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It’s official; CSU faculty and staff could go on strike. California Faculty Association President Jennifer Eagan announced at San Jose State yesterday the strike authorization vote passed after 94 percent of voters selected yes, to go on strike for more money. The CSU system budgeted a two percent increase for faculty and staff wages in this year’s budget, however, the CFA is seeking a five percent increase in wages across the board. “This fight is about the bread and butter issue of salary, but that’s not all,” Eagan explained, according to a press statement from the CFA. “The vision of what the CSU is, who it serves, and what it can be in the future is at stake.” According to Eagan, the next step in the process is a march and rally at the CSU Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach on Nov. 17. According to the CFA press statement, Eagan as well as staff and faculty from all 23 CSU campuses will attend the march and rally. Ben Field, executive officer of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, spoke at the meeting yesterday on behalf of the CFA and will also attend the gathering on Nov. 17, according to the press statement. The strike authorization-voting period ended at 6 p.m. on Oct. 28. The 23-campus CSU system has over 24,000 employees who could potentially be affected by the strike.
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Bay Area residents are familiar with earthquakes, but nearly 500 in three weeks is odd. This has been the reality for San Ramon, which has felt 535 earthquakes in 22 days. It began with a micro earthquake at 8:50 a.m. on Oct. 13 that registered a magnitude of 0.8 and peaked with a 3.6 tremor on Oct. 19 at 4:21 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. Ninety-one of the 535 earthquakes were a magnitude of 2.0 or higher, but according to USGS Information Specialist Susan Garcia the seismic activity has died down in the past few days. Since Oct. 30 there have been less than 10 registered earthquakes, despite the slight increase on Halloween. “The drop in activity has been drastic,” Garcia said. “Swarms like these do happen but aren’t necessarily common. In many cases they are decades apart.” According to the USGS, the last time San Ramon had a swarm of earthquakes was in 2003, which produced 120 in 31 days that included a 4.2 magnitude quake. The largest recorded swarm in the area was in 1990 when nearby Ala-
mo had 351 earthquakes in 42 days. Neither of the swarms was followed by or included an earthquake over a magnitude of 4.2. Moira Kelly works at Bay Books in San Ramon and has been on duty during several of the earthquakes. “Some of us felt a few during the day,” Kelly said. “They weren’t really strong. Nothing fell and we haven’t had any damage.” The USGS earthquake reporting system, “Did You Feel It” has received over 500 reports since the swarm began three weeks ago. The series of quakes have been reported from throughout the area including Danville, Alamo, Pleasanton, Dublin and Concord. On Oct. 27 and 28, San Ramon had over 30 earthquakes with nearly half of them registering at 2.0 or greater. According to the USGS website, the earthquakes are strike-slip events that are occurring within the Calaveras Fault Zone near the north end of the Pleasanton Fault. According to the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, strike-slip faulting is when the blocks of land are
vertical to each other and the movement is horizontal, which are commonplace when it comes to seismic activity. Since 1997, UC Berkeley has completed or begun approximately $500 million in seismic improvements to structures on the campus. As of July, 64 of the campuses 200 plus buildings are listed as poor or very poor on their seismic rating list. According to UCBSML, retrofitting includes redesigning the structure of the foundation to slide or roll in order to prevent collapsing during a major earthquake. San Ramon Assistant City Manager Eric Figueroa said that despite the massive number of recent seismic activity there hasn’t been any major damage reported. According to Garcia, the history of swarms in the area indicates that this one could last for over a month and a large earthquake has not followed previous swarms. Many businesses in the area like Bay Books have not been retrofitted to sustain a major earthquake. Retrofitting and the term “earthquake safe” is fairly new and has been primarily in effect since the 1989 Prieta-Loma earthquake that rocked the Bay Area. Most buildings built before 1990 use an old bolt style foundation system while many of those built after rely on the new system aimed to prevent collapsing.
According to University Police Department Chief of Police Sheryl Boykins there is no active shooter policy in effect at Cal State East Bay. However, campus police have begun evacuation training of its faculty and staff in the event of a campus shooting similar to the ones that have occurred recently on college campuses across the country. History professor, Dr. Samantha Francois said she has yet to receive any kind of training and is unsure about university policy in an active shooter situation. “I would go to the door and lock it...and ask students to help put chairs and tables in front of it,” Francois explained. Chief Boykins said that there are too many factors to consider in the midst of an active shooter situation. “If the decision is to shelter in place, can the doors be secured and barricaded? Are there windows? What floor are they on and how close is the shooter?” Boykins said. “Just too many variables that can become a factor but it could be a wise decision.” Now with more students on campus for another academic year, Boykins is collaborating with different departments on campus, by contacting them and conducting evacuation training workshops to improve readiness. “What we’re doing is critiquing how they evacuate, how you account for your people and what do you do afterwards,” said Boykins, who explained that her primary goal is to review and improve upon existing strategies. So far, UPD has worked with the Health Services department, the library, Pioneer Heights and the Student Administration building. Boykins explained that she sets up workshops for UPD to evaluate and improve building emergency escape plans. While it will take time for UPD to completely train all of CSUEB’s staff and student body in the event of a shooting, Boykins has “tactics” ready to be issued. The first thing UPD would do after confirming a shooter threat would be to call for reinforcement from other police agencies. According to Boykins, UPD holds a mutual aid agreement with the Hayward Police Department, Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol, which provide the resources and manpower needed to handle such dangerous situations. University Police would proceed to lock down Harder Road and West Loop Road, effectively cutting off escape routes and limiting foot traffic. Then they would proceed to search campus to apprehend the suspected assailant and end the situation. “You can’t, you shouldn’t depend on law enforcement to be right there when this event happens,” stated Boykins, who believes you need to be more actively involved in your own safety until law enforcement arrives to protect you. “The most important thing is to make sure that yourself or someone else calls it in.” A new mobile application called The Rave Guardian, whose primary feature is to help with bystander intervention, allows students to text law enforcement officers and get help without calling it in.
