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MSU hosts call to stop domestic violence BATOOL ALZUBI Staff Reporter @Albatoolz Speaking up about violence is one of the hardest phases an abused person has to go through, Kimberly Fielding, a licensed clinical social worker, said in the “Stop the Violence Conference’ held on Feb. 22 at Missouri State University.

The conference was a call to stop

domestic violence locally and nationally.

As a child, Fielding grew up in a violent and drug-addicted family. She said she did not have a stable lifestyle, attending three different second grades and five different high schools.

“Sometimes I sit and I think to myself, ‘I could have been dead a long time ago, if we look at domestic violence statistics,’” Fielding said.

The number of domestic violence

incidents has increased since Missouri State Highway Patrol started tracking it in 2001.

There were 37,346 incidents reported in 2001, and in 2017 the total number of incidents reached 4,536, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol’s analysis.

Fielding said safe and comfortable spaces need to be created in order for people to share their experiences and heal from trauma. Listeners should

be careful and learn what reactions to have when the person is sharing.

“I can remember being 12 in a doctor’s office,” Fielding said. “He asked my mother to leave, and he asked me if I was being abused. I was too scared to speak up and say yes.

Even though he was trying to help, I was too terrified.

Healing from domestic violence can’t happen if the person does not share and express, Fielding said. If

they keep their experiences to themselves, they will only make themselves feel worse, she said.

“When we do not talk and tell our stories, it gets stuck in our brains,” Fielding said. “Our brains want us to talk about it and figure things out, but when we do not, our problems will reroute, and it will show on our bodies causing high health risks.” u See ABUSE, page 2

New residence hall end date moved to 2020 HANNA SUMPTER Senior Reporter @hannasumpter

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New price index points to deflation Economics club calculates CPI tailored to MSU students SHELBY DOWLER Staff Reporter @ShelbyTheTall The Missouri State Economics Club recently calculated the new Consumer Price Index numbers tailored for Missouri State students.

Prices fell from 2016 to 2017 by 1.03 percent, which is good news for MSU students.

The CPI statistic groups together products and services consumers regularly purchase and observes how prices change over time.

If the price of a certain product rises between years, the percentage will increase. If the prices fall, the percentage decreases.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly and yearly CPI numbers. The bureau surveys people every year to ask what they are paying for regularly such as groceries, housing and transportation.

The CPI for all urban consumers increased 0.5 percent in January 2018 compared to 0.2 percent in December 2017, according to the BLS website. The CPI for the same urban consumer category increased 2.1 percent in the last 12 months.

The CPI is more accurate when the group of people or area is smaller. In addition to a national level, CPI can be calculated for regional and local populations.

While the rising national CPI impacts everyone’s bank accounts, the products and services listed may not apply to the average MSU student.

That’s where the Economics Club steps in.

Trevor Frazier, junior economics major and Economics Club president, said the club has tracked the prices of goods Missouri State students regularly buy since 2013.

The CPI in 2013 was 100 percent, since it was the first year for collecting data. It was 103.96 percent in 2016, which means prices rose 3.96 percent between 2013 and 2016.

The CPI in 2017 was 102.89 percent, meaning prices rose 2.89 percent between 2013 and 2017. The price index fell from 2016 to 2017, meaning there was a decrease in prices.

MSU economics instructor Andres Cantillo said college students buy different things compared to older adults. This is the reason the club calculates a CPI for MSU students.

Illustration by Madisyn Oglesby

If you’re looking forward to a new on-campus living option, you’ll have to wait a little longer.

A full year postponement for a new residence hall was announced in a Board of Governors Financial Committee meeting Friday.

The postponement was initiated by Bryan Properties, the current property owners of the location for a new residence hall.

Employees from the university involved with creating documents to work out the arrangements for the new residence hall agreed the postponement would give more time to fine-tune the details.

Matthew Morris, vice president for Administrative Services for the university, announced to the board during the meeting that Bryan Properties felt as though a fall 2019 completion date would be “too aggressive” and recommended a fall 2020 completion date.

“Really, that (postponement) allows us to continue to work with them on construction documents,” Morris said. “The extra time will allow us to continue to refine those construction documents.”

The mockup of the new residence hall shown during the Aug. 3, 2017, Board of Governors meeting featured a seven-story, traditional style residence hall on the corner of Holland Avenue and Madison Street near Bear Park South.

In last week’s meeting, Morris said the new residence hall is set to have 400 beds and come with approximately 280 parking spots. The design also includes a dining space and recreational areas, as previously reported by The Standard.

“So, there’s a team in Planning, Design and Construction, Facilities Management, Student Affairs (and) Residence Life that all meet together that are providing their input on this project,” Morris said.

The board was also scheduled to consider approving a bond worth $24 million to cover the costs of the new residence hall Friday afternoon in a separate board meeting, which includes $8.7 million of the bond that is slated to cover a possible renovation to Woods House, leaving $15.3 million to cover costs of purchasing the land and constructing the new residence hall. Board of Governors secretary Kristan Gochenauer said the bond wasn’t discussed.

Vice President for Marketing and Communications Suzanne Shaw said in a statement the university has approval to “explore the isuance of bonds.” If the university can “negotiate favorable terms,” the university will ask the board to issue bonds.

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Some people have their favorites, many try the newest specialty drink and others appreciate the art of the dial above all else, but that hands that wrap around warm mugs and to-go cups all have one thing in common: they’re all part of a coffee culture.

“You don’t buy as much medicine as grandma or grandpa, but you buy more books than grandma or grandpa,” Cantillo said.

The club listed 47 products in eight categories on its goods list. Goods ranged from tuition to toothpaste, from broccoli to beer.

The club members gathered information from multiple places to get the most accurate prices. Collecting the data takes about a week, economics instructor and club advisor John Rabon said. Each member is responsible for gathering prices of 10 to 15 items on the list.

Rabon said calculating the results is straightforward once all the data is collected.

The CPI generally goes up due to inflation, usually one or two percent each year. What matters is how much the prices go up or go down, which affects the final percentage.

One gallon of unleaded gas increased 14.8 percent between 2016 and 2017. Meanwhile, groceries increased only 1.7 percent in that same time.

