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Sample says USC on right track
Sample
Speaks
In today's edition, USC’s president discusses his
relationship with the student body, the university’s role in the community, its recent land acquisitions and its "College of the Year” award.
Interview: Altruistic reputation well-deserved, university president says, but adds that "we could get a lot better ''
Daily Trojan editors met Thursday with USC President Steven B. Sample for a 90-minute interview covering topics rangingfrom USCs relationship with the surrounding community to the cost of tuition to the future of the Internet.
The first portion of the interview is printed below. The second half will be published in Tuesday's Daily Trojan.
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Well, I think we wanted to I start off today just talking about your relationship with the sftdent body — how you view that relationship, what you think your strengths and weaknesses are with that, how you find out what the student body wants. Do you think that you really know what the student body wants?
That’s a good question. It’s got a lot of parts. I’ll come back to some of the more interesting parts, but 1
would pose a question: Do you
think there’s anybody on campus that knows what the student body really wants? I say that because I’m writing a book on leadership — I teach this little course on leadership — and one of the biggest problems that a leader has is to find out what his or her constituency, or one of his constituencies, really wants.
You think about the faculty. We have 3,500 faculty. Each one enjoys — because they’re university faculty, they’re not employees in a factory someplace — each person enjoys tremendous professional independence. Now, suppose somebody comes into my office and says, "Sample, what do you think the faculty think about such-and-such?" How would I go about determining that? Is it even a question that can be sensibly answers? Am I going to talk to six faculty ? Maybe I’d take a poll....
The act of taking a poll changes what it is that people actually think. And, of course, how do you poll 2,500 people that are independent? Do you count the ones that send a response back? Do you take a random sample of a hundred and pursue each one for a definitive response?
And it’s the same with the students. So 1 don't know how one determines what “the students" think. I’m not sure “the students"
think anything in a definitive way.
that “the students” think this and they don’t think that Because we have 28,000 students, so my guess is that "the students” think a lot of different things about a lot of different topics.
Now, what do I do? Well, I like to talk to students. I typically talk to
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Coming
Tuesday
In the second half of his interview, Sample addresses the rising cost of tuition, the so called “University of Spoiled Children," the university’s treatment of its employees and his vision for the future of USC.
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A look to the past. President Steven B. Sample says USC’s history has a strong influence on the university’s title of “College of the Year."
Deadline set for contract
Transit
Troubles
Of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s 200 bus lines, all but five would be shut down if workers strike Friday. The three Metro Rail lines would also close. As many as 1.5 million commuters throughout Los Angeles may be affected by the walk-out, including at least 150 USC students.
Strike: Drivers threaten to walk off job at the end of week if demands not met
By BRENDAN L0Y
Assignment Editor
The union representing bus drivers and train operators, for the Metropolitan Transit Authority will walk off the job Friday at 12:01 a.m. if a new contract is not agreed upon before then, union officials announced Saturday.
"If the MTA does not come to the bargaining table as soon as possible with a new sense of urgency, there is going to be a work stoppage this Friday," United Transportation Union chairman James Williams told the Los Angeles Times.
If the drivers do strike, separate unions representing MTA mechanics, dispatchers and clerical workers are likely to honor UTU's picket line and stay home as well, following general union policy.
A strike would shut down all but five of MTA’s 200 bus lines and all three Metro Rail train lines. Five hundred USC bus and train riders,
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Looking for his big break
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the business for the past six years but has yet to make it big. His outfit and sign draws smiles from those passing by on Figueroa Street.
Willing and able to work. Al Jacob — singer, guitarist and songwriter — promotes his music outside the Shire Auditorium Sunday for Emmy attendees. Jacob has been trying to break into