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Maker Lab animates ideas into life By Jonathan Can CONTRIBUTOR In the new print lab in the Art building sit two small, white, futuristic looking cubes: two pieces of technology that are Cal State East Bay’s first glimpse into the future of printing. “They’ve been kind of a carefully guarded secret,” said James Saxton, the lab coordinator who is in charge of maintaining the two school’s new Ultimaker three-dimensional printers, along with Robert Foster. Saxton and Foster are a part of the Multimedia Graduate Program and have extensive experience using and fixing 3D printers. This quarter is the first time that the CSUEB campus print lab has been open to the public, which has generated a lot of interest among the campus, according to Saxton. Students and faculty around the school have been making their way over to the Art Building in hopes of seeing the computer-controlled printers, which are capable of manufacturing multiple layers of material to produce threedimensional objects of nearly any shape. “The Multimedia Graduate Program has always paid a lot of attention to new technology that comes out,” Saxton said when asked about the main reason why the 3D printers were first sought. “A big part of it is exploring novel interaction between humans and computers.” Renovated over the summer, the print lab space is the new “maker space” for art students and also features multiple types of ink printers and a new embroidery machine. The room had formerly functioned as the dark room in the Art Building since 1995. That is where Saxton once mixed chemicals
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CSUEB’s new Ultimaker 3D printers will be made available for the public to use soon at the Hayward Campus Maker Lab.
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A 3D printer is like a hot glue gun mixed with a robot.” —James Saxton, lab coordinator
and instructed people on how to use equipment 12 years ago, when he first started working at CSUEB. “A 3D printer is like a hot glue gun mixed with a robot,” Saxton said. “You feed a tube of plastic in the back of a heated extruder nozzle, and it makes material. You layer it on top of each other and after it cools, it begins to harden.” The time it takes to print depends on the type of resolution. Saxton explained that a low-resolution print can take 10 minutes and something with a higher resolution could take up to 10 hours. First invented in 1984, 3D printers now use a wide range of materials including plastics, resins, metals and ceramics. Plastic is by far the most popular material and is currently used in the school’s lab. PLA and ABS are the main types of plastic filament that are used, although they can lead to technical issues such as clogging. “We’re trying to expand who gets to use them and test it with a small group of people,” Saxton said. “We can’t open it up to everyone because right now, with the maintenance on these things, we have to make sure it’s sustainable
and available to the people who paid for it.” Right now, the 3D printers are available to the students in the Multimedia Graduate Program and soon will be available to a limited amount of students in the multimedia club on campus, Saxton explained. The Multimedia Graduate Program has had 3D printers on campus in their own lab for about four years. The first was called the “U-Print” which cost upwards of $10,000. The two new Ultimaker printers in the print lab are worth roughly $2,000 each. Students of the Multimedia Graduate Program began using the 3D printers for thesis projects, including “Project Daffodil,” which consisted of interactive electronic pop-up books and featured dragon figurines that were printed with the U-Print. The goal of the project was to educate young people on various science principles as well as to get them into the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) initiative, all through the story of a young princess named Cassie and her pet dragon Sparkie. Created by graduate students Sian Geraghty, Robert Foster and Christine Ho, the project was featured at the 2015 Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo and won the Editor’s Choice Award. 3D printing technology has advanced quickly due to experimentation with new materials such as graphite, powder-based concrete and even glow-in-the-dark filaments. “Irrespective of what the technology is, what is interesting is how it’s changing the way things are manufactured,” said Ian Pollock, assistant professor of Art and director of the Multimedia Graduate Program. “When it comes to industrial design, these printers are allowing individualization to take over mass production.”
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Rapper T.I. makes sexist remark By Ynez Adsuara CONTRIBUTOR
In an interview shortly before the Democratic presidential candidate debate earlier this month, rapper and songwriter T.I. told DJ Whoo Kid, “Not to be sexist but I can’t vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman.” Following the interview, Twitter users attacked T.I. with sarcasm and humor. “T.I. has perpetrated us with far greater crimes against humanity than his sexist comments. He unleashed Iggy Azalea on us. Think about that one,” one Tweet said. Celebrities and artists like Lily Allen and Samantha Ronson said they were offended by his tweet and advised him to stay away from politics. T.I. later claimed he did not intend to be sexist. But just because someone says “not to be sexist but” before they make a sexist comment does not mean it is any less offensive or less sexist — it’s just a passive aggressive way to express how they truly feel in a way that leaves them with an exit strategy if their statement causes too much chaos. “It’s kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally. They make very permanent, cemented decisions,” T.I. said in the same inter-
view. “And then later, it’s kind of like it didn’t happen, or they didn’t mean for it to happen. And I sure would hate to just set off a nuke.” Since then, T.I., also known as @Tip on Twitter, apologized for his comments, saying his remarks were “unequivocally insensitive and wrong … I apologize to everyone I offended.” Unfortunately, apologies that come after the fact do not solve or change anything. Instead, it opens the door to normalize sexism. And that’s exactly what happened with T.I. Once people with a large following and impact like him put out statements like the one he did, it is irreversible. Although he received a negative response, fans still support him. Whether you personally find it offensive or not, sexism should not be swept under the rug, which is exactly what T.I. was attempting to do when he apologized. There is no easy fix or simple solution to sexism, but when a comment like his is made during a presidential campaign, it is bound to influence people’s decisions. A Gallup poll showed that 92 percent of adults would not mind supporting a female candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign. Which makes women the second widely supported demographic next to Catholics at 93 percent.
It is easy to favor the popular opinion, that’s what makes it popular. A celebrity says or does something, their fans will say or do the same thing — it’s like playing a game of Simon Says. Except when we decide whom the leader of the free world is, we really have to stop listening to what other people think and sit down, watch the debates, and follow the campaigns. Opinions will constantly be thrown around and you can freely choose a side, but choose wisely on your own behalf. T.I., no matter how much you love his music, cannot make political decisions for you. When asked by TMZ about the incident, Oprah Winfrey was initially skeptical but then offered T.I. this advice: “Honey child, hush your mouth. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” T.I.’s remarks stirred the political campaign. His comments were unnecessary and distasteful. He could have avoided saying anything about any of the candidates, but instead he created a public spectacle. He is aware that his opinions as a celebrity can sway voters’ decisions. Even if he was asked to make a comment about Hillary, he could have made a comment on her as a candidate, not as a woman.
