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New e-mail addresses on the way
By VINEET BHARGAVA
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Students have generally been unhappy with the way their first and last names are jumbled in the oddest ways to form their USC e-mail IDs. This may soon stand corrected.
A new USC e-mail ID for all stu-
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New water product makes splash at Cafe ’84
Liquid: Company using USC as a test campus to see student reception toward the new ‘natural mineral supplement'
By ALLISON RUECKER
Contributing Writer
It looks like water, it tastes like water, and USC is the only college campus in the nation to sell this not-water product.
Trinity Springs Natural Mineral Supplement is not considered water by its company or,by the Food and Drug Administration.
The natural mineral supplement has been available at Cafe ’84 and the Radisson Hotel on Figueroa Street since Jan. 20. Advertising material describes the beverage as
100	percent natural geothermal spring water and as “flawless,” "natural," “pure" and having "no pollutants ... ever."
has been carbon dated at 16,000 years ■** flows to the surface through crystal-lined granite faults, which are protected and preserved by a huge captive aquifer.
Sold in 25.4 ounce bottles with a sports top at $1.75, Trinity makes drinking in class easier, said Anthony Chen, a senior majoring in accounting.
According to the label, Trinity Springs NMS contains sodium, silica — which promotes healthy bones and cartilage — bicarbonate and traces of fluoride which help with maintaining healthy teeth and gums.
The bottle's label also indicates that a pregnant woman's daily con-
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Pure enjoyment. Noel Aranivs, Caffe ‘84 assistant manager, and Adam Fischer, Pacific Coast Beverage founder, discuss Trinity's new product.
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Tracking: USC's federally mandated foreign student tracking program wus approved by the government agency
By REBECCA TEGAN
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USC's Office ol International Serviced whs approved for SF.VIS — tbe Student and Exchange Visitor Information System - Thursday, just before the dead line. Although USC had filed in November to be author iced. Immigration and Naturalizalion Services told USC Thursday that it was approved.
SEVIS Is s database containing information about all international students attending U.S. universities. It was initiated ss part of thr USA PATRIOT Art after Sept. 1), 8001, to keep belter track of all studenu with visas studying in the United Stales
“SF.VIS Is going to let INS better manage foreign stu denta," said Chris Bentley, INS spokesman for SKVIS. "This is information that schools have always been expected to maintain, and now we're putting it on a database so thst INS has instsnt sccess to every foreign student in the U.S."
SKVIS will slso change the way that people f ile theii 1-20 forms — the paperwork that those who wish to study in the United States must file before coming into the country, said Denise Folga. director of the Office of International Students and Scholars at l.oyola Marymount University. Once students have been accepted to a school in the United Stales, they must apply for an 1-20 in order to come into the country.
Wednesday was the mandatory participation dale for all schools to comply with SEVIS regulations. There are strict repercussions if s school is nol in compliance.
"If a school hsd not been approved for SEVIS by the mandatory participation date, it ia not allowed to admit any more international students," Bentley said.
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Speech: Speakers say progress has been made, but more needs to be done
By ANNIE MUSKE-DUKES
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The laws covering the reproductive rights of disabled people have changed drastically during the last 20 years, said Brad Sears and Stanton J. Price, members of Being Alive, an HIV and AIDS action commission Tlie lecture, which was held in Doheny Intellectual Commons on Thursday night continued the events of (iender and Sexuality Week.
Sears is the administrative director of tlie Charles B. Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law. The Williams Project supports legal research and policy analysis regard mg sexual orientation diacrimina lion and other legal iasues affecting gay and lesbian people. Sears was invited to speak because "we wanted an expert on AIDS law," said Mark Spratt, who organized the event
Price is on a subcommittee of the Ixis Angeles County Bar Ethics committee, which is developing a paper lliat will give nursing homes guide lines for dealing with the sexual needs of disabled people.
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sex drives... this often comes as s surprise to nondisabled people." Price said. 5-
Price began the lecture by describing the history of disabled reproductive rights.
Sterilisation without consent occurred in the 1970s, he ssid. Doctors at what is now Los Angries County-USC Medical Center would sterilize women who had come in to give birth if they fell the women should not have more children. The legal action generated by these cases brought change, however. Now, MediCal will not pay for sterilization at the time of delivery, and consent I sae Bveat. paga SI
is the administrative director of the Charles R. William Project on Sexual Orientation Law Stanton Price works on nursing-home legislation