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And it just got $15 million dollars in venture capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conte thinks all the enthusiasm reflects a problem that the Internet sort of created, by driving down the value of creative content. “Media these days is free,” he says. “That’s not an opinion at this point. It’s a fact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he feels really strongly that creative people deserve fair pay. “We need to look at other income streams for people, and I think patronage is where it’s going,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The content that’s funded through Patreon is free for the world to see. But creators give their patrons little perks, like live chats or behind-the-scenes photos. Some of them are making serious money. Conte’s band, Pomplamoose, gets more than $5,000 dollars per video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most creators have more modest audiences and incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10138983\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Patreon2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10138983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Patreon2.jpg\" alt=\"Kiki Sanford records her "This Week in Science" podcast from her basement in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, and funds it via Patreon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Patreon2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Patreon2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Patreon2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiki Sanford records her “This Week in Science” podcast from her basement in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, and funds it via Patreon. \u003ccite>(Grace Rubenstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiki Sanford is a neurophysiology PhD who publishes her “This Week in Science” podcast out of her basement in San Francisco. 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Fans on Patreon could enter their credit card numbers and pledge a few bucks every time Conte published a new video. Unlike Kickstarter, where people chip in for a one-time project, this would be ongoing support for continued work. It’s essentially patronage, only crowdfunded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yam designed and coded the site, which launched in May 2013. “Within a few hours I passed over $1,000 per video that I uploaded,” Conte says. “So I was making over 10 times what I was making on YouTube. In like 4 hours!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon creators and patrons were flocking to the site. Now, he says, Patreon plays host to 85,000 paying patrons and more than 25,000 creators ranging from musicians to web comic illustrators to short story writers. The company takes a 5 percent cut. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\"> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKwTm5jldE&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn Mair was only 4 when he was diagnosed last year with asthma. He’s still so tiny that his inhaler apparatus is half as big as his head, and his twice-daily doses have slipped into his everyday routine alongside watching cartoons and playing with a favorite stuffed monkey named George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in West Oakland, a neighborhood clogged with air pollution from the surrounding freeways and the Port of Oakland. Residents here are twice as likely to go to the emergency room with asthma as people in Alameda County overall. They’re also more likely to die of cancer, heart disease or lung disease — all illnesses with known links to polluted air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now officials and activists are tussling over a massive development project underway right next door, at the decommissioned Oakland Army Base. The project promises to bring much-needed jobs and economic benefits to Oakland and beyond. But health officials fear it could worsen the already toxic air in West Oakland, sticking residents with more than their fair share of the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hope and Risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopes for the remade former base, decommissioned in 1999, are high. The city and the port are turning about 300 acres of it into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandglobal.com/\">modern trade and logistics hub\u003c/a> right next to the current port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s up and running in 2020, the new trade center will have an additional shipping terminal, a bigger rail yard and ample facilities for handling and sorting cargo. It will give the port area the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands more cargo containers each year. And the city predicts it will provide at least 2,000 new jobs, plus an economic boost reaching into the American Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland Army Base was an economic engine for West Oakland especially, and Oakland and the region generally,” says Fred Blackwell, Oakland’s interim city administrator. “So the notion of bringing it back and having it be an economic engine for the neighborhood and the city once again … is pretty exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs is real — in the city and in this neighborhood in particular. West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. What’s disputed is whether the city is doing enough to limit emissions and protect West Oakland residents such as Jahvonn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell points to a thick \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221282783/Air-Pollution-Mitigation-Plan-for-Oakland-Army-Base-Redevelopment-Project\">air-quality plan\u003c/a>, dozens of pages long and required by state law, and says: “I think we have gone about as far as we can go to try to mitigate these issues while still having a viable project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vintze, along with the Alameda County Public Health Department and local environmental activists, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has to be some other things put into place in order to limit the impact of what they’re going to do,” says county Public Health Director Muntu Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is doing more than the law demands in at least one regard, by requiring heavy construction vehicles, like backhoes, to install cleaner engine technology a year ahead of the state’s mandated schedule (though for some vehicles that’s still not for another two to four years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But air quality and public health authorities wanted the city to go further. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This community has suffered egregiously at the hands of the freight industry,” says Brian Beveridge, who lives in West Oakland and co-directs a local environmental group, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We deserve better than to just be told, ‘Well, we’re all going to do the best we can not to break the law.