Raiders owner meets with San Antonio

Former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros and other city officials traveled to the Bay Area for a meet-

ing that could be the first step in relo-cating the franchise to Texas after this season. Raiders owner Mark Davis told Comcast Sports Bay Area on Friday, “The meeting went great.”

The San Antonio Express-News first reported on Thursday that preliminary results of a survey – partially funded by the Raiders – assessing regional interest for a possible Raiders move would be dis-cussed. Cisneros told the Express-News that the Raiders moving to Texas is a “very clear 50-50 proposition.”

This move could be leverage for owner-ship to keep the Raiders in Oakland by flirt-ing with Los Angeles, the Raiders home from ’82-’84, and San Antonio, to the point of forcing the city to secure a new stadium deal to keep the team in the East Bay. The Raiders stadium lease with the O.co Colise-um ends after the 2014 season.

Oakland mayor elect Libby Schaaf said she reached out to the Raiders on Friday, shortly before the San Antonio representa-tives made their pitch. In an interview with KQED in the Bay Area, Schaaf said a Raid-ers executive reassured her that staying in Oakland is the NFL team’s top priority.

Schaaf told KQED that she’d like to keep both the Raiders and Athletics in Oakland, but draws a line when it comes to public subsidy for a new stadium.

L ast week, Wednesday, 40 students gathered in the au-ditorium of the California

State University, East Bay, Con-

Learning past 50 at CSUEB Concord Campus

cord campus to see the Butterfield 8 Theatre Company present “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wil-de.” While this was an ordinary day at the university, the students in attendance were not your typi-cal college students.

These students are enrolled in

the Osher Lifelong Learning In-stitute on the Concord campus, a program that provides learning for adults ages 50 and up. The program began in 2001 for the purpose of continued learning for retirees and currently has roughly 1,000 members.

According to Scholarolli.com, the program’s “mission is to create a learning environment that fosters creativity, self-discovery and peer education.” They offer courses in lit-erature, poetry, science, history, lib-eral studies and other topics. The program also offers field trips to

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places like the Exploratorium, the Asian Art Museum and the Walt Disney Family Museum.

The program is based out of the CSUEB Concord campus in Con-tra Costa County but also hosts

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Demand more from CSUEB

The idea of voting, or rather the idea of the democratic process, is one of the greatest human inventions. The notion that we can gather together as a group and dynamically decide how we self-govern ourselves through a process of perpetual forward progression has, in my mind, the semblance of utopia. It is a system fundamentally based on the idea that nothing is perfect and we know that, so we can change it as we go — by, simply, voting. The idea that we have a right to body, mind and culture without persecution. And, the idea of championing the duality of the individual and the collective in a simultaneous act.

The problem is in the discrepancy between the idea of America and the reality of things. What’s the value of my vote if the winning candidate will always be the candidate with the most campaign funding? Or, if the winning proposition is always the one with the most corporate sponsorship? If we are going to champion the idea of

democracy by taking part in the democratic gesture of voting, then why don’t we champion the ideas themselves? The best candidate is the one with the best ideas to promote the greater good, not the one who curbs their values to appease and acquiesce to any willing and well-funded lobbyist.

Blindly hoping that a congressional seat here and a senate seat there will grossly change the tides of Washington is just naive. Obama campaigned on the maxim: Change We Can Believe In— and, what has changed? The people who gambled with the livelihood of the working-class have profited from their downfall and, get this, they are all still in charge— NOTHING HAS CHANGED! Think about how much money you were making back in 2011. How does is it compare to today-- any better? The next time you sit in traffic think about what you’d do with 25 percent more wealth— the Job Creators who destroyed our economy have increased their wealth by 26 percent since 2011. Has your pay gone up? Do you feel the trickle down?

Our university is located in a great spot and many would be jealous of what’s in our backyard. To the north

is the activism of Berkeley and Oakland, to the south is the cutting edge of the tech in-dustry in San Jose, and to the west is San Francisco, a world city. If you drive east for a few hours you’ll hit Tahoe and the snow, and a few hours north takes you to Napa and some of the best wine in the world.

But we use hardly any of it to our advan-tage. California State University, East Bay, the university upon the hill, is so isolated from its surrounding environs and I don’t get why. It shouldn’t be. We should be one of the best CSUs in the whole system.

Cheryl Burns, one of our career coun-selors on campus, made an excellent point early in September about our job fair in a letter she submitted to the Silicon Valley Business Times. It was a letter even our President praised.

She argued, even dared, the big tech com-panies in Silicon Valley to attend our fall job fair. Names like Apple, eBay, Facebook, and Twitter were mentioned in her article. Un-less they showed up last minute they did not take up her challenge.

The job fair last month instead attracted primarily local police departments, Kai-ser Permanente, the FBI and then places like Chipotle and Starbucks. According to a report released by the school’s Planning for Distinction committee over the summer, plans have been considered to invest more into our school’s masters programs, and that included far more than just criminal justice.

So ideally we should have more than just police departments and the FBI on campus. Our school is known for the MBAs that it produces, so why can’t our university go out there and tell them that we’re just as good as the other schools they visit?

At recent job fairs at San Jose State Uni-versity, of which they have three per quar-ter while we have one, they had Lockheed Martin, Sandisk, IBM and Hitachi. At Santa Clara University they had the same companies plus companies like Apple and eBay, according to the Silicon Valley Busi-ness Times and their website.

