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November 12, 2004
Vol. CUII, No. 57
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Charities offer free entrance to game
The California Highway Patrol and Troy Camp use game to get donations of money and gifts for projects.
By MICHELLE YOUNG
Contributing Writer
Both the California Highway Patrol and USC Troy Camp will be offering free admission to Saturday's homecoming football game against Arizona State to people who offer time and gifts for charity.
California Highway Patrol will be giving away 200 tickets in exchange for a new. unwrapped toy for the Chips for Kids Toy Drive, and USC Troy Camp will be offering free
admission to volunteers who will help collect money for its 18th annual Pass the Can fund-raiser.
Every year since 1989, CHP holds a Chips for Kids Toy Drive from the end of November through December, said Alex Delgadillo, CHP public affairs officer.
The CHP Central Los Angeles office has partnered up with USC to hold a toy drive at a USC football game since 1998.
In previous years, the USC Athletic Department has donated 200 to 500 tickets to CHP for the toy drive, but because of the Trojans' popularity this year, CHP only received 200 tickets to offer in exchange for toys, Delgadillo said.
The toy drive at the game is only one part of the larger Chips for Kids Toy Drive that will run from Nov. 26
to Dec. 21. Since the USC vs. Notre Dame game on Nov. 27 sold out too quickly. CHP was given tickets for the homecoming game for the toy drive.
"We used to come out and promote safety to the students and so forth because a lot of people go to football games and drink a lot. and then they drive home,” Delgadillo said.
“Once we established (the designated driver) program, we thought it was a good opportunity to also try and do our toy drive," he added.
CHP will have a booth set up by the Olympic statues at the Coliseum tomorrow for the toy drive. A booth will also be set up during the Notre Dame game, but cards of Anthony Davis. Hall of Fame inductee and I see Homecoming sage 11
California Highway Patrol will be giving away 200 tickets to Saturday's game against Arizona State in exchange for a new. unwrapped toy for Chips for Kids Toy Dnve.
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Students and faculty gathered in Hahn plaza Wednesday to watch the Homecoming Parade, which featured the USC trojan marching band and floats designed by various student organizations, residential buildings and Greek groups. Homecoming festivities continued Thursday with a pep rally and announcement of Mr. and Ms. USC.
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Donation will fund a new institute within the Viterbi School of Engineering.
By ZACH FOX
Staff Writer
The Viterbi School of Engineering announced Thursday the acceptance of a $22 million donation that will found the Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization.
The engineering school hosted an event in the engineering quad that featured speeches by President Steven B. Sample, Viterbi School Dean C.L. Max Nikias and Mark Stevens, who donated the money with his wife Mary. The marching band performed for the event.
The establishment of the institute, known as SITeC, aims to offer the element of commercialization in the engineering curriculum. SITeC hopes to bridge the gap between academic research and the marketing or promotion of the ideas, Nikias said.
“We hope this is a tremendous resource, not just for School of Engineering but for the entire university," Stevens said.
The institute has the chance to improve the quality of countless people because more research will have the opportunity to develop into products, Sample said.
Site will not require a new building and it will not add a major, but a minor might be added at some point, Stevens said.
The institute also expands on USC’s movement towards more interdisciplinary education, contributing to Sample's push for students to add “breadth and depth.” It will draw resources from the Marshall School of Business and the law school, Nikias said.
Some of the main goals of the program will include reviewing and evaluating marketing options, finding the viability of markets and evaluating the competition, Sample said.
SITeC will house an infrastructure that will set up relationships with companies in addition to the courses offered. The institute will also sponsor seminars teaching faculty how to market their research, he said.
“At the end of the day, it’s all about networking,” Nikias said.
The institute aims to turn more of the research professors do into useful products that will benefit society and to provide students with a unique education, Nikias said.
The program will help faculty market their research by designing business plans and helping find a patent. Sample said.
Nikias said he thinks SITeC will help the Viterbi School improve its reputation and possibly even better its No. 6 ranking in the U.S. News & World Report
“The Stevens Institute will help us recruit more students from around the country and the world and give them an
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