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Warriors to sign Kevin Durant SEE NEWS PAGE 2

OAKLAND POLICE STRUGGLES CONTINUE

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East Bay welcomes new provost Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR East Bay will receive a new provost and vice president of Academic Affairs by the end of summer, reports a June 9 press release from the Office of the President.

After a nationwide search, Dr. Edward S. Inch, former five-year dean of the College of Arts and Letters at California State University Sacramento, was named provost. Inch brings a decade of experience as a director, dean, provost and department chair from four different universities.

East Bay Today reports that at CSU Sacramento, Inch led an initiative as a member of the University Strategic Planning Committee to double fouryear graduation rates and improve retention rates. At Sacramento, Inch oversaw 10 departments at a campus enrolling over 30,000 students.

“I am very pleased that Dr. Inch has agreed to serve as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Cal State East Bay,” said President Leroy Morishita in an email to the campus community. “He is a proven leader with a collaborative and team-oriented style who will continue strengthening our academic programs and student success initiatives.

Dr. Inch’s knowledge of the California State University system and breadth of experience provides a strong background that will serve Academic Affairs and the university well. He is an excellent addition to the Cal State East Bay leadership team and will help take us to new heights.”

According to the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of the Provost is responsible for ensuring that students receive a quality education and that faculty and staff are provided the tools to facilitate this environment.

Inch replaces Carolyn Nelson, dean of California State University, East Bay’s College of Education and Allied Studies, who served as interim provost and VP of Academic Affairs for the past year after James L. Houpis stepped down from the post last August in order to pursue other interests.

Inch will officially step into the position on August 1.

Evil empire is complete

By Erik Khan STAFF WRITER

The Golden State Warriors just finished one of the greatest NBA seasons of all time, winning an NBA record 73 games in the regular season, topping the 1996 Chicago Bulls record of 72-10.

Despite their success, they were unable to bring back a second consecutive championship to Oakland, blowing a 3-1 lead against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA finals. While it would have been reasonable for the Warriors to keep the best regular season team of all time intact and try again next season, they instead pulled the biggest free agency power move of all time and signed former Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant.

To the casual sports fan, this might seem common: Players regularly sign contracts with other teams during free agency, particularly the ones that are good. But to anyone who knows anything about basketball, this is hard to wrap your head around, because this never happens: Durant, one of the best three players in the league next to Lebron James and Stephen Curry, just signed with one of the greatest teams of all time.

While the Durant to Golden State rumors have been tossed around NBA circles for most of last year, the idea of him actually leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder was farfetched. Durant, a former NBA MVP and scoring champion, is the type of franchise player that teams build around. Players were supposed to want to come play with Durant because he is one of the best players in the league, not the opposite.

But that’s exactly what happened. Durant is clearly embracing the “if you can’t beat them, join them” mentality. The Thunder, led by Durant and fellow allstar Russell Westbrook, led the Warriors

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3-1 in this year’s Western Conference finals but were unable to close out the defending champs.

Instead of playing in his second NBA finals, Durant was forced to watch from home after their loss to the Dubs in the finals. You have to think he watched the

Warriors play against the Cavaliers and thought that he could be the piece that puts this team over the top.

The Warriors are not exactly the same team that Durant and the rest of the country watched in this year’s NBA finals. In order to make room for Durant’s

maximum 2 year $54 million dollar contract, some players were let go to make room financially. Harrison Barnes, the man that Durant will be replacing in the Warriors starting lineup, signed a fouryear, $94 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks on Monday.

Shortly after the Durant signing was announced, center Andrew Bogut was traded to the Mavericks as well, as his $11 million dollar contract was too much for the Warriors to pay with the Durant deal in place. The Warriors also will likely be forced to watch backup center Festus Ezeli sign with another team, as he will command a contract that the Warriors will likely not have the financial means to match, since most of their money is occupied by Durant, Thompson, Curry and Green.

The fact that the Warriors are able to pull this deal off is reliant on a couple of key factors. First, their two-time reigning NBA MVP is on the most team-friendly contract in all of the NBA. Curry’s contract, which he is in the final year of, pays him just 12 million per year. Curry signed this deal back in 2011 when the health of his ankles were a constant issue and the team did not want to commit to an often injured player.

