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Warriors celebrate in Oakland

The Golden State Warriors returned home to Oakland on Friday and cele-brated their first NBA championship in 40 years with the city and their fans.

City officials said more than one mil-lion people descended on Downtown Oakland to participate in the festivities that included a parade and a rally where the players spoke to the crowd.

“Hopefully this isn’t a one time thing,” Stephen Curry said to the crowd. “We want to do this every year.”

Many fans in attendance acknowl-edged how special this day was, but the lingering relocation of their beloved “Dubs” was on many of their minds.

“Great, we finally win one and then we move to San Fran?” Warriors fan Au-gustine Ramos said at the rally. “All my life I have been waiting for my home-town team to win a ship. We finally get a star MVP player and a ship and now they’re gonna take it from us.”

Fans like Ramos are in fear of losing their Oakland franchise to the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, which is the reported site of their new arena. The new building is being pri-vately funded on private land and is expected to be open for the 2018-2019 season, according to the NBA.

While Oakland celebrated, lawmak-ers in Sacramento on Friday made the new San Francisco arena deal a lot eas-ier to finalize when they included an environmental law exemption for the planned Warriors stadium at San Fran-cisco’s Mission Bay in the state budget proposal unveiled last week.

The new development requires an environmental impact report detailing

what wildlife and animals will be dis-placed by construc-tion and the plans to rectify displace-ment, which will be waived for one year due to the new law exemption.

The Mission Bay Alliance is one of the main opponents of the proposed Warriors event center and accord-ing to them “The proposed stadium will have a disas-trous impact on the health and welfare of thousands of patients and families.” They also stated the new arena would block access to medical services, make parking difficult and cause traffic around the area to hit a complete halt during the 225 events that are planned each year in addition to sports events.

The new arena is located near several hospitals, including those specific for women, children, cancer and cardiolo-gy. There is a public hearing regarding the San Francisco arena plan on June 30 at City Hall and public input is being listened to at the meetings until July 20.

With the move to San Francisco seeming more likely fans will just have to appreciate Oracle Arena for the few seasons it has left. Oracle has become known as one of the loudest and hardest places to play in the league. It has been nicknamed “Roaracle” for the decibel level the fans reach and this season the Warriors were 39-2 at home in the regu-lar season this year.

“Hands down this is the best place to play in the league,” Warriors fan and parade attendee John Simon said. “Moving could make all of that differ-ent. The crowd isn’t going to be the same and that’s a huge factor when it comes to home-court advantage.”

NBA championship festivities overshadow relocation to San Francisco

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Top: Golden State Warriors fans lined the streets of Oakland on Friday during the championship parade. Bottom: NBA MVP Stephen Curry (right) and his wife Ayesha Curry leave the stage following the rally on Friday in Oakland.SEE NEWS PAGE 4

On the evening of June 17, a mass shooting took place at Emman-uel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed and a tenth person was shot and injured.

Dyalnn Roof, 21, was arrested the following Thursday, where he confessed to the authorities that he committed the mass murder at the church in South Carolina. Accord-ing to The Huffington Post, Friday morning Roof was charged with nine counts of homicide and pos-session of a firearm during com-mission of a violent event.

What happened in Charleston has been called a hate crime. Ac-cording to CNN, when Roof was asked why he committed these crimes he responded, “to start a race war.”

All too often mass shootings headline newspapers and each time our nation is shaken. Families mourn, citizens become outraged, communities protest, and govern-ment officials scramble to pick up the pieces, yet nothing changes.

One thing that as a nation we can do to change is to take note from the families of the nine victims. Friday afternoon five relatives from dif-ferent victim’s families appeared at Roof’s hearing, where they shared different messages with him, each conveying the same thing: that they forgive him.

“I forgive you,” Nadine Collier, the daughter of 70-year-old Eth-el Lance, said at the hearing. “You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her again. I will never, ever hold her again. But I forgive you. And have mercy on your soul.”

These families have come to-gether to do something that we as a nation don’t see often, instead of responding to these hateful crimes with more hate, they went above and beyond to respond with love.

“Although my grandfather and the other victims died at the hands of hate, this is proof, everyone’s plea for your soul, is proof that they lived in love and their legacies will live in love,” said Wanda Simmons, grand-daughter of Daniel Simmons at the hearing. “So hate won’t win. And I just want to thank the court for making sure that hate doesn’t win.”

To the families of Cynthia Hurd, 54; Susie Jackson, 87; Ethel Lance, 70; Reverend Depayne Middle-ton-Doctor, 49; Honorary Reverend Clementa Pinckney, 41; Tywanza Zanders, 26; Reverend Daniel Sim-mons Senior, 74; Reverend Sharon-da Singleton, 45; and Myra Thomp-son, 59; thank you for reminding the nation that in tragedy there is still light.

