University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons The Pacifican University of the Pacific Publications 2-27-2014 The Pacifican ebruarF y 27, 2014 University of the Pacific Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacifican Recommended Citation University of the Pacific, "The Pacifican ebruarF y 27, 2014" (2014). The Pacifican. 38. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacifican/38 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific Publications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Pacifican by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CENTERFOLD/10 newS/2 SPIRIT SPREAD Choc’late Open the centerforld and hold Film premiere about it up at the Gonzaga game. black soldiers’ sacrifices. VOLUME 105, ISSUE 22 CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: /ThePacifican @ThePacifican @ThePacifican THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014 Bye bye, Stagg Stadium! New athleticsPlanned era Athletics to dawn District as upgrades are set to begin Calaveras River Ruben Dominguez EDITOR-IN-CHIEF One of University of the Pacific’s most historic landmarks is set to give way to a Rudkin Way Way Rudkin new era of Pacific athletics. On Monday, Feb. 24, the university announced that they plan to remove the New New Practice/Training Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium, Field Hockey Soccer Field Knoles Recreational located on the western part of campus Field Field Soccer Field adjacent from the Alex G. Spanos Center. Construction will begin this week. “These new facilities will be very important to Pacific’s future success competing in the West Coast Conference Simoni (WCC) and instrumental in our ability to Softball recruit top athletes to Pacific. Returning Field to the WCC and building these state- of-the-art facilities will bring added prestige not only to Pacific Athletics, but to University of the Pacific [as well],” disclosed Ted Leland, vice president for external relations and athletics director, in a release. Stagg Stadium has been a fixture on Kjeldsen Parking campus since its opening in 1950. The Pool stadium has served as home to Pacific’s football team, the headquarters of the San Aquatics Francisco 49ers’ training camps and the Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center Center location of various concerts and events in the past. It was built to honor legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg as well Pershing Avenue Pershing as United States military veterans. However, age and wear have Janssen-Lagorio contributed to a decline in usage in recent Parking e v Alex G. Gymnasium years. ri D In the stadium’s place, two new fields r Spanos e ll and a tennis center will be constructed. e Center H One of those fields will be a turf playing y rr area for field hockey. a L In the past, teams have declined to play stagg stadium DRAFT PLAN • FEB. 2014 Pacific.edu CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Index Opinion/6 • Lifestyles/12 • Sports/16 Read. Recycle. Repeat. 2 | THE PACIFICAN NEWS February 27, 2014 Pacific takes a bite out of “Choc’late Soldiers” talked about the mindset mostly menial tasks in the beginning, of African-American everything changed after D-Day on soldiers fighting for June 6,1944. When Gen. Dwight D. rights they didn’t have Eisenhower issued an invitation for back home. African-American soldiers to fight in Echoing the words of the battlefields, there was excitement Dr. Martin Luther King, followed by confusion. Jr., Izon expressed his Though they wished to fight and desire for films on these prove their worth to the top dogs, kinds of topics to be African-American soldiers would be shown more than just at required to give up their ranks and only certain times of the honors in order to enjoy the “privilege year. to fight alongside the white soldiers.” “I have a dream that Nevertheless, many of them seized someday films like this on the opportunity and fought in the will not be thought of grueling war to help secure victory. as not only able to be Having experienced freedom and watched in February equality for the first time and witnessing [Black History Month] discrimination to the highest scale in or March, but on any the form of concentration camps, the Ruben dominguez day of the year,” Izon soldiers returned home with a new Professor Dave Frederickson (far left) addresses the crowd while (left to right) Gen. James Whitehead, actress proclaimed. desire for equal rights back home. Ashley Dyke, film director Noel Izon and NAACP of Stockton President Bobby Bivens look on. Finally, the stage was Those soldiers planted the seeds for set for rising Hollywood the Civil Rights Movement. Ruben Dominguez Event organizer and master actress Ashley Dyke, Friday, Feb. 21 saw a panel EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of ceremonies Professor Dave who was recently featured in the concerning wartime societies and Frederickson took to the theater’s Academy Award-nominated film 12 the cultural