Thompson and Green also have team-friendly deals, as they each deserve maximum contracts like Durant has and Curry has coming next year. When you pair Curry, Thompson and Green’s below-market value contracts with the NBA salary cap increasing by 7.2 percent this year, the max deal for Durant just fits under their books. The Warriors also signed center Zaza Pachulia to replace Bogut.

Pachulia also took a discount to play for the Warriors, as he put the prospects of winning championships before his financial gains.

This Warriors core of Curry, Thompson and Green has always seemed to embrace the team-first mentality that puts winning before personal gain. Durant is

SEE WARRIORS PAGE 7

Don’t blame Republicans for Donald Trump Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR When Donald Trump announced that he was running for president last June, I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t, and now here we are with a racist reality TV star as the presumptive Republican nominee. How did we let this happen?

As a Democrat, it’s easy to blame the Republicans. After all, it was their party that divorced all the other candidates and left the least qualified of all to claim the slot. Yet some Republicans still believe that the race isn’t over. Nonprofit Republican organization Delegates Unbound, which aims to reform the Republican Party by educating delegates about their freedom and responsibility when voting for candidates, believes that avoiding a Trump nomination is still possible.

The organization’s split-screen television commercial “Follow Your Conscience,” released on June 26, is a reminder that not all Republicans support Trump. The ad depicts a contrast of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, with presidential hopeful, Trump, each addressing the nation.

“This national feeling is good,” Reagan states on one side of the screen. “I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell ya,” says Trump on the other. Back and forth it goes for 30 seconds with the signature phrases of both campaigns. “Use of force is always and only a last resort,” Reagan famously states. “I would bomb the shit out of them,” retorts Trump.

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The commercial, which ran nationally on television and received nearly 60,000 views on YouTube, cost approximately $170,000 dollars, according to Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound. The group is looking to spend upwards of $3 million on the effort and relies strictly on individual donations for its funding.

Waters said the main goal of the commercial is to inform delegates that they aren’t bound to the candidate chosen in the primaries when they vote at the upcoming Republican National Convention in July. The ad urges them to instead vote according to their con-

science.

According to the RNC website, the convention will host 2,470 delegates and 2,302 alternative delegates from all 50 states on July 18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio.

The ideal outcome, said Waters, would either be for another candidate to step in and challenge the nomination or for the delegates to appoint one.

“I do believe that if the delegates truly are allowed to vote their conscience, that someone will step forward and challenge Trump as the nominee,” said Waters, who has been involved in Republican politics over 30 years. Waters

has worked on five presidential campaigns and in six continents and over 100 countries throughout his career.

Waters said the group strategically chose to contrast Trump with Reagan because Reagan is considered a gold standard of the party’s values by many Republicans, while Trump is perceived as a political outlier.

Waters received malicious emails and death threats from Trump supporters in response to the ad, as well as letters of support and monetary donations from fans.

SEE REPUBLICANS PAGE 4

2 NEWS Controversy continues for local police

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“Murders, drugs, guns, gangs and now we got to worry about this too?”

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—Michelle Collins, Oakland resident

Marissa Marshall GRAPHIC BY TAM DUONG JR./THE PIONEER

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF One of the most dangerous cities in America still does not have a police chief.

It’s been nearly three weeks since an Oakland Police Chief has resigned, stepped down or was fired. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf appointed City Administrator Sabrina Landreth as acting overseer of the department until an investigation into sexual misconduct is completed, according to Schaaf. That investigation has no timetable for completion. Landreth, who has no experience in the law enforcement field, is now responsible for the more than 700 officers in Oakland.

Despite the controversy, crime seems to be down in Oakland. According to OPD statistics through July 2, there have been 28 homicides this year, down from 42 at the same time last year.

At the center of the controversy is an 18-year-old sex worker from Richmond who goes by the moniker Celeste Guap; her last name, Guap, is slang for money.

For Guap, it was one of her client’s deaths that started this downward spiral for the East Bay city.

In September 2015, OPD officer Brendan O’Brien committed suicide just a year after his wife also took her own

life, allegedly for unknown reasons.

However, O’Brien’s motivations were a little clearer. According to the OPD, O’Brien left a suicide note that not only explained that Guap was “blackmailing” him because of their sexual relationship, but also implicated sexual relationships between some of his fellow OPD officers and Guap.

Guap said she was being chased by a pimp on International Boulevard in East Oakland a few years ago when she first met O’Brien. He saw her and “rescued” her.

