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Rethinking
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The Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action has propelled race to the forefront of academia / 7
WEDNESDAY
April 16,2003
Of interest...
Antiwar movement finds Us arguments deflated as French connection discovered in Iraq / 4
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Fraternity members complain that Department of Public Safety does not do enough to deter crime on 28th Street
"I don’t believe our job is to be defending ourselves and our property from transients"
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By BLYTHE BERNHARD
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Three weeks after a USC student was stabbed by an intruder in her apartment on 30th Street, students living on the Row continue to find transients and other nonstudents in their houses.
Chris McCormick, a junior majoring in business administration, said his fraternity, Sigma Chi, has had problems with nonstudents coming into their house all year.
“Locals come to pick fights with the rich kids’ because they have nothing else to do” he said. “I’ve come to realize (the Department of Public Safety) honestly believes fraternities are a bunch of spoiled, obnoxious kids that are up to no good. I don’t believe our job is to be defending ourselves and our property from transients.”
Wymap Thomas, a DPS crime prevention specialist, said fraternities are not doing enough to prevent crime.
“Due to the lack of crime prevention practice, some Greek houses have contributed to vagrancies and loiterers,” he said in an e-mail.
Drinking responsibly and not inviting transients onto their property are two ways fraternity members can practice crime prevention, he added.
The Row’s violent crimes that involve injuries are mostly caused by Greek members fighting other Greek members, Thomas said. Most crimes on the Row involve crimes against property, such as bicycles or other personal property left unattended or unlocked, he said.
Wyman also insisted the Row is safer than other areas around campus. Sigma Chi fraternity members McCormick and Nate Hair, a senior majoring in history, disagreed.
“It is very rare that crimes are Greek-on-Greek because we all support each other against the nonstu-dents," McCormick said. “We see transients stealing
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Common gathering. Mike Gray, chairman of Common Sense for I himself while Michael Quick and Judge Joseph Brandolino look on.
Some say police agencies need to focus on other social problems instead
By SUSHMA SUBRAM AN IAN
Staff Writer
The government treats the drug war as a fight against the “boogie monster” instead of giving people true and useful information, said Mike Gray, chairman of Common Sense for Drug Policy and author of “Drug Crazy" at a debate on designer d ugs at Taper Hall of Humanities.
Designer drugs are laboratory synthesized drugs that come in pill or tablet form that have the names designer clothing brands imprinted . on them.
But some students in the 20-person audience said they were not sure why designer drugs were different from other drugs.
Michael Quick, a USC neuroscientist and addiction researcher, gave a definition.
“They’re; #11 drugs," he said. “Anything that ha? a speeificinter-action with the brain that interferes with how it works is a drug.” But Judge Joseph Brandolino I see Drags, page 1M I
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Many spectators say bill not reflective and divides student body further By BRIAN REED
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. ' £> ,v ■ • Student Senate passed a resolution supporting U.S. troops in their efforts in Iraq on Tuesday night with a two-third majority vote amid complaints that Senate had not allowed the student body to properly voice its opinion on the issue.
Senate debated the wording and values of the res6lution for about a
half-hour before it suddenly voted to end discussion and immediately vote on the issue. This decision angered several students in attendance who had not been given the. opportunity to speak.
the decision to vote on the reso-lution without continuing discus-sion led several students to speak out of order, prompting Deborah Lammon, Senate vice president, to ask them to leave.
■ - The students refused, and the vpte went on with them present.
'■Ji After the vote and the announcement that the resolution was passed, some students stormed
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angrily out of the meeting. Some , used profanity and called Senate a “farce."
The resolution was passed in an unfortunate manner, said Priscilla Quintanilla, Senate Program Board assembly representative.
“Not all the senators were willing to listen to the students” she said. .	»
Senate meetings are not a forum for open discussion with the student body, said David Chasin, a commuter senator and the resolutions author: The days and hours before and after Senate meetings are when I see Sonata, page 171
““Not all the senators were willing to listen to the students.’
PRISCILLA QUINTANILLA Program Board assembly representative Student Senate
Some Conquest residents
Off-campus student housing group says unit prices are determined individually
By SHRADDHA R. JAISWAL
Contributing Writer
Conquest Student Housing, one of the off-campus housing providers that manages buildings such as the Palisades,. the Bungalows and Ellendale West, raised rent for some of its buildings the 2003 to 2004 school year.
Since 1993, Conquest has managed buildings all owned by various corporations from around the nation. Each group sets its own rent charges for the year.
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