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In Friday’s annual “Blood Bowl” football showdown between the staffs of the Daily Trojan and the Daily Bruin, the DT walked away with a 15-12 victory. The win broke a two-game losing streak for the cardinal and gold. In other intersectional Troy Week clashes, the Spirit of Troy topped the UCLA band and the USC ROTCs lost to their Bruin counterparts.
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Fraternities go to war
Eggs, bricks hurled in Thursday night disturbance
By Karen Martinez
Staff Writer
Vegetables, bottles, bricks and street signs were flying through the air on the Row Thursday night, but no one is sure who began the throwing contest between the Phi Delta Theta and the Theta Chi fraternities.
Both fraternities agree that there was a disturbance around 10 p.m., but neither admits to begin-inng it.
Theta Chi members said that Phi Delts began by throwing bottles. Members of Phi Delta Theta said that Theta Chi members began by throwing eggs during a Phi Delta Theta "house decs" party with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Various objects began to fly, including bottles, which landed dangerously near sorority members, said Michael Niemann, treasurer of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
No one is sure which came first, the egg or the bottle. Regardless of which fraternity threw the first object Thursday night, the Los Angeles Police Department filed a report because at least two cars were hit by bottles, Niemann said.
David Yang, a Theta Chi member, said he was watching television in the house living room when he heard a crash. He said he was the first to see about 25 Phi Delts throwing bottles.
Later, about five members threw a "No Parking" sign through one of the windows in the Theta Chi
house. Following that, Yang said someone threw a boulder through a window adjacent to the Phi Delt house. Tomatoes were also being thrown, he said.
One Theta Chi claimed the boulder weighed about 50 pounds. However, Neimann called that an exaggeration and said that police officers said it was a brick. LAPD would not comment on the matter.
"Our side says they started it. Their side says we started it. I don't know exactly who started it," Niemann said.
Another member of Phi Delta Theta said during the "house decs" party, “We are not in a state of mind to comment on it," as he stood near a pile of broken beer bottles.
Joe Marando, president of Theta Chi, insists that Phi Delta Theta began the incident Thursday night just as they began the rivalry between the houses two months ago when members threw cottage cheese through a sliding glass door.
He said the members of the two houses don't hate each other, but since the houses are next door to each other, there is a certain amount of rivalry.
Niemann said, "Being that we're a bigger house, they think we're picking on them."
Following this incident, Niemann said members of Theta Chi went to UCLA and recruited about 10 fraternity members from its Theta Chi chapter to invade the Phi Delta Theta house once more early
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Student senate members attending more meetings
By Danielle Sanford
Staff Writer
Although two student senators have missed five senate meetings each, Wally Bobkiewiczr president of the Student Senate, said that overall attendance at the meetings has improved over last year.
Larry Hroch, a residence hall senator, and Betsy Ross, a Greek senator, have each missed five meetings, two more than the number allowed by the senate's constitution.
The constitution says, "After a senator misses three meetings during a semester, the appropriate speaker will bring the senator's name to the attention of the cabinet for a decision on whether to put the senator's name on the agenda for senate action, which includes possible removal from office."
After a senator misses three meetings, the senate's executive committee tries to find out why he has been missing the meetings, Bobkiewicz said. He also said that the committee will try to work with the senator if he is having a personal, family or academic problem which is causing his absences.
"We are students first. We will try to be flexible and understanding," said Mark Decker, senate vice president. Some students have problems with professors and classes where they have to devote more time to their studies. Decker said.
The cases of Ross and Hroch are being handled on an individual basis, Bobkiewicz said.
In the case of Hroch, senate meeting times conflict with the meeting times of the Residence Hall Association, another organization with which he works.
Decker said a letter has been sent to Hroch asking him to make a choice between the two organizations.
"We know he's doing a lot of hard work, and he's doing an excellent job with his constituency. But we feel that being at the meetings to represent his constituency is also important," Decker said.
The letter to Hroch was not a threat, but it did ask him to make a decision between the two organizations with which he is now involved, Decker said.
Hroch would not comment on the situation.
Betsy Ross, a Greek senator, has missed five meetings, but Decker said she has given personal reasons for her absences that he considers valid.
No one is necessarily removed from office because of his absences, Decker said. "It's up to the discretion of the speakers of the individual assemblies," he said.
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Angie Parker, vice-president of the Black Student Union, and Jeff Thompson, president.
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
The new president of the university's Black Student Union has said one of his organization's main goals this semester will be to "get black students to USC and keep them here," a challenge, he said, that has not been adequately met in the past.
Jeff Thompson, a senior majoring in business who was elected BSU president on Nov. 3, said black student enrollment at the university has been steadily declining.
According to Thompson, it has declined more than 50 percent since 1980, from approximately
3,000	students five years ago to just over 1,200 this year. In 1986, 95 students, or 3 percent of the freshman class of 3,100 were black, Thompson said.
"We have a lot of Asian students here now,"
Thompson said, "and that makes the minority population large. But the number of blacks on campus is going down. This is a problem for us, one that we need to work on."
On Oct. 20, the BSU lost both its president, Patrice McKinley, and its vice president, Richie Collins, who resigned. More than 70 BSU members turned out for the emergency election two weeks later to fill the organization's vacated posts, Thompson said.
"Needless to say, I was happy," Thompson said of his election victory. "I think it is a step forward for the BSU. We have a chance to do what has never been done before. We can unite the population of black students here, and work to retain them.
"We have to look at the positive side of things, and put forth black issues on campus,"
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