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www.dailytrojan.com Runners go all the way in marathon USC students participated in Sunday’s 21st annual Los Angeles Marathon. By LESLIE ANNE JONES Staff Writer Knees and feet throb, hips feel like they're about to give out and nipples bleed when clothes chafe the skin. These are just a few of the things a handful of USC students withstood Sunday while running the 26.2-mile Los AnydM Marathu»< For some, running just one miie seemed like an arduous task before joining the USC Marathon Team. Completing a marathon is no mere athletic feat. Doctors recommend that beginners run no more than one marathon per year because of the tax it puts on the body. When Pankaj Mishra, a graduate student studying electrical engineering, joined the marathon team three years ago, he had never even heard of cross-country running. Mishra's running experience was limited to the running required in cricket, which he had played often at home in India. "That's it, enough stupidity," Mishra said he thought to himself on the 23rd mile of his first Los Angeles Marathon. He said it was horrible and decided he was done with it at the end of the day. But two weeks later Mishra was back and running. Sunday was his third Los Angeles Marathon and his fifth marathon overall. Training |ust I see Marathon oage 10 Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 INSIDE March 21, 2006 After squeaking past USF, 67-65, the Women of Troy face a dominant Duke Blue Devils team tonight in Norfolk, Va. 20 Vol. CXLVIII, No. 40 Experts validate student arrest USC student Ben McAlister caught in a sting operation By SARAH SPRINGER Staff Writer Since a USC student was arrested Feb. 19 in Laguna Beach on suspicion of attempted lewd acts with a minor, more light has been shed on the method used to arrest him. was arrested Feb. 19 when by Perverted-Justice.com. Benjamin Paul McAlister, a 21-year-old fourth-year architecture student, was caught in a sting operation by Perverted-Justice.com, a Web site designed to expose sex offenders and bring them to authorities. McAlister was caught participating in a sexually explicit conversation with an adult posing as a 13-year-old girl. He agreed to meet with the purported minor two hours after they began speaking, said Xavier Von Erck, founder of Perverted-Justice. com. Susan Schroeder, Orange County deputy district attorney, said McAlister arrived at a Laguna Beach home owned by Perverted-Justice. com volunteers and was arrested. McAlister was one of 13 people arrested in the sting operation on Feb. 19, where adult volunteers from the Web site posed as 12- and 13-year-old girls in chat rooms to catch adults who solicit young girls for sex. Von Erck said the men caught that night were the first to act and were also aware of the proposed minors’ ages and what they looked like after the volunteers showed them I see Arraat. page 3 I Tradition. Members of the Iranian Graduate Students Association passed out fliers and had a traditional Haft Seen table on Trousdale Parkway Monday morning to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian or Persian new year, which lasts for 12 days and is celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. Students celebrate Nowruz, traditional Iranian new year The holiday, based on the vernal or spring equinox, began at 10:25 a.nu The new year's celebration will last for 12 days. By JULIA WONG Contributing Writer Students from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan celebrated Nowruz, the Iranian or Persian New Year, Monday at a booth on Trousdale Parkway. Organized by the Iranian Graduate Students Association, the festivities marked the beginning of Nowruz's 12-day celebration. The start of Nowruz is determined by the spring equinox, which marks the beginning of spring. The celebrations included a table set with Haft Seen. In Iranian, Haft is seven and Seen is S. Haft Seen is seven items that begin with the letter S and relate to the seven creations and the seven immortals that protect those creations. “We have apples, a mirror, the holy book, flowers and coins on the table," said Arash Malakan, a Ph.D. student studying civil engineering. Malakan said the items are usually symbols of luck and the rejuvenation of nature. Soraya Taghavi, a first-year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, came from Iran two years ago. She said the IGSA's Haft Seen table was similar to the traditional set-up in Iran. “Usually family and relatives sit around the Haft Seen table together at the beginning of the new year but I can’t do that with them (this year) because I’m here,” she said. Officers of the IGSA as well as other Iranian students counted down to 10:25 a.m., the official start of Nowruz. After the new year, peo-l see Nowruz. page 11 INDEX New ‘The Godfather' video game resurrects Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone. 7 Left-turn signals are the answer for Los Angeles'traffic woes. 4 News Digest-----3 Lifestyle--------7 Upcoming 2 Classifieds-----12 Opinions........4 Sports..........20 WEATHER Today: Morning showers. High 61. tow 44. Tomorrow: High 68. low 51 AP scores, success not synonymous Harvard surveyed more than 8,000 college students over a 13-year period. By CHAU TU Contributing Writer Advanced Placement science exam scores are not good indicators of what grades students will get in corresponding college science courses, according to a study conducted by Harvard University and the University of Virginia. "What we found is that when vou get all the students with reported 5’s (on their AP science exams), they didn't all get A’s. About half of them did," said Robert Tai. assistant director of science education at Virginia AP classes are promoted to be as rigorous as a college course and AP test scores are considered to be a good indication of the grades students would receive in a college course. The study started in 1992 and surveyed about 8.500 students enrolled in introductory college science courses at four-year colleges and universities across the nation Students were asked to recall AlUfik their high school science class expe- l|Ulvll riences during their college science Fact course. Tai said. He conducted the study with -♦ Philip Sadler, a professor at Harvard only about “If students are in their college half of stu- chemistry class, they have proba- dents who got bly thought about their high school 5 s on their chemistry class and maybe even AP science looked at their notes." Tai said. 'If tests got As in they are ever going to remember corresponding something from their experiences entry level col from high school, they're probably lege science doing it right there.” courses. I see karat page 10 I
