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Above: Stefan Clapa, owner of L and S Machining Co. in Fullerton, votes early at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana on Monday. Right: Party propaganda shows that voters remain divided in this close presidential race.
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Anaheim police settle for $500,000 Shooting is officerʼs third incident causing court settlement By ANNA LOUSTAUNAU For the Daily Titan
Anaheim Police Chief John Welter recently implemented a 10-hour refresher training program for the cities officers, intended to educate them on the use of force, decision making and communication skills, including instruction on the increased use of non-lethal weapons. This training is the result of a $500,000 settlement over alleged police brutality by gang control Officer Scott McManus. The city of Anaheim agreed to the settlement in August—its third, and most expensive, payment in six years involving McManus. The settlement was reached after McManus shot an unarmed man in a church parking lot. On Feb. 20, 2003, Garden Grove IBM technician Jeffrey Santelli, 33, met his mother, a longtime church secretary, in the Crystal Cathedral parking lot to give her a credit card so she could attend a party at the church.
According to the police report, McManus, 33, was working undercover when he saw Santelli allegedly driving erratically and followed him into the parking lot. “After seeing Santelli fighting with his mother and making wrong assumptions as to what his actions were, McManus walked steadily toward Santelli and began to yell at him,” said James Traut, Santelliʼs attorney. “Santelli, unaware of McManusʼs police status, turned to see this stranger hollering at him and moved in his direction, his arms outstretched.” Three witnesses watched as McManus suddenly got down on one knee and shot Santelli in the stomach, his mother watching from her rearview mirror. In an interview with Traut, McManus said, “Santelli was in acknowledgment of my badge and gun on my clothing, but charged me anyways.” None of the witnesses were able to back McManusʼ version of the shooting. The witness statements supporting Santelliʼs version of the event were not included in the report, leading Traut to believe that “the police fabricated their own witness statements
Militant group kidnaps American in Baghdad Deputy governor assassinated in drive-by shooting The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Militants kidnapped an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards in a bloody assault on their office in the capital and gunmen assassinated Baghdadʼs deputy governor in a drive-by shooting on Monday. The latest in Iraqʼs wave of kidnappings came when gunmen stormed the offices of a Saudi company in the upscale Mansour district of Baghdad, sparking a battle with guards during the evening iftar meal when Muslims break their daylong fast in the holy month of Ramadan, police said. One attacker and one guard were killed in the fight, before the gunmen made off with their captives, police said. Police Lt. Col. Maan Khalaf identified the captives as an American, a Nepalese and the four Iraqis. U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan confirmed that one of
the victims was American. “We heard gunfire. I went outside to see whatʼs going on when a man pointed a machine gun at me and said: ʻGet in or else Iʼll shoot at you,ʼ” said Haidar Karar, who lives in the neighborhood. From his house he saw “at least 20 attackers, some masked and some not.” He said some were wearing traditional Arab robes and all were carrying automatic weapons. The office is about 500 yards from a residence from which residents kidnapped two Americans and a Briton in September. All three were later beheaded. An al-Qaidalinked group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slayings. Twelve Americans have been kidnapped or are missing in Iraq, and at least three of them have been killed, including an American slain by al-Zarqawiʼs followers in April. The group also claimed responsibility for the abduction of a Japanese hostage whose decapitated body was found on Saturday, wrapped in an American flag and dumped on a Baghdad street.
to make McManus appear to be the safer party in the incident.” Traut has publicly cited past incidents involving McManus, including the beating of Fernando Ortiz, in which his jaw was broken, and that led to a city settlement of $90,000, and another involving an alleged domestic dispute victim. “How many times does this guy have to do something, and the city pays, before he gets off the force?” Traut asked. Admitting no guilt for his past behavior or numerous complaints against him, McManus continues his work on the force, marking 10 years
without any reprimands. “The city has already paid more than $750,000 for cases involving McManus,” Traut said. “When we have cases resulting in lawsuits and settlements, we are very concerned,” Welter told the LA Times. “Thatʼs $500,000 that could have been used for more necessary equipment in the department.” Welter was unavailable for current comment. Anaheim Public Information Officer Rick Martinez said he supports McManusʼ actions. “Anyone
El Día de los Muertos honors deceased ancestors, loved ones
for the love they had brought to their lives. It is also believed, that now, the Day of the Dead coincides with those indigenous rituals and Catholic practices of All Saints Day and All Souls Day, on Nov. 1 and 2. “When the Catholic Church came to Mexico they wanted to make the Mexicans Christian, they [Spaniards] took the ceremonies of pre-Christian Mexico and hooked up to All Souls Day and All Saints Day which is part of the Catholic religion, and this is how the day of the dead came about,” said Ray Reyes, a Chicano studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. The idea behind the event is giving honor to the deceased on the first two days of November, the first day is to celebrate the children and the second the adults. Families all over Mexico will go to cemeteries and spend the night praying, cleaning up and decorating the grave of their relatives or friends. They will also bring loved ones their favorite food and
