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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
October 21.2004
Vol. am, No. 4i
Virtual relations
Lack of flu shots impacts students
Approximately 450 immunizations have been given out on campus, down from 1,500 last year.
By SARAH McEVILLY
Contributing Writer
The nationwide flu immunization shortage has impacted USC, causing the University Park Health Center to cancel the six to eight campus outreach vaccinations that normally take place every year.
Approximately 450 influenza immunizations have been given out on campus this year, said William Leavitt, a lead physician at the University Park Health Center.
This is down from the approximately 1,500 students who received the vaccine last year, said Lawrence Neinstein, executive director for student health sciences.
Neinstein wrote in an e-mail that he would like to see more students getting the vaccine, but this year the student must fit in one of the criteria stated by Center for Disease Control and Prevention and California Department of Health Services.
On Oct. 8, they ordered local health care providers to assess vaccine supply and coordinate vac-cjnation of persons in high-risk categories.
This means students on campus must fit at least one of the following criteria: over 65, plagued by a chronic disease, pregnant or a health care worker who provides direct patient care, Neinstein wrote.
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Greeks at odds over comments
Remarks by Diversity Encouragement Council adviser angeredfraternities.
By AARON BURGIN and REBEKAH SANDERS
Staff Writers
Diversity representatives from all Interfraternity Council chapters, except Sigma Alpha Epsilon, have stopped attending the Diversity Encouragement Council in response to statements made by DEC adviser
Amanda Ebner in recent Daily Trojan articles about deficiencies in Greek diversity and philanthropies.
The DEC student organization, headed by three IFC members, invites representatives from all Greek chapters to participate in weekly discussions about diversity in the Greek system and the university.
The IFC executive board, which is headed by president Paul Constantine, unanimously withdrew support for the DEC on Oct. 5 through a resolution directing fraternities to stop sending representatives to meetings
and demanding Ebner be removed from her adviser position.
Both Constantine and Ebner declined to comment.
In a story published in the Daily Trojan Oct. 1, Ebner criticized members of fraternities and sororities for behavior at certain philanthropy events, including heavy drinking and “inappropriate forms of competition."
She discussed ways to improve the organizations’ lack of racial diversity and recounted incidents of racial discrimination that have occurred on The Row.
Eight IFC houses who have DEC representatives followed through with the resolution, hurting DEC attendance considerably.
“At the beginning of the year, we had people from all over... at least six or seven fraternities," said DEC Vice President Matt Summers. “Following the resolution, no one else showed up except me, the board and a (member) from SAL."
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M.B.A. program lags in rankings
BusinessWeek magazine ranked the program No. 27 this year, down from No. 17.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Contributing Writer
The master of business administration program at USC's Marshall School of Business has dropped in business school rankings from No. 17 to No. 27, according to BusinessWeek Magazine's ninth biennial report on the 30 top programs in the country,.
The rankings were published in the magazine's Oct. 18 issue.
“The Marshall leadership has taken this into consideration and has begun to formulate our plan for making significant changes to curriculum and career services,” Yash Gupta, dean of the Marshall School of Business, said in a letter to those connected to the program.
There were two main critiques the magazine had with the school, he said.
USC fell seven points in the Graduate student poll.
Recent graduates were dissatisfied with the curriculum and quality of teaching, Gupta wrote.
Recruiters were not happy either, he said.
The school also suffered a 15-point drop in the Corporate Recruiter Poll.
The first thing the administration did after reading the results in the Oct. 18 issue of the magazine was send out letters and phone calls to all 2004 MBA graduates since much of the ranking system relies on responses from those who have already been through the program.
Open communication, such as feedback, conversations and meetings between the administration, students, alumni and faculty is one of the wavs the program will adjust
in order to maintain quality, said Lida Jennings, director of Marshall’s MBA program.
A town-hall-style meeting was set up with first- and second-year business students. This allowed them to voice their opinions, concerns and ideas, Gupta wrote.
Next, the MBA program is looking at the faculty and curriculums. The administration wants to see who is teaching these classes, what classes are in demand by the students, what the current course offerings are and how these variations are helping or hurting the program, Jennings said.
The school is also working to research and analyze the statistical data.
“We are delving into recruiters’ feedback to ascertain why the caliber of our students is not resonating as high as in past years.” Gupta wrote in
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Game grant will benefit students
Money to be given out each semester to student teams that create new game types.
By LAURA SIMURDA
Suff Writer
A new USC Game Innovation Lab Research Grant will give
•	$20,000 each semester to student teams creating media games in the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab in an effort to find anything that breaks new ground in the gaming industry.
“The main thing were trying to get away from is this notion
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Students, experts and programmers browse computer demonstrations during a reception of the Games Summit Wednesday at Davidson Conference Center. The two-day long event is devoted to discussing the present and future of video game research and its role in higher education.
INDEX
How crowded do emergency rooms need to be before people start to care? 4
LACMA s new exhibition hosts countless masterpieces. 7
News Digest......2	Sports---------20
Upcoming_________2	Classifieds —16
Opinions_________4	Lifestyle------7
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