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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s and ’60s, Kenny Lee spent a lot of time at Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center, formerly known as Chinese Recreation Center. Like many kids in the neighborhood, he loved to play basketball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to play ball in the 70-pound division,” said Lee, a retired San Francisco Unified School District principal. “This place has always been very special to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as he got older, Lee noticed his beloved recreation center had lost appeal among the next generation of Chinatown youth. In 1994, he decided to take action and went on to create a “basketball jamboree,” a non-competitive tournament held during Lunar New Year celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to create this little jamboree so that kids can come back into the community to play a fun event,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny Lee (second from left) listens as Terrena Miller, talks about the tournament at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. This non-competitive ‘tournament’ featured 6 local boys and girls middle school basketball teams. First organized by Francisco Middle School principal Kenny Lee, since retired, in 1995. Lee is a 3rd-generation San Franciscan. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now officially dubbed the Chinese New Year Basketball Jamboree, it’s become a beloved part of the festivities this time of year for many families. And the event, held just a week before this year’s NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center, made it feel doubly special for the middle school-age players and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the free, community-run event, three boys and three girls teams competed for fun — with no trophies or other prizes. Still, the stands — packed with parents and grandparents — roared in cheers as the kids dribbled up and down the hardwood with all the energy of a real, high-stakes game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Jew, a parent of a seventh grader at Presidio Middle School, said the Jamboree is like a reunion. The kids she used to play against when she went to Wallenberg High School and Roosevelt Middle School are now the parents cheering from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re all in this big family of basketball,” Jew said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to the referees and scorekeepers on the court, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all used to play here when they were kids, and they’re coming back to give back and to continue the tradition,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referees Stephan Li (center) and Ryan Seto (right) talk with Jordan Chan, standing, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vince Wong, who also grew up playing at the recreation center and has coached teams at the Jamboree in the past, said this tournament also aims to get kids excited about the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade from an early age. (The event is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the annual festival and parade.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just ‘I’m marching with my school,’ but more so, they get to play in this, and then hopefully, as they grow up, they can volunteer for the street fairs and carry banners in the parade,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the upcoming NBA All-Star Game, players were treated to new kicks. Representatives with Nike gave away free pairs of their new Kobe Bryant “Year of the Mamba” shoes. 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In 2026, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara — home of the San Francisco 49ers — is set to host Super Bowl LX and some FIFA World Cup matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz’s Milan Thompson is guarded by Sydnie Chow, of the West Portal Lutheran Wild Cats, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree held at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters that public transportation will be free all weekend in the city and the police department will be fully staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also said the city has opened its emergency operations center “to strengthen our coordinated operations across departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our priority is clear: We make sure everyone, every single person, feels safe and welcomed,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Bill Scott reminded the public that there will be road closures associated with both events and to expect longer travel times than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The kids she used to play against when she went to Wallenberg High School and Roosevelt Middle School are now the parents cheering from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re all in this big family of basketball,” Jew said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to the referees and scorekeepers on the court, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all used to play here when they were kids, and they’re coming back to give back and to continue the tradition,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referees Stephan Li (center) and Ryan Seto (right) talk with Jordan Chan, standing, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vince Wong, who also grew up playing at the recreation center and has coached teams at the Jamboree in the past, said this tournament also aims to get kids excited about the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade from an early age. (The event is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the annual festival and parade.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just ‘I’m marching with my school,’ but more so, they get to play in this, and then hopefully, as they grow up, they can volunteer for the street fairs and carry banners in the parade,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the upcoming NBA All-Star Game, players were treated to new kicks. Representatives with Nike gave away free pairs of their new Kobe Bryant “Year of the Mamba” shoes. Many of the kids were so excited that they played in them without breaking them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz gather around their coaches, Todd Huot and Alfred Lee, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halle Chau, a seventh grader at Roosevelt Middle School, said she plans to watch the NBA All-Star Game this weekend and mark the Chinese New Year with her family, visiting temples and honoring her ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings us all together, to celebrate and play basketball,” said Chau, who played in the Jamboree for the second year, in what feels like a new tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game is the first of three major sporting events expected to take place in the Bay Area over the next 18 months. In 2026, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara — home of the San Francisco 49ers — is set to host Super Bowl LX and some FIFA World Cup matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz’s Milan Thompson is guarded by Sydnie Chow, of the West Portal Lutheran Wild Cats, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree held at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very exciting time,” said Zaileen Janmohamed, the CEO of the Bay Area Host Committee, a nonprofit corporation that bid for the region to host the events. “It kind of puts a stamp on what these sporting organizations thought and felt about the Bay, that it could help them grow the game in a way that maybe other cities couldn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Presidents Day weekend, San Francisco braces for an influx of hundreds of thousands of visitors for both the All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade. On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters that public transportation will be free all weekend in the city and the police department will be fully staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also said the city has opened its emergency operations center “to strengthen our coordinated operations across departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our priority is clear: We make sure everyone, every single person, feels safe and welcomed,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Bill Scott reminded the public that there will be road closures associated with both events and to expect longer travel times than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the first transgender athlete to compete for Team USA, Chris Mosier credits his confidence as a professional athlete and trans man to his participation in sports since childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA announced Thursday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\">it will no longer allow transgender athletes to compete\u003c/a> on women’s sports teams, and Mosier worries that transgender youth will no longer feel welcomed in athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no opportunity now for some young persons who love sports to be themselves and play the sports that they love at the university level,” Mosier said. “It’s deeply disappointing, and while it’s going to impact just a handful of athletes, it’s going to impact them and their teams profoundly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> signed an executive order seeking to bar transgender athletes from participating in school sports, the organization that regulates college sports changed its participation policy to align with Trump’s directive. Transgender advocates warn the changes could have serious repercussions for both transgender youth and cisgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the NCAA’s new policy, athletes assigned male at birth or those receiving testosterone treatment are barred from competing on women’s teams. However, all athletes may practice with teams that align with their gender identity. The policy for men’s sports remains unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/5/media-center-ncaa-president-charlie-baker-issues-statement-regarding-trump-administration-executive-order.aspx\">statement\u003c/a> last week. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosier, a competitive runner who first competed for Team USA in 2015, said it’s frustrating that the NCAA was so quick to comply with Trump’s order when it could have found other ways to continue allowing transgender students to participate, especially when the trans community is underrepresented in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last year, Baker testified that there are only 10 transgender athletes that he was aware of in the NCAA. He noted that there are over 500,000 athletes in the association. Mosier said the decision to target transgender athletes despite their small numbers was a political one that hurts both the transgender community and other marginalized groups looking to participate in college athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about banning a handful of trans athletes from participating in sports,” Mosier said. “Trans identity has been politicized and weaponized… It’s a strategy to try to legislate away transgender people from public life. Sports is just one of the pieces of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing volleyball uniforms shake hands near the volleyball net.