Frazier said when a person is thinking about coming to MSU, they need to consider all the other expenditures they are going to have per month besides tuition and housing. Gas, eating out, entertainment and hygiene supplies are all things students should consider when budgeting for college.

“Even though this is expensive, I would say, comparatively to other schools in bigger cities, this is not terrible,” Frazier said. “I’d say it makes us pretty competitive, overall.”

The club members will track down new prices for next year’s CPI in October 2018.

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Downtown Springfield continues to grow BRADLEY BALSTERS/THE STANDARD

MARY KAY GAGNEPAIN Staff Reporter @MKay4545 According to an update to the urban housing study, the number of lofts in downtown Springfield has grown by more than 700 units since 2002. Over the last 15 years, the lofts downtown have maintained a steady 96 percent occupancy rate.

Rusty Worley, executive director of the Downtown Springfield Association, said they are very pleased with those numbers.

The study highlights how downtown Springfield is continuing to grow.

“Our main goal is to have a vibrant and lively downtown community,” Worley said.

Worley said having lofts downtown is important because it brings in economic interest and development. An increase in consumers brings more restaurants, cafes, nightclubs and other businesses.

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The Victim Center, a nonprofit organization, provides services to any victim of domestic violence.

They identified to the attendees the different types of actions considered “violent” that need to be reported.

Attempting to place another person in fear of physical or verbal harm, knowingly and purposely hurting someone, or forcing someone to do something by threats are all actions considered illegal and violent, according to

Cresco, owned by Park East, is a new and innovative downtown housing option for students.

“I like living in a loft downtown because I am close to everything that downtown has to offer like the restaurants and the Gillioz Theatre,” Nick Fiala, senior entertainment management major, said. “But, I am still within walking dis-

the Victim Center.

Domestic violence happens gradually. It might start slow and become more life threatening over time.

According to the Missouri Highway Patrol’s analysis, wives and girlfriends were killed in 36.9 percent of all domestic violence-related homicides, and fathers and sons were killed in 7.9 percent of all domestic violence related homicides in 2012.

According to the Victim Center, the most violent time for a person who is facing domestic abuse is when they are trying to separate themselves from the abuser.

One option is to file an order of protection by going to centers that

tance of campus. Campus and downtown are completely different worlds, and it is awesome to be able to interact with both."

In addition to the breakdown of lofts, the study also added a student housing category to

make the process easier and faster like the Victim Center.

Paula Rector, a criminology and criminal justice senior instructor who helped organize the conference, said the conference’s main goal was to make people aware of what kind of actions are considered domestic violence to help them speak up and stop actions like abuse, assault, harassment and stalking.

“Making sure that people know the red flags is important — like dating violence and sexual violence,” Rector said. “Also they need to be aware that they are not a participant or a victim in any of these behaviors.”

highlight the 2,400 beds added in the last eight years.

“We added the component because we have seen a dramatic increase in student housing around Missouri State,” Worley said. “Specifically, the areas between Missouri State and downtown.”

The major student housing projects included Bear Village, Park East and Aspen, and the demand for student housing is high with an occupancy rate of 93 percent, Worley said.

“Missouri State has gained a lot of ground in its housing options in the last five years,” Worley said. “It is much more competitive. We have been thoughtful and added respectable units without getting into an overbuilt situation.”

The downtown area will continue to move closer to Missouri State, Worley said.

The Downtown Springfield Association is eager to continue to grow and begin future expansions, such as the one being built on Jefferson Avenue and Walnut Street.

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for an Intent Resolution to explore the issuance of $24 million for the Auxiliary System for the renovation of Woods House phase one and two, as well as for the acquisition and renovation to other residential life facilities and miscellaneous capital improvements to the auxiliary enterprise facilities,” Shaw said in a statement Feb. 26.

The university has consistently broken enrollment records over the last few semesters. On the first day of the fall 2017 semester, 21,351 students were enrolled through the Springfield campus, an increase

of 1.2 percent over the first day of the fall 2016 semester.

Dee Siscoe, vice president for Student Affairs, said in The Standard’s article announcing the new residence hall there are many benefits for students to live on campus.

“Proximity’s great, but just the ability to be close to your classmates, to have people close by that you can study with, go to events and programs with,” Siscoe said. “There’s just such a positive situation if you live on campus, so we’d love to have more students be able to do it.

Students who live on campus also perform better academically.”

Recently, residence halls have opened close to or over full capacity, a direct result of a growing student population.

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As audiences call for gun control reform in the wake of Florida high school shooting, we must advocate for teachers EMILY JOSHU Managing Editor @EmilyJoshu Toward the end of a Wednesday school day, high school students become restless and begin to tune out. Teachers stand at the front of their classrooms, lesson plans memorized and an eye on every single student in the room. Suddenly, something changes.

Gunfire. The lesson plan is irrelevant. Their eyes wide and hands gripping their desks, the students desperately beg for a plan of action.

They all look at their teachers.

This is likely how the scenario would have unfolded Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a former student entered the building and killed 17 people with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

According to Time Magazine, three of these victims were faculty members: Aaron Feis, 37; Scott Beigel, 35; and Christopher Hixon, 49.

They died in the name of student safety.

Feis, an assistant football coach, jumped in front of students to shield them from bullets, according to Time.

Beigel, a geography teacher, opened the door for a student and was shot in the hallway.

The student, according to Time, said Beigel saved her life.

This act of sacrifice should never have to cross a teacher’s mind. However, this is what lawmakers are essentially asking teachers to do.

There is already a protective nature ingrained in many educators.

My mother, a high school teacher, collects spare notebooks and granola bars in her desk for students who may not be able to afford supplies or eat breakfast. She has over 100 students every year, all of which she refers to as her “kids.”

My sister is a high school social worker

Number of teachers and students killed in deadliest mass shootings since Columbine Columbine High School (1999) - Two teachers, 11 students Univesity of Arizona (2002) - Three teachers Virgina Tech (2007) - Five professors, 27 students Sandy Hook Elementary School (2012) - Six teachers, 20 students Umpqua Community College (2015) - One teacher, eight students Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (2018) - Three teachers, 14 students Data according to media outlets with a large box of stress-relieving toys in her office and more case studies than she can likely juggle at once. She knows exactly what makes each student tick, even if the administration doesn’t.

