A precarious education in America: East Bay senior reflects on life as an undocumented student
Daisy Ortiz,
Spanish Editor
May 10, 2017
Cal State East Bay senior Alejandro Bautista studied abroad in Mexico City in the Fall of 2016, but Bautista, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, became fearful during his stay that he might not be able to return to the country when the Study Abroad program ended. Bautista shoul...
Undocumented students find support on East Bay campus
Kamille De Guzman,
Contributor
May 3, 2017
Facts about what exactly happened to Juan Manuel Montes in Calexico, California on Feb. 17 have been in question, but reports confirm that the 23-year-old was detained and eventually deported by the U.S Customs and Border Patrol, according to USA Today. Montes lived in the U.S. since age 9 and ha...
From East Oakland to Ph.D.
Evelyn Tijero,
Photographer
January 25, 2017
Filed under Arts & Life, Campus, Features
Before Dr. Victor Rios became a professor at UC Santa Barbara and an author of five books, he grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in East Oakland. Surrounded by drugs, gangs and violence, he joined a local gang for protection by age 14. Beating the odds, Rios was the only one in his family to atte...
GANAS celebrates first graduating class
Louis Laventure,
Sports and Campus Editor
July 1, 2015
Most people believe that getting into college is difficult and it is. But the harder part is once you get accepted, obtaining a degree. For Hispanic and Latino transfer students this has been an especially glaring problem according to the university’s transfer and retention rates. According to the...
