Wednesday November 8, 2017 by Daily Titan

Wednesday November 8, 2017

Volume 102 Issue 37

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Third Alternative Facts Panel looks at Dreyfus Affair and election of Pancho Villa.

Rough Sketch: Live action remakes don’t bring anything new to their originals.

News 3

Lifestyle

Mildred García’s farewell comes with a concern for proper representation of Hispanic students.

Opinion

Juvenile arrested for murder of CSUF student The individual suspected to be involved in the death of Alex Zepeda was apprehended by the Los Angeles Police Department on Nov. 2. AMY WELLS

Asst. News Editor

A juvenile suspect was arrested Thursday Nov. 2 for the Oct. 28 murder of Cal State Fullerton student Alex Zepeda in Wilmington, a Los Angeles neighborhood, according to a Los Angeles Police Department news release.

Zepeda, 19, was walking outside with friends around 1:45 a.m. after a Halloween party when he was approached by the suspect and fatally shot in the chest. He died at the scene. The LA Times reported that members from the

rival gangs Westside and Eastside Wilmas were at the party, but the LAPD could not confirm when contacted by the Daily Titan. KTLA reported that the suspect was 14 years old. LAPD could not confirm

this either. Zepeda’s friend, Kimberly Talavera, who was with him when he died, setup a GoFundMe page to pay for the funeral costs. The identity of the suspect has not been released due to his age.

Mancilla returns unfazed after setback Redshirt senior makes starting lineup before her one-year injury anniversary. MARIANA VERA Asst. Sports Editor

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Titans defender Jazzmin Mancilla has been a part of the CSUF women’s soccer team for five years, contributing to the four Big West Championship titles. She will also have appeared in the NCAA tournament four times as a Titan.

suffered a torn ACL. For Mancilla, the hardest part of being injured was not the injury itself, but how drastically it changed her plans. Hours prior to her ACL tear, Mancilla was excited and emotional to step on the field for her last season opener with the team. “Realizing that I had so many plans for that year was the hardest thing for me,” Mancilla said. “This was supposed to be my senior year.”

A torn ACL normally requires an athlete to be on the shelf for at least a year. Knowing this, Mancilla was redshirted for the remainder of the 2016 season. With the support of Titans Head Coach Demian Brown, the kinesiology and health science major was given a year to focus on her school work and getting healthy. Mancilla felt grateful to have the support from her CSUF athletic trainer Charles Dean III and physical therapist Nathan Longcrier who

kept her spirits up throughout therapy and continuously reminded her of her ultimate goal of being back on the field. Aside from her mom and dad, boyfriend Dustin McNicoll was also one of Mancilla’s biggest supporters throughout her recovery time. Due to helping his parents move, McNicoll was not in attendance when Mancilla was injured, but the couple always shared a phone call after every match and McNicoll

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She has shown me that no obstacles can stand between yourself and your goal.

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A year ago, for the first time in her life, Titans defender Jazzmin Mancilla was incapable of doing something she’s done since she was 3 years old – play soccer. In the 2016 season opener of what was supposed to be her senior year, Mancilla made a tackle in Titan Stadium against St. Mary’s University and came out of it feeling excruciating pain. “I literally told myself that I should probably scream because no one is going to take me serious if I don’t because I don’t usually get injured,” Mancilla said. “It was kind of nerve-wracking, and next thing I know everyone is out there crowding me trying to figure out what’s going on.” Pain doesn’t usually keep Mancilla down on the field. She immediately knew she was seriously injured even though she was unsure of how it happened and had to watch video to refresh her memory. Despite not remembering exactly how she injured her right leg, Mancilla recalls her parents’ reactions. “My dad stood up at the top of the stands and was just like ‘She’s going to get back up, she’s going to get back up,’ and my mom was just automatically in tears,” Mancilla said. “They rushed down from their normal spot and came and looked at me, and all I could do was just try to smile it off and just be like ‘I’m OK, I’m going to be OK,’ even though I knew I wasn’t going to be OK.” Through the pain, the Titans defender still put a smile on to hide the pain when every athlete’s worst fear was confirmed – she had

DUSTIN MCNICOLL Mancilla’s boyfriend immediately knew something was wrong based on the sound of Mancilla’s voice. SEE COMEBACK

The CSUF legacy of Anil Puri Council restricts

cannabis clinics

The economics professor has impacted the university for 40 years.

Fullerton Municipal Code to change after 4-1 vote Tuesday.