“He saved me,” Guap said. “I could have been hurt bad or killed. He just showed up and saved me.”

Guap, whose mother is an OPD dispatcher, said she was 12 years old the first time she accepted money for sex.

Four years later at the age of 16, Guap slept with the first OPD officer.

“Richmond is rough,” Guap said. “I had my own issues and got caught up in the street life. Drugs, sex, all that.”

While Guap celebrated her eighteenth birthday on a vacation in Puerto Rico, she reached out to O’Brien, who she said had texted her, “How would you feel if I died?”

After a lengthy text conversation that ended with Guap arguing with O’Brien, she sent a screenshot of their messages to an OPD sergeant, along with several

names of officers she claimed to have had sex with over a two-year period.

Initially the accused were just Oakland officers; however, according to Guap, in addition to 16 OPD officers, she has also had sex with six Richmond Police officers, four Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies, three San Francisco police officers, a Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputy, a Livermore police officer and a U.S. military member.

According to the Alameda County Coroner’s Office, O’Brien’s autopsy revealed that he shot himself within hours of the text message exchange with Guap.

Guap said of the 32 men, just three of them paid her; she worked on a barter system with the others.

“I gave them what they wanted and they gave me information,” Guap said.

According to Guap, on multiple occasions officers gave her information into prostitution stings as well as sensitive and restricted criminal investigation information, including police reports.

Oakland not only has a history and reputation for crime, but for police misconduct as well. The OPD has been federally monitored since 2003, when Oakland settled a lawsuit that claimed a group of officers known as the “Riders” used excessive force and planted evidence on suspects.

On Friday, two Richmond Police of-

ficers were reassigned from their positions, according to a statement from Richmond Mayor Tom Butt.

Lieutenant Andre Hill was relieved of his duties at the Youth and Special Services Division, while officer Jerrod Tong was relieved of his school resource duties and stepped down from his position with the Police Explorer Program. Neither the Mayor nor the Richmond Police Department would confirm if these were two of the six RPD officers implicated by Guap.

According to a statement by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, their investigation into the sexual misconduct involving Guap is complete and four deputies who had sex with Guap were exonerated because “it was consensual, no one paid and she was 18 at the time.”

Last week at a town hall meeting, residents and many others voiced their concern over the sexual misconduct and the city’s handling of it.

Several attendees yelled at Schaaf and demanded her resignation.

“This is ridiculous,” 26-year Oakland resident Michelle Collins said.

“Murders, drugs, guns, gangs and now we got to worry about this too? How am I supposed to trust a cop knowing they might be the one who had sex with that little girl?”

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Three suspects arrested in San Leandro murder Gang rivalry at center of homicide

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF On June 29 Alameda County District Attorney’s Office announced the arrests of three suspects in the May 15 shooting death of Dariel Arreola.

Arreola was shot at the Senior Community Center at 13909 E. 14th St. while outside of a first communion celebration he was attending.

San Leandro Police Department Lieutenant Robert McManus stated that around 7:30 p.m., Arreola walked outside when somebody opened fire on him from a vehicle. McManus confirmed Arreola was an intended target since there were other adults and children outside, and he was the only victim.

According to court documents from the SLPD, Arreola was hit seven times in the head and body.

SLPD also confirmed that the incident was a direct result of a rivalry between two Norteño gangs, Decoto XIV

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Gabriel Martinez, left, and Norberto Villarreal, center, were charged last week with the May 15 murder of Dariel Arreola, right. from Union City and the Hoggs from South Hayward. Arreola was a member of the Hoggs and the three suspects are members of the Decoto XIV gang.

The records identified two of the three suspects as Norberto Villarreal, 25, and Gabriel Martinez, 18, who was 17 at the time of the murder. The third suspect was not named because he is a 14-year-old minor.

Witnesses and DNA evidence identified Villarreal and Martinez, however the specific DNA identified was not released. When officers arrived at the scene, they found multiple vehicles crashed near E. 14th Street & 138th Avenue, according to the San Leandro Police Department.

The occupants of the vehicle, a minivan, fled on foot. According to the court

records, a gun was found with a partially empty clip and it was sent to a crime lab for testing. On June 15, Villarreal’s DNA was found on the gun.

