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East Bay students hold peaceful protest

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Former Oakland Police Department captain charged in sex scandal

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Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, the teenager at the center of the Bay Area police sexual misconduct investigations.

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Grad student opens first stuttering support group on campus

By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR First-year Cal State East Bay graduate student Matthew Maxion began stuttering at the age of five. For 16 years, Maxion, now 25, attempted to hide his disfluency, the impairment of smooth fluid speech, from parents, friends and teachers by practicing “covert stuttering,” a concealment strategy where the speaker avoids certain situations or substitutes words that trigger the stutter.

It wasn’t until age 20, when he wrote an article about his experience with stuttering for San Francisco State University’s student newspaper, the Golden Gate Xpress, where he worked as an online editor, that he broke the silence about his disorder.

“That was the first time I was really open and honest about my speech,” Maxion said. “At that moment in my life, my stuttering had gotten so bad, that me trying to conceal my stuttering was more painful and more difficult than it had to be. It got to the point where it was less painful to let my stutter out.”

The Stuttering Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that focuses on stuttering treatment and research, defines stuttering as a communicative disorder in which the flow of speech is broken into repetition of letters, prolongations and abnormal stoppages of sounds and symbols.

“It’s painful on an emotional level,” said Maxion. “Imagine having the words in your head and you know exactly what you want to say but you can’t produce those words on a physical level. Its infuriating.”

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City Hall the stage for anti Donald Trump rally in Hayward

To date, 23 Bay Area police officers have been disciplined in connection to the sexual misconduct investigation

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Neumanali House restaurant owner Julie McKillop, center, addresses the crowd on Nov. 9 in front of City Hall.

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Screaming, yelling and chanting could be heard all across the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus last Wednesday.

The news circulated primarily through social media and urged students, faculty and staff to gather in protest of the election of Donald Trump as the successor to current President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Initially a march through campus took place from noon to around 2 p.m.

During the second protest, at 8 p.m., students gathered again at the courtyard in front of the RAW Center before they made their way to the dorms to collect more people. The group marched through campus and down Carlos Bee Boulevard to Hayward City Hall.

The whole way there the group chanted, sang and yelled their displeasure and anxiety for Trump’s impending presidency. In one of the chants, organizers yelled to the crowd, “What kind of pres-

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Cal State East Bay Students march from the Hayward campus to City Hall in Downtown Hayward on Nov. 9 where an anti-Donald Trump rally took place. ident?” and the crowd answered back, “Not my president!” Another chant repeated, “No justice, no peace.”

“I’ll be damned if what Cesar Chavez did goes to waste!” An organizer yelled into his megaphone. “MLK’s turning over in his grave right now!”

As the group made it to Mission Boulevard, cars honked and yelled support and criticism toward the peaceful pro-

test, which numbered over 60 students.

Hayward Police officers directed traffic when it came time for the large group to cross the street to city hall.

“This is what being a college student is all about,” Hayward resident Bernice Castro said. “This is beautiful. Young people trying to use their freedom to say

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New shuttle aims to connect campus to housing

By Michele Dennis CONTRIBUTOR

Fall transfer student Rohit Reddy uses a new university loop shuttle up to five times a day. He travels back and forth from his classes at the science building to his dorm at University Village, and then back up to the Dining Commons for meals. The walk between his dorm and campus takes up to 30 minutes each way, so the shuttle is a critical time-saver for Reddy, who often has multiple classes every day. “I can’t imagine not having a shuttle like this,” Reddy said.

The new campus shuttle makes a loop through campus every 15 minutes, dropping off and picking up passengers at eight stops. It starts at University Village on Carlos Bee and stops at the East Loop by the Music Building, in front of the A&E building, at the Student & Faculty buildings, and then the Dining Commons/Rec & Wellness Center. It then turns the corner to stop at Meiklejohn Hall, the Library and then the PE building by parking Lot M before heading down the hill back to University Village.

The shuttle runs from 7 a.m. to 7

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Cal State East Bay students board the shuttle in Hayward on Tuesday. p.m., Monday through Thursday. The service is additional to the existing shuttles, which travel only to the Hayward and Castro Valley BART stations.

“We decided that because less students come to campus on Fridays that the usual shuttle service could handle the Village students that need to get to the Dining Commons on Friday,” said Derrick Lobo, director of Parking and Transportation services at CSU East

Bay. “Unlike the students who live at the dorms on campus, these students had no quick way to get to the Dining Commons.”

Lobo said the parking and transportation department provides five free bikes and zipcars at the Village, but there was a need for something more.

Prior to fall quarter, there was only one shuttle stop on the entire upper campus that picked up riders, yet this shuttle only

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On Nov. 13, the Contra Costa County prosecutor's office charged 81-year-old Al Perrodin, a retired Oakland Police Department captain, with a misdemeanor for his alleged role in the Bay Area’s sexual exploitation scandal involving a teenage former prostitute.

Perrodin was charged with soliciting prostitution after he allegedly paid for sex with a minor, Jasmine Abuslin known by the alias Celeste Guap, who is now 19.

District Attorney Mark Peterson said Perrodin told investigators he paid Abuslin for sex at a Richmond hotel in February.

To date, 12 Oakland police officers and 11 Richmond police officers have been disciplined in the case surrounding Abuslin.

It’s the only prosecution expected

by Peterson’s, which investigated 13 police officers and sheriff’s deputies from five different departments from February to April earlier this year.

Peterson said there is not enough evidence to charge any of the other officers in Contra Costa County with having sex with her when she was underage, or for paying to have sex with her.

Last month, Abuslin’s lawyer filed a $30 million lawsuit against the Richmond Police Department and a $6 million lawsuit against the Livermore Police Department.

She had previously filed a $66 million lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department as well.

All of the cases focused on police misconduct and illegal sexual relationships with a minor, according to court documents.

According to Abuslin, she had sexual encounters with more than 20 police officers, several of which occurred while she was a minor.

In return she received information about upcoming and potential prostitution sting circumstances and locations in several instances.

Guap said that when she was 17 years old, she became romantically involved with an Oakland cop who saved her from her abusive pimp.

Guap claims that officer introduced her to other cops who eventually became customers for her prostitution services.