I have watched them give their lives to these students in so many ways, and I have no doubt they would both literally do so in the event of a mass shooting.

Why is this even a possibility?

It could have been them. It could have been any of our high school teachers. It even could have been professors here at Missouri State.

If teachers and faculty members are willing to lay down their lives for students, who stands up for them?

That being said, be aware of what American society is asking teachers to do.

We are asking teachers who make, according to STLToday, anywhere from only $37,000 to $50,000 in the state of Missouri to undergo self-defense training, jump in front of students and possibly even carry firearms themselves.

Now, think about this salary compared to the millions of dollars in National Rifle Association funding that many senators and repre-

sentatives receive every year. According to fortune.com, Roy Blunt, R-MO, is the third largest NRA recipient in the senate with $4.55 million in contributions.

The firearm-based solution is only encouraged by political authority and some citizens.

President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Thursday, Feb. 22, “Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive.”

This only endangers students and teachers further.

Greater possibilities of violence and intimidation do not ensure safety.

The philosophy of guns plus more guns does not ensure safety.

It instills more fear than security, especially if armed teachers are supposed to defend themselves and their students against assault rifle-wielding shooters.

These are supposed to be schools, not warzones.

So if we shouldn’t arm teachers with guns, what should we arm them with?

Arm them with the tools necessary to do the job they signed up for: teaching.

Arm them with classroom supplies to ensure the highest quality of learning.

Arm them with snacks for students who would otherwise go without so hungry students aren’t distracted in class.

Arm them with small enough class sizes so they can get to know each student and have a greater sense of any warning signs.

Arm them with greater communication with counselors and school social workers.

Mostly, arm them with the safety and security of knowing that they won’t have to carry a firearm in their own classrooms or jump in front of a stream of bullets.

Teachers hold enough responsibilities.

Gun-wielding self-sacrifice should not be one of them.

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Smart speakers take to market JONATHAN PETESCH Columnist @thepeach1999 Since 2014 with the Amazon Echo, smart speakers have been invading the marketplace, attempting to revolutionize how we use the internet in our homes.

With so many to choose from, how do you decide which is best for you?

Apple recently released the HomePod, a smart speaker utilizing Siri which is retailing for $349.

Reviews of the HomePod seem to be generally positive with a great sound and build quality.

Highlights of the HomePod include 360 degree sound, which makes the HomePod sound great no matter where you are in relation to the device, and a solid build which makes durability great but repairability low. iFixit, a company well-known for its teardowns The Standard Physical address: Clay Hall 744 E. Cherry St. Springfield, Missouri Postal address: 901 S. National Ave. Springfield, MO 65897 Newsroom: 417-836-5272 Advertising: 417-836-5524

and repair guides, has even gone as far as to say the HomePod is built like a tank — something they generally don’t say.

Apple is also using the same W1 chip from the AirPods in the HomePod, which makes pairing with an iPhone a breeze as you only have to bring your iPhone close to the device in order to pair it.

The downside to this is that the HomePod is not equipped to use Bluetooth, unlike the AirPods.

This means the only device you’ll be able to use the HomePod with is your iPhone, something that is bad if you want to use the HomePod but own an Android phone.

However, if you own an Android phone like myself and want a good smart speaker experience, Google has you covered with its Google Home line of smart speakers, which feature Google Assistant.

The Google Home family consists of three speakers: Google Home, Google Home Mini and Google Home Max. All three Google Home devices feature the ability to connect via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi on any device; but if you want the best in smart speakers from Google, you’ll want the Home Max. Coming in at the same price as the HomePod, the Home Max delivers another great experience, but with different features.

The Home Max drops the 360 degree sound from the HomePod and Home Mini but picks up the ability to link with other Google Home family speakers instead.

The Home Max is even able to link up to another Home Max in order to play audio in a stereo set-up.

For most people, both the HomePod and Home Max will be too ex-

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pensive for a speaker investment.

While Appledoesn’t have a lower tier device, Google does with the Home and Home Mini.

I personally own the Home Mini, and it has done its job very well.

It has 360 degree sound like the HomePod, but at a fraction of the price, at only $49.

Though it doesn’t have the bass response like the Home Max or HomePod, it still delivers high quality sound at a decent price, especially with the ability to connect to any device through Bluetooth unlike the HomePod. Overall, which smart speaker you choose to buy will ultimately come down to your budget and ecosystem.

If you are already in the Apple ecosystem, are you willing to pay $349 for a speaker?

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Coffee: not just a drink, a complex process or a necessity. For Springfield, coffee is a culture.

Although the United States doesn’t dare come close to the top ten coffee per capita countries, No. 1 currently held by Finland, Springfield, Missouri is home to a growing caffeine rush. Rosewater lattes, blackberry sage mochas, fresh iced Americanos and roasts from different time zones gather to serve under one area code, the 417. Here, baristas know your name, the walls are full of local art and the atmosphere is comfortable, homely even.

RIGHT: The smell of freshly roasted coffee beans fills every inch of Kingdom Coffee. Over the past six years, Chris McGuire (below), roaster and manager of day-to-day operations at the coffeehouse, has mastered the roasting process.

Beans imported from Minneapolis are typically roasted between 11 to 14 minutes, monitored by computer software to maintain flavor consistency. After roasting, the beans are poured into a separate container and are cooled as quickly as possible.

ABOVE: Often known for their unique artistic interpretations, baristas are an important driving force in encouraging customer engagement through photos on social media — but latte art takes time and expertise.

Steady hands swirl steamed milk into small cups, coffee bubbling up to the rim as the delicate leaves of the latte art emerge.

LEFT: Empty glasses and a coffee-stained decorative mug wait for a barista’s assistance at Coffee Ethic.

BELOW: An employee at Mudhouse Coffee gathers dirty dishes and mugs, all of which are printed with the coffeehouse’s mud-like logo.

RIGHT: A barista at Eurasia Coffee & Tea decorates a customer’s drink with warm caramel.