It’s hard to not feel as a student that you’re being let down in some way. I’ve had the plea-sure to work with some of the brightest student leaders on our campus over the past few years and I know that the kids at our university are smart. We make this university what it is. There are many students here who are worthy of jobs at Apple or Lockheed Martin.

In addition to job opportunities, our inter-national study programs are also pretty poor. Actually, they’re nonexistent. We don’t have any native study abroad programs; they’re all sponsored by outside groups and charge exor-bitant amounts of money. There are plans this year to launch our first study abroad program, but the details are yet to be finalized.

According to Kelly Moran, director of the Center for International Education on campus, around 30 students studied abroad last year

through programs offered by other organiza-tions. The non-profit NAFSA: Association of International Educators says on average one percent of US college students study abroad. If that’s true then CSUEB has much more room to grow.

The problem is not that our university is not able to provide more services for its stu-dents and getting them more invested in their campus and their career. The problem is that I don’t think we recognize this as an enormous issue that this university has. I think now is as good a time as any to start a dialogue on how as a whole CSUEB can raise its profile and become better than it already is.

We have the potential, it’s just a matter of letting employers know that it’s here and giving students the kind of opportunities our peers at other universities have.

You may think I am jaded or have lost hope, but that’s the furthest from the truth. I, as a Patriot and an American, respectfully honor the ideas and principles that our country was founded upon, but if the contents of this idea have become corrupt, superficial and automatic — then, what is the point?

To be clear, this is my point: I am optimistic that one day enough of us will stop and realize that the system is unjust, unequal and unfair and we will become awakened to the fact that we live in a fucking Plutocracy. And after this realization, I hope the empty and shallow gesture of voting will be seen for what it really is— an illusion. A new model for democracy will never appear on a ballot, but—we can build it.

We are only free insofar that we effectively strive to free ourselves.

Patrick WillsCSUEB Student

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How will the silver and black ever come back?

T he demise of the Oakland Raiders franchise since their 2002 Super Bowl appearance

has been well documented in recent years. Since the start of the 2003 NFL season they have won 53 games and lost 132, by far the worst record in the league in that time frame.

According to a 2013 Forbes study, they also are among the worst teams off the field, having the fourth lowest franchise value, $970 million, and the worst revenue generation, $244 million, in 2013.

Perhaps most troubling though are the team’s tenuous ownership and management, which threaten to not only harm the product on the field, but the franchise’s very exis-tence in the East Bay.

Since the death of legendary owner Al Davis in 2011, the team has been run by his son, Mark Davis, and has seen an unprecedented lack of leader-ship. The first major decision made by Mark Davis was to fire popular head coach Hue Jackson after the 2011 sea-son, in which the Raiders finished tied for 1st in the AFC West and narrowly missed their first playoff appearance in a decade.

Since Jackson’s firing after finish-ing the season 8-8, and the hiring of head coach Dennis Allen and gener-al manager Reggie McKenzie, the Raiders are 8-32.

The Raiders have hit rock bottom, with Davis having already pulled

the plug on Dennis Allen after the team’s week 4 loss in London, and the team on the field mired in its worst season in franchise history, 0-9. Adding to the fans’ misery is the stadium situation, with the team only obligated to play at O.co Colise-um through the 2014 season.

The team recently made the de-cision to close over 6,000 seats at O.co Coliseum because of low-ticket sales and cost of maintenance.

These same seats were construct-ed in 1996 to bring the Raiders back to Oakland to create additional rev-enue, but now are covered in a mas-sive tarp.

Can it possibly be worse for the once legendary Silver and Black? Perhaps, if the team finishes the im-perfect season at 0-16.

Until ownership and management are able to make significant chang-es to the way the organization is run from top-to-bottom, it’s as difficult a time to be a Raider fan as there has ever been.

It’s time for Mark Davis to take action, or step aside. The best-run franchises in the game have clear roles for the owner, the president, the CEO, the general manager and the coaching staff. The Oakland Raiders do not.

The only way to ensure long-term success on and off the field is to bring strong leadership and a unified men-tality to the team. It starts at the top, with the general manager making all football decisions and the head coach implementing a philosophy.

Raider fans, you know where this is headed. It’s time for the re-

turn of Chucky. It’s the NFL’s worst-kept secret

that former Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach, John “Chucky” Gruden, will only leave his position as Monday Night Foot-ball commentator if an organization

is willing to give him the keys to the franchise. He loves the Raiders and loved Al Davis, and there is no bet-ter time than now for the prodigal son to return.

He’ll want to be the GM and the head coach, and he’ll want a mas-

sive salary, but the Raiders need something to stabilize the current toxic situation and re-energize the fan base and Gruden represents both. So the question at hand is “will the Silver and Black ever be back?” It’s your move, Mr. Davis.

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California State University, East Bay alumna Candice Eroz Diaz comes full circle

Nov. 17 as the former English ma-jor and published author returns to campus to speak in the English De-partment’s Distinguished Writers Series.

Diaz was first published in CSUEB’s literary magazine “Oc-cam’s Razor” and has since been featured in several short story col-lections. She is the first alumni to speak in the school’s Distinguished Writers Series.

After graduating from East Bay, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction and fic-tion at Saint Mary’s College in Mor-aga, where she studied with another featured author, Marilyn Abildskov. Both published authors have re-ceived literary awards.

