Bernie Sanders will not stop the ‘Bern’
Louis LaVenture,
Editor-in-Chief
May 4, 2016
Despite urges from Hillary Clinton for Bernie Sanders to concede the Democratic Party Presidential nomination over the weekend, the 74-year-old pledged to his supporters he would not take that path. Why would he? Sanders has won several states like Washington, Idaho and Alaska in March and even if Clinton sweeps the remaining prima...
Dear Colleagues and Students
Dr. Nicholas L. Baham III,
Professor of Ethnic Studies and CSUEB CFA Chapter President
May 4, 2016
On behalf of your CSU East Bay chapter of the California Faculty Association (CFA) and Students for Quality Education (SQE), I want to thank you for your support and love in the recent Faculty Fight for Five! As many of you now know, we were able to avert a strike after a last minute agreement with Chance...
Merrick Garland nominated by president for Supreme Court Justice
Sean McCarthy,
Contributor
April 28, 2016
In the wake of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama nominated D.C. Circuit, Court of Appeals justice Merrick Garland on March 16, 2016, as the next member of the Supreme Court. However, the Republican Party has sworn to deny any nominee that President Obama endorse...
Bernie Sanders right fit for President
Sean McCarthy,
Contributor
April 14, 2016
Selecting the presidential candidate who is right for you can be a difficult decision. A president’s background, ethnicity, religion and name recognition should not matter. A president must have solid policy on the most important issues to the American public such as healthcare for all and the incre...
Students should support faculty strikes
Kali Persall,
Managing Editor
April 13, 2016
Broke college students in California aren’t the only ones living off ramen and frozen dinners; our CSU professors are also feeling the pinch. After more than a year of grim negotiations, over 25,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses poised to strike for higher wages on April 13-15 and 18-19....
Trump dominates the GOP in a racist America
Sean McCarthy,
Contributor
April 6, 2016
Good morning America. It was sunshine and warm weather in Hawaii and Mississippi when Donald Trump won three more states, and their delegates along with them, during the presidential primaries. However, in California, Vermont and Oregon, the weather remains cold, rainy and drab: the liberal states ap...
Dread the overflow lot: Rocky road to student parking
Ian-James Vitaga,
Contributor
April 6, 2016
Driving down the entrance to the overflow parking on the corner of Harder and Loop roads is smooth, until your car physically enters the lot. As soon as your tires touch the rocky road, a pothole greets you. If you washed your car recently, prepare for the dust clouds that are kicked up all day long...
I Don’t Want to Strike, But I Must
Nicholas L. Baham III, Ph.D. Professor of Ethnic Studies CSUEB CFA Chapter President
March 18, 2016
Dear Colleagues, Staff, and Students of the CSUEB Community, You have all certainly heard by now that 26,000 California State University faculty will strike across the entire 23 campus CSU system on April 13-15 and April 18 and 19 unless CSU Chancellor Tim White agrees to a 5% pay raise for all faculty....
Ten weeks is not enough time
By Alfonso Galindo, Contributor
August 27, 2015
Fourteen pages to write a week, for 10 weeks, along with 150 pages of reading assigned each week for 10 weeks. That adds up to 140 pages of writing, maybe more, and 1500 pages of reading all in 10 weeks. Mom said college wasn’t going to be easy but she said it was going to be worth it. Say goodbye...
Eighteen weeks is way too slow
Alex Boucher, Contributor
August 27, 2015
Cal State East Bay is one of the few California State University schools that runs on a quarter system rather than a semester system, but unfortunately that is going to change in 2018. All but two University of California schools currently run on a quarter system and even though a majority of the...
Smoking policy needs to be enforced
James Willoughby,
Contributor
July 18, 2014
For some time now, many California State University, East Bay students have been breaking campus rules by smoking cigarettes in unpermitted areas. Unfortunately, campus authorities have yet to address the issue. This is an important issue because death can arise from the toxins in cigarettes for...
A political solution to Iraq’s crisis
Shuaib Amiri,
Contributor
July 7, 2014
The lightning offensive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has accomplished in northern Iraq since early June has stunned the world. ISIS, which is a successor to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and an extremist organization, wants to establish a regional caliphate and Islamic state encompassing the sovereign nations...