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Your turn guys, birth control not just for women MANAGING EDITOR

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF For generations, women have had the responsibility of preventing pregnancy.

Sure, men have their options as well, but nothing as secure as birth control that women have taken for decades.

Men have had three primary methods of birth control: condoms, pulling out or the dreaded vasectomy.

A hormonal birth control for men was developed and tested earlier this year. According to a study published last month by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in collaboration with the United Nations, participants were given an injection every eight weeks that was comprised of 1,000 milligrams of synthetic testosterone and 200 milligrams of norethisterone enanthate, a type of female hormone.

According to the study, the injection is meant to malfunction the brain into believing it has enough testosterone, so the body will then stop producing more

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firmed that 39 percent of the symptoms were unrelated to the injections.

Even though the shot proved to be 96 percent effective in reducing the sperm count and preventing pregnancy in continuing users, the trial was scrapped prematurely and sent back to the drawing board, taking reproductive equality with it. I know it sucks, but welcome to the club guys: these are side effects that women have dealt with for over 50 years. We have been guinea pigs for contraceptives since the first trials were conducted in the 1950s, a product of the Sexual Revolution which granted women the ability to control their pregnancies. However women also paid a steep price for these rights. In 1973, faulty line of Dalkon Shield IUD’s killed 18 women and gave hundreds of thousands infections that resulted in hysterectomies, according to the book America and the Pill by Elaine Tyler May. Men’s aversion to taking birth control would be more understandable if the shot was as experimental as these early methods, however that isn’t the case.

The adverse effects, while uncomfortable, are relatively safe.

Men have expressed concerns about possible sterilization or a decrease in libido, but the research found the treat-

ment to be completely reversible.

A valid counterargument is that when women take birth control, the negative effects balance out because they are rewarded with a prevented pregnancy. However men will only experience negative effects firsthand, the benefits of their actions will be experienced by their partner.

Contraceptive methods have come a long way since the first birth control pill was manufactured from Mexican yams 50 years ago, however warning labels remain ominous. In addition to chest pains, nausea, prolonged periods, migraines and bodily weakness, contraceptives can also cause blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and toxic shock syndrome, a life-threatening bacterial infection, according to RxList.com. If a woman decides not to take the risk and gets pregnant because of a broken condom or a failed pull-out, the first question out of everyone’s mouth is, “why wasn’t she on the pill?” It’s the epitome of privilege that men are able to call off a study because of an acne outbreak, while women are burdened with the blame from an unplanned pregnancy. It takes two to make a baby and both parties need to be held equally responsible.

Men currently have five major birth con-

trol options, according to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., which include abstinence, condoms, outercourse, vasectomy and withdrawal. Abstinence and outercourse are unrealistic and the pull-out method is a gamble with a 78 percent effectiveness rating, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. You can’t rely solely on men to always carry condoms, which are 82 percent effective, and most men won’t even consider getting a vasectomy.

Women, on the other hand, can have their tubes tied, have the NuvaRing, the Depo-Provera shot, IUD’s, the Nexplanon implant, the birth control patch, birth control pills, female condoms, the cervical cap, diaphragms and Plan B, the morning-after pill and even the birth control sponge (whatever that is).

The bottom line is that there needs to be more birth control methods for men. Women aren’t asking men to put themselves at any more risk than we have for decades. We get it, it sucks, but it’s a necessary evil unless you want an unplanned baby. How can you ask us to subject our bodies to treatments that you wouldn’t take yourselves?

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As a 23-year-old female who rebelliously popped her first Yaz birth control pill at age 14, unbeknownst to my parents, I feel like a contraceptive connoisseur.

I’ve become seasoned in the art of skipping periods by avoiding the week of little pink pills at the end of the month and getting refills on the fly, and on a darker note, combating depression and struggling with a low sex drive, weight gain and hives. This is the price women pay for safe sex.

Pregnancy protection always falls on the woman. I learned this quickly after becoming sexually active as a freshman in high school. I can’t count the number of times I awkwardly slipped back into class after a trip to the school nurse with a conspicuously clinical-looking white paper bag, bulging with a month’s supply of small white pills and LifeStyle condoms. This was just the beginning.

Being on birth control can be an uncomfortable, awkward and sometimes painful experience, but it is a precaution that women are expected to take. Sixty two percent of women of reproductive age are currently taking a contraceptive, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

A hormonal birth control method for men has been hinted at since the 70s, but 40 years later, we’re still waiting.

An article published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism on Oct. 27. revealed that such a development may be on the horizon.

A recent trial for a hormonal birth control shot for men was carried out from 2008 to 2012, which involved 320 men ages 18-45 years and their female partners, ages 18-38.

The men received intramuscular injections of 200 mg of norethisterone enanthate, a drug derived from a hormone used in the Depo-Provera shot for women, and 1000 mg of testosterone undecanoate, a synthetic version of testosterone, every eight weeks. This tricks the body into thinking it has enough testosterone so it doesn’t produce more, which in turn lowers sperm count, reports CNN. When I first heard about the men’s birth control shot, I thought, “Finally!

Your turn, guys.” However, the celebration was short-lived when I learned that the trials were discontinued due to concerns about side effects like acne, pain at the injection site, mood disorders and increased libido, according to the article. Twenty men dropped out of the study, reporting these 1,491 adverse effects and others, yet researchers con-

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and sperm as well. According to the article in the journal, the levels were supposed to drop safely so that they could return after the drug was stopped being taken completely.

The drug had mixed results. Out of 274 participants it had a 96 percent success rate. However, side effects caused the study to be abruptly stopped.

There was one diagnosed case of depression and another diagnosed case of irregular or quick heartbeat, both scary side effects to avoid having children.

Twenty men dropped out of the study completely because of the side effects and there were 1,491 incidents of side effects reported by participants during the course of the study.

The most common complaints were injection site pain, muscle pain, increased libido and acne, however, researchers said more than 39 percent of the reported symptoms, that included a suicide, were unrelated to the shots.

The study cited the side effects—particularly depression and other mood disorders—that caused it to be stopped

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"What if I can’t have kids anymore because I decided to get the shot?" earlier than expected.

