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Meeting ludicial Council rules reapportumment illegal after winter break
By ALICE WALTON
Stall Writci
Student Small was unable to pass a reapportionment proposal by the end of last semester and now will be unable to change tbe structure of student representation in the Senate lor another two years, despite months of planning.
The judicial Council would not let Senate vote on reapportionment after winter break because it interpreted the constitution to mean vot mg had to lake place before spring semester.
At the last Senate meeting in December. Senate debated the proposed changes in representation and decided to table the issue and vote on it after vacation. However, the Judicial Council ruled that Senate missed their chance.
In 2000, the Judicial Council interpreted the constitution differently and allowed Senate to vote on reapportionment after winter vacation. Residential and Commuter Senators each gained one vote in Senate.
Currently, the legislative branch of Student Senate is made up of five Residential Senators, five Commuter Senators, two Greek Senators, and 10 Representatives who come from various campus organizations.
The proposed changes would have eliminated all* those 10
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Grades: Professors notified during fall semester that they no longer can post grades using Social Security numbers
By PURNIMA MUDNAL
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Last semeslet, USC announced Uiat professors could no longer use any part of a student's Social Security numt>ers to post grades online.
According to the Family Educational Rights to Privacy, a fed era) law, public posting of grades either by the student’s name, student identification number or the Social
Security number without the stu dents written permission is a viola tion of law
Professors cannot post student's grades using their SSN oi even the Iasi four digits of their SSN in conformance with FERPA, said Ken Servis, dean of Academic Records and Registrar
"Some professors still post grades using students Social security numbers or even the last lour digits
of Uieu Social security numbers ami whenevei we have discovered that, we have informed them that it's not allowed." he said
Servis said faculty are responsi ble for making sure Uial students don't have to use any personally identifiable information to access grades online.
"If it threatens students’ privacy then I agree with the policy regard less of whethei posting grades becomes- more of an effort on the part of the instructor," said Rachel Walker, assistant professor of Linguistics, who received tbe memo
during fall 2002.
She said what they ended up doing lot her class was e-mailing« each student individually Uieir grade whether it was then midterm oi Uieir final grade..
“In the past we would post grades using the last four digits of the student 's Social Security number We believed that would ensure then privacy. Then we received word that any piece of information that would identify the student wasn't allowed So basically, we just had TAs' e-mail students their grades or the student
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Video store opens for students, neighborhood
Business: New concept store'opens in University Village selling and renting DVDs, video games and skate apparel
By SNELLIE BRANCO
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It's Friday night, and two men laugh as they stand outside a new store in University Village, their eyes glued to two television screens playing “The Nutty Professor" on DVD. A customer inside the store leafs through a magazine, and another browses through the video game section.
*We Got Game opened early December in the former location of Waves Music, splitting the space with King of Music and Hip-Hop Wear. The store offers DVDs and video games for sale, rent and trade.
It also sells game consoles, gaming accessories, magazines and skateboarding gear
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Going placet The five members of the producing craw will be heading lot Uie Sundance film test wai later this week
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Fasbvd: Four USC students and one USC graduate travel to Park City, Utah, to showcase feature film
By ALISON SHACKELFORD
SUft Writer
Students Irom USC's School ol Cinema 'television may dream of get ting a leatuie length movie mtu an A list him lestival such as Sundance, but tins yeai. a lew undergraduates managed to do it on then first try
The films writer-director -pro-ducet, Biandon Sonnier, teamed up wlUi lour friends who had started then own production company to create “The Beat"
The 8H minute movie, filmed during summer vacation, will be
shown al this weeks Sundance Film Festival in Park City. Utah. There, it could be picked up by a distributor, such as Miramax, and purchased lor millions more than the relatively low budget of $700,000 it look to make Uie film. Mid Justui Wilson, director ol alumni relations for the School of Cinema-Television.
Sonnier, a junior majoring in cm etna'television production, pro duced the film with four friends, three of whom attend USC. The lourUi. a recent USC graduaU, was the only one old enough lo drink when Uie screenplay was first writ ten, although two more of them could legally join him by Uie time Uie group celebrated then acceptance to Sundance
“That's — pretty young. Wow." said Sundance official Douglas
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