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Students bring folklore to performance
Germany signs commitment to CSU’s
By Bryan CordovaMANAGING EDITOR
By Bryan Cordova MANAGING EDITOR
It was a night out of a dark fairytale filled with twisted dreams, vampires, and spirits.
The 43rd Pilipino Cultural Night brought audiences into a fantasy world last weekend. The show’s cast and crew consisted of members of California State University, East Bay’s student club, the Pilipino American Student Association that consists of over 100 members. This years rendition, “The Night Walker” mixed a story of a Prince Felipe who discovers his family secrets through the use of folklore, and traditional and mod-ern dances of the Filipino community as supplements to the play written by PASA member Darlene Megino.
“With every culture, there are myths that are known, but the origin of those stories remain unknown. The script I wrote for this play was my take on the different stories of Filipino folklore that I grew up hearing as a child,” Megino said.
The play contained old myths such as the vampire like witch ghoul known as an Aswang, and the White Lady who haunts the palace. Since the start of spring quarter, PASA members held acting rehearsals, edited the play and stories, and spent hours in the Theatre Workshop putting together the back-drops and decorations for the show.
The show consisted of numerous aspects that combine music from an instrumental band, cultural dances be-tween the acts, and acting. One of the dances had the dancers dressed in white shirts and colored scarves, with dy-namic jumps around benches that they stacked higher as the dance progresses. Some of the play’s actors had to do nu-merous quick changes between scenes due to them also performing in the dances for the show.
This year’s show contained 11 danc-es that were rooted in Filipino historic dance styles of Muslim, Spanish, Barrio, Mountain, and also had two modern
hip-hop dances choreographed by nine of PASA’s members. Each participant of the modern dances had to also partici-pate in at least two traditional dances for the show. Some dancers went above that requirement, specifically mem-ber Andrew Bolario who performed 10 dances including the girl’s hip-hop.
“I just wanted to dance. Just dancing with my family and sharing the stage with everyone who participated to have the best college experience that anyone can ask for,” said Bolario.
Throughout the play, audience mem-bers shouted and cheered names of per-formers during their dances. Theatre seats were filled with cast and crew’s family members, CSUEB students, PASA alumni, and members from Ak-bayan, the Pilipino American organiza-
tion of San Jose State University.“We were originally there to support
our friends, and wanted to see what the show was about,” said Akbayan member Christian Villanueva.
Villanueva was an actor and dance performer of SJSU’s 27th PCN produc-tion earlier this year. East Bay and San Jose State have attended each other’s shows for the last few years according to the current president of PASA Megan Pi-neda. She explained that CSUEB, SJSU, and San Francisco State have an alliance that support each other throughout the year, which they dubbed the ‘tri-force’ due to their locations in the three cor-ners of the Bay.
“We attend each others shows every year because of the tri-force. SJ and
German officials from the southwest state of Baden-Württemberg signed a five-year agreement in the Multipur-pose room at CSUEB on Friday May 22, to continue the international exchange program with the California State Uni-versity system.
For 20 years the CSU system has worked with universities in Germany through a partnership that has given students from either country the oppor-tunity to study abroad. According to Leo Van Cleve, CSU Dean of International Programs, over 2,000 students have participated in the program since 1967, and the signing of the agreement will extend the opportunity for another five years. Former chancellor, Charles Reed, signed the last agreement in 2005 for a 10-year commitment.
During the signing event, Minis-ter-President of Württemberg, Winfred Kretschmann remarked on the partner-ship and why California is an ideal loca-tion for their students.
“Point five percent of the [Gross Domestic Product] in Württemberg is spent on education, a top value that we see in California where 4.8 percent of the state’s GDP goes to research” said Kretschmann. He added that the state is a force for innovation, especially in green technology for climate change. Earlier this year he signed a global pact with Governor Jerry Brown where the
Hayward homeless rates below county averageSEE NEWS PAGE 3
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Aswang wreaks havoc on prince’s dreams
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Alyssa Lumba portrays an aswang, a creature who poses as a human by day, disguised as the queen during “The Night Walker” last weekend.
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Batman and Superman don’t kill
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The “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” trailer was released April 17, and the mov-ie will hit theatres March 25, 2016. During the trailer, Batman said, “Tell me, do you bleed? You will.” When I heard that line, all I could think was, “Why does Batman sound like a ‘Mortal Kombat’ character?”
