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Volume CX, Number 42	University	of	Southern	California	Thursday,	November	2,	1989
Students protest Jewish radical
Hardip Singh / Dally Trojan
Rabbi Meir Kahane speaks on campus Wednesday as protestors gather behind him and chant to distract from his speech. The university had rejected Kahane from speaking in Bovard Auditorium, but he still came.
Despite school rejection, anti-Arab Rabbi Kahane still speaks on campus
By Petula Dvorak
Staff Writer
Even after the university withdrew permisssion for Rabbi Meir Kahane to appear on campus because of security risks, the anti-Arab activist spoke defiantly Wednesday on the steps of Bovard Auditorium.
Students from the Hillel Jewish Center protested Kahane's appearance by gathering behind him with signs decrying his far-right views and chanting to distract from his speech, said Rabbi Laura Geller of the center.
“We want to make it very clear that Jewish students are adamantly against him,” said Daniel Winick, president of the Hillel Jewish Center and a sophomore majoring in psychology. "He was not invited on campus by anybody. He rented Bovard Auditorium as an independent contractor."
After arguing with protesters for about 10 minutes, Geller said, Kahane left the campus flanked by his personal bodyguards.
“He was there long enough to get his publicity photos," Winick said. "That's all he wanted."
Kahane was unavailable for comment.
Kahane's platform in his failed campaign for the post of Israeli prime minister advocated the transportation of all Arabs, legal citizens or not, out of Israel and into neighboring countries, Geller said.
He represents an ideology that is not only racist, Geller said, but also anti-democratic.
After university officials withdrew his permission to speak on campus, Kahane applied for a temporary restraining order in the Superior Court of Los Angeles on the grounds that it was an infringement on his First Amendment rights.
Kahane's application was denied, but he plans
(See Rabbi, page 15)
Employees send petition to Zumberge
In Brief__________________________
Herald-Examiner to close its doors permanently today
The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, once the nation’s largest afternoon newspaper but recently just a scrappy shell of its former self, said Wednesday it would cease publication today.
Robert Danzig, vice president and general manager of Herald Newspapers, made the announcement at an emotional meeting in the newsroom Wednesday afternoon.
Hearst cited “intense pressure" from the Los Angeles Times, which has five times the Herald’s daily circulation, as a reason for their closure.
The Herald Examiner was founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1903.
Hearst cited “intense pressure” from the Los Angeles Times, the city’s dominant daily with five times the Herald’s daily circulation, as a major reason for the paper’s decreased readership and downfall.
World: 7.1 earthquake • strikes off Japan coast
TOKYO — A major earthquake registering 7.1 magnitude struck off northeastern Honshu Island early today, officials said. Three coastal villages were ordered evacuated for fear of tidal waves, officials said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which struck at 3:26 a.m. Thursday (11:26 p.m. Wednesday PST). It was centered about 60 miles off the coast and at a depth of 20 miles, the Central Meteorological Agency in Tokyo said.
The agency said sea levels two hours after the quake had risen nearly three feet in the region.
Nation: Congress to pay Japanese WWII interns
WASHINGTON — The Senate finished work Wednesday on legislation providing money to pay $20,000 to each surviving Japanese-American interned during World War II, sending the measure back to the House.
Under the legislation, the government would make $500 million of the payments the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, $500 million the next year and the remaining $200 million the year after that.
From the Associated Press
Index
Viewpoint			 4
Komix			 6
Security Roundup		•••••#•••• 6
Arts & Entertainment			 9
Sports			 24
Help wanted to solve stalled negotiations between workers, USC
By Bill Swindell
Staff Writer
A delegation of unionized university dining and housing employees delivered a petition to President James Zumberge on Tuesday, requesting that he act to solve stalled negotiations between the
workers and the university, a union official said.
"We, the undersigned employees of USC, deserve a decent wage increase," said Elizabeth Campos, reading from the statement, which was signed by more than 300 university employees.
The petition said that the employees have worked for years at low wages. They need the increase to support their families, the petition said.
"We need a fair wage, and you have the influence to help us," Campos read.
Campos, the Local 11 union representative for the university employees, said the workers may request a meeting with Zumberge.
Negotiations may continue today.
George Abdo, executive assistant to Zumberge, confirmed that the president's office received the petition but has not acted on it yet.
The main sticking point in negotiations is still the union's demand for an average hourly increase of more than $1, while (See Petition, page 7)
Student crowned Miss California Latina
Lorena Rodriguez
By Gail Pagala
Staff Writer
Entering a beauty pageant meant a shot at something more than cash and prizes for a university student who was crowned Miss California Latina last weekend.
For Lorena Rodriguez, a senior majoring in communications and Spanish, the title of Miss California Latina 1989 enables her to not only achieve her career goals but work within the Hispanic community.
"First of all, I am a communications and Spanish major and want to go into a Spanish televison network," Rodriguez said. "With the title, I will be in
contact with the Spanish community and gain exposure too.
"It also gives me personal satisfaction because I will be like a role model in the Spanish community. I can help out other fellow Hispanics in some way," she said.
Rodriguez was modest about revealing her new title, said Rodriguez's friend and sorority sister, Alice Muniz, a junior majoring in English.
"I asked her what she did that weekend and she had this big smile on her face," Muniz said. "She told me she was in a pageant last Saturday, and she couldn't believe that she won.
(See Beauty, page 16)