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Can I please see your ID?Front desk worker Laura Pl-antholt writes about life be-hind the desk.SF District 1 Supervisor EricMar met with USF studentsto discuss traffic around cam-pus and other safety concerns. �e Foghorn’s Jonny Heche-ma continues his compre-hensive review of the best video games of all time. �is week he takes a walk downmemory lane with the SuperNintendo.At USF heading to classcounts as legitimate exercise,as Nick Mukhar nds whenhe counts his steps and calo-ries on a recent trek aroundcampus.
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Career Fair Attendance High Amidst Weak Job Market
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Suit buttoned and tie tied snugly, a USF student steps up to hand his resume to recruiters from the Fairmont Hotels chain.Students were dressed to impress and took more initiative with recruiters than at last years career fair, observed Career ServicesCenter Assistant Director Alex Hochman.
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Students Lighten Carbon Footprint, MeetLocal Farmers, And Snack On Veggies
Local food growers displayed freshproduce for sale and offered samples of juices and nuts to buy. Curious ngerstentatively picked through barrels of leafy greens and herbs from a local farmer, andbagged up handfuls to take home. Plateslled with epicurean treats like cheese-lesspizza and turkey burgers topped with freshsalsa. Mouths were owing with excitedconversation about fresh, locally grownfoods and the environment. Or as onestudent put it, “Why is the caf so weirdtoday?”It was Low Carbon Diet Day in theMarket Café at USF, and for one lunchperiod, students ate nothing but locally grown and earth-friendly meals.According to Holly Winslow, generalmanager for Bon Appetit at USF, Low Carbon Diet Day is Bon Appetit’s annualprogram to bring awareness of the con-nection between climate change and foodservice. Winslow said, “We try to createunique and beautiful foods that make alower carbon impact on the world.”A diet is “low carbon” if it makes a low impact on the environment. Some strate-gies for eating low carbon are eating sea-sonally and locally grown foods, minimiz-ing food waste, cutting back on beef andcheese, and eating locally raised meat andsh.Bon Appetit, an on site restaurant com-pany that provides cafeteria food servicefor corporations and universities, has be-come one of the leading forces in the low-carbon diet movement. �e company runsa web site called EatLowCarbon.org andsets high environmental standards for allof its kitchens.At USF, Winslow said all of the pro-LAURA
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Many students may have checked theirDonsmail recently and found an emailabout the University of San Francisco Stu-dent Survey. Student surveys have beenignored or relocated into the trash or junk folder of many student mailboxes in thepast. However that does not seem to bethe case with this particular survey. �is isdue to the potentially positive effect andattractive incentives that students have totake the survey. Some of these incentivesinclude the possibility of winning a atscreen TV, three iPod shuffles and a dormrefrigerator stocked with Red Bull. �e student survey is a national survey entitled the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership. �e survey was rst conductedthree years ago and over 80 universitiesparticipated. USF was invited in 2008 toparticipate and accepted the invitation. �eMulti-Institutional Study of Leadership was formulated by well-known experts inthe eld of leadership and is based on theSocial Change Model of Leadership ac-cording to the Higher Education ResearchInstitute. Several universities such as USF,UC Berkeley, and Loyola Marymountincorporate the social change model intoUniversity activities. Many USF leader-ship programs or communities, such as theMagis Leadership Program or the EstherMadriz Diversity Scholars, focus on theSocial Change Model of Leadership. JuniorCandice Caldera, who was co-president of the Esther Madriz Diversity Scholars inspring of 2008, said, “�e Social ChangeModel teaches that leadership is a processand not a position and promotes the valueof personal empowerment, collaboration,citizenship, and service.” When asked her opinion of the survey,Caldera said, “I believe that the survey willmonitor what types of students get involvedand why other students choose not to beinvolved with campus life. Does the race of the student play a factor? How about the workload from major to major? �ese areimportant questions that the survey willbe able to answer. I really hope that a lotof students participate because it will al-low the administration to design