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Female athletes face many barriers to success, but transgender people being allowed to participate in women’s sports is not one of them, said A.T. Furuya, director of education at nonprofit Athlete Ally. In the NCAA, there have been zero reports of transgender women assaulting teammates in locker rooms or bathrooms, and it’s been proven that transgender women do not have a considerable advantage over their cisgender counterparts, Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sports were created to build community and foster social growth and a better sense of self worth,” they said. “To take those opportunities away from transgender kids — it says if you don’t fit and follow the guidelines we create, you will be bullied and harassed, and we will celebrate that harm to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA already enforces strict policies for transgender athletes in women’s sports, including requiring them to undergo testosterone testing before competing, Furuya said. With the new policy, Furuya noted even more women and girls will be vulnerable to invasive scrutiny when it comes to their sex, whether they’re transgender or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major loss for everybody, and we will continue to see the impact for years,” Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliza Brown, an associate professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, said policies restricting transgender athletes assume sex and gender are binary categories, which can create challenges for women and girls who do not conform to traditional expectations, regardless of their sex at birth. Some cisgender women take testosterone treatments to address medical conditions that have nothing to do with a gender transition, and the NCAA’s policy could affect them as well, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you see somebody who has a naturally higher level of testosterone, which has happened for decades in terms of Olympic investigations, there’s suspicion,” Brown said. “There is a broader goal here to terrify queer and transgender people, and to police women more broadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-12.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs high school athletics, said it follows state law allowing students to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA has faced public backlash for allowing transgender athletes to compete alongside cisgender women and access facilities such as women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> has been at the center of a nationwide debate since a women’s volleyball player and others sued last year, seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">bar a player they said was transgender\u003c/a>. Federal officials are looking into whether the school discriminated against female athletes, and the lawsuit is still ongoing. The Department of Education also announced Thursday that it is investigating San Jose State University and two other institutions for alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several athletes and coaches, including those from the University of Pennsylvania, have sued the NCAA over alleged Title IX violations related to transgender women in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosier, who helped change the International Olympic Committee’s policy on transgender athletes, said he wants to see more transgender youth participate in sports because it can be an affirming experience. He said it is heartbreaking that new policies and federal orders could make it even more difficult for transgender people to thrive in athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am being who I needed when I was younger so that young people can look at me and see that it is possible to be your authentic self, to play the sports that you love and to live a happy and awesome life” Mosier said. “Our greatest form of resistance is to remain joyful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The policy for men’s sports remains unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/5/media-center-ncaa-president-charlie-baker-issues-statement-regarding-trump-administration-executive-order.aspx\">statement\u003c/a> last week. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosier, a competitive runner who first competed for Team USA in 2015, said it’s frustrating that the NCAA was so quick to comply with Trump’s order when it could have found other ways to continue allowing transgender students to participate, especially when the trans community is underrepresented in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last year, Baker testified that there are only 10 transgender athletes that he was aware of in the NCAA. He noted that there are over 500,000 athletes in the association. Mosier said the decision to target transgender athletes despite their small numbers was a political one that hurts both the transgender community and other marginalized groups looking to participate in college athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about banning a handful of trans athletes from participating in sports,” Mosier said. “Trans identity has been politicized and weaponized… It’s a strategy to try to legislate away transgender people from public life. 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Furuya, director of education at nonprofit Athlete Ally. In the NCAA, there have been zero reports of transgender women assaulting teammates in locker rooms or bathrooms, and it’s been proven that transgender women do not have a considerable advantage over their cisgender counterparts, Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sports were created to build community and foster social growth and a better sense of self worth,” they said. “To take those opportunities away from transgender kids — it says if you don’t fit and follow the guidelines we create, you will be bullied and harassed, and we will celebrate that harm to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA already enforces strict policies for transgender athletes in women’s sports, including requiring them to undergo testosterone testing before competing, Furuya said. With the new policy, Furuya noted even more women and girls will be vulnerable to invasive scrutiny when it comes to their sex, whether they’re transgender or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major loss for everybody, and we will continue to see the impact for years,” Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliza Brown, an associate professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, said policies restricting transgender athletes assume sex and gender are binary categories, which can create challenges for women and girls who do not conform to traditional expectations, regardless of their sex at birth. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:10 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after federal education officials on Thursday announced an investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> for alleged Title IX violations, the NCAA said it would ban transgender students from participating in women’s sports in line with a new executive order from President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU has been at the center of a nationwide debate since a women’s volleyball player and others sued last year, seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">bar a player they said was transgender\u003c/a>. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will look into whether the school discriminated against female athletes and jeopardized their right to equal opportunity and fair play, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José State University is committed to ensuring that all of our students, including our student-athletes, are treated fairly, free from discrimination, and afforded the rights and protections granted under federal and state law, including privacy rights,” President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus remains on our values including fostering an environment that cultivates compassion, where every student has the opportunity to thrive,” Teniente-Matson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA, which has also faced public criticism for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams, announced Thursday afternoon that it is changing its participation policy to align with the federal regulations established by Trump. Under the association’s new policy, student-athletes who are assigned male at birth will be prohibited from competing on a women’s team regardless of gender identity, although the rule also applies to cisgender female athletes who are taking testosterone treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team jumps for the ball during their home game against the University of New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy changes do not affect NCAA competitive men’s sports, and all students will still be permitted to practice on a team consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” Charlie Baker, NCAA president, said in a statement on Wednesday. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Temprano, managing director of the nonprofit Equality California, said the NCAA’s decision is deeply disappointing and further marginalizes vulnerable students who actually make up a very small percentage of student-athletes. Less than 0.002% of NCAA athletes are transgender, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about aligning with federal policy,” Temprano said. “Trump does not get to dictate from on high what the laws are in the United States of America. Congress was the one that enacted Title IX to outlaw sex discrimination in schools for all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutions need to band together to resist the Trump administration instead of following its orders blindly, Temprano said, adding that now is the time for schools to reaffirm their commitment to protecting their transgender athletes and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a>, the latest in a series of directives targeting transgender people and what the president has labeled “Gender Ideology Extremism,” federal agencies are directed to withhold funding from institutions that allow transgender students to participate in sports teams that do not align with their biological sex. According to the Trump administration, the order protects female students from the biological athletic advantages associated with the male sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing volleyball uniforms shake hands near the volleyball net.