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To soothe some community fears, the developer installed three air-quality monitors around West Oakland and \u003ca href=\"http://ngem.com/OAB_AQM/\">publishes the data\u003c/a> daily, online. One of the monitors is on the roof of Jahvonn Mair’s school, Prescott Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if pollution spikes, though, the city acknowledges that the devices aren’t precise enough to show whether the construction is the cause. And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. She says she wants to move her son to a healthier place, but she earns just over $1,000 a month as a part-time certified nurse assistant, and the Oakland Housing Authority says it doesn’t have the money to move her right now. She’s applying to the Housing Authority for a medical exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to move ASAP,” she says, an urgency in her voice. “I want to get out of here. … But there’s nothing I can do, I have to stay here. You know how they say some people get stuck in certain places? We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. What’s disputed is whether the city is doing enough to limit emissions and protect West Oakland residents such as Jahvonn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell points to a thick \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221282783/Air-Pollution-Mitigation-Plan-for-Oakland-Army-Base-Redevelopment-Project\">air-quality plan\u003c/a>, dozens of pages long and required by state law, and says: “I think we have gone about as far as we can go to try to mitigate these issues while still having a viable project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vintze, along with the Alameda County Public Health Department and local environmental activists, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has to be some other things put into place in order to limit the impact of what they’re going to do,” says county Public Health Director Muntu Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is doing more than the law demands in at least one regard, by requiring heavy construction vehicles, like backhoes, to install cleaner engine technology a year ahead of the state’s mandated schedule (though for some vehicles that’s still not for another two to four years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But air quality and public health authorities wanted the city to go further. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This community has suffered egregiously at the hands of the freight industry,” says Brian Beveridge, who lives in West Oakland and co-directs a local environmental group, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We deserve better than to just be told, ‘Well, we’re all going to do the best we can not to break the law.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To soothe some community fears, the developer installed three air-quality monitors around West Oakland and \u003ca href=\"http://ngem.com/OAB_AQM/\">publishes the data\u003c/a> daily, online. One of the monitors is on the roof of Jahvonn Mair’s school, Prescott Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if pollution spikes, though, the city acknowledges that the devices aren’t precise enough to show whether the construction is the cause. And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-134918 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/2878339067_8280ebb062_b-640x426.jpg\" alt='U.C. Berkeley is among the schools being investigated for their response to sexual assault cases. (Bernt Rostad/<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr</a>)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley is among the schools being investigated for their response to sexual assault cases. (Bernt Rostad/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley students have provoked policy reforms and sparked a federal investigation into their university's handling of sexual assault cases on campus — and they're still pressing for further change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're part of a growing movement of students at universities across the country, and they're getting support from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/22/speier-legislation-sexual-assault-on-campus/\">Congress\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/04/30/137079/training_men_and_women_on_campus_to_speak_up_to_prevent_rape?source=npr&category=u.s.\">White House\u003c/a> to change discipline practices that they say gloss over allegations, re-traumatize victims and heavily favor the rights of the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that Cal’s been responding to sexual assault and to sexual assault survivors in a very deliberately indifferent way, honestly, for decades,” says Diva Kass, one of 31 current and former Cal students who filed a federal complaint against the school in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement began about a year and a half ago with well-publicized cases at Yale University and Amherst College. Then women who’d experienced similar traumas at other universities started connecting with each other on social media, teaching each other how to file complaints under the federal Title IX law.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It was humiliating, and it was really a second trauma.'\u003ccite>— Diva Kass,\u003cbr>\nSexual assault survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the chorus of complaints spread to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard College, Occidental College, the University of Southern California and more — so many that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is now investigating more than 50 schools across the country. As of last month, that includes UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kass's story echoes many of those told by students at other schools. She grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Cal in 2009. She says when she was a junior, a fellow student drugged and raped her in his fraternity bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only remember about 30 seconds or so of the actual assault,\" she recalls. \"I remember pushing the guy off of me and saying no and him not stopping, and then my memory of the night goes blank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kass is now a law student at the University of Notre Dame. In her written testimony to the Department of Education, she says her experience with UC Berkeley went like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She struggled with fear and anxiety during the five months it took the university to hold a hearing about her claims. A university officer told Kass she couldn’t bring a lawyer or witnesses to the hearing, but when she got there, her alleged attacker had both. After she told her story, her