News	EEE	er of the University	t of Southern California
Monday March 8,1993 Vol. CXIX, No. 36
Summery weather continues today. Expect the afternoon's high temperature to reach into the upper 70s to mid 80s. The overnight low should be in the cool upper 50s.
Inside
Period film ain’t got that ‘Swing’
Set in Nazi Germany, "Swing Kids" fails to fully grasp the essence of Swing, a subversive German youth movement that used American "hepster" culture as its basis.
Diversions, page 7
Trojans win third straight, 81-65
The USC men's basketball team continued to make it's late-season push for the NCAA Tournament with a 81-65 win over Washington State in the home finale for four seniors.
Sports, page 16
Role of LAS must gain recognition
President Steven Sample's willingness to acknowledge the importance of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is admirable — but he needs to put more force behind his words.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Forum held on abuse, violence
Speakers from the Sojourn Battered Women's Shelter, The Family Violence Project and Creating Attitudes for Rape-free Environments will present a panel discussion entitled "The Cycle of Abuse: Understanding Dating and Domestic Violence." The talk will be held Monday,
March 8, at the Hillel Jewish Student Center at 3300 S. Hoover St.
The program is sponsored jointly by the Women's Student Assembly, Program Board, USC Hillel, CARE and the Jewish Women's Network. For more information, call 747-9135.
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Residents upset over forced move
By Kim Smith
Staff Writer
The construction of a new residential college in College-Uni-versity Residence Hall has angered the 26 students who are being forced to move out of their first floor rooms to other places on campus.
The university has given the students until March 19 to choose from rooms in Bimkrant, Harris and College-University, after notifying them in a meeting Thursday.
"The problem we all have with this is that, something this big, they had to have known about it for a long time, but they only gave us two weeks notice," said Mike Newhouse, a freshman majoring in environmental studies, who has been asked to move. "It's a big inconvenience."
"We're all settled in and they give us two weeks' notice to pack up and move," said Jimmy Hammack, a junior majoring in electrical engineering. "I'd rather stay, not hassle with all this. It means a lot of time away from academics."
Hammack said most of the af-
fected students have midterms and don't have time to move.
"We have no choice of rooms and some of us aren't even able to move with our roommates," he said.
"We were finally starting to feel like a community, then they split us up," said Uvaldo Garcia, an undeclared freshman.
"They're not being considerate of these students, disrupting the academic and student community," said Residence Hall senator Michael Buckner, who is also a resident advisor in Col-lege-University. "With midterms and finals, it's too much . . . emotionally for these students to be put through."
"As a student senator," Buckner said, "I am totally against this. I haven't been asked, but there will be action taken."
Though the students will receive $200 to cover moving costs, $175 credit toward university housing in the fall and reimbursement for having their phones transferred, they still feel the university isn't compensating them enough.
"A lot of us aren't going to (See Move, page 6)
Job hunting
Jim Sabo / Dally Trojan
Ian Forrest, a freshman majoring in economics, shows referees his work ethic at the Women of Troy v. UCLA basketball game.
Quick vacation money could mean jail
By Paul Butler
Staff Writer
"Chris" woke up in the Constant Spring jail in Jamaica, wondering how the last five minutes of Spring Break could have changed his life forever.
It began with six incredible days on the beach at Negril. Nonstop sunshine, lazy days in the sand, wild parties at night.
But just before Chris boarded a plane to return to Los Angeles, a man offered him $10,000 to carry a small suitcase back to the United States.
Chris thought he could use the money to pay for his vacation and keep some on the side. But customs officials had a different idea.
When they found 20 kilos of cocaine in the suitcase, authorities arrested him for drug trafficking and he was sentenced to a Jamaican prison for five years.
Though Chris is not an actual person, he fits the typical profile of a "mule" — an
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American tourist who agrees to be a drug courier— as outlined by officials at the U.S. Consulate in Kingston.
"People think, 'I'll do it one time and make a quick killing,' " said Virginia Loo Farris, director of the U.S. Information Ser-
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vice in Jamaica.
"With young people, they have the feeling they're slightly invulnerable and won't get caught," Farris said.
Last year, more than 550 Americans were arrested in Jamaica, most of them on drug-related charges. Fifty-eight of those arrested are now in prison, Farris said.
"You can get thrown into some pretty nasty jails," said Gary Sheaffer, spokesman for the U.S. State Department in Washington.
Prisoners might be kept in total darkness for 16 to 20 hours a day, according to the 1992 Human Rights Report for Jamaica.
In 1992, three men died after being held (See Travel, page 2)
Greek CARE week begins Tuesday with pledge drive
By Barbara Ho
Staff Writer
In coordination with Greek Week and CARE Week, March 8-12, Greek CARE will be sponsoring its annual pledge signing event Tuesday in an effort to promote rape awareness on campus.
The campus organization, Creating Attitudes for a Rape-Free Environment, will be asking both men and women in the
Greek community to sign pledges to "challenge (themselves) to re-examine the role (they) play in stopping rape."
By signing the pledge, a male (See CARE, page 6)
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