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using the Department of Education to enforce the policy, the Trump administration is changing the interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. Last month, a federal judge in Kentucky \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-lgbtq-transgender-biden-605ed79a22633f4c791058994d8ed5de\">rejected a Biden administration rule\u003c/a> that used Title IX to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, striking down expanded protections for LGBTQ students and opening the door for Trump’s move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last week, the U.S. Department of Education notified K-12 schools and higher education institutions of a return to enforcing Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex,” reads the press release announcing the investigation. “Yesterday’s Executive Order ensures that federally funded institutions of higher education prioritize fairness and safety in women’s sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association are also facing separate investigations by the department for similar Title IX allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015114 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-12-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous administration trampled the rights of American women and girls — and ignored the indignities to which they were subjected in bathrooms and locker rooms,” Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said in the press release, echoing the anti-trans rhetoric that Trump and other Republicans have used to target transgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, told KQED that courts have affirmed Title IX protections extend to transgender students in multiple contexts, including sports and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Utilizing the Title IX enforcement process as a way to engage in discrimination against trans women and girls, to essentially weaponize this critical civil rights law and turn it on its head, is such a gross abuse of power,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy surrounding SJSU women’s volleyball began last fall when some schools, including the University of Wyoming and Boise State University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play against the Spartans\u003c/a> in an apparent protest against NCAA policies allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports. Several members of the team and others in the Mountain West Conference, including Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser, filed a lawsuit against SJSU and the conference in November and asked that the courts issue an emergency injunction barring the athlete from playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the SJSU player who was targeted by the lawsuit has never spoken publicly about her gender identity, KQED is not identifying her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immediate injunction request was rejected by both U.S. District Judge S. Kato Crews and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds of sex discrimination and lack of evidence that the player’s participation would cause irreparable harm. 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Under the association’s new policy, student-athletes who are assigned male at birth will be prohibited from competing on a women’s team regardless of gender identity, although the rule also applies to cisgender female athletes who are taking testosterone treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team jumps for the ball during their home game against the University of New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy changes do not affect NCAA competitive men’s sports, and all students will still be permitted to practice on a team consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” Charlie Baker, NCAA president, said in a statement on Wednesday. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Temprano, managing director of the nonprofit Equality California, said the NCAA’s decision is deeply disappointing and further marginalizes vulnerable students who actually make up a very small percentage of student-athletes. Less than 0.002% of NCAA athletes are transgender, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about aligning with federal policy,” Temprano said. “Trump does not get to dictate from on high what the laws are in the United States of America. Congress was the one that enacted Title IX to outlaw sex discrimination in schools for all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutions need to band together to resist the Trump administration instead of following its orders blindly, Temprano said, adding that now is the time for schools to reaffirm their commitment to protecting their transgender athletes and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a>, the latest in a series of directives targeting transgender people and what the president has labeled “Gender Ideology Extremism,” federal agencies are directed to withhold funding from institutions that allow transgender students to participate in sports teams that do not align with their biological sex. According to the Trump administration, the order protects female students from the biological athletic advantages associated with the male sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing volleyball uniforms shake hands near the volleyball net.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using the Department of Education to enforce the policy, the Trump administration is changing the interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. Last month, a federal judge in Kentucky \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-lgbtq-transgender-biden-605ed79a22633f4c791058994d8ed5de\">rejected a Biden administration rule\u003c/a> that used Title IX to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, striking down expanded protections for LGBTQ students and opening the door for Trump’s move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last week, the U.S. Department of Education notified K-12 schools and higher education institutions of a return to enforcing Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex,” reads the press release announcing the investigation. “Yesterday’s Executive Order ensures that federally funded institutions of higher education prioritize fairness and safety in women’s sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association are also facing separate investigations by the department for similar Title IX allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You don’t have to be obsessed with football to know \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">the Super Bowl\u003c/a> is taking place on Sunday. (You might get extra points for knowing the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Philadelphia Eagles, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who choose not to watch the Super Bowl — for whatever reason — get a big reward: For those few hours the game is on, key Bay Area spots suddenly become much less crowded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re one of those who’d prefer to enjoy the (semi) deserted Bay Area rather than hit a watch party, keep reading for ideas for where to make the most of the lack of crowds, as suggested by the folks of KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time is the Super Bowl (i.e., when will the crowds be indoors?)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kickoff for the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl game is at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. But rest assured that most folks planning to watch it will be retreating indoors quite a bit before kickoff.[aside postID=\"news_11974882,news_11974954,arts_13951795,arts_13951328\" label=\"More on the Super Bowl\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At bars and event spaces, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/spots-watch-super-bowl/\">many Super Bowl watch parties will begin around 2 p.m\u003c/a>., with some starting even earlier, around lunchtime — or as late as 3 p.m. As for home-based Super Bowl parties, many people will begin to pile into living rooms around the Bay several hours before kickoff. But because of the many parties folks will be attending on Sunday, you might want to avoid the grocery store that morning and possibly on Saturday, too — unless you want to compete with all those hosts and guests doing last-minute party planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the Super Bowl last, roughly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A 2017 analysis from \u003cem>The Verge\u003c/em> found that in previous years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/4/14403598/how-long-is-the-super-bowl\">the average length of the Super Bowl was just under four hours.\u003c/a> This \u003cem>could \u003c/em>mean you get until around 7:30 p.m. to enjoy the lack of crowds … or even shorter. Or even longer. There’s no way to predict the exact length of the game, but it’s virtually certain that you’ll get at least three hours of play — and you can pretty safely plan on having until 6:30 p.m. to revel in a crowd-free Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco\">Sunset on Sunday in San Francisco is forecast to be 5:42 p.m\u003c/a>., meaning your precious Super Bowl window of (hopeful) solitude could also encompass a hike — more on that below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to take a drive that Sunday, you may wish to use your phone to keep a light eye on how the game is progressing. You don’t want your crowd-free afternoon to end with getting caught in freeway traffic because you’re hitting the road home when all the Super Bowl watchers are heading home from parties and bars, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #1: Visit a tourist spot for a photoshoot\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748038/the-iconic-bay-area-spots-that-locals-dont-visit-according-to-you\">Playing tourist in the Bay Area is always fun as a local\u003c/a>, especially if you never usually do it. And there’s a good chance that even the most popular tourist attractions won’t be as busy as usual. Think: The Ferry Building on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, Alcatraz Island, Muir Woods, riding a cable car, walking or cycling the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another tourist-adjacent idea to consider for Sunday: Checking out one of the Bay’s iconic vista points or lookouts that are usually chock-full of visitors, like SF’s Twin Peaks or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/article/seven-places-gaze-golden-gate-bridge\">one of these classic viewpoints for the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>. Fewer people means fewer folks in the background of your scenic photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11973767 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people swing a child by the arms in front of the Golden Gate Bridge as the sun goes down.