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The creation of different graduation commencement ceremonies may seem like a step backwards in social justice, but it can be seen as a large step forward as well. In the last issue of The Pioneer, the article “Grad ceremonies should be combined” was printed about having multiple commencements demonstrates that we still segregate ourselves despite decades of change.

CSUEB recently had five commence-ment ceremonies, all of which celebrated the academic achievement of different minority groups. In generations past, the numbers of those minorities gradu-ating were so few that they were negligi-ble. To have so many different minority students graduating that CSUEB can create individual commencement cere-monies is a testament to the university’s ethnic and cultural diversity.

Many of the students have come from a place where they were aware of the stigmas held against them and the ad-versities that they would have to over-come to reach this level of academic success. These stigmas include, but are not limited to, the belief that certain mi-norities cannot make it to college with-out being really good at sports and you have to work harder to get into college because you are not white.

As a minority scheduled to graduate in the next year, I find it difficult to re-call a single moment when gender and skin color did not coincide with success, because society has still refused to ac-knowledge ethnicity as only a combi-nation of genetic inheritance, cultural

background and pigmentation of skin.If social justice is put into perspec-

tive, no one should get more points for being one ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual preference, lifestyle choice, or geological location, but it happens on a daily basis anyway.

There is no such thing as quietly breaking glass ceilings. When glass is broken it makes a loud noise and can start uproar. When bar-riers are broken they do not go unnoticed, and they often bring concerns about the change to the surface.

In terms of the separate ceremonies in-clusivity, although they are separate, any race or gender can attend. Segregation and ex-clusion are terrible machinations of so-

ciety that should not be embraced. How-ever, the commencement ceremonies do not forbid individuals from participat-ing. Rather it is an individual’s personal belief of who they believe they are and what they identify as that discourages them from participating in a ceremony that is representative of a population

that they do not identify with.The demographics of East Bay are

so diverse. Someone within the stu-dent population represents almost

any culture that you can think of. Each culture is unique from the next, with no culture being identical. With that said different cultures

may celebrate differently from each other.

By embracing multiple commencement ceremo-nies a student is allowed to

choose whichever they feel most comfortable or most famil-

iar with. In that regard it is not segregation but a choice to be

apart of what feels right, just like a person would do when choosing a club or organi-zation to join.

If you take out all the minority debates, culture, diversity issues, and social justice aspects, the fact remains that having addi-tional graduation commencement ceremo-nies allows for more families and friends to watch and celebrate completing an import-ant milestone. In this year’s graduation, each student was given only five gradua-tion tickets.

If you have many family members or im-portant people in your life to share gradua-tion with five is most likely not enough. But they could go to a different commencement ceremony, which is ideally different but important to you all the same, because it represents the same thing.

There is no social justice more import-ant than having the right to choose your own path and make your own decisions. As far as I can see, having multiple com-mencement ceremonies to choose from helps East Bay achieve that right.

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Raised with the Pokémon franchiseWhat can be learned from a video game

In less than a year’s time, the Pokémon franchise will celebrate its 20th anniversary. It is currently the second best-selling video game series of all time, just behind the Super Mario Bros., a series with more than 10 years of a head start.

Pokémon may still be pretty big now-adays, but it’s difficult to overstate the sheer prevalence of Pokémon in the late 90s and early 2000s. Back then it was visible everywhere.

The core concept of Pokémon is sim-ple. You play as a child who lives in a world inhabited by strange creatures who are the eponymous Pokémon. At the beginning of the game, you set off on a journey, capturing and battling Pokémon along the way, with two goals.

The first is to become the greatest Pokémon trainer in your region, by battling every trainer you come across. The second is to collect every Pokémon in existence in order to record them in the Pokédex, a sort of Pokémon encyclopedia.

In February 1996, Pokémon Red and Green versions were

released in Japan. Its success seemed unlikely. It was a buggy game with bad sprite art developed for an aging system and utilized an accessory, the Game Link cable, which almost no other game else used.

At first it seemed doomed to failure and obscurity, with middling initial sales in a market where 80 percent of sales are made within the first two weeks. Nintendo of Japan wrote the games off as a loss. Instead, it defied all expectations by selling at a steady pace.

In 1999, when I was a young child, I won a prize in school for a minor com-petition. The prize I received was a card, blue in color with strange symbols on it and a picture of a small, light-blue tur-tle-like creature blowing bubbles into the air. The top of the card proclaimed its name: Squirtle.

At 6 years old, I was not fully aware of the context of this card, but it interest-ed me enough that I knew that I wanted more. l went deep into the trading card game, collecting, trading, and battling with the cards, things I continue to do

even to this day. Within a year of my introduction

to Pokémon, I found out that there was a TV show and I took many trips to the local video rental store to rent tapes, trying to assemble the chronology of the story in my head, because watching the episodes in order was nearly impos-sible because the tapes were constantly checked out.