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq — As Americans head to the polls, U.S. Marines squaring off against Iraqi insurgents say they expect trouble in Iraq for years no matter who wins the White House. What they want is better equipment, more pay and a clear exit strategy from their next commander in chief. Many Marines fighting in Iraqʼs Sunni Triangle donʼt talk much about the race between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry. For them, the focus is on staying alive and following orders that they donʼt expect to change: Defeat the insurgency and help rebuild Iraq. But what really concerns them is the prospect of an open-ended mission lacking a final benchmark for victory. “We obviously canʼt just leave Iraq now and waste all of the good work the Marines have done here,” said Hospital Corpsman Quinton Brown, a 24-year-old Chicagoan attached to the 1st Marine Division. “Regardless, I want to see the next president give us an idea how weʼre going to end the occupation,” he added. “What are we doing while weʼre here? Whatʼs next? Bush has
done that to some degree. But we need more.” Marines based in the dangerous areas west and north of Baghdad are preparing for a possible big offensive against insurgent strongholds if they get the go-ahead from interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who has warned he is losing patience with negotiations. But Marine officers caution that even if U.S. forces overrun the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, they donʼt expect the insurgency to evaporate. And troops on the ground say theyʼve heard nothing from either Bush or Kerry indicating Marines will soon leave Iraq. “It doesnʼt matter who the president is. Our role should be less and less here — the Iraqis want to do it themselves. But weʼll be here for at least the next four years,” said Lance Cpl. Charles Revord, 24, of National City, Mich. With violence expected to intensify ahead of Iraqi elections planned for January as a crucial step in the effort to stabilize the country and entrench democracy, Marines say they need better equipment, particularly well-armored Humvees. “I hope the Marine Corps gets more funding, for better weapons, better gear and better Humvees,” said Lance Cpl. Jonathan Sandoval. “You see those Humvees out there?” he added, gesturing at vehiMARINES 3
Campus group celebrates Day of the Dead By JORGE ARREDONDOARGÜELLO Daily Titan Asst. Copy Editor
Imagine spending the night at a cemetery, or maybe having a day where making fun of the dead is celebrated. This is one thing that many Mexicans look forward to doing every November. El Día de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead is a day chosen by Mexicans to remember and honor their loved ones who have died. El Día de los Muertos goes back to a pre-European era, where ancient Mexicans believed people who died moved on to an underworld. It was a ritual used to thank the gods in that underworld for the good harvest of the year and it was also a way of thanking and remembering their ancestors
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Members of M.E.Ch.A. celebrate Dia de los Muertos inside the Chicano Resource Center by building elaborate altars with offerings for the dead. beverages, candles, golden marigold flowers and perhaps some live music among other things they might have liked. “The idea of the offering is to bring things that the ancestors like,
like enchiladas or soda or whatever you put it as an offering to the souls of those people, with the idea that those people would come back MUERTOS 2
On-campus Herbarium provides plants for thought 35,000 specimens bring insight to biology majors By CRYSTAL LAFATA Daily Titan Staff
Herbs are not just for smoking anymore. They arenʼt just used for making tea, spicing up chili and garnishing plates either. The staff at the Faye A. MacFadden Herbarium at Cal State Fullerton know that herbs are used for more important things; like finding out about the earth around us. The Herbarium, located in McCarthy Hall, was started in 1964 when MacFadden donated the speci-
mens she had collected for years to the biology department. She donated about 20,000 specimens and today the number has grown to more than 35,000 specimens of mosses, ferns and flowering plants, said Frances Shropshire, Herbarium collections manager and CSUF biology professor. “The Herbarium functions as a sort of plant library versus the Arboretum which is sort of a plant zoo,” she said. With so many expensive and rare plants, one might picture a bucolic garden inside a greenhouse atmosphere. The herbarium is hardly that. Itʼs more like a museum or library with all the collection of specimens stored inside metal containers.
“The facility is used as a resource for our field botany classes which are mainly offered in the spring,” Herbarium Director and CSUF Biology Professor C. Eugene Jones said. He said its purpose is for the 700 biology majors to understand why itʼs important to preserve plants and how to identify them. There are between 24 and 100 students that use the facility every semester, Jones said. “It is a very important and often overlooked resource at Cal State Fullerton,” said Nicole Vearrier, a biology graduate student. Students and botanists also make contributions of new specimens to the herbarium. Jones said students collected material mainly from the
Southwestern portion of the United States, especially in California. Students said they find the herbarium to be a useful place. “It enabled me to identify the plant that I am currently doing my masterʼs thesis on. It only grows about 11 hours away and I needed to be able to identify it before I left on such a long trip,” Vearrier said. Shropshire said the Herbariumʼs pressed plants help students, faculty, and the public to identify native plants. “It is also very valuable information for conservation biologists and regulators in determining how the distribution of a species may have HERBARIUM 3