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Bowl Sunday is a great time to explore usually busy spots in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Adam Hester/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big caveat here: It’s actually hard to predict the extent to which the Bay Area’s classic tourist spots \u003cem>will \u003c/em>be markedly less busy during the game. On the one hand, a lot of domestic tourists to San Francisco will definitely want to watch the Super Bowl anyway, plus \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/globally-56-million-watched-super-bowl-lvii\">viewership for the game is more popular internationally than you might expect\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then again, there’ll still be international tourists visiting the Bay Area over this weekend who have no interest in the Super Bowl and no intention of pausing their vacation for several hours on a sunny day to stay inside and watch it. So don’t be surprised if somewhere like Pier 39 isn’t entirely dead after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #2: Try for a table at a popular restaurant\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re happy to have dinner on the early side — or even a late lunch — Super Bowl Sunday could be an ideal time to try for a walk-in table at a popular spot that normally has long wait times. Even if a place isn’t exactly deserted, you still might have a higher-than-normal chance of getting a favored seat with a view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could even try to plan ahead and see if any usually popular spots still have reservations available on Sunday afternoon or early evening, by browsing \u003ca href=\"https://www.opentable.com/\">an online reservation system like Open Table.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975191\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2309px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">But make sure that your restaurant, bar or cafe of choice doesn’t have a TV that could still be showing the game. \u003ccite>(Geri Lavrov/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are two caveats to this idea. First, if you’re trying for a walk-in, just be sure to call ahead to ensure that your desired spot will actually be open during the game .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secondly, make sure that your restaurant, bar or cafe of choice doesn’t have a TV that could still show the game. Otherwise, you’ll basically just be walking into … a crowded Super Bowl watch party, which is presumably the very thing you were hoping to avoid that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl idea #3: Get a museum all to yourself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wandering around a near-empty gallery and having the artworks “all to yourself” can feel undeniably magical — and Sunday could bring you that opportunity if you visit a museum like SFMOMA, the De Young Museum or the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975197\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, no ticket lines expected. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For folks with kids, it’s also a great chance to visit a normally crowded museum like the Exploratorium or the Children’s Discovery Museum to watch your children enjoy not having to wait their turn to explore their exhibits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">no free Bay Area museum days are scheduled for this Sunday\u003c/a>, but remember that if you use CalFresh (also known as food stamps), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974262/extra-discounts-your-ebt-card-could-offer-from-free-museums-to-the-farmers-market\">your EBT card can get you free or reduced admission to many museums around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #4: Hit a usually crowded nature spot\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication,\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.74518500000005&lon=-122.41590499999995\"> the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office forecasts that Sunday will be sunny\u003c/a> if a little chilly, with a high of 57 F — in a nutshell, potentially perfect hiking weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Sunday afternoon, the spots usually super popular with locals will be much less busy: Think places like Mount Tamalpais, Muir Woods, Steep Ravine at Stinson Beach, Baker Beach, Indian Rock in Berkeley or Half Moon Bay. Plus, the benefit of Super Bowl Sunday means that you can potentially afford, time-wise, to travel a little further for your hike than you normally would — because the roads there and back will be much less packed with traffic. If you’re really lucky, you might have sunset views all to yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975195\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stinson Beach could be ideal for a day trip. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another plus of a Super Bowl hike: Simpler parking. If you’ve ever had to spend 30 frustrating minutes before a hike at a popular spot searching for alternative parking because the trailhead lot is jam-packed, then Sunday could bring the opposite experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the best chance at the fewest crowds, consider delaying your hike until after lunch — a lot of people planning to watch the Super Bowl will still want to stretch their legs that morning before heading to a watch party, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973704/things-to-do-bay-area-with-children\">especially families with kids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for Bay Area hiking inspiration, take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985496/best-bay-area-hikes-wildlife-near-me\">our guide to some of the best hikes for spotting wildlife\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982256/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spring-where-to-see-waterfalls-wildflowers-and-mushrooms-after-all-that-rain\">where to see waterfalls\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953167/best-bay-area-accessible-hiking-trails-recommended-by-disability-advocates\">best accessible trails around the Bay for disabled folks and others with mobility considerations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #5: Enjoy easy parking in a busy neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re frequently dissuaded by exploring popular neighborhoods on the weekend because of the nightmarish parking situation you know you’ll encounter, you might consider declaring the Super Bowl the time to finally try it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244499274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244499274.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244499274-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244499274-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244499274-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finding a parking spot in the city might not be impossible on Super Bowl Sunday, even in Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(SAMANTHA LAUREY/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco alone, there’s Hayes Valley, the Mission, North Beach, the popular areas around Clement Street in the Richmond and Irving Street in the Sunset — and Sunday afternoon could mean you finally snag a spot without having to circle the same four blocks for 30 minutes. (Just make sure you don’t let your guard \u003cem>too \u003c/em>much with this new-found sense of freedom and accidentally leave your car vulnerable to a break-in. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">Read more about how to potentially reduce the risk of having your car broken into with our guide.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #6: Do your grocery shopping\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, practicality wins. And one non-football idea for Super Bowl Sunday that was suggested again and again by the minds of KQED: Use the time to do your grocery shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Bowl, Costco, Trader Joe’s and Monterey Market were all recommended grocery stores as usually packed places to hit during the game, where uncrowded aisles and short lines at the register could await you for a few blissful hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A caveat here: your local Costco might well be showing the game on their televisions, and \u003ca href=\"https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/spots-watch-super-bowl/\">FunCheapSF notes that many folks use the warehouse as an opportunity for an unofficial Super Bowl watch party\u003c/a>, complete with $1.50 hot dogs. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975193\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1408459181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1408459181.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1408459181-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1408459181-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1408459181-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No crowds at Berkeley Bowl?! It’s possible … on Sunday. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And if you don’t need to grab groceries? Consider spending the afternoon at another kind of store that can often feel claustrophobic with the usual crowds, such as IKEA in Emeryville. Or apply this kind of practicality to other areas of life — your local gym will probably be delightfully empty on Sunday afternoon as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Matthew Green, Lauren Farrar, Suzie Racho, Marnette Federis, Autumn Woish, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Daniel Eduardo Hernandez, Bonnie Zeng Chin, Kevin Cooke, Randy Depew, Maria Miller, Joo Eun Lee, Beth Huizenga, Sydney Johnson, Bianca Hernandez-Knight and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this story, which originally published on Feb. 9, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You don’t have to be obsessed with football to know \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">the Super Bowl\u003c/a> is taking place on Sunday. (You might get extra points for knowing the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Philadelphia Eagles, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who choose not to watch the Super Bowl — for whatever reason — get a big reward: For those few hours the game is on, key Bay Area spots suddenly become much less crowded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re one of those who’d prefer to enjoy the (semi) deserted Bay Area rather than hit a watch party, keep reading for ideas for where to make the most of the lack of crowds, as suggested by the folks of KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time is the Super Bowl (i.e., when will the crowds be indoors?)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kickoff for the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl game is at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. But rest assured that most folks planning to watch it will be retreating indoors quite a bit before kickoff.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At bars and event spaces, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/spots-watch-super-bowl/\">many Super Bowl watch parties will begin around 2 p.m\u003c/a>., with some starting even earlier, around lunchtime — or as late as 3 p.m. As for home-based Super Bowl parties, many people will begin to pile into living rooms around the Bay several hours before kickoff. But because of the many parties folks will be attending on Sunday, you might want to avoid the grocery store that morning and possibly on Saturday, too — unless you want to compete with all those hosts and guests doing last-minute party planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the Super Bowl last, roughly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A 2017 analysis from \u003cem>The Verge\u003c/em> found that in previous years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/4/14403598/how-long-is-the-super-bowl\">the average length of the Super Bowl was just under four hours.