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DAILY TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
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October 14, 2002
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vol. CXLVII, no. 34 www.dailytrojan.com
Effort for Coming Out Week pays off
Program: Event functions as celebration, key period for promoting awareness
By NICOLE JARAMILLO
Contributing Writer
USC’s Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgendered Assembly worked to create a safe environment for students and promote its visibility on campus during this year’s National Coming Out Week.
"National Coming Out Day is celebrated every Oct 11 to mark the anniversary of the 1987 march on Washington for lesbian and gay equality," according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Web site.
The anniversary has become a sort of celebration and a time to promote awareness.
“Like Black History Month and Women’s History Month, it’s a way of enabling members of a minority group to take pride in their own identity and heritage and to invite others to learn more about what it means — in this case, to be part of a sexual minority,” said Elizabeth Davenport, director of the Center for Women and Men.
This year, GLBTA’s National Coming Out Week activities included a picnic, several performances, an art exhibit and trips to local clubs.
The week “provides visibility for the gay community on campus," said Rachel Walker, resident adviser of the Rainbow Floor in Webb Tower.
During National Coming Out Week, however, GLBTA strives to “put people out there,” she said.
National Coming Out Week events took place all last week. But it was difficult for GLBTA to find space on campus Oct. 11, the actual anniversary, Walker said.
Scheduling was hard because it was the same day as the beginning of Trojan Parents’ Weekend on campus.
“All spaces were taken for that day on campus and it was hard to find space for programming,” Walker said.
Still, the group put on the same number of events as it did last year. The difference, if there was one, may have been “due to less publicity," she said.
The events “probably didn’t increase visibility as much as last year because we didn't have advertising the week before," said Steven Tang, a GLBTA member and a “second-year" student majoring in business administration cinema-television.
Tang preferred describing his status in school with years rather than traditional terms such as freshman, sophomore, etc. because such terms were gender-specific, he said.
This year’s “programming contents were much better," Tang said. National Coming Out Week is diffi-I see Week, page 7 I
USC uses 27 answered points and a career-high 176 rushing yards from Sultan McCullough for two-point victory /12
Special library finds way back
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The	back into space on campus
Boeckmann
Center, once	By SEUNG HWA HONG
located in	StafTWriter
the basement of Doheny	A rare manuscript copy of the
Memorial	first edition of “Azul," a poetry book
Library, is	by Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario that
housed in the	was published in 1888 in Valparaiso,
off-campus	Chile, is today valued at $2,500.
East Library,	USC’s Boeckmann Center for
two blocks	Iberian and Latin American Studies
east of	owns this manuscript
campus	The event “Ruben Dario: Life and
Poetry” was sponsored by USC
Cervantes Club of Arts and Letters and the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies on Sunday at the Lion Feuchtwanger Room of Special Collections in Doheny Memorial Library.
Among the exhibition were manuscript letters dated from 1894 to 1914 sent by the Ruben Dario to Julio Piquet, the editor of the Argentine newspaper La Nation; the German translation of “Azul” published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1942, which was donated to Lion Feuchtwanger by the translator Herman Wyle; a letter written by the poet’s third wife, Francisca Sanchez, to Piquet on papel de duelo, or mourning stationary, dated March 28, 1916, about a month after Dario's death.
The Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies contains more than 80,000 resources, but its location off campus makes it hard for students and faculty to access the library.
The Boeckmann Center was located in the basement of Doheny Memorial Library until it closed for a retrofit in December 1999. The center was relocated to the East Library and has been .off campus for more than two years.
When Doheny reopened in May 2001, the center did not move back to campus.
The center is located on the third floor of the East Library at 3440 S. Hope St, two blocks east of campus, I see Library, page 7 I
"Ourfirst step is to bring awareness that there is this library available"
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Washington State student accused of having kiddie pom
Just browsing
A student at Washington State University' got more than he bargained for when he browsed through a fellow student’s computer to look for music files. Instead of finding a favorite song, the student allegedly found child pornography files.
The computer’s owner was arrested by the Washington State police on Oct 3. The department told the Daily Evergreen that the student was accused also of “dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.”
The resident who found the porn on the suspect’s computer told
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the resident adviser, and she filed the complaint to the Washington State police. The suspect was taken to jail but later was released.
Police would not give the ages of the children depicted, but the suspect’s parents, who somehow knew the contents of the files, said the minors were “older” females.
Officials did not want to give the specifics of the case until a decision about procedure was made.
“Big ass” mistake
Perhaps the editing and reporting staff at the Daily Evergreen never liked their Spanish classes. And it showed after the Washington State University student newspaper had to run a front-page correction after mistranslating a Spanish name.
An article about Filipino heritage month that appeared in the Oct 3 issue stated that the English translation for “Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza,” the Spanish ship that brought the first Filipinos to
California, was the “Big Ass Spanish Boat.” The translation from Spanish should have been “Our Lady of Good Hope.”
The reporter, who found the translation from a Web site, said she thought the translation was suspicious but ignored her instincts. One student editor raised a question about the translation, but because the editing staff thought the Web site where the reporter got her information was credible, they did not bother checking or removing it, the Seattle Times reported.
The Web site’s translation was meant to be a joke, and the authors even said so on the page.
Trojan Comeback
Opposites attract
Rachel Elias I Daily Trojan
Must be love.
Husband-and-wife fans take opposite sides for Saturday's football game against Cal, apparent through the wife’s baseball cap supporting the Golden Bears and the husband’s supporting the Trojans.