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The world keeps on spinning...
Culture target of new group
Debut New organization
begins with slide slum about classic art
By GAURANG KHETAN
Contributing Writer
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Shake It. DJ Biophile, a member of the USC group Techno Tribe, spins records at Ground Zero Coffee House. The group performs every other Wednesday.
College no stranger to entrepreneur
Some USC students don’t wait for
graduation to dabble in various economic ventures and find success
By ANUBHAV NATH
Contributing Writer
On-campus jobs as office assistants or part-time gigs at the mall are typical college jobs, but some students are trading in their nametags for business cards.
And some of thos students are finding that they don't have to wait for a diploma to earn more cash.
Relying on their friends as customers and partners, students are starting their own companies at colleges across the country.
“Campuses provide you with a large market of prospective cus-
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tomers, available to you so easily,” said Brandon Litman, founder of the USC Sky Diving Club.
One of the most well-known success stories is Shawn Fanning who started Napster Internet music archives while as a student at Northeastern University.
Aspiring entrepreneur cannot shy away from implementing a business idea, as timing is very important, experts say.
In the always changing market a business plan which may be viable today may not be so tomorrow.
“Timing is indeed very important, but if you have an idea but need seasoning — go get it," said professor William Crookston of the Lloyd Greif Center of Entrepreneur Studies.
Dozens of students launched dot-coms in the late 1990s, because the costs were low and there was always a chance of one hitting the I see Money, page 111
'Timing is indeed very important, but if you have an idea, but need seasoning — go get it." —♦— WILLIAM CROOKSTON USC professor
Michael Jackson. I'SCs Via-President ol Student Affairs, and Mark Kann, a political science professor, came together last fall to establish the ambitious Academic Culture Initiative, a program designed to enhance the academic life of students and faculty in encouraging intellectual interaction outside of the classroom.
"Learning takes place in the classroom, on the campus and in the community,” USC Provost Lloyd Armstrong Jr. said at that time. “The goal of the Academic Culture Initiative is to enhance and expand that learning, increasing the number of academic experiences that can take place outside the classroom. Those engaged in the life of the mind are being asked to take it to a higher level.”
On Wednesday, those ideas bore fruit. The “Great Culture Series" lectures was held at Leavey Library Auditorium.
Ruth Weisberg, the Dean of the School of Fine Arts, served as the chief speaker, sharing her life-long passions for the world of art.
This lecture series will be held monthly and will help students learn more about diversity in art, music and literature.
“It is a great opportunity for students to get a sense of the importance of art, music and literature towards making their lives beautiful," Kann said.
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Slump leads students to grad school
By MAUDE WILSON
Staff Writer
U.S. graduate schools are experiencing a large increase in applicants, with law schools increase being the largest, according to a new report from the Law School Admission Council.
Albert 0. Brecht, the law library associate dean and professor John Stauffer, have witnessed several recessions during which time he has I see Ttrand, page 111
Jackson stresses tolerance
Nuts and Bolts
HAPA, an organization dedicated to mixed race and multicultural students, sponsored a meeting on interracial dating at the Vanguard Theater at the University Village.
Dating Popular USC official himself in an interracial marriage, preaches love
By Rand Goldie
Staff Writer
Race should not matter when it comes to relationships, said Vice President of Student Affairs Michael Jackson at a forum on interracial relationships Wednesday.
“In my mind, love knows no boundaries and should not be truncated or minimized by race," he said.
The forum, which was held at the Vanguard Theatre in University Village, was Hapa USCs first major on-campus event
Hapa USC is a student organization founded in 1999 to celebrate and support mixed race and multiracial students and communities.
Thomas Zamora and Rana Ram, co-presidents of the club, organized the event in an effort to draw people from outside the club and to “try to inform the community at large and try to develop a sense of community."
The event featured Jackson, professor and playwright Velina Hasu Houston and two couples of mixed heritage.
Jackson, who is married to a half-Japanese woman, began the evening with a discussion of his views on relationships and the need for love as I see Dating, page 111
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Tell ’em. Jackson knows about interracial marriages.