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Serve and profit, Drayton uiges
Head over heels
Speaker Social change can be a good occupation, entrepreneur says in Spectrum talk Wednesday
By LEONARD HYMAN
Contributing Writer
Capitalism can be about more than just making money, it can be about social change as well, Bill Drayton told students last night in the first installment of the annual Spectrum speaker series.
“I hope you fall in love with social entrepreneurship," Drayton said. “The opportunity to upset and change things is very enjoyable.”
Drayton, the founder of Youth Venture and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Get America Working!, was introduced as a man who seeks
to help social entrepreneurs fulfill their goals. His was the first in a series of speeches collectively entitled “Responsible Capitalism: How to Laugh All the Way to the Bank Without Becoming Morally Bankrupt"
Drayton defined the ideas behind social entrepreneurship as the “opportunity for you to find a way to get society unstuck."
Drayton said the rise of social entrepreneurship has "huge implications for the business and social sectors.”
He explained that social change often has a profitable side, should a concerned citizen with business savvy choose to address social issues. He said non-profit organizations have often been ineffective in producing social change due to bureaucracy and mismanagement, but as I see Speaker, page 18 I
Bill Drayton
Graduate group hopes to create ‘new reality’
“You have within yourselves and the community the ability to overcome anything!'
CHRIS
MADISON,
graduate
student
Service: USC Presidential Fellows focus on community service in Los Angeles
By KATIE FLYNN
Contributing Writer
Los Angeles won’t know what hit it — at least that is the goal of the USC Presidential Fellows program.
Beginning their community outreach efforts to create a better Los Angeles, the group of graduate students comforted children at Shriners Hospital Wednesday, handing out
presents and leading sing-a-longs.
The audience — some in casts and bandages, others in wheelchairs — giggled and joined in as one student translated the verses into Spanish.
Their goal for the day was to show the children that, “You have within yourselves and the community the ability to overcome anything," said graduate student Chris Madison.
Founded seven years ago by President Steven B. Sample, the Presidential Fellows program is composed of students from each aca-
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Look out below! A member of the USC Diving Club takes to the sky during one of their daily practices. The club boasts one junior champion and one diver who placed fourth in the Olympic trials.
U’wa eviction from land imminent
Dispute: USC Trustee is CEO of oil company that says it owns Colombia site
By SCOn MARTIN DALE
Contributing Writer
The Occidental Petroleum Corporation, chaired by USC Trustees Ray Irani, plans to begin drilling this month on Colombian land that is of disputed ownership.
The Colombian government is set to evict the U’wa from land near the site within days, according to environmental groups supporting the U’wa.
Both Occidental and the U’wa, an indigenous tribe consisting of about 5,000 people who reside near the disputed land, claim they legal-
IVe're not on their land The Colombian government said this was
not their land"
HOWARD COLLINS, spokesman. Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Activist group urges USC to become a sweat-free zone
Labor: Officials say that Trojan apparel is not made at sweatshops; some students want university to do more
ly purchased the property from local farmers.
The Colombian government, which sides with Occidental, reportedly placed armed guards around the drilling site earlier this year and have denied access to the U’wa people, who allege it is their ancestral land.
“They prohibit us from using the interior road that connects with the central road to our land, (and) they sound gunshots at night." Roberto Perez Guitierrez, president of the U’wa Council, wrote in a worldwide
press release.
Although the U’wa claim they purchased the land from local farmers in the area in November 1999, Occidental representatives claim the deal was corrupt and maintain they are the legal landowners.
"We’re not on their land," said Occidental Petroleum Corporation spokesman Howard Collins. “The Colombian government said this was not their land."
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By KATIE WERNER
Contributing Writer
Launching a new campaign against sweaLshops, Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation is urging the university to become a "sweat-free zone" and refuse to sell apparel that is not approved by certain worker's rights organizations.
However, university officials say SCALE’S efforts are misdirected as USC does not contract with sweatshops.
“It is great for students to have
passion about a cause," said Liz Kennedy, director ofTrademarks and Licensing. “However, to my knowledge, the university does not buy products from companies that utilize sweatshop labor. We have a strong code of ethics, and there is monitoring in place already."
USC is currently a member of the Fair Labor Association, which monitors companies to prevent violations of labor laws, and the university has already stopped doing business with companies who have refused to sign
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