February 8, 100*
Of interest...
UCLA men's basketball team it in danger of suffering their first losing season in 55 years./90
Intensity
hive USC students join forces to produce a play, "RA. W. ('Cause I'm a Woman)"for Gender and
Sexuality Week / 7
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
Fines: ('ity issues tickets and tows away cars parked near campus because of Mexico Argentina match at Coliseum
Tuesday night, temporary ‘no stop ping’ signs werr potted prohibiting parking on thoae street# between 11 a.m. and midnight, with warning# that car# would be towed.
Regardless of whether therr wa# still time on parking meters, traffic control officers ticketed all cars parked on Figueroa Street, Jefferson and hxposition boulevards and Vermont Avenue on Tuesday after noon.
By about 12:30 p.m.. a fleet of tow trucks and traffic officers began towing cart away.
Officer Briggs, one of the traffic enforcement officers ticketing cart, aaid that becauae of the aoccer match the city waa ’expecting riot ing-type activities, and all theae cart have to be ofl of the street.” What cauaed furioua emotion# by cart' owner* was tiiat many ol them had not aeen the poated algns As drivers showed up and saw whal was happening, moat of them had no idea that the temporary
By ARMANDO BROWN
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Shocked USC student# and visi lor# who parked on street# sur-lounding the campus Tuesday found ticket# on cars they had parked only a lew hour# earlier, while oUier# found that then car# had been towed away.
becaufce ol a aoccer match between Mexico and Argentina
Caul help Drivers who discovered their cart either ticketed or towed before the ftrgentinfrMexIco aoccer game complain U> traffic officers.
USC admits error in sports media guide
134*08 during Senate's Tuesday night meeting.
Therr was leu than $6,000 in die hind, Brown aaid
The fund wat not sure whether It would allocate the money to one proj act or tplil thr money to all seven projects.
"ll depends on the merits of the application,* Brown aaid, a senior majoring in public policy and man agemenL
After theae aeven applications, thr fund will moat likely be out of money I aee Seaafta. page 141
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commuter teuatoi who wrote the Leaderahip Fund resolution ‘They teemed supportive (when It wat first diacutaed). That's how it goes."
These change# leavr $1,000 from thr commuter senators thal may br allocated to thr Leaderahip Fund, if thr resolution ia voted on and paaaed at a future meeting
The Leaderahip Fund, which ghttt money to atudent organization# par-bcipating in Conferences, retreats and recognition awards, reviewed seven applications asking for morr than
Monty: Senators no longer supporting resolution that would give excess Junds to Senate Leadership Fund
|v ly yyjgjQg	Greek Senators. During thr meeting
W|1lri	the Greek constituency pulled out Its
$1,000 becauae it may give die money
Student Senate tabled a resolution	to Greek Week. Greek Senaloi Matt
indefinitely by a unanimous vote dur	Seltzer told the Senate.
Ing Tuesday night's meeting Uiat	The residential senators also
would have given leadership Fund	pulled out their $400 becauae they
$2,400 to fund student projects.	plan on usiiqi the funds for a transi
The resolution would have allocat	tional handbook or videotape for die
ed leadership Fund money previously	new Reaidential senator# given to the commuter, residential and "Peoplr approachrd mr right
Statistics: Football publicatum printed wrong set of numbers for 2002
In response lo accusations levied against the university for improperly representing the true crime rale at USC, tlie administration admitted to mistakenly publishing false crime rale information in the 2002 USC Football media guide
The Daily Biuin, UCLA# student newspaper, ran a Jan 22 article stating that, contrary to claims made in the 2002 USC football media guide, UCLA ha.s a lower crime rate than USC.
In the Trojan media guide tbe school claim# lo have a crime rale 'comparable lo that of Stanford and lowei (one third less) than tiiat of
UCLA"
Tim Tessalone, director of USC's sport# information, said the erroneous figures in the media guide came from university public relations. Fact# and figures about USC are supplied to the sports information office annually, Tessalone said, and those figures are included in the media guides.
“The numbers are old and erroneous," Tessalone said. “They will be properly updated in next year’s media guide."
The statistic came as a shock to the UCLA community, the Daily Bruin reported.
The UCLA Police Department took it upon itself to disprove the notion that USC had a lower crime rate than UCLA.
In late August, after the Trojan media guide was released, a call was placed to the UCLA Police Department from the UCLA athletics department asking the department to look into the reported I see UCLA, page 111
A USC law student petitums corporate computer giant to recall potentially dangerous power cords
But Mirzayan knew thit to be false. She had already visited Apple.comt discuttion boards and found approximately 80 poets from Apple users claiming to have the same problem. When she mentioned this to Apple, they discounted the validity of the potts.
“They told me that anyone could post about anything on their site, and there was no way to prove that the claims were real," Mirzayan said.
Yet when Mirzayan visited the site soon afterward, she found that the posts had apparently been removed.
“I couldn’t believe it," Mirzayan said.
In response, she created an online petition regarding the dangers of the faulty power cords, and I see NWIta, page 14
By SARAH HALL
ContribuUiig Writer
Tenny Mirzayan doesn't like being shocked. And she doesn’t want others else to be shocked eithei. Especially if they use an Apple iBook computer as she does.
The 25-year-old USC law student recently petitioned Apple computers with a number of demand# after her iBook began sparking wild ly when she attached its power cord. She dropped the computer in fear, breaking its display.
“I went into the Apple store and demanded that they replace the cord and fix njy display,* Mirzayan said. “They refused and put me on the phone with customer support. They said they had never had any complaints about this problem."