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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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April 24,1999
Vol. CXXXVI, No. 84
Senate passes five resolutions
fiovernment: Year’s last meeting changes bylaw defining the status of housing constituency
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Student Senate Writer
In the last meeting of the 1998-99 school year, Student Sehate approved resolutions regarding a new campus center, a committee for minority concerns, grade inflation and a vision statement, along
with a constitutional and bylaw amendment defining the housing constituency.
Housing senators will now be able to move from the university-owned housing to non-university-owned housing after they are elected to office, according to the amendments.
Prior to Tuesday night’s amendments, the Senate Constitution mandated that one of the three residential senators, formerly known as housing senators, must live in university-owned housing and another must live in private housing within the 90007 ZIP code. The constitution further stated that the senators must live in the specified areas from elections until the end of their term of office in April.
The amendment was passed unanimously, with the exception of Sarah Emerson, a residential senator and sophomore majoring in international relations and economics, who abstained from voting.
“Ninety-five percent of students that live in the student community used to be in (university-owned) housing,” said Ben Berkowitz, a residential senator and sophomore majoring in communication. “That’s the way it has always been. Even if a senator moves out (of university-owned housing) after they are elected, they have had that experience within one semester.” Some members of Senate said the potential to have all three residential sen-I see Senate, page • I
Board of Trustees not a faceless entity
By MICHAEL S. CARTER
Staff Writer
High visibility is not one of the strong points of those on the USC Board of Trustees. But the people whose names grace so many of the buildings around campus are in fact the highest authorities on campus.
Gerald S. Papazian has been a member of the USC Board of Trustees since 1995. Papazian, a 1977 graduate of USC, is one of those trustees who has closer personal ties to the university.
An economics and public relations major while at USC in the 1970s, Papazian was active as a student senator, Songfest chairman and a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. However, thoughts of becoming a university trustee never entered his mind, he said.
“Not for a second,” he said.
Papazian, who was president of the USC Alumni Association from 1995 to 1996, brings the perspective of an alumnus to the Board of Trustees.
There’s something to be said for having different perspectives brought to the board," he said. “You can’t tell the difference between an alum and non-alum trustee.”
The international presence of USC is reflected in its board, Papazian said, adding that bringing in trustees from around the world acknowledges the importance of international students.
“We’re an international university,” he said.
The members of the USC Board of Trustees share a common concern for the university, Papazian said. “When we’re in the room together, we put aside any special interests — we’re all there representing and looking out for the needs of the entire university.*
Papazian, who currently serves as president and chief operating officer of Aura Systems, Inc., also said he believes that students are the most important part of USC.
“If it wasn’t for the students, we wouldn’t be here,” he said.
Papazian is a member of the Board of Trustees’ Student Affairs Committee. Students are brought in to their meetings so that the trustees can get a sense of stu-
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Seat of power. Gerald S. Papazian, a USC alumnus and member of the Board of Trustees, wants students to know that the Board cares about their concerns.
Not all broken emergency phones fixed
Safety: DPS creates new computer program to track, analyze emergency kiosks
By JOSEPH BOO
Staff Writer
Not all the emergency phones at USC are in working order, and the Department of Public Safety and Communications offices have started a new program to fix as many phones as possible.
Sue phones were reported to be broken in the last two weeks, said Debra Baker, communications specialist at Communications, who is in charge of making sure the phones are fixed.
On average, five phones are reported to be broken or not working per week, Baker said. This is out of about 350 emergency phones on campus, induding the blue light phones and those on elevators.
Any data that shows the exact number and location of emergency phones not working will not be available until May, and the complete data will not be available until the start of the fall semester, said Lt. Gary McDougall, the Information Systems administrator at DPS.
At that time, DPS will be able to analyze the full extent of the problem and figure out what to do. There is even a new computer program that has been specially designed to gather and analyze this information. Some students, though, believe they should not wait for the phones to be fixed nor do they like not knowing which phones do not work.
“(The phones) are called emergency for a reason," said Nada Ayad, a sophomore majoring in English. “All the phones should be working."
Others agreed.
“I think it’s a problem that students don’t know which phones aren’t working,” said Sherry Heidebrecht, a senior majoring in cinema-television critical studies. “What if there’s an emergency, and students don’t know which phones work? That could be a huge problem”
But DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor said having all the phones working all the time is impossible.
“1 don’t think it’s possible to have all the phones working,” he said. ‘TTiere are over 300 phones on campus. Telephones are like cars. We would like to have our cars working all the time, but they don’t A telephone is an electrical/mechanical device, and because it’s mechanical, itH break. Until we design a phone that never breaks, it’s impossible to have all the phones working. But I’m glad that students are reacting strongly to broken phones.”
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Ice hockey player, business major dies at 20 of cancer
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Obituary: San Jose native Mike Fratto buried in team jersey; remembered for his courage, optimism
By KIMBERLY TABA
Staff Writer
Mike Fratto, a former USC student and star ice hockey player, died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma Thursday at Stanford University Hospital. He was 20.
Fratto, a junior majoring in business from San Jose, planned to return to USC
for the spring semester after he was diagnosed with cancer in early July of last year.
His leg pains had previously been thought to be from ice hockey injuries, but X-rays revealed tumors. Throughout the following months, friends said that Fratto remained optimistic.
“He fought so hard," said Andy Farotte, a high school friend and an undeclared junior. “I’ve never seen this kind of courage and dedication to beating anything in my whole life."
An avid ice hockey player, Fratto was familiar with fighting to win. He played for various hockey teams while at Bdlarmine College Preparatory School in San Jose as well as for the USC ice
hockey team. He was the No. 1 goalie on the USC junior varsity team, and he would have certainly earned a letter had he continued to play varsity, said Head Coach Mark Wilbur.
‘Mikey was one of those kids that I never had to worry about," Wilbur said. “He never missed a practice, never complained about not starting. He was Mr. Automatic.*
The USC ice hockey team has assembled a 4-foot high basket of goodies for Fratto, containing CDs, videos and a jersey signed by every professional ice hockey team in California. He is being buried in his USC travel jersey, and the team retired his number, No. 30.
“We lost a family member last
week," Wilbur said. "You never realize how important friendship, teamwork and teammates are to a guy until his father tells you that he is being buried in his team jersey."
Born July 18,1978, Fratto was also a cigar aficionado who delighted in smuggling a vast assortment of cigars back from a summer trip to Europe.
‘He was really excited about that trip," Farrotte said. "He talked about it for a long time."
Fratto had plans to return to Europe when his cancer was in remission and to drive around exploring the country before returning to school. However, a virus caught after his recent bone mar-l see OWii, page 41
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