Eurasia Coffee & Tea was founded in 2010 to connect communities of coffee drinkers with people in need in Eurasia “one cup at a time.”

‘Black Panther’ sees success with character representation EMILY COLE Staff Reporter @EMCole19 The much anticipated “Black Panther” film opened in theaters across the country.

The latest in the Marvel film series has already broken box office records — earning $242 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. — according to Box Office Mojo. It’s now second only to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in earning the most revenue during its first four days.

Paul O’Donnell, senior geography major, saw “Black Panther” last week. He was impressed with the film and said he thinks the success has something to do with who made it.

“I think the film has been so successful initially because of Marvel brand loyalty,” O’Donnell said. “Lots of people expect good movies from Marvel and will go see something just because of the title.”

The film, which stars an almost entirely black cast, is the first in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a black titular character.

O’Donnell sees the value in representing other races.

“I think it’s very important to have black representation in films,” O’Donnell said.

“We aren’t a colorblind society — whatever we might tell ourselves — and it’s important that people are able to ‘see’ themselves as the characters in movies and books. I think white people have basically

dominated mainstream movies for decades, and this movie goes a long way toward showing the movie industry that they can make money, which is what they care about, by making movies that show something other than white people.

“I think it’s important to have representation of different races in superhero movies because everyone wants to see themselves as a hero.”

Tatyanna Alexander, senior construction management major, thinks the success comes from more than the characters included.

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TRUMBLE: ‘Black Panther’ brings a new perspective to mainstream film COLE TRUMBLE Movie Critic @Cole_Tr There have been many movies over the years that have been significant to human culture. These films have not only been revolutionary to cinema but have also been wildly important to our nation’s, and possibly our world’s, social climate. In my last review, I looked at “Call Me by Your Name” under the same light. It was an incredibly well-made film, although, I can’t help but think that it was more significant (as a depiction of a non-heterosexual romance) than it was good in terms of a concept. The same cannot be said of “Black Panther,” as it was freaking in-

credible.

Before I dive in, let me say that I have never been more wrong about a film in my entire life. (To the person who heard me talking about “Black Panther” hours before I saw the movie and gave me a look, I apologize for my ignorance and beg your forgiveness.) I was so completely pessimistic about the quality of this movie because I don’t trust movie hype and I have my beef with Marvel, but it blew me away.

I need to establish that this movie carried with it a lot of messages about race, racism, colonialism and race-related violence. I am going to do my best to dissect the film’s communication of these ideas, but, as I am a white man from a small city in Missouri with a

92% white population, I am aware that I cannot fully appreciate its execution or its substance.

With that out of the way, this is honestly a great film.

Director Ryan Coogler creates the vastly intricate and astounding nation of Wakanda in a pristine and rich African landscape untouched by European and American colonialism. In this nation, due to the presence of the mystical element Vibranium, its people enjoy technological wonders that are not found in the outside world. To quote villain Ulysses Klaue, portrayed with Andy Serkis’ lunatic antics, Wakanda is “El Dorado, the city of gold.” The writing of u See PANTHER, page 8

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How did I get here?

MSU student gains American citizenship NOAH STANDISH Senior Reporter @NoahjStandish The world-renowned Christ the Redeemer statue overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, clouds resting on its shoulders. For 87 years, its arms have been outstretched and its figure has stood at the peak of the Corcovado Mountain, 2,000 feet above the city.

Its gaze of soapstone and concrete peers down toward a cluster of roofs with differing shades of red, where six-yearold Carolina Andrade chases her younger sister around a pair of trees just outside her single-story house.

She’s clutching a cold, silver stethoscope to her chest and giggling infectiously.

“Let me hear your heart!” she yells in Portuguese.

Seventeen years later, Andrade lives in Springfield, Missouri, as a senior psychology major at Missouri State University. She’s dreamt of becoming a doctor her entire life — in multiple languages.

Andrade is from Meier, a neighborhood on the north side of Rio. Overall, the city has roughly 6 million inhabitants living alongside Maracana Stadium, host of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Her family first emigrated to the United States in 2007 when she was 13 years old, briefly settling in a small suburb on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, before later moving to Bentonville, Arkansas.

Over the course of six years, Andrade went from the slums of Rio, commonly known as favelas, to attending an American high school with roughly 5,000 students.

She said the cultural differences were astounding.

“When we first moved, we were like the only Latinos in the entire (Cleveland suburb),” Andrade said. “That was a re-

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When not in class, Carol Andrade spends a fair amount of her time studying at The Potter’s House.

When Andrade first moved to the U.S., she didn’t know any English — instead she relied on body language to communicate. But after moving roughly every three years of her life, she gradually became fluent in English, learning how to meet others in the middle.

“I was very shy and I had to sort of reinvent myself,” Andrade said. “Now, I try to understand (other cultures) more, but I also expect them to try to understand mine.”

After moving from Cleveland to Bentonville, Andrade graduated from a high school class of nearly 2,000 students ally big culture shock. I felt like before applying to colleges in I didn’t understand (other peo- hopes of becoming the first ple), and they didn’t understand doctor in her family. me.”

“I remember being at a col-

Mariana Ribeiro, Carolina’s sister, was approved for her citizenship the same time as Andrade.

Both attend MSU.

lege fair in high school and noticing a picture with a mercury thermometer on it,” Andrade said. “I told them, ‘We don’t use those anymore. How old is this picture?’ Then I think other colleges thought I was smart because they started giving me a lot of stuff.”

After numerous acceptance letters, including a scholarship from the University of Notre Dame, she fell in love with Missouri State from the inside of Hammons House during a summer tour. A few months later, she was living on its second floor.

There, she would receive a letter that would legally change her identity.

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For Andrade, the process of naturalization took several months, hundreds of dollars and thousands of miles. vices’ website, general requirements for naturalization include: being at least 18 years old, being a permanent resident of the U.S. for at least five years and demonstrating fluency in English.

For Andrade, the process took several months, hundreds of dollars and thousands of miles.

“I know a lot of people may not think about the process (of naturalization),” Andrade said.

“But it takes a lot of time, and it definitely takes a lot of money. There’s an interview, fingerprinting, a test, then you have to be recommended … and even more they didn’t tell me about.”