It’s clear that the style of this film, as with its predeces-sor, “Man of Steel,” is based off of the Christopher No-lan Batman mov-ies. What “Man of Steel,” and likely Batman v. Super-man, lack is the sub-stance of the Batman trilogy. People have learned the wrong lessons from “The Dark Knight.”
The same thing happened 30 years ago. Comic creators learned the wrong lessons from “Watchmen,” Alan Moore’s landmark graphic novel, kick-ing off the period of comic book history often referred to by fans as the “Dark Age of Comics,” an era where many comics were as violent and sexi-fied as an R-rated movie.
“The Dark Knight” wasn’t good be-cause it was dark and gritty; it was good because a man who understands the art of filmmaking meticulously crafted it. Of course, there are many problems
with “Man of Steel,” but the one that keeps jumping out at many people is the ending.
At the end of the movie, Zod, the main villain, tells Superman that the
only way that their con-flict will end is if one
of them dies. And in the end, Superman
kills Zod, proving him right in a
movie that was marketed to
c h i l d r e n , a state-
ment that is proven by the “I Can Read” books based on this movie.
When asked in an interview about the ending, director Zack Snyder said that it was in order to explain why Superman has a “no-killing” rule. “The ‘Why?’ of it for me was that if [the movie] was truly
an origin story, his aversion to killing is unexplained…” That betrays a huge amount of cynicism on the part of the director. Superman has an aversion to killing for the same reason most people have an aversion to killing; because it is wrong. No other reason is necessary.
I like superheroes fighting criminals as much as the next person, but my superheroes are also compas-s i o n a t e .
idea of what maturity means often lose this compassion.
Some people think that the prob-lem with “Man of Steel” was that it
was dark. That wasn’t the prob-lem -- the problem is that it
was cynical. You can be dark without being cyn-ical. You can have a story
where bad things happen but heroism and kindness are
valued. The movie’s characters may
talk a big game about how Su-perman is an “inspiration” but at
the end of the day, that was still a movie that ends with the hero prov-
ing that the villain was right, directed by a man who thinks that Superman wouldn’t have a code against killing un-
less he had already tried it.That cynicism in children’s media is a real problem. I in-
clude “Man of Steel” among children’s media despite
its PG-13 rating, not only because Superman is a character that is ostensibly for
children, but also because there were
“I Can Read” books based on it. When we put
cynicism in our stories for children, what are we teach-
ing them? What wonders are we destroying with our darkness?
Of course, the movie isn’t out yet. It could be good. Maybe the only
reason “Man of Steel” seemed cynical was because it was the first part of a longer saga.
However, the whole point of a trailer is to get people interested in the movie by showing what it’s about. If Warner Bros. was trying to make me want to see Batman v. Superman, they failed.
Not only does my Batman fight crimi-nals he also tries to help them be bet-ter people. My Superman isn’t great because he can punch at the speed of sound, he’s great because he cares about everyone, even the ones who hate him. But people who have a teenager’s
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A Hayward homeless man, who goes by Jim, digs through the trash at the Arco gas station on the corner of Tennyson Road and Mission Boulevard last week.
Despite what many people believe, the homeless epidemic is not on the rise in Hayward.
Since as early as 2003, surveys, ques-tionnaires and censuses taken by sub-contractors of Alameda County have been used gauge the size of the homeless population in the East Bay. However, Hayward has become a victim of these outlier cities in the Bay Area and has been lumped into the rising homeless problem in the Bay Area.
Yet out of the homeless population rates for cities in the East Bay, Oak-land and Berkeley are both significant-ly higher than Hayward’s, according to a 2014 Alameda Countywide Homeless Count and Survey authorized by the county and conducted by Aspire Con-sulting LLC. in association with the Ev-eryOne Home organization.
In the report, there were 4,264 listed in one of the three homeless categories in the East Bay, though, out of the home-less population rates for cities in the East Bay, Oakland and Berkeley are both significantly higher than Hayward’s, Hayward holds just a small percentage of that overall population with less than one percent of its 151,574 residents listed as homeless. With over 1.5 million peo-ple in Alameda County, just .28 percent are listed as homeless.