alleged assailant got to directly interrogate her. When it was his turn to tell his side of the story, she had to leave the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person … completely took away my voice and violated my body,\" says Kass. \"And by allowing him to then question me about it and sort of set it up in a way where he had the control and the power of the situation again. … It was humiliating, and it was really a second trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university found Kass’s alleged assailant not responsible for sexual assault. A university official told Kass that the accused could appeal the decision if he wanted, but she could not. Within a week, she was hospitalized for anxiety. His fraternity, she says, threw him a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These stories are heartbreaking, and it just is very hard to hear that anybody on our campus would have had to endure such a difficult situation,\" says Claire Holmes, an associate vice chancellor and UC Berkeley spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6f41fc8e274269b62a586277deb2fbfa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that Cal has recently made significant changes to its sexual assault policy and hired a survivor advocate to help victims through the process — though student activists still want them to go further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the reforms, \u003cem>both\u003c/em> parties in a sexual assault case now can bring a lawyer and witnesses and can appeal a judicial decision, and officials must try to resolve cases within 60 days. Accused students can still directly question their accusers, as in Diva Kass’s case -- although federal guidelines explicitly discourage this practice. Cal says it will try to accommodate students who don’t feel comfortable being in the same room with their alleged attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the trauma for individuals like Diva Kass, advocates argue there’s a bigger issue of campus safety: If the judicial process is unsympathetic and ineffective, survivors won’t want to go through it. Sexual assaults will go unreported, and assailants will return to their dorm rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's part of what motivated Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor, to help lead a transformation of her school’s policies in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have so many reported cases and so few findings of responsibility and disciplinary punishments, then you have an unchecked situation potentially of sexual assault on campus,\" Dauber says. \"You can’t guarantee the safety of your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, researchers estimate that one in five college women suffers an actual or attempted sexual assault during her undergraduate years. The risk is especially high for freshmen and sophomores. And the vast majority of those assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports appear to be low at Cal, too. The university was seeing only about six reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault annually until 2012, when the number jumped to 12. Last year it rose again to 16. But still, on a campus of 35,000 students, those numbers are small.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Students ... maybe felt that this was wrong but didn’t know that they had rights.'\u003ccite>— Professor Michele Dauber,\u003cbr>\nStanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By most accounts, sexual assault has gone on mostly silently at universities for decades — until a pivotal moment came in 2011. The U.S. Department of Education issued a letter clarifying that Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination and sexual harassment on college campuses, should also be understood to cover sexual assault. It made plain that universities that don’t act to stop such violence are breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That letter really spurred some people to action,\" Dauber says. \"Some students who maybe felt that this was wrong but didn’t know that they had rights, and that told them that they did have rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating more than 50 schools -- and the list includes Harvard, Amherst, Occidental College and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason why university policies have leaned so heavily toward the rights of the accused. It stems from cases in the 1960s when some universities expelled students for participating in civil rights protests, often without giving them any due process. The students sued, and the courts ordered schools to give accused students ample opportunity to defend themselves. That practice stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at that period from 1960 until almost the present day, the legal pressures that have been placed on institutions … have been almost exclusively from the perspective of the rights of accused students,\" says John Wesley Lowery. He's a professor of student affairs in higher education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and he’s studied student conduct systems across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Only in recent years have we seen the federal government, and to a much lesser degree the courts, say 'We think there needs to be a balance here,' \" Lowery explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/148046329&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for the defense caution that in trying to address survivors’ concerns, universities shouldn’t swing too far and abandon the accused students’ rights instead. Autumn Paine is an Oakland lawyer who has represented Cal students accused of sexual assault in criminal court, which is separate from the university judicial process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person who’s being accused faces pretty significant consequences. This could ruin their academic career, this could end job prospects,\" she says. \"We want to make sure that that person has every opportunity to defend themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paine says the reforms Cal has made so far sound reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sofie Karasek says they don't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a junior at Cal and one of the organizers of the complainants. She says she reported being assaulted — not raped — by another student in 2012. But the university resolved the matter privately with him, without conducting a formal investigation and without telling her what was going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karasek wants Cal to provide a guaranteed right to a formal investigation, if the alleged victim wants one. And despite the reforms, she still perceives her university’s attitude toward sexual assault like this: “Don’t get raped. And if you do get raped, we’re not going to help you in any way. You’re on your own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's Claire Holmes says that pains her to hear. “I certainly hope we can do a better job,\" she says. “We’re constantly reviewing and updating our policies. We want to work in coordination with our students, and I applaud these women who are incredibly brave who are trying to raise national attention to this important topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karasek and other Cal students recently met with California Rep. 