LAUREN HOFER Staff Writer

On a bookshelf in Anil Puri’s, Ph.D., office sits a framed transcript. However, does not belong to Puri, the Cal State Fullerton interim provost and vice president of academic affairs. It belongs to a CSUF alumnus and a former student of his, Jeffrey S. Van Harte, who also happens to be a major donor to the university, currently serving as the chair of the philanthropic board. “He always complained to me that his only B was in my class. He had all A’s, and I screwed up his record by giving him a B in my microeconomics class,” Puri said. A few months ago, Van

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Anil Puri, Ph.D., started as an economics professor at CSUF in 1977 and has since held many positions within the College of Business and Economics including department chair and dean.

Harte decided to check his transcript and it turns out he had earned an A. “He framed it and gave it to

me,” Puri said with a laugh. A note that Van Harte wrote in the margin of the transcript reads, “Proof positive! I wish

it wasn’t so ... a B would have made a better story.” SEE PURI

Fullerton City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to approve an amendment to the city Municipal Code prohibiting businesses from selling, distributing, cultivating or testing marijuana. The code will be amended by broadening and clarifying restrictions regarding what businesses utilize marijuana. It currently prohibits medical marijuana-related land uses, but it will include restrictions to recreational marijuana where there were none before.

The state of California is responsible for granting licenses to recreational businesses under California Senate Bill 94, but is prohibited to do so if the license would violate local ordinances. The amendment will prevent the state from granting these licenses in Fullerton. Many citizens spoke in favor of prohibiting zoning for recreational marijuana businesses during the public comments portion of the meeting. “I’m okay with people’s rights to use it in their own homes, but I don’t want their personal decisions or the effects of that drug to be forced upon me, my kids or anyone else,” said Fullerton resident Munish Bharadwaja. SEE COUNCIL

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2 NEWS Council: Marijuana restrictions expanded

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Others spoke against the new amendment, claiming regulation would allow the city to better enforce the law. “If you prohibit this activity entirely, you’re going to move the operations who are now willing to show you a face ... Back to the dark alleys, to a dimly lit parking lot or even worse, across the street from a school, at a house or an apartment where it had been for decades, not just in this city, but all across the country,” said lawyer Hector Perez. The main goal of the amendment is to preserve city control of cannabis

zoning before the State of California Bureau of Cannabis Control issues licenses in 2018. “By continuing the ban, we are continuing local control. If we don’t take this action tonight, we default to state law and whatever the state might decide to do, and we’d have no say in it,” said Mayor Pro Tem Doug Chaffee. However, Chaffee is open to revisiting the code at a later date. “Studies change things, science can change things and show us that differences could be made. So this doesn’t mean it is forever locked into place, but I think it’s the right move now,” Chaffee said.

Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker was the lone ‘No’ vote on the council. He noted the success of the statewide vote to legalize recreational marijuana during the 2016 election in the city of Fullerton and law enforcement’s lack of progress stopping drug-related offenses. “We’re getting clear direction from the voters. We also have clear evidence and information that what we’ve been doing up to this point hasn’t worked very well,” Whitaker said. “We commit huge amounts of law enforcement resources to this problem even as our voters and the electorate in many other states are saying ‘Look, we don’t want this to be a

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By continuing the ban, we are continuing local control. If we don’t take this action tonight, we default to state law.

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DOUG CHAFFEE Fullerton mayor pro tem continuation of the war on drugs.’” This was the first and only reading of the amendment as further readings were waived. A final vote is necessary before it can go into effect, but a date for that vote has yet to be scheduled.

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Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker was the lone dissension in the vote to amend marijuana restrictions in the city’s Municipal Code.

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A multicolored spinning wheel covered with questions and scenarios was one of the main draws for students at the LGBT Queer Resource Center’s safe sex informational table on Titan Walk on Tuesday.

Center teaches about safe sex Table on Titan Walk looks at being LGBT, consent, protection. PAOLENA COMOUCHE Staff Writer

The Cal State Fullerton LGBT Queer Resource Center had a safe sex informational table set up on Titan Walk on Tuesday. Complete with a rainbow flag and an interactive multicolored spinning wheel, the table was set to provide students with LGBTQ-inclusive information regarding safe sex. “A lot of public schools today still don’t include non-heteronormative sex practices,” said Isaiah Acevedo, the community engagement lead of the LGBT Queer Resource Center. Acevedo talked about protection methods, how to avoid STDs, consent and

common misconceptions about safe sex. The spinning wheel, meant to grab students’ attention and encourage interaction, featured sex-based questions and scenarios to inspire conversations among students to better educate them about the various topics. Stephanie Jaramillo, a third-year cinema and television visual arts major, came to the table to support the LGBT Queer Resource Center and take advantage of the educational opportunity it was providing. “You don’t get this type of education in high school, so I came here as a person that is curious and wants to learn for my own benefit,” Jaramillo said. “It was a really enjoyable experience.” The LGBT Queer Resource Center, located on the second floor of the Titan Student Union, is one of the five parts of the Diversity

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You don’t get this type of education in high school, so I came here as a person that is curious and wants to learn for my own benefit.

