was a great idea. Dublin is a young city -- only 35 years old -- and one of the state's fastest growing. Many of its 57,000 residents live in new neighborhoods, and many more developments are on the drawing board. In some ways, the town is a living
rebuke to the idea that recalcitrant California cities are responsible for the state's widespread housing shortage. Some major corporations have set up shop here (Chevron and Toyota, to name a couple), and the town appeals to tech industry workers willing to commute 35 miles or so to San Francisco and Silicon Valley in exchange for (slightly) lower housing costs and good public schools. The town's motto "The New American Backyard" pretty much encapsulates the Dublin aesthetic. Dublin has won awards for water conservation; 90% of water used in its municipal operations is recycled. The water park requires about 480,000 gallons to fill -- about as much water used by four or five California households a year -- which doesn't seem like a whole lot to me. City officials had been trying to build more public pool space since 2005, but the crash of 2008 forced them to put the recreational project on hold. The Wave got back on track in 2012. At that point, hundreds of children were on waiting lists for lessons and the public swim team. Unfortunately for Dublin, by the time ground was broken on the water park in early 2015, the drought was at a crisis point. In a case of bad timing, the city began construction at the very moment that Gov. Jerry Brown stood on a barren patch of ground where a deep snowpack should have been and declared a drought state of emergency. I never thought the drought should stand in the way of a water park and pools. There are a million ways to save water without depriving children of a cool swim on a fiercely hot summer day, or seniors the chance to exercise in a warm pool in the dead of winter. The opening day accident was a setback, for sure, and a sad reminder that risk-taking and injury sometimes go hand in hand. And the world is full of danger, as I was reminded by the sound of gunfire in the distance as Smith and I stood chatting outside Dublin's shiny aquatic center. "Oh, never mind the gunshots," she told me. "that's just the sheriff's shooting range. They also have an emergency detonation facility over there for bombs." Good to know.
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THURSDAY JULY 27, 2017
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The power of networking through internship By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER
If there is one thing my internship with the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks has taught me, it’s the power of networking. I have the opportunity to work at the Staples Center in an industry filled with professionals and successful individuals who hold positions I envision myself filling one day. But when given these opportunities, what do I do with them? Do I go through the motions? Do I get intimidated by the success? Do I get star-struck? My answers to all three of the questions: no. When in this type of position, composure and professionalism are essential. Working hard and putting your best effort into everything you do is essential. It’s important not to look at people who are above you and be intimidated by them or envy them, but instead envision yourself at their success level one day. There is no time to be star-struck or overwhelmed. Take the opportunities at hand and market yourself, introduce yourself, get to know the person, and make them want to get to know you. In one word, network. Jabari K. Smith, a Corporate Partnership Executive with the Los Angeles Sparks, wrote the book titled ‘Life’s Playbook’ and stressed to me the power of networking and creating strong relationships with people. So far his teachings about how to network, the correct way to speak to people, and helping me gain interviews with professionals to help me in my career, has been one of the most impactful things I have experienced throughout my internship.
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Without networking, the goals you plan to achieve can become a lost cause. Who you know is important. You can’t always do everything on your own and networking can help you learn and ex-
pand your own horizons. These horizons expand when you learn more than you knew before and when you start to approach things differently. Maybe it’s in the form of an in-
terview, knowing what you should wear, stumbling upon an opportunity that you didn’t know existed, or contacting a person that you previously weren’t able to reach.
For me, that person was Jemele Hill, the host of ESPN’S ‘His and Hers’ and the ‘Six.’ She is also my idol. I never thought I’d meet Jemele before I actually worked in the sports industry, but networking put me in the position to not only meet her, but have a 30 minute discussion with her and show her my work. She also gave me tips and advice on how to remain true to myself while pursuing a prominent spot in the sports industry. I met Jemele at the ESPN studio in Los Angeles when I was on set of ESPN’s ‘Sports Nation,’ one of my favorite sports talk shows. The reason I was at ESPN studios in the first place was because of networking. Being friendly and talking to everyone, I was introduced to my new mentor, who is the producer of ‘Sports Nation’ and allowed me to visit the set. I learned that it’s powerful to introduce yourself to anyone you meet, because you just might stumble across one of your idols and take a tour of your dream job. Before entering my internship I knew networking was important, but Smith taught me the ins and outs to it and encouraged me to refine the way I approach people, which helped open many opportunities for myself. I’m excited to go back to school at California State East Bay and see how these newfound interpersonal skills can help me network in the Bay. I was aware of the opportunities in the Bay Area and at East Bay, such as the TV studio in the library, which offers equipment that I can use to help put together video reels for my portfolio. I just never took advantage of those opportunities. I understand if I do not open my mouth, I will remain stagnant. From here on out, networking will be my new best friend.
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