Wednesday October 23,19% Vol.CXXDCNo.39
Headlines
USC's soccer team hosts rival Bruins
Forward Amy Peterson, the lone remaining member from USC's first women's soccer team, hopes to lead the Women of Troy to their first win against UCLA at 3 p.m. today at the Coliseum.
Sports, page 16
The 'Jester' comes home to campus
After their son died, publishing David Saltzman's book became a labor of love for
Erofessor Joe Saltzman and is wife Barbara, a USC alumnus. Staff writer Alyson Beck reports on its success.
Diversions, page 8
On learning how L.A. came to be
In a time when we are often too overwhelmed to reflect on our past, editorial writer Joe Mozingo offers some insight on the history of Los Angeles, and why those ignorant of history are missing out.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
DT readers survey; Counseling group
The Readers Survey, which was published on Oct. 15, is available on the Daily Trojan World Wide Web site at http://wmu.usc.edu/depl/DT
Your comments are greatly appreciated. They will help us make changes in our coverage to serve you better.
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Student Counseling Services has openings in the "Making Peace with Food and Body Esteem" group for students seeking support with eating habits, negative body image and other related behaviors. The group meets on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Plesase contact Traci Tucker or Soni Kim at 740-7711 for more information,
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Today is the deadline to apply for the Fulbright Scholarship, which offers grants to excellent students planning to do graduate study abroad.
Protein-rich diet unfounded by research
By Stacy Matros
Staff Writer
According to recent diet trends, the college student staple of pasta and instant oatmeal is no good if you are dieting. However, the fact is that you can stock up all you want because carbohydrates are not a problem.
The recent diet craze extols the virtues of rotein with books like "The Zone" (Reagan ooks) by biochemist Barry Sears and "Protein Power" (Bantam) by Mary Dan Eades and Michael Eades. And the books are selling like hotcakes.
"These books come and go so quickly. We can't keep the shelves stocked," said a sales representative at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Westside Pavilion.
The problem? People don't know what they are getting into.
"It's science fiction," said Alice Mayer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Sears and Eades and the army of new "protein power" people blame not fat content or high calories for an America that is heavier than ever; they say the fault lies with too many carbohydrates.
Protein-rich diet promoters claim carbohy-
drates are dangerous because they make the body produce more insulin, a hormone manufactured by the pancreas to keep blood sugar in check. Meals overloaded with carbohydrates, say the protein people, quickly digested and this leads to an inci in blood sugar. Too much insulin can lead to a condition called insulin resistance.
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Health & Medicine
When there is a resistance, the body makes more insulin, causing an imbalance. This imbalance creates an enzyme that causes the body to convert what you eat (dietary calories) into body fat rather than burning it for energy.
This imbalance also prevents the body from using fat already stored in cells.
"A high-carbohydrate diet keeps the body awash in insulin,", Michael Eades said. "It can raise the blood-pressure, elevate cholesterol levels, cram tat into cells, cause the body tt) retain excess fluid, damage arteries and change protein and sugar into fat."
What you don't know as you happily buy
your protein-fortified drinks at Commons is that you shouldn't always believe what you read.
"No one has ever shown that substituting protein calories for carbohydrate calories will lower insulin levels or cure insulin resistance," said Dr, Gerald Reaven, professor of medicine at Stanford.
While leading researchers agree that insulin resistance is a real problem that affects 25 percent of the population, they don't think carbohydrates are the culprit Eades and Sears make them out to be.
Nutritionists and experts have looked for research to back up the claims made by Sears and others, only to find there is no research. There are exclamations and high accolades by people who have gone on these diets, but no usable facts.
What readers don't know is that the people who praise the power of protein are serious cross-trainers and athletes, not the average person who wants to lose a few pounds before seeing the family at Thanksgiving.
Nutritionists also have concerns about the serious health effects of the high-protein diets recommended in these books.
(See Diet, page 1)
Removal of Bovard film projectors protested
By Michelle Abellera
Staff Writer
The Student Senate discussed the discontinuation of free movie preview screenings at Bovard Auditorium and approved various appointments at their meeting Tuesday night.
When Bovard was remodeled this summer, two 35mm projectors that Program Board used to screen free films for students were removed by Spectrum without consultation of any member of the student body.
The new booth that houses audiovisual equipment allows no room for the reinstallation of the large projectors, and Bovard can no longer serve as a venue for the screenings.
Student Senate
Program Board directors Joel Griesbach and Jeremy Zink authored a resolution which urges Spectrum to reinstate the program in Norris Theatre, or to install a newer, small projector.
Using Norris Theatre as the new screening facility has its compromise points. Due to the theater's small capacity, the resolution asks that there be up to three showings per night on a weekday, twice every month. Advocates of the plan pointed out that Norris is equipped with THX sound and controlled lighting while Bovard is not.
Program Board would have to consult with the School of Cinema-Television tt) use Norris, which is a popular classroom and has limited availabili-
ty for non-cinema schtx)l use.
Under the second proposal, Spectrum would install a new 3Smm projector in Bovard, without cost to the student body or any student organization.
Senate adviser Dave Crandall said the Office of Student Activities brought sneak previews to campus about ten years ago and Program Board later adopted the event as part of their activities. The free preview screenings have since been the most widely attended series of (See Senate, page 13)
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Women, minorities contest Prop. 209
DmiIm Caitarion / Dally Trojan
Student Body Vice President Adina Israel (left) and Senate Community Outreach Director Eric Flores (right) demonstrate their support for the antl-Proposltion 209 movement.
By Ron Ognar
Staff Writer
Minority and women's advocates united in Hahn Plaza to protest Proposition 209, which would eliminate the practice of considering race and gender in state hiring, in a noontime rally led by the Black Student Union.
"(Prop 209) is a war on your dreams and on your opportunities," State Assemblywoman Marguerite Archie-Hudson (D-Los Angeles) said to a crowd of about 40.
Hudson joined a group of speakers who said Prop. 209 severely hampers the rights of minorities and women.
"If you believe in equality, civil rights, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, then you can't tell me you're going to vote for Prop. 209 for civil rights," said John Hill, an activist.
Affirmative action promotes opportunity and diversity, and Prop. 209 would end that, speakers said.
"This proposition is going to divide us more than we have ever been divided," Hill said. "You need to go to school with people who look like you and some that don't, because when you come into the work force you're going to have to deal with diversity."
"Prop. 209 would end the promise of America to make sure everyone has equal rights,"
Impact on Asians by 209 debated
By Alessandra Djurklou
Staff Writer
A forum held on campus Tuesday night dealt with the impact Proposition 209 would have on the Asian-American community, if passed. Leading the forum were anti-209 activists Bonnie Tang and Al Muratsuchi.
Proposition 209, also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, seeks to eliminate preferential treatment basea on race, gender or ethnicity in public education,
f>ublic employment and pubic contracting. Opponents say this proposition would end affirmative action in the state.
"We think it's overly radical," said Muratsuchi, who is the Pacific Southwest regional (See Forum, page 13)
Hudson said.
Several speakers said the proposition is a severe blow to women's rights, citing the Clause C bona fide qualification, which allows for discrimination (See Rally, page 2)