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STEPHANIE JARAMILLO Junior CTVA major Initiatives Resource Center on campus. It provides resources for students and a safe space where students can engage with one another and feel supported by their peers. The center includes a lounge space and study area where students can feel comfortable and interact if they choose. “It’s like a home away from home … We want students to feel supported and engage with other students, maybe make friends,” Acevedo said. The center is also equipped with beneficial programs, including identity development workshops, safe space trainings and

discussion groups, Acevedo said. Jaramillo feels very close to the LGBTQ community on campus after discovering the center. She frequents the center to hang out and study. “It’s a really good environment. It’s really nice and everybody there is so accepting,” Jaramillo said. The LGBT Queer Research Center will host events in the future, including the World AIDS Day tabling at the end of the month, with hopes of educating students and informing them of the resources the center provides.

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NEWS 3 Speakers examine historical falsehoods WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2017

LAUREN HOFER Staff Writer

Historic French and Mexican scandals were the topic of Cal State Fullerton’s third Alternative Facts Panel Tuesday. History professor Nancy Fitch, Ph.D., said that in the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, the creation and sharing of fake facts was used to convict Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, for selling secrets to Germany. Amid the backdrop of anti-Semitism in Europe at the time, Fitch said Dreyfus was accused and convicted of high treason. Investigation bureau “experts” at the time created evidence to convict Dreyfus where there was not enough. An anti-Semitic newspaper also got wind of the story and published an article titled, “High Treason, Arrest of a Jewish Officer, A. Dreyfus.” “Everything says he’s innocent, but at this point because of the article in the newspaper, the government decides that they have to put him on trial … Even though they don’t have any evidence,” Fitch said. Years later, Dreyfus was exonerated, but the scandal is still taught today. “It’s an affair that still resonates very strongly in

France, which is a country that’s had over 200 anti-Semitic instances just in the last 10 years,” Fitch said. Following Fitch’s presentation, associate professor of history Stephen Neufeld brought up the story of the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. In a time when “fake facts and fake news are drawing headlines,” Neufeld proposed the need to examine “our relationship to evidence, to think about how we verify and how we consider truth claims coming out of it.” Neufeld said a favorite question for historians is “If we change some small bits in our historical narratives, what changes?” Pancho Villa was expected by many to seize the Mexican presidency in 1914 but didn’t. Neufeld said that if he had, history would have turned out differently and that people who faced loss after the Mexican Revolution, specifically women and the church, might have had a different experience as future wars may have been avoided. “The counterfactual can be a lot of fun. It illuminates what you can’t change … But it also illuminates the small bits of chance,” Neufeld said. Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Sheryl Fontaine hopes that anyone who came to Tuesday’s panel took away the realization of how much can be learned about the present from the past, as well as

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History professor Nancy Fitch, Ph.D., talked about how fake facts were used to perpetuate the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s during Cal State Fullerton’s third Alternative Facts Panel Tuesday.

how engaging CSUF’s faculty members are. “It was basically storytelling, but within the stories, they were doing the analysis and the reflection,” Fontaine said.

Now in its third year, the continuing series can show the importance of humanities and social sciences in understanding important themes of the day, Fontaine said.

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It was basically storytelling, but within the stories they were doing the analysis and the reflection.

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Alternative Facts Panel looks at Dreyfus Affair, Pancho Villa election.

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The Assistance League of Fullerton, which offers programs to support communities in six North Orange County cities, has teamed up with student-run public relations firm Khedd Communications to collect clothing donations for a charity event on Nov. 18.

Clothes donated to thrift shop NATALIE NUESCA Staff Writer

Student-run public relations firm Khedd Communications, and the nonprofit organization Assistance League of Fullerton (ALF) are collecting clothing donations until Friday on Titan Walk for an upcoming fashion show. Katherine Saldivar, who is a part of Khedd Communications for her capstone class, said the firm chose to pair up with ALF because of the service it offers to six cities in North Orange County. “They help women and families who are living

below the poverty line by giving them new school uniforms, meals, vision screenings and more,” Saldivar said. Donated clothes will go to ALF, which Saldivar said uses its revenue to fund philanthropic programs. The drive as a whole is a preevent for ALF’s Brunch and Bid, a charity event on Nov. 18 that will feature pop-up shops, raffles and a fashion show modeling donated clothing. One of ALF’s programs that caught the firm’s interest was Operation School Bell, which provides students in need with backpacks full of books and brand new school uniforms or the means to buy school clothes. Another program, Operation New Start, supports female victims of