programsbased on the needs of the students.” �e survey was initiated by StudentLeadership and Engagement and support-ed by the Division of University Life andthe USF Assessment Committee. Greg Wolcott, Director of Student Leadershipand Engagement, said, “We hope the re-sults of the survey will help voice students’opinions about what they want to see oncampus in terms of leadership, program-ming, and involvement opportunities. Fur-thermore, there are questions on the survey that will help us gauge other factors suchas what is the best day and time to offerprograms, students’ work load, how stu-dents rate social climate, and more.” �esurvey takes about 20 minutes to complete. Wolcott said “It is our hope that every stu-dent who is invited to take the survey willtake it. A strong response rate will speak loudly about what students want to see onour campus.” �e survey is broken down into sixsections: perceptions before enrollingin college, experiences in college, assess-ing your growth, thinking about yourself, your college climate, and background in-formation. Junior Ramsey Hanna said, “Iliked the survey because it made me look back at how I was before college and how I am now. �e survey made me ponderhow much I have changed since being incollege.” When asked why he decided toparticipate in the survey, Hanna answered,“Well I wanted to help the school get anunderstanding of what the students think about the University. Plus, the prizes beingoffered are awesome.”Every student that completes the survey “Digital Intimacy”is USFtv’s new-est offering. �e dark comedy seriespremieres March 16. See behindthe scenes photos and links to trail-ers at �eFoghornOnline.com.HUNTER PATTERSON
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A record number of students and re-cent graduates turned up for USF’s 21
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annual career and internship fair last Fri-day. �e weakening economy appears tohave prompted students to start lookingearlier and harder for jobs amidst a weak college recruiting season, where schoolsfrom Harvard to Notre Dame are seeinga drastic decline in on-campus recruitingand online job postings.Six hundred and eighty-ve studentsattended USF’s career fair, according to atally kept by Alex Hochman the assistantdirector of the Career Services Center.Hochman said he was impressed with theturnout and also with the number of com-panies recruiting at the event. While theabsence of major nancial services compa-nies like Charles Schwab, which attendedin past years, was noticeable, there werestill 73 companies who reserved spaces atthe event, down from 93 last year, but stillan impressive number given the state of the economy, said Hochman.Companies not only pay up to $350for a table at the career fair, but also spendconsiderable money on marketing materi-als and employees who work the table atthe all day event. It’s a good sign that com-panies are still willing to spend so muchmoney recruiting college students, it saysthat getting new people in the door is im-portant to their business, even in a reces-sion, said Hochman.Recent graduates are often far cheaperto hire than experienced employees, so in weak economic times students often havea better shot at getting in with a company than a mid-career job seeker. “Surprisingly,it can be easier to sell yourself as a 23-year-old college graduate with internship expe-rience than a 26-year-old who has beenlaid off for a year,” he said.Many students at the fair were look-ing for whatever opportunities they couldget instead of holding out for their dream job or expecting lavish perks and generoustime off, as Generation Y job seekers havebeen known to demand in more robusthiring climates.Senior Dalia Al-Mahmood, who last week told the Foghorn of her long andfrustrating job search that has yet to yieldan offer, was at the fair working hard toput her best foot forward. “[�e fair] wasmore promising than I was expecting, es-pecially for non-prots which is one areaI am interested in, ” she said. “I had an in-terview today with one of the companiesI met there and they want me back for asecond one.”For students looking for nancial ana-lyst or investment management jobs, there was not a lot at the fair. Mawar Sianipar,a graduate student in the MS FinancialAnalysis program said she was disappoint-ed with the offerings. “I remember when I was an undergraduate at UVA, it seemedlike anybody could get a job in investmentbanking ,” she said. “�eir GPAs weren’teven that good.” Today that industry is
Administration Offering Prizes ForParticipation in Recent Student Survey
BOBBY MARQUEZ
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A student talks with a representative from Zuckerman Farms about asparagus.
