Los Angeles Times Festival of Health and Fitness brings exhibits, cooking, dancing
By LAUREN BONIFACIO
Staff Writer
Fitness, celebrity and sun — in other words, ail that is Southern California — will cometogether this weekend as USC hosts the fifth annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Health and Fitness.
Billed as the largest wellness fes-
tival in the region, the festival is expected to draw more than 62,000 people to the University Park Campus Saturday and Sunday, a spokesman for the event said.
Among the attractions will be health exhibits, cooking demonstrations, rock climbing and speeches by celebrities such as “Loveline’s" Dr. Drew Pinsky and “Frasiers" David Hyde Pierce.
"Whether it's spinning or marathon running, whether it's exercise, nutrition, men's or womens health, there really is something for
everyone," spokesman David Garcia
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The festival will kick off Saturday at 8:30 a.m. with the Memory Walk benefiting	the	Alzheimer s
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The fundraisers celebrity opening ceremony on Trousdale Parkway will include actors Bryan Cranston and Lea Thompson.
The festival will run until 5 pin. on both days.
Among Saturdays panels are Dr. Drew's discussion about addiction
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“No matter what skill level you are at, you can complete the L.A. Marathon with this 16-week training course," said Michael Murphy, the teams founder and director of leadership programs.
Few meeting attendees had experience with running long races.
Lauren Pauli, a senior majoring in history and gender studies, said she has run at least 5 kilometecs, or 3.11 miles, on»her own while working out, but never has run in an official race.
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“I've always thought about doing (a marathon)," Pauli said. "But with a team, it’s not such a big leap."
Participants are going to set their own goals based on their experience levels.
“My first goal is to finish,” said Nitin Sharma, a junior majoring in economics and computer science.
Sharma said the most he has ever completed was an 8-mile race in Singapore. He said he is joining the team because it’ll be “so satisfying" and that the satisfaction will justify the time commitment
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MICHAEL MURPHY founder USC Marathon Team
BY LINDSEY DAVIS
l ontributing Wilier
On Wednesday, the Department of Public Safety unveiled an annual report that informs students about how to obtain information regarding registered sex offenders living in the area.
OcL ] was the deadline for universities around the country to comply with the federal Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act, said Michael Kennedy, executive officer lieutenant of the Department of Public Safety.
The law publicizes sex offender information and amends the Higher Education Act of 1965, which mandated that institutions be required to report their campus security policies and crimes statistics data.
The new federal law requires that the report must also inform the campus about where to obtain registered sex offender information. The law was passed in October of 2000.
“It gives people access to what’s going on in the area," Kennedy said.
The federal Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act also requires that registered sex offenders provide a notice to the state if they are students or employees of an institution of higher learning.
The DPS report was revealed on the same day that Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill that extended Megan’s Law, the state law passed in 19% allowing citizens access to information regarding the location of sex offenders in California. A federal law also exists.
On Monday, the Assembly approved a three-year extension of the state law, which was set to expire on Jan. 1,2004.
“It gives another three years of life to the program," said Paul Mitchell, the chief of staff for Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, who wrote the bill.
Megans Law is named after Megan Kanka, a New
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“It gives people access to what 's going on in the area.'’
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Zine-maker provides alternative perspective on gender and video games
Marathon
Members will spend 16 weeks training for city’s annual foot race
By JESSICA PARKS
Contributing Writer
An on-campus group plans to train students, faculty and staff of all experience levels for the City of Los Angeles Marathon in March.
The new USC Marathon Team is running a 16-week training session that emphasizes gradual, healthy training in a team atmosphere to
By KRISTIN MAYER
Contributing Wnu*i
Feminist. Raina Lee discusses her view of feminism In the video game culture.
Video game critiques need a broader target audience than teenage boys, the publisher of a feminist inspired gaming magazine told a group in Doheny Memorial Library Thursday.
Kama Lee, creator of the video game zme "1-UP,” was the fust jn a Center for Feminist Research series that addresses gender and gaming. Zines are independently produced publications that are Xerox-copied and hand-stapled. 1	v
"Most of the (existing) writing is hetero-male-centric, so 1 wanted to* produce a more intelligent magazine that didn’t alienate people tyho aren’t teefage boys.” Lee jsajd. "There wasn't anything out there related to video games that I would want to read, so 1 made my own."
Lee said she was concerned that a majority of her customer* read the zine to reminisce about the, nostalgic boyhood of playing Old-school
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