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Berkeley has received approximately $30 million in federal CARES Act funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said revenue-generating areas like athletics, and housing and dining, are supposed to be self-sustaining. So aside from some loans that UC Berkeley is making available to these areas, they’re largely on their own when it comes to navigating financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president']'A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees ... 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The original financial projections, based on an entirely canceled season, were harsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're talking about losing 50% of your revenue just like that,\" Lowry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some competitive play has started up again, Lowry said the financial picture is looking less grim. But he said the projections could change again with COVID-19 cases now on the upswing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our employees may sustain some unpaid time off in order to deal with this financial crisis,\" he said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics isn’t the only part of campus taking a long, hard look at workforce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFO Rae said, \"65 percent of our budget is related to salaries and benefits. So if we're going to try to contain our costs, it primarily happens there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the entire campus has implemented a hiring freeze. Some top administrators and senior athletics staff took a 10% dip in pay. And there have been well over 100 temporary layoffs, mainly in the realms of Housing & Dining, and Cal Performances, the university's performing arts presenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Prevost is one of the people the university temporarily let go. He's lead custodian at The Golden Bear Cafe, one of the few eateries currently open on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Bear Cafe. One of few eateries currently open on Berkeley's campus. The school's housing and dining operations have sustained enormous losses as a result of the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing simple stuff like coming out every 30 minutes and doing wipe downs on all high contact point areas inside and outside,\" he told KQED while making his rounds one recent lunch time as students chatted and ate around him on the Golden Bear's sunny patio. \"Just trying to stay on pace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said he was out of work for five months while The Golden Bear was closed. According to UC Berkeley's media relations office, just over 100 campus dining services employees were temporarily laid off as a result of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the most challenging time,\" Prevost said. \"I definitely learned something about budgeting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said since he's come back to work, he's been sharing his hard-earned financial know-how with his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especially with some of the newer people that are working here,\" he said. \"Like, a lot of us don't make a significant amount of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley reports no \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> layoffs so far. However, that doesn’t take into account the roughly 100 lecturers — non-tenure-track teaching staff, also known as \"adjunct professors\" — who were on payroll last academic year, but not this one. 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Since the onset of COVID-19, the 10 campuses have sustained around $1.4 billion in lost revenue and other costs, according to the UC Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campuses are using federal CARES Act funding and reserves to mitigate the negative impacts of some of the losses,\" said Office of the President spokesperson Stett Holbrook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many members of the Berkeley community are saying all of this belt-tightening points to a deeper systemic problem with how we fund higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need support as a public institution,\" said student union president Vera. \"We need support from our state government and we need support from our federal government, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='James Vernon, history professor and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair']'Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, the state provided half of Berkeley’s revenue. \u003ca href=\"https://calparents.berkeley.edu/the-funding-conundrum-cals-dwindling-state-support/#:~:text=Since%20UC%20Berkeley%20is%20a,vast%20majority%20of%20Cal's%20budget.&text=Today%2C%20the%20state%20funds%20just,other%20sources%20cover%20the%20rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today, it covers roughly one-seventh\u003c/a>. Vernon said instead of focusing on cost-cutting measures and pursuing more commercial income streams, Berkeley should redouble its efforts to make the case for increased public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded,\" Vernon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the university is continuing to advocate for more state and federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget Act of 2020 included a stipulation that would have enabled campuses to receive up to $169.2 million. According to the UC Office of the President, this would have represented a 5% increase in funding equivalent to the FY20-21 state budget allocation before the pandemic. But Congress did not approve those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said Berkeley alone would have received around $40 million from the state if the funding had been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, arguably the main reason for Berkeley's existence — its students — are getting hurt as a result of the longstanding drop in state support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we don't get the proper funding we need to maintain our university, that impacts marginalized students in particular,\" Vera said. \"Not having access to tutoring, to retention recruitment programing, to affordable housing, it really impacts what it's like to be a current student, what it's like to live in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland students are part of a larger group who filed a lawsuit Monday accusing California and its top education leaders of violating the state constitution by denying traditionally underserved students equal access to educational opportunities during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, the state has a constitutional duty to provide equal access to education to all students,” said Jesselyn Friley, an attorney with the firm Public Counsel, who helped file the suit. “Our theory is that the state has fallen behind on that responsibility, and during the pandemic it has only gotten worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, calls out the state and its education department for mishandling remote education by failing to provide districts with adequate guidance and neglecting to ensure that students, teachers and parents have the basic tools and support needed for distance learning. It also accuses the state of failing to hold school districts accountable for meeting distance education standards put in place by the state Legislature in response to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs, who include students and community organizations from Oakland and Los Angeles, contend that Black and brown students, low-income students and those who are unhoused or have disabilities have not received the remote learning support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela J. has three children — including twins — in the Oakland Unified School District who are plaintiffs in the suit. (Attorneys for Public Counsel asked KQED to not provide her real name because of concerns about retaliation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH founder Lakisha Young at Sydewayz Cafe in East Oakland, greeting parents arriving to pick up computers and other summer school supplies. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the spring, Angela said, her twins’ second grade teacher met with students on Zoom only twice between mid-March and late May. “She just abandoned the whole class,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, her twins have fallen behind in school; they’re still struggling with subtraction when curriculum dictates they should be learning multiplication and division, she said. And their brief daily online interactions with teachers this fall aren’t making up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11829180 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg']“I can’t afford to put my kids in private school. So I have to take what they’re giving me,” said Angela, who has three additional children and works a full-time job and two part-time jobs. “I want the Oakland Unified School District to honor our constitutional rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela contrasts that experience with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a distance learning program\u003c/a> her twins participated in this summer, run by parent advocacy organization The Oakland REACH, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. In that program, she said, remote learning worked remarkably well both for her and her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The secret sauce to really making that happen was family liaisons,” said Lakisha Young, Oakland REACH co-founder and executive director. Each family of the 200 students who participated in the program was paired with a fellow OUSD parent who was trained to provide mentorship and facilitate connections to resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person has got your back to make sure you make it to the finish line,” Young said. The liaison might call in the morning just to check in, offer advice about communicating with a teacher or help solve a technology issue. “That makes a huge difference in keeping people in the game, keeping them engaged and even helping them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Reach founder Lakisha Young tells parents in low-performing schools to advocate for their kids.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH founder Lakisha Young speaking to Oakland parents about how to advocate for their kids. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Angela credits Oakland REACH for engaging parents and designing the program to meet their needs. The organization did so in part by providing each child with a computer and Wi-Fi hot spot, if needed, in addition to ongoing tech support. It also paid parents to participate in their own classes on how to support their kids through distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think distance learning can work if the teachers put forth an effort and they have a system that supports them,” she said. “I don’t want to blame it all on the teachers, I think it’s the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Angela, Oakland REACH and the other plaintiffs are asking courts to step in to force the state to ensure that all students have access to the tools they need to successfully participate in online classes. They also want the state to come up with a plan for a return to in-person learning that helps students make up for the learning losses that occurred during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond acknowledged the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on “those who have been made vulnerable by historic and systemic inequities,” and pointed to his department’s efforts to distribute devices, expand internet access and increase mental health resources available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As California experiences a dramatic surge in COVID-19 infections,” he said, “we will maintain a laser focus on protecting the health and safety of our school communities while providing the supports needed to ensure learning continues and, where gaps persist, is improved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Jesse Melgar, a spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, defended the administration’s response to remote learning challenges. “Throughout the pandemic this administration has taken important actions to protect student learning while also taking necessary steps to protect public health,” Melgar said in an email. “We will defend our position in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH organizers preparing to hand out laptops and other school supplies to Oakland Unified School District students participating in the organization’s summer school program. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeking is not a return to normal, it’s a new way of running school for Black and brown kids in California,” said Friley, the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Public Counsel settled two lawsuits, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccounsel.org/stories?id=0288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccounsel.org/stories?id=0303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michigan\u003c/a>, that charged the states with denying underserved students an equal educational opportunity by failing to teach them to read and write. Under the California deal, the state agreed to pay $50 million to some of the state’s neediest schools so they can examine why performance is so low and come up with a three-year action plan. The settlement also created a literacy expert position at the state level to help schools carry out those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a world where parents and community organizations are working with schools, with districts, with the state, to try and make sure that no kid is being left behind,” Friley said. “And that’s true regardless of whether we’re in a pandemic or post pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The little that scientists have