So the shot was 96 percent effective but I might be depressed or experience physical, mental, or emotional side effects? No thank you, I’ll take any other method of birth control.

Even worse, what if I become sterile from the shot or what if my sperm count doesn’t come back to normal?

What if I can’t have kids anymore because I decided to get the shot?

That doesn’t seem like a smart risk, because I would like to have kids someday. Don’t forget there is still a four-percent chance of having a baby if you only use the shot as your birth control method. This would mean that to be totally safe, I would still probably have to wear

a condom, just to have peace of mind.

As a full-time student with a full-time job, a child just isn’t something I can risk creating right now.

So while it may work, the side effects and the lack of a 100 percent guarantee force me to choose another method.

Women and critics will say the onus to prevent pregnancy has been on the shoulders of females for way too long and it is time men started meeting them halfway. I agree and I don’t mind the side effects if there’s a guarantee that things can physically go back to normal if I want them to.

Until then, the old methods seem like the way to go.

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Maxion said that social situations, stress levels and specific letters — such as words that start with the letters “m”, “n”, “b” or “p” — trigger his stutter.

“I describe stuttering as a roller coaster,” Maxion said. “I really can’t predict if I’m gonna have a fluent day or not. I have my days where I don’t stutter at all and other days I stutter so much.”

Maxion hasn’t received any formal speech therapy yet, but he said there are tricks to dealing with moments of disfluency.

He practices a speech technique called “easy onset,” which brings the vocal chords together as a person speaks.

“If I know I’m gonna stutter on a word, I almost breathe into the word,” said Maxion. “For instance if I can’t say the word ‘apple,’ if I stutter on the ‘a’, I would say ‘h-apple’ instead of a-a-apple.”

For the past four years, Maxion has led the East Bay chapter of the National Stuttering Association, a nonprofit organization that provides support, advocacy and research for those affected by stuttering. The support group was open to the stuttering community and initially met at the Weekes Branch Library in South Hayward.

At the start of fall term, Maxion connected with Ai Leen Choo, assistant professor of the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department at East Bay, who also stutters. She helped him secure a space on campus where he relocated the East Bay chapter.

The support group opened in October, shortly before International Stuttering Awareness Day on Oct. 22.

Maxion said the goal was to provide a sense of community for East Bay residents who have the disorder, which affects about 70 million people worldwide and three million in the U.S. alone, according to The Stuttering Foundation.

Stuttering affects four times as many males as females, reports the foundation.

Around half a dozen people have attended the support group’s first meetings so far, which are scheduled every third Wednesday of every month, according to Maxion. The meetings are open to

all community members, not just East Bay students and are free of charge. Outreach has included handing out goodie bags on International Stuttering Awareness Day and through the group’s Facebook page.

Maxion said a typical meeting begins with individual introductions and a communal reading of the NSA’s mission statement.

Meetings are loosely structured and over the course of an hour, group members are invited to share their experiences with stuttering.

Maxion said attendees can utilize the space to prepare for job interviews or school presentations. The end of the meetings are devoted to reading the NSA’s “closing statement,” which reassures people who stutter that they aren’t alone.

“It’s such a tight knit group of people,” said Maxion. “It’s awesome, just being in a casual setting and just hanging out with other people who stutter who just get it.”

Genetics, developmental delays in childhood, neurological processing, family dynamics and lifestyles contribute to stuttering, according to The Stuttering Foundation. However Maxion said that research on stuttering is lacking and as a result, is largely misunderstood in society.

“They usually mistake it with a typical disfluency, like ‘he’s nervous so he stutters,’” Maxion said.

“People don’t know that much about stuttering. We know more about what stuttering is not more than what it actually is.”

The support group wasn’t created to teach speech therapy, but it will facilitate outings to dinners, movies and holiday parties, social situations that commonly trigger a stutter, according to Maxion.

Maxion said East Bay’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, through which he is pursuing his master’s degree, provides a $500 stipend to the group, which can be used for these events.

The group meets on the third Wednesday of every month from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Room 1573 in the Music Building on the Hayward campus.

Oakland council calls for changes in pot permit equity program

By Rachel Swan SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Cannabis experts and their allies packed Oakland City Hall for a raucous public hearing Monday night, at which the City Council voted to re-craft a set of controversial pot laws it passed in May. After a four-hour debate, the council voted 4-3 to direct the city administrator to write new laws and significantly revise an equity permit program that sets aside half of Oakland’s pot permits for ex-convicts and a small number of East Oakland residents. Its members also scrapped plans to force cannabis businesses to hand over 25 percent of their profits to the city, and to require pot retailers to pay back taxes and hefty $10,000-a-day fines.

The vote fell along political lines, with council members Dan Kalb, Annie Campbell Washington, Rebecca Kaplan and Abel Guillen in favor of changing the program, and council members Desley Brooks, Larry Reid and Noel Gallo dissenting. Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney was absent.

The council also requested a comprehensive analysis from the city’s Department of Race and Equity before the laws come back for a vote in January.

Although it was approved unanimously, the equity program sparked a six-month political fight that has all but hobbled Oakland’s marijuana permitting efforts. Sponsored by Brooks, it reserves half the city’s permits for people who fit a narrow set of criteria: either they were jailed on marijuana convictions in Oakland within the past decade or they have lived for at least two years in a designated East Oakland police beat that saw a high number of marijuana arrests in 2013.

The six designated police beats in the equity program are either in Brooks’ district or the district represented by her ally Reid.

Brooks said the intent of the program was to benefit people whose lives were disrupted by drug-related prosecutions and incarceration. Without special setasides, she said, “we’re setting up systemic issues that prevent people from competing.”

Critics say the program is too restrictive and would choke off the city’s pot trade amid an anticipated boom, now that California voters have approved Proposition 64, the ballot measure to legalize recreational pot in 2018.

After hearing these arguments, several council members expressed regret for the May vote, and three of them -- Kalb, Guillen and Campbell Washington -pushed an alternative proposal that would offer loans, tax incentives and expedited permits to perceived victims of the war on drugs, without constricting the

industry and the tax money it could bring. They asked that this alternative be the framework for the new laws in January.

