Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Luck of the Irish?
TVoy Witt / Daily Troian
1991 alumnus Rob Korotky, after losing a bet to a Notre Dame fan, was subjected to roaming the campus yesterday in full Irish garb.
USC sponsors holiday events
USC'9 Office for International Students and Scholars is sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving Match-Up Program, and is currently seeking families to host USC international students on Thanksgiving Day for dinner. The office also encourages international students who wish to gain insight into the American culture to participate in the program.
If you are interested in either hosting a student or being matched up with a family,contact an International Peer Advocate at (213) 740-5250 or stop by at OISS in Student Union 300 to fill out an application. Applications must be received by Tuesday, Nov. 7.
The University Bookstore is sponsoring a Halloween Costume Contest open to all students, faculty and staff from noon to 1 p.m., Oct. 31. There will be free treats for anyone who attends, and prizes for the contestants.
Thursday October 26,1995 Vol. CXXVI, No. 39
Ifeanyi’s appeal to be heard today
The NCAA Enforcement Committe will meet on a conference call today to hear an appeal from USC and Israel Ifeanyi on the one game left in the defensive end's four-game suspension.
Sports, page 20
Blaxploitation and imagination
Interviews with USC cinema professor Todd Boyd on Blaxploitation films and with filmmaker Gregg Araki on his style and his new "The Doom Generation" provide insights for the weekend.
Diversions, page 10
Stopping plague of gun violence
While we hear about drive-by shootings every day, not many of us experience it first-hand. Assistant Editorial Director Heather Moos describes her close-up encounter.
Viewpoint, page 4
Student activism encouraged
GPSS seeks to inform Trojans about funds
Graduate Senate creates program to raise awareness
By Antonia Barber
Stuff Writer
In an attempt to make the graduate student community aware of unused funds for new, innovative graduate programs, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) will be meeting with administration officials later this year to discuss new strategies.
"We are... reforming our own strategic plan, like the university, because we're having problems with people not knowing who we are or what our mission is," GPSS Chairman Rick Groper said.
GPSS serves as an advocacy and liaison board — a body that can distribute funds for graduate school programs or students with project ideas. It broke off from the undergraduate Student Senate in 1990 to focus on graduate student concerns, executive member Cindy Day said.
GPSS has an annual budget of $350,000, which comes from the student programming fee, to pro mote new ideas and initiate programs, said Jeffrey Thompson, GPSS financial chairman.
Groper said about half the budget goes back to individual departments and schtnils lor use in social and academic endeavors.
"We have about four different financial accounts where we give money for things like promoting interdisciplinary speakers and programs through different schools and departments around campus," he said.
In order for individuals, groups or departments to receive allocations from CiPSS, they must elect a representative to go to one of the full board's monthly meetings, Groper said.
GPSS has had problems publicizing that there ts money available for graduate students who want to get involved, he said.
To get the word out that there's money available, GPSS has been trying to promote their functions in the monthly publication Ihe Graduate Thijau, which focuses on graduate issues, Groper said.
Graduate students who want to volunteer their time doing work in the community, such as helping the elderly or holding cleanup efforts, can be sponsored by the GPSS.
"Street Law" is one such student-created program which GPSS sponsored this year Graduate students from the law school wanted to mentor ele-
(See Grads, page 2)
Speaker calls for greater interest
By Michelle Shalit
Staff Writer
Students should take an active interest in civil and human rights to help prevent violence in the community, and to promote acceptance of others, said Magdaleno M. Rose-Avila, executive director of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, Wednesday at El Centro Chicano.
"We're at a time in our history where we have mean-spirited people who want to take away everything we have fought for," he said. "Our message is that if you want to change things, then you have to work for them."
In a roundtable discussion with students and faculty, Rose-Avila advocated each person's capability to make a difference, saying "common people can do uncommon things."
Education is the key to
improving race relations and the problems of violence our country faces, he said.
"We live in a society where we think an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," Rose-Avila said. "Dr.
Martin Luther King would tell us that if we really followed that, then we would be blind people gumming our supper, because all of us have committed some horrendous act."
Rose-Avila's described his own commitment to Chavez's vision of community involvement through nonviolence as the "message that we
Joah Kaatorf / Dally Trojan
Magdaleno M. Rose-Avila
need to take to our schools, to the streets, to our homes."
One of the biggest challenges to mobilize people for change has been convincing them "they have the power within themselves to make a difference," he said. Rose-Avila used Rosa Parks as an example of how one person can make a difference.
Through education in and out of the classroom, Rose-Avila said he hopes people will become more tolerant of others and co-exist peacefully.
"Cesar said you have to
become educated, but your use of education and knowledge must come from the heart," he said.
With people from all over the world on this campus, it would be a mistake not to learn about the world when you have it at your feet, Rose-Avila said.
"Those people who are afraid of affirmative action are really cheating America, because it takes all kinds of people to make something good "
The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded two years ago when the Chicano human-rights activist died.
Chavez played an instrumental role in encouraging the pursuit of acceptance and change through non-violent methods and education, especially on the university level.
Rose-Avila is a member of Amnesty International, AIUSA and directs worldwide volunteer programs in support of human-rights issues.
DPS3 work succeeds
By Franke Santos
Staff Writer
An intensive investigation by the Department of Public Safety led to the arrest of two local men alleged to have sold and received stolen bicycles on Tuesday, according a DPS official.
The two men, identified as Juan Bautista, 54, and Gregorio Borrayo, 37, were allegedly operating as "brokers" of stolen bicycles. The suspects were operating out of 1333 and 1263 West Adams Blvd., respectively.
Although the two operations were
unrelated, Officer Gerald Baker was tipped off to one operation by the other, said Deputy Chief Bob Taylor.
According to Taylor, Officer Baker "dressed down" in civilian clothing and took two decoy bikes to two different locations. He posed as a bicycle thief attempting to sell the bike for money to buy drugs.
Taylor said that DPS suspected the two because of "the way they were conducting their business" and "their close proximity" to the university. He also noted the suspects each had a legitimate busi-
(See Sting, page 2)