On Christmas Day 2000, I walked down the stairs and found a Game Boy Color next to a copy of Pokémon Gold in the middle of the floor near the tree. My absorption into the world of Pokémon was complete.

A lot of my firsts came from Pokémon. It was my first trading card game, my first anime, my first video game, and my first fandom. My first and longest last-ing friendship is partially fueled by our love of Pokémon. I’ve never been one to make friends easily, but when the world of Pokémon opened up to me, it became a bridge that connected me to people I never would have bonded with other-

wise. It became a common language shared between my peers and me.

Pokémon can teach children lessons, just like it did to me. One lesson is that death is not something to be taken light-ly. Unlike in some other games, when an opponent in the game defeats a Pokémon they are not killed, they are knocked out. This was a deliberate choice on the part of the series’ creator, Satoshi Tajiri, who didn’t want the children who played his games to have a cavalier attitude towards killing and death. Another les-son is that while some competition is healthy, being obsessed with winning and being strong isn’t.

After twenty years, Pokémon has be-come pretty firmly entrenched in our culture. It may no longer be as huge as it was in its heyday, but it is still strong. While I have other interests that have grown on me over the years, I will always have a special fondness for Pokémon and the ways it has influenced my life.

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Most people in a position of power in Washington D.C. don’t come from Fre-mont. However an East Bay native is trying to change that in a hurry.

California State University, East Bay 2014 graduate Erin McDonough recent-ly wrapped up her internship within the Executive Office of the President of the United States Barack Obama.

McDonough worked as an intern in the Department of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs during her five-month tenure, which began in January and ended in May.

According to the White House web-site the department is responsible for organizing dialogue and events where public groups and citizens are able to voice their issues and concerns to

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the President. The position required a lengthy application process and only about 450 applicants are chosen to par-ticipate in just three intern semesters offered each year.

The Mission San Jose High School

alumna and Ohlone College transfer student volunteered for the Obama pres-idential campaign locally in 2008 and 2012. The experience led to her applying for the internship.

“I really didn’t feel like I was ready or had the necessary experience to be selected,” McDonough said. “In 2012, when I worked on the campaign, I showed people I was especially motivat-ed and would do what I needed in order to get [Obama] elected.”

That experience paid off for her and in one of the two essays that were re-quired to apply, which had to do with “civic duty leadership and what you have

done for your community.”McDonough argued that the long

volunteer hours she logged and the out-reach to potential voters from the area in addition to attending school gave her the work ethic she needed for the intern-ship.

During her time in D.C. she worked under Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Advisor and Assistant to Obama. Jarrett is also the Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

“Working for her was priceless,” McDonough said. “Her department is very important in terms of community outreach. From their front doors to the

White House, it is all about connect-ing with the American people and bringing them in.”

Some of her internship duties in-cluded daily scheduling, updating her briefing book, staffing White House events, day-to-day handling of events and meetings as well as sec-ondary office duties for Jarrett.

Initially, McDonough was intimi-dated by the position because she felt there would be a lot of Ivy League ap-

plicants. Coming from a state school, she had counted herself out. However, once she arrived she realized that your school has little to do with who is selected.

“I met people from other state schools, veterans and even people from community colleges,” McDonough said. “Passion and drive don’t come from money or a prestigious school. This ex-perience changed who I am and what I believe so much, that I recommend ev-erybody apply for the internship.”

McDonough said that before this ex-perience she would have never consid-ered a career in politics but it changed her opinion.

“After seeing what we do and how much of a difference you can make for people, I would definitely be interested in a career in politics not just feder-ally but possibly locally as well,” Mc-Donough said.

McDonough said she just finished a jury duty commitment and would like to travel before she begins to apply for jobs. She has not yet decided if her ca-reer path and goals will take her into the world of politics.

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Wizard, Jedi, writer, metal singer, Christopher Lee was a man who wore many hats.

Lee, most popularly known as Saru-man from the “Lord of the Rings,” films passed away June 7. While the world of mainstream entertainment mourns the loss of a man whose career spanned seven decades, very few may know about the metal career he had.

Lee had an operatic bass voice, which can be heard in his performance in the musical “The Return of Captain Invin-cible.” In his debut metal performance “The Magic of the Wizard’s Dream” re-

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“I am a young man who is right at the beginning of his young career,” he con-cluded during his speech.

Sir Christopher Lee was knighted in 2009 for his services to drama and charity. His fourth and final album was the sequel to “Charlemagne: By the Sword and Cross,” and was released in 2012 on his 90th birthday.

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Associated Students, Inc. is the most finan-cially funded organization by students on the California State University, East Bay campus. The organization accrues the majority of its bud-get from student fees included with tuition and has an annual overall budget of approximately $1.7 million.