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And they’re not stopping until they see that universities not only change their policies on paper, but also follow through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://endrapeoncampus.org/\">End Rape on Campus\u003c/a> (student network)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://knowyourix.org/\">Know Your IX\u003c/a> (student network)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.notalone.gov/\">Not Alone\u003c/a> (U.S. government portal)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges and universities currently under Title IX investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights for their handling of sexual harassment and assault:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Arizona State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Butte-Glen Community College District\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Occidental College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of California-Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Southern California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Regis University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Colorado at Boulder\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Colorado at Denver\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Denver\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Connecticut\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Catholic University of America\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Florida State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Emory University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Hawaii at Manoa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Idaho\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Knox College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Chicago\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Indiana University-Bloomington\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vincennes University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Boston University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Emerson College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Harvard College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Harvard Law\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Amherst College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Massachusetts-Amherst\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frostburg State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michigan State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guilford College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minot State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dartmouth College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Princeton University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City University of New York - Hunter College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hobart & William Smith Colleges\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sarah Lawrence College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>State University of New York at Binghamton\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Denison University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ohio State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wittenberg University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oklahoma State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Carnegie Mellon University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Franklin & Marshall College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pennsylvania State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swarthmore College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Temple University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vanderbilt University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Southern Methodist University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Texas-Pan American\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>College of William & Mary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Virginia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Washington State University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>University of Wisconsin-Whitewater\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bethany College\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-134918 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/2878339067_8280ebb062_b-640x426.jpg\" alt='U.C. Berkeley is among the schools being investigated for their response to sexual assault cases. (Bernt Rostad/<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr</a>)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley is among the schools being investigated for their response to sexual assault cases. (Bernt Rostad/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley students have provoked policy reforms and sparked a federal investigation into their university's handling of sexual assault cases on campus — and they're still pressing for further change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're part of a growing movement of students at universities across the country, and they're getting support from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/22/speier-legislation-sexual-assault-on-campus/\">Congress\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/04/30/137079/training_men_and_women_on_campus_to_speak_up_to_prevent_rape?source=npr&category=u.s.\">White House\u003c/a> to change discipline practices that they say gloss over allegations, re-traumatize victims and heavily favor the rights of the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that Cal’s been responding to sexual assault and to sexual assault survivors in a very deliberately indifferent way, honestly, for decades,” says Diva Kass, one of 31 current and former Cal students who filed a federal complaint against the school in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement began about a year and a half ago with well-publicized cases at Yale University and Amherst College. Then women who’d experienced similar traumas at other universities started connecting with each other on social media, teaching each other how to file complaints under the federal Title IX law.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It was humiliating, and it was really a second trauma.'