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domestic abuse. “A lot of them will leave their homes and end up with nothing,” Saldivar said. “They help them by giving them clothing and letting them shop in the thrift store.” Saldivar said the biggest goal of the clothing drive is to raise awareness and visibility of thrift stores that support local communities and to get more college students involved with ALF. Khedd Communications hopes to contribute a significant amount of donations. “Ideally, we’d like to have about 250 clothing item donations and we wanna raise $2,500 at our event,” Saldivar said. Linda Cervantes, a fourthyear human communication major, contributed to the clothing drive. “It’s a good feeling to give

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It feels good knowing that there are people on campus who are looking out for other organizations.

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EDGAR RAMIREZ Communications major back, and it was just stuff I was going to get rid of anyway,” Cervantes said. Sophomore communications major Edgar Ramirez heard about the drive while passing by ALF’s table. Ramirez went home and returned with clothes to donate. “It feels good knowing that there are people on campus who are looking out for other organizations,” Ramirez said.

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The problem with live action remakes Cash-grab ‘reimaginings’ don’t hold up to their originals.

KALEB STEWART Freelance Writer

There is a foolish notion among Hollywood executives that if it worked as a cartoon then it will work again in live action. Two examples from earlier this year, “Ghost in the Shell” and Disney’s ”Beauty and the Beast,” and have me personally convinced that there is very little that live action can authentically bring to something that was brought into this world animated. In the case of Disney, the current trend of remaking old animated classics started with Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which made over $1 billion in worldwide revenue. It showed that audiences were eager to revisit their childhoods in a way that felt more real and grounded than a classic cartoon. It also showed that audiences were willing to forgive weak storytelling to have their nostalgia tickled. The most recent release from Disney, “Beauty and the Beast,” is only a few months old. This had completely slipped the mind of my editor, who confessed that she had “completely forgot they even made it.” (Note: She also wrote the review.) I can’t blame her. There really isn’t much to remember, other than Emma Watson’s singing as Belle sounding so

robotic that it puts Scarlett Johansson’s performance as cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi to shame – but we’ll get to her later. The point is, it made $1 billion based on the nostalgic love fans had for the original, but it didn’t add anything of real substance to the tale as old as 1991. I miss how you could tell what Belle was feeling just by the inflections in her voice, which was accompanied by some of the finest character animation for a female lead that Disney had managed up to that point. I also missed the exaggerated storytelling in the 1991 “Beauty and the Beast.” Do you remember just how scary the Beast’s castle was in the cartoon? Everything felt gothic and larger than life, making Belle truly frightened when the Beast led her up to her room. Bits of the architecture looked downright demonic, which was symbolic of how appearances can be deceiving. As Belle and the Beast begin to fall in love, the castle showed its true beauty as Belle also discovered the beauty that is hidden within the Beast. When the castle transforms in the 2017 adaptation of “Beauty,” it just looks cleaner and brighter. The sets don’t change much to reflect the current emotional states of the characters, which is something that is easily achievable with pen and ink. There are no scary gargoyles turning into angels, and no sentient objects magically changing human again in puffs of candy sparks. Such details would have likely been too difficult to make look credible with computer graphics, but instead of finding creative alternatives, most of the characters just magically change off screen. The symbolic resonance of the ending is

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1991 Belle and 2017 Belle share much of the same imagery and themes within their beloved story. However, cartoon Belle brought more emotion and depth to the tale as old as time.

lost in order to accommodate a more grounded visual language. Most of the remake’s storyline is the same as the cartoon, but without all of the bubbly animated touches to give it warmth and character. A realistic Lumière and Cogsworth, a talking candlestick and clock, respectively, are more creepy than they are charming. They are cursed by a lack of caricature, since they have to look like real objects that Watson must interact with. It would be wrong to solely point the finger at Disney though. The controversial “Ghost in the Shell” adaptation, which also came out earlier this year, put its worst foot forward by casting white actress Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi. However, there was not only adaptation decay from moving the story from medium to medium, but also from culture to culture. Something that was

once exotic and Japanese to English-speaking audiences turned into a shiny but clunky Hollywood product. “Ghost in the Shell,” both the manga and the original anime film, took a lot of visual influence from sci-fi classics like “Blade Runner.” What made it truly stand out was the sexy futuristic trappings which the cyborg Motoko was drawn into. There was depth behind the sleek, somewhat erotic art style, something the American version just blanks on. They put their emphasis in the wrong place. The moment that you put a real person into one of Motoko’s tight sci-fi jumpsuits, the eroticism feels embarrassing. What was once sleek and sexy when drawn becomes dorky and uncomfortable. The scene where Motoko jumps off the top of a building in a flesh-colored leotard looks neat when animated, but induces giggles

