Speaker: A

Everybody know what we're talking about. So what I want to suggest to you is if you'll just take time to learn these ten squares, then I can look down this list here in my mind and say, will any of these guys go into twelve? Will any of these guys in the middle column go into twelve? Yes, that is what, four. So I can just write four times three. And I would just point out to you, if you notice the four times three is the same as two times two. Right. Except that I didn't have to use factor three. I just picked out a square root that goes evenly into twelve, right. But I get the same answer, right, okay, so the same kind of thing. If you look down the list of perfect squares, will any of these numbers go into 75? And hopefully you find 25 down there, right? Five squared is 25. So how many times will 25 go into 75? Now like I said, if you get confused, you can always come over here and do the little 75 and say okay, well how many times does two go into that? It won't go. So you try three. Say three times five or three is 25, right. Three won't go into that. So we have to drop down to five. We had PI squared, like I said, this is an awful lot of work you have to do every time when you could just look at it and say uh, okay, I think 25 is going to 75, right? Okay. And then finally we have the square root of three back there cause he's too small to do anything. So do you see what I'm saying? We got perfect squares and leftovers just like we had before. Getting them by recognizing that they're in the square list rather than having to do the prime factorization on every number. Now you don't want to abandon the prime factor tree because you'll run across numbers. Sometimes you don't know how to do. Or they'll ask you for some odd thing like the fifth route or something, which you're going to have to break down circles of five things instead of two. So we don't want to lose this skill because we need it occasionally. But like I said, we can speed things up a lot of get these numbers down. Alright, so if everything went well on my second line, I should have the square root of four times three plus the square root of 25 times three plus the square root of three. Alright, so help me out. We get down to the next line. What is the square root of four? And notice I've taken the square root of four so it's not under the radical anymore. We've already done the square root of the. What's the square root of three? We can't do anything without each of the square root of three. So this first term is going to reduce to two square root of three. All right, so I'm going to look at my second term here. What's the square root of 25? Five. And it's going to come out front because we're taking the square root and then the square root of three is square root three. Right. And then back here to that, we still have our square root of three and there's. We can't break that up. And so if you'll notice, after we've simplified the square root of twelve and the square root of 75 and the square root of three, we're down to a problem that looks just like yesterday's work. Can we put these together and what do we get? 728. I hear seven. I hear eight. Which is it? Okay, so everybody happy with eight? We've got two plus five. Okay, questions on three. That works. All right, well, we're going to up the interest level. How about if we do cube roots instead of square roots? Like I said, we need to have a foot in each bow to be able to switch back and forth seamlessly. You know, it shouldn't bother you with a cube roots. You work them just like they do square roots, except that we're going to use the cube column instead of the square column. Okay. All right, so the problem says, let's see, this is example four. The cube root of 250 plus the cube root of 54, minus the cube root of eight. Ready to go? All right, we're going to look down our list of perfect cubes again. Like I said, you can do the factor tree if you want to, but if you look down this list of cubes here, will any of these numbers go.

Speaker A:

With cream cheese. I had a bagel with cream cheese, a lot of coffee, and a fried egg.

Speaker B:

I just had coffee.

Speaker C:

I didn't really eat anything for a.

Speaker D:

While, but when I did, I had a bagel. It's pretty good.

Speaker C:

I had two pieces of crunchy peanut butter toast.

Speaker E:

Um, I had a banana and some golden grahams. Throughout the late morning, um, I had.

Speaker D:

Hash brown sausage and a biscuit with gravy.

Speaker C:

Well, from what I noticed, a lot of you guys ate a wide variety of selections, and, well, most of you guys are probably in dorms or apartments or houses. So let me ask you, do you think living away from the dorms made a huge difference of what you guys ate for breakfast? You guys may discuss whatever way you want.

Speaker F:

I think so, yeah. I don't know.

Speaker A:

Um, to walk to class, seems like.

Speaker F:

You really gotta, uh, time consuming soon.

Speaker A:

Cereal is a good way to just.

Speaker G:

Like, get it done.

Speaker D:

I wouldn't have a toaster if I.

Speaker G:

Was in the dorm, though, so I.