\u003ccite>— Diva Kass,\u003cbr>\nSexual assault survivor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the chorus of complaints spread to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard College, Occidental College, the University of Southern California and more — so many that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is now investigating more than 50 schools across the country. As of last month, that includes UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kass's story echoes many of those told by students at other schools. She grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Cal in 2009. She says when she was a junior, a fellow student drugged and raped her in his fraternity bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only remember about 30 seconds or so of the actual assault,\" she recalls. \"I remember pushing the guy off of me and saying no and him not stopping, and then my memory of the night goes blank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kass is now a law student at the University of Notre Dame. In her written testimony to the Department of Education, she says her experience with UC Berkeley went like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She struggled with fear and anxiety during the five months it took the university to hold a hearing about her claims. A university officer told Kass she couldn’t bring a lawyer or witnesses to the hearing, but when she got there, her alleged attacker had both. After she told her story, her alleged assailant got to directly interrogate her. When it was his turn to tell his side of the story, she had to leave the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person … completely took away my voice and violated my body,\" says Kass. \"And by allowing him to then question me about it and sort of set it up in a way where he had the control and the power of the situation again. … It was humiliating, and it was really a second trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university found Kass’s alleged assailant not responsible for sexual assault. A university official told Kass that the accused could appeal the decision if he wanted, but she could not. Within a week, she was hospitalized for anxiety. His fraternity, she says, threw him a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These stories are heartbreaking, and it just is very hard to hear that anybody on our campus would have had to endure such a difficult situation,\" says Claire Holmes, an associate vice chancellor and UC Berkeley spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that Cal has recently made significant changes to its sexual assault policy and hired a survivor advocate to help victims through the process — though student activists still want them to go further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the reforms, \u003cem>both\u003c/em> parties in a sexual assault case now can bring a lawyer and witnesses and can appeal a judicial decision, and officials must try to resolve cases within 60 days. Accused students can still directly question their accusers, as in Diva Kass’s case -- although federal guidelines explicitly discourage this practice. Cal says it will try to accommodate students who don’t feel comfortable being in the same room with their alleged attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the trauma for individuals like Diva Kass, advocates argue there’s a bigger issue of campus safety: If the judicial process is unsympathetic and ineffective, survivors won’t want to go through it. Sexual assaults will go unreported, and assailants will return to their dorm rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's part of what motivated Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor, to help lead a transformation of her school’s policies in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have so many reported cases and so few findings of responsibility and disciplinary punishments, then you have an unchecked situation potentially of sexual assault on campus,\" Dauber says. \"You can’t guarantee the safety of your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, researchers estimate that one in five college women suffers an actual or attempted sexual assault during her undergraduate years. The risk is especially high for freshmen and sophomores. And the vast majority of those assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports appear to be low at Cal, too. The university was seeing only about six reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault annually until 2012, when the number jumped to 12. Last year it rose again to 16. But still, on a campus of 35,000 students, those numbers are small.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Students ... maybe felt that this was wrong but didn’t know that they had rights.'\u003ccite>— Professor Michele Dauber,\u003cbr>\nStanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By most accounts, sexual assault has gone on mostly silently at universities for decades — until a pivotal moment came in 2011. The U.S. Department of Education issued a letter clarifying that Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination and sexual harassment on college campuses, should also be understood to cover sexual assault. It made plain that universities that don’t act to stop such violence are breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That letter really spurred some people to action,\" Dauber says. \"Some students who maybe felt that this was wrong but didn’t know that they had rights, and that told them that they did have rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating more than 50 schools -- and the list includes Harvard, Amherst, Occidental College and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason why university policies have leaned so heavily toward the rights of the accused. It stems from cases in the 1960s when some universities expelled students for participating in civil rights protests, often without giving them any due process. The students sued, and the courts ordered schools to give accused students ample opportunity to defend themselves. That practice stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at that period from 1960 until almost the present day, the legal pressures that have been placed on institutions … have been almost exclusively from the perspective of the rights of accused students,\" says John Wesley Lowery. He's a professor of student affairs in higher education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and he’s studied student conduct systems across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Only in recent years have we seen the federal government, and to a much lesser degree the courts, say 'We think there needs to be a balance here,' \" Lowery explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/148046329&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for the defense caution that in trying to address survivors’ concerns, universities shouldn’t swing too far and abandon the accused students’ rights instead. Autumn Paine is an Oakland lawyer who has represented Cal