Event discusses sports industry branding
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WSU star receiver Jason Hill would be getting a lot more attention if it weren’t far his USC counterpart. 20
Student activism required to help effect change in Sndan's-' troubled Darfur region. 4
.Yews Digest—2 Class,tied t.......12
Opinions.........~.4 Crossword....... 17
Lifestyle......—.7 Sports....-.........20
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Getting down to business.
Rutters Hobbs & Davidoff, Inc. partner Andrew Apfelberg moderated the Wednesday event hosted by the Marshall School of Business at Town and Gown. “The Business of Entertainment: How the Sports Industry Builds Strong Brands,” boasted a panel of industry experts.
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September 28, 2006	Vol. CL1X, No. 27
USG to hold commuter election
Quick
Facts
There are two commuter senator positions open.
Candidate applications are due by noon on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
Voting for the Undergraduate Student Government special election will take place Oct. 10-11.
By TOREY VAN 00T
Staff Writer
Undergraduate Student Government will hold a special election in early October to fill two vacant commuter senator spots.
Commuter Senators Allen Oltmanns and Jeff Goodell stepped down at the beginning of the semester, citing academic conflicts as reason for their resignations.
Although the commuter base is traditionally less unified than other constituencies within the student body, Senators say the strength of the commuter voice should not be underestimated.
“We’re just as much a part (of USC) as residents, just as much as Greeks,” Commuter Senator Jake Goldman said. “No matter how you slice it, we’re still a really big part of the school.”
Goldman said he hopes the new representatives “fight not only for commuter issues, but have passion about the school and can bring a different perspective.” Senators approved the special elections code for the Oct. 10-11 election Sept. 19.
Although many of the code’s regulations are the same as during regular elections, several aspects of the voting process have been limited because of time and technological constraints.
Voting booths will be stationed outside of Leavey Library and Harris Hall (next to Tommy Trojan) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the two-day voting period.
Online voting, a service offered during regular elections, will not be offered for the upcoming election, said Andrea Schwartz, co-director of Elections and Recruitment.
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State bill to fight global warming
Governor Schwarzenegger signed the country’s first bill that will reduce greenhouse gases.
By JOHN LEGITT1N0
Staff Writer
Treasure Island in San Francisco was a convenient choice for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to make history by signing the first-ever bill enacting cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases Wednesday, passed by a Democrat-dominated state legislature.
It was convenient because statistics show that if the projected future of global warming takes its course, Treasure Island will almost definitely be left underwater, years from now.
Schwarzenegger described the enactment of the fledgling bill as a new era of environmental legislation that will change the course of history.
California is the first state to sign such a bill, but the bill is also unlike anything else in the world, Schwarzenegger’s administration said Wednesday.
“When I campaigned for governor, I made it very clear that we have top turn the economy around to make the economy grow again, and also said we must do everything we can to protect the environment and fight against global warming,” Schwarzenegger said.
Schwarzenegger, as seen in a video on the campaign’s Web site, I see Greenhouse, page 12 I
USC initiative seeks to increase minority faculty
Provost Nikias’ initiative encourages hiring minority faculty throughout USC.
By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD
Staff Writer
Seven new professors joined the Trojan Family this year as part of the provost’s initiative to increase minority faculty.
The initiative, now one year old, encourages the deans of USC’s 18 colleges to pursue minority candidates to fill open faculty positions.
Though USC has always had a tradition of seeking out minority faculty, the initiative added necessary incentives, said Michael Preston, special adviser to the provost
USC already boasts a diverse faculty in comparison to other California schools. Twenty-one percent of USC faculty is composed of underrepresent-
ed minorities.
Preston said 3 percent of faculty is black, 5 percent is Latino, 17 percent is Asian, and 33 percent of the faculty is female.
“The new provost made sure we looked at diversity because it was low,” said Preston, who is also a political science professor.
The initiative focuses on domestic diversity rather than international hires.
Provost C.L. Max Nikias said the initiative was inspired by the Women in Science and Engineering program, an endowment that funds female hires in the Viterbi School of Engineering.
“The WISE program helped me enormously to recruit women to come as professors in engineering,” Nikias said.
“I thought, ‘Wait a minute. If we were to have a similar program for recruiting other underrepresented
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Online gambling finds support amid ban efforts
Federal efforts to ban Internet gambling are not well-received by advocates.
By CHARLES ASHTON
Contributing Writer
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s push to attach a ban on Internet gambling to a defense bill in recent days has defenders of online poker seeking the winning hand in a game of Washington politics.
About 3,000 supporters of online poker called their senators’ Washington offices Sept. 12 to voice opposition to any new legislation that would ban the game. The one-day phone barrage was touted as a "phone march on Capitol Hill” by the Poker Players Alliance, which organized the event and advocates legalization of online poker wagering.
Proponents of a new federal ban
said Internet users, especially children, need to be protected from a potentially addictive product of the Internet age.
Critics of a ban, however, said outlawing online gambling would fail to stop the activity and that government oversight is the only way to ensure a safe gambling environment on the Web.
“The fact is, prohibition never worked in our recent history,” said Michael Bolcerek, president of the Poker Players Alliance.
He said members of Congress wanting to enact a new ban are “taking a moralistic approach to gambling.”
“They want to protect the family,” he said. “Prohibition won’t do that.”
USC’s online poker players are equally dubious about a new ban.
“Banning it would just make it
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The new play,
“Assassins, ” offers some students their first on-stage performance. 7