measured is worrisome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A national \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspromise.org/sites/default/files/d8/Updated%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> conducted in late April and early May of 3,300 high school students \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspromise.org/sites/default/files/d8/YouthDuringCOVID_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a> nearly a third reporting they were unhappy and depressed \"much more than usual\" in the past month. Almost 51% said they felt a lot more uncertainty about the future as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overseas, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340763347_Immediate_psychological_effects_of_the_COVID-19_quarantine_in_youth_from_Italy_and_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a> of 1,143 parents measuring the effects of the lockdowns in Italy and Spain, nearly 86% reported changes in their children such as difficulty concentrating and spending more time online and asleep, and less time engaging in physical activity. 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There’s just deflatedness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Trotter advises parents to check in often with their kids, listen closely and set routines. And to remember self-care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">“Give yourself as much permission as possible to relax,” she said. “Rest. Reset. Restore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Schools and community organizations are also learning how to support students through virtual events, telehealth sessions and socially distanced activities. Trotter cites the working farm at Castlemont High School in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“There are students who garden there three days a week growing kiwis and red peppers,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">She quoted one teen who was looking on the bright side. \"‘If it weren’t for COVID, I wouldn’t be sticking my hands in the dirt for the first time,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Finding Resilience\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">The Gupta family turned a corner over the summer when the twins enrolled in a daily outdoor camp. Within weeks Kenley rebounded and was back to her old self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">“It is notable that her mood took a 180,” Jay said. “She’s a different person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">The increased social interaction paved the way for a soft landing when the twins returned to distance learning in the fall. 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Accusations include making sexually inappropriate comments to patients, touching women sexually during exams without wearing gloves and simulating intercourse, often roughly, with an ultrasound probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is separate from criminal charges against Heaps, 63, whose medical license has been suspended by court order as that case moves forward. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges involving seven women and denied wrongdoing. He is due back in state court on Dec. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of his former patients have come to his defense, saying he never acted improperly during their medical appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed settlement is the latest agreement to give payouts to thousands of patients of male doctors who are accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct. A federal judge approved a $215 million settlement for 18,000 women who were patients of a former gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall, at the University of Southern California, a private university also in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heaps’ attorney did not immediately return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA has said its investigation into the gynecologist began in December 2017, though officials did not alert the campus community of the allegations until Heaps was in court last year. He retired in 2018 when UCLA declined to renew his contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The incidents described in the lawsuit reflect alleged conduct that is contrary to our values,” UCLA Health said Monday in a statement. “We thank the individuals who came forward and hope that this settlement — which is still subject to court approval — is one small step forward for the patients involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 women contacted UCLA after Heaps was arrested in June 2019 to report their experiences with the doctor, according to the settlement. UCLA has identified about 5,000 patients who were previously under Heaps’ care and estimate that an additional 1,600 women were treated by him but that their records no longer exist at the university. They are all covered under the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement does not require Heaps to admit wrongdoing or contribute toward the $73 million, though he signed off on the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA said it will implement a new process for investigating allegations of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct, as well as institute a formal chaperone policy. Other reforms stipulated in the settlement include training on boundaries, advertising of patient reporting options, compliance monitoring and investigations into potential misconduct allegations as medical staff are credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patients’ payouts begin at a guaranteed minimum of $2,500, regardless of whether the women accused Heaps of harassment or assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, these women were still put in harm’s way and deserve compensation on those grounds,” said Elizabeth Kramer, one of several attorneys representing the victims. “We don’t have a way of knowing every single woman who would allege sexual misconduct by Dr. Heaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the lawsuit’s plaintiffs, known as E.F. in the lawsuit, had been seeing Heaps regularly for several years when she said his conduct changed and he touched her breasts sexually and made inappropriate comments in a 2014 appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a 2016 visit to his office, she said Heaps touched her sexually during a pelvic exam. 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International students who attend \u003ca href=\"https://www.nafsa.org/isev/reports/district?year=2018&state=CA&district=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFSU\u003c/a> contribute $75.1 million to the economy and support 430 jobs. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.nafsa.org/isev/reports/district?year=2018&state=CA&district=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal State East Bay’s\u003c/a> international students contribute $40.5 million to the economy and support 234 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leo Van Cleve, CSU assistant vice chancellor\"]‘[International Students] add to the diversity of the campus, the exchange of differing perspectives which benefit fellow students and the entire university community.’