Brooks, Reid and Gallo shot back with proposals that would tighten the city’s grip on its cannabis sector. In September, they pushed plans to force all pot businesses to hand over 25 percent of their profits, and at least one seat on their board of directors, to the city.

On Monday, they floated a plan that would force large-scale businesses to pay back taxes, plus interest, and $10,000-a-day fines for every day they have operated.

“Under federal law (cannabis) was illegal,” Brooks said. “We don’t typically reward illegal activity.”

The other council members refused to sign on to the plan.

Speakers at the meeting were infuriated by the ongoing squabbles and delays.

“Your politicizing of this process has been shamefully negligent to the citizens of our city,” said Michael Grafton, a cannabis advocate.

“This is a race, and the consequences of your machinations is that Oakland is stumbling out of the starting” gate.

Other speakers said Oakland is in danger of losing its reputation as one of the most cannabis-friendly cities in the U.S. “In the context of repression, prohibition and confusion at the state and federal level, Oakland made it work,” said James Anthony, a lawyer who helps fledgling marijuana entrepreneurs start their businesses.

He noted that in 2004 Oakland was the first U.S. city to issue a permit for a medical cannabis dispensary.

Now it has fallen behind other cities in the region.

Yet some praised the equity program as a means to correct past racial injustice and prevent African Americans and Latinos from getting left behind once the industry goes above ground.

As council members bicker, time is running out for Oakland. State law requires that all cannabis businesses have a city permit and a state license by January 2018, and many other cities already have permit systems in place.

Some operators who spoke at the meeting said they may have to flee if the May laws remain intact.

“My business does not want to leave Oakland, but the equity permit program in its current form would create an impossible situation for us,” said William Roberts, a lab manager at the East Oakland cultivation facility Dark Heart Nursery.

Kalb said he shared those concerns.

“With Prop. 64 passing, and other cities looking to do things, we have a time-sensitive goal to get things done here,” he said.

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Still many questions on how to implement Prop. 57

By Monica Vaughan APPEAL-DEMOCRAT Jerry Brown sold Proposition 57 to voters as an opportunity for state prisoners to earn credit toward early release for good behavior and rehabilitation. Now that it passed, state officials are figuring out implementation.

With voter approval last week, a segment of the state prison population immediately gained a constitutional right to a parole hearing to determine if they can be released from custody.

But the administrative review process -- one that defines how those hearings occur and what factors are considered when deciding whether to release an inmate -- has yet to be developed.

"Currently, there is not any structure that would accommodate Proposition 57," said Patrick McGrath, Yuba County district attorney. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said Tuesday they're drafting regulations.

"We will comply with the law and begin the process of developing regulations that must be certified as protecting and enhancing public

safety," two department spokespeople said in separate responses to inquiries for more information.

The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 continued the state's criminal justice system reforms to address overcrowding in state prisons.

Some say the reforms, including realignment and Proposition 47, are part of a pendulum swing away from "tough on crime" prison sentences toward treatment for offenders and decriminalization.

Opponents over the years -- including district attorneys and sheriffs -- have expressed concern about felons released back into the community to reoffend.

This newest set of laws, in part, provides a framework for "nonviolent" offenders to be eligible for parole before their previous release date. Neither local nor state officials could provide an estimate on how many people may fall into that category, as the regulations still have to be developed.

Also yet to be developed is how prison officials will count custody credits. Where legislators had imposed requirements for how much of their sentence an offender has to serve (at least 85 percent for violent felonies, for example), Proposition

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57 gave the authority to CDCR to determine how credits are awarded to inmates.

There are no guidelines yet on how that is determined.

"How are credits tied to programming? How do you determine what programming is eligible for reduction? Are you looking at participation and completion?" McGrath asked.

McGrath said he is hoping district attorneys have a voice in how policy is developed.

"We've reached out to the governor's office and said, 'As you put this together, although we're opposed to Proposition 57, we're certainly interested in having a voice in how the regulations are developed and somehow approved.'"

Specifically, he is interested in victims' participation in the process.

"On early release, it is critical that crime victims still feel that they have some type of role in the ultimate decision of whether someone is released or not," he said.

"At a very minimum, I think they need to have the ability to have information as to the crime victims information to at least provide written comment as to the decisions," he said.

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traveled to the Hayward BART station. The new shuttle loop, which began the first day of the fall quarter, picks up riders at every stop.

Early last year, the Parking and Transportation department met with leaders from the student committee at University Village and Martin Castillo, the acting vice president of Student Affairs, and began the planning process.

Students at University Village complained they had no easy way to get to their meals because the dorms have no kitchens and the Dining Commons are located across campus.

The committee suggested a shuttle service for students who rely on the Dining Commons for all of their meals but weren’t able to board the crowded BART shuttles in the evening or mornings or wait for the mid-day shuttles, which only run hourly.

The new shuttle comes at the perfect time, as the number of students living in the Village dorms has increased this term. “We have more students living on campus than ever,” said Jim Zavagno, associate vice president of the Facilities Development and Operations Department on campus. “Occupancy has gone from two to three in many dorms,” he said.

The committee initially requested a service that provided multiple stops on campus for both pickup and dropoff.

Lobo’s department came up with a plan with proposed stops, and it was approved by Student Services and campus Vice President Julie Wong and was put into place once the funds were approved. “Because we already have a contract with TransMetro in place, we were able to get this done within a month of submitting the plan,” Lobo said.

TransMetro is the transportation company employed by CSUEB. The cost for both the shuttle and driver is roughly $80,000 a year and is funded by the Parking and Transportation Services Department, which in turn pays for it through monies collected by parking violations.

The drivers and shuttles are on a lease contract with Transmetro, which also operates the shuttles for other campus transportation services to BART. Dominga, the new shuttle’s regular driver, has been driving for the campus through TransMetro for 17 years.

The existing shuttle system on the campus has been through a series of adjustments over the years.

For a short period a few years ago, they allowed pick-ups at multiple stops on campus for the BART-bound shuttles, but Lobo said it backfired: too many people were trying to board full shuttles, and would not take no for an answer. “We had fights breaking out,” he said.

The loop shuttle has twenty seats, but because they operate strictly on campus, passengers are allowed to stand if seats are not available. In the morning, there are often more passengers than seats.

