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Holes in secondary hinder Trojans
USC cornerbacks Brian Kelly and Daylon McCutcheon were rated among the top secondaries in the nation, but have struggled thus far as opposing quarterbacks have picked apart the Trojan defense.
Sports, page 20
Caffeine, the kick and consequences
Coffee, soda and other caf-feinated beverages are a popular choice for students pulling all-nighters. Staff Writer Kelly Brinker talks with students to see why they turn to this stimulant.
Diversions, page 10
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Viewpoint, page 4
Munich orchestra, book signing
The Munich Chamber Orchestra will be performing various pieces from classical composers at 7 p.m. tonight at Bovard Auditorium.
The event is sponsored by USC Spectrum.
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James Elroy, author of "My Dark Places,' will be speaking and then signing his book at Taper Hall, room 301, from 4 to 6 p.m. today.
He is also the author of "L.A. Confidential," "American Tabloid" and "Hollywood Nocturnes."
For more information, call (213) 740-9030.
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The USC/Office Depot Consumer Show will be held at Town and Gown from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.
The show will feature new product displays, an internet demonstration and more than 28 manufacturers will answer questions.
Refreshments will be pro-vided and door prizes will be distributed.
Bono discusses issues of her life, acceptance
By Nada El Sawy
Staff Writer
Although most of the students at the National Coming Out Week event at Taper Hall Monday night knew her as "Sonny and Cher's daughter," Chastity Bono nas spoken all over the country about her experiences and the importance of coming out.
Bono was the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, for the National Coming Out project, and is
currently the media director of the Gay and Lesbian Assembly against Defamation (GLAD).
"One of our intentions in bringing a name like 'Chastity Bono' to the campus was to entice people to go, who would have normally been reluctant to," said Courtney Miller, executive director of the Women's Student Assembly.
Wendy Chapman, programming chair of Gay, Lesbian and Bi Assembly, said many students, faculty and staff expressed interest via e-mail in attending the event.
Approximately 60 to 70 people came to hear Bono speak.
"I am a stranger to the issues of America. I came 50 percent for what she has to say and 50 percent to see what the issues are," said Nadim Bakhos, a graduate student studying engineering, who is also a foreign student.
Diana Nickles, a senior majoring in exercise science, said, "Just as I would find out about how racial issues are affecting the community, it is important for students to be aware of gay issues."
Bono sat down on a chair facing the audience, stai sis
to open up there are many different issues."
She talked about the "struggle in her house" because she "felt different as a young girl."
"It was when I went to see the movie 'Personal Best' that I experienced an epiphany in the theater," she said. "I realized why I felt so different."
(See Bono, page 14)
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Ph.D. student allegedly killed by husband
Jeanine Chalabian, a third-year medical resident at the USC School of Medicine, was killed in Huntington Beach last week, allegedly by her husband wno surrendered to San Marino police two hours after the shtxitins
Sgt. Ken Gester, head of the investigation for the San Marino Police Department, said Chalabian was
found in her car after being shot several times. Chalabian, 36, a 1992 graduate of the School of
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tional psychology and nad two sons, ages 3 and 7. She was recently named director of the Health
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Sciences Campus' Surgical Technical Skills Research and Education Center, where she specialized in breast cancer.
Chalabian, who grew up in Huntington Beach, earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and a master's degree in health services administration at USC. She was also the founder and director of a free clinic in Hollywood that served primarily low-income Armenian immigrants.
The Office for Women at USC School of Medicine is planning a memorial service.
—from staff reports
Tuesday
October 14,1997 Vol. 0OOQI, No. 32
Transgender speaker talks on identity
Students
protest
Columbus
observance
By Shant Thomas
Staff Writer
Adam Rubin / Dally Trojan
Kate Bomstein
By Daniel Pasquini
Staff Writer
Being everyone, yet being no one — constantly changing.
This is the idea tnat Kate Bornstein embraces in real life, and also personifies in her work, in print and on stage.
bornstein, an author and performance artist, did more tnan just speak Monday at Annenberg Auditorium. She exposed her soul, entrapped by the views of society during her speech and selected readings.
She actually was the characters she portrayed, who reflected her own self, from the transsexual lesbian playwright to the
eighth grade English teacher, Mr. Blunt.
The author displayed her deftness at performing, easily metamorphosing from a smoky voice to tne voice of a strict middle school instructor.
Bornstein, 49, the recipient of a sex-change operation, gave a 90-minute history on the subject of gender as part of the Gay, Lesbian and Bi Assembly's s*;ries for National Coming Out Week.
Through her speech and readings, wnich she also wrote, Bomstein explained the problem she has had all her life — finding an identity.
"I was no woman, and I am
not a man, so I'm sorry, I cannot come out as a transsexual.. .lam just traveling. I break the rules," Bomstein said. "There's no identity out there big enough to hold me"
Although present at USC as part of Coming Out Week, Bomstein confided that because of her often and ever-changing gender identity, she cannot "come out" as any one person.
"I just keep changing I keep coming out," she said.
Bomstein's approach to this change was often a humorous one, which most of the approximately 50 members of the audi-
(See Identity, page 15)
The campus group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, in conjunction with the Native American Student Alliance, presented their historical views of Columbus Day at noon Monday in Hahn Plaza.
"We are here today to say that Christopher Columbus was not, in the Native American view, the discoverer of America," said Emiliano Martinez, a member of NASA and M.E.Ch.A. "The indigenous people of this land have been here for thousands and thousands of years, and Columbus' arrival signaled the beginning of their misery."
M.E.Ch.A. and NASA members handed out mock "WANTED" fliers depicting Christopher Columbus, as well as their mission statement entitled "He has left a legacy of slavery and racism that endures to some extent even today."
(See Columbus, page 15)
Angla Chan / Dally Trojan Jorge Salcedo, a sophomore majoring In business, writes “Red Holocaust 1492-1997” with chalk in Hahn Plaza in opposition to Columbus Day Monday.