Andrade first began the process two years ago in St. Louis, finally taking her citizenship test last summer in Kansas City.

She said the test alone costed $780. “(The test) was mostly history and (U.S. Constitution) amendments,” Andrade said.

“There were some things on it that even my American friends didn’t know, but it was nerve-racking because of the time constraint. If I failed, it would have just costed more time and money.”

However, Andrade’s sister, Mariana Ribeiro, said the test was the easiest part of the process. After studying in the car for the entire drive, she answered the first set of questions correctly, and she was done.

But waiting for the results was a different story.

“The scariest part of the whole process was waiting and wondering what (the interviewer) thought about me,” Ribeiro said. “She was so nice, but that’s the person who decides if you’re suitable to be in the U.S. It gets really stressful.”

Ribeiro, a sophomore double majoring in elementary education and Spanish, was approved for her citizenship the same time as Andrade. She said attending the same college has only brought them closer together.

“When we were little, (Andrade) and I made a deal,” she said, recalling Andrade chasing her with their aunt’s stethoscope. “I always wanted to be a teacher and she always wanted to be a doctor. So, I would pretend to be her patient, and she would pretend to be my student.”

Last March, Ribeiro was living in Hammons House when she received a small white letter from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services addressed to her. Ribeiro said the paper inside the opaque envelope represented her interviewer deciding her entire life.

Her hands shook with anticipation.

“I didn’t think it was that big of a deal at first,” Ribeiro said. “But then mom was going crazy, and it kind of hit me later that I was going to be an American citizen.”

Ribeiro and Andrade were relieved when their naturalization became official, but over 1,000 miles away in southeast Florida, their mother, Marcia Puntel, had enough excitement ready for both of them.

“My mother definitely went on her Facebook page posting around,” Andrade said. “She posted like 20 pictures of me and my sister, and we even got little U.S. flags. She was a very proud mom.”

Throughout the naturalization process, Puntel had accompanied Andrade and Ribeiro to Kansas City and St. Louis for interviews, fingerprinting and tests. She was ecstatic for her daughters to become official U.S. citizens.

“There’s no immigration office in Springfield,” Puntel said. “It was extremely hard for us to travel all the time. I flew to Missouri (from Florida) to drive them to different cities.”

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To put it lightly, disaster struck.

A 61-58 loss on the road to Drake in a battle for first place in the Valley kicked off one of the worst weeks in the program — seriously.

That loss came on Saturday, Jan. 20, in one of the biggest games of Lusk and Johnson’s career. If the Bears won, they would have secured possession of first place of the MVC halfway through the Valley season.

However, Drake’s first-year head coach Niko Medved outcoached Lusk, and Johnson failed to show up, scoring two points on 0-9 shooting.

I say Medved outsmarted Lusk because of Johnson’s ineffectiveness. Drake used different looks to slow down the all-conference talent, but for the majority of the game, a 6-foot-2-inch guard defended Johnson.

The lack of a play, or a set, or the creativity to get Johnson the ball in the right area on the court to score doomed Missouri State.

Days later, the Bears traveled to Illinois to take on the Bradley Braves in an opportunity to bounce back after the narrow loss.

Instead, news broke that forwards Reggie Scurry and Abdul Fofana would be out for the foreseeable future after complications from cryotherapy — a treatment intended to help heal the athletes.

Wyatt Wheeler of the Springfield News-Leader reported that the entire men’s basketball team went through a cryotherapy session with Kombat Cross Training owner King Owens on the Monday after the Drake loss and just one day before the contest against Bradley.

Later that night, without Scurry, who was averaging 8.9 points per game in a reserved role, the Braves wiped the floor with the Bears, winning 72-52.

It’s now Feb. 27, over a month since the cryotherapy incident, and neither Scurry nor Fofana have returned to the court.

The trouble continued when former Bears head coach Barry Hinson and Southern Illinois came to Springfield on Saturday, Jan. 27. Southern Illinois, who was picked to finish fifth in the MVC, defeated the Bears on a last second shot.

To make matters seemingly worse, Hinson jumped at the chance to go after local media for questioning the cryotherapy treatment, repeating over and over, “Stop pointing fingers!”

Well, at some point, fingers had to be pointed at someone.

That someone, of course, was Lusk.

Jim Connell of 417-sports.com reported that on Jan. 31, just one day after the Bears were dismantled by Illinois State 76-60, Lusk and the athletic administration agreed to remove the “automatic extension clause” from his contract that would’ve given him an automatic extension had the Bears won the MVC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Now, Lusk’s contract will expire following the 2018-19 season, if Missouri State opts to retain him for his final season.

In its next game against Loyola, the Bears played the worst game of the season, falling 97-75.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — On Oct. 24, 2017, the Missouri State Bears were tabbed as the preseason favorite to win the Missouri Valley Conference and senior Alize Johnson was honored with the preseason player of the year award.

Expectations were at an all-time high during a time when seventh-year head coach Paul Lusk was absolutely desperate to bring a conference championship back to Springfield.

All of the pieces were there.

Johnson was the best player in the MVC and potentially one of the best in the country.

Obediah Church, Jarred Dixon and Ryan Kreklow made up a perfect supporting cast entering their third year under Lusk.

Add in seniors Jarrid Rhodes, Ronnie Rousseau III, J.T. Miller and Tanveer Bhullar, and you have one of the deepest teams — not only in the Valley, but in the country.

According to Kenpom advanced statistics, the Bears rank eighth in the nation in experience.

And at the beginning of the season, it showed.

The beginning

Everything looked great at the beginning of the season. Johnson eased his way back from a knee injury, Rousseau III returned to the court after taking the second half of 2016-17 season off for personal reasons and the Bears picked up a massive road victory at Western Kentucky to start the season 1-0.

The strong start lasted for the bulk of the season, with the Bears boasting a 15-5 record after 20 games.

There were concerns, however, revolving around the lack of a tough schedule. Missouri State failed to schedule a power five conference team, and two of its toughest opponents — Georgia Southern (17-11) and North Dakota State (13-16) — were losses, by a combined four points.

Questions popped up about the tests Missouri State faced, as schools like Loyola, Northern Iowa and Indiana State played and defeated power five schools.

