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Authorities regulate vendors
DPS used to devote eight officers to regulating unregistered vendors, but now there is only one full-time DPS officer.
By JOSHUA SHARP
Contributing Writer
USC officials deployed a new strategy against unregistered vendors at Saturday's football game, said Capt.
Gloria Graham, Department of Public Safety captain of operations.
This year, Los Angeles County Health Department officials inspected food vendors to make sure they were registered and providing safe food,
Graham said.
In the past, DPS would devote eight officers to “doing nothing but that," and now they only have one officer working on the problem full-time, Graham said.
“We just don’t have the resources to deal with it," Graham said. “We have plenty of other things that we have to deal with all day long."
While county health officials moni-
tor the food vendors, the Los Angeles Police Department has "a lot of undercover officers" watching for other unregistered vendors, said Capt. Horace Frank of the Los Angeles Police Department.
He declined to state specifics on the number of undercover officers involved, but he said that it was “an adequate amount."
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Professors promoted to provosts
USC created an academic affairs team to focus on the curriculum, classes for undergraduate students.
Students head to Mississippi lor Katrina aid
Adam Young, a Mississippi native, and John FAlis will be helping Katrina victims.
By GUENSIE GRECY
Contributing Writer
Two USC students will be going to Gulfport, Miss, Monday to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Adam Young, a senior majoring in business finance, and John Ellis, a senior majoring in political science, will take a week off from school to volunteer at a Gulfport Command Center that is being run out of Harrison Central High School.
“I'm nervous to go back because it's my home,” said Young, who grew up in Mississippi.
Young and Ellis heard an announcement at Bel Air Presbyterian Church last Sunday asking for volunteers to go to the command center for six days.
Young, whose family happened to move from Biloxi one month prior to the storm, said, “As soon as (the church) made the announcement, I knew I was going.”
Ellis decided he couldn't let his best friend go alone. “1 felt the calling," he said.
Deciding to go was the easy part, but finding the means was the next step for Young and Ellis, who are both members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Young and Ellis, who are also roommates, said that their fraternity brothers raised almost $1,500 in less than 24 hours.
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"I'm nervous to go back because it's my home. ” ♦ ADAM YOUNG senior political science
By STEPHANIE HAWKINS
Staff Writer
USC appointed three current professors to newly created positions within the Office of the Provost.
Eugene Bickers, the new associate vice provost for undergraduate programs, is part of a new academic affairs team where he works alongside Elizabeth Garrett, vice provost for academic affairs, and Jean Morrison, associate vice provost for graduate programs, Garrett said.
"I was very honored and eager to have the chance to do this," Bickers said.
Each time a new provost comes in, the organizational structure is adapted to fit his or her particular vision of what the office should involve, Bickers said.
“It is a new position versus the previous provost organization," Bickers said.
Chose who work within academic affairs are concerned with the curriculum across the university such as classes, programs and other academic events. Bickers said.
The academic affairs group oversees all of the academic programs at the university for undergraduates and graduates, Garrett said.
The department decided to divide the area up with Bickers concentrating on the undergraduate experience. Garrett said.
“We are working on new initiatives this year particularly to enhance the freshman experience — first contact — and other programs to improve the academic atmosphere culture on campus,” Bickers said.
"(Bicker’s) responsibilities will include thinking about the first contact — our initial experience with the freshman students to make sure that
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Hurricane help. Adam Young (left) and John Ellis left early Monday morning for Mississippi to help at a Gulfport Command Center. The two are best friends and Lambda Chi roommates.
Initiative would require parent notification
Proponents say parents should know their child's medical history, while opponents worry about back-alley abortions.
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By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Writer
On Nov. 8 of this year, Californians will be able to vote on eight initiatives, three of which are constitutional amendments, and one that may affect abortion rights.
California is ranked No. 5 amongst the top-highest states that perform teenage abortions, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
If ptssed Proposition 73 will amend the state constitution to require physicians to notify a parent or guardian 43 hours before the termination.
Proponents of the initiative say parents' involvement in their children s
lives is necessary.
Alvin Rhomberg, spokesman for the Parents Right to Know organization, said the initiatives mam issue is the lack of access to the child's medical records, since only a parent or guardian may access them. Therefore if a child seeking an abortion has any road blocks in her medical histoiy, a clinical physician would have no knowledge of them, he said.
Also, parents need to know about medical procedures their children have undergone in case complication* anse later. Rhomberg said.
‘It complicates the complications.'
Opponents of the initiative, such as Julie Brown, executive director of USCs
Women and Youth Supporting Each other mentor program, say abortion numbers may not be so accurate if children are forced away from the clinics.
“Prop 73, in discouraging clinical abortions, will most likely increase the likelihood of back-alley abortions, which can have very dangerous — sometimes fatal — results,” Brown said.
W7SE, while not advocators of specific pro-choice or pro-life platforms, was created to educate young girls about their options and strategies to avoid pregnancy and single mother hood. Rrown said
According to the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.620 abortions in California among girls 15 and under in 2000 There were 15.110 performed on vnung women ages 15 to 17.
“(In South Lot Angeles, the propose tion I wi mid really aflrct the demograph
ic of girls that we work with.” Brown said of the middle school students I SCs WTSE mentors.
Poor communication
"We find that these girls already have a hard time getting the informa tion they need to make healthy decisions about their bodies, family, fnends. etc," Brown said. "If Prop 73 passes, that will impose |ust one more obstacle *
Some obstacles begin with communication
"While good family communication is essentia] — and we do address good communication and healthy relation ships in our sessions — many of the girls we work with are not comfortable
—	and at times, not safe — talking to their parents about boyfriends, sex. etc,’ Brown said
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