“[Abildskov] was awarded a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a fellowship at Yaddo, Pushcart Prize nominations for essays in top literary journals and notable essay citations in the an-nual Best American Essays Series for essays in top literary journals,” said Jacqueline Doyle, a CSUEB English professor.

On Nov. 17, Abildskov and Diaz will be sharing personal essays for the series – a free event held in the University Library Biella room.

Abildskov is reading a new es-say. Diaz has not confirmed what she will be reading at the event, but Doyle hopes Diaz will share “Breaking Wide Open,” her essay that was published in the latest issue of “Huizache” magazine and won the San Miguel Writers Conference Writing Contest.

Throughout the years, this se-ries has featured popular authors from all over the Bay Area such as Dorothy Allison, Patricia Smith, Al Young and Daniel Alarcon.

“The Distinguished Writers Series coordinator for [each year] looks at na-tionally acclaimed writers with recent books, or recent publications in top lit-erary magazines,” said Doyle.

The series will also feature au-thors, Kathryn Ma and Marilyn Chin. Although the series only features writers with considerable publications, students still have an opportunity to be a part of the series.

T he Yik Yak tour bus, known as Sherpa, ends its California tour at Uni-

versity of California Irvine on Nov. 11 after visiting 26 college campuses, in 29 cities, and five different states. Yik Yak, an anonymous social media app, is touring the West Coast college campus’s that have become pop-ular users of its mobile feeds.

In the past few weeks, the com-pany visited Bay Area colleges including UC, Berkeley and San Jose State University. California State University, East Bay did not make the cut for a visit due to not having a big enough herd, or user base on the app.

“The reason Yik Yak is much bigger [in San Jose State] is be-cause of the population and the popularity it has on their cam-pus compared to ours. I use Yik Yak mainly when I’m at San Jose State because it’s much more funny and popular. Here at East Bay, it’s repetitive some,” said Justin Tre Sarmiento.

Yik Yak allows users 18 and older to post on a real time mes-sage board based on their loca-tion, specifically a college cam-pus.

Posts usually pertain to cam-pus-related jokes, gossip, com-plaints, news, or just simply asking people to hangout some-where. Users may give posts a like or dislike anonymously ranking posts.

While the intent for posts have been for entertainment purpos-es, there are instances of users requesting illegal substances or

bullying, but posts that receive a total of five dislikes are removed. “Yeah in San Jose, the bashing going on it gets deleted automat-ically here at East Bay it takes two to eight days to be deleted,” said Tre.

Campuses with enough ‘active’ feeds are featured in their Peek section of other schools.

If the app is opened and is geo-located within a 1.5-mile ra-dius of a high school or middle

school, it blocks the feed and encourages the user to distance him or herself from the schools before opening the app again.

On their tour, the application’s mascot, The Yak, walks around to do meet and greets with the app’s users and fans. The tour also contributes games and jumper activities for students to enjoy. An electronic yak-riding game competition can be seen on the tour’s YouTube channel.

According to the company’s FAQ, “If your school’s most re-cent yaks are from four days ago, it’s not going to make the cut. Grow the herd, get posting, and we will notice.” As of today, CSUEB is not a ‘Peek’ campus on the app.

Concordfunctions at community libraries, senior centers, and churches in Oakland, Castro Valley, Dan-ville and Walnut Creek.

“The program is a fine example of how lifelong learning is an activity that students and scholars of all ages can benefit from and that we should always offer opportunities to learn and grow,” said CSUEB President Leroy Morishita. “In this way, it supports the university’s mission to provide access to an ‘academically rich, culturally relevant learning experiences’ for as many people as possible.”

Both CSUEB emeritus faculty and other educators teach the lectures and courses. The program runs financially from membership fees and endowments from the Bernard Osher Foundation, grants, donations and support from CSUEB.

“We have courses and lectures in wonderful subjects like the legacy of Vietnam, or the

comedy of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart,” said Carole Woods, San Ramon resident, and program attendee for five years. “There’s one called literature and the law where we read a piece of literature and then we take a legalistic aspect of it. So you’ll read ‘Raisin in the Sun”’and then talk about the housing problems of African Americans and the zoning laws they used to have.”

OLLI is an offshoot of the SCHOLAR program, founded in 2000 by Herbert Eder, a retired Cal State Hayward professor of geography and environmental studies, according to the website. He currently resides in San Ramon.

In 2001, the SCHOLAR program was developed at then California State Hayward University Concord campus by the former dean, Betty Felton. The president of the university was Norma Rees, and her adviser Dr. Robert Peyton was very instrumental in establishing the program.

SCHOLAR became SCHOLAR-OLLI in January 2003, and then became The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University, East Bay in January 2005.

“I was interested in lifelong learning myself. I was going into retirement and thought it would

be a good thing to continue to learn because I was a university professor at the time,” said Eder. “I had been talking to various of my colleagues who were also retiring and they too thought it would be a good idea to start a learning and retirement program, so, we did it.”

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Marilyn Abildskov will be reading a new essay at the event.

SCHOLAR-OLLI is based at the CSUEB Concord campus.

“Student winners of the [CSUEB’s] DeClercq Poetry Contest will read in the spring at Marilyn Chin’s reading, and there will be a separate launch party and reading for student writers in the Occam’s Razor in the spring as well,” said Doyle.

Occam’s Razor publishes every spring and features works from CSUEB students. The magazine is available online and each year at the English Department’s Annual Publication Party which will be held during the spring quarter.