Lopez is glad they allow people to stand, unlike the BART shuttles, which are often already full when they come up the hill in the morning and therefore don’t take on passengers at University Village.

“In the morning it gets crowded, but it’s better than other shuttles because we don’t have to wait an hour,” said Melissa Lopez, a student who lives at University Village.

This is the first time in seven years the campus has offered multiple pickup stop service, according to Lobo. He hopes the service will take pressure off of the BART shuttle and serve students on campus who want to use it just to get

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Cal State East Bay students commute in the University Village shuttle on the Hayward campus on Tuesday. around.

Monica Chavez, who has night classes, wishes the shuttle would run later. “There’s not a lot of people walking on campus after dark and it feels dangerous,” she said.

“I really like it though. I just saw the signs by the stops, I didn’t know about it before a couple of weeks ago.”

New permanent signs and schedules for the eight shuttle stops are ready, but the facilities department has yet to install them, according to Lobo. Temporary signs on wooden saw-horses currently mark the stops.

“We anticipate the service will be used by everyone on campus to a degree, but it is primarily being provided for the University Village students,” said Lobo. However, the campus does not want the shuttle service to keep people from getting their exercise. “The shuttle is not meant to replace walking,” he said.

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California catches chlamydia, STDs on the rise statewide

By Kali Persall

MANAGING EDITOR

The test results are in and the diagnosis is alarming: California is leading the nation in sexually transmitted disease rates, a 2015 report by the California Department of Public Health revealed last month. The report found that cases in syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea have increased 11.6 percent statewide over the past year.

There were 249,224 reported cases in the state in 2015: 189,937 cases of chlamydia, 54,255 cases of gonorrhea, 4,890 cases of primary and secondary syphilis — the beginning stages where treatment is possible — and 142 cases of congenital syphilis, a life-threatening form of the disease that appears in infants.

The CDPH attributes these increases to a variety of

factors, such as decreased condom use, an increase in sexual partners, lack of access to comprehensive health care and STD testing and improvements in public health reporting, which has brought more statistics to the forefront.

STDs account for almost $16 billion in health care costs, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The spike in cases may also be connected to recent budget cuts that directly affected state and local STD programs that help treat and prevent these diseases. In one year alone, over 20 STD clinics were forced to close, according to the CDC. Chlamydia is difficult to detect and most people don’t report any symptoms at all, according to the CDC. Both men and women who do experience symptoms report abnormal discharge, burning during urination and in rare cases for men, pain and swelling of the testicles.

Chlamydia is a common STD that can have serious ef-

fects on a woman’s ability to bear children.

Gonorrhea carries similar symptoms as chlamydia, but can cause infections in the genitals, rectum and throat, according to the CDC. Syphilis manifests in multiple stages, which can overlap,the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. reports. During the primary stage, contagious sores appear on the body, anywhere between three weeks and three months after infection. The secondary stage involves more sores and flu-like symptoms and the late stage can cause tumors, blindness or paralysis.

All three of the STD’s can be cured with antibiotics and consistent medical care.

The study revealed that women ages 15-24 accounted for 63 percent of the state’s female chlamydia cases and 51 percent of gonorrhea cases. Gay and bisexual men were also at risk, and accounted for 62 percent of male cases in California and 84 percent of primary and secondary syphilis cases.

In Alameda County alone, there were 4,932 cases of chlamydia in females and 3,142 cases in males; 941 cases of gonorrhea in females and 1,870 in males; and 160 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in females and 147 in males, according to a 2015 CDPH local health jurisdiction STD data summary.

Nationwide, Americans in this age bracket made up two-thirds of chlamydia diagnoses and half of gonorrhea cases. Women’s syphilis rates increased 27 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to the CDC. The CDPH reported that it is working to distribute $5 million in grants to local health departments to expand STD programs.

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Give thanks for decolonization

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By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER

This summer, Taylor Billey, a third year student at Stanford University, spent the Fourth of July at a barbeque with her friends, but their evening wasn’t just a typical Independence Day party with fireworks and food. Billey, who is an American Indian — Navajo, to be exact — instead found herself having a conversation with her friends about decolonization and Thanksgiving.

“With July 4th, you celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and all of these American things, and I think instead of that we celebrated, as people of color, our very existence despite history and atrocities against different people groups,” Billey said. “Decolonizing Thanksgiving looks like honoring what, I guess, what being thankful for, but not the same way as America describes it as or portrays it as.”

Decolonization is the act of getting rid of customs and techniques from the colonial era influences and also to become self-governed.

“The story of Thanksgiving is the only source of what America has [for this holiday],” Billey said.

“It’s November so its Native American Heritage Month, so a lot of schools and what this country teaches will be the story the Indians and Pilgrims.”

Billey remembers in her childhood years around Thanksgiving, making headbands using construc-

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‘hey, I don’t like this. I didn’t make this decision.’”

Castro said she protested in the 1970s and 1980s with the farmworkers movement, led by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.

Once the group arrived at city hall, everyone laid down on the ground as organizers read aloud 102 names of men, women and children who had been murdered by police brutality this year. After each name was called, the crowd softly chanted, “say their name.”

Afterward, students, staff and community members engaged the crowd with song, prayer and empowering messages about uniting during polarizing times.

The entire rally remained peaceful, even

tion paper and glueing feathers attached, but did not see it as an issue at the time. Looking back is a different story, and the thought of being educated about her own identity in this way makes her sick.

“That’s [how] I was taught who I am as a Native person.”

From the History Books Like many Americans, we do not grow up thinking much of the history behind Thanksgiving. For me, it was a day I knew I would be eating big portions of food and should be considering why I’m grateful.

In most public school history books, they tell us that in the 1620s, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe, stumbled upon weak and malnourished Pilgrims, who traveled from Plymouth, England for hopes of finding new land.

Squanto provided Pilgrims with shelter and guidance on how to survive by teaching them how to fish, avoid poisonous plants and harvest food correctly. He later introduced them to a tribe called, Wampanoag, so the Pilgrims could form an alliance with them. In 1621, when the Pilgrims corn harvest proved to be successful, they joined with Indians to experience what is known now as “The First Thanksgiving” in 1621, but back then was just a three day feast, according to most public school history books.