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hemorrhaging jobs and doing little if any college recruiting, even at the most eliteschools. Goldman Sachs was at StanfordUniversity’s career fair earlier this year, butonly as a “courtesy;” they were not collect-ing resumes or conducting interviews.However, the public sector made astrong showing with recruiters from nearly a dozen government agencies includingthe Peace Corps, Federal Deposit Insur-ance Corporation, California Public Utili-
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The Forum Continues: USF Students Take Action Against Sexual Violence
At a mid-semester USF Politics So-ciety meeting, newly elected District 1(which includes the USF campus and theRichmond district) Supervisor Eric Marspoke to Politics Society members andother students about his rst impressionsof the job. He also participated in a ques-tion-and-answer session, in which stu-dents could present their concerns directly to their supervisor. �ough Mar promisedto represent USF students and the Poli-tics Society’s main concerns- pedestriansafety on Turk Street and extension of the5 Fulton bus service after 7 p.m.- to theboard of supervisors, some students leftthe meeting unclear of what Mar is hop-ing to accomplish in District 1.Kasie Favazza, a junior politics major ,said, “I think he was here to listen to us. Ididn’t leave knowing his top three priori-ties.” Favazza has been a Politics Society member since the spring of 2008. Sheappreciated Mar’s accessibility and his at-tendance at the meeting, but mentionedthat when she tried to research Mar andhis campaign, his web site was outdated.Like several other Politics Society members, Favazza voiced her concernfor pedestrian safety for students cross-ing between main campus and the LoneMountain campus. �e primary concern was Turk St., which currently has cross-
Supervisor Mar Listens to Student Traffic Safety Concerns
CHELSEA M. STERLING
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walks, but where many drivers speed by without letting students cross. In addition,the traffic light on Turk St. and Chabot St.becomes a ashing yellow yield light af-ter a certain hour. Hannah Linkenhoker,Public Relations Officer of the PoliticsSociety, said of this busy intersection, “It’sproblematic every day.” In response to this,Mar said, “It’s a give and take betweenthose who want to drive and those who want public safety.” He also mentionedthat neighborhood coalition groups likeFix Masonic and Walk SF could also be anoutlet and forum for addressing troubledintersections. Mar acknowledged that get-ting issues like pedestrian safety addressedcan be challenging. He said, “It’s the peo-ple who can raise their voice the loudest”that get their issues addressed.Politics Society president and seniorpolitics major Megan Hanley raised a sec-ond issue about safety. She asked Mar if the 5 Fulton bus service could be extendedve or six stops after 6 p.m. �e 5 Fultoncurrently drops its passengers off at Mar-ket and McAllister streets after 6 p.m. �isarea borders the seedy Tenderloin neigh-borhood. Hanley was concerned that notonly were students and other passengersbeing dropped off in this area at night, butthat younger, freshmen students may notbe aware that it will drop them off beforereaching Powell St. and lower Market St.Mar did not seem to be aware of this is-sue and said, “I will denitely bring this tothem [Board of Supervisors.] �is is really helpful to me.”Mar is working on the Transit Effec-tiveness Project (TEP), which is designedto collect suggestions about improvingtransit and put them into action. He sup-ports the rail systems, officially known asBus Rapid Transit (BRT), that are beingbuilt on Geary Ave. and Van Ness St.Federal and state funds are being usedto build these rail lines down two of SanFrancisco’s busiest streets. Critics say thata BRT system for Geary Ave. will slow down the 38 Geary bus service and streettraffic. Mar believes the benets will outoutweigh the traffic the rail may cause.He said that, personally, “I would like arail system.” Junior business major Jon Coonasked Mar if he supported the legaliza-tion of marijuana, which was part of hiscampaign platform. Mar replied that hedoes support District 13 Supervisor TomAmmiano’s amendment to the existingmarijuana laws. Ammiano’s proposal, theMarijuana Control, Regulation and Ed-ucation Act, would legalize recreationalmarijuana use to persons over 21 yearsold. Mar said, “I support the decrimi-nalization of certain types of drug use.”In the same breath, he said that he alsoadvocates for drug and alcohol rehabili-tation services and programs, which seek to limit and prevent drug and alcohol ad-dictions. Mar also said, “I think the de-criminalization of some substances helpshuman rights.”
