Newspaper of the University of Southern California
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The USC men's basketball team lost to Arizona State 74-70 on Saturday. Brandon Martin attempted to tie the game with seven seconds left, but his three-pointer rimmed out.
Sports, page 20
‘Window to Paris’ links east, west
With a strange twist on Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," director Yuri Mamin creates a window connecting St. Petersburg, Russia and the dty of lights. Elana Edel-stein reviews the new comedy.
Diversions, page 10
Surgeon General not health hazard
The furor over the Surgeon General nominee's abortion record has nothing to do with Dr. Foster's ability to work toward a healthier nation, writes Suman Elizabeth Shealey.
Viewpoint, page 4
Engineering fun on tap this week
Stu-O candidates (from left) Noeml Perez, Trlcla Barrelro and Cesar Lopez In debate.
Student senate candidates proffer opinions on issues
By April Haitsuka
Assignment Editor
Seven student senate candidates for the student community constituency presented their views on campus security, the proposed programming fee increase and community relations during a debate Tuesday at Tommy Trojan.
The candidates entertained a melange of questions pertaining to campus issues by a two-person panel, holding to a theme of continuing the efforts of the current senate.
Michael Waldron lauded the efforts of this year's senate to put lights on University Avenue and urged continued leadership. These lights have yet to be installed.
"We have to hit up the administrators — go straight to the people with power ana get them to change things," Waldron said.
A recommended $5 programming fee increase, which the Judicial Council decided against recently, found support
(See Senate, page 12)
Journalism classes now worth more
By Allison Vana
Staff Writer
Undergraduate journalism classes will change from three units to four next semester, a move that has been in the planning stages for eight months.
"What we were faced with after the merger with Annenberg was how to be a good neighbor when they're offering four-unit classes and we're offering three," William Faith, chair of public relations, said at a meeting with journalism students Tuesday.
"There was also a feeling that when we initially changed from four units to three, we never changed the workload. So now we've heard some rejoicing from students that we are going back to four units."
Faith said classes were changed to 3 units in the late 1970s when the national accrediting council ruled that no more than 32 of each student's units could be in journalism courses.
"We felt that eight courses were not enough to give students the full experience in journalism, so we went to three units," Faith said.
Because students are now allowed to take 40 units in journalism courses, the change back to four unit classes makes the journalism school more like other university departments, he said.
"We'd been talking about (changing back to four units) for several years, but looted at it as a matter of urgency with the merger last year," said Jonathan Kotler, associate dean of graduate studies in journalism. "We didn't want to foreclose our students from taking their classes, or them from taking ours."
(See Changes, page 2)
Japanese internment camps remembered
Disgraceful period in history of the United States recalled in an exhibit at the Japanese American Museum
By Susan Deemer
Staff Writer
To most passere-by, the fraying black wooden barracks that stand alone behind a fence across from the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo seem similar to other old abandoned buildings.
But to 120,313 Japanese Americans, the 120-foot living quarters are a silent reminder of something they will never forget: America's Japanese concentration camps.
"Dad wore a suit, tie and pants. 1 don't know where he thought he was going — some country club or something," said a former internee who spoke to museum guests about tne day his family was interned in April 1941.
"America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience" is the current exhibit at the museum. The display concerns 10 concentration camps which were operated by the War Relocation Authority from March 1942 through June 1947.
"Three-quarters of the attendees (at the exhibit) are camp survivors," said Ann Masuda, a museum volunteer.
Each camp is represented by a blueprint of the site and small rectangular boxes representing the barracks. Corresponding numbers represent each former inmate who has visited the museum.
The museum encourages Jap-anese-American visitors who lived in these camps to sign in and have their pictures taken for the photo album. These books then become part of the exhibit, reuniting former internees through a unique shared experience.
"They are able to find friends they haven't seen for 50 years by looking through these books,"
Masuda said.
It is startling to note that former inmates never forgot the number of the barracks, or the family to which they were assigned almost 50 years ago. The "family albums" include the people's recollections.
"My fondest memory is meeting my wife in Minidoka," said a man who displayed a recent Polaroid that shows a smiling couple standing in front of the moael of their former camp.
He said the downside of the camps were "the dust storms, bitter cold winters, bad food and loss of family life."
Another former inmate writes of her horror when she realized that "the guns held by the guards were pointed at me."
Perhaps one of the eerier sights is the long wall of old suitcases and trunks which leads to the main exhibit room. The 250 bags were donated by The Panama Hotel in Seattle, Wash., which had stored the cases in its basement since 1942
as a gesture of kindness. None of the cases was reclaimed following the closure of the camps.
"Something Strong Within," directed by Robert A. Nakamura, is a documentary which runs continuously at the museum exhibit. The historic film is made up of actual 8 mm film footage shot by several inmates during their internment in the various camps. People would surreptitiously record daily events since the cameras were considered contraband, but
Kdually security in the camps sened and these amateur film makers were able to film openly.
The film's title comes from a diary entry of a former camp internee Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama.
Her May 3, 1942 entry reads, "Courage is something strong within you that brings out the best in a person. Perhaps no one else may know or see, but it's those hidden things unknown to others that reveals a person to God and self."
Scenes from everyday life, such as a girl skating, baseball games, the laundry room and mess hall, or the faces of these victims posing for the camera as if it were a still. There are also shots of Japanese citizens and non-citizens on their way to (See Museum, page 2)
"Dad wore a suit, tie and pants. I don't know where he thought he was going — some country dub or something," said a former internee.
The Engineering Council and other engineering organizations will be hosting E-Week, a celebration of engineering, this week. Today is Carnival Day in the Engineering Quad There will be fun and games for
Xeers and non-engineers from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
From 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the African-Latin jazz ensemble ALJE will play live music on the steps of Vivian Hall. From noon to 2 p.m., USDA-approved meat will be grilled. At 4 p.m., a presentation from All Effects (the company that devised the Energizer Bunny) president Eric Allard.
The SHPE Engineering Career Expo will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in the Engineering Quad. Bring your resumes!
Sign up for Friday's miniature golf tournament or get more information by contacting Mona Doss (doss@us-c.edu) at (310) 473-4866.
Wednesday February 22,1995 Vol. CXXIV, No. 26
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