Mending Monologues

arts news sports School musical AS Food Pantry Women’s Water Polo Oklahoma! AS ﬁ ghts food insecurity Team heads to Western Musical Theater Production issue on campus. Water Polo Association 390 performs acclaimed Pg. 7 Championship April 29. Broadway musical. Pg. 9 Pg. 6 Issue #12 CaliforniaOTTER State University, MontereyREALM Bay’s Student-Run Newspaper APRIL 14, 2016 facebook.com/OtterRealmNews twitter.com/OtterRealm otterrealm OTTERREALM.COM Kitchen Workers Vs. By Ryan Sigala Sodexo Angelica Muro, Chair of Visual and Public Arts In addition to the faculty ing committee is in favor of the offer details, but according to an threat to strike, another battle proposed contract, but all Union employee of the OE, the tentative for better wages and benefi ts members will be voting to ratify agreement is said to be a four- Photo Provided by took place silently in the previ- the contract on Thursday [April year contract, with the $0.50 in- On-campus Sodexo employees depicted in a mural created by CSUMB students Tan- ous weeks. Union workers of 14],” said a Unite Here Local crease in wages and some relief ya Carbaja and Mercedes Macial that will be on display in the Dining Commons. the Dining Commons (DC), Ot- 483 representative. on the parking. ter Express (OE) and Monte’s Sodexo’s fi rst proposal was Restaurant were about to call a 3-year contract that offered From plummer to cook for a strike vote, but the same a $0.10 increase for each year. “We like working for Sodexo, day as the faculty, they reached When the union did not agree, but we wish they would com- a tentative agreement with So- another offer was proposed, pensate us for the work we do,” dexo, the on-campus provider of $0.30 for 2016, $0.40 for 2017, said Jerry Valdez, Grill Cooker food services. and $0.45 for 2018. for the OE and union member After the expiration of their Unite Here Local 483, union before a tentative agreement was contract in October last year, representing California State reached. “At the end [of a work- the union struggled for a new University, Monterey Bay day] everyone just wants to be contract, including an increase (CSUMB) union employees, compensated, everybody here in wages and affordable health fought for a $0.50 increase each works hard.” benefi t plans. one of those years. Health ben- Before working for Sodexo, April 8, Sodexo employ- efi t packages and parking fees Valdez was working as an in- ees and management met once were among the disagreement dustrial plumber. Valdez stated more, in hopes of reaching an between the parties. The union he was making good money, but agreement. Unite Here Local believes health benefi ts are not that was not where his heart was 483 representative stated that affordable, and leaves many em- at. He loved cooking, and his the deal proposed was the best ployees uninsured. passion for food was what drove yet. “What I can say is that Fri- Union employees were not him to enroll in a local culinary day’s negotiation was a positive reimbursed for parking fees to school. In Jan. 2015, Valdez step forward towards increased the campus, which is $280 for landed a job in the DC kitchen as wages, better insurance co-pays, an annual permit. Union em- a cook. pensions, sick leave, parking and ployees were seeking $175 bonuses. However, this is a ten- for reimbursement. Food Fight Students waiting for their orders inside the Otter Express. Ryan Sigala/Otter Realm tative agreement. The bargain- Unite Here Local 483 did not continues on page 3 >> schedule was from 4 a.m. to 2 center] of AB 540 students, in p.m. and had class at 10 a.m. where there was a clear idea and And that was my schedule for a what to expect in college,” said Dreams of semester before having DACA,” Esmeralda Garcia, senior Span- said Mendoza. ish major. Mendoza came to the United Garcia is originally from Oax- States at age 10, from Hidalgo, aca, Mexico. Her native language Mexico. He applied for DACA is Mixteco, that is why she strug- equal education because he knew that studying in gles with the language barrier. the United States will be diffi cult Maria Lopez Cabrera, junior and challenging. Social Work major, wants to cre- “My advice to DREAMer ate a club to inform and to pro- students is to get their DACA if vide resources for DREAMer they can, if they cannot get their students. DACA, keep going to school,” Cabrera is the fi rst DREAM- said Mendoza. er student at CSUMB who will But for many families, fears, study abroad this summer. “I am lack of information and language going for a research program … barriers, make their situation they don’t have a lot of resources even more precarious. A senior and I