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CSU East Bay Professor is a Role Model for Women Referees

CSU East Bay Kinesiology professor, Leticia Malavasi, uses her passion for health and fitness to serve as a role model female soccer referee and to personally train clients to reach their personal fitness goals. Malavasi has always had an understanding of sports. In Brazil, where she grew up, she was a professional basketball player. She came to the U.S....

Argenal Works to Prepare Men’s Basketball Team

CSU East Bay’s recently hired head men’s basketball coach, Gus Argenal, hopes to create a culture of quality student athletes next season, who both excel academically and on the court. Argenal brings coaching experience at both the Division I and Division II levels to CSUEB and succeeds Coach Will Biggs, who previously led the Pioneers to 224 wins in...

Coaching Corps Brings Boys and Girls Club to CSUEB

On Friday, a group of first through fifth graders from the Boys and Girls Club of Hesperian Elementary were provided an opportunity to come to CSU East Bay to tour the campus and play multiple sports coached by CSUEB student volunteers. “For this particular event a lot of these kids have never been to a college campus before,” said...

Pioneer Swim Team Hires New Assistant Coach

With hopes to bring new insight into the team’s training for the next season, the CSU East Bay women’s swim team has hired former UC Berkeley Division I All-American swimmer, Colleen Fotsch, as their new assistant coach. Fotsch was a four-time NCAA Division I All-American at UC Berkeley and helped lead the team to back-to-back national championships in 2011...

David Beckham Forever Changed Soccer in America

David Beckham’s May 18 retirement from the Paris grounds of Parc des Princes marked the end of one of the most celebrated careers in modern era “football.” While boasting 115 England National team appearances and four league championships in four different countries, nothing in the 38-year-old’s career truly succeeded his momentous decision in 2007 to cross the pond and...

Student Athlete Elected as New President

Two weeks ago Kenneth Farr was elected as president of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee. SAAC is responsible for providing a student athlete a voice within the athletic department and amongst the athletes. The committee also serves as a leadership role, through active participation in a variety of community service events, promoting a positive student athlete image on campus...

Lopez and Zozaya Share the Title of Athlete of the Year

Jenel Lopez and Kyle Zozaya concluded their senior year of athletics while being honored as the male and female 2012-2013 athletes of the year. Lopez, the former dominating sprinter for CSU East Bay’s women’s swim team, and Zozaya, the leading hitter for the Pioneer baseball team in 2013, received the award at CSUEB’s 2012-2013 Annual Student Athlete Awards Banquet....

Change in Culture Brings Baseball Team Success

Since wrapping up their long 50 game season on May 5, The CSU East Bay baseball team has had a chance to reminisce about their season as well as start to pile up post-season awards. Looking back on the season, senior catcher David Castillo feels this season has changed a lot when it comes to Pioneer baseball. “We had...

200 Runners Came to Support CSUEB and Community Relations

CSU East Bay students, faculty members, and Hayward community members all joined together early Saturday morning to line up on the Pioneer soccer field, waiting to begin the school’s first annual Hayward Hills 5K challenge. Shortly after 9 a.m., runners of all ages and athletic abilities sped out of the gate of the stadium and circled around the perimeter...

CSU East Bay Soccer Team Gives Back To Community

The CSU East Bay men’s soccer team hosted a free soccer clinic Sunday for over 80 youth. They were given a unique opportunity to learn from college athletes, which in turn allowed the athletes to give back. As the soccer team faced their final opponent of the spring season in UC Davis, before they took the field, they took...

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Warren Hall Demolition Allows Rare Opportunity to Map Hayward Fault

The USGS will measure the velocity of the waves released by the demolition to better understand th impact of future earthquakes.
In a landmark study of the Hayward Fault, the United States Geological Survey plans to record seismic waves released by the demolition of Warren Hall in mid-August to study...

Aramark Workers Gain Campus Support

As Aramark workers on the CSU East Bay campus continue their struggle to become unionized, other groups located on campus are finding ways to band together and support the cause. CSUEB’s Associated Students Inc. drafted their resolution in support of the student workers of Aramark last week, but due to lack of research and insight on the matter, the resolution has been postponed until further findings can be made. “We’re really going to make sure we do our part to make sure students get a

San Leandro Looks to Restore Creek

Local activist groups seek to raise creek levels and reintroduce natural wildlife.
Two things became clear Monday night as Councilmember Michael Gregory furnished the stage for speakers to present their plans to the council: the city wants to do something with...

Concerns About Meiklejohn’s Broken Elevator

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George Jenkins, a custodian at CSU East Bay for the past five years came to work at the crack of dawn, not aware of what would come next. Jenkins,...

Oakland Plans to Improve Bicyclist Safety

A cyclist rides his bike around Oakland’s Lake Merrit.
Oakland ranks the 13th safest city to ride a bicycle, according to the Alliance for Walking and Biking. The city is working to make the streets of Oakland pedestrian-friendly....

Price of A College Education Takes a Financial Toll

Student debt in the United States has tripled between 2004 and 2012 reaching an alarming 1.1 trillion dollars; and on July 1st student loan rates are expected to double. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, student loans have exceeded other consumer debts, surpassing auto loans and credit cards to become the second largest source of debt in the nation. “There’s too much student debt, it’s a real burden on people’s future, lives and career choices so we need to try and make major

Earthquake Preparedness at CSUEB

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The ground is shaking; classmates look at each other. A second jolt is rumbling, shaking hard.  Loose items, like projectiles, fly off the desktops. The instructor calls: drop, cover...

Former President Norma Rees Remembered at CSU East Bay

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Norma Rees, former president of CSU East Bay from 1990 to 2006, died in her Hayward home last week leaving behind a legacy of new curriculums, new campus buildings...

CSU East Bay Professor is a Role Model for Women Referees

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CSU East Bay Kinesiology professor, Leticia Malavasi, uses her passion for health and fitness to serve as a role model female soccer referee and to personally train clients to...

Argenal Works to Prepare Men’s Basketball Team

Gus Argenal takes on men’s head basketball coaching position.
CSU East Bay’s recently hired head men’s basketball coach, Gus Argenal, hopes to create a culture of quality student athletes next season, who both excel academically and on the...

August Date Likely for Warren Hall Demolition

The only remnants of Warren Hall’s main floor is the elevator and campus vault.
The iconic 13-story building staring down at thousands of East Bay residents is going out with a bang. Warren Hall, located on CSU East Bay’s Hayward campus, is set...

Coaching Corps Brings Boys and Girls Club to CSUEB

The children enjoyed playing football with the student volunteers.
On Friday, a group of first through fifth graders from the Boys and Girls Club of Hesperian Elementary were provided an opportunity to come to CSU East Bay to...