[/pullquote]CSU officials have been trying to preserve their current numbers. Dr. Leo Van Cleve, who oversees international programs across Cal State universities, explained that if the number of total international students at a CSU declines in a given year, that decline will continue to impact that university for at least four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that reason, we would like to maintain our international enrollment so that when we are able to reopen campuses, we have not lost that element of our students,” Van Cleve said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic has impacted recruitment efforts and increased bureaucratic roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since shelter-in-place orders are forcing many people to work from home, international programs are unable to do their usual outreach. 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Typically, students have to apply for a student visa, schedule an interview with the consulate and if they are approved then they have to gather the appropriate documents and prepare to come into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the consulates were closed during the time of admittance, students were unable to obtain a valid visa because the process can take months to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consulates began reopening in June and July, but it may not have been enough time for students to get their visas,” Van Cleve said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the 11% decrease in international students goes beyond money. “They add to the diversity of the campus, the exchange of differing perspectives which benefit fellow students and the entire university community,” Van Cleve wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Deportation Threat, Rescinded\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Van Cleve also mentioned that the Trump administration’s rash decision to deport international students due to all virtual classes caused confusion and fear among students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued guidance in July\u003c/a> that threatened to deport international students to their home countries if they were unable to take at least one in-person class due to the pandemic. Soon after, big institutions like Harvard and MIT\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/content/sevp_filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> filed a lawsuit,\u003c/a> resulting in the initial guidance being rescinded \u003ca href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Trump-Administration-Withdraws-Directive-Banning-International-Students.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before the lawsuit moved forward\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the guidance being rescinded, the initial threat created a lot of concern among international students, who feared they might not be able to re-enter the country for school if the guidance were to have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-800x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-800x1210.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-1020x1542.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Om Dhankara is an international student from Gujarat, India studying at SFSU. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Om Dhankara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And some students are faced with a stark decision to stay or return to their home country to care for family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Om Dhankara, originally from Gujarat, India, came to the Bay Area at the end of last year. 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Luckily, she was able to have a typical college experience for most of her undergraduate career – but Jantaradaval never expected to finish her last year at SFSU online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re staying in San Francisco, paying San Francisco prices, but we’re not getting the San Francisco experience that we looked forward to, coming as an international student,” said Jantaradaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she pays about $25,000 per semester. That includes per-unit class fees and off-campus living, food and transportation expenses. Despite the cost, Jantaradaval decided to persevere and complete her education during the pandemic. 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Despite trying various online methods, the program struggled to spread information about their study abroad programs because there were no in-person meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason why the number of international students has declined is due to limitations in visa sections in U.S. consulates worldwide since April. For international students, obtaining a visa is the first priority for studying abroad. Typically, students have to apply for a student visa, schedule an interview with the consulate and if they are approved then they have to gather the appropriate documents and prepare to come into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the consulates were closed during the time of admittance, students were unable to obtain a valid visa because the process can take months to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consulates began reopening in June and July, but it may not have been enough time for students to get their visas,” Van Cleve said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the 11% decrease in international students goes beyond money. “They add to the diversity of the campus, the exchange of differing perspectives which benefit fellow students and the entire university community,” Van Cleve wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Deportation Threat, Rescinded\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Van Cleve also mentioned that the Trump administration’s rash decision to deport international students due to all virtual classes caused confusion and fear among students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued guidance in July\u003c/a> that threatened to deport international students to their home countries if they were unable to take at least one in-person class due to the pandemic. Soon after, big institutions like Harvard and MIT\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/content/sevp_filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> filed a lawsuit,\u003c/a> resulting in the initial guidance being rescinded \u003ca href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Trump-Administration-Withdraws-Directive-Banning-International-Students.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before the lawsuit moved forward\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the guidance being rescinded, the initial threat created a lot of concern among international students, who feared they might not be able to re-enter the country for school if the guidance were to have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-800x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-800x1210.