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January 25,2006
Vol. CXI. VIII, No. 10
Parents outraged over meeting Senate
Attendees waited more tluin two hours to speak at a IAUSD meeting before being told they were not on the agenda.
By ALLISON SOVEY
Contributing Writer
About 50 concerned parents and students from the 32nd Street School, located just north of campus, attended a board of education meeting Tuesday evening to voice their frustrations over broken promises to build new facilities.
The magnet school is part of USC’s Family of Five Schools, a relationship between the university and local schools that provides educational, cultural and developmental opportunities to students in the local community.
Parents contended that the Los Angeles Unified School District allocated funding in 2000 to construct
a new two-story building to house their high school, but failed to follow through on its agreement.
Instead, parents maintain, the district postponed the plans year after year before ultimately dropping them altogether.
Without the needed facilities, students and parents fear that 1,000 high school students will need to relocate to schools closer to their homes.
After waiting for more than two hours to speak to the LAUSD Board
of Education, the board informed the school representatives said they were not on the agenda.
Consequently, only three minutes were allocated to the group before the meeting moved to other agenda items.
“The district guaranteed that we would be on the agenda," said Guadalupe Lopez, a speaker for the group. "We were here two weeks ago, too."
Lisa Ivy, a parent of two children
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votes to support Gateway
A resolution supporting the housing project was passed unanimously in Student Senate Tuesday.
By JOANNA LIN
Staff Writer
Student Senate unanimously passed Tuesday a resolution in support of the University Gateway project.
The project, which proposes an 8-story apartment and retail complex to be built at the northwest corner of Figueroa Street and Jefferson Boulevard, has generated concerns among many community members and local organizations, namely that the complex would complicate neighborhood parking and reduce housing availability for single families.
University Gateway announced its latest project plans at a community redevelopment meetingjan. 19.
The day before, the Department of City Planning held a public hearing about its proposed "Off-Campus Housing Overlay District.” The meeting, which drew more than 500 people, was canceled because of safety issues. Many of the attendees had come to express anxiety about rumors of student housing marginalizing concerns for single-family housing.
But these rumors are misconceptions — ones that Senate hopes it can help correct, said Chris Collier, an author of the resolution and a residential senator.
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INDEX
The prominence of video games leaves society s literacy in shambles. 4
Wheelchairs: part three in a series on disabled students. 7
News Digest-.2 Lifestyle---7
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Opinions_____4 Sports------M
WEATHER
Today: High 64, low 46. Partly cloudy.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy.
College students turn from radio to MP3s and Internet for music
Students complain about the lack of music variety and abundance of commercials on traditional radio.
By KEV1N-UEDA
Staff Wnter
More college students are turning off the radio and going on the Internet for music, according to a study conducted by Bridge Ratings and the Thornton School of Music.
The study. "How to Make Music Radio Appealing to the Next Generation." found that 54 percent of 12- to 24-vear-olds prefer the Internet for obtaining music, with 30 percent preferring radio; 12 percent of those surveyed were categorized under “other"; and 4 percent said they did not know whether they prefer musk radio or Internet music.
The Internet preference is stronger among 18- to 24-year olds, according to Bridge Ratings, whose purpose is to research radio trends and
provide market data to media industries.
Jerry Del Colliano, a professor of music industry at the Thornton School of Music, conducted the study to track the trends between students and music.	•
“We are trying to bridge the gap between the students and the music-related media." Del Colliano said. "Each semester, we come up with a project with students and the industry ”
College students do not prefer radio because it has too many commercials and not enough variety. Del Colliano said.
"Increasingly, this generation of college students finds very little on radio." he said. "They don't like it”
Other problems with radio include disc jockeys who do not respect callers or who are not knowledgeable about music. Del Colliano said.
Even without DJs. radio formats such as JackFM in Los Angeles haw not taken off with the college age demographic. Del Colliano said. "When JackFM was brought in LA. they
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Radio getting less time
How 12- to 24-year-olds spend their time
4% don’t know
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SECOND IN A THREE-PART SERIES ON FOOD STAMPS
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Food pantries and'community gardens provide another choice forfamilies.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
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With almost one in three low-income adults in Los Angeles County unable to afford food, they will now be forced to find other ways to get their daily nutritional intake.
One way is food pantries.
‘There are over 500 agencies distributing free food in lx»s Angeles County," said Frank Tamborello of the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness. “Most of them get their food from the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank.”
Hunger might be harder to tackle if the food banks had to provide all of the free food in the county because of the reductions in resources such as food stamps.
“The food bank has consistently opposed food stamp cuts," he said. “The amount of food that the food bank would have to provide to compensate for all the people losing benefits would be
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Earth steward. Saul, a gardener in the South Central Community Gardens, tills soil for the spring. The garden supports more than 350 low-income families with a second food source.