Herbert Eder’s wife Margaret Eder has been a member of the program since it started. She said, “I’m an avid student and that’s the beauty of the OLLI program. You come for just the pure enjoyment of learning. There are no exams and there’s no required tests.”

“Grow the herd, get posting, and we will notice.”

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Self-described “mutant blues/ garbage rock” band Freak Vibe from Seattle will be

headlining in an all-ages show on Friday at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland.

At first listen, Freak Vibe shows elements of 1970s rock and seems to have influences such as The Clash, Black Sabbath and The Doors.

In the middle of a United States tour, Freak Vibe’s stay in the Bay Area includes an Oakland show, a San Francisco show on Friday, and one in San Jose on Sunday as they make their way back up to their home in Seattle.

The all-ages event also features San Francisco punk band Flesh World and pop/post-punk band Li-noleum Dream from Oakland.

Flesh World singer Jess Scott’s reverb-heavy vocals give the mu-sic a spooky feeling.

Their newest single “A Line In Wet Grass,” released in June, is available on their Bandcamp site for just $2.

Linoleum Dream has a more epic, roomier sound. They include high-reverb guitar sounds and hanging vocal melodies that inte-grate nicely with the way the re-cordings are mixed.

1-2-3-4 Go! Records is an inde-pendent record shop in the Temes-cal District in Oakland. They are known throughout the music com-munity as a store with a very diverse selection and reasonable prices.

Awarded the East Bay Ex-press Best of the East Bay award for Best Punk Record Store in 2009, the family room-

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The store holds shows about

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Although they are fairly new on the music scene, Fremont-based alternative rock band

Six Steps North has synthesized its mix of pop and rock flavors into a new release soon to be available online.

“The band has always been changing and always will, it’s sort of a living organism if you can imagine that,” said lead vocalist Mark Sanders. “With the addition of new members completing the current lineup, the band has definitely been on a fast road of developmental stages that isn’t slowing down, and we love it.”

The band members say this year has been their busiest in terms of song writing and recording so far. They recorded a song called ‘Waiting on a Voice’ at Dirt Room Studios in El Cerrito in April, and the song is available on the band’s official Bandcamp site, which also features acoustic songs recorded over this past summer.

The set is called “Scenic Sessions” and is set to be released, with digital download as well as a few physical copies.

The band consists of six members, Berkowitz on vocals and keyboards, Mike Tran on drums and vocals, Sean Pastor on the bass guitar, Ben Dunlap on the guitar, Mark Sanders on vocals, and Bryan La on the guitar.

The band’s general sound is influenced by modern rock music that each member listened to growing up, however they try to keep the door open to other genres to influence their sound.

“When we’re writing songs, you can find nods towards other genres, such as pop, R&B, acoustic singer-songwriter type stuff and

even Broadway tunes,” said La. “We haven’t made a record that displays those traits, so if you want to hear it, you’d have to come to one of our shows.”

La spoke on his first introduction to music. “My dad was a musician, I grew up with all sorts of his old gear laying around back [from] the bands he was in,” La said. “Hearing him play every day after he’d get home from work was very

motivating for me as a kid.”It was not until high school that La

really immersed himself into the world of music. “I started going to live shows with our manager Sarah Helwig, she was the one who really opened me up to the world of live music,” explained La.

Six Steps North officially formed in early 2012 when La met Berkowitz and Tran. After experimenting with different noises to figuring out song dynamics and harmonies, Pastor,

Dunlap and Sanders joined the team and Six Steps North was born.

For Six Steps North, the next step after playing locally is to tour outside of the Bay Area.

They are working in that direction by opening for acts like Boston indie band Bent Knee in July.

“Touring requires a lot of sacrifice and with six individuals living six different lives it takes some faith and risk to do so,” said Sanders.

“Since the band is still very young and while getting ready to record our new EP, we have time to map out our touring plan.”

“We definitely have a lot of pop influence in our sound that allows us to reach a greater audience,” said Sanders. “We hope to open the door and bring in new listeners that might not usually listen to our genre and win them over with something new and exciting.”

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CSU East Bay hosts high school music festival

T he Highway-to-Work Program provides Alameda County youth ages 14 to 17 on probation, in foster

care or on CalWorks – a program that provides financial assistance to individuals with dependent children – with life-skills workshops, employment and education support, educational stipends and 200-hour paid internships at local job sites, including California State University, East Bay.

Several of the departments within Facilities, Science Technology Engineering, and the Mathematics Department, work with East Bay Community Services, a division of the local non-profit organization La Familia Counseling Services, to provide these opportunities for teens like Julio and Jemma.

Because of the program, Jemma, 18, is going to be the first in her family to go to college and helped her mom buy a house.

Julio, 17, is getting off probation early and is planning on becoming an Emergency Medical Technician.

Both teens said in addition to providing them with the basic life skills that were missing from traditional schooling, such as how to make a resume and maintain their finances, the program also got them jobs.

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receive from their coworkers.“They give me a lot of advice, advice they’d

give to their daughters,” Jemma said. “I really respect them and I’m really grateful for them.”

Manny Ochoa, supervisor for the Grounds Department, works with the teens on a day-to-day basis and said everyone works together to guide the teens, who often are shy and come from disadvantaged homes where one or both parents is absent.

“I try to tell them what it takes to keep a job, what an employer expects,” Ochoa said. “Just basic stuff to survive in the workforce.”

Davida Scott, 23, youth employment specialist with La Familia, is at the center of it all, doing everything from establishing relationships with potential employers for the teens to visiting their work sites and making sure they go to school.