Speaker A:

Couldn'T eat toaster when I was in the dorm. I think when I was in the dorm, I usually neglected breakfast in lieu of, ah, a couple more minutes of sleep.

Speaker C:

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker F:

M. I m used to drink like, dummy packets. Class, uh, that was my breakfast.

Speaker G:

No bars.

Speaker C:

Yeah, those are some very interesting answers that I just received over there. So let's continue on from a dorm perspective. When you guys were living in dorms, what did you all eat for breakfast?

Speaker D:

I'm living in a dorm now, and I don't eat breakfast. Like, uh, I see something as quick and packaged and I just take it and leave.

Speaker E:

For me, it all depends on my class schedule, because, like, last semester I had. Last year when I was in the dorms, I had classes early and then a break at like ten where now I have class at ten throughout lunch. So now I have to eat breakfast, whereas I didn't.

Speaker A:

Um, it really depended on how much time I had in the morning. If I had a lot of time, maybe I'd go to like, the mu, get like some sort of bacon and pancake action going, but otherwise, um, just coffee and bagel usually.

Speaker C:

Well, from what I'm understanding over here, time is a huge concern. And let me ask you this. Do you guys ever eat an early morning breakfast to go, like, any kind of bar, for example, a cereal bar, perhaps? Uh, I eat, uh, sweet and salty peanut bar.

Speaker D:

Oh, yeah, those are very good.

Speaker F:

I like, you know, nature belly crunches too.

Speaker D:

Wait, what are cereal bars?

Speaker C:

Um, a cereal. That is a bar. Literally.

Speaker A:

I really don't know how to do m. I'm, uh. I'm partial. Personally, I'm partial to the fiber one bars.

Speaker B:

Interesting. Yeah, they really.

Speaker A:

Three times a day.

Speaker E:

They're good for, roughly, traffic.

Speaker A:

I've never bought a bar in my life. Go bigger, go home.

Speaker D:

That's what I was saying.

Speaker B:

I miss those old cereal bars that had, like, the weird, like, substitute for milk at the bottom, you know?

Speaker D:

Oh.

Speaker B:

Or in the middle.

Speaker C:

Or in the middle.

Speaker B:

I didn't know that was.

Speaker C:

It was supposed to be milk, but.

Speaker B:

I didn't want to assume that milk was, like, in that form.

Speaker A:

I enjoyed that. I used to enjoy the cocoa puff. I would just eat those as, like, dessert, though.

Speaker E:

It kind of looked like Oreo filling.

Speaker C:

It's a milk crunch.

Speaker A:

Oh, that was good stuff. Oh, yeah.

Speaker C:

Well, it seems to me that you guys love the cereal concept. Yeah. Let's say there's two scenarios. Um, would you guys rather prefer a healthy cereal bar or a more tastier, sugary one, like a cinnamon toast crunch versus an Oreo or versus a Cheerios bar?

Speaker F:

I'd have to go with the healthy choice.

Speaker C:

I don't know, taste.

Speaker A:

I'd go for, like, fruity pebbles or something.

Speaker D:

Yeah, fruity pebbles for kidde.

Speaker B:

I think, practically speaking, I go healthy, but I would also see it come back in the unhealthy way I miss them.

Speaker A:

I don't know.

Speaker C:

I feel like I want to stay.

Speaker A:

Healthy, but I just.

Speaker G:

I don't have enough trust in myself.

Speaker C:

Uh, so do you guys believe that healthy choice is more important for this age group to college students?

Speaker G:

Not as much, probably.

Speaker E:

Yeah. I think it's less important than for other raid troops.

Speaker C:

So time is essence out of everything. Well, anyways, let's continue. Off topic now. Um, is there any kind of beverage you guys like to drink in the morning?

Speaker A:

You know, on housing issues and mental illness issues and homelessness and all that kind of stuff. And that became more interesting than the genetics, which I still do, but that became very. Just another track in one's career. And then over the years, I did that over, I guess, a ten year period or something like that. And then a bunch of people said I should run for politics. So here I am. I needed a sabbatical. Hadn't been on sabbatical yet at UBC for years.

Speaker B:

So in that regard, like, what was the first organization you kind of worked with once you started getting interested?