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Study Abroad: Skipping rocks across the world More American students choose to go abroad By Dario Battistella and Shannon Stroud CONTRIBUTOR AND EDITOR-INCHIEF Each year students pack up and move out, not to go home but to journey across the pond for the chance to study in another country. Last year almost 300,000 students left the U.S. to study abroad, an increase of two percent from previous years, according to the Institute of International Education. Most students chose to travel to the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France and China. Cal State East Bay offers four programs for students to study abroad that include Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa. However, this year only 50 students from CSUEB went abroad, according to CSUEB’s Study Abroad Advisor, Lé Shawn Cheatham. Cheatham explained that in the years to come there will be a big push to get students to study abroad. Last year CSUEB President Leroy M. Morishita signed an initiative through Generation Study Abroad to triple the number of outbound study abroad students by 2020, Cheatham explained. “The goal is to make study abroad more feasible for our students and promote the experience as a worthwhile opportunity,” said Cheatham. CSU International Programs, CSUEB exchange programs, the National Student Exchange and International Student Exchange Program are the four programs offered that allow students to
go abroad to more than 50 countries. The most sought out program is CSU International. Through this program, students can take major, minor or GE courses abroad for a full academic year. For some students, a year is too long to spend away from home. In those cases, ISEP gives the option of a shorter program, which only lasts a semester. “We also offer exchanges with a few universities abroad as well as National Student Exchange where our students can participate on a more domestic level,” said Cheatham. Students can travel abroad solo or they can go in a group. The British Documentary Experience, a summer London program took roughly 24 students, from different departments, to London to study the history of documentary film and create a short documentary. “I met some of the most beautiful people in London and I plan to know everyone that went to London for many more years to come,” said sociology major, Roxana De La O Cortez, a student from the summer London program. “They became my family.” A lot of students have expressed the desire to go abroad, however there are many factors they face that could make the journey seem unfeasible — one being the money factor, according to Cheatham. “The process was easy, the only obstacle that I came across was money at first, but I did not want that to hold me back so I had to figure out a way to make things happen,” said Cortez. Cheatham explained that students fear that they will not be able to afford the trip or they will not be able to graduate on time. Students can apply for financial aid to help fund their study abroad program. She explained that the cost for study abroad covers different fees like tuition, housing and transportation. While financial aid is an option for
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students, many students from the London program specifically have stated that their financial aid didn’t cover their trip overseas. Communications major, DaRyn Merriwether, explained that she spent all of her financial aid while they were overseas, but when they came back, the CSUEB Office of Financial Aid said she had to pay it all back. “I wasn’t awarded financial aid for my study abroad program and when I was they asked for it back,” said Merriwether. “They said it wasn’t supposed to be given to me in the first place.” Merriwether explained that she used the money that was given to her to cov-
er the cost of the London trip as well as expenses when she arrived. After returning to the states, the financial aid office informed her that she had to pay it back because the British Documentary Experience did not qualify as a standard study abroad program because of the length of the program. As a result, Merriwether has had her financial aid garnished. At the time of publication Stephen Faletti, the Study Abroad Financial Aid advisor, was unavailable for comment. Cost can vary depending on the program students pursue to go abroad. For CSUIP, the cost includes tuition, room and board as well as other miscellaneous fees, explained Cheatham.
She said that each students financial aid package varies so it’s important that they meet with financial aid to examine their options. Although some students have had their trials with the study abroad program, there are still plenty of students who think of it as a highlight of their college career. “It was the best decision I had ever made and would do it again, the more I explore and learn, the less I actually know,” stated Ofelia Santos, an International Studies major at CSUEB, who studied abroad in Taiwan for a year. “This experience has changed the way that I view the world.”
FROM THE WIRE We must support students, educators By Silas Lyons REDDING RECORD SEARCHLIGHT, CALIFORNIA When Bella couldn’t solve a problem in eighth grade math, her teacher slapped her across the face. My host daughter from China last year is an excellent student. By the time she joined our family as a high school senior, she excelled at math. To listen to some of the self-appointed experts over the past week, you’d think maybe that Chinese math teacher had the right idea. They’d give that sadistic woman credit for her victim’s own intelligence and hard work. See, Bella just needed some studiousness slapped into her. Really, are the worst teachers in a regressive communist country the new standard to which we aspire? It’s just as absurd to try and justify the school resource officer in South Carolina who last week threw that young girl out of her desk and across the floor of her classroom. Yet the justifications are flying. Kids these days, you know.
They just need some old-fashioned discipline. That girl pulled out her cellphone during class, apparently. I’m sure her teacher has been fighting this battle for years now, and I completely sympathize with that teacher having had it up to here with the behavior, not to mention the teenage attitude. Back when teenagers were polite, logical and always on their best behavior ... oh wait. There never was such a time. Ever. I know we can’t agree on much in this country, but if we can’t even agree that law enforcement officers shouldn’t be placed in a position of handling class discipline, and if they are they should never, ever solve attitude problems with violence against students who pose them no threat ... well, if we can’t agree on that, I give up. The perilous crossing The fact is, a student’s path through school and on to a productive life in the American middle class is already like crossing wet stones in a fast-moving river.
