Newspaper of the University off Southern California
Study decries lack of supermarkets
Jaaon K. Hallmann / Dally Trojan
Shoppers crowd the aisles of nearby Notrlca's 32nd Street Market.
Wednesday November 17,1993 Vol. CXXI, No. 55
Weather
Look to the skies to see the warm inviting sun. Expect some winds throughout day. The high temperature should be in the 70s and the low in the 50s.
Inside
Peete against Aikman in ’88
In the 1988 USC-UCLA game, quarterbacks Rodney Peete and Troy Aikman battled not just for local bragging rights, but also for the Heisman, the Rose Bowl, and perhaps the national championship in a classic rivalry-fueled game.
Sports, page 20
A student’s guide to roach control
USC housing can make you dread the night, since that's when the roaches party. But never fear — those dirty little suckers can be as good as dead, if you do it right.
Diversions, page 10
Access system is just another rip-off
Students are the university's captive audience.
Phone doesn't work? Too bad. Access system is down? Tough luck. And don't even think about being reimbursed.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Center sponsors essay contest
The Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies is sponsoring an essay contest open to all USC undergraduates.
Entries should address the following prompt: "Multiculturalism and multiethnicity have had a profound impact on daily life in Los Angeles. Explain how multiculturalism and multiethnicity have influenced your own field of study."
Limit your entry to 1,000 words and include your name, Social Security Number and telephone number. Entries can be submitted at CMTS (Kerckhoff Hall 208) or in VKC 307.
The first place winner will . receive a $250 award.
For more information, contact H. Eric Schockman at (213) 743-1621.
Coalition sees area’s hunger on the incline
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
Twenty-seven percent of residents of the area north of USC do not have enough money to buy the food they need, stated a report on hunger in the area released in June.
The report, entitled "Seeds of Change," commissioned by the Southern California Interfaith Hunger Coalition and put to-
?;ether by a group of researchers rom UCLA, found that the problem of hunger in the inner-city area has grown over the past several years.
Much of the hunger problem the study uncovered was linked by the report to the paucity of supermarkets in the area, which led to decreased options for one-third of the area's households without private transportation.
By Nne Ebong
Staff Writer
Thirty high school students will experience a typical day in the life of an engineering student today in an event sponsored by tne USC chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
The SHPE Mentoring Day is an event held every semester and designed to promote higher education and engineering to
Most shoppers leaving Notrica's went to cars, although a few went to a nearby bus stop.
The study focused on an area roughly bounded by Vermont Avenue, Pico Boulevard, Central Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard in which there are only three supermarkets along with many smaller stores. For all the complaints USC students express on a regular basis about the only supermarket within walking distance, for many poorer families in the neighborhood, it is their only practical option.
Notrica's 32nd Street Market, located in the University Village shopping center, is the only store within walking distance of the North University Park area. Hence it is often the only practical place to shop for food in the transportation-poor region, said the report.
Like many inner-city supermarkets, the selection at Notrica's is in some respects not as varied and its prices not as affordable as larger chain stores,
minority high school students, said Robin Jeffers, minority engineering program assistant director.
"The program grew out of SHPE's commitment to the community and to providing good role models for kids," Jeffers said.
The students, all members of the Wilson High School Math, Engineering and Science Achievement Club, are paired
especially those in the suburbs.
Yesterday afternoon, Notrica's market was crowded with shoppers. Those who were willing to say why they shop there had no particular reason other than proximity.
The lack of choice may cause problems for those who have no way to get to any other supermarket, or who prefer to shop
with SHPE volunteers who take them to engineering classes, give them tours of the campus and show them aspects of college life, said Luis Camarillo, vice president and Advancing Careers in Engineering coordinator of SHPE.
"A lot of Latino kids don't think USC is for them because they've heard it's too hard, too expensive or racist," Camarillo said. "We want to show them that they can make it at 'SC and have a great college experience here."
Camarillo said funding for the event was provided by SHPE
nearby. The most striking result is for many of these families, there is often not enough money to buy the food they need to keep from going hungry, let alone to be properly nourished.
However, community groups often see solutions to hunger in the inner city as best addressed through such stopgap methods (See Hunger, page 13)
and the Latino Student Assembly, covering the cost of busing in the students and providing them with lunch.
The students are encouraged throughout the day to use the visit as an opportunity to ask questions and share their concerns with their mentors, Jeffers said.
Wilson High teacher Evelyn Torres-Rangel said past participants felt that the one-on-one contact they had with USC students and the realigtic view they got of the campus influenced their decision when choosing an (See SHPE, page 6)
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Lesley Rollo, president of Alpha Delta PI, far left, and David Cohen, president of Lambda Chi Alpha, far right, talk with President Sample and his wife, Kathryn.
Sample urges students to join Greek life
By Melanie Asp
Staff Writer
Amid candlelight, floral centerpieces and cardinal and gold napkins, USC President Steven Sample added a flair of excitement to a routine Monday night fraternity / sorority dinner.
Sample, his wife Katnryn and other university administrators attended a reception and dinner meeting hosted by Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity ir. conjunction with Alpha Delta Pi sorority. The event, held in honor of Sample, was an effort to improve relations between Greeks and the university.
In his post-dinner address to the-members am leaders of the Greek system, Sample expressed h views and goals for the interdependence of the university and the Greeks within the USt community.
"What I see is a cooperative relationship be tween the univerity on one hand and the frati mi
(See Sample, pag■ 14
SHPE demonstrates a day in the life
Engineering society presents local high schoolers with campus tour