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/ In ion ordered strike Saturday night More than 70,000 workers
vacated positions to keep the grocery stores open.
Striksri «nd locked out employees are paid MO a day by the union, much leu than they would make if they were working, Allen said.
Employees will be picketing around the clock at the grocery stores in routing six-hour shifts until the strike is over, she added.
None of the approximately 100 employees at the local Ralphs have crossed the picket line, said Allen, a cashier who has worked at the store for 18 years.
The deli, bakery and seafood departments at the Vermont Ralphs were closed on Sunday. Alcohol shelves and aisles were boarded up as well.
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More than 30 Ralphs employees picketed outside the Ralphs on Vermont Avenue and Adams Boulevard Sunday to protest failed contract negotiations that included cuts to employee medical benefits The group joined more than 70,(KK) workers Irom around the region on strike The United Food and Commercial Workers, the union that represents Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons employees ordered the strike Saturday night, said Sabrina Allen, strike captain at the Vermont Ralphs.
While Albertsons and Ralphs employees are not on strike, they have been locked out of working by store management, Allen said
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Protest. Supermarket employees around the region are on strike to protest reduced benefits and lower maximum wages. Here, employees strike at the Westwood Ralphs.
Fifty-year alumni c
hornier White House communications director among those honored
“We consider the Half Century Trojans the keepers of traditions," said Katharene Poston, director of alumni events and programs. “They preserve our traditions and our past,”
The Half Century Trojans luncheon has been an annual event for more than 40 years, Poston said.
Herbert G. Klein, class of ’40, and Gordon Gray, class of ’48, were hon ored at the luncheon.
Klein was chosen to be the first recipient of the Half Century Hall of Fame Award for his commitment to USC and his career as a newspaper reporter and director of communications for the White House during the
Nixon administration.	Klein with a certificate of recognition
“1 am awed by the fact that this for his support and help throughout award is being given to me,” Klein said the years.
during his acceptance speech. “1 can’t Klein has been a “dedicated think of anything I’m more proud of friend" to the School of Engineering, than being a graduate of USC."	said C L Max Nikias, dean of the
The Half Century Trojans Hall of School of Engineering.
Fame plaque will hang in the Alumni Klein is a life member of USC’s House.	Board of Trustees tfnd is a past presi
“Being the first is something you dent of the USC Alumni Association, can’t duplicate," Klein said.	The	Half	Century	Trojans	also	hon-
He described the Half Century ored Gordon Gray, ’48, with the Trojans as “a great gathering of loyal Distinguished Service Award. He was Trojans who contribute a lot to the described as “USC’s renaissance man" university.”	by Mary Kay Arbuthnot, president of
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By CHRISTINA WAKAYAMA
C onlributing Wrilei
Alumni, some of whom were alive during World War 1, gathered on Friday to swap memories and stories of what USC was like more than 50 years ago.
The Half Century Trojans welcomed the Class of ’53 at a luncheon Friday and honored two notable past graduates with awards.
By JESSICA FTTZPRmCK
Contributing writer
The National Watercolor Society awarded a 90-year-old distinguished emeritus professor for painting more than 2,000 works of art
About 100 Watercolor members watched Edgar Ewing receive his lifetime achievement trophy at the 83rd Exhibition Awards held in the Embassy Suites hotel.
“In the arts, you can’t survive unless you work hard,” Ewing said. “You have to have the desire to be an artist"
Ewings versatile artwork ranges from impressionistic Greek myth to Las Vegas surrealism. An exhibit at the Brea Civic and Cultural Center features some of his work
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Photographs, collages, music and clothing line among artworks at events
By SUMAYYA AHMAD
Contributing Writer
Five graduate students from the School of Cinema Television presented their artistic creations, ranging from a clothing line to video production, to a multimedia group show at the Womens Club, an art gallery in Los Angeles, on Thursday night
About 150 guests attended the event, titled “The Visitors Show." Chloe Aftei, one of the organizers of the show and a graduate student majoring in cinema-television production, said the event was organized to present the works students had been doing outside of a classroom setting, including those not focused solely on film production.
“Part of our experience of film is trying to go into other realms and experiences,” Aftei said. "We're using different mediums here; it's exciting. We're in an unstable part of our lives being in graduate school and everything it entails."
Aftei started organizing the event in August with Soo Hugh, another graduate student from the School of Cinema-Television. Displays included photographs, short films, clothing and music.
AM's own artistic works were also on display,
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Chloe Aftei, a graduate student majoring in cinema-tele-vision production, shows some of her photographs to a guest at “The Visitor’s Show" Thursday night at the Women’s Club, a gallery in Los
Angeles.
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