Professor might testify in trial
Miles Corwin was present when the Los Angeles Police Department searched the home of Robert Blake.
By CORTNEY FIELDING
Contributing Writer
Miles Corwin, author, journalist and adjunct professor at the Annenberg School for Communication has been subpoenaed and might testify during the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, despite prtpr objections over his right not to share information.
Corwin, who spent a year with the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide division while researching his book “Homicide Special: A Year on the Streets With the LAPD's F.lite Detective Squad," was present at Blake's home during LAPD's search in 2001.
Blake is accused of shooting and killing his wife Bonny Lee Bakley in May 2001.
Corwin testified Oct. 18 in a pretrial hearing after Blake's defense attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, contended Corwin's involvement with the search violated his client's Fourth Amendment rights and wanted all evidence collected to be thrown out before the trial, which is now in jury selection.
Schwartzbach cited a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that decided allowing the media to participate in “execution of a warrant,” was a violation of a defendant's constitutional rights.
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Operation Activism targets student voters
Speeches, poets and film presentations highlight Thursday night event.
By STEVEN CHEN
Contributing Writer
The democracy of the United States is not a true democracy, said CpI. Abdul Henderson, a marine who was featured in the film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," during a speech Thursday night in Bovard Auditorium.
Henderson's speech was part of "Operation Activism!" an event designed to bring out voters before the Nov. 2 election.
Sponsored by USC NAACP and the Black Law Student Association, the event featured a variety* of speakers and performers, all urging
attendees to vote, regardless of their beliefs.
“It's not up to me to tell you who or what to vote for. Just vote for something,” said Laini Coffee, the Region One Field Director of the Youth and College Division of the NAACP.
The highlight of the night was when CpI. Abdul Henderson appeared to speak about his first-hand experiences as a marine in Iraq. Henderson, who appeared in the controversial Michael Moore documentary, has said that he would not return to Iraq if he was called back to duty.
"When a country uses military force to change other societies into a democracy, that is not a democracy — it is an empire.” he said.
Henderson also told the audience that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was not an immi-I see Activism page 7 I
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Being American. Andre Wood, an aspiring poet, gave a spoken word performance at Bovard Auditonum Thursday night as part of Operation Activisim.
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Political clubs host election issue debate
College Republicans, College Democrats and College Greens argued four key issues Thursday afternoon.
By KATHERINE KIRKPATRICK
Staff Writer
College representatives from three major political parties debated election issues in front of a crowd of approximately two dozen people in front of Tommy Trojan Thursday afternoon.
The College Republicans, College Democrats and College Greens all had
two party members speaking in the debate sponsored by the Political Science Undergraduate Association as a way to educate students about Tuesday’s presidential election.
“The whole purpose of this is to have a politically active campus ... we want to have an equal opportunity for everybody to hear the issues," said Thomas O’Connell, president of
the Political Science Undergraduate Association.
The debate was a town-hall format, with each party responding in two-minute answers to four prepared questions about health care, the economy, the USA PATRIOT Act and Iraq.
Each party also had a two-minute rebuttal to the questions, a one-minute introduction and a two- minute conclusion.
“I think it was good to bring some discourse to campus,” said Laura Nastase, a junior majoring in inter-
national relations, German and economics and a speaker for the College Republicans. “It was a very respectful debate, which was great.”
None of the students watching booed or shouted, Nastase said.
“I thought it was a very civil exchange, and we all had a lot of fun," said Mitchell Tsai, a senior majoring in international relations representing the College Greens.
The Greens and Democrats attacked President Bush for his economic policies,
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Why deal with reality when you can create your own? 4
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October 29, 2004
Julia Hill encouraged students and faculty to take an active role in world.
By KIM HOLMES
Staff Writer
An ability to criticize is not as impressive as an ability to connect with other people. Julia "Butterfly" Hill — who lived in a tree for two years in an attempt to prevent it from being destroyed by loggers — told an audience of almost 70 students and environmental activists Thursday night.
Hill spoke at Seely G. Mudd Auditorium as part of Think Green: The F.nvironment and You," an environmental awareness presentation sponsored by Unruh Political Student Association, Student Senate, Gender Studies department and co-sponsored by a handful of other environmental and political groups at USC.
“All of us are born caring, and all of us are born able to recognize beauty and love," Hill said.
The important thing in life is for one to find a part of themselves in everyone else and connect with people, she said. That's impressive, because disconnecting with people does not make a positive difference.
Hill told the audience that when she first started her two-year tenure living in an old redwood tree that she lovingly named "Luna," she was new to the activist role and
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Speaking up. Julia Hill, who spent two years and eight days living in a tree to prevent it from being cut down, addressed an audience of approximately 70 people Thursday night.