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Volume CVIII, Number 37	University of Southern California	Wednesday, March 8, 1989
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Angle Han, Kapson Yi, Susan Han, Mimi Kim and Susie Cho, members of the Korean American Folk Dance Company, perform Tuesday in front of Tommy Trojan. The event was part of the Asian Pacific Heritage Festival.
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Senate nails candidates for illegal tactics
By Kevin Davis
Editor
Campaign privileges were suspended for seven Student Senate hopefuls Tuesday, while the status of three disqualified candidates remained in question as this year's hody contested battle for undergraduate seats finished its second day.
Campaign volunteers for residence hall candidates David Leslie, Brian Raat, Keith Storie and Michael Williams were caught passing out materials in restricted areas during polling at EVK-Harris Hall at 6 p.m., said Aaron Goldman, elections and recruitment chairman.
The four, who are running on a slate together, were suspended from campaign activities until 8 a.m. today, including an hour of polling time at EVK, where three of them live. The polls were open there from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"That cost them a lot of votes," said Hanh Cao, an election commission member and senate public relations chairwoman. "They were getting a lot of good campaigning done in that first hour."
Leslie and Storie also are aligned on a separate slate with three members of the ultraconservative campus group Young Americans for Freedom.
Also, campaign privileges of three student community candidates — Edward Cheng, Jackie Larco and Brett Spivey — were suspended for posting
(See Election, page 18)
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'Karate Kid’ meets ‘Colors’ on Menlo
Martial arts film uses local gangs’ artistry for urban backdrop
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Students who hear gunshots coming from just north of campus during the next 2 1/2 weeks do not necessarily need to run for cover.
Newly formed Ellendale Place Productions Inc. is shooting scenes (and blank bullets) for an upcoming feature film called "Angel Town."
The movie is like a "Karate Kid" meets "Colors” and stars retired two-time world kickboxing champion Olivier Gruner, said Kash McKewen, the film's location manager.
The karate kid in this film is actually a
young man from France studying at a university in Southern California.
In the script, he moves into a boarding house in a "bad neighborhood," she said.
The owner of the boarding house and her son are harassed by local gangs in the movie, so the student teaches the son how to defend himself.
On Monday and Tuesday, real gang members from the area helped the filmmakers with "art direction," McKewen said.
The gang members spray-painted graffiti on walls the film company had set up.
Juan Castro, a member of a local gang called the Harpys, said police consented to the idea "as long as we didn't write on the sidewalk.
"The walls are movie property and they're going to tear them down afterward," he said
Contributing to the movie was "all
right," he said. "There's nothing else to do."
"We like it because our painting is going to be in the movie," said Rodolfo Garcia, a member of the Harpys Dead End 13 gang, as he watched the filming.
Gang members said there was nothing unusual about hearing shots, except that the bullets used for the movie were blanks.
"There are some real bullet holes in that house over there," said Steve Garcia, a member of the same gang.
The movie is being filmed until March 24 at 2640 and 2646 Menlo Ave., just south of Adams Boulevard and east of Vermont Avenue, McKewen said.
The $3 million project will be completed in September, and the finished version will be shown in theaters nationwide in November, said Ash Shah, one of the (See Film, page 6)
Some student senators are more visible than others
This is the third of a fiv^-part series on the Student Senate.
By Bryan Culp
Staff Write.
Daily Trojan reporters repeatedly speak to the same people when they call the Student Senate office for a story.
They try to interview the senate president first. But for a second and third source, any senator will do.
After covering a few stories, reporters develop a rapport with certain senators — the ones they always find when they are looking for that quick quote or final bit of information.
Thus, some senators seem to do more work than others. But the title 'senator' looks the same on every resume.
A senator's chief job — besides working four hours each week on senate-related activity — is to draw attention to the needs of his constituency, several senate officials agreed.
Undergraduate representation is divided into four groups: residence halls
senators serve students living on campus; student community senators represent off-campus residents within the 90007 zip code; commuter senators serve those living outside that area, and Greek senators represent members of fraternities and sororities.
Sandy Bauer, president of Trojan Commuter Alliance, said she expected to work directly with the four commuter senators, but that hasn't been the case.
"In their constitution it says they have to come to TCA meetings, but they don't," Bauer said. "As far as I'm
(See Senators, page 7)
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Iran breaks off relations with Britain, cites novel
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran broke relations with Britain on Tuesday because it refused to suppress The Satanic Verses, whose author is under a death sentence by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for blaspheming Islam.
Khomeini’s fundamentalist Shiite Muslim regime has put a price on novelist Salman Rushdie’s head and said it is determined to defend Islam against foreign insults. Britain said the diplomatic rupture is “entirely of Iran’s making.”
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