Although most of this is true, the relationship between both Pilgrims and Wampanoags weren’t always harmonious. The Pilgrims ensured to

when the driver of a passing car yelled at the group, “Go back to Mexico! Donald Trump! Yeah!”

As the crowd sang and talked, Hayward Police Officers circled the block periodically and several cars passed by playing the rapper YG’s hit song from earlier this year “Fuck Donald Trump.”

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and CSUEB President Leroy Morishita all issued letters to residents and students that encouraged them to exercise their political rights and freedoms but to keep things peaceful.

Several businesses were looted and damaged during the protests in downtown Oakland on Wednesday, and more than 20 arrests were made.

Wampanoags that they are just a small group of people who wouldn’t take much of their land. The trusting Wampanoags allowed them alliance with their space and took care of them.

The cooperation and civility between the two ended shortly and became conflict and war that lasted 200 years.

Ever since the Pilgrims arrived, the Natives lost communities, access to foods, indigenous knowledge due to war, diseases and genocide brought by the Pilgrims.

Cal State East Bay American Indian Studies professor, Enrique Salmon, says the reason that this narrative isn’t mentioned often, is because it doesn’t go with the “America is Great” stigma we have.

Changing the narrative “If we were to change the whole narrative of Thanksgiving, like how Europeans showed up here and initiated this mass genocide, everything would change,” said Salmon.

Salmon is American Indian of the Ramara tribe.

When he moved to the United States from Chihuahua, Mexico in elementary, he believed the sugar coated narrative made no sense. “It didn’t have any meaning for me, I wasn’t connected to it, it didn’t make sense,” he said.

When he attended college, he started to study it more and got more of the story deeply, he wanted to change the narrative himself.

Many see Thanksgiving as a time to gather with our loved ones and celebrate gratitude. But I think it’s time we start questioning why textbooks don’t often cover the whole narrative. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving at all, but there are multiple ways to decolonize on that day.

One of the best things about decolonizing on this day is that you can re-purpose your vision of Thanksgiving without completely forgetting the genocide of Native Americans, but to revamp your own version of why you celebrate the holiday.

One of the ways to decolonize is by the food you eat. Salmon suggest that you trace back to your origins from 500 years ago, and cook what your ancestors ate.

“They’re healthier, they have more nutrients, better source of fiber and that’s physically speaking. Mentally speaking, it helps reaffirm your identity,” Salmon said.

Another way people decolonize is by attending ceremonies on Thanksgiving, dedicated to honoring and acknowledging indigenous people of the past, one example is called the Indigenous People Sunrise located at Alcatraz Island the site of the former prison in San Francisco.

Acknowledging the whole narrative and taking part of decolonizing would make it more of an honor of your culture and give more gratitude to the people and the day.

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Cal State East Bay students and protesters gather at City Hall in Downtown Hayward on Nov. 9 to express their reactions to the presidential election results.

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New CSUEB baseball coach looks to build on success

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California State University baseball interim head coach Mike Cummins.

By Benjamin Conroy CONTRIBUTOR

The CSU East Bay Baseball team has some new blood this year.

Coach Mike Cummins is the new interim head coach of the Pioneer Baseball team for this upcoming season. Previously, Cummins spent six years as head coach at San Francisco State and spent last season as San Jose State’s Assistant baseball coach.

Last season was the best in Pioneer history with the team going all the way to the NCAA West Regionals. The team’s overall record was 33-22, with a 21-16 Conference record. The record year was lead

by Seniors Rudy Navarro, who was named conference player of the year, and Myles Babitt, who was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 25th round of this year’s MLB draft.

Head coach Bob Ralston and associate head coach Darren Lewis stepped down on Aug. 11. In doing so, the men’s baseball team became the seventh program to lose their head coach under the former Director of Athletics Joan McDermott. Ralston and Lewis followed women’s head coaches of basketball, track, cross country and softball, and men’s head coaches of soccer and swimming. All have

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The CSUEB baseball team shows sportsmanship after a home game last season at Pioneer Baseball Field.

either stepped down or left to pursue other career opportunities. It is still unclear why Ralston and Lewis stepped down as coaches.

According to Cummins, a native of Monterey, got an early start in his baseball career as his father and grandfather both played and coached baseball. Wanting to be

like his dad, Cummins picked up a bat and started swinging. Being around baseball from a young age helped him fall in love with the game. Cummins was a catcher at Santa Clara University from 1977 to 1979.

After graduating, he signed a contract with the Salem Senators,

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Cummins started his coaching career at Buchser High School in Santa Clara where he took the team to a second place finish in their conference in his first year coaching there. The new coach has been coaching college baseball ever since.

In addition to coaching at SJSU and SFSU, he spent 21 years at his alma-mater Santa Clara University, 17 as an assistant coach and four as a head coach. He spent six years as a head coach at Walla Walla Community College in Washington and prior to that took up the assistant coach’s job at Washington State.

With a lot of talented returning players, 19 to be exact, it could potentially be another great season for the Pioneers but it will still take a lot of hard work to get back to the Regional. Anytime your team advances to playoffs, other teams in your division will be bringing their best game any time you play them. Other teams will be looking to prove that they can beat the best from last year and will be looking to prove it.

Being the new kid in town always come with its challenges but Cummins feels that he is up to the task.

He predicts that his biggest challenge will be to get everyone on the same page as him and the rest of the coaching staff. He also needs to quickly determine where everyone fits best on the team.

There is always that transition period where everyone has to get used to each other when a new coach takes over.

New systems are put into place and the players, as well as coaches, need time to adjust and learn. The team has started fall ball as well as practices and conditioning.

The first game is Friday Feb. 3 on the road in Oakland against the Academy of Art.

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Media must be held accountable Bay Area mayor for dividing this country FROM THE WIRE

By Yousuf Fahimuddin CONTRIBUTOR The current political climate in this country is the most toxic it’s been in my lifetime. In a mad dash to prove themselves right—because nothing is worse than a newspaper admitting that it got something wrong—they’re spreading false information.

“Big media” outlets like CNN, Huffington Post, New York Times, MSNBC before and after the election have all reported several false information or otherwise blatantly supported the Democrats, calling the Republicans so-called the party of nazis and white supremacists.

