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University and city law enforcement agencies not commenting on ongoing investigation
By MINER DIEU
Staff Wrltoi
The Department of Public Safely miued a bniveriity i Tueida assauli
I AO a.m .Sunday on the 600 block of 30th Street
uesday ebncerning a perpetrator still wanted lit and attempted burglary of a USC student
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■trator allegedly atabbed the student aever-a pair of scissors before fleeing after the ted. according to the DPS crime incident
(er left no signs of forced entry and was student standing over her bed when she awoke early Sunday morning, according to the summary. The student then screamed and ran from the residence but received several wounds in the procefla. *
Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department^ Southwest station are investigating the incident as a burglary despite the wounds inflicted by the perpetrator and declined to comment on the investigation.
DPS detectives are also conducting an investigation and would not comment on possible charges that may brought against the perpetrator.
Tlie victim was brought to the California Hospital Medical Center and released the aame day after being treated, said Aaron Graves, DPS chief.
Students focue on their booka and papera at the USC at the Law School. Plana for renovations ara underway.
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Law Library makes plans to improve current facility
Fund raising is in full force for $6 million for Internet and access renovations
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The law school is planning a major renovation of its Gabriel and Matilda Barnett Information Technology Center and the Am V. Call Law Library. This $5 million core renovation project is estimated to begin in summer 2004 or 2005, Mid Albert Brecht, associate dean of the law library.
Working with both university and Altoon k Porter architects to design the renovated library, the project will be spread over two summers, working on one floor at a time to improve accommodations for almoat 400,000 books and texts on microforms, as well as 600 law students.	\
The renovations will help the library store the more-than-6,000 texts it receive! annually. Brecht
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"The last time a renovation was ’ done was in 1989," Brecht Mid. "The planned renovation will bring us op to what other major law achooi
libraries are offering their law itu-dents.*
The law school Iim raised almost $2.2 million through grants and gift* from private individuals and foundations for this renovation project, also known aa the core project.
It will renovate both floors of the library and add a more comprehensive wireleu Internet and electronic database network, including laptop acceu to Lexis-Nexis and Weadaw, Brecht Mid.
The library’! facilities,, such as the computer lab, computer-training daaaroom and atudy group rooms will be renovated and expanded. Other library facilities will be more computer and laptop friendly.	.'
One major problem the renovation aims to address is wheelchair acceuibility to the aecond floor of the library. PreMntly, patrons requiring wheelchair accesa must take the elevator to the top floor, exit the building from a balcony and re-enter the library through a separate entrance, Brecht Mid. The renovation will bring an internal elevator hi the library, making it more wheelchair friendly.
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Alumni report from the war zone
Several USC graduates embedded with military, corresponding from Iraq
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The war in Iraq Iuu put them in the line of fire. Many are sisteri. brother!, parenU, daughter! and sons. They are the few. Ihe proud and the graduatM of thr Annenberg School foi Communication.
As the country enters its aiahth day of war in Iraq, a number of US* alumni are stationed in Perilan Gull U> report on Operation Iraqi
Some alumni are aa tha front lines of the war. Us Angeles Times reporter Geoffrey Mohan, who graduated in 1987, and Alisha Ryu who graduated in 1989, are both with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. The reportera travel with the 21,000 troops who are expected to soon face a showdown with Ifaqi troops in Karbala. The division troopi have Buffered guerilla attacks from all directions and have engaged in skirmiahea and firefighta.
Ryu reporta daily to Voice of America, an international news agency funded by the U.S. govern ment, Mid jack Peyton, thr agency’s chief of correspondence Ryu has written stories that include Iraqis guerilla tactics, U.S. helicopter movements and thr recent sandstorm thal hu slowed the 3rd Infantry'a march toward Baghdad.
"All thr reporters who went (to the front lines) volunteered to go there," Peyton Mid. “They werr made aware that there would be certain units that could Conte underfire"
Krishan Patel, a junior major ing in business administration, praised the embedded journalists. thoM traveling with combat troop*.
"The journalists that are embedded with our military divj sions are very dedicated,* Patel Mid; "It takes a great deal of courage to do what they are doing.’
Several alumni are reporting on the war from other Middle Eastern countries. Kate Seeyie, who graduated in 1997, is a reporter for , National Public Radio and has been in the Persian Gulf region for at leut a year reporting on events in the Arab world.
Other alumni in the ■ field indude Frank Buckley, a CNN reporter stationed on the USS Constellation; Carol Morello, a Washington Post correspondent reporting from Saudi Arabia; Kyra Phillips, a CNN reporter atationed on the USS Abraham Lincoln; and I aae UteeeS, page IS I
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