Scott said she receives $300 per youth for each year that she puts towards their work uniforms and monthly bus passes.

“It’s not me doing the work, it’s my students doing the work,” Scott said. “I’m just documenting it and showing proof.”

But Scott does more than that, texting her students in the mornings to see how they are doing, making sure they go to school and setting up tours for them to see local colleges, such as CSUEB.

“I hear them talk about her,” Ochoa said. “They know she cares.”

David Miller, facilities manager, helped

Scott establish the program in the Grounds Department three years ago and has been defending it and helping it grow ever since.

Christopher Nakamura, facilities manager, said he thought it was a really good program and decided to expand the program to 15 students in December 2012.

“It’s a worthwhile cause,” Nakamura said. “It’s about turning kids lives around.”

One of the most important aspects of the program is that the majority of students involved have not been committing new crimes.

“I’ve had over 30 youth dismissed from probation in the last two years,” Scott said, “and these are kids that have been on probation since they were 10 or 11.”

Scott said there are a lot of gangs in Hayward and it’s easy to fall into one “if you’re not getting what you need at home.”

“That’s why a lot of kids join gangs,” Scott said. “You know to feel wanted, to feel protected, to feel that someone is going to be there for you.”

After Julio’s best friend was shot and killed, he decided he had to turn his life around and decided to contact Scott.

“Without the program, I’d be in jail or on the streets still,” Julio said.

Scott said that not everyone is going to change, but the overwhelming majority of her students thrive when given the opportunity to succeed even if there are large obstacles in the way.

Julio was afraid the stigma associated with his probation would prevent him from getting a job, a fear that is all too real for many teens labeled delinquents.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Leopoldo Dorado, who deals with minors charged with criminal offenses, said when Scott approached him and said she had a fully-funded program that would help employ the youth, it was “a real godsend.”

“One of the critical concerns that we have about our minors is ... their ability to be successful on probation, which very often involves payment of restitution,” Dorado said. “Usually these individuals come from low-income families, so they have difficulty paying the restitution.”

Dorado said the program has not only increased the chances of these teens getting off probation, but has also reduced the risk of their returning to crime.

“This is a really important building block that helps them not only stay crime free, but also allows them to be successful in the future,” Dorado said.

More importantly, Dorado said when these kids are asked what they plan on doing with their futures or who their role models are, “they normally say I have no idea.”

The Highway-to-Work Program strives to open doors for these teens and show them life can be different.

High school students from around the Bay Area convened in the theatre building on California

State University, East Bay’s campus Friday to perform alongside the uni-versity’s Wind Symphony as part of the 26th Annual Instrumental Music Festival, an event designed to give teen musicians the experience of playing on a college campus.

The audience in the theatre was filled with parents, conductors, and friends along with the high school band mem-bers waiting in the audience listening to CSUEB’s Wind Symphony open the show.

The symphony’s cinematic 30-minute set opened with a mystical feel with the dominating sounds of woodwinds that sounded like the music from the film “Avatar.”

Following the Wind Symphony the youth played a total of four songs, di-rected by Danielle Gaudry. In the be-ginning section of the performance, the teens had a very classic orchestral sound, but further into it, a more ad-venturous tone developed, due to the change from brass instruments to per-cussion and woodwinds.

The high school students were given sheet music a day before the concert. After they got the sheet music they spent all day with CSUEB’s Director of Bands Danielle Gaudry practicing four songs; “Chorale and Alleluia” by How-ard Hanson, “Kilimanjaro” by Robert Washburn, “Salvation is Created” by Pavel Tchesnokov, and “First Suite in F” by Thom Ritter George.

Despite the fact that the orchestra was assembled just the day before, stu-dents tackled each piece with no slip-ups and made it look effortless.

“I didn’t find it that hard, it’s just a very long day,” said Andrew Thomas, a sophomore, shrugging his shoulders.

“It was kind of nerve wrecking in the beginning getting used to all the bands but it ends up really fun,” said Conor Falvey, a junior after the show.

Bay Area high school music directors recommended a total of 90 students to participate in the music event, based on ability and the instrument they play. Gaudry determined the final 40 or so participants.

The all-day festival included a raffle for a $300 scholarship to a music camp or a $50 music repair prize. Thomas, from Castro Valley High School, won the $50 prize, and Falvey, from El Cami-no High, won the $300 prize.

“There was a lot of variety, the stu-dents did really well,” said Gaudry after the event was finished.” The show was an overall success she said.

This event happens once a year during Fall quarter with an all day practice that is open to the public, leading to the final 7:30 p.m. show.

“It was kind of nerve wreck-ing in the beginning getting used to all the bands but it

ends up really fun.”

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Lynne Osman ElkinTuesday, February 11, 1992

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What fuels the AIDS epidemic? Ignorance

What has changed in the AIDS epidemic?

If it’s so relatively easy to protect ourselves from AIDs, why are we now faced with such a devastating epidemic?

As an experienced AIDS educator, I believe the cause is ignorance, fear and denial.

We are dealing with a virus that incubates in its victims for an average of 11 years, although the victim is contagious right after infection. Most people do not even know they are infected.

To date, approximately 1 million people – 10 million worldwide – are infected. Most of them will die within the next 13 years.

By the year 2000, we will have an estimated 4 million Americans infected, 40 million worldwide.

We are all at risk! The fastest increase of AIDS in this country is in heterosexual women, especially women of color.