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ASUSF President Alex Platt (left of Mar), Hannah Linkenhoker (right of Mar) and members of the USF Politics Society question District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar (center) aboutvarious safety issues around the USF campus, including cars speeding on Turk St. and failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks between Lone Mountain and main campus.
Four weeks ago, a few concerned stu-dents came together in response to a Pub-lic Safety bulletin that informed studentsabout the rape charges against USF stu-dent Ryan Caskey. �ey ultimately decidedto create a space for the USF community to come together in an open dialogue andtalk about the issue of sexual violence oncampus.“�e way Public Safety framed the issueof these four women who have been rapedis that this was an isolated incident oncampus, taking away from the very wide-spread culture of rape that we have on thiscampus, across the nation, and throughoutthe world,” said Maggie Mullen, seniorUSF student and one of the organizers of the forum.‘Rape is Not an Isolated Incident,’ wasthe title given to the forum in order to ad-dress the frequency of the issue. �e intention of the forum was to allow concerned citizens to speak on whateverthey wanted to and in whatever format.One of the main topics of discussion wasconcerning the Reserve Officer TrainingCorps (ROTC) program at USF, whichhas received a lot of criticism.“[Sexual assault] is an issue that arosea lot of different types of conversations,one of them being ROTC,” Mullen said.“I do think that is a legitimate conversa-tion to have because it is connected to thiscase, but again, it is only one conversationamong many. �e forum was not orga-nized with an agenda already in place topoke ngers at people, particularly ROTC.”Mary Wardell, dean of students of uni- versity life, attended the forum and said,“�e militarism issue and everything thathas to do with the military got attachedto this situation. But some people feel thatthese are separate issues from what the focusof the forum is really about, which is vio-lence against women.”Lieutenant Colonel Derek Reeve wasalso in attendance at the forum. Head of theROTC program at USF, Lt. Col. Reeve hassupported getting the issue out in the openand taking actions to deal with it. “Whenthings like this come out of nowhere, westill have to take responsibility, take actionto correct it and continue on, making sureeveryone understands that we don’t condonethis type of behavior,” said Lt. Col. Reeve.Since the rst public meeting, a forumhas been held every �ursday in ParinaLounge during the lunch hour. “All we orig-inally planned for was to have a �ursday forum. We had no idea what was going tocome out of that,” said Erin-Kate Escobar,another forum organizer and USF seniorpolitics major.Student activists are now collaborating with other members of the USF commu-nity including faculty, administration andthe ROTC to help create current changeand future prevention of sexual violence oncampus. Within the second forum, various peoplespoke up about what they wanted to seechanged in response to what occurred, andmore importantly in response to the muchlarger issue of sexual violence. A list resultedand people divided themselves into differ-ent student committees based on what theirinterests were and what sort of projectsthey wanted to work on.“It turned out to be pretty effectivebecause those groups have been workingon their own in whichever way that they feel is necessary. �ere have been a lot of different people taking leadership roles,”said Mullen. �e various student groups that wereformed range from implementing sexual violence awareness in the new studentorientation to working with the art de-partment toward creating an art projectfocusing on sexual violence. One studentcommittee in particular is working withLt. Col. Reeve on addressing the currentsexual violence training for students inthe ROTC program.In reaction to certain opinions saidabout ROTC, Lt. Col. Reeve is attempt-ing to educate the community about what the program is and is not. “I think the most important thing is that the ac-cusations were against one person in theROTC program, but they were also madeagainst a student at USF. Neither ROTCnor USF trained him to do that. �e ac-tions he is accused of don’t match up toeither of the value systems that these in-stitutions have,” he said. �is student committee that devel-oped is concerned with the type of train-ing that ROTC cadets get in terms of sexual violence. Specically, they arefocusing on fostering more educationalgrowth within the program rather thaneliminating the program or relying onthe army alone to educate cadets on sex-ual assault.Feeling that the ROTC program isRENAE SANTA CRUZ
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very isolated, this group of students hascreated in order to integrate ROTC moreonto the USF campus. �ey hope to cre-ate a seminar program that addresses thestress of these issues and the reality of sexual assault.Escobar said, “We want to create acurriculum for ROTC students that in-tegrates a diversity of subjects and faculty that is more geared toward army situationsbecause this is a population that is going toexperience a totally different reality.”“At the moment the petition is basedmore on ROTC students but there is alsoa lot of opportunity here for students tolearn more about ROTC,” said Escobar.Reeve said, “�e awareness of the mili-tary is a lot lower now than it used to be. �ere are a smaller percentage of citizensin the military than in the past. So now Ithink it is even more important to teachpeople about what ROTC does. I amhappy to speak with anyone who has any questions.”ROTC is a scholarship program thatprepares students to be commissioned asofficers in the Active Army, Army Reserve,or National Guard. Much of the curricu-lum is based on leadership training butthere are also classes on general Army pro-tocol and background information.Cadets receive sexual assault trainingbiannually, which is more than anyone elsegets on campus.“�ey do role-plays, watch videos, which anyone can access on the ROTC web page, and they have open discussionsabout it,” said Escobar. “But they are alsoin a totally different population of people who are denitely in a different position of power and authority.” �e student group is working with Lt.Col. Reeve as well as a few ROTC stu-dents to gure out what would be most re-alistic, feasible and enjoyable for all of thestudents going through ROTC.“We should, as a university, look at how to educate people, especially freshmen,in the dangers of not being able to makegood decisions,” said Reeve.Although participation has thinnedsince the rst forum, the successive fo-rums have shown that students are takingaction for prevention of sexual assault onthis campus and are realizing that theirconcern is necessary for other members of USF community to participate as well.“I think responses should come fromboth students and administration,” Mul-len said. “It is unfortunate that all of us waited until something horrendous hap-pened to be able to have a movement toreform these kinds of issues and gure out what to do. But I think that now that thishas happened, we have the momentum toreally do something about it.” �is student movement against sexual violence appears to be able to go one of two ways: fade away and become just an-other past Public Safety bulletin or sustainitself and actually create positive changehere on campus.As one who has seen how these typesof situations can evolve, Wardell said, “It’sso great that we are hearing from studentsbut there are some things that the institu-tion has to materialize. All efforts as goodas they are and as passionate as they are atany given time can die if there’s not some way of institutionalizing.” When sharing his rst impressions of his new job, Mar said, “Being a supervisoris very difficult.” He has an eight-year-olddaughter, with whom he likes to watchgraphic novel movies. Balancing his back to back meetings with spending time withhis daughter is one of the most challeng-ing aspects of his new job. In addition toadjusting to his busy schedule, Mar saidbalancing the $6.5 billion budget is “anoverwhelming responsibility.” Junior politics major Paul Tardiff saidthat Mar addressed the issues Tardiff cared about, but, he said, “I don’t feel likehe fully claried what he meant.” Tardiff,a Los Angeles native, is concerned aboutgang activity. “San Francisco, because itis more compact, is more dangerous thanLos Angeles,” he said. “�e city has a re-sponsibility to deal with gangs.” Tardiff was concerned that the San Francisco city government was pushing the responsibility of monitoring gang activity and addressinggang issues onto non-government organi-zations (NGOs). Mar said that he regu-larly checks in with Police Chief HeatherFong and tries to address her concernsabout crime in San Francisco.At the close of the meeting, Marthanked the Politics Society for invitinghim to speak. “Your ideas should drive de-cision-making,” he said to the 13 PoliticsSociety members and other students. “Ihope you see as a value, community-basedleadership.”
