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January 15,1999 Vol. CXXXVI, No. 2
Fields closed for improvement
Recreation: im-rec
and Cromwell being resodded, reseeded; teams stop practice
By SHARON STELLO
Assistant City Editor
Club teams are having a difficult time finding a place to practice because Cromwell Field on Childs Way and the Intramural Field on McClintock Street are closed for resodding and reseeding.
Upon returning from winter break, eight club teams and the public who just wanted a field to use, found Cromwell Field bare and awaiting sheets of sod to be installed.
The reopening of Cromwell Field, scheduled for Jan. 13, was pushed back to Jan. 29, sending the rugby team as far as Torrance to play its games, said Parker Jenkins, assistant director of Intramurals and Recreation (IM-REC).
“It points out the one big issue the campus faces — a lack of green space,” Jenkins said. “I don’t even know how they could make that
kind of mistake, given all the money students pay to come here. They would never make a mistake like this on the football practice field.”
Jenkins led a meeting at noon Thursday in the Lyon Center for the clubs that regularly use Cromwell Field.
Though teams were clearly not happy at the end of the meeting, decisions were made to let the clubs already in season practice on the Intramural Field when it opens Tuesday, Jenkins said. Out-of-sea-son, teams will wait to begin practices on the Intramural Field on I see Cromwell, page 2 I
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The sound of Bovard. Brandon Operchuck, a sophomore majoring in theater, sits at the sound board in Bovard Auditorium. He completely redesigned the building’s sound system, a project he completed Sunday after hundreds of hours of work.
The music man
By CLAIRE LUNA
City Editor
Brandon Operchuck arrived at USC last year as a freshman, he wasted no time fixing the things he found faulty.
Working at Bovard Auditorium, Operchuck realized that the sound quality was not as good as he thought it should be.
“The system was so archaic,” said Operchuck, a sophomore majoring in theater. “It was basically jiist a glorified DJ system.”
Th*.*>Long Beach native then began a project on his own to completely redesign Bovard’s sound system. Operchuck presented his plan,
Sophomore redesigns Bovard’s sound system
complete with an analysis of the cost of labor and supplies, to the different deans and other USC administrators.
“I had to make a huge packet justifying every expense,” Operchuck said. “I even attended acoustical training seminars to make sure I wasn’t vesting any money.
The new system was completed Sunday following hundreds of hours of labor on the part of Operchuck and many other students who work at Bovard.
“Brandon was the energetic driving force behind this change,” said Russ Draeger, an employee of Icarus Rigging, which was in charge of the building’s structural analysis. “Brandon’s love of the theater really shows. This improvement in the sound system will go hand in hand with improving the quality of the performance.”
Affectionately calling Bovard “my building,* Operchuck eagerly leads one about the auditorium, explaining how technologically advanced speak-er§ are able to create perfect sound from the firont row seats to the back row in the second balcony.
“There are no bad seats in Bovard now,” he said. Alternating between music from Portishead, I see Sound, page 3 I
Kinko’s gives $2.5 million to Marshall
nonation: Ventura-based company endows chair of entrepreneurial business
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Staff Writer
The Marshall School of Business will have its sixth corporate supported chair, thanks to a $2.5 million endowment pledge by Paul Orfalea, founder and chairman of Kinko’s, the world’s largest cop>ing and office server provider. The money will be used to support the chair of the entrepreneurial program.
Thomas .J. O’Malia is the Ventura-based company’s director chair of the entrepreneurial program.
"Having the Kinko’s name permanently attached to the school is a big plus,” said John Crowe, senior associate dean of Marshall School of Business. “Paul is a real pioneer and entrepreneur, and that name alkiws its to tell our story of a student who had a great idea and ran with it and was very successful.”
Crowe said the endowment will maKe sure the school has a firm financial standing for the position without using money from student tuition.
Orfalea, who graduated from USC in 1971, was named the Greif Center’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997- He has been a guest! 'cturer at USC as well as the entrepreneur-in-residence at the school of business.
Orfalea has provided students with jobs as well as supported scholarships, Crowe said.
“He has helped us out tremendously financially,” Crowe said, “and with his time in the last 20 years, he is no stranger to us.”
“I want to give further opportunities to students because I was given opportunities,” Orfalea said. “I very much like the (USC) personnel and I would like to see the school prosper.”
The entrepreneur program is the oldest in the nation and was ranked No. 1 in the nation by Success magazine in 1998.
“USC is about entrepreneurship, and what more fitting than this,” O’Malia said. “The name allows us to expect to always attract the best person for the position.”
O’Malia said he will now have more time and flexibility foriis duties. He will have more time to work on projects for the school.
One such project is the first annual Greif Research Symposium on Emerging Organizations. Scholars throughout the country will be invited to the symposium.
O’Malia has been the director of the Uoyd Greif Center for entrepreneurial studies since 1995.
Other corporate supported chairs at the university include the Community Bank of Pasadena chair of banking and finance, the Steve Ross/Time Warner chair in cinema-television, the Arco/WiDiam Kieschick chair in neurobiology and aging and the IBM chair of engineering management.
Due ta the Martin Luther King Jr. university holiday on Monday, Jan. IS, the D*ity fro/an will not
Wednesday, Jan. 20.