When a child is born, especially into poverty, neglect or abuse, she immediately begins to fall behind the baby down the street. Her brain isn’t stimulated or even fed as it should be, and as she grows out of diapers the chance of her showing up ready on the first day of kindergarten is rapidly declining. She may not know her ABCs, may not recognize basic shapes, may not even write her own name. Rob Adams, assistant superintendent at the Redding Elementary School District and chairman of the executive committee of Reach Higher Shasta, tells this in the form of a story about two students who are composites of the kinds of real kids we see all the time moving through our local schools. (Full disclosure, I serve as a business community representative on Reach Higher’s executive committee). It’s interesting to watch an audience react, as last week at an event showcasing Reach Higher, when Rob shows the contrast between the kid who has a supportive home and the one who doesn’t. This is the line of his speech that struck me most: “We’re talking about
access to the middle class.” Isn’t that the opportunity our country’s built around? Sure, everyone would love to be rich. But there will always been a relatively small percent who achieve big-time wealth. It’s the hope of climbing from poverty to the middle class that motivates so many of us. I’m a living example of it. But back to that child who started kindergarten already behind. In Shasta County, we know she’s not in the minority. Most of her classmates are playing catch-up, too. Still, she’s made it to the next slippery rock. If she can get help at home, at school, from her community, she may make another huge leap — becoming literate at her grade level by third grade. If not, she’s already drifting downstream. But what after that? If her parents don’t get her to school, can’t feed her a decent breakfast, can’t buy her new clothes or provide a safe, quiet place for her to do homework, her risk rises. The rocks get farther and farther apart. As she progresses that girl has to navigate drugs, alcohol, abusive relationships, self-esteem problems. She has to
take the right courses and develop — somehow — a vision of what her future can be. What if she’s told she can never afford college, or that she shouldn’t abandon her parents by pursuing the basic qualification of most middle-class jobs in the modern era? She’s from Shasta County, so she already has guaranteed admission at local colleges if she meets just the basic criteria, and financial assistance will guarantee she can make it work. That’s called the Shasta Promise, by the way. College OPTIONS can help her navigate the complexities. It’s what they do. Still, the odds aren’t good, and the results speak for themselves. There is a pathway. But when you stop to consider how slippery and treacherous it is, is it any surprise that so many of our kids fall off and are swept away? It is, I believe, among the most urgent tasks of our community to support students and educators on this path. Reach Editor Silas Lyons at 2258210 or silas.lyons@redding.com. He’s on Facebook and Instagram, and on Twitter @silaslyons_RS.
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Last month Cal State East Bay’s Health and Wellness Center hosted “Take Back the Night,” a student assembly that allowed students to discuss sexual violence in a supportive environment and helped equip students to better identify sexually violent situations. The event was held behind Lassen Hall lit by 100 bags filled with lights. Twenty-five of the bags held red lights to symbolize the 1 in 5 college women who are victims of sexual violence, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Geared towards students who live on campus, the event emphasized bystand-
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er intervention. “We don’t want survivors at Cal State East Bay because we don’t want victims,” said University Police Chief Sheryl Boykins during the event. The event was part of a larger, ongoing effort across the California State University system to address issues of sexual assault and sexual harassment on its campuses in compliance with Title IX, one section of education amendments put in place by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in the early 1970s to help protect people from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex. Under Title IX, schools are legally required to respond and remedy hostile educational environments. Failure to do so is a violation that can ultimately result in loss of federal funding. Last year the CSU system hired its first Title lX compliance officer — Pamela Thomason — to implement key
target goals as the federal law aims to minimize: sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual violence on campus. Implementation of Title IX has played out in a variety of ways in campuses throughout California. Last year, San Diego State University students reported 17 sexual assault incidents, according to KPBS. In response, SDSU implemented the Let’s Talk initiative, an on-campus sexual assault advocate. They’ve also partnered with the Center for Community Solutions, established a campus women’s center and assigned a sexual assault investigator, according to San Diego State University Community Resource Officer Mark Peterson. “It is generally believed that sexual assaults are under-reported,” Peterson said. “And I believe the university is creating a culture where sexual assaults are no longer tolerated or ignored.”
This June, CSU Chancellor Timothy White signed Executive Order 1095, designed to help CSU schools implement new Title IX programs. The order is intended to help establish campus working environments “free of any sexual discrimination and harassment.” In Spring 2016, CSU Northridge will launch a campus peer education program called Men CARE, which stands for “Men Creating Attitudes for Rapefree Environments.” The program will host workshops and provide training on how to prevent sexual assaults. The Student Health and Wellness Center at Cal State East Bay has counselors and medical staff to provide immediate as well as ongoing, confidential support for victims of sexual assault. The school refers students to organizations such as Bay Area Women Against Rape, San Francisco Women Against Rape, The Men’s Center for
Counseling and a few others. “Hopefully, at the end of the month there will be an email directing all students to an online mandatory training regarding sexual misconduct,” said Cal State East Bay’s Title IX Officer Terri Lebeaux. Right now there are no agreed upon standards for those found guilty of sexual harassment. Depending on the case, a harasser could be suspended anywhere from a week to a few years. On Oct. 11 Jerry Brown vetoed a bill which would require a minimum two-year suspension for any student responsible for a sexual assault crime. In his statement Brown explained that students should not receive less punishment because he or she is an athlete, or because they pertain to a valuable area of study. Brown expects professionals to use their best judgment in disciplining students responsible for sexual violence, without the intervention of the state.