Villarreal was arrested at his residence in San Jose and he is also a suspect in another shooting that resulted from the Hoggs, Decoto XIV feud. On Dec. 30, Villarreal allegedly suspected to involve the same feud between the

Decoto XIV and the Hoggs. Hayward police officer Sheryl Mitchell filed court documents that allege Villarreal saw a Hoggs gang member who was in a vehicle with his girlfriend and 1-year-old child when fired at the vehicle.

The Alameda County District Attorney’s office charged Villarreal with attempted murder and shooting at an occupied vehicle.

UC Berkeley bolsters, improves campus safety efforts Mandatory training coming to school

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR UC Berkeley officials are making major changes to the way the campus handles sexual harassment claims, following the investigation of over a dozen cases that cast an unflattering spotlight on the elite campus last April.

The university’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination is also investing $2.5 million into strengthening its harassment prevention policies through the addition of three full-time investigators to the OPHD and at least a dozen other new positions in the Office of Student Conduct, Human Resources Department, CARE Advocates unit and the University Health Services department, according to a May 2 university press release.

This summer, Berkeley will facilitate in-person sexual harassment training for its academic and administrative staff, which will carry over into awareness and training programs for students, staff and faculty in the fall, however it is unclear what these will look like.

According to the May press release, several campus units will receive $300,000 in allocated funding for program and operational support, however, it is unclear where the money will come from and what the remaining funds will be used for.

UC Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination investigated 17 cases of sexual harassment that spanned five years.

They discovered that 11 of the accused staff members were fired, but none of the faculty members — esteemed lecturers and professors — received the same punishment. Instead, they either resigned or remained at Berkeley, protected by tenure.

The findings sparked a public outcry against the light handling of the cases, and on April 5, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced the formation of the Committee on Sexual Violence, Harassment and Assault.

The organization will examine and review cultural issues and recommend improvements for campus services and policies that prevent sexual harassment at UC Berkeley, according to a university Public Affairs press release.

Co-chairing the committee is dean of

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Students walk through the Sather Arch on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. School administrators are leading an ambitious effort to reshape the nation’s premier public research institution, but they are facing increasingly fierce reactions from their usual allies, the faculty.

Social Sciences and executive dean of the College of Letters and Science, Carla Hesse, and interim executive vice chancellor and provost, Carol Christ, who replaced Claude Steele when he resigned last April.

The committee will release its findings in October, according to the Office of the Chancellor.

The most recent case of harassment was brought to light by 24-year-old Berkeley student Nicole Hemenway in May. Tenured assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Blake Wentworth, reportedly made repeated inappropriate comments and physical contact with her and at least seven other students, according to an article by The Guardian.

According to Senior Director of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs Janet Gilmore, the department chair reassigned all of Went-

worth’s classes to other instructors. He is not currently teaching at UC Berkeley.

The Chancellor’s Task Force is investigating the case. Based on their findings, the case may be transferred to the Privilege and Tenure Committee, a group charged with issuing sanctions for disciplinary, grievance and early termination cases on campus.

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Hayward Sun Gallery is artistic haven

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Above left: Various artwork is currently displayed at the Sun Gallery in Hayward depicting themes for the "People, Pets & Place @ #SunGallery" and "Eclectic Images By The Homeless Art Around The Bay, 2016" exhibitions. Top right: A closer view of "Joy Zone", a polychrome wood carving and mixed media art piece by Peter Langenbach. Bottom right: An acrylic painting by Nina Starr titled "Rendezvous at Rialto Bridge" hangs at the Sun Gallery in Hayward last weekend.

A role model in Ros Gold

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER Women across the globe are defeating the odds in sports media and are taking on highly esteemed roles in the broadcasting and analytic fields.

The Golden State Warriors reporter Rosalyn Gold-Onwude, otherwise known as Ros Gold, is one of these women.

Gold-Onwude has become one of the most recognized faces for women in sports media as an analyst for the Warriors, the best team in the NBA, for the past two years. Not only that, but she is also an African-American Girl’s Catholic High School Athletic Association Hall of Famer, having played Division 1 basketball.

She is one of the very few women of color that has achieved a position reporting on national television for both women’s and men’s sports — a huge turning point for the sports media field.

The Associated Press editors commissioned a report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in sports in 2012 and found that 90 percent of sports reporters are white and 90 percent are male. The sports media field has always been male-dominated, and

when women did have the opportunity, they typically were white.

