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‘Steel Magnolias’ is hit for writer
A & E, page 9
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Volume CX, Number 54
University of Southern California
Tuesday, November 21,1989
Access met with mixed reactions
Students don’t feel much safer with new system
By Andrew Vrees
Staff Writer
The university's new Access safety system has been activated in La Sorbonne and Century apartments, but students said they are disappointed with what they thought would be an improvement in safety.
Tom Vokasin, a freshman majoring in pre-business and a Century resident, said he ran his ID card through the system's card reader several times but still could not get into his building. Finally, he said, a Community Service Officer let him in.
"I don't think the system will make it safer," Vokasin said. "Keys and cards, they are all the same thing. The cards are just more convenient."
Vokasin may find the system more convenient than using his keys, but others say the system is a hindrance and possibly dangerous.
"This card sucks," said Michelle Inouye, a freshman majoring in communications and a Century resident. "You need your keys and your card."
In the time it takes a student to get her keys and card (See Reactions, page 17)
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Stephanie Stein, an undeclared freshman, uses the Access system at Century apartments. Some students have been disappointed with the system.
Green Room, Stop Gap to be razed by June, officials say
By Robin Hardie
Staff Writer
Earthquake and fire hazards have slated the Green Room and Stop Gap theaters for demolition before the end of the academic year, restricting the options for most university drama performances to a single main stage, officials said Monday.
After the university loses its two remaining intimate on-campus theaters, all student productions will be held on the Bing Theater main stage, at Embassy Residential College or on a makeshift stage in King Hall.
Performances already scheduled at the Stop Gap Theater will be moved to an alternative site that will be chosen by officials in the drama division of the School of Cinema-T ele vision.
The Green Room will be used "until the day the bulldozer arrives," said Richard Toscan, chairman of the division.
A donor has expressed interest in funding the construction of a new drama building to replace all existing facilities, which would be completed in about three years, Toscan said.
The new facility would include three theaters roughly the size of the Green Room and Stop Gap theaters, plus offices for the division.
"This really gives us the chance to get a facility for the division that's been needed for 45 or 50 years," Toscan said.
The Stop Gap Theater, scheduled for demolition in mid-December, was condemned by the city six months ago because it was not earthquake-safe, but it was agreed that the university could use the building until January, 1992.
(See Drama, page 8)
Man born without arms joins in march to protest abortion
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Tony Melendez, a man born without arms who touched Pope John Paul II in 1987 by singing and playing the guitar with his toes, joined a weekend anti-abortion march attended by thousands.
“Life is so precious. Because of a drug, I was denied arms, but I stili feel in my heart that my mother , would have had me even if she had known,’’ Melendez said.
Melendez joined an estimated 6,000 people near a mall Sunday in a protest organized by the Inland Empire Pro-Life Coalition.
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USC study challenges past findings
Research finds daily aspirin use increases risk of heart disease
By Robin Hardie
Staff Writer
University researchers have concluded that daily use of aspirin increases the risk of heart disease; these findings seem to conflict with widely publicized evidence that daily use of the drug decreases risk of heart attacks.
The university's results are in apparent contrast to the final results of the U.S. Physicians' Health Study published in July, which found aspirin taken every other day can halve the risk of heart attacks for men over 50.
The USC study, published Nov. 18 in the British Medical Journal, stated that daily aspirin use by healthy, elderly individuals is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, angina and stroke.
The two studies agreed, however, that there is substantial evidence that aspirin
can prevent heart attacks, strokes, angina or other heart-related deaths in persons who have had those ailments previously.
The design and method of research for the two studies differed in that the USC research involved observational studies, while the Physicians' Health Study used random control trials.
The USC study involved a mail-in survey of 14,000 elderly men and women residents of Leisure World, a retirement community in Laguna Hills. The median age of those surveyed was 73; they were
(See Study, page 17)
Bowl tickets
Students to turn in coupons for ‘Rose’ lottery today
By Julie Chen
Staff Writer
Many university students will turn in their Rose Bowl coupons today in hopes of being picked in the lottery to win tickets tor the game on New Year's day.
While some students plan to give away their coupons, others are looking to sell them and even more plan to buy them.
Nancy Myerson, a junior majoring
in exercise science, said she plans to give her coupon to a friend at no charge. Originally, she had planned to turn in the coupon to try and make a profit if she were picked in the lottery.
However, when a friend asked if she needed it, she decided to just give it away.
"Making money off the ticket doesn't really matter to me/' Myerson said. 'Td rather give it to my friend who wants to go to the game."
Myerson said she'd love to go to the game if she could, but she is spending the holidays at home on the East Coast.
Christy Stoody, a junior majoring in education, said she plans to turn in her coupon with some of her sorority sisters. "We are going to turn in as many tickets as we are allowed," Stoody said.
Stoody said she has had tickets to (See Tickets, page 19)