Worldwide, most transmission is heterosexual. This is NOT a disease limited to gay men.

Quite a few things have changed since this article was written in 1992. As of 2004 Lynne Elkin is professor emerita biology.

Elkin mentions the refusal to distribute condoms in prison because of the denial of the fact that prisoners engage in sexual

When our ignorance of the facts couples with our fear of dying, we tend to deny the unpleasant realities of what we can do, and instead focus on easier, but fairly worthless emotional solutions.

It’s so much easier to try to force HIV positive children out of school and discriminate against gay-owned businesses, than to modify our sexual behavior, and honestly communicate with our sexual partners.

We deny the well-documented extensive sexual activity of our youth starting at age 13, and refuse to make AIDS education, and life-saving latex condoms available to them.

Similarly, we deny the fact that many heterosexual prisoners temporarily practice homosexuality while in prison, so we refuse to distribute condoms in prison. Remember, prisoners “are not supposed to have sex!”

We focus on the practically impossible, and statically meaningless task of testing health care workers for the virus, instead of enforcing the realistic “universal precautions” standards on all health care activities.

We have the insensitivity to focus on the infinitesimal danger to patients, while minimizing the very real, but luckily small, danger to health care workers.

We pass ineffective laws about prisoners biting and spitting at our police force, instead of giving them the kind of financial support that might really save their lives.

Perhaps deadliest of all, we do not communicate with each other. It is more socially acceptable to risk death than to talk about sex.

This phenomenon seems to be widespread in most countries and religions. Most religious and civic leaders are so afraid of communicating about sex, and so many refuse to recommend the use of latex condoms because it also promotes birth, control, that we let the opportunity to save millions of lives pass us by.

Learn to communicate. Learn the facts. Information will be readily available on campus during AIDS information week. We must not let ignorance, fear and denial prevent us from protecting ourselves and those we love.

Lynne Elkin is a CSUH professor of biology.

practices even though sex in prison is considered illegal. Just a couple months ago Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 966

– the Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act – which requires California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to come up with a five-year plan that will provide the availability of condoms in all California prisons.

According to the CDC, in 2012, the estimated number of HIV diagnosis in the United States was said to be 47, 989.

Male adults and adolescents account for 38,160. Female adults and adolescents accounted for 9,586. Children less than

13 accounted for 242. Elkins seemed sure that by the year 2000 an estimated 4

million Americans would be infected with HIV/AIDS. Due to the amount AIDS awareness present, AIDS/HIV

incidents are lower than Elkin’s original predictions 22 years ago.

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation says 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV/AIDS.

Maybe we aren’t as ignorant as we were in the 90s.

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Happenings in and around HaywardNovember 13, 2014 - November 19, 2014

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Classic Movie Screen Series Presents “To Catch a Thief”Time: 7 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Orinda Theatre, 4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda

The Classic Movie Screen Series plays host to this free screening of the Alfred Hitchcock classic “To Catch a Thief,” starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. The Orinda Theatre itself is a classic, first built in 1941 and saved from demolition in 1984, before being reopened in 1989. So take in a classic film at this classic theatre for an evening full of suspense, humor and romance.

Personal Emergency Preparedness ClassTime: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Fremont Fire Training Tower, 7200 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont

The Fremont Fire Department is offering this class for all citizens looking to better prepare themselves for emergency situa-tions. The seminar will cover earthquake awareness, shutting off gas, electric and water, hazardous material awareness, placement of smoke detectors, setting up proper shelter, and fire extinguisher types.

“Blood Wedding” PerformanceTime: 8 p.m.Cost: $15Location: The EXIT Stage Left, 156 Eddy St., San Francisco

Catch this performance of “Blood Wedding,” the story of a bride who runs off with her old love, himself married, that leads to outrage between households that have long been rivals. A powerful tale of love, intrigue and vengeance await those who seek it, present-ed by the Bigger Than A Breadbox Theatre Company.

Filipino Parol-Making WorkshopTime: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.Cost: Free for first kit, Prices vary for subse-quent kitsLocation: Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission St., San Francisco

Those looking to do something creative with their Friday night are invited to join in making these Filipino star shaped lanterns that will be used at the Parol Lantern and Festival Pa-rade in December. Your first parol kit is free, while subsequent kits cost $6 for a 12-inch parol and $7 for an 18-inch parol.

Peer Writers’ GroupTime: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Hayward Main Library, 835 C St., Hayward

Looking for feedback on your writing? This is a great opportunity to learn and interact with your peers in a meeting facilitated by Ali Eteraz, noted Bay Area author of “Chil-dren of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man.” Be sure to bring along several copies of your work to get the most feed-back possible from those in attendance.

Tribute to VeteransTime: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro

The San Leandro Library will be hosting an exhibit dedicated to honoring those who have served. The World War II Military Commem-orative Association will feature an exhibit, including a living history presentation about the 70th anniversary of D-Day from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will also be live mu-sic and attendees will be able to write letters of thanks for those currently serving abroad.

Meet Authors Kellie Fitzgerald and Lance McVayTime: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: The Book Shop, 1007 B St., Hay-ward

Come out to The Book Shop to meet Kellie Fitzgerald, author of “When on the Road to Enlightenment, Don’t Forget to Take out the Trash,” and Lance McVay, author of “Lighthouse Tales.” Fitzgerald will be at the shop from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., while McVay will be there from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. So bring a copy or buy one there and take advantage of this opportunity.