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-1020x1542.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_2221.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Om Dhankara is an international student from Gujarat, India studying at SFSU. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Om Dhankara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And some students are faced with a stark decision to stay or return to their home country to care for family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Om Dhankara, originally from Gujarat, India, came to the Bay Area at the end of last year. Before COVID-19, the 19-year-old was looking forward to the next four years experiencing a new campus. He decided to go to the Cal State University with the fifth-highest acceptance rate of international students: San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began his studies at SFSU in January and was only able to experience in-person instruction for a month and a half. In that short amount of time, Dhankara saw the culture and diversity that makes up San Francisco and made connections with professors and students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really excited to have those classes as this was like a new thing for me to learn. I was meeting new people, new professors, and new culture and everything,” Dhankara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhankara feels grateful that he was able to arrive at SFSU before the pandemic hit, but now he is faced with a difficult decision: whether to stay, social distancing in the Bay Area with five of his roommates, or return to India to take care of his father, who’s battling the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not good for me right now, to stay here, but I can’t do anything right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhankara plans on staying at SFSU until 2024, and as soon as a vaccine for the virus comes out, he plans on visiting his family in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another student, Chayanee Jantaradaval, originally from Thailand, is in her last year at San Francisco State studying international business. Jantaradaval came to the Bay Area in 2017. Luckily, she was able to have a typical college experience for most of her undergraduate career – but Jantaradaval never expected to finish her last year at SFSU online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re staying in San Francisco, paying San Francisco prices, but we’re not getting the San Francisco experience that we looked forward to, coming as an international student,” said Jantaradaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she pays about $25,000 per semester. That includes per-unit class fees and off-campus living, food and transportation expenses. Despite the cost, Jantaradaval decided to persevere and complete her education during the pandemic. 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"disqusTitle": "Proposition 16 Failed. But These Students Will Keep Fighting to Diversify Their Universities",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2020/11/la-medida-de-la-balota-de-accion-afirmativa-falla-pero-estos-estudiantes-aun-luchan-por-diversificar-sus-universidades/\">Lea este artículo en español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ayo Banjo arrived at UC Santa Cruz for his freshman year, he was surprised to find that only a small fraction, about 4%, of the campus population was Black. It was “stressful,” he recalls, to not see other people who looked like him on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the outreach?” Banjo, now a senior, remembers asking himself. “We’re supposed to be this diverse campus ... but as a Black student, I didn’t feel that representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Banjo got to work creating the community he was searching for. He started an NAACP chapter on campus and ran for student body president, becoming the first Black man to be elected to the position. He partnered with the Black Student Union on a mentoring program for Black students considering UC Santa Cruz to help encourage them to come to the university. And last year, he and other student leaders from across the UC founded the Pan African Student Association, a coalition of Black and African student unions that advocates for the welfare of Black students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In rejecting Proposition 16 by a 56.1% to 43.9% margin this week, Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844364/californians-voting-to-keep-states-affirmative-action-ban\">effectively voted to continue the state’s ban\u003c/a> on considering race, ethnicity and gender in public college admissions, hiring and contracting. But universities are pushing forward with other efforts to recruit and retain a diverse student body. Often, they’re led by students from underrepresented backgrounds like Banjo, who take time out from their studies to make their campuses more welcoming for other students like them. They say that even though Proposition 16 did not pass, their work will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11844364 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS30257_GettyImages-941502788-qut-1020x694.jpg']Black and Latino students are underrepresented at the University of California compared to those groups’ share of the state’s population. Statewide, many students of color enter college but don’t graduate. Among Californians who identify as Black, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander, about half of those who attended college left without a degree, according to a 2019 report by the Campaign for College Opportunity. That’s compared with only 20% of Asian students and 32% of white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California runs outreach programs that provide academic advising and college application assistance to high school students who are low-income, from an underrepresented group or the first in their families to attend college. High schoolers who participate in the programs are more likely than their peers to be admitted to and enroll at UC, according to the university. But since 2000, the annual budget for those programs has fallen from about $85 million in 2000 to just over $24 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after California banned affirmative action at public universities with Proposition 209 in 1996 – the measure Proposition 16 would have overturned – enrollment of Black and Native American students in UC’s outreach programs fell, too. 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While the centers target specific populations like transfer and formerly incarcerated students as well as those from underrepresented ethnic groups, their services are open to any interested students, Mejia said — a key element in complying with Proposition 209.