Tuesday October 22,1996 Vol.CXXDCNo.38
Crowd and calls added to drama
The combination of controversial calls and a loud crowd which prevented the Trojans from running the offense late in the game contributed to the atmosphere of USC's 48-35 loss to ASU.
Sports, page 12
Weezer is back with second album
After a two-year wait, the nerdy but lovable American pop band turns out its second album, "Pinkerton."
Staff writer Tim Grierson reviews the band's disappointing return.
Diversions, page 5
Men have a role in rape prevention
Following the various campus events about date rape prevention Monday, editorial writer Jeremy D. Kocal reflects on some things he learned—and what he says other men should know.
Viewpoint, page 4
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Hillel improv, 'Mary Ann' cooks
The Hillel Jewish Center is seeking Jewish students who are interested in making peo-
ftle laugh for the center's mprov night on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m. at 3300 S. Hoover Blvd. For more information, call Benjy at 747-9135.
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Dawn Wells, who played "Mary Ann" on the '60s TV series Gilligan's Island, will serve as a special guest chef at the Cadillac Cafe at .359 La Cienega Blvd. Thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Call for reservations at (310) 657-6591.
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"The 100th Being Alive Medical Update," a panel of medical experts who will discuss the future of HIV and AIDS treatment, will be presented today from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Writer's Guild Theater at 135 South Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills.
For more information, call 667-3262.
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Date rape victim offers advice at rally
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Katie Koestner spoke in Hahn Plaza Monday on surviving a date rape.
By Evelyn Lau
Staff Writer
Pledging to speak out and prevent acquaintance rape, an audience of mostly women listened to a survivor recount her experiences Monday in front of Tommy Trojan as she urged students to stand up against the "silent crime."
Katie Koestner kicked off Date Rape Awareness Day with an opening address pointing out tnat statistically one out of every four women in the audience would be involved in a date rape or an attempted date rape. Koestner, 24, was raped as a college freshman in her dorm room at the College of William and Mary in Virginia after an expensive dinner with a man she had been seeing for several weeks.
"(The presentation) is to raise awareness about the whole issue of rape and sexual assault on campus and to help students understand how to avoid being vulnerable in dating situations," said Elizabeth Davenport, director of the Office for Women's Issues.
The all-day visible outreach, which was sponsored by the Office for Women's Issues, the University Residential Student Community, the Women's Student Assembly and the Gay, Lesbian, Bi Assembly, also highlighted the 30-mmute HBO docudrama, "No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story" and a "No-Yes" keynote presentation by Koestner on her experience. New fraternity and sorority pledges were required to attend, Davenport said.
A presentation and discussion on the hypnotic "date rape" drug Rohypnol completed the event, Monday evening The low male turnout at the kick-off prompted Koestner, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine in June 1991, to question men's concerns on the issue.
"Many of them tell me 'I'm not a rapist; it's not my issue—why should 1 deal with it?'" Koestner said. "I have yet to find the miracle man who cares about rape just because it's wrong. Wouldn't it be a novel
(Set Rape, page 3)
New DASH routes planned
By Jin Whang
Staff Writer
New DASH routes, including Route F from USC directly to downtown Los Angeles and a special Downtown Discovery (DT) route, will take effect Oct. 28, the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation announced earlier this month.
Routes A through D have been slightly modified, and Route F will circle the USC campus and Exposition Park with service directly into downtown Los Angeles, so passengers going downtown will not need to transfer buses, said Philip Aker, the downtown DASH restructuring project manager.
Weekend routes have also been implemented to service popular downtown attrac-
tions. Routes E and F run seven days a week, while the special weekend service will run from Chinatown to Little Tokyo and down to the Blue Line Station on Pico Boulevard, excluding USC and Exposition Park, which Route F will cover.
The DT Route was proposed as a regular special weekend service after its popularity during its special run earlier this year when the America's Smithsonian exhibit was at the Convention Center,
As of next Monday, all weekday routes, including Route F, will run every 20 minutes, rather than every 30 minutes as they had previously, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekend routes will remain running every 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
pie signs for the routes will be posted for the Oct. 28 changes. The signs will feature bigger and bolder letters, route schedules, locations of route stops and fares.
The reconfigurations of the DASH routes were a result of DASH study surveys, which were one element of an extensive study conducted by LADOT over nearly a year to reevaluate the DASH downtown route structure, Aker said.
"There was a chief, desired destination that strongly came up from the USC area commuters, although their responses were limited," he said.
Of the 100,000 to 110,000 surveys distributed to down-
(See DASH, page 2)
Laura Lanchastar / Dally Trojan
Alcohol banned at fraternity
By Jennifer Arrache
Staff Writer
After a Student Conduct hearing, the Sigma Nu fraternity house will be alcohol-free for the remainder of the semester. This decision comes following the university's suspension of the house in late August after an unreported party.
Despite earlier reports, neither Sigma Nu nor any of its members were ever formally charged with sexual assault when accusations arose following the August party. The house was, however, suspended by the office of the vice president of Student Affairs for risk reduction policy violations, a panel hearing report stated.
The Sigma Nu chapter was directed "to stop all of (its)
(See Fraternity, page 3)
Telephone scam runs up charges
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
A telephone scam inducing victims to call the Bahamas for urgent information has some law enforcement officials concerned.
Department of Public Safety officials received an e-mail message alerting them to tne scam last week, and a DPS lieutenant forwarded the warning to the Daili/ Trnjiw.
The alert says some people have received pages, answering machine messages and e-mail messages telling
them to call a number ___________
in the 809 area code for information on a loved one, an inheritance or a prize. Some of the e-mail messages threaten legal action regarding a victim's account.
The 809 area code is for the Bahamas, where regulations on telephones are more lax than in the United States, and in addition to the long distance charges, callers may find themselves lis-
tening to long messages or confusing people while long-distance charges pile up.
Trying to fight a nuge phone
bill later may be a nightmare, because the call was actually made. A caller's local phone company or long distance carri-
77/ere are a lot of scams out there. The best defense is simply not to respond.
—Bob Taylor, DPS Deputy Chief
er will probably say it is just pro->01
company, and tne foreign com-
viding the billing for the foreign
pany may argue it did nothing wrong, the alert warns.
However, DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor said he felt the scam would not victimize very many students.
"If you receive a number on your pager that you don't recog-
nize, it's your choice not to call it," Taylor said. "This 809 thing we haven't had a lot of comments on."
Taylor said one of the problems with the Internet is "there's so much information, you really don't have time to assess it for its value."
"I really haven't received anything through official law enforcement channels to indicate that it's a pmblem," he said.
The e-mail alert DPS received originates from the Motorola Corporate Information Sec----------- urity Office. It outlines several of the scams that urge victims to call the expensive phone numbers and it warns recipients of messages telling them to call the 809 area code to investigate further or to disregard the message.
"There are a lot of scams out there," Taylor said. "The best defense is simply not to respond.'*