Monday
Februaiy 18,1998 Vol. CXXXm, No. 26
Headlines
Bruin troubles are focus of matchup
When the USC men's basketball team takes on UCLA tonight, the attention won't be so much oh the game as much as the absence of Bruin junior center Jelani McCoy, who resigned from the team.
Sports, page 20
Image Awards further diversity
"Soul Food," a film about black family life, won five out of its six nominations at the 29th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium Saturday.
Diversions, page 7
Two languages, one year, no way
If one California man has his way, bilingual education in the state will all but vanish. Editorial Columnist Christian Cooper finds that this crash course in English is a brash course of action for schools.
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Viewpoint, page 4
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Trojan Pride rally, CARE training
Trojan Pride is sponsoring "Troy Jam," a pep rally to support the men s and women's basketball teams in their games against UCLA. The rally will be at noon today near Tommy Trojan.
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Part 11 of spring CARE (Creating Attitudes for Rape-free Environments) trainin; is from 5:30 to 9 p.m. tonigt
To sign up, call Elizabeth Davenport at (213) 740-4900. • • •
A Tennis Challenge, sponsored by 1M-REC, will be at 6 p.m. tonight at Marks Tennis Stadium. The Challenge is open to all students, faculty and staff.
For information, call (213) 740-5127.
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Applications for Student Senate appointed positions, including director positions, are available in the Student Senate Office in Student Union, room 106.
For more information, call (213) 740-5620.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Bike registration program begins
If caught without license, owners must pay fine in order to release bike
By Marie Bergeonneau
Staff Writer
Bikes that are not registered are likely to be locked up by student law enforcement officers, under a campaign launched Monday by the Department of Public safety.
Bike robbery is an important issue on cam because more students ride one daily, DPS officials said. The campaign was
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started in an effort to strictly enforce bike registration on campus. DPS has at least 30 locks to enforce the registration policy, said Sandy Jordan, a sergeant in the Student Law Enforcement Program.
To have their bikes unlocked, owners must register them and pay a $10 fee. Bike registration, which is required by California state law and costs $3, helps police contact the owners when their stolen bikes are recovered.
Bike owners will be fined, Jordan said, not only if their bike is not registered but also if it is parked in illegal areas. "We noticed lots of bikes parked in handicap ramps," she said, "and we want it to stop."
Unregistered and illegally parked bikes are the two main problems DPS faces with bikes, Jordan said.
"It's mean," said Matt Cummings, a junior majoring in psychobiology who rides an unregistered bike. "(Having my bike locked up) would annoy me, but it wouldn't encourage me to have my bike registered."
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Students face off at one of the free Right Guard Sport events Tuesday in Alumni Park.
Author shares personal stories
By Edith Chan
Staff Writer
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For students in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday night, it was a night of personal memoirs and moving narratives.
Maxine Hong Kingston, the acclaimed author of "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts," shared her life's work with students through excerpts from some of her writings in an event sponsored by Spectrum and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Writing is an ongoing process of discovery that with every word takes me to a new place," she said during her talk.
Kingston was born in Stockton, Calif., and graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in English from U.C. Berkeley. She was one of the first Asian Americans to become well-known. She has won two National Book Critic's Circle awards for her work. Her famous novel "The Woman Warrior," which describes the life of a Chinese woman struggling in American culture, made her a literary celebrity at 36.
Kingston is also the author of several critically acclaimed novels. Her work includes "China Men," a sequel to "The Woman Warrior," and "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book." She also wrote the introduction to Maguerite Duras' novel "The Lover."
Her work-in-progress, titled "The Fifth Book of Peace," will address more timely elements such as the potentially upcoming Gulf War.
"My idea is to write a book that can better prepare myself to face a war," Kingston said. "This book will be a continuation of the mythical three
(See Kingston, page 13)
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Writer Maxine Hong Kingston read from her new book, "Hawaii One Summer,” Tuesday.
we're not," Jordan said. "In fact, we're helping them, because the registration is the only proof of ownership if the bike is stolen."
Susan Garrett, a junior majoring in psychobiology, had her unregistered bike stolen last year. That's why she registered her new one, she said.
Other students, however, said registration is useless in the event a bike is stolen.
"How are (DPS officers) going to track my bike down, how are they going to find it?" said Joan Bautista, a freshman majoring in nursing who rides an unregis-
(Sw Bikes, page 12)
Senate
misses
budget
vote
By Ben Berkowitz
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate held an unsuccessful emergency meeting Tuesday evening in an attempt to finalize funding for the upcoming senate elections. However, not enough voting members attended.
The election commission's budget for the election cycle was $3,200, of which $2,183 has been spent or allocated, according to commission budget data.
However, senate treasurer Maryam Sarraf told the senators Tuesday that because the total expenditures exceeded $1,000, the line item budget should have been approved by the senate before the money was spent.
The line item budget could not be approved Tuesday or at the regular senate session Monday because a quorum was not present. Nine voting members must be present for quorum; only seven were in attendance Tuesday.
The budget will be presented to the senate for its approval next Monday. Student Body President Steve Orchard said that he expects the budget to pass without difficulty.
In spite of the lack of quorum, some voting members pressed for a vote of approval anyway.
"1 think we need to do some little real-world planning here and pass this expenditure, ” said Phillip Morelock, executive director of Program Board.
A concern raised at the meeting is that if the senate does not approve the line item budget next Monday, the money that was already spent will become an illegal use of student programming fees No plan was developed Tuesday to deal with such a contingency.
The commission did secure two outside sponsorships Tuesday. The University
Bookstore pledged $3,700, and Transportation Services pledged $2,000. Orchard described the
(See Senate, page 3)