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Students Mann, Lammon capture win
protest through reading
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"Lysistrata" makes statement for antiwar cause
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Ii) an echo ol tiie flowei pown grnrralions slogan of “make love, nol war' atudenta In the classic* department slagrd a reading of the Greek play “Lysistrata" as part uf a worldwide peace effort Monday. About 50 people attended the
•	in (■oilman1 Fark when* Mfvatal faculty members aiao par* ticipated in the theatar event for peace. USC* reading wai part of the Lyaiattata Project that organized about 750 readings In 49 coun-triea Monday.
In "Lyaistrata," a play written 24 centuries ago by Aristophanes, the women of Greece go on a sex strike as a way to end the bloody Peloponnesian War.
In the play the husbands ultimately give in to peace, which is forced by sexual frustration.
“In watching the reading of Lysistrata, it reminded me that these ancient texts do not exist in a vacuum." said Lianna*Mills, a graduate student in comparative litera turr “That we can use the comedy of Aristophanes lo think through somr of the complex social problems that we face today "
Professors participating in the reading agreed
"I think its good for people lo realrze how long war has been an issue. This tradition of antiwar demonst ration has gone as far back as more than a thousand years,"
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BacHon: Sophomore Harold Mann makes school history as the youngest student to win Senate presidential election
By BRIAN REED
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Harold Mann and Deborah Lammon were- announced as Student Senate president and viae preaident for the 2003 2004 achooi year in leavey Library Auditorium on Monday morning.
Mann and Lammon were elected in a landslide, receiving about 52
percent of the vote
Mann and Lammon received 2,209 votes, which was more than twice the number of votes received by tlie runner-up.
A total of 4.744 undergraduate students voted in tiie election that rau from Feb. 25 to 27, said Annir Mullaly, director of SenaU election and recruitment.
That number is a little leu than
hundred votes abort of laat year * elections, which had the highest votar turnout in recant Senate history
“I waa very excited about voter
turnout," aaid Mann, a sophomorr majoring in public policy and man-agement "The fact tluit Deborah and I won by auch a large margin shows that the atudents wanted us elected"
David Chaain, a junior majoring in economics, and one of the newly elected commuter senators, howev er, aaid he had problems with voter turnout In commuter students.
"It waa absolutely ridiculous I tow low voter turnout waa for com muters." he aaid. “I was appalled at 1 sae itiain, page IS I
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About a dozen cockroach corpses lie belly-up on the floor of Parkside Apartment’s aecond-story laundry room. Live roaches scuttle across the walla, behind recycling containers in the trash doaet and between the doorways to reaidents' apartments
"The roaches are in my closet and under my clothes and on the walls; one was even in my bed," said Ashley Olson, a sophomore majoring in communication. "I’m not messy; I keep everything picked up and vacuumed. They’re still there, though"
Yael Adef, a sophomore major ing in political science, psychology and French, is the residential advis er for the second floor of Parkside. She said her floor is apparently get ting the worst of what seems to be an infestation of cockroaches in the building.
“I’ve tried to get all my residents to put in work orders,* Adef aaid. “We can't seem to really do anything about it"
Adef aaid she keeps all the food in her kitchen tightly packaged, her apartment clean and her dishes washed. USC has even tiad hei lent fumigated, and she
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"I see probably four to five roaches a day," Adef said, as a cock roach clung to tiie wall in front of her.
But Jeff Urdahi, director of Houaing Services, said residents in Parkside should be seeing relief U) the ongoing cockroach problem, as Housing Services has stepped up the treatment program in response to student complaints.
"We know that we have had a problem with cockroaches (at Parkside), bul we think we re on top of il again." Urdahi said.
Housing Services are working with Dewey Pest Control to exterminate thr insects and set up bait.
“Students are beginning to find dead bugs now, which is bet lei than finding livr ones." Urdahi said.
Urdahi stressed that residents should continue filing work orders sbout their cockroach problems. Housing Services uses the orders to track which buildings may need more mitigation, and when the problems begin and end.
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Israel week kicks off with education
Pride: SC Students for Israel and other Jewish student groups partake in celebration of Middle East nation
By SHRADDHA R. JAISWAL
Contributing WriUr
SC Students for Israel presents the celebration of Israeli culture on Trousdale Parkway from March 3 to
7.
The event focuses around creating awareness of Israel as a nation outside of the controversy between Palestine and Israel’s religious and boundary disputes.
“We wanted to do this to celebrate the country separate from the conflict, to show the general public
on campus that there is more to Israel than what people see on TVT said Sarah Schpall, a fellow with the Hamagshimim Jewish Campus Service Core.
Sponsors for the week-long celebration, including USC Hillel Jewiah Center and Hamagshimim, hope to ahed light on various aspects of Israeli culture.
, Although no specific elements or incidents sparked the festivities, the sponsors aspired to create sn appreciation of Israel and its character without a background of politics.
Each day 8 events will center on a specific theme dealing with sddressing ah aspect of the culture. Monday’a Democracy and Diversity dsy kicked off with a variety of Israeli music and a video of Operation Moses — the historical airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
The video portrayed the struggle and rescue of religiously oppressed Ethiopian Jews who endured the physical hardahips of famine and political persecution for their faith. In the 1980s, the Jewish communities banded together to aid the Ethiopian Jews in their flight from extermination and in their reintegration into Israeli soci-1 sae twil, page 111
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By KEITH WA6STAFF
SUIT Writer
As Fat Tuesday passes and the Mardi Gras beads are discarded like so many cups of stale beer, many students will attempt to make the transition from hedonistic party machines to devout religious worshippers.
Starting on Ash Wednesday; the 40-day period known as Lent will begin. Lent is a time of self-sacrifice and reflection toward God in preparation for Easter. Many other religions also have traditions that require worshippers to enter a state
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“Part of futing is making ourselves more open to God in our lives." said Father William Messenger, director of the USC Catholic Center.
For the Catholic tradition, fast-
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