\u003c/a> This \u003cem>could \u003c/em>mean you get until around 7:30 p.m. to enjoy the lack of crowds … or even shorter. Or even longer. There’s no way to predict the exact length of the game, but it’s virtually certain that you’ll get at least three hours of play — and you can pretty safely plan on having until 6:30 p.m. to revel in a crowd-free Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco\">Sunset on Sunday in San Francisco is forecast to be 5:42 p.m\u003c/a>., meaning your precious Super Bowl window of (hopeful) solitude could also encompass a hike — more on that below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to take a drive that Sunday, you may wish to use your phone to keep a light eye on how the game is progressing. You don’t want your crowd-free afternoon to end with getting caught in freeway traffic because you’re hitting the road home when all the Super Bowl watchers are heading home from parties and bars, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #1: Visit a tourist spot for a photoshoot\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748038/the-iconic-bay-area-spots-that-locals-dont-visit-according-to-you\">Playing tourist in the Bay Area is always fun as a local\u003c/a>, especially if you never usually do it. And there’s a good chance that even the most popular tourist attractions won’t be as busy as usual. Think: The Ferry Building on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, Alcatraz Island, Muir Woods, riding a cable car, walking or cycling the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another tourist-adjacent idea to consider for Sunday: Checking out one of the Bay’s iconic vista points or lookouts that are usually chock-full of visitors, like SF’s Twin Peaks or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/article/seven-places-gaze-golden-gate-bridge\">one of these classic viewpoints for the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>. Fewer people means fewer folks in the background of your scenic photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11973767 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people swing a child by the arms in front of the Golden Gate Bridge as the sun goes down.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-523568020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Bowl Sunday is a great time to explore usually busy spots in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Adam Hester/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big caveat here: It’s actually hard to predict the extent to which the Bay Area’s classic tourist spots \u003cem>will \u003c/em>be markedly less busy during the game. On the one hand, a lot of domestic tourists to San Francisco will definitely want to watch the Super Bowl anyway, plus \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/globally-56-million-watched-super-bowl-lvii\">viewership for the game is more popular internationally than you might expect\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then again, there’ll still be international tourists visiting the Bay Area over this weekend who have no interest in the Super Bowl and no intention of pausing their vacation for several hours on a sunny day to stay inside and watch it. So don’t be surprised if somewhere like Pier 39 isn’t entirely dead after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #2: Try for a table at a popular restaurant\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re happy to have dinner on the early side — or even a late lunch — Super Bowl Sunday could be an ideal time to try for a walk-in table at a popular spot that normally has long wait times. Even if a place isn’t exactly deserted, you still might have a higher-than-normal chance of getting a favored seat with a view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could even try to plan ahead and see if any usually popular spots still have reservations available on Sunday afternoon or early evening, by browsing \u003ca href=\"https://www.opentable.com/\">an online reservation system like Open Table.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975191\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2309px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-174289785-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">But make sure that your restaurant, bar or cafe of choice doesn’t have a TV that could still be showing the game. \u003ccite>(Geri Lavrov/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are two caveats to this idea. First, if you’re trying for a walk-in, just be sure to call ahead to ensure that your desired spot will actually be open during the game .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secondly, make sure that your restaurant, bar or cafe of choice doesn’t have a TV that could still show the game. Otherwise, you’ll basically just be walking into … a crowded Super Bowl watch party, which is presumably the very thing you were hoping to avoid that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl idea #3: Get a museum all to yourself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wandering around a near-empty gallery and having the artworks “all to yourself” can feel undeniably magical — and Sunday could bring you that opportunity if you visit a museum like SFMOMA, the De Young Museum or the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975197\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1502014084-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, no ticket lines expected. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For folks with kids, it’s also a great chance to visit a normally crowded museum like the Exploratorium or the Children’s Discovery Museum to watch your children enjoy not having to wait their turn to explore their exhibits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">no free Bay Area museum days are scheduled for this Sunday\u003c/a>, but remember that if you use CalFresh (also known as food stamps), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974262/extra-discounts-your-ebt-card-could-offer-from-free-museums-to-the-farmers-market\">your EBT card can get you free or reduced admission to many museums around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl alternative #4: Hit a usually crowded nature spot\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication,\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.74518500000005&lon=-122.41590499999995\"> the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office forecasts that Sunday will be sunny\u003c/a> if a little chilly, with a high of 57 F — in a nutshell, potentially perfect hiking weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Sunday afternoon, the spots usually super popular with locals will be much less busy: Think places like Mount Tamalpais, Muir Woods, Steep Ravine at Stinson Beach, Baker Beach, Indian Rock in Berkeley or Half Moon Bay. Plus, the benefit of Super Bowl Sunday means that you can potentially afford, time-wise, to travel a little further for your hike than you normally would — because the roads there and back will be much less packed with traffic. If you’re really lucky, you might have sunset views all to yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975195\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1531278203-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stinson Beach could be ideal for a day trip. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another plus of a Super Bowl hike: Simpler parking. If you’ve ever had to spend 30 frustrating minutes before a hike at a popular spot searching for alternative parking because the trailhead lot is jam-packed, then Sunday could bring the opposite experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the best chance at the fewest crowds, consider delaying your hike until after lunch — a lot of people planning to watch the Super Bowl will still want to stretch their legs that morning before heading to a watch party, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973704/things-to-do-bay-area-with-children\">especially families with kids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for Bay Area hiking inspiration, take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985496/best-bay-area-hikes-wildlife-near-me\">our guide to some of the best hikes for spotting wildlife\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982256/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spring-where-to-see-waterfalls-wildflowers-and-mushrooms-after-all-that-rain\">where to see waterfalls\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953167/best-bay-area-accessible-hiking-trails-recommended-by-disability-advocates\">best accessible trails around the Bay for disabled folks and others with mobility considerations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Local college graduates are needed to fill key positions in the county’s public sector, and the university has been a pipeline for both county departments and for private businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letha Ch’ien, an associate professor in the art history department, which is slated to close, said students at Sonoma State come from diverse backgrounds and with a diverse set of interests that ultimately benefit the county in numerous ways. The relationship between the school and Sonoma County is symbiotic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s simply no end to the amount of good that the university contributes to the community,” Ch’ien said. “The institution is not imposed on the county or separate from it…. 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More than 20 degree programs, six academic departments and all of the school’s athletics programs are also on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment rates have gone down by nearly 40% since 2015, funding avenues continue to dwindle, and operating costs are increasing at an overwhelming pace, according to Cutrer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors are concerned about what “the loss of cultural and athletic offerings” could mean for the school and for county residents. Without a diverse set of programs, they fear Sonoma State’s declining enrollment numbers and financial distress will only get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impacts are huge,” Ch’ien said. “Not only is the university a hub for students, faculty and staff, but the community at large gathers for events at the Green Music Center, shows and exhibitions at the art gallery, performances in the theatre department…. The university serves the people of Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Horstein, a union leader in the California Faculty Association and a theatre studies professor at Sonoma State, said the school is undermining the confidence of both current and prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big risk,” Horstein said. “You want to feel like you’re at a place where you are valued, and it’s a big risk for the school to send the opposite message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-5.