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KSCR returning to Web
Radio: Student-run station to share bandwidth ofKUSC; officials must pay about $30 a month for webhostingfee
By ANNIE MUSKE-DUKES
Contributing Writer
After nearly two months without webcasting, the student-run radio station KSCR is coming back online.
“Justin Evans (general manager of KSCR) and I have been putting our heads together about this for a long time,” said Brenda Barnes, general manager and president of university radio and staff adviser to KSCR.
Recently, they found a way to resume Internet radio by sharing bandwidth with USC’s classical radio station, KUSC, which broadcasts on 91.5 FM.
USC’s Office of General Counsel allowed KSCR to hire attorney Larry Burnstein, who discovered that KUSC could broadcast two streams on the Internet
For a webhosting fee of about $30 per month, KSCR can webcast again.
KSCR lost its ability to play music on the Internet as a result of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The act was passed in 1998, but KSCR was not affected until this fall when the Recording Industry Association of America adopted new rules for Internet broadcasting.
The act stated that radio stations must meet a number of requirements before they can broadcast on the Web.
These include a payment of royalties to the artists and record companies whose music they play as well I see KSGR, page 14 I
Entrance signs remind about guest policies
Backward logic
Housing: University posting asks residents to be responsible for visitors in facilities
By SHERRY ANNE RUBIANO
StaffWriter
Rachel Elias I Daily Trojan On air. Jose Galvan, a senior majoring in Spanish, is better known as “Juicebox” to KSCR listeners and is one of the voices keeping the station alive.
New advisory signs posted outside campus-owned housing facilities remind residents about the guest policy and are meant to add to residents’ sense of security, said Jeff Urdahl, director of Housing Services.
“It’s primarily a safety and security reminder and a resident’s responsibility,” he said.
The signs, which Housing Services and the Office of Greek and Residential Life produced, state, “University Housing facilities are for the use of the building residents. Beyond the Customer Service Center, guests must be accompanied or registered. Guests must abide by university regulations. Residents are responsible for the actions of their guests.” “We want to encourage residents what is the contract regarding guests
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"We want to encourage residents and remind them of what is the contract regarding guests’'
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and remind them of ,” Urdahl said, see Signs, page 14 I
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Leap of faith. Kevin Rabsatt, a senior majoring in computer engineering and computer science, practices his high jump on Cromwell Field.
USC OK with existing speech rules
Common cold remedies not proven to fix dreaded illness
By SCOTT MARTINDALE
StaffWriter
From chicken soup to vitamin C to echinacea, people have tried a host of remedies when it comes to treating the troublesome common cold.
Americans suffer from about a billion colds a year and spend billions of dollars on cold supplements, but these remedies have never been scientifically shown to fight cold viruses.
“None of these are proven to be efficacious," said Dr. Andrea Kovacs,
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an expert in clinical virology and associate professor of pediatrics and pathology. “They are anecdotes. Everyone has their own anecdotes.” Some patients swear by the medicinal herb echinacea — which I see Health, page IS I
Freedom: Harvard alumni pushing for restrictions on discriminatory expression
By LIDIANA P0RTALES
Contributing Writer
Harvard Law School alumni frequently have been at the forefront of efforts to expand constitutional protections on speech. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the fundamental definition of free speech in 1919; Supreme Court Justice William Brennan broadened free-speech protections 1964.
This semester, however, Harvard
Law School is considering creating a policy to ban offensive speech after a series of racially charged comments.
USC, with existing guidelines in SCampus, has no plans to follow Harvard’s lead. USC will continue to adhere to California state law and protect student free speech.
The Harvard Black Law Student Association has asked for an antidiscrimination, antiharassment policy that would allow the school to review offensive speech, said Joshua Bloodworth, a third-year Harvard Law student and president of the organization. Speech that discriminated against race, religion, national origin, creed, sexual orientation or ethnicity
could be subject to discipline.
“There have been lots of incidents of intolerance in Harvard Law School," Bloodworth said. “Discriminatory language actually chills free speech because of intimidation. We feel that (a policy) won’t attack free speech."
Diidri Wells, president of USC’s Black Law Student Association, said she acknowledged the presence of verbal discrimination but did not see it as a problem at USC.
“I think every school has its share of offensive speech,” said Wells, who is also close friends with the Harvard students campaigning for the speech policy. “Whether the speech be based I see Policy, page 111