The total number of women in ESPN’s sports media field is 57, only seven of whom are women of color.

In an interview with NBC, Gold-Onwude said, “As a woman of color in sports broadcasting, I want to do good work and have a positive, visible influence and I hope other young women will look at what I’m doing and realize they too could have a career in sports media if they desire.”

Ros Gold and other minority women, like Cari Champion, a former ESPN host and current host of SportsCenter, and Jemele Hill, host of ESPN’s Numbers Never Lie and His & Hers, are certainly doing their part to buck the trend.

They are breaking down the barrier for other women of color and women in general who have aspirations of a career in sports media, just like me. It not only gives me hope that my goals are attainable, but that I can also reach the highest level possible, covering professional sports.

Attaining a job in the sports media field is hard to achieve for a female because many find the opinion of a woman less credible, perhaps because the woman hasn’t played football, or because women’s sports are not put on the same pedestal as men’s. Therefore

people think a woman cannot speak knowledgeably about sports.

But this is far from the truth and Gold-Onwude has proved that. Individuals see her on the screen every time the Warriors play and the work she has done to get where she is shows. In 2011, the former Stanford star was even invited to play for the Nigerian National

“As a woman of color in sports broadcasting, I want to do good work and have a positive, visible influence.” team in the 2012 Olympics. She is a Nigerian-Russian woman, which places her in the minority in sports media, but she has bucked the trend and made a name for herself. Gold-Onwude has opened the gate a little more for women like me who one day want to be in her position.

Republicans From Page 1 “We’re not trying to tell anyone how to vote or what values you should have, we just thought it was important to remember what type of person should be the standard bearer of party,” said Waters. “The world and country should understand that not every Republican likes Trump.”

The numbers don’t lie. A NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll of 1,000 registered voters who were polled by phone from June 18-23, reveals that 52 percent of Republicans don’t actually want Trump to be president. In fact, less than half — only 45 percent — are satisfied with him as the nominee. The current state of the presidential race even has diehard Republicans like the Bush family, two members of which have held presidential office, running for the hills — towards Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, that is.

With Trump’s unfeasible “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it” agenda to the Hitler-reminiscent decree that all Muslims are terrorists looming in our country’s future, many Republicans are now scrambling to disassociate themselves from the train wreck of the Trump campaign.

Although Trump has a robust resume of blunders, his most recent attack on a U.S. District judge may have been the nail in the coffin. In a speech in San Diego in late May, Trump railed for twelve minutes against Judge Gonzalo Curiel — the US. District Judge of Southern California currently presiding over the civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, the latest of Trump’s failed business ventures — for being a “hater of Donald Trump” and “not doing the right thing.” Trump then called for the judge to disqualify himself from the case, citing an alleged conflict of interest.

Trump later clarified his statements with the Wall Street Journal in early June. Despite the fact that the judge was born in Indiana as an American, because he was born to migrant farm workers, Trump called him “a Mexican” and said he had an “absolute conflict of

interest,” considering Trump’s proposal to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. Last month, Republican Illinois Senator Mark Kirk denounced Donald Trump for these racist remarks about the judge.

“I have spent my life building bridges and tearing down barriers — not building walls,” said Kirk in a June 7 statement on his campaign’s website. “That’s why I find Donald Trump’s belief that an American-born judge of Mexican descent is incapable of fairly presiding over his case is not only dead wrong, it is un-American.”

Even Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who previously endorsed Trump as president, couldn’t reconcile with his remarks. “Claiming that a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” stated Ryan on June 7 during a visit to Washington D.C. Trump has garnered support by being unfiltered and notoriously rebellious against political correctness. His unconventional approach has worked both for and against him, racking up the votes of people on the fringes of society who have become distrustful of the traditional political system, while simultaneously dividing the GOP. Although many Republicans did vote in favor of Trump — after all, he did make it to the nomination — his ill-informed tirades are beginning to wear thin on many of the very people he needs support from in order to finish strong.

“He has divided the party and he’s divided this country,” said Waters.

“He’s creating an environment in this country in which that type of racism is rampant and will divide this country and put us on the path that will be hard to overcome in future generations.”

Waters specifically disagrees with Trump’s racial and religious profiling, his positions on banning Muslims from the U.S. and his most recent comments about Judge Curiel.