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The programs that are being cut have a very positive effect on the county,” he continued. “I’m not surprised that the county is concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and staff are also pushing back against the university’s announcement. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024188/sonoma-state-plans-to-cut-all-athletics-coaches-athletes-fighting-back\">Save Seawolves Athletics movement\u003c/a> began shortly after the announcement was made, and the group responsible for organizing it has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024572/sonoma-state-coaches-call-federal-investigation-elimination-athletics\">filed federal civil rights complaints\u003c/a> against Sonoma State for making decisions that they allege will disproportionately affect students and coaches of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus community members are also propagating petitions demanding that the university reverse its decision, and teachers are pushing for a temporary block on the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The updated requirements now state that “to maintain fairness and the integrity of the competition, athletes must compete in the division corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brightside Barbell, a gym in Oakland, is ending its contract with CrossFit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this new rule,” said owner C.E. Brooks, “half of our gym can’t even compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Strength gym, also in Oakland, said it will not renew its affiliation with CrossFit, which is set to expire later this year unless CrossFit changes the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CrossFit did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ advocates are especially alarmed by a section of the policy that allows athletes to challenge a competitor’s eligibility for the CrossFit Games. 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As Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, advocates for trans communities have expressed deep concerns about trans rights over the coming years. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A local trans athlete who asked to remain anonymous, citing safety concerns, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All this vigilante reporting is really a way for people to exercise their misogyny,” she said. “To see a woman and say that their performance is unnatural based on whatever criteria they have in their head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-based professional athlete said she often fields questions about whether competing as a trans female gives her an unfair advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that she doesn’t hear the same concerns about trans male athletes and expects they will receive fewer challenges under the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are against trans participation in sports rarely acknowledge the existence of trans men,” she said. “I guess there’s this built-in assumption that trans men can’t be as good at sport as cis men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thinks concerns about fairness are unfounded. 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The move angered many students who were hoping for an opportunity to speak with the administrators face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, students, faculty members, coaches and groups supporting many of the departments slated to be cut swarmed around a large outdoor screen to watch the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boos erupted from the crowd as Cutrer and other administrators appeared on screen at 1:30 p.m. Students yelled for the interim president to “go back to Texas” and called her a “liar” as she answered questions. They cheered along with others on screen who called for accountability and expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\">frustration over the rollout of the cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Santoyo Martinez, a second-year liberal studies student, said the administration could have chosen to move the town hall to the Green Music Center, or even the courtyard students and staff were gathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they did that only because they’re scared,” she told KQED. “They’re scared of what we have to say, and they’re scared to see our faces, and they’re scared of us crying and pleading with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">were announced Jan. 22\u003c/a> in an email from Cutrer. She said the university would be slashing more than 20 degree programs, six departments and all 11 of its NCAA Division II athletic programs at the end of the academic year in the face of a massive budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the announcement, students and staff have pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024188/sonoma-state-plans-to-cut-all-athletics-coaches-athletes-fighting-back\">launching a legal fight\u003c/a> and amassing more than 5,000 signatures across multiple petitions urging the school to back off its plan to lay off 60 employees and shut down liberal arts degree programs. Departments facing closure have mounted their own resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen Anfinson, an associate geology professor who’s been at Sonoma State for a decade, was in Arizona with two of his research students when he was notified that his department would be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate geology professor Owen Anfinson, who was one of the 46 faculty members to receive a layoff notice, poses for a photo at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were in the lab, and I get an email that says ‘Budget Deficit Update,’ and I kind of joked with the faculty at the University of Arizona and my colleague from Macalester College that these emails are never good,” he told KQED before the town hall. “Then, reading through paragraph maybe four, all of a sudden, I see that a geology program is terminated, and I look at my colleagues, and I was like, ‘I think I just got laid off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew that there were budget cuts coming, and geology had already been slated to consolidate into the physical sciences, losing its department chair and cutting administrative costs. But as a tenured professor, Anfinson didn’t expect to be told he was losing his job in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day before I received my letter of layoff, I received a letter from the dean of our department encouraging the school to consider my request [to become] a full professor,” he said. “So I just had made it through all levels of review to become a full professor, and the day before essentially being let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anfinson has two children with his ex-wife in Santa Rosa and is expecting another child the day after his layoff will be made official in July, and now has to consider moving for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Faculty positions are rare, and they are hard to find and they are hard to get. Personally, it is a tough scenario for my job, my academic career,” he told KQED. “There are no jobs available in the entire country right now. In geoscience, there are maybe 10 academic jobs available, none of which are in my field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anfinson was among a contingent of geology students and professors holding signs with quips like “It’s not our fault” and “Don’t extinct us” who gathered outside the Sonoma State student center — near the campus ballroom where the town hall was originally set to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the cuts, announced just three days into the spring semester, was another point of frustration for many students, who accused school leaders of waiting until after they had paid tuition to announce that their degree would no longer be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a true roller coaster of hope and despair,” said Don Romesburg, the Women and Gender Studies department chair. “The administration made far more sweeping cuts to academics and other programs than any of us anticipated, and they made them at an especially cruel time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The academic job cycle is from September to December, so if I’m lucky, I might find a job in like 18 months,” continued Romesburg, who was wearing his doctorate graduation regalia and a sign that said “Hired 2008, Awarded SSU highest teaching honor 2014, Fired 2025.” “It’s really devastating materially for all of us as professors. We don’t know where our paychecks are coming from in August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students have already signed year-long leases in the area, and others who will want to transfer say the timeline for getting into another California State University campus before next fall has already passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcus Ziemer, the men’s soccer coach, said the vast majority of the school’s 227 student-athletes have already entered the NCAA transfer portal, but coaches and players with spring seasons are now scrambling to balance continuing to compete while helping players take other campus visits and navigate recruitment negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024572 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-11-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emiria Salzmann, the women’s soccer coach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023999/sonoma-state-players-coaches-blindsided-by-elimination-of-ncaa-athletics\">told KQED last week\u003c/a> that most schools looking for a new coach for a fall sport like soccer have already wrapped up their hiring process for the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State alumni, students and staff dominated the CSU Board of Trustees meeting’s public comment this week, where the school was required to present a balanced budget that was ultimately accepted by the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lianna Hartmour, a 2007 alum of the Women and Gender Studies Department, one of six being shut down, told the trustees that she owed her career to the degree program at Sonoma State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WGS [Women and Gender Studies] is a vital career-based major, which is a stated priority for the CSU system,” she said during public comment on Tuesday. “Like many WGS graduates, I got my first job out of college, where I had my WGS internship. 