Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 19 | Monday September 22, 2008
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
12 · Classifieds
13 · Crossword
16 · Sports
Great Vine: Bacaro L.A
Wine Bar receives mixed
reviews. PAGE 7
East Coasting: Women of Troy
sweep opponents to take tourney
title in New York. PAGE 16
By Juliana Appenrodt
Daily Trojan
Outdoor dining in Los Angeles
might soon be smoke-free if the
City Council passes a proposed
ban to extend the boundaries of
the city’s current anti-smoking
laws. Smoking has been prohib-ited
at all indoor restaurants
in Los Angeles since 1993, but
Councilman Greig Smith is look-ing
to ban smoking at all outdoor
restaurant facilities as well.
Smith’s proposal would pro-hibit
smoking within 5 feet of any
restaurant table on a sidewalk, in
an outdoor courtyard or on an ex-terior
patio.
“There’s such a small per-centage
of adults that smoke in
California now, so we don’t think
that small percentage should dic-tate
the rest of us,” said John Lee,
Smith’s chief legislative depu-ty.
“We shouldn’t have to be sub-jected
to something that has been
proven to be harmful — second-hand
smoke.”
On Sept. 3, the City Council’s
Arts, Parks, Health and Aging
Committee decided to postpone
the consideration of the proposal
for 45 days. The committee will
use this time to meet with a local
restaurant association and health
groups to discuss concerns over
the economic effects that the ban
could have on the city’s eateries.
Some Los Angeles restaurant
owners fear that if Smith’s propos-al
passes, it will have a negative
economic effect on their business-es.
According to the Americans
for Nonsmokers’ Rights, however,
various economic impact studies
have shown that there is either no
economic effect or a positive one
on businesses after smoke-free
laws go into effect.
Larry Odell, the owner of the
29th Street Café on Hoover Street,
said he would be very happy if
Smith’s smoking ban was passed.
Odell, who owned a sports bar in
Long Beach when the 1998 state-wide
ban on smoking in bars was
passed, does not believe that the
ban would negatively affect the
2-9’s business.
Despite the delay in the con-sideration
of Smith’s proposal,
the City Council voted 15-0 on
Sept. 10 to adopt a measure ban-ning
smoking at farmers markets.
Measures have also been adopted
in recent years to ban smoking at
all Los Angeles beaches and mu-nicipal
parks.
As the areas in which smoking
is prohibited become more exten-sive
in Los Angeles, questions are
raised as to whether the new no-smoking
laws are an encroach-ment
on smokers’ rights.
“I know that the effects of sec-ond-
hand smoke are bad, so I am
not opposed to a smoking ban
at outdoor restaurants,” said
Suhanna Husein, a sophomore
majoring in mechanical engineer-ing
and business who smokes. She
Bill would ban some
outdoor smoking
New ordinance would stop
smoking within 5 feet of
any outdoor restaurant table.
| see Smoking, page 3 |
By Jennifer Smith
Daily Trojan
Police have no new leads as they
search for the suspect in the fa-tal
stabbing of USC student Bryan
Richard Frost, and have not released
any new information regarding the
investigation.
Frost was stabbed and killed ear-ly
Thursday after getting into a con-frontation
with another man out-side
an apartment complex near 28th
Street and Orchard Avenue.
Police obtained a search warrant
for an apartment in the complex, but
wouldn’t say if their search revealed
any leads.
Department of Public Safety offi-cials
said they believe the suspect will
be arrested.
“I am confident that is only a mat-ter
of time until the suspect is in cus-tody,”
DPS Capt. David Carlisle said.
Undergraduate Student
Government will host an emergen-cy
town hall meeting on campus
safety this Wednesday in Bovard
Auditorium at 7 p.m. There will be
representatives from USC, LAPD,
DPS and USG. Questions can be sub-mitted
in advance to the USG office.
No leads for LAPD in student killing
DPS says catching suspect is
a matter of time, but no new
information is available.
By ashley archibald
Daily Trojan
There was one on nearly every seat of the
student section at the game against Ohio
State — a glossy, eight-by-five-inch card with
a bold slogan: “Save Time. Skip the Line.”
It was an advertisement for Moccasio, a
new business that allows students to pre-order
food from their seats, reducing time
spent in line at the concession stand — all
for no added cost.
Company founder Henry West got the
idea from his dentist.
West, a senior majoring in economics
and vice president of sales for Moccasio, was
a patient of Joel Strom, a Coliseum board
member. Strom mentioned in passing that
there was a group developing a business
that would allow fans to order food remote-ly
from their seats so they could eat without
missing the game.
“So I contacted these guys who were in
just the fledgling stages of building the ap-plication
and what not and the rest is histo-ry,”
West said. “But yeah, it started with just
getting my teeth cleaned.”
Rather than waiting in a long concession
stand line for that greasy hot dog, Moccasio
allows fans to text message their order to
the concessions stand, where it’s received by
a Moccasio worker.
When the order is ready, students can
head to one of four concession stands in the
student section that have Moccasio stands.
Students give the order number and leave
with their food. Moccasio customers stand
in a separate line to expedite the pickup pro-cess.
Payment can be made over the phone
with a credit card through a secured net-work
and there is no markup on Coliseum
prices. West wouldn’t say how his company
plans to make a profit with no markup, but
did say he’d come to some agreement with
the Coliseum.
There’s only one glitch in West’s plan:
For many cell phone users, the Coliseum is
New student business gives fans Coliseum food, without the wait
Moccasio teams up with Coliseum
to let students order food from their
seats for no additional cost.
| see Food, page 14 |
By Steffi Lau
Daily Trojan
As the Trojans cruised to victory last week against
Ohio State, students danced, cheered and celebrated
in their seats. But many weren’t so happy when they
found that they couldn’t use their cell phones to coor-dinate
plans or celebrate with their friends and fam-ily.
Regardless of cell phone carrier, students com-plained
that reception inside the Coliseum was abys-mal,
most saying they knew no one able to get recep-tion
within the stadium. But once students stepped
outside, many found that only then did missed calls
show and stalled text messages send.
“It was horrible,” said Emma McDonnell, a soph-omore
majoring in health and humanity. “It was a
problem meeting up with people because I couldn’t
get reception.”
McDonnell, who has wireless service with AT&T,
said that reception stopped working for her in the
Coliseum at 1 p.m. and continued until 11 p.m., hours
after she had left the Coliseum.
For some, the cell phone “dead zone” caused con-fusion.
“I had no reception and I was with my two little
sisters who are 12 years old. My mom was freaking
out because she couldn’t reach us before the game,”
Coliseum’s ‘dead-zone’
frustrates USC students
Alexandra Tapley | Daily Trojan
On call · Firefighters at Station 15 respond to all kinds of calls around campus. See page 6 for story.
| see CALLS, page 6 |
Leon Russo | Daily Trojan
How to use Moccasio
1. Input location, order, and payment type.
2. Send text to 35350.
3. Receive confirmation with order ID and total.
4. Pick up order using order ID.
menu items offered by moccasio
Cajun Sausage Dog
All-Beef Colossal Dog
Popcorn Tub
Nachos Premium
King Size Pretzel
Peanuts
Chips
Extra Cheese Sauce
Bottled Water
Monster
Lage Soda
Starbucks Coffee
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