tried to fi gure it out on my DREAMer student, majoring own, but I know other students in Human Communication said have done it in other schools,” that he wasn’t interested in going said Cabrera to college because: “I thought Santiago Rodriguez, senior school was too expensive and I Math major, came to the Unit- wasn’t aware where to apply for ed States in 1988. He wants to DACA, and the language barrier teach because he’s: “been in this was tough.” country for more than 25 years, The most common chal- and witness the disadvantage of lenge for DREAMer students latino’s privileges and in gener- is tuition and fi guring out how al, latino immigrants, especially to acquire resources. “Other Mexicans.” CSU’s and community colleges Another issue is the stigma. Photo Provided by Google Commons have DREAMer centers. I wish “Us DREAMers struggle with they had a DREAMer center in money and transportation plus By Patricia K. Cruz the Deferred Action [policy] was bo: Not knowing what would such as, completing three years CSUMB,” said Victoria Ordaz, being labeled. We shouldn’t have barely starting and [it was] com- happen next, if in the future they of high school. However, they senior Molecular Biology major. AB 540 labels,” said Garcia Jazmin Hernandez came to plicated.” will be deported. are not eligible to be benefi ciary “One of my biggest challeng- DREAMer students can fi nd this country when she was a child She refers to the Deferred Hernandez, like many oth- of federal programs. es was not being able to legally resources at https://csumb.edu/ and did not know that her lack of Action for Childhood Arrivals ers, is a DREAMer student. Hernandez was able to cover receive any federal funded aid. eop/dream-act. Some of them documents would have a large (DACA), a policy passed by DREAMer students are undoc- all four years of college through Such as loans, grants, and a few dream to create a resource club impact her future. president Obama in 2012 to pre- umented students who pursue grants and scholarships and will scholarships,” said a fi rst year or program to assist undocu- Hernandez, a Cinematic Arts vent the deportation of youth like higher education, and in Califor- graduate spring 2016. DREAMer student majoring in mented students throughout their senior, remembers that her en- Hernandez and to allow them nia they are qualifi ed for in-state Jose Mendoza, Collaborative Computer Science. “It was hard CSUMB experience. trance to California State Uni- renew their social security and tuition due to the AB 540 bill Health & Human Services ma- at fi rst, because I did not know Editor’s note: For reasons of versity, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) work permit every two years. passed in 2001. jor, is a DACA student like most who to talk to, I felt like I was privacy, some of the names of the wasn’t easy. “I wasn’t able to DACA is temporary solution To be eligible, the student DREAMers. “I just worked in the only one going through this.” DREAMer students have been afford [tuition], and at that time to the problem of living in a lim- must meet certain requirements, the [agriculture industry], my “I wish there was a [resource changed or withheld 2 news otterrealm.com Thursday, April 14, 2016 Chronicles of an Internship from Hell Exhausted Otters in D.C. By Nick Johnson Three students majoring Williams feels she was not in Sustainable Hospitality treated fairly, and: “more than and Business Administration, learning what to do for events in thought they were lucky to in- my future, I learned what not to tern in an international event at do,” said Williams. Washington D.C. last month, but Williams and her group their excitement became a lesson worked from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in on “what not to do” as an intern. an underground convention cen- Seniors Ashley Williams and ter, called The Village. Her group Caitlyn Cinelli, Sustainable Hos- helped direct guests where to go, pitality majors with Event Man- answer questions, and work spe- agement Concentrations, and cific areas of The Village. 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee interns (left to right) Jens Photo Provided by Katherine McKoane Katherine McKoane, Business Since it was Sabbath for the Reichenbach, Caitlyn Cinelli, Ashley Williams, and Katherine McKoane. Administration major, were se- religious Jewish community, lected to be interns for the 2016 many guests didn’t leave their After 1:30 p.m. they began “We were scheduled for every event industry, I think this is a the speakers of AIPAC itself. American Israel Public Affairs hotel room that day.

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