Sea Chantey Sing AlongTime: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.Cost: Free, RSVP RequiredLocation: San Francisco Maritime Nation-al Historical Park, 499 Jefferson St., San Francisco

Prepare for a night of traditional sea songs and chanteys aboard a historic ship. Let out your inner sailor (or pirate), bring a mug for some free hot cider and sing along. Just be sure to RSVP to have your spot saved by calling 415-561-7171 or emailing peter_ka-sin@nps.gov.

How to Choose the Right BicycleTime: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Hayward Weekes Branch Library, 27300 Patrick Ave., Hayward, CA

Those looking for the right bicycle to fit their needs are invited to attend this seminar. They will be going over whether to buy new or used, what type of bike and accessories to purchase to fit your needs, and what matters when looking at wheels, brakes and gears.

Castro Valley Meet in the Street 2014Time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Castro Valley Boulevard between San Miguel and Redwood Road, Castro Valley

Help celebrate the revitalization of Castro Valley Boulevard at the third annual Meet in the Street. The event will feature a poker walk, three musical performance areas, local merchants, and street entertainers, including “Nutcracker” inspired toy soldiers, jugglers and balloon making elves. The event will conclude with the holiday themed Light Parade, which starts rolling at 5:30 p.m.

Vintage Paper FairTime: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Cost: Free entry, Prices vary by boothsLocation: Elks Lodge, 444 W. Alma Ave., San Jose

Lovers of all things classic and paper are invited to this fair featuring one of the largest collections of paper goods on the West coast. A large selection of postcards, photo-graphs, labels, brochures, sports memorabil-ia, and an assortment of other paper items will be available for purchase.

12th Annual Altered Barbie Art Show’s Final DayTime: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: 50 Shotwell, 50 Shotwell St., San Francisco

It is the final day of the unique Altered Barbie Art Show. This art show is filled with exhibits that reuse Barbie dolls and products for an assortment of artistic presentations. There are a variety of local artists with displays at the show and while the event is free dona-tions are welcome.

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Crowdfunding and Alternative Financing SeminarTime: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Fremont Public Library, 2450 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont

Local business owners and entrepreneurs are invited to this special seminar on emerg-ing crowdfunding and alternative financing opportunities. The seminar will cover the latest trends in these emerging sources of investment, how to run a successful crowd-funding campaign and more.

Comedy at DeluxeTime: 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Club Deluxe, 1511 Haight St., San Francisco

Looking for laughs? Then catch this free comedy showcase that only takes place once a month at Club Deluxe. The show has hosted a variety of local and national comics, including Ali Wong and Felipe Esparza. You can never be quite sure who may pop in.

The Doolittle One-Year Anniversary PartyTime: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.Cost: Free entryLocation: The Doolittle, 20394 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley

The Doolittle is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a party and you are invited! There will be raffles, giveaways, food and Drake’s Tap Takeover, while supplies last. Whether you have been a regular through-out this past year or want to see what The Doolittle is all about, this event is a great opportunity to have a fun Tuesday evening.

Lawyer in the LibraryTime: 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Hayward Weekes Branch Library, 27300 Patrick Ave., Hayward

Looking for legal advice? Then be sure to make it out for a free 15-minute session with a licensed attorney, sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association. Registra-tion begins 30 minutes before the event and must be done in person. Since space is limited consultation will be done by lottery. Don’t miss out on this opportunity if you have pressing legal questions.

Astronomy Lecture: Supernova 1987ATime: 8 p.m.Cost: FreeLocation: Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco

Join Dr. Richard McCray of UC Berkeley as he speaks about Supernova 1987A, one of the brightest supernovas ever observed. Dr. McCray has studied the evolution of Supernova 1987A the last 25 years and will be sharing some of his work and observa-tions, including the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

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“I was born and raised in this city,” Schaaf said. “My parents had season tickets to both [the A’s an Raiders.] Keeping our sports teams is something to keep that great Oakland spirit alive and it is a priority for me. But let me be very clear- I do not believe in spending public dollars in building sports stadiums. That is a line in the sand for me.”

While Oakland officials and Raiders ownership are playing the “he-said, she-said” game, one thing is clear: The Raiders are making the first moves. If city officials can’t get a deal done for Oakland, there are city officials in other states that will.

Not everyone feels the Raiders are setting sail for greener pastures, and Bleacher Report’s NFL reporter Jason Cole doesn’t think San Anto-nio is the place.

“#Raiders move to San Antonio. Mark Davis is being polite, working leverage. Either LA or Oakland,” he tweeted on Friday.

The Raiders are the only foot-ball team in the National Football League that shares their stadium with a baseball team, the Oakland Athletics whom signed a 10-year stadium deal to allow the Raiders to demolish the O.co Coliseum to build a new football stadium.

That may be a fantasy now, as it seems through the posturing of both Oakland city officials and Raiders management could lead the winless Raiders from an em-barrassing season right out of Oakland.

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with the fire department to handle emergency situations like earthquakes.

Representatives from San Leandro Unified School District and neighboring San Lorenzo Unified School District met and discussed with the Fire Department of Alameda County what would be the best course of action in the event of a citywide or countywide emergency.

Certified Emergency Manager Heidi Quiroz has seven years of experience in emergency management and led the presentation on ways to prepare and respond in case of an emergency.

