Hayward strip mall destroyed by fire, vandals
Kedar Dutt,
Photo Editor
July 26, 2017
Filed under Metro, Photo Galleries
The strip mall in Hayward down the hill from the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus is damaged from a fire last month and vandals that broke into the abandoned businesses. The site is the former home of several Fijian, Pacific Islander and other ethnic shops that included a curry restaurant, a ...
Campus housing tight fit at East Bay
Daniel McGuire,
Contributor
July 26, 2017
Filed under Campus, Metro
In Summer 2017, 12 bedrooms in the freshman buildings are being converted back into study lounges. In the Fall 2016 Quarter, roughly half of the dorm room beds at California State University East Bay were prioritized for first-time freshmen. Although in October 2013, the study lounges wer...
Junior Giants give kids major league summer
Louis LaVenture,
Editor-in-Chief
July 26, 2017
Filed under Metro, Showcase, Sports
I grew up in South Hayward, just down the street from the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus. During the summer I played little league baseball, but by July, the season was over and I had a couple months of break before school started up again. This downtime was filled with hanging out with friends, bike rid...
Farmers market maintains steady home in downtown Hayward
Kedar Dutt,
Photo Editor
July 5, 2017
Filed under Features, Media, Metro, Photo Galleries, Showcase
Parking on service roads may cause problems
Kestutis Rushing,
Contributor
June 28, 2017
Filed under Campus, Metro
Students are leaving their cars out in front of the service road in between Residence Halls Diablo, Calaveras, and Shasta at Cal State East Bay for extended periods of time. This road is located after a right turn when leaving lot C. Whether it be to drop off or pick someone or something up,...
Does CSU East Bay have questionable water quality?
Cody Davis and Daniel McGuire,
Contributors
June 7, 2017
Filed under Campus, Metro
On several occasions, Reza Khorasani, finance vice-president for Associated Students Inc., complained to university officials at Cal State East Bay about the drinking water on campus. Since February, in meetings with student government officials and university President Leroy Morishita, Khorasani said he ...
Hayward already a no-discrimination zone
Kamille De Guzman,
Contributor
June 7, 2017
Filed under Metro
About six years ago, Linda Moore, an African American, was shopping near the fruit section of her local Safeway grocery market when a young Latina woman approached her and asked, “Can you get me some watermelons?” “I was first appalled at her audacity to even state such a discriminating and h...
It’s snake season for the Bay Area
Daniel McGuire,
Contributor
June 7, 2017
Filed under Metro, Showcase
On May 1, an unnamed 47-year-old San Jose resident was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake at the top of Fremont’s Mission Peak Regional Preserve. An antivenom was administered by paramedic Shaun Bouyea before a helicopter brought him to Washington Hospital, according to NBC Bay Area New...
Good chimneys make good neighbors
Kali Persall,
Managing Editor
May 17, 2017
Filed under Metro, Opinion, Showcase
When I moved less than three miles away from the Valero oil refinery in Benicia just over two years ago, I wondered if it was safe to live so close to a compound designed solely to process toxic materials. From time to time, I catch a whiff of rotten eggs, indicating the presence of sulfur in the breez...
State audit raises concerns about CSU hiring practices
Kali Persall,
Managing Editor
May 17, 2017
Filed under Campus, Metro
The 23-campus Cal State University system will revise some of its management policies following a state audit that discovered discrepancies in hiring and budgetary practices last month. On April 20, the California Bureau of State Audits released the results of an audit that looked at six CSU campuse...
Downtown Hayward hosts Cinco De Mayo festivities
Kamille De Guzman,
Contributor
May 10, 2017
Filed under Arts & Life, Features, Metro, Showcase
Several local ‘Ballet Folklórico’ companies, made up mostly of children dressed in colorful, intricate costumes, were the focal point of Hayward’s Cinco de Mayo Festival last Saturday. “I feel like the stage is my home,” said 14-year-old Jasmin Hernandez, a performer with the ‘Ballet Xochip...
Hayward planning commission approves further downtown development
Tishauna Carrell,
Staff Writer
May 10, 2017
Filed under Metro
The Hayward City Council on Tuesday voted 6-1 in favor of a proposal to construct a 144-room, three-story condominium building and a 93-room Marriott Inn hotel on Mission Boulevard, as well as a 2,775-square-foot urban farm on Berry Avenue. Council member Marvin Peixoto was the lone dissenting vote....
