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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 47 | Thursday October 30, 2008 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 11 · Classifieds 13 · Sudoku 16 · Sports Comeback Kid: Mickey Rourke’s new film mirrors his life. PAGE 4 Joe’s A Go: McKnight expected to see more carries Saturday. PAGE 16 By danielle nisimov Daily Trojan As the 2008 election draws near, USC students along with many oth-er California residents are turning increasingly to mail-in ballots for time efficiency and convenience. Marcia Ventura, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles registrar-record-er, said the number of mail-in ballot requests has greatly increased since the last election. “The number of persons who have requested a vote-by-mail bal-lots is close to a million,” she said. “In 2004, at the same time before the election, we had like 752,000 re-quests.” Some USC students said even though they live near Los Angeles, voting by mail is much more con-venient than traveling home on Election Day. Gabriel Fuhrman, a sophomore majoring in computer engineering and computer science from Topanga, Calif., said he is voting by mail be-cause he is too busy with classes to drive to his designated polling loca-tion on Election Day. “Because my Tuesday [is] incred-ibly busy having class from nine o’clock in the morning until eight at night, [it makes] voting in person difficult,” he said. While many counties tout mail-in voting as a way to cast a bal-lot quickly and conveniently, Los Angeles County forgos the public-ity because mail-in and early vot-ing numbers are already so high, Ventura said. “We don’t promote it as readily as do other counties,” she said. “We are the largest voting jurisdiction in the United States currently. We have record breaking numbers for voters who are coming into either vote by mail or vote early.” But the lack of advertising puts some busy USC students at a dis-advantage. Daryl Addison, a soph-omore majoring in aerospace engi-neering and permanent resident of Los Angeles, said he was unaware he had the option to apply for a mail-in ballot. “I didn’t really have any knowl-edge of how to vote by mail, so I’m going to just go to a branch,” he said. Voting by mail differs from ab-sentee voting because voters don’t have to provide a reason for wanting to vote away from their permanent residence. Some voters who vote with an ab-sentee ballot are those currently re-siding outside the United States or active members of the U.S. Armed Forces, Merchant Marine, Public Health Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and their family members. Voting by mail offers voters con-venience and a chance to avoid long Students mail it in to avoid long poll lines Nearly half of Los Angeles County has turned to the mail-in ballot for the 2008 election. | see ballots, page 6 | By lia hardin Daily Trojan For USC students active in politics, the war in Iraq and this year’s credit crisis have been hot-button is-sues throughout the campaign season. But one issue that has loomed large in recent elections hasn’t come up since the primary: stem cell research. And it isn’t just at USC. The normally charged topic has been missing from campus discourse as well as the national dialogue, where other issues have overshad-owed major advances in stem cell technology during the last few years. “The issue hasn’t really come up very much in the course of our campaign here on campus primarily because it hasn’t come up very much between John McCain and Senator Obama,” said Bret VandenBos, president of the USC chapter of Students for Barack Obama. But while the presidential candidates have been focused on other things, advances in research have changed the way stem cells are perceived in the aca-demic community. According to Donald B. Kohn, a USC professor of pediatrics and microbiology at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, scientists in Japan began working to devel-op a method for transforming “everyday cells,” such as skin cells, into the equivalent of embryonic cells. That work has been largely successful, and clinical trials have begun that include these reprogrammed cells. Off the campaign trail, stem cell research progresses The candidates have largely ignored the issue, but it’s seen major advances in recent years. | see research, page 6 | The Los Angeles Public Health Department sponsored “Boo the Flu” to give free flu shots to the Trojan com-munity in Alumni Park on Wednesday afternoon. There are 30,000 to 40,000 flu-related deaths each year. Pins and Needles Gary Fung | Daily Trojan Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan Cell · USC professors say the field of stem cell research has moved forward by leaps and bounds, but the issue has been largely ignored on the campaign trail. By lia hardin Daily Trojan Train enthusiast and UC Berkeley mechanical engineering student Ian Leighton wants to turn public transportation in his hometown of San Francisco into a science — with a little help from a friend at USC. This summer, Leighton teamed up with USC sophomore David Hodge to create a trip planner that brings the Bay Area Rapid Transit schedule to the palm of your hand — if you’re an iPhone user. Hodge, a USC engineering student who grew up in Marin County near San Francisco, spent much of the summer develop-ing the code for a program called iBART, a trip planner for the on-the- go, iPhone toting crowd in ’SC student helps start iPhone app The application helps San Francisco residents navigate the city’s public transportation. | see iphone, page 3 | 5 Days Until Election COUNTDOWN
