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Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
February M, 2003
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(iroup Senate antiwar measure fails
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Qubc Coed cheerleaders gather twice a week to go over routines for next year
By DANIELLE LEDERGERBER
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Foregoing relaxing Sunday* and sleeping in Tuesday*, a small group of Trojans practices stunU behind Pardee Tower in hopes of establishing the first official USC cheer club.
With the help of D’Nei Westmoreland, the group recently satisfied all requirements imposed by Student Affairs before beginning practice.
“One of the major concerns was that this club would take away from the traditions of the school, specifically the song and yell leaders,* said Westmoreland, cheer coach and an executive assisUnt for Information Services Division.
Concerns regarding the traditions of USC led lo further dilemma because the club needed to schedule next year's tryouts around the Song. Yell and Dance Leaders' preexisting schedules.
"We had a lot of bureaucracy to deal with as far as when we could hold tryouts," Westmoreland said.
The club plans to hold tryouU sometime in the fall.
All student participating had to sign proper forms.
“We all had to sign release forms, and then we could get started,” said Missy Wallace, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering.
After meeting each requirement, the group looked forward to establishing both a coed and allgirl competition squad. Because they are just getting started, both squads, totaling about 28 people, I see Squad page 17 I
: After three hours of debates, resolution to condemn possible U.S action could not get majority support
By ALICE WALTON and BlttAN REED
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At leaat 70 people squeezed into the Student SenaU meeting Tuesday night to debaU for and against a resolution that would ataU Senate's oppo
sitton to Ui. unilateral military action in Iraq.
Studenu voiced their opinions at Topping Student Center for nearly three hours in the standing-room only meeting during which each student wa* given two minutes to debate or ask question* regarding the resolu-
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SenaU did not pa# the resolution because it needed seven and one-half votes for a majority vote and only received seven The resolution, howev er, can be picked up on the agenda next week because it wu nol voted down.
The Aral draft of the resolution wu submitted to senators and dis tributed to student, organisations Friday by e-mail.
The resolution wu drafted by Davin Sweeney, Senates director of political affairs, and residential sens
tors Charuni Patibanda and Nilay Vora.
One common argument voiced by sludenU who did not sup|>ort the res oiutton wu that SenaU wu not elect ed to represent the student body's political views.
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Being heard. Students vote electronically at a booth on Ttousdale Parkway tor the Student Senate president end
senators tor the 2003-2004 school year. Elections continue today and Thursday.
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Relationship with black students, USC improving
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USC’s history with black students has changed during the last 100 years
By PURNIMA MUDNAL
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ack in the 1950s, Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke remembers 'when Julie's, a bar and restaurant then on Flower Street, refused to serve her. She and her law school friends left the restaurant to hang out at a friend's place.
Brathwaite-Burke was the first black woman since 1928 to graduate from USC s School of Law. She then went on to become a California assemblywoman and then represented the 28th
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“I had a good experience at USC, but when I got out of law ■ school, it was a totally different thing.” she said.
Others, however, did not have such a positive experience.
“tt was very different back then. I was the only black student pursuing clauical music at the time,” said Lura Ball, director of Black Alumni Relations. “There wasn’t much support within the school, and even when the time came tor my senior recital, I had to
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get special permission to perform the works of William Grant Still, a black composer.
John A. Somerville encountered hostile claumates on his first day in the dentistry school in 1909, according to the Black Alumni Association's booklet titled "Trojans of Ebony Hue." They threatened to resign en masse unless he was dismissed from the university.
Then-dean Garrett Newkirk called Somerville for a meeting in which Somerville explained to
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Light beer has been increasing ly making iu presence at parities across the nation, but USC ' studente do not seem to be follow ing the same trend.
Representatives from Coors, which produces Coors Light, snd Anheuser-Busch, home of Bud ‘
Light. Neural Light and Michelob Ultra (which all contain between 92 and 110 calories per 12 ounces ), have said their light beers are gen rrally their best-selling brands.
Even the Boston Beer Company, which introduced Sam Adams Light (124 calories), only recently in the fall of 2002. has seen sales that continue to dramatically exceed expectations, uid Erica Stallman, sales promotion representative for tlie Boston Beer Co.
Light beers have gone from being 38.2 percent of the total beer market in 1997 to 44 percent in 2001, and the upward trend is expected to continue, uid Adam Svoboda, auistant editor of Beer Marketers Insight (BMI), ntrade publication.
Despite the national trend of growing popularity in light beers, however, studente on campus seem rather divided on their preferences.
”1 think light befer is just a waste of time,” said Jennie Lange, a senior majoring in theater and Spanish. "It belittles the point of it, and Id rather have just one glass of great beer than mess around with that light stuff."
Others have different priorities in their beer drinking.
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