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every campus has the resources of a Berkeley or UCLA, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot easier (at Berkeley) because we have a bigger donor base and a bigger fundraising infrastructure,” said Mejia. “Once the fundraising infrastructure understands the opportunity to raise money for equity purposes, it’s on. 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She was joined by several dozen people and two other riders in a “Ride Out to Vote” event that traveled from Laney College to a designated ballot drop box in front of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is important,” Noble said simply, when asked why she organized the event. “Just vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Noble (front), Dale Johnson (L) and Rachel Royce (R) ride their horses to the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland to drop off their mail-in ballots as part of a Ride Out to Vote event on Oct. 29, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45523_026_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble (front), Dale Johnson (L), and Rachel Royce (R) ride their horses to the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland to drop off their mail-in ballots as part of a Ride Out to Vote event on Oct. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noble, the founder of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.mulattomeadows.com/humble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humble\u003c/a>, which mentors youth through horseback riding, said she especially wanted to get out the vote in her own community, among “people that look like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rachel Royce, president of Metropolitan Horsemen's Association\"]‘If you want to have some change, you have to step up.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time you bring horses around to do anything, people pay attention,” Noble said. “I’m going to try to use that ‘Look, a horse!’ moment as much as I can, to influence my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were certainly plenty of people who said, “Look a horse!” when Noble rode through the streets of Oakland during a Black Lives Matter protest in June. As the nation was roiled with anger and anguish over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, Noble’s image quickly became a beacon of strength. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822227/oaklands-protest-rider-on-why-she-took-to-horseback-for-george-floyd\">Photos of her\u003c/a> astride her Appaloosa, Dapper Dan, with her fist raised in the air, went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45551_058_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elka Karl and her son Uli ride their bikes to the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland during a Ride Out to Vote event on Oct. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was such power in that image for me, especially in the context of the protest and especially in the context of all these images of police officers with their knees on the necks of Black men,“ said Molly Gore, one of the coordinators of Thursday’s ride to the ballot box. “To see Brianna on her horse evoked such power and such hope and such courage at a time that felt so disempowering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s ride included people strolling along on foot and pedaling bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important in this day and age, if you want to have some change, you have to step up,” said Rachel Royce, one of the equestrians at the march and the president of the Metropolitan Horsemen’s Association. “That’s why I’m here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody should just go out and exercise their right to vote,” said Dale Johnson, who said his grandparents were born in the segregated South in the early 1900s. “No matter where you fall on the spectrum, I think it’s important that everyone get their voice out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"Election 2020 Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The riders didn’t need a permit for the day’s event, said Gore, because the city of Oakland considers horses similar to vehicles — as long as they ride responsibly and observe traffic rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland march was one of several similar events taking place around the country, including in Maryland and Pennsylvania, as part of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fucktalkinggovote.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fuck Talking. Go Vote\u003c/a>,” a project of the Compton Cowboys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With stables located in the heart of the city of Compton, the Cowboys’ mission is to “provide a positive influence on inner-city youth and to combat negative stereotypes about African-Americans.” When the \u003ca href=\"https://c4aa.org/2020/10/unstoppable-voters-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unstoppable Voters Project\u003c/a> offered funding to support creative ways to get people to the polls, Compton Cowboys co-founder Randy Savvy had an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Noble's horse, Dapper Dan, wears her 'I Voted' sticker after she dropped off her mail-in ballot at the Alameda County Courthouse during a Ride Out to Vote event on Oct. 29, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45546_054_KQED_Oakland_RideOuttoVote_10292020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble’s horse Dapper Dan wears her ‘I Voted’ sticker after she dropped off her mail-in ballot at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse during a Ride Out to Vote event on Oct. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted it to be loud and very different and something that will create shock value,” Savvy said, who is also known by the last name Hook. “It’s all about getting people out and community and civic engagement and participating in the democratic process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their video, the Cowboys make a powerful pitch for voting: “The future of our country is at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always felt like the cowboy represents being a force for some type of change, like a trailblazer,” Savvy says in the video. “Somebody who, when there wasn’t a way, they made one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/RNcjxuXuZcI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have a lot of reason to feel that their vote doesn’t matter right now and to be disillusioned by what we’re calling a democracy that isn’t actually serving the people,” said co-coordinator Gore. “It points to this idea that your vote is your voice and you can talk as much as you want … but the way we effect change in the system is through voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s nonprofit Humble also filmed a video, “Ride Out to Vote,” featuring riders galloping across the Bay Area, from Fort Funston in San Francisco to Wildcat Canyon Regional Park in Richmond to Gilroy. 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