FROM THE WIRE Marijuana legalization ballot measure to have a pot of money By Joe Garofoli SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Many groups are trying to get initiatives legalizing marijuana on California’s November 2016 ballot, but one scheduled to be announced Monday will have something none of the others do: the money to run an effective campaign. The Chronicle has learned that billionaire tech investor Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, is willing to spend millions to help pass the proposed Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, according to a source close to the ballot effort. Unlike Proposition 19, the failed 2010 initiative to legalize weed in California, this measure won’t lack for cash. Joining Parker in financing the legalization drive will be an all-star cast of cannabis-friendly funders, including Hyatt Hotel heirs Nick and Joby Pritzker; WeedMaps app founder Justin Hartfield, who has already contributed $2 million toward next year’s legalization effort; and Graham Boyd, who is connected with the heirs of the Progressive Insurance fortune. The Drug Policy Alliance, the Marijuana Policy Project and the California Cannabis Industry Association also will be involved in the effort. Lessons learned The political challenge now is to unite the sprawling — and often feuding —
factions of the cannabis community under a single measure. Insiders vow not to repeat what happened in 2010, when the Prop. 19 effort featured a poorly run campaign and plenty of infighting among the various cannabis advocates. By election day, even voters in California’s Emerald Triangle — the weed-growing meccas of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties — were among those in 47 counties that voted down Prop. 19. Only 11 largely urban counties supported it. There is no shortage of groups wanting to legalize weed for adult recreational purposes in California, with 17 submitting proposed ballot measures. While the state attorney general’s office already has given 10 of the measures a title and summary, allowing them to begin collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot, most will be poorly funded. The most prominent of the other efforts is fronted by a group called Reform California. Its campaign team includes Joe Trippi — who has been a top adviser to such figures as Gov. Jerry Brown, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and former President Bill Clinton — as well as AFL-CIO pollster Celinda Lake and many veteran California marijuana advocates, including Dale Sky Jones, the executive chancellor of Oaksterdam University, a cannabis industry training school in Oakland. Reform CA leaders say they have 80,000 Californians on their mailing
list and expect those supporters to ultimately contribute at least $4 million to its legalization campaign. But they have yet to identify a major donor who would fund a statewide run that’s expected to cost $10 million to $15 million — and possibly more, depending on how strenuously law enforcement and others oppose legalization. Newsom may step up Uniting these two groups will be key — and one person likely to try will be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. He is close to Parker and led the group that produced a 93page report on marijuana policy. The report, released in July, outlined a pathway to legalization in California. Newsom, who is in favor of allowing recreational use of marijuana, has not said which — if any — ballot measure he will support. There is much at stake, as some experts have estimated that legalization could bring at least $500 million in annual revenue to the state. But since marijuana use and possession are still illegal under federal law, questions remain about the ultimate size of the industry. The new measure hews closely to the Newsom commission report, as well as to the medical marijuana laws signed by the governor in October, according to an executive summary of the measure obtained by The Chronicle. It emphasizes keeping cannabis secure from children, as well as public safety, two issues about which many voters — while generally supportive of legaliza-
tion — have concerns, polls have shown. On Monday, the proposal’s environmental protections are also expected to receive support from some of the state’s top environmental groups, including the Nature Conservancy and the California State Parks Association. Among the measure’s highlights: - People will be allowed to grow up to six plants in their home for nonmedical use, but they “have to be out of public view and secure from children.” Local governments may ban outdoor home cultivation, and employers will be able to bar the use of nonmedical weed by their workers. - It places a 15 percent excise tax on all retail sales of cannabis, both nonmedical and medical. However, medical marijuana patients won’t have to pay regular sales taxes. - It will keep in place the new state laws governing medicinal cannabis, noting that “to help get the market up and running, existing medical marijuana businesses will get priority for the new (recreational sales) licenses.” - It taxes licensed marijuana growers, based on the weight of the plants. The rates are $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves. - It allows those convicted of marijuana crimes “that are no longer crimes or have been reduced to petition a court for penalty reductions or record expungement.” - It directs tax revenue to a newly cre-
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Is your diet decolonized?
PHOTOS BY KRIS STEWART/THE PIONEER
Left: Dr. Luz Calvo prepares a recipe from thier cookbook on Sunday Nov. 1. Right: Dr. Calvo signs books with partner and co-author Dr. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel at Impact Hub in Oakland on Sunday.
East Bay professor promotes indigenous recipes By Kris Stewart
MANAGING EDITOR You could smell it before you entered from the street in Uptown Oakland, but once you opened the door of the Impact Hub on Broadway, the aroma of tamales wafted over you. It was standing room only on Sunday as the Oakland Food Policy Council hosted a book release for “Decolonize Your Diet,” a cookbook written by Cal State East Bay Ethnic Studies professor Dr. Luz Calvo. Packed in like a congregation on a Sunday morning, attendees sat and listened attentively as keynote speakers took turns at the podium to express the importance of food and the role it plays in the community. Co-authored with partner and San Francisco State associate professor Dr. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, “Decolonize Your Diet” consists of more than 100 vegetarian recipes on Mesoamerican dishes. Through this book Dr. Calvo wants to inspire better eating habits — charged by a 2006 diagnosis of breast cancer. Q: What does it mean to decolonize your diet? When we say, “Decolonize Your Diet” we are asking people to think about the enduring legacies of colonization and how that affects the food we eat. We are coming from a Mexican-origin political context, so for us, we want people to honor the amazing food history of our indigenous ancestors by eating those foods and keeping those recipes alive. Q: What inspired your book?
So many things inspired this book, both personal and political. But the story I want to tell is about one CSUEB student, Jessika Rios. Jessika was taking several classes with me and heard me talking about cooking. She didn’t know how to cook and asked if I could teach her. I told her that I would give her one recipe a week. I started a little Facebook page, just for her. I posted the recipe of the week there. She would make it and she would bring me a small tupperware serving so I could taste it and give feedback. We started with a pot of beans, the next recipe was for lentil soup. We went on like this for a while. Eventually she asked if others could also look at the Facebook page and so we opened it up. I started posting more and more recipes and ideas about food justice. More people started to follow the page. Now the page has over 14,000 followers. But it started with one, Jessika Rios. Q: How did food play a role in your remission from cancer? Do you feel food is a major factor in a lot of the illnesses we face in the U.S.? I definitely feel that food is a major factor in many illnesses in the U.S. Research shows that in the population as a whole, poor diet is a contributing factor to Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. That said, at an individual level, no one can know for sure what combination of factors caused a particular disease. For me, once I was done with treatment, I wanted to increase my chances of not having my cancer recur. So, that’s when I started doing a lot of research on food and health. I found that growing my own food was very healing because it reconnected me
to the cycle of life and the earth. Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your book? I want young people to value the knowledge of their ancestors. Q: What is food justice? Food justice is everyone having access to healthy, fresh and culturally appropriate foods that are grown/harvested/produced in ways that respect workers and the environment. Q: Did you always have a passion for food? I have enjoyed cooking food since I was a teenager. I love preparing meals for friends and family. Cooking is the way that I show people that I care about them. I’ve been a political person since I was young and I started to develop a political analysis of food after I read “Diet for a Small Planet” when I was in high school. It wasn’t until I was recovering from cancer that I really put it all togeth-
er — the pleasure I get from cooking, the desire to eat healthy foods and the political analysis. Q: Describe how you felt after it was completing this big project — how long did it take you to produce? This book has been a huge project that took about 8 years to complete. We worked every summer, first on research, then on writing. In the end it was a rush to complete, because once we signed our book contract, the press only gave us three months to complete the manuscripts. The press wanted a slightly different organization and structure so we basically rewrote the entire book in 3 months. It was crazy. But it feels like, in the end, we accomplished a lot of what we set out to do in this book. Q: What is the connection between food and people of color? Communities of color hold great knowledge and cultural resources. Many
members of our communities are able to sustain their families with homemade dishes, even with few resources. Q: What do you think of the food students are offered on campus? I think students on our campus deserve fresh, organic, locally grown and prepared food. It makes me sad that we don’t have access to quality food on our campus. That said, I’m glad that the Aramark works won the right to unionize. The rights of workers should also be important to our campus community. Q: Broke college students claim they can’t afford to eat healthy. What is your response to that statement? I encourage students to begin to cook for themselves. Buy a crock pot and start cooking beans and stews! Beans are inexpensive, nutritious, and tasty. Tacos are also a great food for students to make! When I was an undergrad, I would buy a bag of potatoes and a package of corn tortillas to make myself potato tacos for dinner. It was very inexpensive and quite tasty. I lived in the dorms though, and was always setting off the fire alarm. Q: How do we move forward in regards to food as an individual, as a campus, as a culture and as a community? We need to start organizing politically to have our voices heard but first we need to start talking to each other. We need to decide what is important to us and then make it happen, whether it be a community garden, a food coop or food pantries. Q: What superpower would you have and why? I believe in the people’s power. I still have faith that people will be able to come together to create some kind of world where everyone has basic human rights, like healthy food, quality health care and a safe place to live.