Quiroz started the discussion with what was learned from the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Napa on Aug. 24 in the early hours of the morning. The earthquake caused $80.1 million in damage Quiroz said; many wineries were impacted because the cellars were not reinforced in case of an earthquake.

FEMA reported last Thursday that $2.4 million in aid has been offered to those affected by the earthquake. One person died during the earthquake, due to an unsecured television. Damage estimates have varied, with some reporting that the damage could have been in the hundreds of millions according to the San Jose Mercury.

Quiroz mentioned one rule of thumb in order to prevent serious injury or death during an earthquake: “Don’t have anything in your room taller than you.” The Napa

earthquake damage was very centralized, she said, and if it had been regional, resources would have been stretched and federal resources would be difficult to attain.

Quiroz examined the plan of emergency the city of San Leandro has in place and determined three possible catastrophes that could affect the city: wild land fire, damage to the local dam, and earthquake. The city of San Leandro must tailor their current emergency plan to fit these possible emergencies. Quiroz emphasized three plans that are necessary to have in place in order to be prepared as a city:

Hazard mitigation plan – How will we prepare for an emergency, what are the possible hazards and risks?

Emergency operating plan – What will we do when it happens? Is everyone on board with the emergency plan and does everyone

have a designated role? Response plan – Analyze the situation.

What is the damage? How do we resume normal operation?

In order to be better prepared as a city, neighborhood involvement was emphasized in the presentation. Get to know your neighbor and who lives in which home. Who are the elderly? Who will need more assistance than others in the case of an emergency? More importantly, she said residents must understand the general map of the neighborhood.

Quiroz also suggested integrating schools into the current city emergency plan so that they are aware of their role in the event of an emergency. Representatives from both school districts stated they were interested in being a proactive component to the city emergency plan.

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T he California Collegiate Athletic Associ-ation men’s and women’s cross-country championships were held on Saturday

in San Bernardino at Glen Helen Regional Park with a disappointing meet for both Cal State East Bay teams, despite some impressive indi-vidual performances.

The women’s team did not place in the 6k race due to two runners not finishing, but ju-

The first high school football showcase of the season at California State University, East Bay on Friday was a lopsided contest before it even start-ed.

Hayward High School came into the game 4-5 overall, and fighting for a post-season berth, while at 1-8 the Arroyo Dons were playing for pride.

CSUEB titled the game “Friday Night Lights” and the Farmers (5-5, 4-2) delivered, lighting up the Dons (1-9, 0-6) by a final score of 35-6.

“Big win guys. Huge,” Hayward junior quarter-back Juni Moi Moi said.

Moi Moi was dominant for the Farmers com-pleting 50 percent of his passes for 140 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 127 yards on just nine carries and another touchdown.

Moi Moi compiled a gaudy 119.8 quarterback rating and an average of over 14 yards per carry.

With the victory Hayward High clinched a play-

nior Imani Heath managed to finish 13th in the field with a final time of 22:59.4. Heath was named to the All-Conference first team, which goes to the top 15 runners in the cham-pionship race.

Heath closed out her junior season with the top time for CSUEB in all five of its contests in the 2014 season. This is the second season in a row the Pioneers have had an All-Conference first team member after sophomore Sarah Per-rin finished ninth at the 2013 championships, also being named Freshman of the Year.

Three more CSUEB women placed in

the championship. The next was Celina Vera claiming 60th place with a final time of 24:43.2. Camille Hansen finished in 68th place with a final time of 24:57.4 and senior Iris Martinez closed out her CSUEB career placing 85th with a final time of 26:41.2.

Powerhouse Chico State secured its seventh women’s cross-country championship in a row with a final time of 1:54:31.10 and an average time of 22:54.22.

The Pioneer men finished in eighth place with a total of 258 points, a total time of 2:27:42.50 and an average time of 29:32.50.

Senior Will Weekes continued to lead the way for CSUEB nabbing the top finish for the fifth time this season. Weekes finished the 8k race in 56th place with a final time of 27:48. Senior Daniel Damian closed out his CSUEB career with a final time of 29:11.3 for a 64th place finish.

Freshmen Adam Gardere finished 65th and Latee Pigee 66th right behind his Pioneer teammate. Another freshman David Cabaler-ro-Hernandez finished in 69th place and soph-omore Irvin Parada rounded out the field in 71st with a final time of 33:07.2.

Junior Imani Heath, pictured second from the left, finished 13th in the field. Courtesy | Cal State San Bernardino Athletics

Hayward held Arroyo to just 6 points. Photo | Brandon Meins

off game but will have to take their act on the road to take on the high-scoring Concord Minutemen.

Concord is 9-2 on the season and has outscored its opponents by a huge margin of 458 to 176.

Senior Dakarai Collington also had a great night on the ground for Hayward amassing 50 yards on 10 carries.

Senior CJ Montgomery was the leading receiver for the Farmers nabbing five of Moi Moi’s passes for a total of 119 yards and two touchdowns.

“That’s what I’m talking about,” Montgomery said after his second touchdown reception.

Montgomery leads Hayward in receiving this season with 51 catches for 944 yards and 11 touch-downs.

Moi Moi now has 1902 passing yards complet-ing 51 percent of his passes, and 315 rushing yards on 67 carries for a total of 28 touchdowns. Colling-ton is the team’s leading rusher this year with 459 yards and four touchdowns on 76 carries.

Hayward will travel to Concord tomorrow at 7 p.m. for the first round Division II playoff contest against the heavily favored Minutemen.