Speaker A:

Well, I guess the main one so much at first, I'd always been interested in psychology, so I'd worked with the Canadian Mental Health association, and these issues always came up. The main one, I think, was Collingwood neighborhood house, and right in my own neighborhood where I live, near Joyce Road there, and I'm on 16th and rent for where I grew up. So it was my neighborhood, and there'd always been. Always been homeless folks around there. We've known about them for a long time. And so we started doing programs of that. And that's how I got started, actually, with drug addiction, I think, was the other thing, because there was a lot of. We were. We helped get in the first needle exchange in the neighborhood outside of the downtown east side. Everybody else was going to the downtown east side because it was sort of a glamorous place to go and do work, but I couldn't care. I mean, I. For me, it was more like, well, you know, charity begins at home, so started my own neighborhood.

Speaker B:

And so when you, like, talk about the kind of mental health issues you've kind of dealt with over the years, kind of working in there, do you notice it? Is it kind of. I guess I want to ask, like, when you're. When you're kind of doing your work or when you're researching or just doing your work, is it kind of a noticeable thing that there's mental health issues at work or.

Speaker A:

Absolutely sure. I mean, certainly when we did really came. Well, it depends on the neighborhood. Different neighborhoods seem to have different folk. So down in the downtown east side, there's a lot of folks with all sorts, you name it, they had everything, usually dual diagnosis. That means they had addiction, plus some other major psychiatric problem, whether it be post traumatic stress disorder, whether it be schizophrenia, whether it be a personality disorder, bipolar depression. Often they had a multiple, a number of them, all at the same time. And so they were attracted to that neighborhood because of cheap housing and drugs, because a lot of times they were self medicating. That's how it often starts. You know, I'm depressed, so I make myself feel better by shooting off. And then you get into that spiral out in my neighborhood, they were a lot more functional. So these are folks who had maybe a mild personality disorder, or they were depressed, or they had brain damage, organic brain damage. But they were functional in the sense that they could actually do enough to survive without, you know, having to go to hospital. And so, as we found out later on, what they were doing, they all had places to live, or they mainly hung out somewhere else. Took the skytrain into East Vancouver to Collingwood, or. I worked for Collingwood because a great place to be panhandling was up and down Kingsway. And so they were there for their job, and then they'd go back and spend it somewhere else. But, yeah, psychological psychiatric problems are pretty prevalent in the area. But they're not all just schizophrenia, like, people who hear voices and things like that. We had people with brain damage, a lot of brain damage, whether construction workers or something got hit on the head, or a lot of abused folks who suffered other forms of trauma by being sexually abused and things like that. Either they ran away from home, became a prostitute, and they were beat up by a john or some other kind of. You know, they piped their ass out, and they had a really bad experience with it. Right. So there's a whole polygon mix. There's no one kind. There's a real variety, and it's all quite severe.

Speaker B:

So I guess, along that regard is, like, your history with mental health, with mental illness. Do you know anything about, I guess, kind of the history of mental health? Like, weren't there hospitals around? And to take care, like, what happened to that kind of.

Speaker A:

Well, you know, it goes back to. You know, there was. Riverview was sort of the main one, the main psychiatric hospital for the region. And it was out in Mocha, Croton Center Mall, pretty much right. Riverview, or Essendale, as it used to be called. And it was an institution. And at the time, the zeitgeist and I. Psychiatry and psychology was to move people from institutions into communities because they do better there. However, during the eighties, I guess, when that occurred, they didn't actually have enough community support. So a lot of these folks landed up on the streets. But that wasn't the only reason why there was homeless folks there currently. I mean, that was a long time ago. A lot of these folks are dead now or disappeared. You know, I used to. You know, we used to see them now. I will see them. And what we're finding now for the problems of down there are folks coming here for cheap drugs or folks from our own neighborhoods going, you know, because of the availability of all sorts of.