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Community Calendar Editor’s November picks by Pioneer Staff
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“Love’s GoldenLabour’s Gate Bridge Lost”Inside Musical View: Art, Architecture, Photography Time: 8 p.m. Cost: $32 Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location: Douglas Morrisson Theatre, 22311 Cost: Free N. Third St., Hayward Location: Presidio Officers’ Club, Moraga Avenue and Graham Morrisson Street, SanTheatre Francisco Join the Douglas for
opening night of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” a Those looking more about the local musical basedto onlearn the William Shakespeare wonder that is the Golden can play. This adaptation bringsGate the Bridge play’s plot come formodern an evening withasBob arinto the setting theDavid. King ofAn Navarre chitect photographer David spent and his and college buddies meet forhas a five year41 years in where work related to the bridge. helped reunion they take an oath to He dedicate to curate theto75th anniversary exhibit of the themselves study and self-improvement, bridge at the California Historical Society.womHis swearing off any distractions, especially photos, documents and lively stories en. When four women from their pastsabout enter the scene bridge though, provide all invaluable the bets areinsight off. into this
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Hub CAP Community Art Party Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost: Free Location: 350 Georgia St., Vallejo Every first and third Thursday evening, The Hub in Vallejo hosts Hub CAP Community Art Party, a creative community gathering where attendees can paint, sing, sew, knit, create music, mosaics, sculptures -- anything goes. The first event started with an earthquake mosaic party, now community members bring art projects and pot-luck to each event. The informal event is free, but always welcomes donations. Go, hang out, converse, commune, congregate and create!
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Generation of Oakland: The People’s Portrait Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: East Oakland Youth Development Center, 8200 International Blvd., Oakland Residents of Oakland are invited to attend this unique opportunity to be a part of “Generation of Oakland,” an initiative from artist Nia Imara to encourage a sense of community and belonging amongst residents. During the photo shoot and story sharing sessions there will be music and snacks available to encourage those in attendance to discuss their common experiences.
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A Tribute to Our Veterans Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro Join the San Leandro Library in this tribute to the men and women who have served and continue to serve our country. A performance by Swingin’ Blue Stars! will feature swing style music made famous by ‘40s female vocal groups like the Andrews Sisters. Visitors will get the opportunity to write letters thanking those currently serving overseas in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Cartoon Jazz Septet
East Bay Green Drinks
“Peter Pan” Musical
Light Parade
Time: 2 p.m. Cost: $10 - $25 Location: Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Ave., Alameda
Time 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free, RSVP required Location: 2040 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Time: 7 p.m. Cost: $23 - $60 Location: Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave., Berkeley
Time: 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Castro Valley Boulevard between San Miguel and Redwood, Castro Valley
Join Peter Pan and the Darling children on their adventure through Neverland fighting villainous pirates, befriending magical fairies and dealing with one crafty crocodile. In support of the Children’s Hospital Oakland toy drive you can enter HOPE when you purchase tickets at tickets.berkeleyplayhouse.org and pledge to bring a new, unwrapped toy with you to the performance to get 10 percent off your tickets.
Alameda County invites you to the annual holiday street party known as the Light Parade. At 5:30 p.m. the parade will begin and features a wide variety of cars, bikes, motorcycles, wagons and other vehicles decorated in lights and festive decorations. Throughout the event there will be live music, entertainment, food trucks, prizes for a variety of contests, a poker walk and numerous merchants. Light up the beginning of your holiday season at this community parade.
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The music that brought animation in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s to life is still alive and well in this performance of jazz masterpieces. Enjoy a selection of songs from animated classics like Bugs Bunny to Tex Avery, along with new arrangements of classic jazz songs and original commissions. Since its beginning at the 2003 Stanford Jazz Festival the Cartoon Jazz Septet and Orchestra has toured throughout the Bay Area and released numerous albums containing renditions of classic cartoon jazz songs. For tickets visit www.rhythmix.org.
East Bay Green Drinks, started in 2000 and is a monthly community and networking event for people involved in sustainable business, environmental and social causes, local and organic food, green architecture and design, media, education and so much more. Each event has a complimentary snack and drink specials.