when Johansson appears to be plummeting into a computer-generated image of clashing neon colors. Portrayals of women and technology from the source material are only made more questionable by the film’s insistence on recreating iconic costumes and fights that were never meant to be performed by a real actress. The overreliance on how great Johansson looks next to all the expensive tech wizardry drowns out what little of the story survived from the manga and anime. Instead of it being a brainy sci-fi yarn with a “sex sells” attitude, “Ghost in the Shell” is a movie that is obsessed with the sex appeal of its heroine and forgets that she also has a cybernetically enhanced brain, which I suppose is easy to do when the primary concern of the production is capturing the material’s stylish shell without pondering the essence of

its ghost. For my non-nerds, I’m basically saying that director Rupert Sanders doesn’t actually understand what makes “Ghost in the Shell” work. I’m convinced that Bill Condon didn’t understand “Beauty and the Beast” either, otherwise he wouldn’t have copied the entire thing. If I could travel back in time, I would have left this parting advice: Accept that you are going to make something that is inspired by a cartoon, but instead of trying to make a cartoon with actors, maybe try to understand what made people like the cartoon in the first place. Then, when you figure that out, really think about how you can capture that same feeling in your medium without pandering or imitating. Or the studios you both work for could stop taking things that people genuinely love in order to grab cash from them. That would be best for everyone!

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The long relationship on display in this interaction is indicative of Puri’s legacy and influence at CSUF. Puri is serving as interim provost, however, he will not be taking a permanent provost position. Instead, he plans to step down at the end of summer 2018. When he first arrived at CSUF in 1977 as a lecturer, he had just earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota. “I remember my office was on the fourth floor of the library with no windows. I hated that, but it was a job,” Puri said. The following year, he was offered a full-time position with a new office in Langsdorf Hall, and his long-term career at CSUF began. Puri said it’s an adjustment for any first-time professor because professional teaching isn’t an 9-to-5 job, but rather a 24/7 profession that permeates every area of life. “Your family life is very different too because you’re working at home. Your family has to understand the kind of work that you do,” Puri said, speaking of his wife and two children. His next step at CSUF was to become the chair of the economics department, where he was presented with the responsibility of leading students and faculty, some of whom were his friends. “I had to give and take, have people do things that

they don’t want to do. I could not favor my friends over others. I had to treat them all the same. So those mental challenges and adjustments are the hardest ones,” Puri said. Radha Bhattacharya, Ph.D., came to CSUF as an economics professor in 1990 when Puri was department chair. “He was a very good mentor and very supportive of new faculty that just joined and a great colleague,” Bhattacharya said. He took on the role of dean of the College of Business and Economics in 1999 and today, students in the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics experience his vision and dedication every day, whether they are aware of it or not. “When I look at the legacy of Anil Puri, I see the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics,” said Robert Mead, Ph.D., economics professor at CSUF. After becoming dean, Puri worked to advance the school of business and economics by building relationships with donors and hiring expert faculty. He noted some of his achievements such as fundraising, building the college’s reputation and hiring almost 60 percent of the current faculty during his tenure. Over the years, Puri has conducted research on social, economic and political issues, which he is passionate about and believes make the most impact and provide

solutions. Although he doesn’t feel he has enough time to do all the work that he wishes he could do, Puri now works with Mira Farka, Ph.D., to biannually present the local and national economic forecast. As interim provost, a position Puri has held since July 2016, he has worked to better the student experience by providing better advising, limiting roadblocks for graduation and making sure CSUF’s quality of education is maintained. Puri said that his job is to ask the question, “What are the things that we can do to improve students’ chances after they leave school, and how can we provide them help? Especially our disadvantaged or underserved students.” Madison Grater has worked as Puri’s assistant for the past three years. She knows he can seem intimidating because of his reputation of success and professionalism, but she said that she has seen another side of the interim provost. “As a person, I have known him to be compassionate and very friendly and personable,” Grater said. She sees his value in the relationships he has developed with past and present donors, faculty and staff as well as the manner in which he leads. “He trusts that we’re going to do our job and do it well. He’s always available for questions and feedback,

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Anil Puri, Ph.D., will be stepping down from his position next summer, but not without leaving a mark on CSUF.

but he really empowers people in their positions,” Grater said. Being used to such a fastpaced environment, Puri said he has moments of anxiety about his coming shift, but he is looking forward to doing whatever it is people with time on their hands do, like golfing, traveling and spending more time with his family and new grandchild.

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I could not favor my friends over others. I had to treat them all the same. So those mental challenges and adjustments are the hardest ones.