Despite the budget cuts in its programming department, past events and changes have shown that a few tweaks will not keep ASI from being consistent and fair with financing pro-grams for its students.

Erik Pinlac was interim Executive Director of ASI since December, before taking on the posi-tion in June 2015. The board of directors set the direction of the organization while Pinlac and his staff execute the board’s vision and maintain any and every fiscal and legal responsibility.

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rections regarding whom manages what build-ing and what student fee’s go where.

According to Pinlac since July 1, 2014 ASI no longer managed the RAW or the University Union, both buildings now managed by the Uni-versity. While attendees of the campus may fault this change as the reasoning behind its alleged ‘poor budgeting’ for events, ASI now has more time to truly pursue their mission, to enhance student success and experiences, including pro-graming, advocacy, and leadership.

“The programs budgets have doubled since last year,” says Pinlac. The overall budget from student fees is roughly $1.7 Million in student fees with the Raw and both University Unions having their own separate funds.

ASI’s budget depends on the head-count of students that are enrolled at CSUEB. While ASI spends a portion of their budget on program-ming events, according to Pinlac without the financial responsibilities of the RAW and Uni-versity Union ASI was able to redirect funds to student advocacy and programming events.

“We did start fall quarter flat on program-ming,” said Pinlac. He attributed it to the res-ignation of the former Executive Director which

left staff and faculty members with an increase of responsibilities.

Another large portion of the ASI budget goes the student board, the board of directors who travel to mandatory monthly meetings with CSU wide campuses and representative to discuss funding and issues.

ASI has spent roughly around 23% on 2014-2015 events on California State University East Bay’s campus. The variety of different events this year have ranged from but not limited to Showtime at the Apollo, Comedy Show, Dr. Cor-nel West, and most recently Spring Mayhem (formerly known as Spring Fest).

On Saturday, May 30th, 2015, Spring May-hem reflected the months of the previous quarter’s planning and exceeded the expected turnout by ASI with a budget estimated around $130,000 for the event. The event had is esti-mated to have had 6,000 people in attendance, making it the biggest community event CSUEB hosted in its history.

According to Pinlac ASI does not have a quan-tity requirement for events, and will be using this summer to prepare quality events for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year.

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The image of bingo is traditional-ly that of a big hall with bad lighting, a monotone ball caller and grandmas with 30 bingo cards fastened to a table with adhesive tape. Rhythmix Bingo has changed the old feel of bingo into an evening filled with music, dance, live entertainment, celebrity ball callers and a whole new perspective on the game.

Since its invention in 1929, the game has changed to include prizes for a va-riety of different patterns. Some games require only one number to be matched, while blackout bingo requires covering an entire card. There are even games

that award prizes to players for matching no numbers or achieving no pattern.

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“I always start with a de-scription of what we do in this way: ‘Would you be interest-ed in coming to a party where there’s a full bar, there’s music

raiser for the last four years for Rhythmix to run its fa-cilities and provide different events for the community.

“The people who just think they’re going to a bin-go; the kind of bingo they want to go to which is more quiet and it’s just about the game they usually don’t come back because there are plenty of places where they can do that and that’s not what we do,” said Maar. “People are like ‘let’s have a good time!’ and I feel like my job is to keep that good time

thought I’d be doing in my career was emceeing a bingo,” said Maar.

People come dressed in costumes and can win cash prizes. Plush toys are showered over the audience as party favors known as the “onion top” of the night. “They just love it,” said Koike.

“It’s a community builder and each one is sponsored by a different local business and they pay for the prizes and they become the centerpiece of the eve-ning.”

On June 11 an Italian Restaurant, C’era Una Volta, meaning “Once Upon A Time,” where the chef came by and dressed up like Clint Eastwood, spon-sored a themed Wild West Bingo night. “One woman said it was like a mini va-cation and another guy said it was like an acid trip,” said Koike.

The next Rhythmix Bingo is Aug. 13, with the theme of Rock and Roll. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are on sale now for $25 online.

Rhythmix Cultural Works is a non-profit art center that started up in an old, empty factory building refur-bished into a place of fun for the Bay Area community.

Rhythmix Cultural Works founder, Janet Koike, has hosted bingo as a fund-

playing all night, there are dancing girls on stage, where you can win prizes up to $200…and oh by the way it’s a bingo,” said emcee and designer of Rhythmix Bingo Nights, Pons “Mr. Entertainment” Maar. “That’s why we call it Rhythmix Bingo and not just bingo.”

going no matter what else is going on.”All performers and entertainers have

years of experience in show business in-cluding the ball caller. Pons Maar was in show business for over 20 years doing dance, film, and starring in movies and television shows. “The last thing I ever

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