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USC hosts OSU in Pac-10 opener
Coming off a 55-3 rout of Illinois, the USC football team opens its home season Saturday against Pac-10 rival Oregon State. The winless Beavers lost to Montana, a Division 1-AA team, last week.
Sports, page 5
Trojan conducts at Hollywood Bowl
Jennifer Markham, a senior majoring in music composition, ventures to the Hollywood Bowl tonight, but not just to watch. She will make her conducting debut with the reknowned orchestra.
Diversions, page 16
Time's a-wastin' to recapture youth
As the sun goes down earlier and the football season thickens, Editorial Writer Scott Johnson encourages those who want to recapture youth and summer to rediscover the game of baseball.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Free music, coffee; First Dodger Night
The University Religious Center will have free pie, ice cream and coffee drinks today starting at 9 p.m., across 34th Street from the Music Faculty Building.
There will also be live music and outdoor movies. For more information call 740-2667 or 740-2673.
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BritRail Travel International is offering a new program to travelers ages 16 to 25 which offers 50 percent off the regular fare.
Passes must be purchased between Sept. 15 and Dec,
15. Once the pass is issued, it may be validated any time witnin six months.
For more information, call (212) 382-3737.
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Tickets are available at the USC Ticket Office for the first annual Dodger Night on Sept. 26 designed to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. The event is sponsored by Norris Cancer Research Center.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
By Matthew Jones
Staff Writer
Last night at the fix>tball season kick-off rally in Hahn Plaza, students gathered to express school spirit, while another group gathered there to raise awareness of child labor.
The demonstrators were five students from Frontlash, an organization claiming that Nike, a university sponsor, exploits its labor forces in its Asian factories. Frontlash literature says Nike "pays Pakistani children six cents an hour to sew soccer balls that sell for $30 to $50 here in the U.S., pays its Indonesian workers a sub-living wage, fires union organizers and uses the military to break up strikes."
Demonstrators passed out
fliers and carried signs. They left during the middle of the rally.
"We want(ed) to really inform the student body on what (Nike is) doing," said Robert Hart, a member of frontlash. "Our goal is to make progress on this issue."
Hart, a junior majoring in print journalism, said they wanted to inform students about Nike's oppressive working conditions.
The rally, which was sponsored by K.I1S FM and Pepsi, as well as Nike, featured the Trojan Marching Band, the Yell and Song Leaders, football coaches and players. Sponsors distributed an assortment of merchandise at the event.
(See Nike, page 2)
Nike protesters gather at rally
Brandan Hancock / Daily Trojan Frontlash member Rob Hart pumps up an anti-Nike campaign.
Beat the Beavers!
Brandan Hancock / Dally Tro|an
Trojan Marching Band members play at the Spirit Rally Thursday night for hundreds of students.
Eastman-Kodak grants supplies
By Kimo Koshi
Staff Writer
The USC School of Cinema-Television was selected by the Eastman-Kodak Company to receive a $4,000 Eastman product grant, it announced Aug. 20.
The grant will be received in the form of 32 rolls of various types of Kodak motion picture film. The film was chosen by the school and includes various types of film for shooting under different conditions. The film will be placed in the school's film bank, which distributes film to students for their various pro jects.
"It really helps out the school's bottom line," said Dick Martin, director of operations, facilities and management for
the School of Cinema-Television.
According to Jennifer Crane, a public relations specialist speaking on behalf of Kodak, $4,000 is a "high end" grant and the largest awarded thus far in 1996.
Martin noted that the grant is merit-based and recipients are chosen by the Eastman-Kodak Company by virtue of the school's accomplishments.
Marlene Loadvine, associate dean of the School of Cinema-Television external relations, said the school was rated number one in a biannual U.S. Neiix and World Report survey of professional schools. She said this was the first time cinema schools have been ranked.
"(President Steven B.) Sample also says we're number one," she said.
Leadership fund, mentoring top senate plans
By Troy Witt
Staff Writer
Leadership, recruitment and an upcoming election topped the agenda at Tuesday night's Student Senate meeting.
Legislation establishing a leadership fund was approved by the Senate, said Student Body Vice President Adina Israel. The proposal must be ratified by Michael Jackson, vice president of Student Affairs, before it can take effect.
Israel said the money was raised through a charge of $2 per student, and over $50,000 was raised last fall.
"(The money) will be used to support actual leadership events and programming/' Israel said.
Attached to the proposal are requirements groups would have to meet in order to receive money.
"Say, if they want to go to a conference ... they'a have to have the agenda for the conference (and) two faculty recommendations," Israel said. "It's a lot of things to make sure ... people won't fall through the cracks and just get money to get sent to the Bahamas or something."
Student Affairs Committee Chairman Timur Taluy said he was excited about the new fund.
"It's going to open up a lot of new opportunities for every campus organization," Taluy said. "The opportunity for this money to be spent is so great, especially with the university's new push for leadership."
Student Senate
It's geared to get freshmen more acquainted with student government, so ... they have first-hand experience.
—Adina Israel
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An elections code for the upcoming emergency election was also passed, Israel said. Yvonne Chavez's commuter senator seat was left vacant when she decided to attend school in Washington, D.C., this semester. An emergency election will take place Sept. 24 and 25 to decide between candidates
Brandon Mercer and Joe Haney 111.
Student Body President Dave Gabler's summer project to start a mentor program within the Student Senate was on Tuesday's meeting agenda. Israel said the program begins this week as new students are paired up with students in the Senate.
"The mentor is someone involved in Senate, and we have a set agenda of what we're going to do, like this Saturday we're all going to meet up and go to the game," she said. "It's geared to get freshmen more acquainted with student government, so that if tney want to get involved, they have firsthand experience.''
With the new program, Israel hopes to see students continue their Senate involvement throughout their time at USC.
"It's exciting to see freshmen come up and ask, 'what can 1 do, what can I get involved with?' and see them working in the committees," she said. "We have events where mentors are getting involved with 'mentees ’ It's not so much a student watching a teacher, it's someone that is involved."
Taluy said the Senate has focused on getting "new blood into the Student Senate.'
"Student Senate is an institution here at 'SC, in that you're always looking for new
(See Senate, page 3)