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Members of a campus role playing organization fence In Alumni Park earlier this week.
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Picture John Lee Hooker or Muddy Waters playing with the Cramps in a 20 by 20 foot space with a concert hall-sized sound system and enough echo to fill
Spencer has little regard for the audience
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~ Adam Stack
October 28,1994 Vol. CXXIII, No. 40
Sunny: 80°
It will be another summer-like day. The high will be in the 80s. The evenings will be cool and clear with a low in the 60s.
Broadcasters cover new ground
Student cable news program adds audience in San Francisco
By Keisha Thomas
Staff Writer
IMPACT, a news program produced by students in the School of Journalism, has broadened its impact to a San Francisco audience, providing more opportunities for broadcast students.
The program currently broadcasts to a potential 2.6 million viewers on 20 cable outlets. The northward expansion was made in connection with Viacom Cable Company.
Created by Sherrie Mazingo, chair of the broadcast journalism program, IMPACT aired its first show in October 1991. Since then, IMPACT has won several awards, including a college Emmy from the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences and a National Hearst Broadcast
Competition award.
IMPACT is not only an item for a student's resume, it provides invaluable hands-on experience for those wishing to pursue careers in broadcasting, participants said. Students fill positions of directors, producers, program coordinators, anchors and camera operators.
By taking advantage of these jobs, students receive a taste of an atmosphere in which they will work after college. More than 20 IMPACT alumni presently work in professional television news operations, both in front of and behind the camera.
Former executive producer Christina Knorr, a 1993 graduate, said her experience with IMPACT was both useful and educational.
"(They) bring in instructors
who are already in the field to help create a professional setting for students working on IMPACT," said Knorr, now a producer for KBAK-TV in Bakersfield. "It's much more effective than just studying theories alone."
Felicia Kitt, a 1994 graduate who now works for KPIC-TV in Roseberg, Ore., also worked with IMPACT.
"Aside from the hands-on experience," Kitt said, "you also get to see your own work being aired. IMPACT actually does take some of its material straight from broadcasting classes."
Gavin Williams, a former IMPACT anchor, graduated in 1994 and landed a broadcasting job with KHAS-TV in Hastings, Neb.
"I don't believe I could have
been in the position I currently am had it not been for my involvement with IMPACT," Williams said.
"IMPACT teaches students about the organization that needs to go into the production of a news program ... all of the work which must be invested before a story ever airs."
The addition of San Francisco to IMPACT'S already lengthy list of broadcast locations is a major step for the program, Mazingo said.
While IMPACT'S main focus was once the events in Southern California, it is expanding to a more universal view. The new exposure will also provide another market on which the participating students can be seen.
Mazingo said she looks for-(See IMPACT, page 2)
Looking for homes for the holidays
Host families give international students taste of American Thanksgivings
By Kim Smith
City Editor
International students remaining on campus at Thanksgiving may have the opportunity to enjoy a traditional holiday celebration through the Thanksgiving Dinner Matcn-Up Program, sponsored by the International Peer Advocate Program.
Open to the more than 4,000 international students at USC, the program matches the student and a university-related family for Thanksgiving Day.
"We're recruiting host families to match with students who have applied to our office," said Kenya Martinez, an IPA mem-
ber and one of the the coordinators of the Match-up Program.
"Out of all of the students who apply, most are in their first semester and they don't have a clue what Thanksgiving is all about," said Martinez, a junior majoring in accounting. "This is a whole new experience for them."
"It's a great way for international students to get to know more about American culture," said Carey Stone, a senior majoring in Latin American studies and another member of the IPA.
Martinez said the host families also benefit from the exchange.
"The families get to see anoth-
er culture," she said.
Both the families and the students fill out evaluation cards after Thankgiving, and Martinez said the response has always been positive. Many families volunteer repeatedly, and keep in touch with the students they host.
"We encourage them to keep in contact with each other afterwards, because that's the whole point," Martinez said. "Some students are invited back for Christmas.
"There's a constant flow, back and forth," she said.
"The effort has been very successful," Stone said. "It is one of the most popular programs in
the IPA."
Anyone interested in participating in the program can pick up an application at the IPA office. All applications must be received by Nov. 7, so students and hosts have time to make contact, Martinez said.
The IPA works with the Office for International Students and Scholars to offer support to international students and expose other students to foreign cultures. In addition to the Match-| up Program, the IPA also sponsors the International Speakers Program, as well as"international dining and film clubs.
(See Dinner, page 3)
Three times this season,
No. 2 USC and No. 1 Stanford have met in the pool. Three times, the Cardinal has won. Tonight, the Trojans try to change things and take the top ranking.
Sports, page 8
Soccer attempts to end slump
The USC soccer team is winless in its last four games. This afternoon, it tries to change that against the Pepperdine Waves at Howard Jones Field at 12:30 p.m.
Sports, page 8
Students vie for prestigious scholarships
By Ken Braslow
Assistant City Editor
The rewards are great but the competition is immense.
"It's crazy, it's stressful. But it's most rewarding to get their applications off in the mail," said Lidia Ramirez, director of academic recognition programs.
The cause of the excitement is this year's Rhodes and Marshall scholarships applicants. The mid-October deadline saw at least eight applicants for the Rhodes and seven for the Marshall.
Sixty-one Rhodes awards are given annually to the world's brightest students to study in England. Thirty-two of them go to Americans.
"(Winning the Rhodes) will give me the opportunity to look more thoroughly into questions that can't be answered when I'm in the real world," said Jason Reed, a senior majoring in cinema-television and philoso-(See Scholars, page 3)
Want some rap? Go to GroundZero
Hip-hopsters Base All Mighty appear with Infra Redd and Defiant Giant Alliance tonight at 9 at the GroundZero Coffeehouse in a display of three of the genre's rising stars.
Diversions, page 5
Water polo hosts No. 1 Stanford