Speaker A:

Hi, everyone. My name is Savannah, and today I'm going to be doing a true crime type podcast. So the topic of my podcast is one of the suspected victims of the zodiac killer in the middle to late sixties. So, to give a little bit of background, her name was Sherry Jo Bates, and she was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1948 and later moved to Riverside, California with her father in the early sixties. At the time, she was a student at Riverside Community College studying biology. So the morning of October 30, 1966, Sherry and her father attended mass around 09:00 a.m. later went to breakfast, and then later came home. So around 03:00 p.m. sheri decided that she wanted to go study and work on her research paper at RCC library. And she was also home alone at this time. So from three to 345, she had called her friend Stephanie around two or three times times, asking if she wanted to come with her to the library. And Stephanie declined every single time. So Sherry wrote a note to her father saying that she would be at the library and arrived around 06:10 p.m. and stayed until closing. Another student at the time had seen a young man lurking around Sheri's car, but ended up not saying anything. So when Sherry was finished and the library was closed, she walked out to her car and tried to start it, noticed that it didn't start. So she checked the ignition and noticed that a wire was pulled loose. And at this time, she was abducted. So the morning of October 31, 1966, her father had filed a missing persons report to Riverside police Department at 543 in the morning when Sheri didn't come home. And her body was later found by a groundskeeper of RCC at 628 in the morning, about 400ft away from her car. She was also 18 years old at the time. So the link and connection between Sherri Jo Bates and the Zodiac was that when Riverside police Department was doing a investigation of RCC, they found a piece of school desk in a supply closet that had a poem etched onto it with the zodiac symbol right at the bottom. And the zodiac killer mostly reigned his terror in San Francisco throughout the sixties. But he was kind of known to have some sort of connection to southern California, saying that he liked to hunt in Riverside, saying that he had friends in Riverside, but it was never really suspected to be true. And so, about 10ft away from her body, the investigators found footprints that matched the size of who they suspected the Zodiac killer to be. So, unfortunately, this case was never solved. It is a cold case, but many people who follow the zodiac killings and all of the lore behind it do believe that she was one of his victims.

Speaker A:

I am not here to discuss the politics of immigration into the United States, a more than heated issue. This radio broadcast is about the human side of immigration, in which people are not issues, they are people. And it is inspired by a communications senior fellows course led by journalism professor Diana Dawson. In the process of exploring all the twists and turns that this complex topic will take you, the many resources, obstacles, communities, and dedicated individuals, I found Casa Marianella. It is many things. In one, it is an emergency shelter, a place of healing, a legal clinic, an educational resource, and a community where people are simply just helping other people.

Speaker B:

I've been working with immigrants for probably 25 years. So all my adult life, I've been working with people who are fleeing from war and coming to Austin. So. And I've been at Casa. I'm in my 14th year.

Speaker A:

That's Jennifer Long. She's the executive director at Casa Marianella, as well as the programming director for their emergency shelter center for adults. I told her it was an overwhelming task to try to get the complete picture of the immigrant community.

Speaker B:

It's totally overwhelming to me. And then a few years ago, the Travis county did a study of the immigrant population in Austin, in the county, and they found that this was a really shocking. Like, the immigrant community, like, 25% of families speak a foreign language at home. There are immigrants all through Austin of all different kinds all over the world. It's huge. It's huge. So we're just dealing with this tiny little sector of people who don't even have anywhere to live. I wish it would be really nice if there was a house like Casa in every city. There's really only a few in the country that specialize in serving immigrants.

Speaker A:

During my first visit to Casa Marianela, I, uh, volunteered in their kitchen, chopping vegetables and heating chicken for dinner, which they provide to their residents daily. I watched people walk in and out of the kitchen that leads out into the shaded back patio. Some tried to sneak a taste early and would give a coy glance over to the staff member when they were caught in the act. Others just passed through to catch a sense of the meal to come. Both the staff and residents seemed to carry a relaxed and playful nature, and it immediately put me at ease. Within minutes of being in the kitchen, I felt like I was in somebody's home with a very, very large family.

Speaker B:

I would say the gap that we fill is people who come to this country, and they don't know anyone. You know, some people, a lot of people, most immigrants come, and other immigrants help them. You know, either their family members or a friend or someone that they know or cousin or whatever they have somebody they can go to that kind of give them their initial start, but the people that we're serving don't have that. Or they're also people like the day laborers, who, like. During the recession, jobs dry up and. Or they get, uh. They get hurt or injured, and then suddenly they find themselves homeless.

