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November 17, 2005
Vol. CXL VII, No. bi
Steevens Alconcel I Daily Trojan
Right answer? Chris Sayer, a senior majoring in business (left) and Greg Sayer, a sophomore in pre-med, participated Wednesday night in the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society’s Quiz Bowl. The money groups won in the event will fund future community service events.
Bowl supports community service
The event was held to bring together different campus organizations and people.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Contributing Writer
It was not the $64,000 question, but two student organizations — Peace and Conflict Scholars: El Salvador and the USC Interfaith Council — won $800 in Mortar Board Senior Honor Society’s Quiz Bowl to fund future community service events.
Representatives from eight student organizations competed in the bowl.
which was co-sponsored by the Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board and the USC Q«ffl Bowl. Alpha Omega Epsilon and Phi Beta Sigma won second place and $200 each.
Each team consisted of two representatives from two groups who showed interest in similar community service projects.
The event was chaired by Mortar Board member Takeia Johnson, a senior majoring in English and political science, and moderated by USC Quiz Bowl President Mic Larson.
“We were looking for an event that would bring Mortar Board to the community but would also uphold the
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Besides the first and second place	team
winners. Alpha Phi Alpha, Blacks in	was COm-
Action, Delta Sigma Theta and Helping	posed of two
Young People Excel competed.	representa-
The USC Interfaith Council plans	tives from
to use its money to organize the Spring	two groups
InterFaith Festival, an event aimed to	who showed
bring together students from different	interest in
faiths and backgrounds, said Jonathan	similar com-
Stein, a junior majoring in cinema-tele-	munity service
vision and visual anthropology.	projects.
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USC grad killed in bombings
Rima Akkad Monla, who graduated in 1995, was living in Beirut with her family.
By KRISTIN MAYER
Staff Writer
Rima Akkad Monla, a 1995 USC alumna, was killed in one of three suicide bombings that targeted Western hotels in Jordan last week.
The U.S. State Department confirmed the death of both Monla and her father, said Laura Tischler, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the U.S. State Department.
Monla, an American woman living in Beirut with her family, majored in international relations.
Pedestrian suicide bombers detonated explosives at the Radisson SAS,
Hyatt and Days Inn hotels in Amman
Nov. 9, killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 people, according to the State Department’s
Web site. Al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility.
"(Monla) was a very enthusiastic student of the Middle East," said Professor Laurie Brand, who recalled teaching Monla in her international relations and political economy classes.
Brand's relationship with Monla grew after graduation.
Monla approached Brand for advice on post-graduate studies pertaining to the Middle East, at which point Brand encouraged Monla to study in Lebanon for her master’s degree.
As a student, Monla aspired to work with the United Nations, Brand said.
Family life as a wife and mother of two young boys, however, reduced her mobility, Brand said.
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"(Monla) was full of life. She loved her kids, loved her family, loved living in Lebanon." ■■
LAURIE
BKAND
professor
international
relations
Senate passes resolution requiring written contracts
Student Senate wanted the requirement because of past problems with organizations.
By JOANNA LIN
Suff Writer
In an effort to increase accountability and consistency, Student Senate passed a resolution Tuesday to require a written contract for each agreement made between it and any USC entity.
“My biggest road block is that there is no documentation made between Senate and student groups
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and Student Affairs,” Senate President Jessica Lall said.
Senate does not currently have contracts for its agreements with other organizations, which has allowed for blurry transactions and misunderstandings during administration transitions, Lall said.
Over time, verbal agreements can change “to benefit the person with memory of it,” Lall said.
But contracts will “benefit both sides,” Lall said, as the amendment "makes presidents accountable for their actions” and is “encouraging both parties to think ahead.”
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Reaching out to Ghana
Two USC students aided the
African country helping in schools and health clinics.
By LELAND 0RNELAZ
Contnbuting Writer
For three weeks in the summer, two USC studenLs lived and worked with the people of Prampram. a fishing village along the Atlantic coast in the African nation of Ghana.
Jonathan Turco and Fima Macheret went as participants in Global Volunteers, a program that sends teams to help serve a wide variety of needs in communities all over the world.
Macheret worked at the village health clinic dealing with patient care. There he learned to dress wounds, deal with injuries and help people with malaria, which Macheret said infected about 75 percent of the patients.
"(Ghana offers) vaccines lhat kind of work, but the vaccines for malaria are mainly available for people travel ing there." Macharet said "They don't have the type of money to have these vaccine*."
Vaccines are mostly ineffective
Photo courttey of Fima Macfwet
Health. Fima Macheret spent time in Ghana working at the village health clinic dealing with patient care, including giving newborns immunizations.
anyway. Macheret said, because the disease is a parasite and the people live for long amounts of time in areas prone to having the maJana.
On Tuesdays. Macheret worked in the maternity dime where he gave immunization shots for polio. measles, mumps and other diseases to new boms
Turco worked in a sixth grade
classroom, where he taught social studies lessons on a vanety of sub|eds such as environmental degradation, and the United Nations. He taught lessons out of old Ghanaian textbooks that still had the Soviet Union listed as a country and Turco had to explain to the children that the Soviet Union wasnt a country anymore
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