students accused of sexual assault in criminal court, which is separate from the university judicial process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person who’s being accused faces pretty significant consequences. This could ruin their academic career, this could end job prospects,\" she says. \"We want to make sure that that person has every opportunity to defend themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paine says the reforms Cal has made so far sound reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sofie Karasek says they don't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a junior at Cal and one of the organizers of the complainants. She says she reported being assaulted — not raped — by another student in 2012. But the university resolved the matter privately with him, without conducting a formal investigation and without telling her what was going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karasek wants Cal to provide a guaranteed right to a formal investigation, if the alleged victim wants one. And despite the reforms, she still perceives her university’s attitude toward sexual assault like this: “Don’t get raped. And if you do get raped, we’re not going to help you in any way. You’re on your own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's Claire Holmes says that pains her to hear. “I certainly hope we can do a better job,\" she says. “We’re constantly reviewing and updating our policies. We want to work in coordination with our students, and I applaud these women who are incredibly brave who are trying to raise national attention to this important topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karasek and other Cal students recently met with California Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), who plans to introduce a bill this month to strengthen federal enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a growing national network of students who connecting with each other on social media, teaching each other how to file federal complaints -- and even craft media strategies. And they’re not stopping until they see that universities not only change their policies on paper, but also follow through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://endrapeoncampus.org/\">End Rape on Campus\u003c/a> (student network)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://knowyourix.org/\">Know Your IX\u003c/a> (student network)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.notalone.gov/\">Not Alone\u003c/a> (U.S. government portal)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Sunset-crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133322 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Sunset-crop-640x441.jpg\" alt=\"Mt. Tamalpais, seen from Mill Valley at sunset (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Tamalpais, seen from Mill Valley at sunset (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend forwarded me a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/04/06/search-continues-for-missing-menlo-park-woman-33-last-seen-near-mt-tamalpais-in-marin-county/\">news story\u003c/a> about a hiker who’d gone missing on Mount Tamalpais, the mountain in my hometown. Authorities declared her missing after park rangers noticed her car hadn’t moved for days. Helicopters, dogs and a hundred search-and-rescue volunteers were scouring the mountain for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details caught my attention. Magdalena Glinkowski had parked at the Bootjack lot, where I frequently park. She was 33, to my 35. She was blond, just like me. And she apparently enjoyed hiking alone, just like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I drove through Mill Valley that day and gazed up at the mountain, glowing green in the sun, I squinted at it. An unfamiliar darkness seemed to shroud it. There could be a body up there among the creases somewhere, a body put there by something sinister. And I felt something I’d never felt about the mountain before: fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up beside her, Mount Tam became my temple. I saw the sun set behind her undulating silhouette each night. At twilight, I watched the thick coastal fog, like a soft, living thing, spill over her ridges and slide down her valleys. In high school, I parked on her ridgeline roads after dark and made out with boyfriends in cars above the twinkling lights of the Bay Area. I played hooky on the day I had to decide which college to go to and sat with a friend on the grass beside Tam’s Bon Tempe Lake, weighing pros and cons. My mom, knowing me well, later sent me a framed print of the mountain to hang on my dorm room wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Fear is also a thief. It steals the present moment from us.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> Mount Tam is still my faithful source of both comfort and joy. Last year, while grieving and angry about something, I hiked deep into a damp redwood canyon (parked near Bootjack, in fact), sat beside a creek to meditate, and emerged bright and hopeful. On my birthday, I plopped down by an oak tree on a grassy slope high above the Pacific Ocean, ate sushi, and quietly celebrated the glory of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a week before Magdalena Glinkowski went missing, I went searching (again, near Bootjack) for a certain bench I’d never visited before. My worries — about discord with my boyfriend, about disappointing my editor at work, about becoming a mom before my biological clock runs out — released their grip on me and dropped off, one by one, beside the trail. When I found the bench, tucked under a bay tree before a staggering view of the whole San Francisco Bay, it bore this inscription:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Give me these hills and the friends I love, I ask no other heaven.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Matt-Davis-trail.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Matt-Davis-trail-e1398101098904-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The author's birthday hike followed the Matt Davis Trail. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s birthday hike followed the Matt Davis Trail. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fear is like a Pandora’s box. Once open, it’s hard to shove the frightening possibilities back inside. I imagined walking along one of my familiar paths, brush and pine trees on either side, and suddenly feeling a hand around my throat. I sensed the pounding heart, the short breath, the blinding terror of being dragged into the bushes by a strange, strong man with cold eyes. The scariest thing to imagine is, I think, the feeling of the fear itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had I been naive all those times I visited Mount Tam alone? Had I trusted the mountain’s beauty too much? Mistaken her goodness for that of her inhabitants? I pictured myself going hiking again now and saw myself uneasy, on alert, constantly glancing around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fear is also a thief. It steals the present moment from us, snatches away our ability to feel that comfort and joy. And it was threatening to steal my most sacred place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mentioned the mystery of Magdalena Glinkowski to a friend, and wondered aloud if I should make a practice of carrying pepper spray on my hikes. Although, honestly, the idea of carrying a weapon to my church sounds kind of unholy. Could I really sink into the serenity with a can of eye-burning chemicals at the ready? But could I really find serenity without one? My friend suggested a taser. She’d bought one while she was being stalked; it fit in her back pocket and she found she felt powerful when she held it. Though the stalking is now over, she keeps it by her bedside. Further proof that the fear of physical harm is — unfairly — a fundamental fact of being a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133336\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Railroad-Grade.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Railroad-Grade-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A sweeping view of the bay is visible from the Old Railroad Grade, near Mesa Station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sweeping view of the bay is visible from the Old Railroad Grade, near Mesa Station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I managed to put the freaky images out of my head over a few days spent working in the East Bay, farther from the mountain. Until I mentioned the situation to my mom, who immediately started recounting chilling stories of the Trailside Killer. I’d been too young, a toddler, to remember when his murders terrorized the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of them was a young woman who’d been in the Peace Corps, and she didn’t know,” my mom said. “And she decided to stop just before sunset at the Mountain Theater.” (Note: Merely half a mile from my new favorite bench.) “They found her body not far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, I anxiously looked online for any news of Magdalena. And there it was: \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_25571464/body-woman-missing-mount-tamalpais-found\">they’d found her body\u003c/a>. A trail runner who’d seen her, alive, on the day she went missing led authorities to the right area, where searchers found her down a steep slope. The sheriff reported “no obvious indication of any foul play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, I couldn’t sleep. Pandora’s box was open. I lay in bed searching for tasers on my smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days later, another solo female hiker went missing in the same area. Searchers \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/News/ci_25589670/Mill-Valley-woman-confirmed-as-missing\">found the body\u003c/a> of 50-year-old Marie Sanner the next day, down another steep slope. Again, no sign of foul play. She appeared to have fallen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this could all be explained away. Mind you, though, this is the not the Rockies; accidental deaths on mellow Mount Tam are uncommon. Two in three weeks: unheard of. Official causes of death are still pending; the coroner is awaiting toxicology results for Magdalena and conducting an autopsy for Marie today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logically, I realize that Magdalena’s and Marie’s tragic deaths probably have little to do with my safety on the mountain. And statistically, with 30-plus years between us and the last serial killer, the risk is tiny. It’s probably more dangerous to go to restaurants in parts of East Oakland that see frequent shootings, as I am wont to do. But there is a certain kind of terror in the idea of being alone in the wilderness with a man who means you harm. And once that idea gets in you, it’s hard to get it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naive or not, I realize that I have, at least, been choosing to be vulnerable. And I don’t want to be vulnerable anymore. I will probably hike with some kind of protection from now on, be it a taser in my back pocket or pepper spray at my waistband. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a week before Magdalena Glinkowski went missing, I went searching (again, near Bootjack) for a certain bench I’d never visited before. My worries — about discord with my boyfriend, about disappointing my editor at work, about becoming a mom before my biological clock runs out — released their grip on me and dropped off, one by one, beside the trail. When I found the bench, tucked under a bay tree before a staggering view of the whole San Francisco Bay, it bore this inscription:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Give me these hills and the friends I love, I ask no other heaven.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Matt-Davis-trail.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Matt-Davis-trail-e1398101098904-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The author's birthday hike followed the Matt Davis Trail. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s birthday hike followed the Matt Davis Trail. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fear is like a Pandora’s box. Once open, it’s hard to shove the frightening possibilities back inside. I imagined walking along one of my familiar paths, brush and pine trees on either side, and suddenly feeling a hand around my throat. I sensed the pounding heart, the short breath, the blinding terror of being dragged into the bushes by a strange, strong man with cold eyes. The scariest thing to imagine is, I think, the feeling of the fear itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had I been naive all those times I visited Mount Tam alone? Had I trusted the mountain’s beauty too much? Mistaken her goodness for that of her inhabitants? I pictured myself going hiking again now and saw myself uneasy, on alert, constantly glancing around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fear is also a thief. It steals the present moment from us, snatches away our ability to feel that comfort and joy. And it was threatening to steal my most sacred place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mentioned the mystery of Magdalena Glinkowski to a friend, and wondered aloud if I should make a practice of carrying pepper spray on my hikes. Although, honestly, the idea of carrying a weapon to my church sounds kind of unholy. Could I really sink into the serenity with a can of eye-burning chemicals at the ready? But could I really find serenity without one? My friend suggested a taser. She’d bought one while she was being stalked; it fit in her back pocket and she found she felt powerful when she held it. Though the stalking is now over, she keeps it by her bedside. Further proof that the fear of physical harm is — unfairly — a fundamental fact of being a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133336\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Railroad-Grade.