The three categories of homelessness are described in the report. Unshel-tered homeless, people with no income that live on the streets or in abandoned buildings, chronically homeless, people who have some type of income, usual-ly government assistance, but do not maintain a steady address and in all
likelihood live with a relative, friend or shelter and family homeless, consist of two or more people that do not have a permanent address or steady financial income which constantly fluxuates their living situation.
Categories were created and defined in partnership with the United States Department of Housing and Urban De-velopment in order to create a more nar-row scope of the homeless population in the county. HUD Secretary Julian Castro noted that while many people are familiar with what homeless means there are new forms of this epidemic constantly arising.
“As our economy continues to im-prove, we need to ensure our budget pro-vides opportunity for vulnerable fami-lies living on the margins and restores the harmful cuts to our rental assistance programs,” Castro said in a press release last month.
Many families who lost their homes to foreclosures and other financial is-sues primarily generated by the poor economy have been placed in the family homeless category in order to provide a more accurate numerical assessment to the problem in the East Bay.
Images On The Rise is a non-profit organization in Hayward founded by Bessie Daniels and her daughter Marie Sholes in 1992. Sholes said the organiza-tion was created to provide transitional housing for homeless men, women and women with children.
The first site on 74th Avenue in East Oakland housed 24 men. In just two years the organization grew to five sites throughout the East Bay that house up to 95 people on any given day.
“We offer many services homeless people usually can’t afford like perma-nent housing, job training, employment, childcare and help with homeowner-
ship,” Sholes said. “Homelessness will never go away unless people can get some housing and financial stability to help them succeed.”
Alameda County has the second highest poverty rate of all five Bay Area counties with nearly 12 percent of its residents living below the poverty line. Alameda trails just San Francisco Coun-ty, which leads the Bay Area with over 12 percent of its population living below the poverty line and .75 percent of its population listed as homeless. Just a lit-tle over .25 percent of the East Bay pop-ulation is listed as homeless, according to the new report.
According to the Hayward Police De-partment, as recent as last year there were over ten homeless encampments in the industrial areas of Hayward dis-covered on various patrols for burglary suppression. An HPD official said it requires three days notice before an en-campment can be cleared.
Homeless camp clearings are a com-mon situation for Bob—better known as “Bob the Builder”—who did not want his last name released and has been home-less in Hayward for over 20 years. Bob survives by collecting recyclables and doing small projects for people around the North Hayward neighborhood sur-rounding the Hayward BART station.
“When my mom died in 1992 I got really depressed and started to drink a lot and do drugs,” Bob said. “Heroin and alcohol were the only two things that helped me get through my mom’s death. They numb the pain more than anything, but I wouldn’t have made it any other way. After a few years on the streets, you learn how to survive real quick.”
Bob said that his drug and alcohol addictions led to him losing his mother’s house due to unpaid taxes in 1993 when he began to live on the streets.
“First I used to sleep under the over-pass on A Street by the Amtrak station,” Bob continued, “but there was a lot of
homeless people living there, it wasn’t safe. Then I started to look for spots that were hidden or hard to find so I could be safe and get some comfort, comfort in the streets is hard to find and harder to keep.”
Bob utilizes restaurants and stores that stay open 24 hours to accommodate his turbulent lifestyle.
On Jackson Street near Grand Ave-nue there is a 24-hour donut shop next door to a 24-hour laundry mat that has become a haven for homeless people in Hayward like Bob who can stay as long
as they patronize the business.Hayward boasts even a smaller num-
ber of crimes and incidents that involve homeless people and according to the Hayward Police Department less than one percent of all crimes reported last year involved homeless people.
“It will take a collaboration of not just citizens but also local governments to end homelessness in Alameda County and everywhere,” Executive Director of EveryOne Home Elaine de Coligny said. “This is something people have to com-mit to in order to change it.”
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PCNFrom Page 1
Top right: Arvin Garcia [left] and Kendrick Ladao [right] as Luke and Prince Felipe discuss Felipe’s concerns about his upcoming ball to pick his bride to be during “The Night Walker” last weekend in the CSUEB University Theatre. Top left: Kamille Varilla and Anthony Gamez peform the waltz during the introduction dance to Lana Del Rey’s “Once Upon A Dream.” Bottom left: Megan Pineda stares down the audience during the mountain suite dance named Pagdiwata. Bottom right: The men of the Pilipino American Student Association perform Idaw, a dance that depicts the hunting ritual before a tribal war near the climax of the play.