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Full text | www.dailytrojan.com Runners go all the way in marathon USC students participated in Sunday’s 21st annual Los Angeles Marathon. By LESLIE ANNE JONES Staff Writer Knees and feet throb, hips feel like they're about to give out and nipples bleed when clothes chafe the skin. These are just a few of the things a handful of USC students withstood Sunday while running the 26.2-mile Los AnydM Marathu»< For some, running just one miie seemed like an arduous task before joining the USC Marathon Team. Completing a marathon is no mere athletic feat. Doctors recommend that beginners run no more than one marathon per year because of the tax it puts on the body. When Pankaj Mishra, a graduate student studying electrical engineering, joined the marathon team three years ago, he had never even heard of cross-country running. Mishra's running experience was limited to the running required in cricket, which he had played often at home in India. "That's it, enough stupidity," Mishra said he thought to himself on the 23rd mile of his first Los Angeles Marathon. He said it was horrible and decided he was done with it at the end of the day. But two weeks later Mishra was back and running. Sunday was his third Los Angeles Marathon and his fifth marathon overall. Training |ust I see Marathon oage 10 Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 INSIDE March 21, 2006 After squeaking past USF, 67-65, the Women of Troy face a dominant Duke Blue Devils team tonight in Norfolk, Va. 20 Vol. CXLVIII, No. 40 Experts validate student arrest USC student Ben McAlister caught in a sting operation By SARAH SPRINGER Staff Writer Since a USC student was arrested Feb. 19 in Laguna Beach on suspicion of attempted lewd acts with a minor, more light has been shed on the method used to arrest him. was arrested Feb. 19 when by Perverted-Justice.com. Benjamin Paul McAlister, a 21-year-old fourth-year architecture student, was caught in a sting operation by Perverted-Justice.com, a Web site designed to expose sex offenders and bring them to authorities. McAlister was caught participating in a sexually explicit conversation with an adult posing as a 13-year-old girl. He agreed to meet with the purported minor two hours after they began speaking, said Xavier Von Erck, founder of Perverted-Justice. com. Susan Schroeder, Orange County deputy district attorney, said McAlister arrived at a Laguna Beach home owned by Perverted-Justice. com volunteers and was arrested. McAlister was one of 13 people arrested in the sting operation on Feb. 19, where adult volunteers from the Web site posed as 12- and 13-year-old girls in chat rooms to catch adults who solicit young girls for sex. Von Erck said the men caught that night were the first to act and were also aware of the proposed minors’ ages and what they looked like after the volunteers showed them I see Arraat. page 3 I Tradition. Members of the Iranian Graduate Students Association passed out fliers and had a traditional Haft Seen table on Trousdale Parkway Monday morning to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian or Persian new year, which lasts for 12 days and is celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. Students celebrate Nowruz, traditional Iranian new year The holiday, based on the vernal or spring equinox, began at 10:25 a.nu The new year's celebration will last for 12 days. By JULIA WONG Contributing Writer Students from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan celebrated Nowruz, the Iranian or Persian New Year, Monday at a booth on Trousdale Parkway. Organized by the Iranian Graduate Students Association, the festivities marked the beginning of Nowruz's 12-day celebration. The start of Nowruz is determined by the spring equinox, which marks the beginning of spring. The celebrations included a table set with Haft Seen. In Iranian, Haft is seven and Seen is S. Haft Seen is seven items that begin with the letter S and relate to the seven creations and the seven immortals that protect those creations. “We have apples, a mirror, the holy book, flowers and coins on the table," said Arash Malakan, a Ph.D. student studying civil engineering. Malakan said the items are usually symbols of luck and the rejuvenation of nature. Soraya Taghavi, a first-year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, came from Iran two years ago. She said the IGSA's Haft Seen table was similar to the traditional set-up in Iran. “Usually family and relatives sit around the Haft Seen table together at the beginning of the new year but I can’t do that with them (this year) because I’m here,” she said. Officers of the IGSA as well as other Iranian students counted down to 10:25 a.m., the official start of Nowruz. After the new year, peo-l see Nowruz. page 11 INDEX New ‘The Godfather' video game resurrects Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone. 7 Left-turn signals are the answer for Los Angeles'traffic woes. 4 News Digest-----3 Lifestyle--------7 Upcoming 2 Classifieds-----12 Opinions........4 Sports..........20 WEATHER Today: Morning showers. High 61. tow 44. Tomorrow: High 68. low 51 AP scores, success not synonymous Harvard surveyed more than 8,000 college students over a 13-year period. By CHAU TU Contributing Writer Advanced Placement science exam scores are not good indicators of what grades students will get in corresponding college science courses, according to a study conducted by Harvard University and the University of Virginia. "What we found is that when vou get all the students with reported 5’s (on their AP science exams), they didn't all get A’s. About half of them did," said Robert Tai. assistant director of science education at Virginia AP classes are promoted to be as rigorous as a college course and AP test scores are considered to be a good indication of the grades students would receive in a college course. The study started in 1992 and surveyed about 8.500 students enrolled in introductory college science courses at four-year colleges and universities across the nation Students were asked to recall AlUfik their high school science class expe- l|Ulvll riences during their college science Fact course. Tai said. He conducted the study with -♦ Philip Sadler, a professor at Harvard only about “If students are in their college half of stu- chemistry class, they have proba- dents who got bly thought about their high school 5 s on their chemistry class and maybe even AP science looked at their notes." Tai said. 'If tests got As in they are ever going to remember corresponding something from their experiences entry level col from high school, they're probably lege science doing it right there.” courses. I see karat page 10 I |
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