Friday
September 9,1994 Vol. CXXIII, No. 6
Weather
Sunny: 86°
After a clear and cool morning, expect a warm and sunny afternoon. The high will be in the mid-80s and the low will be in the 60s.
Headlines
“Professional” is tired, typical flick
French filmmaker Luc Besson's American debut is a debacle, as the acting and storyline are weak, and only the film's explosions and violence are impressive.
Diversions, page 7
Trojans head off to Penn State
The No. 14 USC football team meets the No. 8 Nit-tany Lions in an important non-conference game in State College, Pa., on Saturday. It will be televised live on Channel 7.
Sports, page 16
ACCESS system not hassle-free
Though the university leads one to believe that ACCESS is safer, cheaper and more convenient than old fashioned keys, at least one student believes the system is filled with problems.
Viewpoint, page 4
SQ) U O T E / /
If we sent Slurpees to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbs and Muslims could coexist 9 9
- Steve Yawitz
Diversions, Page 7
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Adrian Sander* / Dally Trojan
"Beverly Hills 90210" star Jenny Garth Is escorted as she walks through the center of campus toward Bovard Auditorium during filming of an episode for the fall season.
Filming brings stars, students to center campus
By Anisa Abeytia
Staff Writer
If you missed seeing USC in the recently released movie "Forrest Gump," you've got another chance to see the university on screen.
The cast and crew of "Beverly Hills, 90210" spent yesterday afternoon and evening on campus filming an episode of the series.
"We chose USC because of the look," said Jeff Garrett, assistant location manager for 90210. "We use Occidental College (as California University) and it has a real Spanish look to it.
"We wanted the rival school (SCU) to look completely different and it does," he said. "I wanted to use the Phys. Ed. Building, but it would have been too much trouble. It is a beautiful building."
(See Filming, page 11)
A Gould-en explanation of evolution
Harvard professor’s speech at Annenberg stirs some controversy
By Brian Buroon
Staff Writer
Audience members in a packed Annenberg Auditorium had a mixed reaction to Harvard professor Stephen Gould's recent speech on the future of the human race, in which he referred to humans as "variations on the Cambrian Explosion."
Gould said that event was the greatest lottery ever held — a biological one featuring a large outbranching of the tree of life, early in the history of life on Earth.
Only eight out of hundreds of species turned out to be lucky winners of a one-way ticket to further evolution, he said.
Gould said the human race should not be arrogant just because it has descended from one of the lucky invertebrates that was fit enough to survive during the Cambrian Period.
"We manage consistent and persistent biases in the way in which pop and professional culture looks at evolution, managing to construe it as a predictably progressive process of complexification, which led . . . to the origin of Homo sapiens. . .
"(It is) a perfectly sensible and reasonable outcome of the intrinsically directed process . . . this being what evolution means in vernacular language," he said.
Gould said he wanted his audience to see its own possible misconceptions regarding all pre-human evolution as a preview of the feature presentation, the arrival of the human species.
"If the tape of life was replayed, we would have a new set of survivors, he said.
But some students who hold fundamental Christian beliefs found this statement offensive, including some visiting Pepperdine University students.
Stephanie Asche, a biology major at Pepperdine, said, "He makes some very good points but is contradictory regarding man's insignificance and the responsibility of man's custodianship."
Another Pepperdine biology major, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, said, "I think for him to open minds of fundamentalist Christians, he needs to try to better understand their beliefs."
"He needs to be less bitter toward religion," said Dan Gerdeman, a biology major at USC.
Members of the attending USC faculty did not seem to be bothered by Gould's alleged insensitivity to the religious convictions of some members of his audience.
David Bottjer, a professor in the Earth Sciences Department, said Gould is "an original thinker, who makes a very good synthesis of highly complex material."
"Events like this make living on campus more enjoyable," said Tim Gustafson, an English professor. "(It was) a wonderful occasion for seeing teaching at its best."
Associate Biological Sciences Professor John Petruska said he was impressed by the "attentiveness of students and their reasonably intelligent responses."
Gould has won the National Magazine Award (1980), the National Book Award (1981) and the National Book Critics Circle Award (1982), among many others.
The lecture was sponsored by USC Spectrum.
Underage drinking is harder than ever
Fake IDs are now harder to find, but easier to catch
By Barbra Garofalo
Staff Writer
Arrived on campus and ready to party? Well, if you're under 21, getting caught isn't as hard as you think. New California Department of Motor Vehicles licenses and identification cards will make it easier for the Department of Public Safety and LAPD to find underage drinkers.
The DMV is instituting colored bars on their cards: blue for those under 18, red for those ages 18 to 21, to highlight the
holders' ages.
The system was instituted upon request of the grocery, liquor and restaurant industries to make it easier to identify underage drinkers and smokers, according to DMV officials.
"Twenty years ago underage drinking was a bigger problem," said DF% Deputy Chief Bob Taylor. "(However), today it is still a problem."
He said he believes the problem stems from students entering college experiencing a new-found freedom from their parents.
"Students don't know when to say no," Taylor said.
Students themselves agree that many are nonchalant about
(See Underage, page 2)
LAPD's arrests of juveniles in 1993
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Morgan Kaap / Dally Trojan