player found dead in car parked near a Whittier
park; suspect faces charges ; Bringing them in
Gomez
By SOPHIA KAZMI
Assistant City Editor
A former USC basketball player was shot twice in the chest, put in a car and left dead in a Whittier park Saturday after a co-worker she had an argument with allegedly killed her.
Police charge that 1996 USC graduate Audrey Gomez, 28, of Canyon Country was shot by Angela Shepard, 37, of Whittier early Saturday morning. Gomez will be arraigned in Whittier court today.
A Murphy Ranch Park worker reported the silver Mazda 626 with the body in it at 1:30 p.m. Saturday after seeing the same car parked there at 6 a.m.. said officer Alan dela Pena, a spokesman for the Whittier Police Department
Investigators and coroners found a female body with two gunshot wounds to the chest in the backseat of the vehicle. The body was later identified as Gomez’s by using fingerprints, dela Pena said.
Investigation of the murder is still underway by Whittier detectives, but the Whittier Police have Shepard in custody.
Police believe an argument
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Taking in the rays.
Members of Beta Theta Pi* fraternity ■ (from left tc rights Ken Shinoda, a sophomore majoring in business/ administration. Rick Robinson, a senior majoring in business administration, and Ryan Herbert, a sophomore majoring in business, recruit hew members along Trousdale Parkway Tuesday afternoon. Interfraternity Council rush continues until Sunday.
Black group moves to alumni house
Organization: Alumni office relocates to Widney Alumni House forjoint programs
By HEATHER DEMETRIOS
Contributing Writer
In an effort to bring together alumni diversity, the Office of Black Alumni Programs moved from the Student Union and to the Widney Alumni House with the general Alumni Association.
The Aug. 14 move is the first for a minority alumni association and signals the university's desire to service all alumni, said Michael Jackson, vice president of Student
Affairs said in an statement
The move was a result of four years of planning between the general lUumni Association and the Black Alumni Association.
Because both organizations serve USC Alumni “it's important that we work together and be together...I'm very excited about growing together,” said Judith Blumenthal, associate vice president of the Alumni House.
Efforts to join ail of the alumni took about a decade, said Lura Ball, director of Black Alumni Programs.
“It's best if all of the Alumni organizations are together,” Ball said. “We just wanted to make sure that all of our goals, objectives, and mis-
sions were comparable."
Alumni are now more willing to accept diversity within the organization, Ball said, explaining the wait for the associations to join forces.
Though it will take some time, Ball believes that the move will enable the staff to find ways to effectively serve the needs of the alumni.
“There has been support at various levels — both black and non-black...the goal is to make the university family whole," Ball said.
The move “will shape the future of USC alumni ethnic relations," Jackson said. With a major percentage of the 200,000 alumni made up of minorities and international alumni,
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FDA limits blood donations to protect from mad cow
HEALTH & MEDICINE
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By JULIA MILES
SUIT Writer
Blood supply levels may drop if a Food and Drug Administration pro-
1	posal that prohibits Wood donations from people who have spent time in Britain in the last several years is
approved. The new restrictions are an attempt to prevent the spread of the human form of mad cow disease.
Those who have spent more than three months in Britain between 1980 to 19% are considered at-risk for Creutzfeidt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow. Travelers who have been in Europe for more than five years or who have had blood transfusions will also be restricted from donating blood in the United States.
The proposal will be implemented on May 31, 2002 allowing time for blood banks to prepare for
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Former Free speech
Crime: Body of basketball
Policy: Regulations now allow students to distribute fliers without approval; regulate reasonable time and manner
By ROBB FERRIS
! Staff Writer
Students are now permitted to pass out literature in Hahn Plaza without having to submit any prior notice to university officials, according to changes in the 2001-2002 SCampus, USC’s student guidebook.
Revised versions of the University Policy on Free Speech and
Dissent and Advertising, Promotion and Literature Distribution Policies were included in the current edition of SCampus. The changes emphasize university officials’ ability to regulate “reasonable time, place and manner" and states guidelines for the procedure for demonstrating on campus.
The policy was first reviewed last spring after a student was cited while passing out anti-sweatshop
modified
fliers in front of Pertusati University Bookstore, sparking a controversy about free speech on campus.
"The purpose of the revision was to respond to many of the concerns that faculty, students and administrators had had in past years (regarding free speech on campus),” said Craig Springer, assistant dean of Cultural Arts and Activities.
Among the changes made is the addition of guidelines regarding demonstrations on campus.
The demonstration guidelines are not new, but were part of another doc-
ument called "regulations for campus dissent and demonstration," that was deleted during the revision process this year, said Heather Larabee, director of Campus Activities.
“That information was included (in SCampus) because we felt that‘it. was pertinent and important, but the document in which it was already contained was obscure." Larabee said. “We were referencing a document nobody had."
Springer and Larabee both said the document may change again in l see Speech page 13
Back with a vengeance
Women’s volleyball team heads into the season with hopes of winning their fifth national championship / 20
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Of interest...
Reality television misses its mark; producers substitute fantasy for the real thing / 4
News Digest	2	Opinions	4
Lifestyle	7	The Buzz	7
Roundup	13	Classifieds	16
Crossword	17	Sports	20
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