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Departments facing closure have mounted their own resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen Anfinson, an associate geology professor who’s been at Sonoma State for a decade, was in Arizona with two of his research students when he was notified that his department would be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate geology professor Owen Anfinson, who was one of the 46 faculty members to receive a layoff notice, poses for a photo at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were in the lab, and I get an email that says ‘Budget Deficit Update,’ and I kind of joked with the faculty at the University of Arizona and my colleague from Macalester College that these emails are never good,” he told KQED before the town hall. “Then, reading through paragraph maybe four, all of a sudden, I see that a geology program is terminated, and I look at my colleagues, and I was like, ‘I think I just got laid off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew that there were budget cuts coming, and geology had already been slated to consolidate into the physical sciences, losing its department chair and cutting administrative costs. But as a tenured professor, Anfinson didn’t expect to be told he was losing his job in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day before I received my letter of layoff, I received a letter from the dean of our department encouraging the school to consider my request [to become] a full professor,” he said. “So I just had made it through all levels of review to become a full professor, and the day before essentially being let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anfinson has two children with his ex-wife in Santa Rosa and is expecting another child the day after his layoff will be made official in July, and now has to consider moving for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Faculty positions are rare, and they are hard to find and they are hard to get. Personally, it is a tough scenario for my job, my academic career,” he told KQED. “There are no jobs available in the entire country right now. 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Moreover, the lack of job retraining or placement assistance for these individuals in comparable positions raises additional concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">decision to cut athletics took the campus by surprise last Wednesday,\u003c/a> when an email detailing wider cuts — including the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\"> elimination of more than 20 degree programs\u003c/a> and layoffs of 60 employees — was sent to the entire school community, just days into the spring semester. 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"content": "\u003cp>Olivia Wilson and her roommates all ran into their living room at the same time Wednesday morning. Nobody spoke a word as they stared down at their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all in disbelief,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates — all members of the Sonoma State University women’s soccer team — had just received a campus-wide email titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\">budget deficit update\u003c/a>.” It detailed a list of reductions the university would make at the end of the year because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">projected shortfall close to $24 million\u003c/a>: cutting more than 20 degree programs, laying off some departments’ faculty members, and eliminating all NCAA Division II sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so confused. I honestly thought this was a big joke — I even made a joke,” said Wilson, who grew up in Chico dreaming of playing at a school like Sonoma State. “I was like, ‘It’s not April Fools?’”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called her parents, half crying and half laughing before she could truly process the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very lost,” she said. “The email gave us no information; we just got told that there’s going to be no athletics, and I probably reread it so many times to see if I was actually hearing it right. It’s really traumatic and heartbreaking. That’s how I describe how I’ve been feeling with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little transparency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wilson and her teammates got few additional details Wednesday, even after administrators hosted an informational meeting for student-athletes and another with the coaches of Sonoma State’s 11 NCAA teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes had hoped the school’s leaders would answer the questions already circulating among them: What would happen in the semester that still lay ahead? Would they play their spring seasons? How would scholarships be affected?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, all the athletes that asked questions, the questions went unanswered,” said Taylor Hodges, a sophomore also on the women’s soccer team.[aside postID=news_12023790 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-3.jpg']Coaches who met with Sonoma State’s interim President Emily Cutrer and other administrators were left similarly in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a little insulted that they would make this decision and yet not really be ready to address us and to help us understand what really happened,” said Emiria Salzmann, who has coached women’s soccer for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found out her team had been cut in a text message from one of her players while she was driving to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of ability to answer questions and have clarity and transparency, it adds insult to injury, in my opinion,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a message to the campus community, Cutrer said student-athletes who remain at Sonoma State would remain eligible for their scholarships, and added that the school would support those who want to transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024032\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-43-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Championship banners, awarded to Sonoma State’s sports teams, are displayed on the walls of Sonoma State’s basketball courts in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Sonoma State is cutting their entire Athletic Department to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coaches were told in their meeting that they would continue their spring seasons, since games had already been scheduled, and their contracts would be extended through the end of June. After that, they’d all be let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What am I going to do now?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That timing poses an additional challenge for finding a new job, Salzmann said, since hiring for many coaching positions in soccer and other fall sports — already few and far between — usually occurs over the winter. If a school is going to let go of a soccer coach, they usually do it after the main season, which ends in the fall, and try to hire a replacement before training for the shorter spring exhibition season starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t that many schools that are going to go into their spring seasons without already hiring a new coach,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Salzmann, her opportunities are even more limited because she’s tied to the Bay Area. She has a 10-year-old son, and she and her ex-husband both live in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abbey Healy (left) and Carson Warfield practice soccer at the soccer fields at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Warfield, a junior, and Healy, a freshman, just transferred this semester to the university. Sonoma State is cutting their entire Athletic Department, eliminating majors and laying off faculty to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marcus Ziemer, who has been part of Sonoma State’s soccer program for 39 years, also doesn’t know where he’ll find work after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 62 years old. I want to coach another three to five years and then retire on my terms,” he said. “Now what am I going to do? Who’s going to hire me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He played soccer at the university in the mid-’80s and has been the men’s coach since 1989. His team won the program’s only national championship in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have given a heads up. One of our coaches bought a house a month ago locally. We had one of our coaches [get] recruited by another university and turned that job down,” Ziemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the university waited to announce the cuts until after the semester started so that the student-athletes who choose to transfer would have already paid for the semester’s housing and tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-33-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks on campus at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the university did not respond to a request for comment Friday. In her message to the campus community, Cutrer said she was “keenly aware of [the] human impact” of the cuts, and added that “no amount of explanation or necessity makes any of us feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ziemer believes almost all of the university’s 227 NCAA student-athletes will likely leave before the next academic year, and he said the decision to cut athletics will hurt the school’s already struggling enrollment. Sonoma State’s student body is 38% smaller than its peak in 2015, according to the email detailing the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a big part of the school’s marketing,” he said. “We go on the road, we play universities all up and down the California and the Western United States. Our logos, our social media posts, we bring a lot of awareness about the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics programs are also a big part of school spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The basketball courts, a.k.a. the Wolves Den, inside of Sonoma State’s gymnasium in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sports bring a certain energy and a certain pride to the university,” Salzmann said. “I always say, ‘I bleed blue.’ That will be missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human beings are creatures of community,” she continued. “And that’s what sports is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wilson and Hodges have both already entered the NCAA transfer portal, the database that helps facilitate athletes’ transfers from one university to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal as a college student is I always wanted to be a student-athlete,” Hodges told KQED. “Soccer is pretty much [what] gets me through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches and players will spend the months ahead reaching out to other teams and finding programs where the athletes fit. Wilson thinks that even before their five-game spring season starts, some on the team will likely have already gone on to their new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma State baseball team practices at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’ll have a full team by the time our spring games come,” Wilson said. “I was telling my teammate that I wish we were in season right now finding this out so we could at least know that this [was] our last time and season together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the packed schedule of training, team building, and tournament travel every fall gets tiring and busy, but it’s also fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be in the team room before the coaches come in and we’re all just getting ready, putting our stuff on and we’re just blasting music and getting into the zone,” she said. “It breaks my heart that this choice of getting to play here got ripped from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Sonoma State is cutting their entire Athletic Department to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coaches were told in their meeting that they would continue their spring seasons, since games had already been scheduled, and their contracts would be extended through the end of June. After that, they’d all be let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What am I going to do now?