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Thursday, March 11, 2004
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WEATHER
Today: Sunny. High of 87 and a low of 57.
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Tomorrow: Mostly sunny.
K»f ea tickin'. Heather War nek survived three cases of breast cancer and one of Stun cancer. She developed the first case when she was 24 years old
Four-time cancer survivor lives on hope
Heather Warrick has survived breast cancer three times and skin cancer once.
By JAMES R. HOREN
Staff Wriif i
Choosing hope instead of hope lessness is the key to fighting cancer, a speaker told a small group of nine stu dents Wednesday night
Heather Warrick an employee of the Ament an Cancer Society and a four-time cancer survivor, spoke about her battles with cancer and the importance of the education and research done by the ACS
“Cancer is a chronic disease Its
not a death senteiu e anymore she saul thanks to medical advant »*s nrw technology and the work ol the At S Warrick spoke to the I S( t hapter of Colleges Against C anier. a student group sponsored by the AC S 1 lie group of five students has t>een meet ing since the beginning ot this semester and hopes to increase tancei edu cation and advocacy on iampus
Sonia Lopez, an ACS staff member organized the group last semester but meetings started earlv this semes ter I his was the groups first event Chief among the small but dedi taled. groups goals is organizing a Kelay for l ife Kelay for Life is the ACS’s largest fundraiser and thr i see Itffvivor page • i
Colleges see fewer foreign students
Equal rights ‘By any Means’
Campus equal rights groups, brought together by Prop. 187, rallied on campus Tuesday.
By STEVEN JONES
Suff Wrtur
A senes of pro-equal rights events on campus Wednesday drew attendees from Detroit to Philadelphia to Berkeley
—	and more than 300 I-os Angeles high school students who may have traveled the farthest
The students, many of whom had never set foot on a college campus, came on field trips to attend a town hall meet ing and rally sponsored by the USC chapter of equal rights group By Any Means Necessary. Campus groups rang-
ing from the Women's Student Assembly to the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs
The rally was intended to protest Proposition 187, which would ban undocumented immigrants from receiv uig driver's licenses, health care and social services from the state of California.
BAMN organizers < aim- from across the country to orchestrate the events, which culminated Wednesday night in a keynote ^ddress by BAMN founding member Shanta Driver
Speaking without notes to a c rowd of about 20 students and others in laper Hall Room 115. Driver dis< ussed the his torv of the civil rights movement, con nectuig the present day situation with the struggles ot the I'lVK and I4t>0s
Driver and the other BAMN mem bers repeatedly noted the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v Board ol Education. which overruled the notion of 'separate but equal established in the earlier case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Driver concluded with a quiet state ment that “all movements start small All movements start with a handful ol people "
Martin Itither King, |i began his movement with a picket line ol only M people, she said
Driver said she had laith in the pres ence ot new leaders to renew the < ivil i ighls movement.
I he reason for her laith was evident at 9-. 40 a in when the high school stu dents gathered ill Bovard Auditorium to
discuss Proposition IM? and related matters Most of the students said the discussion was productive anil fix used Audie Diggs, a senior at t lenshaw High School, said he was hopmu the tally and dis.ussion will somehow make the school hoard see that w. n not gonna take it anymore
Most I os Angeles area s*Ium»Is liase inadequate lesourres and then students are imprecated loi lughei edui at ion as a result he added
Dawight Hamilton a |imi.»i at I im ke High Vho.ll said he found ..111 alh ml the event at a siIi.kiI meeting and i aim l>et ause I wanted to help .hi! any w.n I t an
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A survey found the number of overseas applicants for some post-graduate programs are down.
By JOSH FRANCIS
Staff Writer
Following a growing trend dating back to the days of World War 11. the number of foreign students applying to graduate schools and doctoral programs in science and technology remains in a gradual decline, according to a New York Times survey.
The survey conducted by the Association of International Educators polled 130 programs across the nation. Reasons for the decline indude an increase of visa denials and visa delays resulting from not getting a timely interview
About 586,000 overseas students enrolled in American universities last year, according to the survey.
It also cited a general decrease in the number of overseas student applications.
Following the national trend, the USC Office of Admission has noticed the declining numbers of applications to the graduate program.
Stricter security measures since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11. 2001 have added significantly to the decline of applicants, an admission official said.
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Day of action. Chene Zuniga, a freshman from Crenshaw High School it. tt yells to show support dunng Wednesday s 'Day ol Aj tion" man h at tommy Troian for equal education rights Shanta Driver national spokeswoman toi the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration aix) fight tor Equality by Any Means Necessary, (atxive). talks to .i crowd in t,ii»-. Halt
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