“I don’t want my son or anyone turning on the TV and seeing the stuff Donald Trump says,” said Waters. “He’s not the type of person that I feel represents what America’s about. He’s not good for this country as a whole.”

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Oakland votes for

NO COAL City council vetoes proposal

By Sean McCarthy CONTRIBUTOR

The Oakland City Council voted 7-0 against an initiative that would allow coal transportation through the city at a special meeting on June 27.

The proposal would have overturned an ordinance that blocks the storage and handling of bulk amounts of coal within the city, according to a City Hall public hearing notice.

Oakland would have become the largest distributor of coal on the entire west coast of the United States if the resolution had passed, according to activist Steve Masover of No Coal in Oakland, an organization on stopping the transportation of coal in Oakland.

The Public Health Advisory Panel on Coal in Oakland released a report on June 14, stating that coal trains significantly increase concentrations of fine particulate matter in the community through coal dust and diesel exhausts.

Particulate matter at this level is definitively associated with premature death, lung cancer, heart disease and asthma attacks, states the report.

It also states that there is no safe way to transport coal because coal covers are all experimental and have not been demonstrated to be reliable in the field.

“There are no health and safety impacts from the transportation of coal,” said California Capital & Investment Group partner Mark McClure in an Op-Ed that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in March. “Coal is not a hazardous material.”

The World Health Organization determined that there is no clear and safe level of particulate matter exposure, and in May, the United States Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the transportation of coal 90 miles north of Seattle, stated Thomas Fuller of the New York Times.

President Barack Obama has been fighting global emissions for years through implementation of clean energy sources like wind and so-

lar, and the Clean Power Plan. The CPP called for the reduction of greenhouse gases by 33 percent by 2030 from all states in the union, according to an article in Forbes Magazine.

States would have been required to draft a proposal and submit it to the federal government, which would determine if each proposal was substantial or not. The federal government had the right to draft its own plan for a state if it failed to cut the sufficient amount of emissions.

On Feb. 9, around 27 companies and oil haven states like Texas managed to shelve the plan until a future vote the following year could decide the CPP’s future, according to Forbes. The CPP would force these companies to adhere to more stringent policies on the handling of fossil fuels.

The fight against fossil fuels has begun at the local level. CCIG leased the Oakland Army Base in 2012 with the duration of 66 years.

The original plan in the redevelopment of 130 acres of the former Oakland Army Base were conceived and approved by the City Council July 3, 2012, according to the City of Oakland webpage. This plan would theoretically give Oakland residents access to more jobs and bring tax dollars to the city.

The base has the capability to store large amounts of raw material which is transported in by train and shipped out of the docks, said Oakland Assistant City Administrator Claudia Cappio at the meeting. However, CCIG did not mention that they would be transporting large amounts of coal through the Oakland port.

“Although several informal representations were made by the developer, that coal or other hazardous fossil fuels were not being planned to be transported to this bulk cargo facility,” Cappio continued.

As of now, the transportation of coal is banned in Oakland and CCIG needs to figure out what it will do with the leased land. A lawsuit is expected to come in the nearing months from CCIG, according to Rory Carroll of Reuters news agency.

CCIG declined to reply to any questions during this period.

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Coal is not a hazardous material” —Mark McClure, CCIG partner

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Berkeley: UC mourns student killed in latest terrorist attack officials announced extended hours for counseling services. Jain had the spirit of a tiger, several mourners said. They praised her ambition and energy, all in the service of the greater good of humanity.

“She was one of the kindest, most driven people I know,” said Jong Ha Lee of the International Students Association at Berkeley.

Jain was quick to make friends, always helpful in solving their problems, and had a splendid sense of humor, others said.

“She was a really sweet person,” said a friend of Jain’s. “She obviously cared about people.”

“I can’t believe we’re talking (about Jain) in the past tense,” another friend said. “She was the future.”

By Tom Lochner EAST BAY TIMES A tearful UC Berkeley community bid farewell to one of its rising stars on Tuesday, vowing that her passion, kindness, selflessness and dedication to global harmony would live on in spirit long beyond her earthly death.

Tarishi Jain, 18, a native of India, was slain Saturday along with at least 21 others during a terrorist attack on a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was a summer intern at Eastern Bank Limited in the Bangladeshi capital, where her father, an industrialist, is based.