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“The Seafarer” Play
Potterfest
The Art of Persian Dance
Critical Hit Comedy Show
Time: 8 p.m. Cost: $5 - $15 Location: Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Hayward Weekes Branch Library, 27300 Patrick Ave., Hayward
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro
Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cost: Free Location: It’s Your Move Game Store, 4920 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
The Hawkmoon Theatre Company is pleased to present its inaugural production, the Tony Award nominated play “The Seafarer.” The play follows two working class Irish brothers during Christmas Eve in a coastal hamlet north of Dublin, Ireland. James “Sharky” Harkin is an alcoholic with a haunted conscience whose attempts to stay off the bottle are hilariously upended when he returns to live with his blind, hard-drinking and festive brother Richard. For tickets visit www.theatrefirst.com/tickets.
The Hayward Library invites children in grades 7 - 12 to jump on the Hogwarts Express for an evening of wizarding games and magical crafts. Robes are optional but children are encouraged to wear their house colors for the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which includes a treasure hunt. Themed refreshments will be on hand along with numerous activities for children to express their inner wizard. Children must show their school or other valid ID to participate. For more information call Annie at 510-881-7946.
Author Shahrzad Khorsandi brings her 20 years studying and exploring the aesthetics of Persian dance to this special presentation. With the help of a dance to give demonstrations during her presentation Khorsandi will share her findings on the elements key to Persian dance and culture that lay at the heart of the Persian Empire. Her choreography is steeped in her commitment to comprehensively teaching techniques unique to Persian dance and anyone interested in learning should be sure to attend.
Laugh like crazy while nerding out at the Critical Hit Comedy Show, courtesy of Dash Kwiatkowski and host Hayden Greif-Neill. Enjoy some free food and free candy during the show courtesy of It’s Your Move Game Store. Beverages will also be available for purchase at the event or you are welcome to bring your own.
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Tibetan Full Moon Chanting Ceremony
Candle Lit Labyrinth Walk and Live Music
Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Tibetan Nyingma Institute, 1815 Highland Place, Berkeley
Time: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cost: Free, RSVP Optional Location: Grace North Church, 2138 Cedar St., Berkeley
Join the Nyingma Institute for en evening of Buddhist prayer and meditation during this chanting ceremony under the full moon. Nyingma students will help lead the chanting of the Vajra Guru Mantra throughout the event, interspersed with moments for meditation and reflection. All are welcome and no preregistration is required. There will be free private parking at 2727 Hearst Ave., just around the corner from the front entrance to the institute.
Walk the free labyrinth at Grace North Church, surrounded by 97 candles lighting the path, while the Winding Way musicians play a variety of music from around the world designed to inspire inner peace. The labyrinth is open to people of all walks of life. Those interested in the meditative qualities of a labyrinth walk are encouraged to attend and can optionally RSVP at eventbrite.com.
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Hayward Farmers Market Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost: Free, Prices vary by booth Location: Watkins between B Street and C Street, Hayward Those looking for fresh, locally grown produce come check out the Hayward Farmers Market. Sporting a diversity of fruits, vegetables, gourmet specialties, fresh fish and freshly cut flowers the market is a great place to get just what you need. Network with local growers and enjoy a cool winter day in Hayward. Those interested in becoming vendors can fill out an application at www.agriculturalinstitute.org.
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Decolonize Your Diet: Food Workshop and Street Fest Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: Free Location: 970 Grace Ave., Oakland The “Decolonize Your Diet: Food Workshop and Street Fest” is apart of the Ruckus n’ Resilience street fair, and is the last installment of the year. Decolonize Your Diet uses food as medicine and to combat racism in the food system. The event features panel conversation, workshops, and cooking circles. The street party is partnership with Destiny Arts Center, that celebrates food traditions, resistance, and culture.
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Bay Area storm a prelude, but not yet El Niño By Lisa M. Krieger SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS Mother Nature’s season opener arrived in Northern California on Monday, delivering to a parched landscape the most rain and snow seen in the past 10 months. An autumnal storm traveling from the Gulf of Alaska sent balmy weekend temperatures plummeting 10 to 20 degrees and dumped more than an inch of rain in places from Livermore to the Santa Cruz Mountains. In the Lake Tahoe area, jubilant ski areas reported up to 8 inches of snow and planned to start snow-making Monday night. Ski resort Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe welcomed the snowfall by announcing it will open Wednesday, about
three weeks before the traditional Thanksgiving opening. Along the eastern Sierra, aspens glowed yellow, orange and red under a thin blanket of white. “It’s like welcoming back an old friend,” said landscape photographer Charlotte Gibb, of Lafayette, staying at Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Hotel near the 1,250-foot Royal Arch Cascade waterfall. “I woke up to the glorious sound of cascading water.” It was a traditional storm for this time of year, said meteorologists, and doesn’t signal the arrival of El Niño, which could bring soaking winter storms in December, January and February. Skies dried in time for San Francisco’s annual Día de los Muertos procession in the Mission District on Monday night, a hundreds-strong march of painted faces, candles, incense, costumed dancers
and activists. By Tuesday, temperatures will climb up to 65 to 70 degrees under a bright blue sky. The rest of the week is predicted to be dry, with a warm weekend in the mid-70s. Clear skies may persist all of November. The last time the Bay Area got this much rain was February 6, said meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services. Then San Jose recorded 1.26 inches; Livermore .96 inches and Oakland .91 inches. With Monday’s storm, San Jose received 1.13 inches; Livermore 1.4 inches and Oakland 0.3 inches. The rain gauge at Los Gatos Creek at Interstate 280 recorded almost two inches of rain. The storm was wetter than predicted due to a confluence of factors that caused a lingering of “cells,” individual air masses that loop up and down, producing precipitation, said Null. “I wanted to stay home and watch the grass grow,” said Katrina Deane, of Moss Beach, whose horse pastures have been brown for months. “Those tiny needles of green poking up are such a welcome sight.” At Point Reyes National Seashore, winds surpassed 40 miles per hour, forcing the closure of the stairs at the lighthouse. Only two days earlier, several high temperature records were broken or tied across Northern California.
