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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY
January It, 2000 Vol. CXXXIX, No. S
Spring Hush offers chance duriiuj weeklony event to join sororities or fraternities to those people who chose not to in the fall
fall can now be introduced to the Greek system."
1FC kicked off its spring rush with a Fraternity Forum on Tuesday. During the forum, rushees were able to visit with various fraternity members at their designated booths and to register as an official rushee. IFC executive board members were also present at the event. The Fraternity Forum continues from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today on the lawn of Doheny Library.
Because many rushees already have a good idea of which houses they would like to rush, the process is usually quicker than it would be in the fall, said Alec Coughlin, a junior majoring in financial
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By YVONNE NGA1
Greek Writer
ir-Tp^i hose who missed it the first 4	time have been given another
It	chance - rush for the Greek sys-
$	tem has come again.
With activities happening throughout this week, students interested in going Greek have several opportunities to meet Greek members, chcck out individual houses and meet fellow rushees.
“It is a tradition for fraternities to have both a fall and spring rush," said Steve Todd, a junior majoring in gerontology' and president of the Interfraternity Council. “Those that didn’t pledge in the
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Above: Alpha Chi Omega house Top: Pledges at the Alpha Chi Omega sorority watch a video about the Greek system at USC on Tuesday
Spring offers
opportunities for ton, pride
Events: Program Board to provide heritage programs as well as concerts, speakers and festivals
By DANA NICHOLS
Program Board Writer
With events such as the annual Springfest celebration and several heritage festivals, Program Board will be providing several opportunities this semester for students to show pride for their heritage and their school, voice their political opinions and, of course, party.
The festivities start in February with Black History Month, and the Black Students Assembly is planning activities such as a Gospel Explosion in Hnvurtl Auditorium, a hu*i» show und the Mis* Black and Gold Pageant for the month, said Hari'ctt Rciff,
Program Board director and a junior majoring in accounting.
The Latino Heritage Festival will be in March and, like most other events, is still in the planning stages.
The Asian Pacific American Students Assembly has plans under way for April’s 20th anniversary celebration of the Asian Heritage Festival. There will be cultural performances such as Dragon Dances throughout the center of campus, and guest speakers.
Six Asian-American clubs will have culture shows. For example, the Hawaii Club will hold a luau on March 25 in Founders Park.
For April 6, APASA Ls organizing a concert which is expected to be the largest Asian-American concert ever put on at a college, with a projected attendance of 3,000 to 4,000 people, said Tu M. Tran, APASA director and a senior majoring in Asian-American studies and communication. Produced in conjunction with Asian-
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February
Black History Month n/a WomytVs
Festival of Arts
March
22.	Election Concert
23.	Hawaii Club Culture Show
29. "Take Back the Night” n/a Latino Heritage Festival
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Springfest APASA concert Asian-American awareness conference
Pride & Pizzazz fashion show Pridefest
Four clean-up amendments approved
Senate: Dudes of officers clarified; applications for next year available
By MEREDITH COOPER
Student Senate Writer
Student Senate unanimously approved four clean-up amendments regarding the duties of officers at Tuesday night’s meeting. The amendments made the I see Senate, page 19 I
Internet tightens doctor-patient relationship
A column appearing Wednesday that features issues concerning student health
By FRANCESCA CIMINO
Assistant City Editor
In what is becoming an extraordinarily successful coexistence, the health care industry and the internet are continually strengthening their symbiotic dependency to provide a glimpse of the future of the health care provider-patient relationship.
With instantaneous access to a limitless barrel of health care information, the way patients and their health providers interact and exchange information is slowly shifting.
“I think (the internet) is changing the doctor-patient relationship," Manning said. “Patients will feel more like partners.”
Patients are not only becoming more aware of how to help themselves, they are coming to doctors armed with self-
diagnoses and an armload of information that they have researched on the internet.
“Patients are coming to the doctor’s office with a handful of printouts,” said Dr. Phil R. Manning, associate dean of postgraduate studies at the Keck School of Medicine.
With the inception of MEDline, the National Library of Medicine’s searchable database, and such consumer friendly sites like WebMD and ThriveOnline, information on any given health topic is no further out of reach than a stroke of a key. The problem is that not all of the information that patients can find on the internet is good.
“Much of the information is quite good — excellent, in fact - but some of it is terrible,” Manning said.
With more consumers taking their health care into their own hands, doctors are challenged to “stay on their
toes” and to judge whether or not their patients’ information is accurate while finding a way to say so diplomatically, Manning said.
“1 don’t think the average patient can tell (what’s good and what’s not),” Manning said. ‘There is a lot of garbage and a lot of good and you have to be able to decide what’s what.”
However, while the potential for consumer misinformation remains a caveat, the extent to which new information can be disseminated to a large portion of the population is a direct result of the internet’s eagerness to embrace the health field.
For health care providers, the internet provides not only a plethora of resources at their fingertips, but also access to opinions of other providers from around the world. While journals
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