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Celebrating Jewish Life
The USC Hillel community k hosting a Welcome Walk today to celebrate Jewish life at USC. At 11:45 a.m. today in front of Tommy Trojan, a new Torah will be received, and at 12:30 p.m. a reception at USC Hillel will install Paul Entis as the Ruth & Allen Ziegler Endowed Director. The Hillel Center is located at 3300 S. Hoover Blvd. Por more information, contact Hillel at (213) 747-9135.
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Acorn Project exposes children to classical music, encourages future ballet company
By RACHEL CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
lassical music fills the air of the auditorium at the Breed Street School in Boyle Heights lift their arms, elevate on their toes in pirouettes and leap across the wooden floor.
Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, 23 students from third to fifth grade meet to learn ballet in a program called Dance in Schools: The Acorn Project. The program was designed and founded by USC alumnus Andrew Deneau, who works as a freelance performing arts programmer around Los Angeles.
The program began last spring in a trial run that lasted eight weeks and is slated to be an ongoing activity at the Breed Street School.
Dance in Schools is the second phase in Deneau's plan to assemble a professional ballet company in Los Angeles. Deneau noticed a lack of ballet instruction and interest in the city, especially in comparison to the East Coast, and decided to form a company to foster the talent.
Tm not a dancer, but my parents were and I have a particular interest in dance,* Deneau said.
Deneau formed the Los Angeles County Ballet Association, the first phase in his plan, then began looking around for the area that had the greatest need for dance.
“In Los Angeles, there are 468 schools, and you can’t reach a (large) number of students by doing it that way,” he said.
Kathy Iriarte, principal of Breed Street School, responded immediately to Deneau’s letter when he was surveying schools for dance facilities, and the two worked together to start the program
(see Dance, page 2)
Balancing act. Caitlin Goddard, a junior majoring in English and pholosophy, teaches a student how to do a pirouette during practice at Breed Street School in Boyle Heights.
USC drinking habits stable; nation’s rising
AlCOhOl: Recent poll finds more students across United States consuming liquor to get drunk
(see Binge, page 6)
EVK residence complex renamed to avoid confusions
Housing: Some students say building’s name change is still not clear
By CLINTON LUKENS Staff Writer
When Allison Geller, a freshman majoring in education, was moving in to her dorm room, she thought she would be living in University Hall. As she moved in, she heard fellow students and her resident advisor referring to the hall as College-Uni.
“It was really confusing when I was
moving in and my contract said I lived in University Hall,’ she said. “Well, there is no such thing. I thought it was College-Uni, but it was the hallway between New College and College-Uni.*
This is an example of the confusion resulting from the multiple names describing the complex, which is now divided into two halls called North and New College. The EVK dining room will also change its name in a contest being held through Saturday where the winner will receive a bicycle.
“We wanted to create a more community place and we thought the two halls would do that,* said Ed Carreon, an EVK customer service representative.
EVK was named after former president Rufus B. Von Kleinsmid’s wife, Elisabeth, in 1950.
The engraving will remain on the building, but a new sign, “North and New College Residence Halls,’ has been placed over the doorway into the customer service entrance. North College is the hall across from Parking Structure D, and New College is the hall across from Parking Structure X.
Students are still confused as to the name of their hall because the entire complex, which holds more than 500 students, is divided into subdivisions of Harris, College, University and EVK.
“It’s hard to tell people where to meet you," Geller said. “1 normally
tell them to meet me in the front of the EVK entrance, but even that is confusing.”
North College residential hall is now subdivided into Harris and University, while New College is subdivided into EVK and College. Some sections have different features such as sinks in EVK rooms. The subdivision may be revised later in the year, but until then, the two names will represent the entire building.
“We wanted a more consistent name for the residential halls and we felt there were too many students for one name,” said Georgia Bauman, assistant director of the Office of Residential and Greek Life.
“It's hard to tell people where to
meet you.”
Allison Cellar
freshman
education
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October 27, IMS Vol. CXXXV, No. tt
SHOTS IN THE DARK
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By CLAIRE LUNA
Assistant City Editor
Though a survey released in September found a nationwide increase in the number of students drinking to get drunk, USC drinking behavior has not followed that trend, students and officials said.
Although he acknowledged that drinking has increased on college campuses across the country, Dr.
William Levitt, lead physician at the Student Health Center, said that at USC the trend has probably stayed about the same.
But in the last 20 years, USC’s overall drinking trend has decreased, said Deputy Chief Bob Taylor of the Department of Public Safety. It is still an issue that college students have to deal with responsibly, he said.
“I think that drinking, per se, is a problem at all college campuses,”
Taylor said. “Sometimes students get to the point where they can’t take care of themselves.... When someone gets intoxicated to the point that they can’t take care of themselves, that’s a serious problem.*
The survey, conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, found an increase from 39 to 52 percent since 1993 in American college students who consumed alcohol in order to become drunk. The pattern of binge drinking has remained steady, with 43 percent of the 14300 students surveyed considered binge drinkers.
Students disagreed with the poll’s findings, saying that most people they know drink to have fon, not to get drunk.
“I don’t think anybody goes to a party saying that they want to pray to the porcelain goddess and yak all night long,* said Ryan Baxter, a freshman majoring in international relations.
Though many students drink at USC, Taylor said,
behaviors.
(Today)
8 Part 2:
Drinking-related crimes on campus.
(Wednesday)
a Part 3:
USCs policy on alcohol. (Thursday)
>- Physical effects of binge drinking, seepages