Thursday April 24,1997 Vol. CXXX, No. 65
Headlines
Romy and Michele on 'Reunion'
Lisa Kudrow .ind Mira Sorvino star in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion." Staff writer Constantine Nasr spoke with the two women about their latest roles.
Diversions, page 9
Volleyball fails to meet expectations
Several things pointed to a successful 1997 campaign for the USC men's volleyball team. However, 14 losses later, the team's season was over and it was left to ask what happened.
Sports, page 24
Losing a friend due to graduation
All good friendships must come to an end, especially when those friends are seniors. Assistant viewpoint editor Lizzie Singian describes her loss of many graduating friends.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Deadline today, slide presentation
Applications for spring 1997 Marshall School of Business Leadership Award are due today in the Dean's Advisory Board mailbox in Bridge Hall 104.
For more information, call Katie Tseng at (213) 764-9326. • • •
A slide presentation of award-winning photographer and journalist Donna DeCesare's "From Civil War to Gang War: Tales of 1\vo Cities,' will be held today at 1 p.m. in the Social Science Building, room B-47.
The slide show is a history of the flight of peasants from El Salvador's war-torn villages in the 1980s.
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BusinessWeek magazine's Thursday conference series continues today at 5 p.m. in their chat room on America Online.
This week's guest is Steven Kobrin, director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management &i International Studies,
Earthy day
Artnia Lahatto / Dally Troian
Students from Magnet for the Arts, Sciences and Technology High School played games on the lawn In front of Bovard Auditorium Wednesday afternoon in celebration of Earth Week, hosted by Student Action for the Environment.
Goodall
awarded
prize
By Jason S. Grant
Staff Writer
Jane Goodall, the famed anthropologist and USC adjunct professor of anthropology, delivered a message of hope for both the endangered chimpanzees she has studied and for the rest of humankind in a packed auditorium at the Davidson Conference Center Wednesday afternoon.
Goodall talked about her life's work in recognition of her selection as one of three winners of USC's Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
Goodall said that while many people see little hope for the future of the environment and the world population, she sees an alternate view in wnich the enterprise and "indomitable spirit" of humans can reverse the damage already imposed on the environment.
"My first reason for hope lies in the human intellect," Goodall said. "Only when we begin to understand that we have a responsibility will things change."
Goodall will be one of three scientists awarded a share of a $150,000 prize and a
(See Goodall, page 2)
Dean named trustee for national park
appointed by the president on April 18. As a Presidio council member since 1994, he helped develop the idea of a trust board to manage the Presidio facility and develop income for it.
Presidio (board) must come up with a mechanism to make it economically viable...
ED BLAKELY
dean,
urban and regional planning
By Hang Nguyen
Staff Writer
The dean of the School of Urban and Regional Planning was recently selected by President Bill Clinton from over 600 nominees nationwide to be a two-year Presidio trustee.
"The White House had asked me (whether I wanted to be a Presidio trustee) back in November of 1996, but called me last Friday to tell me 1 was one of the people (chosen)," Ed Blakely said.
The board's objective is to turn a 1,400-acre area near San Francisco into a national park. Blakely helped originate the plans to carry out this agenda. The Presidio is currently the largest urban real estate area in the United States.
Presidio, an official park since 1992, is similar to a "little city,' Blakely said, and is 25 percent buildings and homes and 75 percent open land. Presently, 2,000 to 3,000 park services and military people live in the park.
Blakely is one of six trustees who was
The Presidio costs an annual $138 million for fire protection, sewage control and water.
"It will be up to the board to reduce the cost (to) the taxpayers over the next 15 years, but this must happen within the context of
preserving the Presidio as a national park," said Nancy Pelosi, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing San Francisco.
Board members plan to meet in May and hope to offset the current annual cost with income from tourism when the area becomes a national park.
Other ways to bring in money are from non-profit institutions and possibly constructing office buildings on the site, Blakely said.
The federal government no longer wants to pay the costs of the Presidio but wants to nand over the responsibilities to a party deemed capable of producing the most economically efficient methods to take care of the park, Blakely said.
"Presidio (board) must come up with a mechanism to make it economically viable within two years and it will take 15 years to be fully implemented," he said.
Blakely's colleagues were not surprised when they heard the president had appoint-(See Blakely, page 17)
Asian comedy troupe tickles Bovard crowd
By Derick Dahilig
Staff Writer
The "18 Mighty Mountain Warriors," an Asian American comedy troupe, performed Wednesday night at Bovard Auditorium as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival.
"They're like the Asian version of In Living Color," said Richard Kan, program chairman of the Asian American Student Assembly. "They do a couple skits throughout the evening that are pretty hilarious."
The troupe, which has toured worldwide, lampooned typical Asian stereotypes in front of approximately 150 people.
Dubbed "The World's Most Suicidal Asian American Skit Comedy group," 18MMW was invited to campus for the second time in conjunction with APA Heritage festival's programs "to have USC community be more aware of Asian culture and heritage," said Sandy Johal, director of the Asian American Student Assembly. "It's one of the events to showcase Asian-American artists."
By bringing the troupe to USC, A ASA hoped to help break down stereotypes about Asian Americans.
"There are a lot of stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as Asian females being submissive (See Comedy, page 17)
Mlchaal lavlna / Dally Tro|an
Michael Hombuckle and Qreg Watanabe crossed Bruce Lee and a cooking show to get “Bruce Can Cook.”