Tight fit. The parking structure on Jefferson Boulevard is often full. Transportation Services sold 400 remaining university parking spaces Tuesday.	*	-	^
All local parking permits sold
University sells 400 remaining spots early Tuesday morning; Shrine parking sold out as well
By SHERRIE-ANNE STACY
Contributing Writer
In an effort to reduce the parking shortage on campus, Transportation Services sold about 400 remaining parking permits Tuesday.
The permits were available for purchase on the Transportation Web site on a first come, first serve basis at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. These were the last of the permits that will be sold for the fall semester.
Any permits that become available will be kept until the end of the semester and then sold at the beginning of the new
school year, said Brian d’Autremont, director of Transportation Services.
There is a possibility, however, that more spaces will become available for students in the upcoming year.
“We are going in front of the Board of Trustees this month to discuss a new parking structure, and that’s huge news," d'Autremont said.
The new parking structure will be finished toward the beginning of the fall 2004 semester and would have approximately 1200 spots, he said. •
Exact details for this project, such as location, have not yet been determined, he said.
In the meantime, students will have to work around the parking crunch. A usual alternative for parking, the lot at the Shrine Auditorium, which has 700 spots, is
also sold out.
Rosyido Huicochea, a supervisor of Grand Parking, the company that manages the lot, said students are simply out of luck this semester.
"Everything is sold out and anything that becomes available won't be sold until the first week of the second semester,” he said.
There are two USC lots that do not offer permits, but allow students to pay a daily fee of $4 to park in. Lot T, located on Figueroa Street near the Radisson hotel, and Lot 1, located on Jefferson Blvd, offer an alternative, although there is no guarantee that a parking spot will be available.
Bernadette Sanicaja, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism, commutes from Newport Beach, Calif., three times a week.
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Two student groups have complained that Student Senate President Harold Mann violated his campaign promise to create a political student assembly.
Human Rights Watch and Peace and Conflict Scholars, both headed collectively by Hebah Farrag and Neetu Mahir, have claimed Mann is sitting on fields set aside for a political assembly.
Mann and the Senate treasurer earmarked $4,500 for the assembly in the budget Senate passed in the spring.
During last year’s Senate presidential elections, the activist groups met with the candidates to discuss their campaigns, Farrag said.
After meeting with Mann, the groups signed a contract with him, saying they would vote for him if he promised to create a political student assembly, Farag said.
The groups have not yet produced the contract but Farrag said they are looking for it
Mann said he did not sign any contract and that the assembly project is on track.
Gabe Willhite, Senate director of political affairs, said there has been real progress in the assembly development.
Willhite announced at Tuesday’s Senate meeting that he is prepared to present a constitution for what will be known as the Unruh Political Advisory Council to political groups on campus.	f
The council wUl be a joint effort between Senate and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute for Politics, Willhite said in an interview Friday.
The original plan was to model the council after assemblies currently under Program Board, said Robert Kashfian, a senator and the chairman of the Unruh Institute.
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Mexican Independence Day celebration enlivens campus
Groups from various campus organizations join for dancing, pinatas
By RACHEL GALLEGOS
Staff Write/
Dancers, cultural booths, free food and the chance to make a pina-ta highlighted the "16 de Septiembre” festival, held in Hahn Plaza Tuesday to celebrate Mexican Independence Day.
The group Nuestra Alma Latina hosted the festival, which marked the anniversary of the day Mexico gained independence from Spanish rule.
Nuestra Alma Latina, along with
other organizations , from the Latina/o Student Assembly, took part in the festival.
The Latina/o Student Assembly is an umbrella group for Chicano/a, Hispanic,, and Latino/a student organizations.
“We just want to make this day present on campus,” said Monica Miza, a senior majoring in education and the academics officer for Nuestra Alma Latina.
Nuestra Alma Latina, along with other LSA organizations, want to “represent our heritage,” and share the Hispanic culture with other cultures on campus, Miza said.
Booths set up by nine out of the 19 organizations in LSA offered stu-
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Taylor Wood, an undeclared second-year student, wakes up before 6 a.m. every day 4 * Monday through Thursday, he practices with the USC golf team and Friday through Sunday, he does it on his own.
The team varies its practices • with a combination of putting, chipping, hitting balls on the driving range and playing rounds. In the winter, the golf team has a month-and-a-half break when it focuses on weight training.
“We try to balance everything,” Wood said. “You have to hone every aspect of your game ”
College students are used to jug-
gling classes with campus responsibilities and a social life. College athletes, however, are part of a whole new game. They struggle to balance sunrise practices, cross-country trips to tournaments and pressure on the national and professional level.
One resource that helps Wood and other USC athletes is Student Athlete Academic Services. Located in Heritage Hall, it is a place where athletes can find tutors and academic counselors.
Counselors work with athletes, major academic advisors and coaches to ensure that students are meeting NCAA eligibility requirements and scheduling classes around their practice schedule, said Dr. Magdi El Shahawy, director of Student Athlete
Academic Services.
‘Each sport is asked to give us a copy of their practice schedule prior to registration," El Shahawy said, Although athletes are found in almost any major at USC, smaller sports may influence athletes to gravitate toward a particular major, El Shahawy Said.
- One way Student Athlete Academic Services is working to help students graduate in four years is by encouraging every student athlete to take on 16 units a semester.
In the past, only 12 units a semester were required and that made it difficult for student athletes to graduate on time, El Shahawy said.
“I don't think it’s difficult to graduate within four years," El
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Two student groups complain Senate president broke campaign promise to create new assembly; Mann says project on track
By BRIAN REED
Staff Writer
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