Still, the Bears were able to right the ship during the non-conference. Miller — the graduate transfer from Howard — stepped into the lineup perfectly. Kreklow, Dixon and Rhodes were all serviceable to start the season, while Johnson scored in double figures in all but three of the non-conference games and collected seven double-doubles along the way.

Despite a slip-up against a miserable Oral Roberts (11-20) team, the Bears entered MVC play 14-3 and prepped to run the Valley table.

The first three games of conference play were easy for the Bears, as Missouri State crushed Loyola, Valparaiso and Northern Iowa.

So, what happened?

How did a team with so much promise, potential and need for results crumble down the stretch?

And it’s no stretch of the imagination to say they crumbled. During a three-game stretch at the end of the year, the Bears lost three games by a combined nine points. And in each game, the Bears should have won.

Yet, missed free throws, turnovers and silly fouls plagued Lusk and Co. into several bad losses and in turn, could lead to Lusk losing his job.

The problems were two-fold: on the court and off the court.

On the court, the Bears’ offense went from dominating in isolation settings against lesser opponents to becoming stagnant. In order to succeed on offense in the MVC, ball movement, shot making and taking care of the basketball are a must.

The Bears shoot just 32.9 percent from beyond the arc, turn the ball over 11.8 times per game and Kenpom has the Bears ranked 244th in the country in assists percentage at 49.8 percent. Essentially, for every two buckets, one is coming off an assist and the other isn’t.

The lack of assists became a bigger problem as the conference season wore on: Missouri State does not have a single player who averages at least three dimes per game. Johnson and Dixon average more than two per game, and three players average more than one.

That worked at the beginning of the season, because positionless basketball is an effective way to run an offense in the open court. Johnson, Church, Rhodes and Dixon can play fastpaced basketball without a single locked in position.

As defenses started to understand the game plan — or lack thereof — they would double team Johnson, shy away from the 3-point line and slow the game down. Lusk proved he was not capable of adjusting to a new defense each game. So, when the Bears were slowed down to a half-court game, it became impossible to score.

For example, in the North Dakota State game, the Bears scored 54 points and went 1-17 from beyond the 3-point line. That became a trend during MVC play because perennially, the MVC is built on the backs of defensive teams who want to slug it out in a half-court battle. In turn, Missouri State shot 2.9 percent worse from beyond the arc and from the field on top of scoring 2.8 points less per game.

Though ball movement and failure to find consistent sidekicks to Johnson hurt the Bears’ offense, the defense was terrible down the

The present

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Junior forward Obediah Church puts up a floater.

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Alize Johnson reacts toward the coaching staff after falling on the court following an attempt on net. stretch. After allowing 70 points just six times over the first 21 games, the Bears allowed 70 points seven times in the final 10 games.

All seven were losses for the Bears.

Oddly enough, the defensive struggles stemmed from the inability to find a lineup that worked offensively. The Bears have nine different players who have started a game this season, and without any significant injuries, that’s a major red flag.

The lack of a consistent group on the court caused communication and continuity issues on the defensive end, while the offense struggled, too.

It became extremely clear that Lusk was reaching for a new lineup, a spark, anything when he inserted freshman point guard Mustafa Lawrence into the starting lineup. Yes, Lawrence played well in his seven starts to end the season, but prior to that, he had been averaging less than 10 minutes per game.

After the last loss of the season against Northern Iowa, Lusk said he knew his lineups

— that he put out there to try to spark an offensive run — were a defensive liability.

Off the court, Bhullar and redshirt freshman Darian Scott were listed in a police report that indicated them as persons of interest in an investigation of a theft of $1,500 Dec. 22. Both players were originally suspended indefinitely, but Scott returned in two weeks.

Bhullar, who was still suspended entering the Bears’ Jan. 10 contest against Evansville, had his suspension lifted that day and he appeared in the game. It happened to be at the same time second-leading rebounder, Church, was out with a knee injury.

Coincidence?

Potentially.

Then, there’s cryotherapy. Well, more on that in a minute.

After two losses to Illinois State and Evansville, the Bears responded with a two-game winning streak to set up a first-place battle with Drake Jan. 20.

The Bears just lost Saturday to the Northern Iowa Panthers, who finished eighth in the Valley, to finish the season 17-14 overall and 7-11 in conference play. For the seventh straight season — all under Lusk — the Bears failed to finish conference play over .500.

A season ago, the Bears finished the regular season 2-8 over their last 10 games, finishing sixth in the MVC after being selected to finish fourth before the season.

In 2017-18, Missouri State closed the regular season 2-9, dropping from second place to tied for seventh in what seemed like days.

Now, on Thursday, the Bears will play in the play-in game as the No. 7 seed against the No. 10 seed Valparaiso at 8:30 p.m. in St. Louis.

It’s the first time that a preseason favorite to win the league has finished lower than a five seed.

To make matters worse for Lusk, this is the fourth time in his seven seasons that the Bears have played on Thursday of Arch Madness.

In the history of the MVC, no team has ever won the championship after playing in the playin game, none have made it to the finals and just one has made it to the semifinal on Saturday.

Against the Panthers on Saturday, Missouri State looked dejected, disinterested and any other words you can think of for not bringing the effort needed for a road game in the Valley.

“We didn’t battle at all, didn’t battle at all,” Lusk told me following the game. “It was an unacceptable performance from us in the first half. There was not an ounce of defensive effort.

It was really disappointing.”

So, how do the Bears turn things around in time for Thursday’s game against the Crusaders?

“I don’t know,” Lusk said. “That, I don’t know; we don’t know. We gotta. There are some things you can accept. The last three games, we’ve played hard but came up empty. Give Northern Iowa a lot of credit, but we didn’t come out ready to go.

“You have to reset. Wherever we are at is irrelevant. I just didn’t think we would see that from our guys. We got exactly what we deserved, and it’s my responsibility.”

The lone positive about Arch Madness for the Bears is that nothing that happened during the regular season matters anymore. None of it.

Four games, four wins; that’s all the Bears need in order to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Is it going to happen?

Not likely, but if anyone were to do it, it would be the team picked to finish first at the beginning of the season.