GlobalWomensRightsForum
USF president Fr. Stephen Privett, S.Jsat at the back of the room, his chin restedupon his left thumb as he concentrated onthe forum. Most students were mesmer-ized by the guest speakers and the almostoverwhelming information presented. �ere were a few students whose eyes wan-dered, but after just seconds their attention was jerked back to the guest speakers by powerful words such as “violence against women,” “violence against children” and“genital mutilation.”Moments before, Rev. Privett intro-duced the Global Women’s Rights Fo-rum. He quoted �omas Jefferson by say-ing that all of humanity is endowed withinalienable rights to “life, liberty, and thepursuit of happiness.” Privett said, “Noagency, state, church, police can take away those fundamental rights.” Despite that,many women around the world are stilloppressed. �is year was the 8th annual Global Women’s Rights Forum, which aimed toaddress the many issues facing women,children and other minorities. �e forum was divided into three nights and oneafternoon session covering Immigrant Women’s Rights, Organizing AgainstHIV/AIDS, Global Perspectives of Reli-gious Fundamentalism and Women in theNews. A host of guest speakers came fromboth the Bay Area and abroad.On Monday, Mar. 2, Lideres Campesi-nas, Bernadette Herrera and ElaineVillasper led the forum on Immigrant Women’s Rights in California. �e forumprovided English/Spanish interpretationfor its guests. Herrera and Villasper werefrom the Filipino Community Center inSan Francisco.Sophomore Alessandro Broido said,“[Campesinas] was pretty inspiring.” He went on to sympathize with the immigrant women’s plight. “�eir situation seemedreally dangerous.” �e next night, the issue of HIV/AIDS was addressed by Joya Banerjee, Shamilla Wilson and Kyle Kitson. According to Ba-nerjee, approximately 6-7,000 people areinfected a day, which is twice the amountof the September 11th terrorist attack victims. However, Banerjee was careful tomake the distinction that HIV and AIDSare not necessarily a death sentence, norRICKY ANGEL
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ROTC cadets currently receive more sexual harassment training than other campus organizations
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is entered into a campus raffl e to win oneof the many prizes. �e prizes include adorm room refrigerator stocked full of RedBull, a at screen TV, a CD/Stereo System,three iPod shuffl es, one iPod, a $50 giftcard to Best Buy, 5 paintball passes, and 30USF gear packages from the bookstore.USF is also offering sports tickets tosurvey participants. A few students will win two tickets to the April 9 NHL gamebetween the San Jose Sharks and Phoe-nix Coyotes, four tickets to see the April13 NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs, and twotickets to the April 27 MLB game betweenthe San Francisco Giants and NationalLeague West Champions the Los Ange-les Dodgers. Students will also be eligiblefor $5,000 in national prizes. �is includesdrawings for gift cards, specically two$500 cards, 10 cards at $250, and 15 cardsat $100.
