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Students develop video games in campus lab
Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab has launched a game for PlayStation 3.
By RADOMIR AVILA
Daily Troian
Luminescent creatures resembling centipedes and sea anemones converge to create a soothing aquatic environment in a game reminiscent of “Snake.”
“FlOw." which was originally a USC student’s research project, was launched yesterday for PlayStation 3
The game began as a Master of Fine Arts thesis in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, said alumna Kel-lee Santiago, who helped develop the game.
Santiago has seen the growth of the program from the beginning stages.
"It has changed so much in the past few years," Santiago said “No one at USC even knew what we were doing upstairs in the (Robert) Zemeckis Center. The games industry didn't even understand how study-
ing games could be relevant or useful at all.”
“Cloud," another Santiago project, is a narrative video game set in a surreal environment that ttx>k first place at a game festival. It reflects the goals held by the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab within IMD, said Chris Swain, who co-directs the lab.
Lab students gather in the Zemeckis Center where they analyze a white board crammed with impromptu diagrams to work out the kinks for one of the levels in a video game.
This is a typical scene at the EA Lab.
IMD, incorporated as a subset of the cinema school in 2002, has developed into a top national research facility with an impressive resume, Swain said.
IMD students use the colorful and user-friendly EA Lab, created in
2004.	as a creative hub
“We get to experiment with business designs here that we never could in the business world,' said Mike Stein, a second-year master's of fine arts candidate who left Ekx-I see EA LAB page 2 I
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Despite leading for most of the game, the USC women’s basketball team
lost to Cal 86-79, In overtime
Coliseum named main field in Olympic bid
Undercover LAPD officers bust
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Committee unveils architectural proposal as part of Los Angeles’ 2016 Olympic bid.
Go for th« gold | A computer-generated model of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games’s planned renovations of the Coliseum for Los Angeles' bid for the 2016 summer Olympics includes adding large sun-shades.
By JOHN LEGITTINO
Daily Troian
Los Angeles moved one step closer to playing host of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games Thursday, unveiling the architectural plans that proponents say would make the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum the competition’s "crown jewel" and main event field.
The Coliseum, just two blocks from USC, is currently home to USC football Both the 1932 and 1984 Olympic games took place there and the stadium is a state and national landmark.
The goal of the projected $112 million project, according to architects, is to leave as much of the traditional structure intact, making only slight, temporary additions around the current structure.
"The secret of this is: Don’t touch the Coliseum,” said David Jay Flood, the project’s head architect.
The plans were unveiled at a news conference at the Coliseum under the lit Olympic torch.
The Coliseum’s main additions would be temporary steel space frames surrounding the building’s edifice, which would support sun-shades without interfering with the existing stadium.
The plan calls for 204 new skyboxes, capable of holding 10 to 12 people and the restoration of a track surrounding the main field.
The track, along with the skyboxes, would eliminate 9,000 seats, bringing the Olympic capacity down to 83,000 from the 92,000 currently available at home football games.
The architecture team is mandated by law to preserve the building's outer structure.
Carol Dougherty, USC senior associate athletic director and Los Angeles Olympic Committee member, said the plans were everything she could hope for.
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student for intent to sell pot
DPS reports student arrested at New/North; LAPD says arrest was 50 blocks south.
By NANCY CHEN
Daily Trojan
A USC freshman was arrested by Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detectives on charges of possession of marijuana for sale as part of an undercover investigation Wednesday afternoon.
The Department of Public Safety website reported the arrest occurred at New/North Residential Hall.
while the LAPD reported the arrest took place at the comer of West 76th Street and BroAlwav, several dozen blocks south of campus.
Aaron Shaw, an industrial and systems engineering major, was arrested at 2.15 p.m. and released around 10 p.m. after posting a bail of $20,000. Shaw declined to comment when contacted by the Daily Trojan
LAPD officers refused to release information on how much marijuana was found on Shaw
IXpartment of Public Safety Capt David Carlisle said charges of selling marijuana and possession of
marijuana for sale are "pretty dose," but there is a small difference between thf two.
"As an example, if I (was) to go to a person and they would actually sell me drugs, then they could be arrested for sales, Carlisle said. "If I were to, as a police officer, stop someone in their car, and while if they didn’t try to sell me marijuana but I saw it broken into little baggies and with scales, then I would anvst them tor possession of marijuana for sale ”
Carlisle said the arrest was entirely orchestrated by LAP!)
Shaw’s arraignment is scheduled for March 14
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Viterbi School of Engineering students bid for love^t a date auction to benefit a mentoring program Thursday night.
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