Thursday November 14,1996 Vol. CXXIX, No. 54
Headlines
Recruiting not lacking in effort
The USC men's basketball team's new coaching staff has made plenty of use of the U.S. mail in recruiting this year, while netting such
frized recruits as Jarvis umer and Kevin Augustine.
Sports, page 16
Finding the best classes for spring
Hunting for the perfect spring schedule can cause hardsnip and stress. That's the last thing you need this time of year. Features Editor Jennifer Hamm offers a guide to good classes.
Diversions, page 8
Is life really easier with technology?
Faxes, pagers, electronic mail and complicated phone codes—with all of our latest advances in technology, editorial writer Benjamin Acker analyzes whether these developments are beneficial to us.
Viewpoint, page 4
Last Lecture series, janitors march
Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society opens its Last Lecture Series tonight with a address by anthropology professor Dr. Craig Stanford.
Stanford, an evolution expert, will talk about the effect of meat-eating in primates on the cognitive development of the human brain.
The Last Lecture Series is a program in which Mortar Board members recruit professors to give a speech as if it were their final lecture.
Stanford's "last" lecture will be held at Hedco Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
Members of Justice for Janitors, the healthcare community and the USC community, will meet at nixm today at USC Norris to march with janitors who work for ServiceMaster.
For more information, contact Leticia Salcedo at (213) 680-9567.
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By April Haitsuka
City Editor
The Trojan Knights, one of the university's oldest service organizations, face the possibility of long-term suspension over a candidate hazing process documented in an unofficial manual.
The Daily Trojan received a copy of the "Fall 1996 Trojan Knight Serf Program," which outlines the candidate recruitment process for the organization's active members, including psychological manipulation of candidates (known as "serfs"), forced consumption of alcohol and sleep deprivation.
Also included in the manual was a "ditch," or a forced road trip for candidates.
Dave Crandall, director for the Office of Student Activities, had drafted a complaint to address the arrests of seven Knights candidates last month for grand theft, but he said he will be reconsidering his complaint in light of the new information.
We need a man to do all of the ®?z*ing.. .The point Is to build up the serfs' respect for this Knight. And when the retreat comes around, he will be the one doing ALL of the “instructional" stuff.
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President Meeting - He will express his disapproval of their performance to date... Tell them that the DOM is getting R.F.ed, tied down to a chair and being force feed liquor, puking on himself, in a living hell because of them. Tell them to redeem themselves by working harder, showing up more, being excited about doing stuff, no excuses.
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Big Bro Night - When they are all together, the Vice President will come speak to them, saying things like, "We have all been serfs, we went through this and we did it ten times better than you" “we've voted and we will give you one more chance” “Do you want one more chance a are you all a bunch of fucking failures!" Wait for them to answer, get them pumped up. Then say “alright then take off those blindfolds and meet your big bro.'' Que music, que naked women, que loud cheers.
RETREAT - The actives will ted them everything and anything they want about the retreat, except the actual truth. Say r is awful, say it is fun, tell stories of sheep, whatever you want. But do not tell them the truth. They may say that the DOM said it was fun, just laugh suspiciously.
.. .send them up the Nil. They will be allowed to warni up for 5 minutes every hou. When they go up the NU, the big bro's can sneak them some booze, water, food, vaseline, etc. The first night they will not be allowed to party with the Knights. And they won't go to bed before 3:00 am.
Matt Hutaff / Dally Trojan
"Based on conversations, (my colleagues and 1) believed the theft of the firewood was an aberration of the Knights' current conduct," he said'. "This document suggests that the Knights are in violation with university hazing policies in ways we were not aware of."
Although the arrests ended the plans for the retreat, it is uncertain whether or not all the
actions detailed actually took place this semester,
The document was directed at active members, telling them how to conduct themselves. According to the manual, the president "will express his disapproval of (the serfs') performance to date."
"Tell them that the DOM (director of membership) is getting R.F.ed, tied down to a chair
and being force feed (sic) liquor, puking on himself, in a living nell because of them," it said. "Tell them to redeem themselves by working harder, showing up more, being excited about doing stuff, no excuses."
Also included in the manual are instructions for a retreat, during which the historian
(See Knights, page 2)
Vermont store opens doors
Troy Witt / Daily Trojan
Ralph’s opened Wednesday.
By Erin Phibbs
Staff Writer
A grand opening celebration for the long-awaited Ralph's supermarket at Adams Boulevard and Vermont Avenue was held Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.
"We believe this store to be one of the finest supermarkets in L.A. city," said Al Marasca, Ralph's president and chief operating officer. "Many companies tend to shy away from Central Los Angeles, but we are very confident this will be one of the most successful stores and provide for the community in which we serve."
The 43,000-square-foot supermarket has a number of service departments, including an in-store bakery, European-style seafood, a sandwich shop and Chef Express—a full-service delicatessen serving freshly prepared salads as well as hot and cold entrees.
The store carries more than 30,000 different products.
"this is one of the finest Ralph's ever built," Marasca said. "We will impress our
shoppers with wider aisles, customer-friendly service counters, the most comparable prices of any in this area, and we accept all major coupons and double them."
The opening culminated a decade of negotiations, public hearings and public demonstrations.
The Southern California Organizing Committee, whose headquarters is at St.
Agnes Parish, has fought for a market for its constituency for nearly 12 years since the closure of the old Thrifty Mart in 1984.
"We should all cheer," developer Danny Bakewell said during the opening ceremonies. "We had to understand the neighborhood; we had to fight with some and against some. In the end we locked arms to get this store open for a community that has been a long time neglected."
Tony Marco will serve as store director, with a crew of about 70 staff members, 30 of which are new employees from the community. The new Ralph's is located at 2600 S. Vermont Ave. and will be open from 6 a.m. to midnight.
Vegetarian group promotes health awareness
By Tony Aimone
Staff Writer
To promote healthier eating habits and educate students at the university, members of the Vegetarian Club supplied free vegan lunches to students in Alumni Park Wednesday afternoon.
Vegetarian food companies, including Cedarlane Foods and Gardenburger, sponsored the event, allowing the club to feed students meatless foods at no charge. The club offered the students smart dogs on multi-grain buns, salad and two different types of tofu.
"We want everybody on campus to try a vegan meal," said Karen Averill, a member of the club.
The USC Vegetarian Club is growing, Averill said. The club's umbrella	organization,
Collegiate	Vegetarian
Organizations for Vegetarian Education and Research, also sponsors Vegetarian clubs at the Santa Monica Community College and Pierce College campuses.
"We had over 200 people sign up to join the USC (branch) today," said Konstantine Theoharis, a student at Santa Monica who is a vegetarian.
With large support, vegetarian food companies become larger, in turn making the community healthier, said Sriniuasan Lakshmanan, a graduate student and member of the USC Vegetarian club.
"They produce the food because they feel strongly that it's good food; it helps tne environment and helps people," he said.
Members of the club and many student vegetarians discussed several advantages to eating only vegan foods. Vegan foods are described as products that are not made from animals, as dairy and meat are.
"I always have to think about the byproducts of meat," said Elizabeth Taylor, a freshman majoring in communications. "It makes you wonder about what you are eating,”
Students also expressed concern about the inefficiency of the food. The meat industry uses more water than any other industry and people still talk about droughts, Theoharis said.
Later this semester, students plan to bring a turkey to campus to illustrate that what people are eating were living creatures. Next year the club hopes to expand lunches into weekly events.