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v4a overseas exchange programs gain more popularity, application process gets competitive
to students
By SHERRIE-ANNE STACY
( oiUrtbuttug Writer
Student* were turned away for tlie hrst tune tu participate in the study abroad program at the Annenberg School for Communication because of an increased interest in the program.
The development highlights an overall increase in interest to travel abroad, which has USCs overseas and international programs becom ing increasingly competitive.
“For the first time this year, we had to turn down 11 people for the program in Ixmdon,' said Connie Horak, the director at the office of international studies at Annenberg. “There were 36 applicants for 25 available spots"
The issue facing the program this year is that some of the destinations in the undergraduate program have become too popular.
The undergraduate program offers studies in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam.
For the spring semester, Annenberg will send 25 students to London, one to Hong Kong, and I see Abroad, page 13 I
A constitutional amendment that would eliminate organization representatives on
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Senate will be on the February ballot
By BRIAN MEED
Staff Writer
Student Senate passed a resolution Tuesday night that will put a constitutional amendment on the spring senatorial election ballot.
The proposed amendment would eliminate the role of student organization representatives in Senate.
"For the first time in at least my experience with Senate, we are inlying on the voice of the students to determine Senates role," said David Chasm, a commuter senator.
While the resolution states that representatives constitute a form of double representation, the student body will make the final decision.
The resolution was approved by a vote of 10 to 1 with one abstention.
The student body must approve all amendments to die Senate constitution, according to a change to the constitution bylaws passed during the previous administration.
In'order for the amendment to be approved, at least
10	percent of the student body must vote in the election, with 75 percent of them voting "yes."
That means, at least 1,600 students must vote with at least 1,200 of them voting "yes,” Senate Vice President Deborah Lammon said.
Elections will be held Feb. 24 to 26, 2004 when students will select the senators and president and vice president for the 2004-2005 school year. t
The passage of Tuesdays resolution comes after months of Senate debate over student representatives!
Senators originally discussed the possibility of giving a representative from Program Board a vote in the student government during tbe previous two Senate meetings, and came close to passing a resolution each week, but Senate ultimately failed to form a consensus in either instance.
Shant Ashdjian, the author of the amendment resolution and one of the co-authors of the previous resolution, has said since the beginning of Senate deliberations he wanted the final decision about representatives to be made by the student body.
Ashdjian, a commuter senator, said during earlier debates that giving a Program Board representative a vote would have only been a temporary solution.
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interested. Krystal Quinones, undeclared, visits the Office of Overseas Studies to find Information on next summer’s production workshops In Rome. Applications for such programs are increasing.
after killing their abusive husbands.
Even though Pagazza had never directed a documentary before, and Patterson had never produced one, they decided that this was a project worth undertaking.
Underpressure
After gaining the permission of law professors Brennan and Carrie Hempel, Pagazza turned the cameras on the students.	•' V.
“You already feel the pressure, and then to know the cameras are catching every single thing you do on I see ntaa, page SI
“Youalready feelthe pressure, and then to know thecameras are catching everything you do..'
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TRICHOMONIASIS facts
Source: Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Five million new cases are reported each year in th^ United States.
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Male symptoms include urethral discharge, burning during urination, and mild itching. ,
Latex condoms provide the best protection against infection.
in women ages 16-35
na in women. Symptoms are more common in women. Compared to some other STDs, it causes less serious complications.
One study by Dt Alice Thornton, assistant prtifessor of infectious diseases from the University of Kentucky, found that nearly 5 percent of sexually active college women, or seven in 145 students, had a trichomonas infection.
About 3 percent of this group had chlamydia, and 1.4 percent had gon-I eee SID, page 13 I
By SHOWY ANNE RUBIANO
Stiff Writer	-*<•- v.
rpwo new studies reported that I the sexually transmitted dis-JL ease trichomoniasis, one of the most common STDs affecting women ages 16 to 35, was more com-mop than chlamydia or gonorrhea in college women and high school students.
trichomoniasis is a parasitic infection that affects the urinary tract in men, and the cervix and vagi-