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Activist guides immigrants to citizenship
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By Fernando J. Ramírez CONTRIBUTOR
As the presidential race intensifies, so does the issue of illegal immigration, and ordinary Americans like Flor Soto are acting swiftly to help immigrants obtain legal status. In a classroom behind St. Michael Catholic Church in Livermore, Soto, leader of the Hermanos De Jesus Community Center at the church, holds workshops twice a month designed to offer help and legal advice to those living in the country illegally. “With the help of church community leaders, groups like this one can get together in a safe environment to discuss issues facing our community and our
nation,” Soto said. In these workshops people receive help gathering the proper paperwork needed to obtain legal status, work visas, petitions for marriage licenses and more. Soto and other volunteers help put people in contact with attorneys that can provide advice and moral support to those that have been tangled up in the legal system. “Many of these people don’t know, or fear the repercussions, of the steps they need to take to gain their citizenship,” she continued. “What we try to do is get them headed down the path toward becoming legal.” Originally from the Dominican Republic, Soto went through the immigration system in the early 1990s and saw how tedious the experience could be.
She first lived in New York, came to the Bay Area in 2011 and doesn’t speak English. In an effort to help others avoid legal pitfalls, Soto has coordinated these workshops for almost four years and there is never a shortage of people that need her help. Wishing to remain anonymous one of the workshop attendees going by the name of Ramon isn’t confident that things will ever change. “I’ve been living here illegally for just under 20 years, and no real progress has been made,” Ramon commented after a recent workshop with Soto. “On the one hand you have Donald Trump threatening to deport all of us, and on the other you have Obama making laws that are not seen as ‘legal’ and in the middle you have people like me still
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CSUEB prepares for campus sustainability day By Kris Stewart MANAGING EDITOR
It’s been said time and time again, “We need to be more environmentally friendly.” It’s easier said than done but the question is how do we make it happen? To assist in answering that question Cal State East Bay hired Jillian Buckholz as its first director of Sustainability. Buckholz was hired last year the same year as CSUEB’s first Campus Sustainability Day. In her role, Buckholz is responsible for implementing systems to create a sustainability conscious campus and describes sustainability as living in a way that has the least impact on the environment while having the most benefit to your community. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Geography from Ohio State University, and was then urged by professors to attend graduate school. Focusing on environmental studies, she felt she needed to be in California and decided to attend Chico State University. While in her graduate program, she decided to tackle the energy policy for the California State University system. She found that 23 campuses of the CSU’s had one energy policy, that according to Buckholz cannot be effective when all campuses are geographically and demographically diverse. “We should have energy policies based on climate zone,” said Buckholz. She explained that schools like Humboldt State University don’t have air conditioning because it doesn’t get too hot, while Cal State Bakersfield in the Central Valley, which is known to have high tempera-
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Jillian Buckholz, director of sustainability, discusses goals for the upcoming academic year at the Hayward campus yesterday. tures, needs AC. After the completion of her research, CSU Chico offered her a position and she became the first sustainability officer in the CSU system. This year, Campus Sustainability Day will be held on Oct. 21, in the middle of “Make a Difference Week.” Last year’s event was focused on California’s drought. This year, the day is all about food. Buckholz has partnered
with CSUEB’s Center for Community Engagement as well as Student Life and Leadership to increase the scale of the event along with other campus departments. Created in April 2002, Campus Sustainability Day started off as a webcast conversation that centered on discussion about campus sustainability. From 2003 to 2010, this event was hosted
by The Society for College and University Planning. Now produced by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, organizations, universities and communities have broadened their spectrum, adding larger scale events to celebrate the day outside of the webcast. Campus Sustainability Day will kick off at 11 a.m. with a live performance on the Agora Stage by indie alternative band Wander. There will be more than 20 tables with information and resources pertaining to food. One table will consist of students who will discuss food waste in CSUEB’s dining commons, another with information on waste management. Pollinate Farms from Oakland will be present to discuss bees and the role they plan in our environment. Fresh Point, who provides all of CSUEB’s produce, will also be amongst the organizations present at the event. After the concert, in the Multipurpose Room inside the New University Union, there will be a viewing of the documentary “Dive!”, a film about dumpster divers in Los Angeles who plunge through the garbage cans of supermarkets and to their surprise find thousands of dollars worth of edible food. Following the film screening, keynote speaker Katie Cantrell from Factory Farming Awareness Coalition will discuss a diet for the drought; how a plant based diet is better for the environment than animal based. Also on the schedule is the CSUEB Sustainability Showcase hosted by the Office of Sustainability and the City of Hayward. The topic will be how we’re approaching sustainability when it comes to transportation, compost,
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Fall 2015 Issue 4
New provost outlines goals By Louis LaVenture NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR
When you walk into Carolyn Nelson’s office it feels welcoming, almost like a living room. It definitely doesn’t feel like the office of the interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Cal State East Bay. That is the way the former middle and high school teacher wanted it, welcoming. “I wanted to have a more personal space here, not so rigid,” Nelson said. “I wanted to create the conditions where people can have constructive conversations where every perspective can be given. Differing opinions can create some great results.” Nelson has only been in her role since August, when CSUEB President Leroy M. Morishita announced that former Provost James Houpis would step down and focus on “pursuing several interests.” Nelson held the Dean of the College of Education and Allied Studies department position since 2009 at CSUEB until she took over for Houpis on Aug. 22. While she credited the job her predecessor did in the position, she seemed enthusiastic about several key areas. She expressed the importance of service learning, a technique that combines community service with instruction and reflection, to enhance the educational experience for students and strengthen the relationships between schools and communities. “It helps students apply the learnings from classes and coursework in the real world and especially the community,” she explained. “We do it well here but eventually we would like every student [to] have some of these experiences.” The provost is responsible for ensuring that students get the best possible support and resources to have success in college and after. Nelson emphasized that the support is not just limited to academics but also other aspects of students’ lives. She acknowledged that most students have more on their plates than just academics, her goal is to give them an ample amount of support and resources to help them all around. Nelson pointed out the annual student day of service at CSUEB, as well as several programs that involve tutoring and community cleanup projects. She expressed that it would be ideal to get every student a paid internship and service learning experience, as well as experience in their fields of study before they graduate to ensure their success after obtaining a degree. CSUEB is known as a “commuter campus” where a lot of students do not live on campus and also work. Nelson credited the ability of CSUEB students to juggle multiple things in addition to
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