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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
April 21, 2000 Vol. CXXXIX, No. 61
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Marshall grads spell out thanks
Gift: Seniors give business school new formal sign on bridge between two halls
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Projects/Training Editor
Golden letters spelling out Marshall School of Business are now emblazoned on the walkway in the business school, thanks to the Class of 2000 senior gift.
About 30 students, faculty and staff of the business school attended the unveiling of the sign between Bridge Memorial and Hoffman halls Thursday afternoon. The money for $10,000 sign will give the school more of a presence on campus, said Cindy Wu, co-chair of the gift campaign and a senior majoring in business.
A banner facing Exposition Boulevard marked the school, but the sign will be replicated on the other side of the building.
“Like many other students 1 would walk past here and wonder why there wasn’t a formal sign,” Wu said, motioning to the new letters. “It is a first step to another tradition.”
The committee hopes to inspire future graduation classes will continue the gift program. Renovating the breezeway is tops the list of priorities, Wu said. Seniors have pledged approximately $13,000 this year and all money not used for the sign will be carried over for the renovation project, she said.
When the renovation is completed, the breezeway would include more tables and chairs along with a coffee or food stand, said Abe Lin, co-chair of the gift campaign and a senior majoring in finance and marketing.
‘This should be a place to help foster the undergraduate community,” Lin said. “It would be a place for students to gather and hang out. We always have group projects and this would be a place where we could share ideas and create group interaction.”
The senior gift was established in 1996, but the class donated the money to the dean’s discretionary fund, Wu said.
The breezeway renovation will cost about $70,000 and will take three or years to complete, said Oscar Sandoval, assistant director of development and external affairs for the school.
“This is the start of something that will last through many years,” said John Dittrick, vice dean and director of undergraduate programs of the business school. “We have to get appropriately named in a very first class way. This is
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Sign of the times. Committee co-chair Cindy Wu and school officials at unveiling of new sign.
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Dittrick agreed that a new meeting and social area in the breezeway is necessary.
The committee will be taking pledges from graduating seniors until graduation. Students who pledge to give a donation within a year receive a thank you gift,
which varies at each level. A $20 donation merits a 10-minute Trojan phone card and students who donate $100 receive a Marshall license plate holder. Those who pledge $200 receive both gifts along with a silver Marshall business card holder.
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Yale, Indiana block Napster; USC still quiet
Law: University, Napster the sole defendants left in case filed by Metallica and record companies
By BRENDAN LOY
Staff Writer
Yale and Indiana universities have learned they will be dropped from Metallica’s anti-piracy lawsuit after blocking the music-sharing software Napster, leaving USC as the only university still named alongside Napster, Inc. as a defendant in the suit.
USC would be dropped from the suit as well if it were to block Napster, said Howard King, an attorney representing the heavy metal rock band.
There is no indication at this time that USC plans to do so.
Meanwhile, rapper Dr. Dre has threatened to file a lawsuit of his own against Napster if they do not make it impossible for users to search for his songs in the Napster directory, King said. King wrote a letter to Napster on Wednesday on behalf of Dr. Dre.
The solution requested in the letter would not require Napster to remove all Dr. Dre songs from its libraries, something which Napster cannot do because the songs are housed on users’ hard drives, King said. It would simply force Napster to make the Dr. Dre songs which are online “unsearchable” by fellow users.
The letter from Dr. Dre set today as the deadline for Napster to take action.
As for Metallica’s lawsuit, Reuters News Service paraphrased King on Wednesday as saying that he was “in talks” with USC, presumably about banning Napster. But King admitted Thursday that those “talks” have amounted to nothing more than Metallica’s lawyers providing USC with unsolicited information.
King said USC has made no commitment to ban Napster, nor has the university even given an indication that it will do so. In fact, USC didn’t even bring up the issue. Metallica’s lawyers simply chose, without being asked, to inform the USC attorneys that USC would be dropped from the suit if it bans Napster, King said.
USC officials could not be reached for comment. The General Counsel’s office did not return phone calls from the Daily Trojan and Information Services Division has referred all lawsuit-related questions to the General Counsel’s office.
Napster’s lawyers also could not be reached for comment. Napster’s company office has previously said it is refusing all press interviews.
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Armenians to honor victims’ memory Monday
Event: Vigil and speaker set to commemorate the estimated 1.5 million killed in 1915 genocide
BY CHARLI SCHULER
Assistant City Editor
Thousands of Armenians will gather Monday, April 24, in memory of the 1915 Armenian genocide, in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians suffered mass I see Event, page 111
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DPS arrests suspected obscene phone caller
Crime: Officials have been investigating source of more than 150 reported incidents
By CLAIRE LUNA
Editor in Chief
A neighborhood resident suspected of harassing hundreds of women with obscene phone calls was apprehended Wednesday, Department of Public Safety officials said.
Wallace Bouier, a man in his 40s who has a wife and child, was arrested at his home and taken into custody at the Southwest Station after DPS determined that he had an outstanding misdemeanor traffic warrant, officials said. Women started making complaints
several months ago about obscene phone calls that followed the same pattern, said Bob Taylor, DPS deputy chief.
“He made the same comments to the person he was calling, and he used the same language every time,” Taylor said.
Bouier admitted at the time of his arrest that he would randomly call numbers with the university’s 764 prefix and if a female answered he would talk to her about sex, Taylor said. If the woman was receptive, he would attempt to engage her in phone sex and sometimes call back later, Taylor said.
DPS began working with GTE’s records after officials noticed the pattern in October 1999, Taylor said. Using information obtained through a search warrant from another telephone company in Florida, DPS determined the phone number and address of the suspect.
After obtaining a phone trap, which does not allow one to hear conversations, DPS was able to gather enough evidence that someone from that phone number was making repeated obscene phone calls to certain numbers that had been registered in the system, resulting in more than 150 reports.
DPS then obtained a search warrant for the residence from which the calls were coming, and when officials served it they found Bouier at home, Taylor said.
Bouier asked why officials were searching his phone records, and they told him that he was suspected of placing obscene phone calls, Taylor said.
“Without any questions, he said, ‘I guess you got me,’” Taylor said. “In some ways it seemed like he was sort of relieved. He knew the end would come eventually I see Crime, page 10 I
“Without any questions, he said, ‘I guess you got me.’ In some ways it seemed like he was sort of relieved.”
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