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Big plays equal disaster for Trojans
With the USC football team keeping pace with both Washington State and Florida State entering the final quarter, the Trojans couldn't escape being hurt by the big play.
Sports, page 16
Reading between the literary lines
Independent bookstores offer many benefits the major chain stores don't: rare titles, good customer service and character. Staff writer Annie Mateen highlights the best of the offbeat bookstores.
Diversion*, page 8
E-mail euphoria very hard to find
Scrambling from library to library, attempting to get her email account off the ground, Viewpoint Writer Christi Schuler explores how her life became better by a close encounter of the UCS kind.
Viewpoint, page 4
The First Murder/ Fisher Gallery
"The First Murder," the first in a series of 10 Tuesday afternoon Genesis Conversations, will be held today from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Topping Student Center, room 204.
The series parallels the 10 segments of Bill Moyers' "Genesis: A Living Conversation."
Refreshments will be provided for the event, which is sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and the Religious Directors' Association.
For more information, call (213) 740-6110 or e-mail laemmle@mizar.usc.edu.
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Students, faculty and staff are invited to a preview of the exhibition "Miguel Navarro/Carmen Calvo" at the Fisher Gallery at USC.
The event will be held from 12 to 1 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
To RSVP, call (213) 740-4561.
Hiesday September 16,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 13
Coalition set up to support disabled
By Christine Frey
Staff Writer
The Disabled Students Coalition, a new student-run organization, has begun focusing on increasing campus awareness about students with disabilities, as well as lobbying for better accessibility throughout campus.
The recently formed coalition has seven members and is the first of its kind on campus.
"(USC is) the only university without an active disabled students group in California," said Sherry Moore, the coalition's founder and chairperson.
The coalition hopes to be an active advocate for students with disabilities, Moore said.
"No one knows that there are disabled (people) at USC,” said Co-Chairperson Nathan Smith, a junior majoring in audio engineering.
The purpose of the organization is to make people aware of the help that is available for students with disabilities, said Smith, who suffers from dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.
Moore also has personal reasons for becoming involved with the organization. Moore underwent brain surgery earlier in life and, as a result, was mute ana paralyzed
for two years.
Moore said the coalition represents students with disabilities because many are too afraid to speak for themselves.
Moore also said that the coalition will work with other on-campus organizations, such as the Pre-Occupational Therapy program, and will help in eliminating the stigma surrounding many of the disabled.
The coalition hopes to sponsor an activity called "challenge days/' in which non-disabled persons can experience being wheelchair-bound for a day, Smith said. The activity would also include simulations to help
(See Coalition, page 3)
Senate votes to not fund event
College Republicans decide to continue Bruin burning following controversy on lynching similarities
By Ben Berkowitz
Staff Writer
The Student Senate voted on Monday night to ban the use of Program Board funds for the hanging and burning of the Bruin.
The 10-to-3.5 vote follows an earlier decision by Trojan Pride, the campus spirit organization that previously sponsored the event, not to burn the bear during Troy Week, a week of activities leading up to the USC vs. UCLA football game in November.
Traditionally, a bear would be hanged by a rope from the Student Union building and later burned in a bonfire. The last two years, however, the bear was hanged from its waist rather than its neck.
The Black Student Union originally opposed the hanging of the Bruin because it too closely resembled the lynching of African-Americans in the South.
However, the cancellation of the event may not yet be a resolved issue because the College Republicans have vowed to resume the event.
"If Trojan Pride is unwilling to take such a stand because of the threat of controversy, then the College Republicans, along with other interested organizations, will," said Jason Gray, president of the College Republicans and a senior majoring in business. "We are prepared to lead the organizing of tne burning itself, or even the sale of the small 'Bruin-on-a-Rope' bears."
Last week, the senate addressed the issue at its meeting, but the resolution on the hanging and burning was set aside until this week.
Since the last meeting, there has been negative backlash against the BSU, the group that first brought concerns about the hanging to senate.
“It happens every year. The resident of BSU always gets ate mail," said Elizabeth O'Neill, the president of BSU and a junior majoring in economics. O'Neill received vulgar hate mail from, among others, someone calling himself "Tommy Trojan" earlier this week.
(See Bruin, page 3)
Hong Kong native speaks on democracy
By Meegan Bozorgzadegan
Staff Writer
A USC alumna is visiting Los Angeles for two weeks in an effort to educate Americans about suffrage and human rights in Hong Kong.
Emily Lau, a 45-year-old USC alumna, led an informal discussion Monday at the Annenberg School for Communication, during which she answered questions and explained the current
Gilitical situation in her native one Kong.
"Hong Kong has never had a democracy, and we still don't," said Lau, who defines a democratic country as one in which the government is elected directly by the people.
Under British control for the past 160 years, Hong Kong rule
was returned to the Chinese on July 1. However, Lau said in the past two and a half months, China has already begun imposing new restrictions and freedom limitations on the people of Hong Kong, including replacing the entire government with their own appointed representatives.
"We nope China will change, and we hope according to tne wishes of tne people of Hong Kong," Lau saia.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism from USC in 1976, Lau worked for various publications until 1991, when she resigned from her post at a Hong Kong newsmagazine to run for political office.
"I think it's exciting to be able to speak to somebody about these world affairs that's from the School of Journalism (at
Nada Raouf I Dally Troian
Emily Lau
USC)," said Seth Doane, a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism. "She's utilizing what the university gave to her and making a difference."
Lau was elected as the first
and only woman to the Hong Kong government in September of 1991 and re-elected in 1995, where she worked until the Chinese takeover this year.
"Politics in Hong fcong was and still is a part-time affair," said Lau, who promised voters she would devote her full efforts to her position if elected.
"She is really passionate about her position on gaining rights for an elected government," said Holly O'Rourke, a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism and political science.
Lau said she is bitter about the status of government in Hong Kong. Although the Chinese promise to hold open elections next year, only a third of the positions will oe elected by the public at large.
(See Lau, page 3)
Angla Chan / Dally TVojan
Alejandra Espasande, a junior majoring In clnema-televlaion production, checks out the selection of sunglasses sold by vendors in Hahn Plaza Monday.
Sunny days