Top: Last weekend CSUEB students perform the “fingernail” dance known as Pangalay Ha Patong. Bottom: The dance performers stack benches and hop around while performing stunts during the Sayaw Sa Bangko dance on the Hayward campus.
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East Bay has always supported each oth-er,” Pineda said.
Each university hosts their own PCN night every year, with a different story but they always contain similar dance styles of the Filipino community. Pineda hopes that next year more students be-come involved and see the performanc-es.
“[Students] should come experience a show that enable them to have a taste of the Filipino culture as well as be able to have fun and see a storyline” said Pine-da. “All the different aspects intertwine and create a great production, all done by students here at East Bay.”
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Above: Leo Van Cleve, Rector Hans-Jochen Schiewer and CSUEB President Leroy Morishita chat during the celebration on Friday in East Bay’s multipurpose room. Left: Minister President Kretshmann, Baden-Wüttemberg drinks coffee while he discusses the international program with students.
state of California pledged to reduce green-house gases by 80 percent by 2050.
Kretschmann added that a fourth of college graduates in California received a degree from the CSU System and that 23 sites were allocated for their 400 students in the program from Germany.
After his address, Cleve presented a history of the program that included tes-timonials from CSU students who attend-ed German universities. He stated that 103,000 degrees are awarded annually
from the CSU system, and all of the cam-puses participate in the exchange program except for California State University, Mar-itime, due to their criteria being geared to-wards marine engineering.
According to the CSU international program website, the German exchange program allows students to take classes like International Marketing and Manage-ment, International Business and German Language. Students who would like to be a part of the program must be in their ju-nior or senior year with a minimum GPA of 2.75. The CSU IP handles housing arrange-ments for students who will be traveling abroad.
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Arriba: Los asistentes tuvieron la oportunidad de conocer personalmente a sus patrocinadores. Centro: Xinjian Lu le da su merecida beca a Rosario Morales. Debajo: El decano Jagdish Agrawal le da la bienvenida a los participantes del evento.
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Ceremonia de becas en negocios
Por Pavel Radostev PushinaEDITOR DE COPIA EN ESPAÑOL
El viernes 22 de mayo, el colegio de negocios y economía organizó el evento “Condecoración, presentación y recep-ción de becas para el colegio de nego-cios y economía” para proclamar los ganadores de varias becas relacionadas con los negocios.
El evento tuvo lugar en el edifico de negocios de la escuela en el auditorio 124. La ceremonia duró de 6.30 p.m. a 8.30 p.m. Hubo comida para los estudi-antes y familiares antes de empezar, y tarta al termino de la ceremonia.
Entre los ganadores había nomás una persona de origen latinoamericano: Re-nan Ramírez proveniente de la capital peruana, Lima. Renan ganó la beca de empresas privadas de Joseph Fuhrig. Fuhrig fue un estudiante liberal y capi-talista de Berkley. Su beca buscaba estas mismas características en el recibidor, un estudiante liberal y capitalista con una nota media de 3.5 GPA.
La beca ofrece $1000 a dos estudi-antes. Renan está en economía y fue premiado con $500. Xinjian Lu fue la estudiante que obtuvo los otros $500 junto a Renan.
“Mi familia dice que he echo un méri-to, y estoy muy privilegiado de estudiar [aqui]”, dijo Renan. “Estoy muy conten-to, el dinero es importante [en los estu-dios] y esta es la primera vez que gano una beca”.
Renan explicó que se emocionó un poco al recibir la beca dada la presen-cia de sus familiares y amigos cercanos, quienes también estuvieron orgullosos de Renan. “Me daban ganas de llorar. Por un segundo me sentí como si me ga-naba el Óscar”.
“Mi familia sabe que no descuido los estudios,” dijo Renan. Sus familiares y él sentían que la beca estaba bien mereci-da por los esfuerzos de Renan en su vida académica.
De toda la ceremonia nomás hubo un receptor de origen latinoamericano. La mayoría eran asiáticos. El segundo gru-po más numeroso fueron blancos y en tercer lugar estudiantes de India. Estas cifras son significativamente pequeñas al comparar los índices étnicos de la
universidad. En febrero de 2015 los índi-ces indicaban un 40.8% de estudiantes latinoamericanos en UECBE.
Dada la dominante presencia de lati-nos en California e incluso en la escuela esta cifras son injustas ante la población latinoamericana. Muchos de los latinos necesitan la beca dos veces mas que al-gunos receptores de origen diferente al latinoamericano.
Los latinoamericanos están por de-bajo de la media en cuanto a ayuda fi-nanciera se refiere. La diferencia étnica no debería de ser un eslabón en la vida académica de un estudiante.
Muchas de las otras becas ofrecían sumas de $500 a $1000, de $2000, e incluso una de $4000. Muchos estudi-antes incluso recibieron más de una beca. El decano de la escuela de negocios presento varias becas a sus estudiantes.
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Los Raiders de Oakland podrían regresar NOTICIAS
El 19 de mayo los Raiders de Oak-land, en colaboración con los Chargers de San Diego, acordaron para comprar cerca de 160 acres de terreno en Car-son. Los Raiders y los Chargers están tratando de adquirir nuevos estadios en sus hogares actuales, pero están persiguiendo la propuesta de Carson si no surge un trato.
El anuncio se produjo dos días antes de que las reuniones de los propietari-os de la NFL tuvieran lugar en el hotel Ritz Carlton en San Francisco la sema-na pasada. Los tres equipos que buscan una posible reubicación al sur de Cali-fornia, incluyendo los Rams de St. Lou-is, informaron sobre sus situaciones ac-tuales con los estadios en las reuniones de propietarios el miércoles. El acuerdo sobre el terreno es contingente a ambos de los equipos que están comprando terreno juntos con el propósito de con-struir un estadio conjunto para las dos
Por Louis LaVentureEDITOR DE DEPORTES Y DEL CAMPUSTraducción por Pavel Radostev Pushina
franquicias de California en Carson.Los Raiders fueron el único equipo
de los tres que aún no había producido un plan financiero para un nuevo esta-dio en su ciudad actual, lo que llevó al comisionado Roger Goodell a decir que la ciudad necesita crear una propues-ta sobre como piensan mantener a los Raiders en Oakland en una conferencia de prensa el miércoles pasado.
El dueño de los Raiders Mark Davis confía que el equipo puede quedarse en Oakland si se puede construir un differ-ente estadio.
“Si podemos hacer algo en Oakland, nos quedamos en Oakland,” dijo Davis en una conferencia de prensa el miér-coles pasado.
Según Davis el equipo y la liga están dispuestos a contribuir $500 millones lo que dejaría otros $500 millones para ser cubiertos por la ciudad y el condado de Alameda. Esto es algo que es poco probable que los votantes acepten te-niendo en cuenta que los contribuyentes de Oakland y el condado de Alameda siguen siendo responsables de mas de $100 millones que fueron a renova-ciones del Coliseo de Oakland cuando
los Raiders se volvieron de Los Ángeles en el ano 1995.
En una conferencia de prensa la se-mana pasada el nuevo alcalde de Oak-land Libby Scaaf dijo que la ciudad, “tiene la intención de mantener todos los equipos deportivos de la ciudad.” Sin embargo el alcalde Schaaf también dijo que la ciudad no puede costearse construir un nuevo estadio.
Los aficionados protestaron en las escalinatas del hotel en San Francisco donde las reuniones tuvieron lugar el miércoles pasado con el fin de traer un poco de atención a la cuestión.
“He sido propietario de boletos de temporada por más de 20 años, inclu-so antes de que se mudaran,” dijo John Garcia. “Contribuyo financieramente para ayudar al equipo junto al resto de los demás. Es injusto, y si se mueven el contragolpe será enorme.”
Las autoridades municipales tienen la esperanza de que un inversor venga hacia adelante con el fin de ayudar a financiar un estadio y mantener el equi-po de Oakland. Sin embargo, la NFL y Goodell están buscando presionar a la ciudad para que haga una propuesta
para el estadio.La NFL originalmente programo
el enero de 2016 como mes final para que los equipos soliciten una reubi-cación en la próxima temporada. Sin embargo, el miércoles Goodell dijo que estaba considerando mover esa fecha hasta finales de este año, ya que hay varios equipos interesados en trasladarse a la misma zona.
Oakland y el condado de Alameda contrataron al empresario de San Di-ego Floyd Kephart para producir el financiamiento para un nuevo estadio de Oakland, así como dinero adicional
para reurbanizar el área que rodea el este de Oakland. De acuerdo con los funcionarios de la ciudad, Kephart dijo que está de camino para cumplir la fecha límite del 21 de junio fijada por la liga que requiere un plan de fi-nanciación previo e información sobre todos los inversores implicados.