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ANIL PURI Interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs “My wife has always supported me, but I haven’t always given her the time that I wish I could have, so it’s time,” Puri said.

He remains immensely thankful for the journey CSUF has taken him on during his 40 years with the university.

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OPINION 5 Representation in film slowly breaking the mold WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The public deserves more diversity, and media needs to deliver.

ILANA LAGRAFF Asst. Opinion Editor

Disney has been on top of its game lately, releasing movies that feature characters of color, who are played by people of color. The company has come a long way from casting Jake Gyllenhaal as a Persian prince. Last week, the finalized cast of Disney’s live action remake of “The Lion King” showed that 11 out of 14 cast members are black and portraying African characters. Disney has also stated that the upcoming live action “Mulan” will have an “allAsian cast,” and have officially cast Middle Eastern and Indian actors in the majority of roles for the reimagination of “Aladdin.” All this progress and representation by Disney might convince audiences that the problem of Hollywood whitewashing is over, but the truth is that Disney is simply the exception to the ingrained belief that white actors sell better in lead roles. Most recently, the casting directors of “Ghost in the Shell,” a movie based on a Japanese manga set in Japan, decided to cast Scarlett Johansson instead of a Japanese actress. The logic behind this horrible decision was that director Rupert Sanders said in an interview at a Tokyo event that Johansson is “the best

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Despite Disney’s progressive casting record as of late, the film industry lacks proper diversity. This isn’t a new subject, but the only ones who can truly impact the way that executives cast their characters are the actors themselves.

actress of her generation,” and that he was honored to work with her. Reading between the lines, it’s clear what he really means: She’s white and wellknown, so she will make this movie more popular than an equally, if not more, qualified Asian-American actress who is less well-known. Well, guess what, Sanders? “Ghost in the Shell” has a 45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is a $110 million budget film that garnered less than $19 million domestically on its opening weekend. “Ghost in the Shell” is not the first whitewashed film to flop at the box office. Remember all the white people

in “The Last Airbender” and “Dragonball Evolution”? How about Rooney Mara playing Native American character Tiger Lily in “Pan” or Emma Stone playing a half Hawaiian and Chinese character in “Aloha”? It’s abhorrent that executives will push aside equal representation for a potential profit. Korean actor Daniel Dae Kim said in a panel discussion on Asian-Americans in entertainment last May that at any level in the film industry, no one can show any data for proving that casting white actors is more profitable, according to NPR. Not only should casting directors stop attributing

the idea of colorblindness to movie roles that are clearly meant to be racially diverse, but white actors and actresses should stop accepting roles that would have them playing people of color. Johansson’s excuse for accepting the lead role in “Ghost in the Shell” is that “having a franchise with a female protagonist driving it is such a rare opportunity,” so of course she had to accept, according to an interview with Marie Claire magazine. That’s actually a poor excuse, especially for an actress as accomplished as Johansson who could definitely afford to turn down a role. Actor Ed Skrein — who

is relatively unknown but got his big break playing the villain in “Deadpool” — recently withdrew from playing the role of Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming “Hellboy” reboot because he is a character of Japanese heritage in the original comic books. Skrein effectively brought attention to the issue of whitewashing and put pressure on the “Hellboy” casting directors to cast the role appropriately. “If you take a character written as Asian or black and cast a white actor in that role, you’re effectively saying that there was no Asian or black actor good enough or clever enough or talented

enough or capable enough to play that part,” said British-Chinese actor and director Daniel York in his article for Time magazine. There’s really no excuse anymore for either party involved to be excluding actors and actresses of color. The people who create the media that America consumes, producers and directors, need to keep up with the public’s desires – and the public wants proper representation. Disney and Skrein are good examples to go off of, so hopefully actors speaking on the topic and Disney’s forward thinking will be a wake up call that Hollywood sorely needs.

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6 OPINION New CSUF president has big shoes to fill

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Under Mildred García, Hispanic students were properly recognized.

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President Mildred García announced Monday that she will be moving on to become president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and will be leaving Cal State Fullerton in January. Although this is a great promotion for García, the move could leave CSUF and its students without a leader who understands its dominant demographic — Hispanic students. During the 2016-17 school year, CSUF had 15,742 Hispanic students, making them the largest demographic on campus with white students being the second largest, at 8,513. CSUF is a Hispanic-serving institution and it will need to appoint another president who understands the needs of its majority. Whomever is chosen to lead the university and its efforts in improving the campus must have the ability to uphold standard goals for every student and understand the complexity of meeting the needs of first-generation minority students. As a first-generation student herself, García understood that firsthand. García is a Latina woman of Puerto Rican descent who instituted change for CSUF. The American Council of

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With President Mildred García announcing her new position, a fresh face will be taking care of CSUF students. Hopefully, they can do as much as García did for Hispanic students and their success on campus.