Speaker A:

As I walked around with Jennifer, she introduced me to a new resident, a young man my age, 21 years, who had just fled his home country of El Salvador. His family put their house up as leverage so that a smuggler would take him across the border, and he had six months to make the money back so that their house would not be taken from them. He had barely survived the journey, but Jennifer told me he was one of the lucky ones. Many men don't. I felt useless to him, standing there, the american student with the tape recorder. All I could say was, I'm sorry. You're very brave. But not even directly to him. Between translations with Jennifer, our encounter reminded me that most residents here share a common past of hardship and trauma. They are people who have found themselves in this country without roots, a foundation they are starting almost entirely from scratch.

Speaker B:

I love working here because I have so much respect for people who become so vulnerable as to leave everything behind, because they have to go to another country where they're not really welcome. I just am, uh, incredibly impressed by people's courage and optimism and generosity, really, you know, the way they treat each other. It's really inspiring to me, so I love that.

Speaker A:

I followed Jennifer around the backyard as she picked up some trash. Before finishing her shift for the day, a man came up to her with some questions about getting to a nearby health clinic. I did not catch what language he spoke, but it was not English or Spanish, and Jennifer tried the best she could to figure out what he needed from her. The language barrier upon entering the US is a huge hurdle to getting settled in and comfortable. Casa M M offers ESL classes five days a week to Austin's entire immigrant population. On Saturdays, some residents of the adult shelter get together for an informal language exchange with english speakers trying to learn other languages. I'm Brittany.

Speaker B:

Where do you from?

Speaker A:

The ESL classes are just one resource Casa offers. Within their community education center, there is also a free legal clinic that assists Casa residents in applying for work permits, renewing green cards, seeking asylum, and other legal immigration needs. The shelter also helps their women residents find work. Another resource is the donation based herbal medicine clinic. Hector Kun offers a variety of treatments such as acupuncture, chinese massage, and other remedies to both the Casa residents and the immigrant community at large.

Speaker C:

Yes, I started just two days in a week, and then now, um, I'm doing like four days. And so the first priority was just to treat the Casa residents, because most of them, they take time till they see a doctor. Um, mostly of them, they have been maybe in detention. So they saw a doctor already, but they couldn't continue doing the follow up. So I was able then to treat them after they have seen doctor the last twelve months, then to do my work, ah, with different homeopathy on massage and back flowers, homeopathy, chinese herbs. So, there's a lot of areas that I could address, like a post traumatic, um, syndrome disease, or was it stress? It was, ah, nutrition is one of the things I putting a lot of, uh, um, energy on it, because I think mostly diseases are a nutrition deficiency. People are not eating well, people have no money to eat.

Speaker A:

Financial as well as cultural barriers make access to healthcare and wellness difficult to obtain. The community Costa Marianella has fostered is an incredible mix of culture, resources, and support. When there is not an appointment scheduled, Hector just walks across the street to the shelter and asks any residents need treatment. This passion and generosity resonates throughout Casa Marianella. There is a community of people in every city in the United States who have suffered tremendously to get there. Each has a unique story to tell and a desire to survive that transcends policies, elections, and borderlines.

Speaker B:

The best thing we can do to get an understanding is to talk to an actual person who is going through the experience and hear what they have.

Speaker D:

To say about it.

Speaker B:

One of the things that we try to do at Casa is provide a.

Speaker D:

Space for people to come and meet immigrants and listen to their stories. And that's really a wonderful gift to our residents as well, because, um, they often feel visible and it's hard. It's really hard to leave a country where people know you and you have a role and you have your place.

Speaker B:

In the community, and then to come.

Speaker D:

To a place where you're invisible, you.

Speaker B:

Maybe don't have a job, you aren't.

Speaker D:

Really respected as anything, and you're just sort of living on the margins.

Speaker B:

So, I think the best thing is.

Speaker A:

The last Sunday of every month, Casa Marianella hosts a big free dinner in celebration for the entire community. They call it convivio. For more information on Casa Marianella, you can visit their website@casamarinella.org, and for more stories and resources about the Austin immigrant experience, visit our class blog at humansideofsocialissues dot WordPress.com.