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Soccer pulls off another upset
The USC women's soccer team upset its second ranked team this season with a 1-0 victory over BYU. Andrea Warner scored the game-winning goal to improve the Women of Troy s record to 4-3.
Sports, page 16
Look what the cat dragged in
Bret Michaels, once the frontman of the popular hair-band Poison, returns with a new movie and a soundtrack. Michaels talked to Music Editor Clay Marshall about his career.
Diversions, page 7
Reverse the U.S. assassination ban
The current US. policy of launching missile strikes at suspected terrorist camps kills too many. Assassination would be more efficient, Editorial Columnist Daniel Chantre writes.
Viewpoint, page 4
Green party talk, Senate town hall
Green Alternative party candidates Dan Hamburg and Maria Armoudian, running for governor and U.S. Congress respectively, will speak from 2 to 4 p.m. today at Topping Student Center 205.
For more information, call (818) 789-6675.
The Student Senate will hold a Town Hall Meeting today at 6 p.m. in the Ground Zero coffeehouse. Audience questions will be answered by student leaders and administrators.
For more information, call (213) 740-5620.
Order of the Torch applications, which are still available in Topping Student Center and Sill 202, are due by 5 p.m .on Friday at Topping Student Center.
For more information, call (213) 740-5656.
Chi Kuan* Hwang / Daily Trojan
The area designated for the Betty Crocker Kitchen advertises its opening now.
Eric Sullano / Daily Tro)an
Winnie Lok (right), a sophomore majoring in theater, was the grand prize winner of the Welcome Back Celebration raffle hosted by Pulse. Greg Brown, Pulse’s senior manager and Veronica Hale, Pulse’s assistant manager awarded Lok a brand-new bicycle. Lok said she has never ridden a bike.
Wednesday September 23,1998 Vol. Q0OCV, No. 14
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Officers debate new HSC Senate position
Changes on menu bring price hikes
By Nicholas Stein
Staff Writer
The new school year brought new students, new faculty members and Chicken taquitos?
Yes, it's true. With the start of the semester came new additions to the menus at La Salsa and Wolfgang Puck's Pizza. Along with the new items came increased prices — something students were not thrilled to discover.
New items at La Salsa include nachos, quesadilla grande, a two tacos combination plate and chicken tacquitos.
The most surprising changes are at Wolfgang Puck's. Instead of pizza by the slice for 12.25, individual pizzas — either 6" pizzas at $5 to $5.50 or 9" pizzas at $7 to $7.50 — are available.
The changes stem from the franchise management and not from the university, said Francisco Pineda, senior manager of Auxiliary Services.
"All of the products come from the company in order to give students quality comparable to other local franchise outlets," he said.
This allows increases in food prices only with the franchises, not with the entire university.
Wolfgang Puck's management felt a rjged (See Food, page 2)
By Ben Berkowitz
Staff Writer
The Student Senate debated, but took no vote on, giving the Health Sciences Campus a representative in senate at a Tuesday night meeting.
The constitutional amendment, introduced by Sen. Viet Tran (Commuter), would have created a Health Sciences Campus representative, in the same style as the Greek representatives and the Program Board Assembly representatives. The representative would have a full vote.
The main concern among members of senate was that the amendment's terms were not clearly defined, and that it was being rushed.
"I don't think this is actually the right time to be passing this amendment," said Kyetay Beckner, the student body president.
With the exception of a non-elected, non-voting representative during the 1995-% senate, the HSC has generally been underrepresented in senate.
Beckner, Rep. Tyler Kelley (Inter-Fraternity Council) and others in the senate suggested that the HSC form a council, create a constitution and then select a delegate to senate.
In response, Robert Higham, a senior in the physician assistant program, said, "we're ready to go, we iust need an official recognition status." Higham later said that a constitution could be ready within a week.
Ann "Welsh, a junior in the physician assistant program, has been serving as a delegate to the senate this year. She is from a council on the HSC made up of undergraduates majoring in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and physician assistance. That council would be the
(See Senate, page 6)
Commons to open new bakery
By Yelena Solovyeva
Staff Writer
Cookies, bagels, muffins, cakes, brownies, lemon bars, cinnamon rolls, banana nut and zucchini breads...these are many of the goods that will be freshly baked for sale at Commons' new bakery, the Betty Crocker Kitchen. The bakery is scheduled to open at the end of October.
As a result of USC's business relationship with General Mills, Co., Common's was selected as a test site for the Betty Crocker Kitchen, a concept that General Mills hopes to establish at other universities and mall complexes, said Michael Gratz, director of
Hospitality Services.
"We wanted to offer a more creative product," Gratz said. "Our goal is to provide students with a better value...with a product that's essentially expensive but more cost effective to make them here."
"Right now, for example, a bagel costs $1.05. With the Betty Crocker Kitchen, it is going to cost 75 cents," said Dominique Piquemal, director of retail operations tor Hospitality Services.
In addition, Piquemal said that having the Betty Crocker Kitchen will ensure the quality of fresh baked goods. It is especially important because they will be distributed to dif-
(See Kitchen, page 2)