La ciudad, el condado y la liga tienen la esperanza de que los Raiders se queden en Oakland, pero el equipo seguirá persiguiendo sus opciones de un estadio en Carson ahora que se ha alcanzado un acuerdo de adquisición de paquetes condicional.
O.co Coliseum es la actual sede de los Oakland Raiders y los Oakland Athletics.
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Lawn areas changed to native gardens in water saving effortBy Louis LaVentureSPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR
Campus makes botanical conversion
A three-year project to convert several grass areas on campus to na-tive plant botanical gardens wrapped up on Friday May 22.
Environmental studies instruc-tor David Larson and more than 20 students in his field class, comprised primarily of seniors, completed phase three of a Campus Sustainabil-ity Project last week on a lawn area
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Students and staff along with the Facilities and Development Operations Department convert a lawn area into a botanical garden on Friday at the CSUEB Hayward Campus.
between Robinson Hall and the Music Building on the Hayward campus.
Phase One was on the west side of Robinson Hall and Phase Two on the south side of the building in Spring 2013 and Spring 2014 respectively. All of the new plants will have signs that explain what they are including their names.
Larson explained that, “Converting lawn to drought-tolerant botanical gar-dens is part of the university’s plan to reduce campus water consumption, a directive of the Chancellor’s Office and President Morishita has endorsed this activity. Lawns like these don’t do much but suck up water.”
Larson also said the signage that identifies the plants is really what makes a botanical garden, and that this is a di-rect effort to contribute to the CSUEB water consumption mandate since the
gardens require little and in many cases no water at all.
According to the Water Conservation Plan released by the Facilities Devel-opment and Operations Department in the summer of 2014, “With the current status of the drought of California, on February 4, 2014, the California State University has mandated that campuses reevaluate water usage and implement strategies to reduce water consumption by 20 percent by 2020.”
The lawn renovation project is just one of many projects that were devel-oped as a result of the FDO 2014 report.
Kathy Cutting is a CSUEB Concord Campus Consultant and also a 2014 CSUEB graduate who participated in the previous projects with Larson’s class.
This time Cutting helped develop a sustainability demonstration project,
and this was one of the many ideas she developed for CSUEB.
“I designed landscape plans for a turf replacement project primarily mo-tivated by the water conservation effort of the campus,” Cutting said. “This site was one of the designs for that project. The university has a blueprint of what we can do.”
The lasting impact was not lost on students in the class who participated in the sustainability project.
“This is a great way to leave a footprint for all students, staff and everybody who sees this for the years to come,” Abhijeet Kulkarni, senior environmental studies major said. “This is much more than just a class. We get to apply what we learn in the real world and shadow professionals in the field we want to be in. This is a great experience.”
In addition to the garden, which according to Larson does not use wa-ter and attracts natural wildlife like butterflies and birds, there is a $900 sandstone bench in the center of the area which Larson feels will help cre-ate “tranquility” in the garden.
“It feels really good to do some-thing that should not only help with our water use but [also] add to the bio-diversity on campus,” Meghan Ferris, senior environmental studies major said. “Anything that reduces water use is pleasing and when you combine that with nature and plants, things can work better.”
Larson is hopeful that once the university sees what his class was able to accomplish in one day more projects will be approved on all of the CSUEB campuses.
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Top Left: CSUEB President Leroy Morishita (left) discusses the sustainability project with Concord Campus Consultant and alumni Kathy Cutting on Friday. Top right: Students spread mulch over cardboard on the lawn between the Music Building and Robinson Hall in Hayward. Bottom Right: A CSUEB student digs in the ground during David Larson’s environmental studies field class on Friday. Bottom left: CSUEB Concord Campus Consultant Kathy Cutting gives students direction on Friday.
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This year could well go down in his-tory as the moment when technology transformed the debate about climate change. Instead of an argument about “the science” indicating “anthropogenic global warming,” the really intractable disagreement concerns the policy what, if anything, our public officials should
require of us as a result of their interpre-tation of the science. While Americans have argued over the policy, worsening an already unimaginative and stagnant political climate, our best technologists have begun to lay the groundwork for scientific advancements that can upend stale debates about capping emissions and the like. For years, the problem with solar power was straightforward: Our technology could not absorb, or store, enough energy from the sun. Now, how-
ever, thanks to the likes of Elon Musk, those days are all but over.