FOX News reported that Hillary would be indicted several times, but they were wrong.

FOX at least apologized, but none of the others have. CNN colluded with the Democratic National Committee on interview questions for both the debates and interviewing Donald Trump, but only Donna Brazile, chairperson for the Democratic National Committee and former CNN contributor, was punished for leaking debate questions.

It takes me back to the media’s push for the Iraq War. They built up a false narrative based on patriotism, fear mongering and nation building, purposefully ignored the facts and sold it to the whole country. And they’re doing it again.

I say this all as somebody who worked on the 2012 Obama reelection campaign, a lifelong Democrat, and as someone who couldn’t vote for Trump or Clinton because they were bad candidates. I am a Muslim who knows what discrimination looks like. I have fought racists with my

hands as well as with the pen.

But the way the mainstream media—and comedians—have purposefully pushed these lies is disgusting. It’s an affront to the trust we put in them as citizens. We’re all owed an apology for

“white nationalist” and anti-semite. Snopes, a fact checking website, states that this is mostly untrue. John Bolton, a Bush era politician, has been labeled by the Huffington Post as a violent militant. It would be like calling George W. Bush “Chief Architect of ISIS.”

“I’m not against the ongoing protests; protests are what make America a great country. ” the lies and divisiveness, but I know we’ll never get it.

There’s so much misinformation floating around. The day after the election, an 18-yearold Muslim girl at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette stated that a man in a pro-Trump hat grabbed her hijab from behind her and told her to go hang herself with it.

She tweeted this first and promptly caught the attention of the school police department, who asked her to come in to file a report. It turned out that she lied. When asked why she lied, she couldn’t give an explanation.

Additionally, claims on Twitter that the KKK were marching in North Carolina after Trump’s election were also false, according to Politifact, but some major news outlets reported it as true.

Even today, news headlines about Trump’s newly chosen Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, describe him consistently and on message as a

Media coverage like this makes our country more divided.

It’s as if the media is going for pageviews and clicks to generate more revenue. It’s the same mindset that put Trump at the front of the polls.

Given how utterly irresponsible the mainstream media have been over the past year, especially in the past week, I don’t blame some of my friends for expressing fears that Black people will get lynched because Trump got elected or that Trump will take away healthcare from disabled people.

The blame falls squarely on the likes of CNN, Huffington Post, and comedians like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver for taking advantage of our trust in them and using it for their own gain.

Fact check everything you read, especially now, because the big mainstream media outlets aren’t living up to their responsibilities. Fear gets more viewers, but it’s poisonous for all of us.

plans new manufacturing initiative

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Mayors in the Bay Area, including the leaders of San Jose, Oakland, Fremont and San Francisco, are planning a region-wide manufacturing initiative.

The effort acknowledges that technology and innovation have reshaped manufacturing, the organizers of the initiative say.

"The Bay Area has the potential to shape the future of this sector that creates a pathway to middle-wage jobs," according to a prepared release that was sent to this newspaper ahead of the kickoff meeting for the effort that is scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco.

The Thursday meeting is the inaugural Bay Area Summit on Urban Manufacturing.

"With legalization of marijuana, there are huge implications for future uses of industrial spaces, which are currently at a premium in the region," the group said in the statement.

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"Setting aside competitive differences, these cities will discuss how they aim to grow manufacturing throughout the region to create jobs for entry-level and middle-income workers," the organizers said.

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Cal State East Bay sophomore guard Juwan Anderson dribbles by his opponent during the game against the Western Washington Vikings on Saturday evening at the Pioneer Gymnasium on the Hayward campus.

Freshman guard makes statement over the weekend

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER After redshirting last year, at the urging of his coach to get a feel for the program, freshman guard Druce Asah established himself as a key player for the California State East Bay men’s basketball team, by being the leading scorer in each of the team’s last three games.

On Friday, the Pioneers faced Notre Dame De Namur (0-2 overall) in their first home game of the season for the Pioneer Challenge, a small tournament which consisted of four schools: East Bay, Sonoma State, Western Washington and Notre Dame De Namur. The Pioneers led throughout most of the first half, only giving up the lead once and managing to take the 43-28 lead going into halftime.

Asah scored 9 points in 15 minutes in the half and went 3-4 FG and 1-2 from the three-point line.

“It feels really good to finally be out on the floor,” Asah said. “I am just so excited to be out on the floor finally and give my all.”

In the second half East Bay came out much stronger and determined defensively and took full control of the game as they outscored Notre Dame 36-22 and held their opponent to a 27.59 shooting percentage.

Asah was efficient in the second half when he scored 16 points, which gave him a team high of 25 points for the night in his first game in the Pioneer Gym. He went 8 for 11 from the field and 4 for 6 from the three-point line. He also added five offensive rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal

in 33 minutes.

“Coach always tells me that I am more efficient when I am focused more on my defensive and rebounding,” Asah said. “When I do that it allows the game to come to me and helps me play at a higher level.”

Senior forward Micah Dunhour also added a double-double as he finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds. Junior guard Drew Bender and center Kyler Frakes also added 11 points in the Pioneers double digit 79-60 win.

On Saturday, East Bay faced Western Washington 2-0 overall in the Pioneer Challenge finale.

The outcome was a lot different from their previous game and they fell to the Vikings 107-81. Western Washington shot 63 percent from the field on the night, which made it very hard for the Pioneers to contain.

“It is hard to win a game when a team shoots that well from the field,” said Juwan Anderson, East Bay’s new transfer point guard from University of Nevada. “We just have to improve on our defense and communication more.”

Western Washington outscored 22 points off of East Bay’s turnovers and outscored them in the paint 40-24. The big factor for the Vikings was their 6-foot-6 forward Jeffery Parker, who scored 32 points and had five rebounds.

Asah led the team in scoring again with 15 points, along with Anderson who had 15 points of his own. Anderson was also 3-3 behind the arc.

Former leading scorer for the Pioneers last year senior point guard Jalen Richards also added 12 points on the night.

