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Helping to hide reluctant heroes
In our neverending search for heroes, our society runs the risk of placing that label on people who don't wish to be called that, states Assistant Viewpoint Editor Angela Sanders.
Viewpoint, page 4
Daily Trojan issue, SCALE meeting
The Daily TYojan will continue its regular publishing schedule on Tuesday, Sept.
30. There will not be a Monday, Sept. 29, issue due to the Weekender.
SCALE, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation, will hold a meeting at
6	p.m. Monday at El Centro Cnicano on the third floor of United University Church.
The discussion will focus on working conditions in Los Angeles. All are welcome.
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All for Hecuba, a play described as "Hamlet as anyone can relate to it, but no one has ever experienced it," opens tonight at Massman Tneatre ana runs through Monday.
Friday, Saturday and Monday the show will be held at
7	p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leon Dash will be speaking at 5 p.m. Monday in the Annenberg East Lobby.
Rain relief
Annia Lahatto / Daily Trojan
Nicole McCraw, a senior majoring in business, takes refuge from the rain and buys an umbrella in Pertusati Bookstore.
Trojans travel to face Golden Bears
After dropping its first two games at nome, the USC football team heads to the Bay Area this Saturday at 4 p.m. in search of its first victory of the season against conference rival California.
Sports, page 8
No sorority Rush in spring
By Ryan Thomas
Staff Writer
Spring Rush for sororities will most likely not take place this ear because large rush classes ave left all nine sorority chapters well over their enrollment ceiling, Panhellenic Council members said.
The decision to discontinue spring sorority Rush this year is "almost positive," said Amber Hauseman, council Rush chair, after the final Rush chair meeting of the Panhellenic Council Wednesday night. It is also viewed as a good sign and not just as a necessity, she said. Sept 2 was the last day to bid a sorority.
Fraternities will hold Rush as usual in the spring, because they run on a different system than sororities and have no ceiling, said John Bibeau, Interfraternity Council vice president of Rush.
"Sorority Kush is socialism, and fraternity (is) Rush Darwinism," Bibeau said. "In sororities you have a formal system. Fraternities have no limit,
no ceiling, no floor. It provides for the survival of the fittest; lots of entrepreneurship. It's less formal."
"It is preferable to have one intense recruitment per year, and then focus on building relationships," said Beth Saul, associate director of Greek Life.
The sororities have an agreed-upon recommended ceiling of 90 members per house, which they try to stay under. All of the nine sorority houses are well above that number this year, Hauseman said.
The ceiling is not an unbreakable number, but a guideline for fairness, said Amanda Art, Panhellenic Council com-munication chair.
"The purpose of getting a standard like that is not to really limit membership, but to make sure that everybody is about equal," Art said. "(The sororities) are really close to each other in terms of numbers and in terms of strength."
Although houses would not
(See Rush, page 3)
It is preferable to have one intense recruitment per year, and then focus on building relationships.
BETH SAUL
associate director,
Greek Life
Involvement in AIDS Walk increases
Friday
September 26,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 21
Marie Bergeonneau
Staff Writer
More than 180 students and faculty members are expected to participate in AIDS Walk Los Angeles this Sunday. The walk helps finance AIDS Project Los Angeles, a non-profit organization which offers more than 30 programs and services to people living with AIDS.
Last year, about 25,000 southern Californians and celebrities took part in the walk, raising about $3.2 million, according to the AIDS Walk Los Angeles web site, at www.bonsai.com/aidswalkla.
This is the 10th year the university has been actively involved in the charity event, but this year efforts have been made by the Student Senate to coordinate a complete USC team.
Rhonda Wolfe, community outreach director of the Student Senate, said she contacted
other schools, fraternities and student associations, helped students register by themselves and asked the USC Transportation Services for free rides to the event. Two university trams will run between campus and Hollywood Sunday.
This is the first time the Student Senate has been involved with AIDS Walk Los Angeles.
"The Student Senate aims at encouraging students to get involved in their community," Wolfe said. "The Walk offers students the opportunity to do so."
The Gay, Lesbian and Bi Student Assembly, Marshall School of Business, Physical Therapy department, Physicians' Assistant Program, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Birnkrant Residence Hall, Student Health Center, Biology Honors Society and Sigma Gamma Rho are among the campus groups participating.
Elizabeth Malamed, GLBA executive director, said that even if AIDS is not an
exclusively homosexual disease, there is a tradition of involvement in the gay and lesbian community.
"We are part of the whole society, we share the responsibility of everything happening in the society and HIV is something affecting everyone in the society," Malamed said.
Sigma Gamma Rho will also be participating on the USC team.
"The Walk is a chance for us to help and meet people," said Syreeta Greene, a member of the organization.
"It is not just a question of raising money," said Greene, a junior majoring in public administration. "It's a more general social activity. It's a very good cause to work for.”
Because the Walk is on a Sunday, it will be easy to attend, Greene said. Wolfe, however, pointed out that the event falls during the Weekender, when many USC students will
(See Walk, page 2)
County supervisor discusses L.A. politics
By Meegan Bozorgzadegan
Staff Writer
Affirmative action, campaign finance reform, term limits, tne environment and education were discussed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke Thursday night in Waite Phillips Hall at an event sponsored by USC's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.
Those in attendance included USC political science students, who listened to the USC Law School alumna as part of their weekly class.
"Things are moving, more
people are getting jobs, the economy is on the rise. It's very inspirational," Brathwaite-Burke said of the overall status of Los Angeles.
A Democrat, Brathwaite-Burke maintains liberal views concerning most issues.
She has served as the Second District supervisor since 1992 and chaired the Board of Supervisors from 1993 to 1994. She wa re-elected to her second four-year term in 1996.
Brathwaite-Burke strongly favors affirmative action, saying that the government needs to correct years of discrimination.
She also said she believes campaign spending restrictions are aiding independently wealthy candidates, term limits are necessary — provided they are not too short — and education is desperately in need of help in California.
'M liked what she was saying about education, because I think that it is a real problem in Los Angeles right now," said Sherri Modarress, a junior majoring in political science. "She made very clear all her points and views."
(See Supervisor, page 2)
Mlchaai Lavina / Daily Troian
Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke