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Men’s health now
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• hen it comes to health care, “men tend to get lost without asking for directions,” said Dr. Mark Stevens, a psychologist at the Student Counseling Center.
Though it may be the stereotype, men on this • campus do not seek medical care as often as women. While the USC population was 52 percent men and 48 percent women last year, men only made 40 percent of the visits to the Student Health Center.
A team of health care professionals from USC has created an alliance called the Men’s Health Team that specifically targets men’s health needs in an attempt to encourage more men to seek health care.
Introduced last year, the Men's Health Team incorporates a variety of services on campus, including the Counseling Center, Health Promotion and Prevention Services and the SHC, into a cohesive, accessible system for men.
‘It's not just one person and not just one place,” said Michael Carbuto, a physician at the SHC and a coordinator of the Men’s Health Team.
The concept of a men’s health clinic is not a new one, but it has picked up more proponents
(see Health, page 6)
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Error may stop O.C. voters
Some Orange County voters may not be able to cast their ballots today.
An error by voter registration workers may affect 100 Republican registered voters in Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. People collecting registration cards in September failed to turn them in by the Oct. 5 deadline.
The mistake could cost the GOP the election in the 69th District. That’s where Republican Assemblyman Jim Morrissey beat his Democratic challenger Lou Correa by just 93 votes two years ago.
The same registration snafu happened to 163 Democratic voters. But lawyers got a court order to have those tardy cards accepted in time for Tuesday’s election.
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Nation
ABC workers launch strike
About 2,000 unionized ABC employees who work on such programs as Monday Night Football and Live With Regis & Kathie Lee walked off their jobs Monday morning in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., in a health care dispute.
Strikers protested illegal action by ABC and its parent, the Walt Disney Co. ABC officials demanded that the union members abandon their current health care coverage and enroll in Disney’s Signature Plan, which has not been clearly defined for them, the union said.
The strike disrupted ABC’s Monday morning television programming, resulting in faulty audio feeds and incorrect graphics being shown during Good Morning America, the union said.
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Death toll expected to rise
The death toll from one of Central America’s worst storms, already well above 1,000, seemed sure to rise on Monday as rescuers searched remote disaster zones, including a volcano where hundreds of Nicaraguans were feared to have been buried to death in a mudslide.
Torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Mitch caused the slopes of Casita volcano to give way last weekend, burying whole villages under a carpet of mud and rocks covering 32 square miles, said Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos.
Deaths from the storm were reported in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.
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already registered names of missing relatives at the web site. But for now, people are encouraged to fax information to (213) 487-2427 because the coalition will be changing its web address soon.
“These people have a right to find out what's happened with their families,* said George 0. Totten, chair of the Korea Project and USC professor emeritus of political science.
“We are in the first phase, publicizing the registration right now,” he said. “We’ll see how that works out and take it step by step.”
In addition to helping reunite families, Kang, who is vice-chair of the project, is interested in studying these separated families before submitting the list of names to the government. He said he will be working with USC professors and utilizing the university’s research-oriented libraries on Korean culture.
“We are interested in studying the new era and changing culture on the (Korean) Peninsula,* Kang said. “I also want to learn what the differences are in culture and speech of these divided families, and how to solve the international and military problems with reuniting them legally."
One of the initiators of the project is Mam J. Cha, a political science professor from California State University at Fresno.
When Cha was 9 years old, he left a war-torn, divided Korea to study in the United States. He recalls, at the time, that Korea had been divided into North and South. Cha’s grandmother was somewhere in the Communist North, where he thought he’d never see her again.
Like many Korean immigrants, Cha became a U.S. citizen, which allowed him to enter North Korea through China. And 46 years later, he was able to reunite with his grandmother, who was nearly 90 years old by that time.
“We had both grown so much older...it was very dramatic,’ Cha said. ‘She told me that she could now die peacefully because she had seen me again. My stoiy may represent hundreds of others who came to the United States for one reason or another."