Her death, along with the other fatalities, “shook the psyche of so many peace-loving people across the world,” said K. Venkata Ramana, an official with the Consulate of India in San Francisco and one of several dignitaries who spoke at a noontime vigil on Sproul Plaza attended by several hundred mourners.

“We are so much the poorer for it,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, calling Jain “a shining example of our hopes and dreams” and mourning “a tragic loss that has diminished us as a campus, and the global community,” as he lamented the senselessness of the act.

Jain, who would have entered her sophomore year at UC Berkeley in September, was a member of EthiCAL, a student-run organization that designs apparel and uses proceeds to provide microloans for low-income people who lack access to traditional banking services.

She was interning in Dhaka under the auspices of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, part of the university’s Institute for South Asia Studies, said institute director Lawrence Cohen.

Speakers largely skirted the issue of blame for the attack, variously attributed to Bangladesh-based affiliates of the

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UC Berkeley student Tarishi Jain, 18, was killed in the terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Saturday. She was working as an intern for Eastern Bank Limited.

Islamic State group and al-Qaida.

An exception was Tina Jabeen, who said she represents the Bangladeshi community and the Bangladeshi students on campus.

“Istanbul. Dhaka. Baghdad. Medina.

How many cities will cry before these demons are annihilated?” she said, in a reference to large-scale terrorist attacks in those cities over recent days, warning that Bangladesh and other countries could “slide into an abyss dug by extremists.”

“How many times can a man turn his

head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?” Jabeen had asked moments earlier, quoting the Bob Dylan classic “Blowin’ in the Wind.” “How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?”

“We have had too many vigils and memories, but nothing meaningful has happened,” she added later, urging Bangladesh, the United States and other governments to stand united against terrorism.

Counselors were on hand to minister to the grieving after the event, and

doing just that by coming to Oakland for less money than he could have got with the Thunder, in hopes he can win a championship with Golden State who has been to the NBA Finals in back to back seasons. This deal presents a seismic shift in the NBA’s power structure, as they took their competition’s best player.

Not only will Durant help the Warriors bring multiple NBA championships back to Oakland, he is going to elevate them into the conversation of greatest team of all time. Pairing Durant with Curry, Thompson and Green give the Warriors the four best players on any current NBA team, and perhaps any team of all time. Before this deal, the future in Oakland looked to be great with back-toback championship appearances, but this — this is just unfair.

UCLA, UC Berkeley boost admissions of Californians, Including blacks and Latinos

By Teresa Watanabe LOS ANGELES TIMES The University of California’s flagship campuses have significantly boosted admissions offers to state residents -- including the most African Americans and Latinos since voters banned affirmative action two decades ago -- officials announced Wednesday.

UCLA and UC Berkeley each admitted an additional 1,000 California freshman for fall 2016, increasing students from all ethnicities for an overall boost of more than 11%.

Both also made striking gains in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities, progress that is likely to ease pressure from state legislators to boost diversity at UC’s most elite campuses.

UCLA, for instance, led the 10-campus system in admissions offers to African Americans as a

percentage of all students. The Westwood campus offered seats to 624 African Americans, or 6% of all students, representing a 24% increase over last year.

Among Latinos, UCLA admissions offers increased to 2,527, or 24.3% of all students, representing a boost of 17%.

The number of Asian Americans offered admission to UCLA increased to 4,115 this year from 3,952 last year, but their share of the campus’ admitted freshmen class shrunk from 42% to 39.5%.

Those numbers may spark continued debate about whether Asian Americans are being held to higher standards than other students in admissions decisions.

The number of admission offers to whites slightly increased at UCLA to 2,561, or 24.6% of all students. The 10,400 California high school seniors who won admission to UCLA competed for a spot among 97,115 applicants, a

record number. Under a deal between UC President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature, UC agreed to accept 5,000 more Californians this year in exchange for $25 million more in state funding.

“We are happy to welcome to the university so many more Californians, a diverse, high-achieving group of both freshman and transfer students,” said UC President Janet Napolitano. “We have worked with the Legislature to ensure funding to support this boost in admission for California students, and hope to sustain this increased access in the future. Our commitment to serve California by delivering a world-class education to our next generation of leaders, innovators and scholars is unwavering.”

A scathing state audit earlier this year accused UC of hurting California students by admitting too many out-of-state and in-

ternational applicants, who pay higher tuition. UC officials have denounced the audit as unfair and unwarranted.