Education awarded García with the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. She received the award for her creation of Student Success Centers in each of CSUF’s eight colleges to provide new support for students. At an AASCU conference, García said that her priorities lie with cultivating cultural resources for a community that is unrepresented; first-generation and low-income students. Although the president of the

university is changing, students seeking an education are not. While García has been in office, the university has seen a 30 percent improvement in six-year graduation rates and a 65 percent improvement in four-year graduation rates for first-time freshmen. CSUF is also No. 1 in California and second in the nation in awarding degrees to Hispanic students. García, in only her second year in office, led an effort in establishing the first

Dreamers Resource Center out of the 23 California State University campuses. It is a place where undocumented students can find help with academics, information on resources and programs in a comfortable environment on campus. The new president needs to have this same effort and dedication to students. The CSU system stated in its Graduation Initiative 2025 that it plans to reduce the achievement gap for underrepresented minority

students from 9 percent to zero. It also stated that the university plans to provide free support systems for underrepresented groups. Seeing as García was the one to sign this plan and affirm its message, hopefully the new president can be as successful in that plan. Someone with an understanding of students from diverse backgrounds should sit at the head of the university. This shift in leadership will only go smoothly if the

goals of the new president align with those of the current one. García broke many records while holding the highest position for the university because she recognized her priorities. The only way that the university will continue to benefit its students is with another leader who represents the diversity within the university and actively works to continue the progress that García has made for Hispanic students.

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8 SPORTS Comeback: Titan’s tenacity stays intact WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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Redshirt senior Jazzmin Mancilla has appeared in 16 games overall with nine starting appearances in the 2017 season. Mancilla scored her only goal of conference play against Cal State Northridge Oct. 1 which contributed to the Titans 3-0 win.

slightly confused until receiving clarification. “My mom called me and she was laughing, and I said ‘What are you laughing about?’ And she said, ‘Oh, honey, I thought you were going to start your period, not the game,’” Mancilla said. That match marked the first of nine total starts Mancilla would have in the regular season and the first of 16 game appearances since her injury. In her third start, the Titans defender contributed an assist and in her sixth appearance on the field, she scored her first goal of the season. “I went from starting and playing almost every game my first three seasons to a season-ending injury in my home opener my senior year, so it’s been a ride, been a

lot of tears, but it’s very humbling,” Mancilla said. Being part of a winning team continually drives Mancilla. On days when she feels tired, she pushes herself by thinking about her teammates and how they are working just as hard as her. It is that mentality that brought Mancilla the success she’s achieved today as an athlete and as a person. “She handled everything better than what was to be expected,” McNicoll wrote in an email. “I loved watching her react and deal with this injury. It was awesome to see pure joy in her face and in her voice every time she reacted to a new milestone. She has shown me that no obstacle can stand between yourself and your goal.” Mancilla and her teammates

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“I wanted to know what her game plan was, what were the next steps and what it was going to take to get back out on the field,” McNicoll said. Mancilla’s next step was treatment and rehabilitation. Her only job was to focus on herself and therapy. She was able to take classes during the time she would normally be practicing alongside her teammates, and afterward, she worked on getting healthy. Over time, being away from her teammates became another hardship Mancilla had to endure. “There were times when I felt really lonely, I felt disconnected,” Mancilla said. “It’s something you don’t know until you are in that situation, how much of a disconnection there is with the team.” When times were tough and Mancilla thought about her team training without her, she continued to remind herself that her way of supporting her team was getting healthy and back out on the field as soon as she could. Mancilla began her recovery journey unable to lift her leg. Every other week she gradually reached new milestones like standing and walking. “I feel like I’ve just been able to see how hard I can really push myself and how far my body is willing to go,” Mancilla said. “There were so many times that I had just wanted to quit, and I didn’t think I was going to get through it.” Still, Mancilla pushed on. After passing two physical tests, Mancilla got the message that she would start Aug. 25 in a match against Brigham Young University. “I was super duper excited. I got the news, and I copy and pasted the message to my mom, my dad and my boyfriend,” Mancilla said. Her father and boyfriend were immediately excited for her, while Mancilla’s mother was

JAZZMIN MANCILLA Titans defender won the Big West Championship on Sunday and will compete in the NCAA tournament on Nov. 11 for the fourth Big West title and NCAA appearance she’s been a part of in her five years as a Titan. Despite all she’s has been through, Mancilla’s injury has not diminished her enthusiasm or how she plays. She continues her therapy exercises on her own whenever she can, even while she’s watching TV, but her year-long ordeal didn’t make her adapt to a more tentative playing style on the field.