“It was a tough loss, but Coach Argenal knows

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Cal State East Bay senior guard Paramvir Singh drives past an opponent during the game against the Western Washington Vikings at Pioneer Gymnasium in Hayward Saturday evening. where to take us to get where we want to go,” Asah said. “We just have to keep working hard and have blind faith. We are a close-knit group and we are very comfortable and trust each other’s style of play. Everything will come together.”

The Pioneers will travel to Montana on Saturday to play Montana State at 7 p.m.

Volleyball qualifies for CCAA Tournament for first time

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER The Cal State East Bay volleyball team has qualified and will compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament for the first time ever since joining the conference in 2009.

East Bay, 13-13 overall and 9-9 conference, fought hard to get the wins necessary to qualify for the tournament. It’s a significant accomplishment for the team: last year they went 6-22 overall and 4-16 in conference.

“I feel so honored and blessed to be entering the tournament with these girls,” said sophomore middle Deja Thompson. “We did a complete turnaround compared to last season and it is a pretty amazing feeling. We were counted out. No one thought we could do this but us.”

The Pioneers barely made their way in, coming in at fourth place in CCAA’s North Division. Their standing matches them up to play California State San Bernardino (21-4 overall, 15-2 conference), the number-one-seeded team not only in the North Division, but also in the entire conference. In their previous matchup against San Bernardino on Nov. 5, East Bay was swept by the Coyotes by the scores of 25-22, 26-16 and 25-17.

“Going into the tournament playing our first match versus a team like San Bernardino, you could say we are the underdogs,” said sophomore outside hitter Kiki Leuteneker.

The team recently fell to Humboldt State (13-13, 8-10) on the road on Saturday, but the squad will

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Cal State East Bay Women’s volleyball Head Coach Jim Spagle pumps up his team during a game earlier this season. have to shake off the loss before the tournament.

East Bay looked like they were on the road to sweep the Jacks as they took a 2-0 lead in sets (2522, 27-25). But Humboldt fought back in the third set. They started the set on an 8-0 run and never looked back, winning, 25-20. That momentum carried into the next two sets and the Jacks were able to complete a full comeback by winning them 25-18 and 15-11, which gave them the 3-2 win over the Pioneers.

“Volleyball is definitely a game of momentum, and we let them take that and run with it which resulted in Humboldt coming back to win the match,” Thompson said. “This team has come back from top teams

like California State Los Angeles and Chico State, so I am excited to play a team like them.” Despite the loss, Thompson had a very successful game for the last regular season game. She led all players in the match with 22 kills and a .432 hitting percentage and also added 3 blocks.

Thompson has also been ranked in the top 10 scorers in the CCAA along with Kiki Leuteneker.

Both have been huge factors in the Pioneers success this season, with their hitting efficiency.

The Pioneers will face San Bernardino at 7:30 p.m. in their first conference tournament game today in San Bernardino.

Halfway through the football season, the San Francisco 49ers are struggling to keep it together. Bad coaching decisions and sub-par performances on the field have likely sabotaged any chance the Niners of making it to the playoffs.

After starting the season off with one win, the 49ers have dropped the last six straight. On Oct. 23, the 49ers lost 34-17 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an inexperienced team that is only 3-4. San Francisco needs to beat teams like Tampa Bay if they want to have a chance to save the season.

With week nine coming up, the 49ers need to start making a turn for the better if they want to try and sneak into the Wild Card Game. San Francisco is currently in second-to-last place in the league with a 1-7 record. They have to win at least seven of their last nine games to even have a chance at a Wild Card berth. It will take nothing short of a complete 180-degree turn for them to make the playoffs, but many things are holding them back.

Head coach Chip Kelly’s decision-making has been called into question several times this season while leading the 49ers. He has been repeatedly questioned about the starting quarterback position: Kelly began the season with Blaine Gabbert as the starting quarterback, and his lessthan-stellar play has shown no signs of improvement. Gabbert, the former first round draft pick, comes in to the halfway point of the season with a 1-4 record, a completion percentage of 58, 890 passing yards, five touchdowns and six interceptions. These poor numbers have recently earned him the backup role and Colin Kaepernick has moved to the starting role.

Kaepernick began the season as the backup quarterback, and his stats as a starter are not much better. He comes in with a completion percentage of 52, 728 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions. Although Kaepernick has only started three games this season and is 0-3, his stats are similar to Gabbert’s.

Currently the 49ers are ranked 30th in the league out of 32 teams. We all know the famous quote “Defense wins Championships,” but team defense is a big problem San Francisco needs to fix. Shutting down the other team’s offense is huge, and in order to do that the niners need to tackle better, cover receivers better and stop teams from running the ball: all things they struggle with. Remember when Seattle crushed Denver 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014? That was largely due to how well Seattle’s defense played that night. Defense is surely one area 49er coaches addressed during the bye week two weeks ago.

Offense is an even bigger area of concern for San Francisco; their offense is ranked dead last so far this year thanks to an inability to pass or run the ball consistently. In addition to their bad play on the field, the San Francisco 49ers have been voted the worst franchise in sports at the moment, in a recent poll last month from ESPN. Out of the four major sports in the United States — football, baseball, basketball and hockey — the 49ers were ranked 122 out of 122 teams. The storied franchise has been dropping in the ranking for quite some time now. According to the standings, which are based on a combination of calculations and fan voting, the Niners have the worst fan relations of any team in the United States.

Other notable rankings include finishing 118th in ownership, 113th in coaching, 116th in players, 117th in affordability, 105th in stadium experience and 113th in “bang for buck.” Sports broadcast KNBR reported on an ESPN ranking of all professional sports teams. This once storied franchise’s collapse is the biggest in sports history. If San Francisco wants to start putting points up on the board this year, they will have to start making changes now. Putting Kaepernick and Harris in the driver seat are two changes that can lead to more offense. Kaepernick threw for 398 yards, two touchdowns and one interception in their last game against the New Orleans Saints. Harris led the team with ten carries and 59 rushing yards. The 49ers need to make a statement in the next couples of games if they want to turn this season around. Winning the next game or two will start to give confidence to the team, which only helps performances on the field. The team starts to gel more as a group and starts working as a unit to produce wins.

They have a lot of ground to make up in their quest to get back to the Super Bowl. If they can make the necessary changes they need to, the 49ers might just save their season.