Newspaper of the University of Southern California
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Wednesday October 5,1994 Vol. CXXIII, No. 23
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Headlines
‘Ed Wood’s’ odd filmic proclivities
Tim Burton's latest chronicles the life and times of the transvestite '50s B-mov-ie director, Edward Wood Jr. The film features a great
Grformance from Martin ndau as Bela Lugosi.
Diversions, page 9
Williams hurls himself into play
USC senior Brian Williams, despite a disturbing pregame ritual, has consistently been a force in the Trojan linebacking corps since starting as a sophomore.
Sports, page 16
Stories so weird they must be true
Average Joes love telling their life stories, but few people listen. Tales of 5-year-old biochemists and Seattle drug kingpins are just a few one can hear by lending an ear.
Viewpoint, page 4
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How will we explain that while children sold crack, Jj women were raped and the mentally ill slept in doorways we watched Amy
~ Krysten Fikes Viewpoint, Page 4
DPS to impound unlicensed bikes
Chowing down
Officers warn students to buy registrations
By Carolyn Bates
Staff Writer
Beginning next week, any unlicensed bicycles USC Department of Public Safety officers find unattended on campus will be locked down, in the latest of a series of impound raids conducted on campus.
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“It is hard to motivate some people to license their bicycles, so we have to resort to impounding bikes," said DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor.
Once a bicycle is impounded by one of the student officers responsible for enforcing bike policies, the owner must pay a $10 fee, in addition to $3 for the license, to have it released.
"The purpose is to encourage students to register bicycles and show them that because of bike licensing, the chances of recovering a stolen 'bike are very good," Taylor said.
According to California state law, every bicycle operated on any street, road, highway or other public property within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles
County must be licensed. Each bicycle is given a serial number that is entered into computers at DPS, the Los Angeles Police Department and in Sacramento.
The license makes it possible to trace a recovered lost or stolen bicycle to its owner.
"Without a frame number, the chances of recovering a stolen bike are about zero," Taylor said. "Our low bicycle theft rate is directly attributed to our being aggressive with registration."
Taylor said the $3 license is an inexpensive form of insurance, considering that the chances of recovering licensed bicycles in case of theft are greater than those of finding unlicensed ones.
Licenses are available year-round through the DPS, and a table has been set up in the center of campus for the last two weeks to encourage students to purchase them.
"Last year we were able to license 90 percent of the bikes on campus through students' own initiation or through impounding bicycles," said student captain Staci Blevins of the Student Law Enforcement Program. "We would rather sell licenses than have to impound bikes."
Though Taylor said USC has been registering bicycles for about 10 years, USC President Steven Sample created the current program a year and a half ago.
(See Bikes, page 6)
Troy Witt / Dally Tro|an
Thursday’s all-Greek barbecue at Alpha Delta PI drew a crowd.
Restaurant owner funds band facility
By Huan Le
Staff Writer
Juliet Kohl, owner of Julie's Trojan Barrel, has donated $100,000 to the Trojan Marching Band to build a band facility in the basement of Stonier Hall.
Construction of the new band facility was slated to begin Saturday. The facility will include new office space, a lounge area and space to store band equipment.
The renovation of the now-empty space will cost an estimated $200,000. The band has raised the remainder of that sum itself.
Professor plans to jazz up his wedding, New Orleans style
By Anisa Abeytia
Staff Writer
A music professor and his fiancee will share one of the most special moments in their lives with students and other attendees at their traditional New Orleans-style jazz wedding on campus Oct. 9.
Jazz studies professor Thom Mason and Rosemarie Christopher will be married by jazz great O.C. Smith, and the couple cordially invites USC students, staff and faculty to attend the ceremony at 3 p.m. at Town & Gown.
"It's more than a wedding; it's a celebration of the tradition of jazz," Christopher said.
"We wanted to create a concert that would celebrate the wedding and the music that really brought us together," Mason said.
Among the planned performers will be Carmen Bradford, who sang for jazz great Count Basie for nine years, Conrad Janis and the Beverly Hills Unlisted Band, and singer Yve Evans.
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Fiances Rosemarie Christopher and Thom Mason
For the past 18 years, Mason has been a professor of jazz studies at USC. His fiancee, Rosemarie Christopher, owns her own business and is a recruiter for the medical science industry.
Mason is also chairman of the Jazz Arts Foundation, whose goal is to help inner-city children, and to educate them about jazz. His commit-
ment to the foundation will be reflected by a change in wedding tradition: instead of receiving gifts, the couple will be doing the giving.
In an effort to raise money for the Jazz Arts Foundation, the USC School of Music is co-sponsoring the concert with the couple, during which they will be married.
The proceeds from the $10 requested admission fee will be used for scholarships for music students at inner-city high schools.
The couple is also asking friends to make a donation to the Jazz Arts Foundation instead of giving them gifts.
"We don't need another toaster," Christopher said in explaining why the couple chose their non-traditional gift request.
The idea for the concert began when Christopher suggested that, since Mason has so many friends that would want to play at the wedding, they make it into a concert and have the proceeds go to (See Wedding, page 11)
The new facility, expected to open by the first week in March, will be called Juliet Kohl's Trojan Marching Band Center.
"We need this new space," said Arthur Bartner, director of the marching band. "We're currently spread out over six buildings."
"The Trojan Marching Band is the only major band (in the Pacific 10) without its own facility," Bartner said. "The university promised the space if we could come up with the money to renovate that space, so we came to Julie."
(See Donation, page 2)
1,500 support demands of student senate petition drive
By Lilia Aguirre
Staff Writer
Student Senate collected its 1,500th signature for its "The students of USC demand . . ." petition on Friday, and will be presenting the list of demands to the Board of Trustees tomorrow, after the senate's weekly meeting.
The petition is an aggregate of requests dealing with improvements in USC housing, transportation, financial aid, the Student HealJh Center and the Department of Public Safety.
"I think the petition went well," said Student Affairs Chair Radha Thompson. "It made the students more aware of what Student Senate is doing, which was one of our main goals — to get the student body involved, and put something in writing."
Although the final signatures have been tallied, Student Senate President Jimmy Moye said any additional signatures couldn't hurt. Anyone wishing to add their name to the petition may do so before this afternoon.
(See Petition, page 11)