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Associate head coach bolts overseas to recruit AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Reporter @mandasullivan14 Since associate head coach Michael Seabolt joined the Missouri State men’s soccer staff in 2007, there has been a noticeable growth in the recruitment of players from all around the world. Not quick to eliminate any option, Seabolt looks at three specific areas of recruiting before determining who would be a good match for future rosters and who could make an impact.

The three levels of recruiting

Seabolt breaks down recruiting into three sections: local, regional/national and international.

For Seabolt, recruiting always started on the local level first. Being director of coaching for high school boys for Sporting Springfield, he constantly looks within the club and local clubs to find potential commits.

His biggest challenge with recruiting locally laid in convincing those from Springfield that staying in Springfield wasn’t a bad thing.

Former Missouri State defender Parker Maher was a prime example of that. Maher was six years old when he moved to Joplin and began playing soccer. As he got older, he moved to more competitive levels, eventually ending up on Seabolt’s Sporting Springfield team.

Seabolt enjoyed Maher’s playing style, and they worked closely together to decide what would be the best decision for Maher’s future.

After many discussions with Maher’s family, everyone agreed Maher should graduate high school a year early and become a part of Missouri State’s soccer team in the fall of 2011.

“Bolt and I have always had an awesome relationship,” Maher said. “But with that relationship, he’s always been really straightforward with me. He would tell me I was strong in this and weak in this. He told me that he wasn’t going to guarantee me to be a starter, but he didn’t tell me I wasn’t gonna play either. He told me I would have to earn it and I would have to challenge myself as a young freshman since I skipped a year of high school.”

Maher went on to play professionally with the Swope Park Rangers in Kansas City. Maher’s former teammate, Trevor Spangenberg, also plays professionally with an undisclosed team to which he credits a lot to Missouri State.

Spangenberg was recruited on Seabolt’s second level of recruiting, the regional and national level, at a college prep camp held at Notre Dame.

After Spangenberg had a successful week at the camp, Seabolt kept in touch and offered to show him around campus and make him an offer. Spangenberg accepted and played goalkeeper for Missouri State for five years, 2009-2013.

“I’ll always be the first to say I wouldn’t be where I am without Missouri State,” Spangenberg said. “Even if I had managed to go to another Division I school, I still don’t know if I would’ve ended up being a professional.”

Now, even after college, Maher and Spangenberg are still

playing soccer and are still becoming teammates with people from countries all over the world, just like they had to in college.

For Maher, it helped to have an opportunity to adapt to playing with international players at the college level.

“American players tend to be more athletic especially strength wise because we all lift weights throughout college, whereas (international) guys tend to be more smooth on the ball and are more technical players, which makes it more of an interesting adjustment,” Maher said.

When doing his third level, international recruiting, Seabolt not only looks at technical skill and physical strength, but he also considers a number of factors like how a player’s family will feel about their child traveling potentially halfway across the world to go to college and play soccer, if their personality meshes well with the team and grades.

But the first thing he always looks for is their ability to play soccer.

Seabolt often hears about potential players through international contacts he has built relationships with, varying from former players to companies specifically designed to help European athletes get an opportunity to play at the collegiate level.

College Scholarships USA is an international company aimed at helping athletes from all over the world find the best fit at an American university. Seabolt works closely with CSUSA to find players like senior Ian Wu and recent signees Hugo Jonsson and Aadne Bruseth from Scandinavian countries.

For CSUSA’s Managing Director & Co-Founder Kim Moe Krohn, seeing an athlete that wants to be recruited is just as important as getting them recruited.

“We love working with students that are independent and are very proactive in the college recruiting process,” Krohn

said. “They are often ones to come in to a group and really hit the ground running from day one in college.”

For Seabolt, the goal will be to get the all around best person and player for the team.

“You want to get the best players from Springfield, you want to get the best players from Missouri, and the best players from the U.S., and then you want to get the best player’s you can from the world,” Seabolt said.

Looking at the numbers

Since 2006, Missouri State’s men’s soccer program has recruited 140 players, including 46 players.

The last team to be solely American was the 2008 roster with 11 players from Missouri and the other 15 coming from anywhere in between Alaska and Georgia.

Ten years later and in his 11th season at MSU Seabolt has helped build a roster of 29 with 16 players being international.

Seabolt attributes the large growth of his international recruiting to his time at West Virginia University and his recruitment of English players Andy Wright and Dan Stratford.

“That starting point has just really snowballed to where it’s kind of a special relationship for us,” Seabolt said. “We’re getting to a point now, if you’re not global, you’re in trouble.”

Since then, he has continued to keep in touch with former players, other coaches at home and abroad, and even companies like CSUSA to broaden his recruiting.

“We have some really good relationships, but we are looking to branch out,” Seabolt said. “You don’t want to be set in one thing. You want to be diverse, and you want to keep growing.”

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ANDRADE Continued from page 5 Stepping off the Hammons House elevator, Andrade already knew what she wanted to study: people.

Puntel said Andrade wanted to become a doctor since she was first able to talk.

“Ever since she was four or five years old, (Andrade) has told me she wants to be a doctor,” Puntel said. “She would always have a white coat on, and she would put my shoes on to pretend I was her patient and she was treating me.”

Puntel said the naturalization process was tiresome and expensive but worth it because of the opportunities for Andrade and Ribeiro. But she didn’t want them to travel across Missouri alone.

Now, with her own citizenship test scheduled for March, Puntel said she can’t picture her family living anywhere else.

“We’re very thankful to be here,” she said.

When Andrade and Ribeiro were summoned to Kansas City last summer for a formal ceremony called the Oath of Allegiance, Puntel needed to book yet another flight to Missouri — but she didn’t hesitate.

“I’ve been (in America) for 14 years, and I couldn’t imagine myself in a different place,” Puntel said. “This is the country that gave my children a chance to study and my family an opportunity for a better life. It feels like home.”

After graduation, Andrade plans to take a year off from school to live with her mother in Florida and work in a local hospital while applying to medical schools.

She said she will be comfortable no matter where she goes, as long as there’s a hospital nearby.