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 47 | Thursday October 30, 2008 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 11 · Classifieds 13 · Sudoku 16 · Sports Comeback Kid: Mickey Rourke’s new film mirrors his life. PAGE 4 Joe’s A Go: McKnight expected to see more carries Saturday. PAGE 16 By danielle nisimov Daily Trojan As the 2008 election draws near, USC students along with many oth-er California residents are turning increasingly to mail-in ballots for time efficiency and convenience. Marcia Ventura, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles registrar-record-er, said the number of mail-in ballot requests has greatly increased since the last election. “The number of persons who have requested a vote-by-mail bal-lots is close to a million,” she said. “In 2004, at the same time before the election, we had like 752,000 re-quests.” Some USC students said even though they live near Los Angeles, voting by mail is much more con-venient than traveling home on Election Day. Gabriel Fuhrman, a sophomore majoring in computer engineering and computer science from Topanga, Calif., said he is voting by mail be-cause he is too busy with classes to drive to his designated polling loca-tion on Election Day. “Because my Tuesday [is] incred-ibly busy having class from nine o’clock in the morning until eight at night, [it makes] voting in person difficult,” he said. While many counties tout mail-in voting as a way to cast a bal-lot quickly and conveniently, Los Angeles County forgos the public-ity because mail-in and early vot-ing numbers are already so high, Ventura said. “We don’t promote it as readily as do other counties,” she said. “We are the largest voting jurisdiction in the United States currently. We have record breaking numbers for voters who are coming into either vote by mail or vote early.” But the lack of advertising puts some busy USC students at a dis-advantage. Daryl Addison, a soph-omore majoring in aerospace engi-neering and permanent resident of Los Angeles, said he was unaware he had the option to apply for a mail-in ballot. “I didn’t really have any knowl-edge of how to vote by mail, so I’m going to just go to a branch,” he said. Voting by mail differs from ab-sentee voting because voters don’t have to provide a reason for wanting to vote away from their permanent residence. Some voters who vote with an ab-sentee ballot are those currently re-siding outside the United States or active members of the U.S. Armed Forces, Merchant Marine, Public Health Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and their family members. Voting by mail offers voters con-venience and a chance to avoid long Students mail it in to avoid long poll lines Nearly half of Los Angeles County has turned to the mail-in ballot for the 2008 election. | see ballots, page 6 | By lia hardin Daily Trojan For USC students active in politics, the war in Iraq and this year’s credit crisis have been hot-button is-sues throughout the campaign season. But one issue that has loomed large in recent elections hasn’t come up since the primary: stem cell research. And it isn’t just at USC. The normally charged topic has been missing from campus discourse as well as the national dialogue, where other issues have overshad-owed major advances in stem cell technology during the last few years. “The issue hasn’t really come up very much in the course of our campaign here on campus primarily because it hasn’t come up very much between John McCain and Senator Obama,” said Bret VandenBos, president of the USC chapter of Students for Barack Obama. But while the presidential candidates have been focused on other things, advances in research have changed the way stem cells are perceived in the aca-demic community. According to Donald B. Kohn, a USC professor of pediatrics and microbiology at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, scientists in Japan began working to devel-op a method for transforming “everyday cells,” such as skin cells, into the equivalent of embryonic cells. That work has been largely successful, and clinical trials have begun that include these reprogrammed cells. Off the campaign trail, stem cell research progresses The candidates have largely ignored the issue, but it’s seen major advances in recent years. | see research, page 6 | The Los Angeles Public Health Department sponsored “Boo the Flu” to give free flu shots to the Trojan com-munity in Alumni Park on Wednesday afternoon. There are 30,000 to 40,000 flu-related deaths each year. Pins and Needles Gary Fung | Daily Trojan Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan Cell · USC professors say the field of stem cell research has moved forward by leaps and bounds, but the issue has been largely ignored on the campaign trail. By lia hardin Daily Trojan Train enthusiast and UC Berkeley mechanical engineering student Ian Leighton wants to turn public transportation in his hometown of San Francisco into a science — with a little help from a friend at USC. This summer, Leighton teamed up with USC sophomore David Hodge to create a trip planner that brings the Bay Area Rapid Transit schedule to the palm of your hand — if you’re an iPhone user. Hodge, a USC engineering student who grew up in Marin County near San Francisco, spent much of the summer develop-ing the code for a program called iBART, a trip planner for the on-the- go, iPhone toting crowd in ’SC student helps start iPhone app The application helps San Francisco residents navigate the city’s public transportation. | see iphone, page 3 | 5 Days Until Election COUNTDOWN |