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The Tatsukawa Memorial Fund commends Mariano "Mar" Ramos Elepano for his dedication to teaching and the community.
By CHRISTINA WAKAYAMA
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When the Tatsukawa Memorial Fund Award committee first told a USC staff member he was chosen to receive this years award, he protest ed, saying he didn’t deserve il
USC cinema-television production supervisor Mariano "Mar”
Kamos Elepano received the award Saturday evening at Past/Forward, a fundraiser	for	Visual
Communications, at the Aratani japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo.
“When they give you these things it means that you will be working harder,” Elepano said jokingly at the award ceremony Saturday.
The Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Fund was established in 1985 to recognize those	who -carry on
Tatsukawa’s legacy of commitment to community service and the advancement of the Asian Pacific American media arts.
Members of the Tatsukawa award committee said they selected Elepano because of his passion and commitment to the community.
“We have known Mar for many years. He has done a lot for independent filmmakers in the lab at USC,” said Jon Esaki, Tatsukawa award committee member and director of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum.
In 1993, Elepano began teaching beginning animation and animation production technology at USC, as well as supervising student projects and the computer animation labs.
Elepano said he valued his experience at USC because it gave him the opportunity to work many people, he said.
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“Weh/ive known Mar jor many years. He ha.s done a lot for independent filmmakers in the lab at USC
JON ESAKI committee number Tatsukawa Memorial Fund
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With little advertising, thousands have joined Friendster.com, a Web site that helps jrienck network.
By KIM HOLMES
Contributing Writer
Sarah Kim Wfes simply positive that Ashton Kutcher was a part of her personal network on friendster.com.
“1 was so convinced that it was him until I saw other celebrities," Kim said.
Although it is possible that celebrities are using the increasingly popular Web site, it is more likely that the celebrities rampaging through friendsteccom are fuse, put up by Web site members as a joke.
“I just put all fake stufff said Jimmy Kim, a senior majoring in
finance. “I have one (picture) of me and one of Warren Buffet”
Friendster.com is a service that connects people through online networks of “friends for dating or making new friends,” according to the Web site. The Web site has had little marketing, but every time anyone joins up and invites 20 of their friends, new members are made and more people become friendsters.
Launched last March by founder and CEO Jonathan Abrams, the site has attracted tens of thousands of members. -
The Web site uses four degrees of separation to connect friends. It is often compared to ‘Six Degrees of
Kevin Bacon,” a game that links any actor with Kevin Bacon in six degrees of association or less.
“Friendster is cool because everybody is there,” said Dara Digerolamo, an undeclared sophomore.
The sign-on process at friend-ster.com takes only a few steps and it's free.	.s..
. To become a member, fill out a name, an email address, a password and registration is done. Then put in friends’ e-mail addresses and an invitation is sent to them.
As soon as those friends accept the invitation, then a personal network is created. Friends add their friends, and the network grows.
Most users also fill out a profile. The profile includes a space to put pictures and personal questions —
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A day of fun for LAUSD students
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Reach. Mariano “Mar” Ramos Oepano points to friends
who helped him succeed while accepting the Tatsukawa Memorial Fund Award Saturday.
Business students spend Saturday morning playing with neighborhood kids.
BY JESSICA WITKM
Contributing Writer
Things were not business as usual for Marshall Business School students on Saturday, as they shed their suits and dressed in T-shirts to make donuts and play with water balloons in McCarthy Quad.
About 200 children from LAs BEST, a Los Angeles-area nonprofit after-school programming organization, joined the first- and second-year MBA students, who organized and participated in the event in an effort to provide a day of fun activities for children from Los Angeles Unified School District schools.
Marshall’s collective fundraising program Challenge-4 Charity runs two of these “college fiin days" per year.
"It’s really great that within a busi-
ness school we have a lot of involvement with the community,” said Dave Jones, a second-year MBA student who volunteered Saturday.
"This morning we had a contest with the kids where we made paper donuts,” Jones said. “It was one of the best activities because it forced the kids to work together and share the work, kind of like a Ford assembly line where things worked better if everyone had their own job."
But the donut making was only a small part of the day s activities.
In an activity-filled morning, there was a scavenger hunt, an egg run, lunch, donuts, soccer, baseball and a kids versus business school students water balloon toss.
“It so great to see them run around in the grass with the kids like this. It’s not the type of stuff you usually do in business school,” said Lida Jennings, director of the Marshall MBA program.
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LA's BEST sponsors two “College Fun Days" a year.
Activities included a scavenger hunt and an egg run.