This past month — at 64.5 degrees on average — was the third-warmest October in California since officials began keeping records more than a century ago. February and June were also unusually hot. But here’s the good news: A weather pattern that persisted almost all of last winter, keeping the state unusually dry, seems to have changed. That giant high pressure system — a big bunch of air piled up into a ridge, dubbed a “ridiculously resilient ridge” — is no longer parked off our coast, deflecting storms. So now the wet and windy Pacific jet stream is free to visit, swinging down from the Pacific Northwest to California. Because it’s still only November, the jet stream’s forays are only occasional. In fact, weather models say that the rest of the month is likely to be dry. “What happens in the fall is not a good predictor” of future precipitation trends, said Daniel Swain of Stanford University’s Department of Environmental Earth System Science. “But as we transition from fall into winter, the jet stream shifts southward, so we get precipitation on a more consistent basis,” said Swain. “Once December hits, the fire hose turns on,” he said. That is especially true this year, due to El Niño events out in the Pacific Ocean. Already, the shifting season can be seen outdoors, as water-loving creatures gather. “There are literally thousands of sandhill cranes scattered all around,” said Lodi’s Gordon Christianer, who is helping organize next weekend’s annu-
al Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival. Triggered by shortening days and inclement weather, birds seek abundant food and protective waters after an arduous journey from Canada, he said. In the fall and winter, the Sacramento Valley offers one of nature’s most dramatic spectacles, attracting some of the largest concentrations of migrating waterfowl in North America. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, “our slimy-skinned friends — banana slugs, newts and salamanders — emerge out from under logs and leaf duff,” said Drew Tracy, park aide at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The Sierra Nevada received 4 to 8 inches of snow at lower elevations and a foot or 2 at the summits, according to the National Weather Service, which issued a winter storm advisory through late Monday for the region. With a forecast calling for cold temperatures overnight and through the week, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows’ snowmakers planned to start their machines on Monday night, in preparation for Squaw Valley’s opening day on Nov. 25 and Alpine Meadow’s opening day on Dec. 11. “These early storms are key to setting a base for snowpack” and inspire people to buy season passes and prep their equipment, said spokeswoman Liesl Kenney. “Once we see snow falling, there’s celebration,” she said. “It’s monumental.” Mark Gomez and the Associated Press contributed to this report
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Men fall, women tie on senior day By Louis LaVenture NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR Men’s Soccer Losing is tough, especially on senior day. The Cal State East Bay men’s soccer team came up short after Cal State Los Angeles forward Steven Eberle laced a game-winner past CSUEB senior goalkeeper Adrian Topete with just five minutes left in regulation for a 3-2 victory. With the Pioneers out of playoff contention, this was the final game of the year and senior day for CSUEB. It was a pair of sophomore forwards, Jeremy Romero and Michael Paiva that got the scoring started. Freshman midfielder Marco Neves found Romero and he was able to blast a shot past Golden Eagles goalkeeper Anthony Perez for an early 1-0 lead just 12 minutes into the contest. Fifteen minutes later, senior midfielder Chris Gaitan passed the ball to Paiva who put the ball past Perez for a 2-0 lead. Paiva and Romero end the season tied for the lead in goals with 5 each. It was Gaitan’s fifth assist of the season, which is also a team-high for the Pioneers in 2015. “The seniors were great, all of them are leaders,” CSUEB Head Coach Andrew Cumbo said. “You can’t really replace experience, I’m confident that we have done a good job developing others who will step into a leadership role immediately.” Underclassmen Steffen Sauer, Juan Alfaro, Paiva and Romero will be asked to step up into those positions for next year’s squad, Cumbo explained. CSULA scored once before halftime to narrow the CSUEB lead to 2-1 and they didn’t score again until there was less than ten minutes left in regulation play. The Golden Eagles tied the game 2-2 in the 81st minute and nabbed the game-winner less than five minutes later in the match. “We took our foot off the gas pedal,” CSUEB senior Duke Driggs said. “We got lazy and we were not working together.” The Pioneers finished the season 5-12 overall and 3-9 in California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference games. CSULA finished the regular season 113-2 overall and 8-3-1 in conference play
which puts them in post-season play. The Golden Eagles are currently awaiting the announcement of the playoff matches. For Driggs, the final game of his career was bittersweet. “Our coach always says that a part of you dies when you finish playing your last game,” Driggs said. In addition to Topete, Driggs and Gaitan fellow Pioneer seniors Michael Tieku and Kellen Crow also competed in their final matches at CSUEB. Women’s Soccer It was a battle of defenses in the women’s game and after double overtime, defense won as the teams ended the regular season with a 0-0 tie. The tie was the final game of the year for Cal State East Bay who had several scoring chances in the opening minutes after halftime and totaled 11 scoring opportunities in the second half, but the Golden Eagles defense smothered the ball and denied those opportunities. Both teams went back and forth but defense was the theme of the day. The Pioneers outshot CSULA 15-10 but the Golden Eagles had a 4-3 shot on goal advantage in the game. However, CSUEB junior goalkeeper Katelyn Oshima was perfect on the day and stopped all four shots by the offense. Pioneer juniors Corryn Barney and Andrea Hernandez both had two shots on goal but could not find the back of the net thanks to Golden Eagle goalkeeper Adriana Maldonado who recorded the shutout. CSUEB ends the season 5-12-1 overall and 3-8-1 in California Collegiate Athletic Association Conference competition while the Golden Eagles finish 2015 at 7-6-4 overall and 7-3-2 in conference games. While the Pioneers are out of the playoff contention, CSULA will likely make the cut which will be announced this week. “The current junior class is loaded with talent and experience,” CSUEB Head Coach Amy Gerace said. “They are a fantastic group to build around.” Mindy Castro, Joanna Giron, Sara Silva and Laura McIntosh are the four departing seniors for CSUEB.
PHOTOS BY TAM DUONG JR./THE PIONEER
Bottom left: Senior Duke Driggs focuses on the ball during a home game last month. Top right: CSUEB junior Corryn Barney battles a CSULA player for the ball on Saturday. Center left: CSUEB Head Coach Andy Cumbo motivates his team at Pioneer Stadium last month. Center right: A wall of CSUEB defenders attempt to block a free kick.