Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 17 | Friday February 4, 2011
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Night at the museum: Anika will perform
at the National History Museum.
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Season begins: Women’s water
polo hopes to repeat in 2011.
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Jennifer Schultz | Daily Trojan
Stomp the yard
Members of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority participate in the USC National
Panhellenic Council Stroll Off in McCarthy Quad on Thursday night. Five
fraternities and sororities of NPHC participated in the step competition.
By bridget mcanany
Daily Trojan
USC is working to encourage
healthier food options and more
sustainable practices while involv-ing
the surrounding community, as
discussed at a panel Thursday.
The Graduate and Professional
Student Senate hosted “The Politics
of Food” on Thursday, discussing
the idea of using food grown in the
local community.
The panel included Kris Klinger,
director of USC Hospitality; David
Sloane, professor from the School of
Policy Planning and Development;
Anne McKnight, assistant profes-sor
of East Asian languages and
literatures and comparative citer-ature;
and Florence Nishida, com-munity
leader and gardener who
has worked on previous projects
with McKnight. The discussion
was moderated by Garrett Broad, a
graduate student studying commu-nication.
Klinger told the audience of
about 60 people about the various
USC Hospitality policies and pro-grams.
He said USC wants to utilize
tray-less dining and local sourcing
more on campus. The university al-ready
receives some food from local
growers, but Klinger wants to get
the majority of USC food from local
markets.
USC’s Master Plan also includes
renovating the University Village
to create space for community gar-dens
and local farmers markets.
“As the new area is being
planned, using gardens and using
the local community will be im-portant,”
Klinger said, “There’s a
disconnect between the communi-ty
and USC, and USC needs to em-brace
the surrounding community
and introduce to students smaller,
local restaurants and food sources.”
“We have a long way to go, but we
have to create a plan to get where
we want to be,” Klinger said. “We
can’t just get there overnight.”
Nishida spoke about her experi-ence
as a gardener and her mission
to create local community gardens,
especially in the neighborhoods
near USC.
USC wants to have
local, healthy food
About three-quarters of the
restaurants in South Los
Angeles are fast-food options.
| see food, page 3 |
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By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
Though Congress repealed the
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, stu-dents
are still discussing the ramifi-cations
and what is left to be done.
The Queer and Ally Student
Alliance and School of Social Work
Rainbow Alliance Caucus held
a panel Thursday discussing the
effects and limitations of the repeal
of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
About 40 people attended the
discussion.
The recently repealed policy
prevented gay, lesbian and bisexual
soldiers from serving openly in the
military.
“Many people think that because
‘don’t ask don’t tell’ has been re-pealed
by Congress it’s over, but ac-tually
that’s far from the truth,” said
Rainbow Alliance Caucus Treasurer
and event organizer Melanie Walker,
a graduate student studying social
work.
Walker served in the military
before coming to USC.
The panel discussed the effects of
the repeal and issues that it failed to
address.
“Many people in the commu-nity
think that this is a done deal,
and I hate to rain on their parade,
but it’s not,” said Tom Carpenter,
a former marine captain and cur-rent
member of the Servicemembers
Legal Defense Network’s Board of
Directors who was on the panel. “We
ended up with a skeleton of a bill. In
order to get it passed, we had to give
up a lot.”
The bill that repealed “don’t
ask, don’t tell” lacked an anti-discrimination
clause, saying a
person cannot discriminate against
another person based on sexuality.
The bill also lacked a clear timeline
for implementation of the repeal,
Carpenter said.
Students attending the event said
they realized how much they didn’t
know about “don’t ask, don’t tell”
once it was discussed.
“Learning that people who were
dishonorably discharged didn’t have
any benefits was really eye-opening,
saddening and frustrating,” said Joe
Beltran, a graduate student studying
education.
Vincent Vigil, director of the
LGBT Resource Center, said the pan-el
of experts helped explain aspects
of “don’t ask, don’t tell” that weren’t
necessarily clear in media coverage.
“It’s important for our students to
know that it’s not over yet, and, even
though the repeal had been passed,
that there are a lot of things that
need to be done,” Vigil said.
Kristopher Patrick, a sophomore
majoring in biological sciences who
is involved with the LGBT resource
,said the panel made the don’t ask
DADT repeal strong beginning, but not good enough, panel says
QuASA and the School of
Social Work Rainbow Alliance
Caucus held a panel on DADT.
| see DADT, page 3 |
Rachel Bracker | Daily Trojan
Hot topic · About 40 people listened to experts discuss the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in a panel held by
the Queer and Ally Student Alliance and the School of Social Work Rainbow Alliance on Thursday night.
“We have a long way to
go, but we have to
create a plan to get
where we want to be.”
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Kris klinger
Director
USC Hospitality