Student Survey to Determine Needs
Alex Platt, ASUSF president and US-Ftv programming director, is anything buta “weak little girl.” She will tell you so her-self. Despite this, the junior media stud-ies major found herself treated differently from her male colleagues during her mediainternship last summer.Platt, who was the only female pro-duction assistant on the set at which she worked, began noticing subtle sexism inthe way her coworkers acted towards her.“I don’t think they
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to do it,” she said,“but it was happening anyway.”For example, “All the guys would say,‘Oh, you don’t have to lift those boxes. Take a seat and grab some water.’ But it’slike, I
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lift that box of cables,” said Platt.“I’m not a weak little girl.”Also, she said, “People on set would walk up to me and accuse me of irting with the extras, when I was just standingthere being polite.”Not long after these experiences, Plattspoke to junior Nina Sassoon, also a mediastudies major, and found that she too hadbeen subjected to sexism, as well as sexualharassment, while interning at the newsdesk of a local TV station over the sum-mer. �e two students joined together tofound the newest addition to USF’s stu-dent groups: the Women in Media club. �e club has been in the works since fall2008, and it has nally got off the groundthis semester. Its purposes and the issues itintends to address are manifold.One key goal, said Platt, is to go out intothe community and reach out to youngergirls in high school and middle school who are interested in working in the me-dia. “We want to help empower them tofeel condent working in media and nothave to face sexism, or when faced withit, know how to respond to it,” Platt said,“because we’re not prepared for it. �ere’sno course on etiquette about what to do inawkward situations like that.”Mallory Parks, a junior media studiesmajor, is not a member of the club, butsaid she would consider joining. She, too,has had similarly sexist experiences toPlatt’s in her internships in the media in-dustry. Working for a recording studio inBoston, Parks’ role was to do research and write interview questions for music artiststhat would enter the studio. But when the
New Club Targets Sexism in Media Industry
Bon Appétit Favors Local Food
DANIELA RICCITAM
Staff Writer
duce she orders is as local as possible, or-dering everything from within a 150 mileradius, except in cases where those foodsare not seasonally grown here. In fact, atthe Market Café, every day is relatively low carbon. �e Low Carbon Diet Day wasa chance to bring in new and interestingfoods and gave students the opportunity to meet some of the farmers who grow thefood they regularly consume.One such farmer was Grant Brians,owner of Heirloom Organics Farms. Bri-ans sat proudly in the middle of the caf-eteria surrounded with his unusual freshgreens and root vegetables. “I’m what you call a ‘specialty vegetable grower,’” hesaid, pointing out his prized wild stingingnettles and watermelon radishes. “I’m try-ing to cultivate a purple carrot so dark it’salmost black.”Brians said that among the USF crowd,he had been selling a lot of Asian greensand a salty, mineral-rich leafy green calledorach. Students got to interact with Brians,a farmer who grows some of the foods they eat regularly at the cafeteria, as he offeredthem samples and talked to them about hisarray of vegetables.Many students reacted very positively to the event and the opportunity to try new avors that are not always offered in aschool cafeteria. Sophomore Hayley Zu-ercher, whose plate was loaded with beets,asparagus and a slice of cheese-less pizzatopped with raisins and olives, said “�is isthe best day of my life!” Zuercher said shethinks about the environment regularly when making her food choices, shoppingat farmers markets and cutting back onmeat consumption. �e awareness day served as an educa-tional tool for Taylor Wood, a student whosaid he often thinks about food in termsof it being healthy or organic, but not interms of being low carbon.“I think this is really cool,” sophomoreFranny Sung said. “�ink about the im-pact this would make if more schools didthis.”Sung said eating low carbon is some-thing she thinks about but can’t alwaysprioritize. “I try to eat locally grown, butit’s hard to think about it all the time when you have such a busy schedule,” she said. With Bon Appetit regularly dishingout locally grown foods, even busy stu-dents can lighten their carbon footprint asthey dine. Winslow said, “You guys think [Low Carbon Diet Day] is special, but it’snot. It’s like this every day.”CARBON:
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�e plethora of prizes being offeredindicates how important the University views this survey. Wolcott said, “Basedon the results, the university will shapeprograms and services to better meet theneeds of our students. In addition, the re-sults will provide us comparative data withother institutions, including Jesuit institu-tions, and therefore help us determine bestpractices in the eld of leadership.” Someresults from the survey will be made publicin regards to the improvement of existingcampus programs and services. Nonethe-less, all responses will be kept condential. �is is the rst year that the university has been selected to participate in the na-tionwide survey. Student participation inthis survey will likely determine whetherUSF will be able to utilize the Multi-In-stitutional Study of Leadership survey inthe future. �e survey will be available inthe Donsmail account of the 4,000 stu-dents selected to participate. �e deadlineto submit the survey is Friday, Mar. 20.
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Members of the newly-founded Women in Media club gathered Monday to discuss their upcoming community service with localgroup About-Face, which educates young women about how to view critically the portrayals of women in the media.
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