Wednesday November 15, 2017
Volume 102 Issue 41
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Student-run Prestige Public Relations firm partners with a nonprofit to highlight foster care issues.
Respond to Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey’s scandals by boycotting their new work, not old.
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Opinion
Men’s basketball announces Wayne Arnold as it’s first official recruit for the 2018 season.
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Sports
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Pixar animator talks ‘Coco’ Northern California shooting kills five
Shading character lead Byron Bashforth shares Pixar’s latest visual spectacle.
Several children injured around Red Bluff by a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns. Governor offers condolences.
SARAH EL-MAHMOUD Lifestyle Editor
Pixar films have steadily become even more dazzling visual experiences with each new release since the studio’s first full-length computer-animated film in 1995, “Toy Story.” Where animators were challenged before with bringing the shiny plastic complexions of Woody and Buzz to life, in “Coco” they were tasked with creating tender characters out of lifeless skeletons. Shading character lead Byron Bashforth presented an exclusive sneak peek and provided details about Pixar’s newest release on Monday evening. In professor Mike Dillon’s CTVA 102: Inside the Movies class, students saw the first few minutes of “Coco,” which introduced a new fantasy world rooted in music, family and Mexican folklore. In “Coco,” 12-year-old Miguel aspires to be a musician, despite a longtime ban of music within his family. During the annual tradition of Día de los Muertos, he makes a discovery about his family’s past and strums his way into the Land of the Dead. Bringing to life a collection of 10,000 computer-animated bones worth of characters created through digital paint and custom software presented a unique challenge for Pixar. Bashforth showed the character-making process from its design, to animation, shading and then final rendered versions. Though they originally worked against making the Land of the Dead a scary place, they found a
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Byron Bashforth visited Mike Dillon’s class, CTVA 102: Inside the Movies to present the new film, ‘Coco’ and showed exclusive footage.
way to embrace the skeletons by generating rigid facial movements and light springs in the characters’ steps with computer programming. The backbones of Héctor, voiced by Gael García Bernal, were demonstrated as Bashforth showed how they played with the designs of each joint and ligament. Animators used costumes to accentuate their figures while
still adding an individual flair to each of their designs. Bashforth said that some of the conversations at Pixar for “Coco” were about how to make the sequins on jackets, how much jiggle to have on arms and how much peach fuzz they could afford to render. SEE COCO
Project Rebound shows gratitude
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Five people were killed, including the gunman, and several were injured Tuesday morning after a mass shooting in Northern California, according to ABC7. The shooting occurred before 8 a.m. across seven locations near Red Bluff in Tehama County and lasted 45 minutes. The gunman targeted people at random, armed with one semi-automatic rifle and two handguns, said Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. At least 10 people were injured and sent to nearby hospitals. Two children were injured in the shooting at separate locations but were not among those killed. The shooter began his rampage in a residential area before stealing a truck, crashing it and stealing another vehicle. The gunman was then killed after engaging police officers. The Sacramento Bee reported the suspect to be 43-year-old Kevin Janson Neal, but the identity has not been confirmed by authorities as of this writing.
One of the victims killed was Neal’s female neighbor who had accused him of assault earlier in the year and had a restraining order against him, said Tehama County Sheriff Phil Johnston. A child and an adult were injured after the gunman fired shots at their truck. One student at the school was injured by gunfire after the suspect crashed his vehicle into the gates of the Rancho Tehama Elementary School and fired at the school. The student is believed to be in stable condition, according to a press release by the Corning Union Elementary School District. The teachers were praised for their actions to place the school on lockdown which “prevented any further injury or violence,” the statement read. All students, staff and teachers who were present during the incident were accounted for and the school will be closed until further notice. California Gov. Jerry Brown released a statement Tuesday morning offering condolences to the victims.
Previously incarcerated individuals, supporters and donors shared stories and expressed appreciation before Thanksgiving at luncheon. JASON ROCHLIN News Editor
Project Rebound scholars and supporters celebrated Thanksgiving early by gathering to give thanks for the opportunity to pursue a higher education, especially in light of a new donor. The luncheon, held in a “gratitude circle” around a makeshift communal table of desks, offered the previously incarcerated individuals involved in Project Rebound a chance to share their stories. “It did what it was supposed to do, allow us to have a space around a meal to acknowledge one another, to look in each other’s eyes, to share our stories and to just say thank you and to ask any questions that we may have about why people give to programs that support
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I learned that there are good people in the world that support people who are trying to make a difference in their lives and that are trying to rebound.
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CHARLES FAGAN Project Rebound scholar
formerly incarcerated people,” said Romarilyn Ralston, Project Rebound’s program coordinator. Project Rebound is a program that aims to provide previously incarcerated individuals with the opportunities and resources they need to earn a college degree and avoid reincarceration. Two representatives of the Bickerstaff Family Foundation, Debbie Bickerstaff and Dave Bishop, came to the luncheon as new donors looking to gain more insight into who the program serves. Ralston said the foundation’s support will help Project Rebound provide book stipends, meal support, travel expenses and operating support. The funding will also help launch a new scholarship in 2018 and provide interested scholars with housing. “They’ve been very generous to the program. We wanted them to have an opportunity to meet a lot of the scholars and just to hear firsthand what the services we provide for them means,” Ralston said. SEE REBOUND 2
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Sophomore forward Jackson Rowe was the fourth CSUF basketball player to be voted as Big West Freshman of the Year in 2016. This season, Rowe currently leads Fullerton’s roster after earning 12 points in the game against USC.
Titans look for progress Men’s basketball hopes to display growth as it continues on the road against Saint Mary’s. HARRISON FAIGEN Managing Editor
After seeing his team get crushed on the road against No. 10 USC in its season opener, Titans Head Coach Dedrique
Taylor is thinking about more than just getting an upset win. When the Titans take on the No. 21 Saint Mary’s Gaels, Taylor just wants to see progress. “I mean that is the whole process, that’s the whole point. It’s not how good you are now or how bad you are now,” Taylor said. “Sure you want to win early and you want to win often but the process: Is are you getting better? Is your ball club getting better in the concepts and the principles
that you believe are necessary to allow you to win at the end of the year?” It wouldn’t take much for the Titans to show progress from their beatdown at the hands of the Trojans. CSUF shot 23.3 percent from the field and 10.5 percent from three against USC while turning the ball over 21 times, allowing the Trojans to light them up for 41.7 percent shooting from behind the arc. SEE PROGRESS
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