Mancilla only knows one way to play. “If I don’t go in hard, if I don’t get into the tackles I need to, if I go in half way, I’m going to be the one getting hurt,” Mancilla said. “I mean there are still some times where I think I’m more timid. I don’t go in as quickly or as recklessly as I would have, but I still make sure I get in as hard as I can and I’m not the one on the ground at the end of the day.” Yaresly Sanchez-Aguilera contributed to this story.

CSUF allows McPhie to chase two dreams TANYA CASTANEDA Asst. Lifestyle Editor

By eating his strawberry yogurt with a fork, allowing pink slush to slide through the gaps, Titans midfielder Ross McPhie practices patience. Although he experiences some teasing from his roommates, McPhie refuses to eat the snack with a spoon because he believes he’ll eat it too quick. McPhie walks into Titan Stadium everyday with that same patience, a quality inspired by his favorite player, Tottenham Hotspur forward Harry Kane. “I do like the way he finishes. The calmness he has in front of the goal. That is what I try and take away from this game,” McPhie said. That approach of effectiveness over flashiness has helped McPhie find success. It allowed him to win the 2017 Big West Co-Midfielder of the Year award, the first time a Titan has achieved the accolade. He was also named on the All-Big West men’s soccer first team. However, long before his efforts in Titan Stadium, McPhie developed his patient outlook on life halfway around the world. McPhie’s globe-spanning journey started early when he moved from his homeland of England to Nelson, New Zealand and back again before ultimately returning to New Zealand at age 11. After developing a taste for travel, McPhie was able to choose where he wanted to go and at the age of 16, he chose to move again. McPhie moved away from his family in Nelson, New Zealand to attend high school in Auckland, the nearest big city, and pursue his dream of playing soccer at a higher level. Two years later, the 18-year-old made the decision to move again. After sending highlight videos to several colleges in the United States, Cal State Fullerton responded. Shortly after, McPhie, his father and Titans Head Coach George Kuntz had a meeting via Skype. During the hour-long call,

McPhie only had the opportunity to say a few words before his father took control. While being peppered with questions regarding what the Titans could offer McPhie, Kuntz addressed the concerns as best as he could. “You know, obviously sending your son halfway around the world, I haven’t done that, so I can’t even imagine what it would be like, but I would be gutted,” Kuntz said. Despite the thoroughness of his interview, McPhie’s father only had one question for his son after the call: Is this really what you want to do? When McPhie said yes, his father had a simple response. “That’s good enough for me then,” McPhie’s father said. The response was simple because the decision was ultimately up to McPhie. His father had no say in the matter. McPhie’s parents have always trusted his judgment. “It’s always up to me, and I like that. I like that they always do have my back no matter what I do choose. They don’t pressure me to do different things,” McPhie said. His old soul might be why his parents are so trusting of McPhie. He frequently listens to the Isley Brothers on his record player and teaches his roommates to cook for themselves. His varying interests made the United States appealing to McPhie, who said it’s the only country in the world that allows athletes to earn a degree and play a sport concurrently, making his decision to be a Titan easier. Trusting his gut while making those major life choices has also allowed McPhie to have more faith in himself on the field. “I find that football is a lot harder because a lot of it is done on instinct and it’s not like American football or basketball, where you have set plays,” McPhie said. “It’s hard to visualize a certain play, but if something has worked well for you in the past, just try to think about that.” Although McPhie finds it difficult to formulate a game plan prior to stepping onto the field, he does put thought into where he wants his education to take him. McPhie hopes majoring in civil engineering will open international doors in case soccer doesn’t work out. Because its math and

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Titans midfielder Ross McPhie has three assists and seven goals to total 17 points in 2017. He also has scored three game-winning goals, one of which came during conference play.

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Titans midfielder has the opportunity to play soccer while pursuing a degree.

ROSS MCPHIE Titans midfielder concepts are the same around the world, it will be easier for McPhie to continue his love of globetrotting. “I like traveling so much because I’ve done it most of my life, but at the same time it is an obstacle because every time you do move, you have get used to a new environment and people on your team,” McPhie said. He can handle an adjustment period. As any of McPhie’s teammates who have watched him eat yogurt can attest, he’s used to being patient. Despite McPhie’s decisiveness in charting his own path, he still doesn’t have a clear vision of where he’ll be 10 years from now. “I couldn’t even tell you what country I’ll be in to be honest. You have to take opportunities as they come, so you can’t really tell where you’re going to end up,” McPhie said. “You just kind of have to keep saying yes to things, and hopefully it goes well.” VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM/SPORTS