Together, through Tesla and a sepa-rate company called SolarCity, Musk and his cousin Lyndon Rive have achieved advancements in solar cells and battery storage sufficient to attract the attention of some of America’s biggest companies. Wal-Mart wants to use their technolo-gy to power its huge stores, and Apple wants to use it to go completely “clean” in its energy use. But wait, there’s more.
Thanks to technology, superficially out-landish ideas that could revolutionize climate policy are now headed from sci-ence fiction to science fact. Musk’s “hy-perloop” idea for ultrafast mass transit is now in the hands of a crack team of experts who are taking their company public this year.
Elsewhere, the scientists our govern-ment cares about most have broached the idea of tweaking our climate the way Google’s Nest thermostat keeps a handle
on your Heating, Venting and Air Con-ditioning. In a study sponsored by the CIA, NASA and the Department of En-ergy, the National Academy of Sciences has called for experiments in geoengi-neering until now, seen as a kooky lark. Officeholders and officials should be on notice.
In light of these developments, the climate policy debate of the rapidly ap-proaching future isn’t about how we need to live, but how we want to live.
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Thanks to technology, superficially outlandish ideas that could revolutionize climate policy are now headed from science fiction to science fact.
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On May 19 the Oakland Raiders, in partnership with the San Diego Char-gers, agreed to purchase nearly 160 acres of land in Carson. The Raiders and the Chargers are trying to acquire new stadiums in their current homes, but they are pursuing the Carson proposal if a deal does not present itself.
The announcement came just two days before the NFL owners meetings held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco last week. All three of the
Silver and black explore Carson stadiumOakland Raiders could return to Southern CaliforniaBy Louis LaVentureSPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR
teams seeking potential relocation to Southern California, including the St. Louis Rams, gave updates on their cur-rent stadium situations at the owners meetings on Wednesday. The land deal is contingent upon the two teams pur-chasing the land together in order to build a joint stadium for the two Califor-nia franchises in Carson.
The Raiders were the only team out of the three that still had not produced a financial blueprint for a new stadium in its current city, which led NFL Com-missioner Roger Goodell to say that the city needs to create a proposal about how they are going to keep the Raiders in Oakland at a press conference in San Francisco last Wednesday.
Raiders owner Mark Davis is confi-dent that the team can stay in Oakland if a stadium can be built.
“If we can get something done in Oak-land, we’re staying in Oakland,” Davis said at a press conference with the me-dia last Wednesday.
According to Davis the team and the league are willing to contribute $500 million which would leave another $500 million to be covered by the city and Al-ameda County. This is something that voters are unlikely to approve consid-ering that taxpayers in Oakland and Alameda County are still responsible for over $100 million that went to ren-ovations to Oakland Coliseum when the Raiders returned to the Bay Area from Los Angeles in 1995.
In a press conference last week new Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the city, “intends to keep all of the cities sports teams.” However Mayor Schaaf also said that the city couldn’t afford to help fund a new stadium.
Fans protested at the steps of the ho-tel in San Francisco where the meetings
were held last Wednesday in order to bring some attention to the issue.
“I have been a season ticket holder for over 20 years, even before they moved,” John Garcia said. “I do my part finan-cially to help the team and so does ev-erybody I know. This sucks and if they move the backlash will be huge.”
City officials are hopeful that an in-vestor will come forward in order to help fund a stadium and keep the team in Oakland. However the NFL and Goodell are looking to put some pressure on the
city to get a stadium proposal done.The NFL originally set January 2016
as the final month for teams to apply for relocation in the upcoming season. However, on Wednesday Goodell said that he was considering moving that date up to later this year since there are multiple teams interested in relocating to the same area in California.
Oakland and Alameda County hired San Diego businessman Floyd Kephart to produce financing for a new Oakland stadium as well as additional money to
redevelop the surrounding East Oak-land area. According to city officials Kephart said he is on track to meet the June 21 deadline set by the league, which requires a preliminary financing plan and information about all of the in-vestors that are involved.
The city, county and league are hope-ful that the Raiders will stay in Oakland but the team will continue to pursue its stadium options in Carson now that a conditional parcel acquisition agree-ment has been reached.
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O.co Coliseum is the current home of the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland Athletics.
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