landscape in the Regents The University of the Pacific and stage to address the masses. Though Years as a Slave. Dyke, after sharing Room, and another one about Stockton communities came together minute in comparison to the group how honored she was to have not women and minorities in the Janet for the premiere of a film serving as a of over 140,000 African-American only worked on 12 Years as a Slave, Leigh Theatre. Afterwards, a special tribute to the brave individuals who soldiers who were sent overseas to but also to be in attendance for the director’s cut screening of the film was planted the seeds for the Civil Rights fight in WWII, the over-capacity crowd screening of Choc’late Soldiers in the held, with Izon presenting an in-depth Movement. of about 400 attendees—including USA, officially introduced the film. talk about putting the film together. On Thursday, Feb. 20, Stockton’s special guests sitting on the theater Narrated by Shemar Moore, from The prestigious event was Empire Theater played host to the floor—listened as Frederickson the popular TV show Criminal Minds, sponsored by the Jacoby Center for Northern California screening of spoke of the group of veterans and the film features historical accounts Public Service and Civic Leadership. Choc’late Soldiers from the USA, a community figures in attendance. of the time African-American soldiers In addition, the event was cosponsored film celebrating the sacrifices of the Following Frederickson, four spent in Western Europe during by the Pacific Alumni Association, African-American soldiers who fought special guests took the microphone to World War II. Stationed in the United Pacific Humanities Center, Ethnic for the United States of America voice their thoughts on the film. Bobby Kingdom for the majority of their time Studies Club, Black Alumni Club, Phi during World War II. Bivens, president of the Stockton before a volunteer move to France Beta Kappa, the History, Political As part of Black History Month, chapter of the National Association for after the Battle of Normandy, the Science and Sociology Departments, this event was part of a two-day the Advancement of Colored People soldiers experienced freedom and and Diversity and Community celebration to commemorate the (NAACP), spoke of community and equality unlike any they had back Engagement within Student Life. The contributions these soldiers made to racial pride in those in attendance. home across the pond. Navy League of the United States, society. A panel discussion concerning Retired United States Air Force Having gotten past the improvised Stockton Council and Randolph and the impact of documentary films was Major Gen. James Whitehead, the first Jim Crow laws placed by the United Klein Insurance Agency also served as held in the Presidents Room earlier on African American to fly a U-2 plane, States in England and undertaking community partners. Thursday morning. The school newspaper gets an upgraded look Jamieson Cox older, refurbished bins can still be seen on campus, PUBLISHER but the majority of them have been placed in other places around Stockton, including Oak Park, the For the first time in the history of Pacific, print Stockton Marina and many more. copies of the school newspaper will be distributed Further plans for distribution expansion within off campus in bins owned by The Pacifican. Within the next couple weeks include an additional 40 the past year, The Pacifican has been going through countertop bins that will be placed in other top local major changes, yet it has accomplished some of the businesses. In total, there will be over 50 locations biggest strides to date. Pick-up rates since the start in which The Pacifican will be accessible to local of the academic year in September have increased community members - providing Tigers with the by nearly 400 percent. On the business side, ad sales ability to stay up-to-date with all the happenings in have doubled the previous year, which led to some the Pacific community. new upgrades in distribution. These changes consist of some first huge leaps Across campus, 17 new metal orange industrial- for The Pacifican in reaching alumni, fans and style bins have replaced the previous black, plastic all supporters off campus and uniting those in ones. They are on campus, accompanied by seven Stockton and outside the area. Digital subscriptions additional orange bins located off campus, six of were officially launched this week, with over 100 which are on the Miracle Mile and one downtown by people signing up before the first issue even came the movie theater. Additional funding which helped out. The digital edition will also be sent to Pacific’s make these bins possible came from a $1,000 campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento as donation from SFBig, a professional group in San well as alumni networks, with hopes of making Francisco, as well as donations for the decals from those located off campus feel more in tune with the Pacific tennis and field hockey teams.