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That timing poses an additional challenge for finding a new job, Salzmann said, since hiring for many coaching positions in soccer and other fall sports — already few and far between — usually occurs over the winter. If a school is going to let go of a soccer coach, they usually do it after the main season, which ends in the fall, and try to hire a replacement before training for the shorter spring exhibition season starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t that many schools that are going to go into their spring seasons without already hiring a new coach,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Salzmann, her opportunities are even more limited because she’s tied to the Bay Area. She has a 10-year-old son, and she and her ex-husband both live in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abbey Healy (left) and Carson Warfield practice soccer at the soccer fields at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Warfield, a junior, and Healy, a freshman, just transferred this semester to the university. Sonoma State is cutting their entire Athletic Department, eliminating majors and laying off faculty to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marcus Ziemer, who has been part of Sonoma State’s soccer program for 39 years, also doesn’t know where he’ll find work after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 62 years old. I want to coach another three to five years and then retire on my terms,” he said. “Now what am I going to do? Who’s going to hire me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He played soccer at the university in the mid-’80s and has been the men’s coach since 1989. His team won the program’s only national championship in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have given a heads up. One of our coaches bought a house a month ago locally. 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In her message to the campus community, Cutrer said she was “keenly aware of [the] human impact” of the cuts, and added that “no amount of explanation or necessity makes any of us feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ziemer believes almost all of the university’s 227 NCAA student-athletes will likely leave before the next academic year, and he said the decision to cut athletics will hurt the school’s already struggling enrollment. Sonoma State’s student body is 38% smaller than its peak in 2015, according to the email detailing the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a big part of the school’s marketing,” he said. “We go on the road, we play universities all up and down the California and the Western United States. Our logos, our social media posts, we bring a lot of awareness about the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics programs are also a big part of school spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The basketball courts, a.k.a. the Wolves Den, inside of Sonoma State’s gymnasium in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sports bring a certain energy and a certain pride to the university,” Salzmann said. “I always say, ‘I bleed blue.’ That will be missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human beings are creatures of community,” she continued. “And that’s what sports is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wilson and Hodges have both already entered the NCAA transfer portal, the database that helps facilitate athletes’ transfers from one university to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal as a college student is I always wanted to be a student-athlete,” Hodges told KQED. “Soccer is pretty much [what] gets me through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches and players will spend the months ahead reaching out to other teams and finding programs where the athletes fit. Wilson thinks that even before their five-game spring season starts, some on the team will likely have already gone on to their new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma State baseball team practices at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’ll have a full team by the time our spring games come,” Wilson said. “I was telling my teammate that I wish we were in season right now finding this out so we could at least know that this [was] our last time and season together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the packed schedule of training, team building, and tournament travel every fall gets tiring and busy, but it’s also fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be in the team room before the coaches come in and we’re all just getting ready, putting our stuff on and we’re just blasting music and getting into the zone,” she said. “It breaks my heart that this choice of getting to play here got ripped from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charlene Tung, a women and gender studies professor at Sonoma State University for more than two decades, was devastated when she received an email on Wednesday informing her the university would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">eliminate several degree programs and academic departments\u003c/a> — with hers among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung is one of the dozens of faculty members who will be dismissed after the spring semester because of the school’s significant budget shortfall. She told KQED that the university’s cost-cutting will negatively affect the entire campus community, not just students whose majors are being slashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tung, students and faculty are reeling after the announcement, with many feeling unsure of the school’s future in the face of the budget deficit and declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will guide our students as we always do, but they are, with reason, anxious and worried and disappointed at the university,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professors in the women’s and gender studies department teach students about the intersections of gender, race, class and nation status. At a time when discriminatory policies are threatening marginalized communities, Tung said the education she and her colleagues provide is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that universities need to support educators as they prepare students to intellectually and compassionately engage with complex social issues instead of making them feel “expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating for the morale of the students that are here and for the faculty that are here as well,” Tung said. “Aside from those of us who’ve been targeted to be cut, what it does to the morale of those remaining is pretty grim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is facing a projected budget shortfall of $23.9 million, while the California State University system may be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998761/california-state-university-stares-down-a-1-billion-budget-gap-as-campuses-cut-costs\">dealing with a deficit of nearly $1 billion\u003c/a> in the next school year. Enrollment rates have gone down by nearly 40% since 2015, and funding avenues have dwindled while costs continue to rise, interim President Emily Cutrer said in a \u003ca href=\"https://budget.sonoma.edu/sites/budget/files/2025-01/Message%20from%20the%20President%201_22%20FINAL%20%281%29.pdf\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023461 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university will cut 46 faculty positions, four management positions and 12 staff positions over the course of the next few months. More than 20 majors, such as art history, environmental science and philosophy, were also cut or merged into other departments, and the school’s entire athletics department is also closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Horstein, a theatre studies professor and a union leader in the California Faculty Association, said he’s been in a state of shock since he received his layoff notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Horstein’s students in the theatre arts and dance department, which is scheduled to be cut at the end of the semester, are angry and scared. Horstein said they feel as if the university betrayed them, especially because the deadline for students to transfer to many schools has passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t just teach people how to look nice on stage. We’re deeply involved with our community,” Horstein said about his department. “I don’t understand why the university doesn’t think that’s worth supporting and doesn’t think that the North Bay and the state of California deserves that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University officials are advising students who are more than 60 units away from graduating to switch majors, Horstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateCutsFolo_GC-25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydnie Crumrine, left, and Estrella Gonzalez Poblano rehearse during a drama ensemble workshop at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Theatre arts is one of the majors that will no longer be offered at Sonoma State in response to a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Sherod, a first-year student studying technical theatre, said the feelings of shock, confusion and sadness still haven’t faded. Sherod, who is employed as a lighting technician, said she has no intention of staying at Sonoma State. She does not want to study anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will stay in theatre, and I will not be changed because of someone else’s poor budgeting,” Sherod said. “I think that transfer and dropout rates will skyrocket after this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung is also committed to forging on. She said she is still dedicated to her students and to her role as a teacher and that she will continue to teach women’s and gender studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re losing your job, and then your department that you’ve poured your heart and soul into for more than 20 years is also going to be eliminated,” Tung said. “But I feel like some of the deeper pain is that future students are not going to get what we have to offer and what we’ve been offering. That’s the part that’s such a painful recognition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 27: This article was updated to reflect that the transfer deadline has passed for many schools, but not all, and that students may change majors at any time, not just after the school year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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