Director Gilliam has high hopes for film ‘Munchausen’/12
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Volume CVIII, Number 38
University of Southern California
Thursday, March 9, 1989
Born to Be Loud
CLAY WALKER / DAILY TROJAN
Jizzy Pearl, lead singer of the band Love/Hate, belts it out Wednesday In front of Tommy Trojan.
In Brief
STATE
Marine collapses, dies in physical fitness test
BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — A 27-year-old Marine collapsed and died Wednesday during a three-mile run that was part of a semiannual physical fitness test, a spokesman at the Barstow Marine Logistics Center said.
Darryl Eugene White of Montgomery, Ala., was nearing the halfway point on the run when he collapsed.
The fitness test consists of pull-ups, sit-ups and the three-mile run.
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Blacks assail fraternity
Say Kappa Alpha shouldn’t glorify Confederate flag
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
Black student leaders expressed anger and frustration Wednesday after members of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity painted a Confederate flag on a wooden panel outside their house.
Tim Winningham, president of the fraternity, said the flag, painted Monday, is part of its "Old South Week" celebration and represents "a tribute to Robert E. Lee and the chivalry and respect toward women and God he exhibited."
However, black leaders said that showing the flag is a blatant expression of prejudice by Kappa Alpha members.
"The pain that a Jewish person feels when he sees a swastika is the same pain I feel when I see this flag," said Mark Forte, Black Student Assembly chairman. "I'd like to see some gallantry exhibited by these individuals by not using that flag."
Blacks are offended by the flag because it represents the struggle of the Southern states to preserve slavery during the Civil War, said Pamela Porter, director of the department for black students.
"I don't know how they could interpret history differently," Porter said.
(See Flag, page 17)
Senate ruling lets hopefuls re-enter race
Candidates declared inactive, can run for non-Greek positions
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
The five Student Senate candidates disqualified Monday for running outside their constituencies may re-enter the race, senate officials said Wednesday.
The senate election commission ruled that the five — Sean Callahan, Steve Oakley, John Hamilton, Chris Garris and Patrick Wyatt — were no longer members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and so could run outside the Greek constituency.
Callahan, Oakley and Hamilton have chosen to resume their campaigns, but Garris and Wyatt have pulled out.
Senator denies charge she broke budget rules with ad. See page 2.
On Tuesday, the senate received an official list of the fraternity's active members from Ken Taylor, director of Greek life. The names of the five disqualified candidates were not on the list.
The disqualifications had been based on a different list received by the senate Monday, which indicated that the five candidates were still active fraternity members. Phi Delt representatives, however, claimed the candidates were no longer affiliated with the house and called for them to be reinstated.
Chris Bown, president of the fraternity, sent the new list to Taylor on Tuesday morning.
"It's the fraternity's responsibility to keep us up to date on who is active and who isn't," Taylor said. "This whole controversy caught us off guard because senate has never asked us for a list before."
Taylor said it's not a priority for his office to have an updated list of members, and fraternities are responsible if problems arise.
He said his office relies on fraternity and sorority chapters to motivate members to keep their lists accurate and up to date.
"What reason would they have to lie?" Taylor asked. "They may have found one here, but it's not the function of the Office of Residential and Greek Life to determine that."
In light of the new assertions, a hearing was held Wednesday morning to determine whether the disqualified candidates would be allowed back into the race.
Callahan was the only candidate present. Hanh Cao, senate publicity chairwoman and an election commission member, said Hamilton and Oakley will participate in
(See Election, page 2)
Senators, Clement evaluate role of president
This is the fourth of a five-part series on the Student Senate.
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
Conducting a week of Student Senate business, a few dozen senators gathered at Cromwell Athletic Field one Friday to play a friendly game of softball.
Between bites of postgame pizza, Phil Clement contemplated the completion of his term as senate president and the role he has played in the past year.
"I don't think of me, Phil Clement, as a leader," Clement said. "I don't
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see myself with any special character qualities. I see myself as very much equal."
The word "president" usually describes one who has authority, even if it's just over the other five members of a treehouse dub. But the senate president is responsible for representing more than 30,000 students.
Undergraduate Speaker Gantry Wilson, who plans to run for president.
said Clement has encouraged less active senators to work harder.
"He sits back and watches everything like a shepherd," Wilson said. "When people go astray, he points them back in the right direction."
Dave Simon, the senate vice president who will graduate from the Law Center this spring, said a president should be, first and foremost, nice.
"It takes someone who's friendly and simply nice," Simon said. "A lot of the time it's difficult to be nice."
Tara Brigham, a student community senator who also plans to run for pres-(See Senate, page 7)