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Railroad-Grade-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A sweeping view of the bay is visible from the Old Railroad Grade, near Mesa Station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sweeping view of the bay is visible from the Old Railroad Grade, near Mesa Station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I managed to put the freaky images out of my head over a few days spent working in the East Bay, farther from the mountain. Until I mentioned the situation to my mom, who immediately started recounting chilling stories of the Trailside Killer. I’d been too young, a toddler, to remember when his murders terrorized the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of them was a young woman who’d been in the Peace Corps, and she didn’t know,” my mom said. “And she decided to stop just before sunset at the Mountain Theater.” (Note: Merely half a mile from my new favorite bench.) “They found her body not far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, I anxiously looked online for any news of Magdalena. And there it was: \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_25571464/body-woman-missing-mount-tamalpais-found\">they’d found her body\u003c/a>. A trail runner who’d seen her, alive, on the day she went missing led authorities to the right area, where searchers found her down a steep slope. The sheriff reported “no obvious indication of any foul play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, I couldn’t sleep. Pandora’s box was open. 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But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/02/cities-unequal-berube\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Brookings Institution confirms that San Francisco also is earning its other, less desirable reputation as a kind of ground zero for rising income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings: When it comes to income, San Francisco is the second-most-unequal among American cities, after Atlanta. And in no other city has the rich-poor divide widened more in recent years. (Oakland, meanwhile, is not so far behind, ranking seventh on the list nationally. But the gap has not widened appreciably in recent years. San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, ranks far down \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/02/city%20inequality/appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the complete list\u003c/a>, No. 36; the rich/poor gap also grew far slower there than in San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the report’s author, Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director in Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, decided to run the numbers on income inequality nationwide, he was inspired in part by coverage of the tech bus protests in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berube tapped U.S. Census data for his analysis, and he chose a particular measure to compare the haves and have-nots: the “95/20 ratio.” It’s a comparison between the income that puts a household in the 95th percentile, or the top 5 percent, and the income that puts one in the bottom 20 percent. Berube explained that comparing those extremes helps us gauge the severity of the distance in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The picture he found was stark. In the most unequal cities — Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami and Boston, in that order — residents at the top earned at least 15 times the income of those at the bottom. In San Francisco, for instance, the top 5 percent of households earned more than $353,000 per year, whereas the bottom 20 percent of households mostly earned less than $21,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when Berube compared the income gap from 2007 (just before the recession) with 2012, he found that the disparity in this city has grown more dramatically than in any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco stood out not only in being one of the most unequal cities — and I think you might have guessed that even before you ran the data — but the data also confirmed that San Francisco has experienced the most pronounced recent increase in disparity between its rich and poor households,” Berube said. “There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"547\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did typical earnings drop by $4,000 for San Franciscans in the lowest income bracket during that time, but the gains among households at the top soared by $28,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidden in those numbers might be yet another distressing trend, Berube said. Even the bottom 20 percent in San Francisco earns more than the poorest people in most other cities, and that might, at first glance, appear encouraging. But Berube underscored that it may not mean that San Francisco’s poor are paid better — it may simply mean that the poorest of the poor are just leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re at an income of $15,000, there’s no longer any place to live in San Francisco,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"588\" height=\"579\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Berube’s number-crunching showed that big cities in general are more unequal than other places. In other words, compared with the national average, the urban rich are a little bit richer, and the urban poor are a little poorer. Why? Cities increasingly house the industries with the highest-paid knowledge workers, Berube said. Yet at the same time, the public housing, social services and public transportation found in urban centers also make them a likely home for low-income people. Thus, the extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which cities showed up on the more equal end of the spectrum? Most, Berube wrote, “are Southern and Western cities with expansive borders, and either include many ‘suburban’ neighborhoods alongside a traditional urban core, or are themselves overgrown suburbs like Mesa, Ariz., and Arlington, Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise: Seattle. Berube expected to see it neck-and-neck with San Francisco for income disparity. But it ranked only 31st of 50 cities. It turns out that “Seattle is a much less unequal place than San Francisco is,” according to Berube. That may change as more Silicon Valley firms move to the northwest city, he added, but “one thing Seattle has managed to do better than San Francisco in recent years is build housing,” and that relieves pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair to San Francisco, he said, Seattle has 84 square miles to work with, compared to San Francisco’s 47, and it’s much harder to build new housing when your city is bounded on three sides by water.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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