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2000 USC graduate Brooke Adams says she wants to bring politics to young people and attract more business to California
By JASON CARTER
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Gubernatorial recall candidate and USC alumna Brooke Adams visited campus Wednesday afternoon to meet with students and speak in Stephen O’Leary's commu nication class.
Adams. 25, is running for governor in the Oct 7 recall election because she feels California is in a state of disaster, she said.
“The biggest issue facing us is that we re drowning financially and something needs to be done about it I’m tired 5f watching it from the sideline.” Adams said.
Running as an independent candidate, Adams admitted her platform has both conservative and libertarian elements.
“I am not interested in affiliating with one of the political parties because I think that to best represent the majority of the people, it is wise to focus on the issues, not a political party,” Adams said.
Adams said her campaign platform promotes individual freedom, personal responsibility and smaller government
"Individual freedom is about cutting down some of the red tape, making a more business friendly environment in California,” she said.
One way Adams plans to lower business costs and encourage companies to return to California is by reducing worker compensation.
Adams posed the question of whether it feasible for businesses to survive start-up costs and workers’ compensation. “Or is it easier to just move out of state where, not only are the costs a great deal less, but maintaining your business is easier?”
Adams proposes a flat tax instead of the states current graduated income tax.
“Everyone should contribute,” Adams said.
Even families in the lowest income bracket should pay taxes, she added.
About 70 percent of income tax revenue is generated by the wealthy, Adams said.
Adams said she is personally willing to pay at a higher rate than she does now under a flat tax because it asks the same percentage from all Californians.
Edward McCaffery, professor of law and
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Students redesign Angel railway infrastructure
Forty architecture students from schools around the world present ideas for closed Angel Flight railway
By JESSICA GUTIERREZ
Contributing writer
Angels Flight Railway in downtown Los Angeles has been closed since 2001, but organizers of an architecture symposium said they are hoping that student projects will help in its reconstruction.
Two years ago, the railway closed after it derailed and killed an elderly man and injured his wife. Investigators said the accident was a sign of its hazardous engineering.
Community leaders said they
consider the currently vacant Angels Flight as a barrier between the more affluent upper area of downtown’s Bunker Hill and the common Central Market area below.
About 300 guests attended Fridays opening day of the "A Shift At The Fault" exhibit, a Pasadena City College-led project that directed 40 architecture students to redesign the faulty railway. The students, including one from USC, came from universities as far as Italy, Spain and Germany.
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Dozens attend welcoming along Trousdale Parkway aimed at getting students involved in black community
By JESSICA PARKS
Contributing Writer
USCs fifth annual Black Welcome Week kicked off Wednesday with 32 clubs and organizations camping out near Tommy Trojan to inform students of the extensive black community existing on campus.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs (CBCSA) and the Black Student Assembly, Black Welcome Week is a
nine-day string of meetings, mixers and entertainment events directed toward USC s black community.
"Its important for students to know that a network exists for black students and professionals," said Ivan Beard, vice president of administration for the Black Business Students' Association.
The kickoff included club booths set up on Trousdale Parkway, live broadcasts from Power 106 at Tommy Trojan and a performance by the Fly Girls, a campus hip-hop
dance group.
Andrea Fullington, a freshman majoring in print journalism, said she walked around to all of the booths and researched which organizations she was interested in joining.
“I like that there are a lot of organizations to choose from to get involved," she said.
Veteran Welcome Week participant Adia "Nicki" Bell, a senior majoring in business and executive director of the Black Entertainment and Theater Association, said all students should "get involved ip that they enjoytheir college years."
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Some within the niedual torn iiiuiiity said this except ion is too nar row If passed, tiie proposition would prevent researchers from studying the impac t ia< lal heritage may have on health
ll will be impossible to track data from health services, hitlh tei tihcates and death certific ales id find solutions,” said Kimberly Wesi laulcon, director of western regional office for Uie NAACP legal defense and educational fund
In a report issued by the United States Congress, the gap between the type, quality and access to health care facilities is disproportionately in favor of whites as opposed to racial minorities.
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If passed by voters on Oct 7, Proposition 54 would eliminate race m statistics
By KEVIN MERICKEl
Auutant CUy Editor
I he medical, civil rights and ac a deinic communities aie in a heated debate ovei whethei to approve Proposition 54, a racial privacy ini tiative that will appear oil the Oct 7 recall ballot
Ward Connerly, a formei University of California regent, draft ed the legislation in order to elimi nate racial data collection and use in public and private agencies statewide
A dispute exists between the accuracy and necessity of racial clas sification, said Diane Schachterle, spokesperson for Proposition 54.
There needs to be a color-blind society, Schachterle said.
Many applications ask for spe ctfic racial origin*, but California has many multiracial citizens that
Campaign trail. Gubernatorial candidate Brooke Adams, a USC alumna, talks to students in Hahn Plaza Adams is one of 135 candidates in the recall election, which will take place Oct 7.
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