Condom innovator incorporates hip-hop culture into designs
Specialized prophylactics target urban market with names and graphics
By NICOLE BENTO
Contributing Writer
Practice safe sex. Make love with a Trojan — or in this case, make love with Jimmie Hatz.
Jimmie Hatz is the worlds first line of condoms designed specifically to attract black and other minority youths by launching a product with a hip-hop theme.
The name Jimmie Hatz is a play on urban cultures slang for condoms. Rapper and hip-hop pioneer KRS-One popularized the term "jimmy hat," after releasing a song called “Jimmy” in 1988.
“This product was meant to bring light out of a seri-
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University Village now has dental facilities to serve the community
By MARY HOUNG
Contributing Writer
When Dean Harold Slavkin became head of the USC School of Dentistry, he made it a goal to recruit and maintain top faculty. With the opening of the new Oral Health Center in University Village, he said his goal is becoming a reality.
The center was designed to provide a private practice environment where dentists from all over the world could come to give patients the highest standards of oral health care, Dr. Sigmund Abelson, practice
administrator at the center said.
“The goal is for them to become facultyat the dental school," Abelson said. ■ i
The new center is attractive to potential faculty members, Abelson said, because it allows them to keep working with their patients and teach at the same time.
Since the centers opening last January, the School of Dentistry has seen a significant increase in interest among prospective faculty members, Slavkin said.
“A major goal of the USC School of Dentistry is to recruit faculty who will influence what is thought, taught and practiced in the oral health profession, and the center is proving to be a new catalyst for recruitment,” Slavkin said.
The Center offers comprehensive dental care not only to the private patients of USC dental school faculty members, but also to USC faculty, staff and students, along with members of the surrounding community, Abelson said. The center is committed to community outreach to promote better oral health care.
"One of the things we hope to do here is we plan to have seminars for the community on nutrition and basic oral health, as part of Our community outreach program,” Abelson said.
On Sept 18, the center will hold its grand opening. Several prominent community leaders have been invited to attend to help promote the fact that the Center is open to the com-' munity, Abelson said.
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Dentistry School officials want to increase faculty members.
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When Olena Horcajo, an undeclared freshman from Hawaii, went to the first meeting of USC’s Hawaii Club, she expected to find new friends and bond with students who shared her background.
What she found instead was a group of students who had already bonded in high school.
While Horcajo had gone to a small private school on Maui called Seabury Hall High School, almost all of the other club members had attended one of the two large private high schools in Oahu: Punahou or lolani.
“Everyone was from Punahou or lolani, and they all had the same commonalities, where 1 didn’t have any,” Horcajo said.
The incident was not surprising; while 88 students in the current freshman class are from Hawaii, 44 of those students come from either Punahou or lolani, said J. Michael Thompson, dean of admissions and financial aid.
For the Hawaiian-raised students who did not attend one of these two schools, the transition to USC can be a difficult one.
Connie Liu, a junior majoring in international relations and communication, said that she can count on one hand the total number of people who have matriculated to USC from
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By GINA GOODHILL
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nication, comfort one another during the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony.
Students, faculty gathered yesterday in memory of the Sept. 11 attacks.
By KRISTIN MAYER
Contributing Writer
Bells tolled across campus Thursday as students and faculty gathered in the shade of E.F. Hutton Park for an intimate and relaxed ceremony commemorating the events of Sept. 11,2001.
About 50 people, mostly faculty members, attended the event. Music by the Thornton School Brass Quintet accompanied the ceremony, which featured testimonies, speakers and an open mic period.
“It does mean something different two years later, obviously for
those who lost loved ones or who were in New York that day," said Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, associate dean of Religious Life. “Nothing ever changes the fact that their lives have changed. But along with that remembrance comes the need for reflection. What does this mean for us now, two years later?”
There's a lot of competition for students’ attention, Kevin Starr, professor of history, said.
“There is a minimal amount of time students have to focus on world affairs. A lot of students aren't oriented that way. History moves on very rapidly. The previous two years
have been an almost uninterrupted succession of violent events revolving around the same conflict" History Professor Steve Ross guided a 25 minute “Thoughts at the Open Mic” period.
Denise Campbell, assistant director for aid coordination in the Financial Aid Office, witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center.
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