In the last four years, UCLA in particular has aggressively recruited promising African American students, launching mentoring programs with Los Angeles Unified schools and with several Inland Empire churches. Officials also have increased their appearances at community fairs and Starbucks across South Los Angeles to share information about UCLA. “Increasingly, students from across California and the world are finding UCLA to be a compelling college choice because of the exceptional combination of worldclass academic programs and our amazingly diverse student body and residential community,” Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, UCLA’s vice provost for enrollment management, said in statement.

Berkeley also made gains, in-

creasing offers to African American applicants to 401 this year from 342 last year, and Latinos to 1,789 from 1,655 over the same period. Asian Americans remained the largest ethnic group in the admitted California freshman class, making up 43.5%, followed by whites at 27.7%, Latinos at 18.3% and African Americans at 4.1%.

“It’s such a treat to be able to admit more Californians this year and to see that diversity among our California admitted students has increased as well,” Amy Jarich, UC Berkeley associate vice chancellor and director of admissions, said in a statement.

Overall, UC’s nine undergraduate campuses admitted 62,873 California residents, an increase of 15% over last year The system also increased offers to out-of-state and international students, but their numbers are capped at the most selective campuses, including UCLA and Berkeley.

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Oakland today, Las Vegas tomorrow?

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF With no firm proposal for a new stadium in Oakland, the Raiders could be on the move.

Owner Mark Davis, son of former owner Al Davis, has confirmed his interest in moving the team to Las Vegas or San Antonio. According to USA Today, Ron Reese, a senior vice president at the Las Vegas Sands Corp. said that Davis has been to Las Vegas six to eight times in the last two months. This has all been happening while the CEO of Sands, Sheldon Adelson leads the way on a new $1.4 billion stadium proposal, according to USA Today.

The Las Vegas Journal reported that there are four proposed sites that a stadium could be built in Las Vegas and several plans, none of which have been confirmed. One plan says $500 million of the $1.4 billion would come from hotel room taxes while another plan suggests that $750 million would come from public funding, however no official plans have been confirmed.

If the Raiders move to Las Vegas they won’t be the first professional team in the market. In June, the NHL became the first major sports league to put a team in Las Vegas when they announced an expansion franchise that will play the 2017-2018 season in Sin City.

The NFL could put restrictions on betting if the Raiders do move to Las Vegas, which could include not allowing betting on Raiders games, something that could also be a possibility for the NHL team.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Raiders gave an 83-question survey to the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce who e-mailed it to more than 10,000 ad-

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dresses in the Las Vegas area last week.

According to Cara Clarke, the Associate Vice President of Communications for the Chamber of Commerce, questions included the level of interest in the team relocation to Las Vegas and preferences in stadium seating.

The silver and black have no current plan in place to keep the team in Oakland and lost their relocation bid to Southern California in January, which went to the former St. Louis franchise the Rams.

“We want to keep all of our professional teams in Oakland,” Mayor Libby Schaaf told The Pioneer earlier this year. “We just can’t do that at the cost of our citizens. It’s too much.”

Oakland taxpayers still owe nearly $100 million from the renovations to O. co Coliseum when the team returned to Oakland from a brief stint in Los Angeles. Schaaf said she was unwilling to ask residents to take on potentially more than $500 million to build a new stadium in Oakland.

The group Stay in Oakland has led an internet campaign to keep the team in the East Bay. The group uses Facebook to get petitions to fans who want to try and keep the team in Oakland. In addition to the Raiders, the group also advocates for the Oakland Athletics and Golden State Warriors to stay in Oakland as well. John Ramos has been a Raiders season ticket holder since 2005 and is optimistic at the chances of the silver and black in Oakland.

“When they moved to LA the first

time, it hurt,” Ramos said. “It took a few years before I felt like it was my team again. We are finally starting to get good players and be successful and then we move? This sucks.”

Another group, Keep the Raiders in Oakland, has been fighting to keep the silver and black in Oakland since Feb. 2012, which is led by Autumn Wind Williams. The mission of the group is to keep the team in Oakland and put pressure on the city to build the franchise a new stadium in the city.

Athletics win ‘Battle of the Bay’ against Giants

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An A’s fan dances during a game against the Giants over the weekend at the O. co Coliseum in Oakland. The Athletics won the four-game series in Oakland 3-1.