“I’m open to studying any type of medicine, and I’m open to going anywhere,” Andrade said. “I’m really used to moving, so wherever I get accepted (to medical school), that’s where I’ll go.”

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PANTHER Great Wall of China starring …

Matt Damon.

The open discussion of imperialism was extremely effective. To my best estimation, Coogler and Cole figured that citizens of a nation that isolated itself from the entire world in part because of the colonization of other African countries would hold that as part of their culture.

Upon meeting Agent Ross, played by Martin Freeman, Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, calls him a “colonizer.” This pretty much amounts to a slur against white people in Wakanda, but it is inserted into the story so casually that it clearly shows a stark role reversal of how racial slurs are utilized by whites (at least in America), not so much as a slur but as a definition, an identity.

This is such a clear aspect of this part of the film that it draws attention to the damage that is done by the use of slurs even without harmful intent by the reaction that (I’m sure) white audience members will have, thinking, “That’s not quite right…” This casually presented use of symbolism and other devices saturates the entire movie.

Also clearly saturating this project is the amount of effort

put into it by everyone involved.

The research into the traditions and styles of Africa is not only apparent, but astounding. The movie presents an intense authenticity that separates it from anything else out right now, especially from a major production company like Marvel.

I was also shocked to find that the script was incredibly powerful. I was nearly moved to tears at the climax of Killmonger and T’Challa when Jones and Boseman displayed their emotional range as they showed off the depth of their characters in the heart wrenching moments of weakness.

This power radiates from all members of the cast throughout the whole movie as well.

The only thing I can find to dislike with this movie is the presence of the offhand classic corny Marvel one-liner that shatters the mood of an otherwise great scene.

I have not even begun to scratch the surface of that “Black Panther” has to offer, and I can’t wait to see what other analysts dig up from this incredible movie.

If you disagree with me or thought I got some things wrong I would love to hear any thoughts over Twitter.

“Black Panther” is packed with action, emotion and healthy social commentary. I am blown away by this film and look forward to more of Coogler’s work.

9/10

“The only characters I could really ever identify with tended to be black characters, and half of those black characters were in makeup as aliens,” Mabee said. “So they weren’t black; they were just an alien species.”

Mabee studied blaxploitation in graduate school, a genre of films that exploit black people and black culture using stereotypes. For him, seeing “Black Panther” was a refreshing change from films of the past.

“Black Panther” also provided another group of people the chance to shine — women. In previous Marvel films, women are often underrepresented. But

this film brings them into starring, powerful roles.

“There was not a single female character in this film who was the traditional damsel in distress,” Mabee said. “Every one of the women on screen were fierce and kicked ass, if not as good as the men, slightly better than the men.”

Mabee, O’Donnell and Alexander agree that the representation of women and people of color in “Black Panther” contributed to its success. They are hoping the success of “Black Panther” will encourage more diversity in films in the future.

“I hope Marvel wisely takes this success of ‘Black Panther’ and realizes that this is the type of movies the people want to see: diversity in movies to create heroes on the big screen for all cultures to relate to,” Alexander said.

Continued from page 4 Until then, Andrade pointed to Meyer Library and The Potter’s House as a few of her go-to study spots, but she said the Springfield Mercy Hospital on National Avenue is her favorite off-campus destination.

There, Andrade sits thousands of miles from her home country of Brazil beside a garden on the exterior of the hospital. There, the flowers embody her future while the bustling halls inside remind her that she’s found a home of her own.

Marcia Puntel, Carolina and Mariana’s mother, has her citizenship test scheduled for March.

“I’ve been (in America) for 14 years, and I couldn’t imagine myself in a different place,” Puntel said.

“This is the country that gave my children a chance to study and my family an opportunity for a better life. It feels like home.”

There, she can hear her heart.

“I just love the atmosphere,” Andrade said.

“Sometimes I just sit at the garden outside the building to unwind. (The hospital) is where I feel like I belong. It just makes me feel happy.”

Coogler and Joe Robert Cole take the incredible African nation and inject it with an amazing story.

The new king of Wakanda is crowned after his father’s death, which is explored in “Captain America: Civil War.” The young king T’Challa, played by the stoic but emotive Chadwick Boseman, is tasked with going on a mission to take down Klaue (pronounced “Claw”) and ultimately is prevented from completing his mission when Klaue escapes with the help of Erik Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan who, due to motives that won’t be spoiled in this review, wishes to travel to Wakanda and secure the throne for himself to provide oppressed people of all nations with Wakanda’s advanced weaponry to liberate themselves.

The resulting conflict splits Wakanda into two sides resulting in, what comes out to be, a small civil war. Throughout the movie, the characters learn about themselves, their world, and the people around them.

Before the movie even starts, it tackles diversity and representation of black people in Hollywood; that is to say, it leads by example. “Black Panther” fea-

Cole Trumble tures a total of three white characters with relevant speaking lines, and really only one that has any personality. This is not a position against white people in movies, but rather a sort of statement of, “If this movie is about Africans and African Americans, takes place in Africa, why shouldn’t its cast be almost exclusively black?” It seems to me that it would be foolish to say otherwise.

If you are of the persuasion that movies do this already, I wouldn’t say that it hasn’t been done ever, but I would also point you to the movie released nearly a year or two ago about the

MARVEL Continued from page 4 was learning more about a culture than about a character,” Alexander said. “(The film) gave the backstory of the development of the culture, how the people in the culture interacted with each other and outsiders.”

Jon Mabee, assistant film professor and self-professed “nerd,” agrees. He said the film breaks barriers that have existed for non-white races and other underrepresented people in film.

“That’s what these films do, I think, for kids,” Mabee said.

He spoke through a child’s lens — a child who might be analyzing characters’ roles in a film: “‘I can be rich, I can be

famous, I can be a hero, I can step into the shoes and if I have the heart and the drive to be a superhero, it doesn’t matter what I look like, who I believe in, or who I love. I’m going to be a hero. I’m going to save the day.’”

Mabee knows what it’s like growing up and not seeing yourself represented in film or television — he explained he is a quarter Japanese. Mabee grew up watching “Star Wars” and “Star Trek”, where the closest representation he had were occasional black characters like Lando Calrissian in “Star Wars” and a few characters in “Star Trek”.