Hot wheels. Josh Verseput, a sophomore majoring in business, admires a silver Nissan 350Z at Monday's Recruitment event for the Trojan Racing Club. The Trojan Dance Force performed at the event held in Hahn Plaza.
New club cruises the SC strip
Trojan Racing Club hopes to offer legal racing options for car enthusiasts.
By JONATHAN STROUD
Contributing Writer
The new Trojan Racing Gub, a new car-enthusiast club designed to attract students, staff, faculty and alumni,
kicked off its first recruitment event Monday afternoon by bringing in four souped-up cars, along with performances by the Trojan Dance Force, to Hahn Plaza.
“The club was formed to share a love of cars," said Jeff Nguyen, a graduate student in the school of dentistry and the owner of a featured BMW M3.
President Morris Lifschutz and vice president Joshua Verseput founded the
club to do two things; share with others their love for cars and give USC students a legal alternative to the illegal street racing that has often plagued Los Angeles, Lifschutz said.
“We were in a car club in high school,” Verseput said, “Our lives are basically based around cars.”
Lutswitz agreed.
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Professor, epic fund-raiser dies
Colleagues credit Carl M. Franklin's work for USC's rise in status in last 35 years.
By CORTNEY FIELDING
Contribting Writer
Carl M. Franklin, vice president emeritus and professor of law who spent 51 years at USC and raised more than $150 million for the school, died Sept. 6 following pneumonia. He was 93.
Carl Franklin arrived at USC from the University of Oklahoma in 1953 and served as an educator, administrator and fund-raiser until his death.
“He went to work until the day he died," said Sterling Franklin, Carl Franklin’s son. “It gave so much meaning to his life."
He began as a law professor, teaching throughout the 1950s while also serving as the president of the University Senate and chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics.
In 1960, he was appointed vice president of Financial Affairs, and in 1970 his job description expanded to include vice president of Legal Affairs.
At age 80, President Jim Zumberge appointed him vice president emeritus. Carl Franklin devoted himself full time to fund-raising
activities, raising an average of $4 million a year.
With the help of his wife Carolyn Franklin, who died in 1993, Carl Franklin raised funds for endowments, chairs, scholarship funds, campus beautification, buildings and equipment for the university.
In 1960, Carl Franklin began his fund-raising campaign while looking over the budgets. He did the math and realized the school needed to enlist the donations of alumni and friends to become a prestigious university, said Matthew Spitzer, dean of the law school.
Carl Franklin was willing to take whatever gifts he could get in order to achieve that goal.
“In one day 1 accepted a five-gated horse and a honkey-tonk bar," Carl Franklin wrote in his book, “To Carolyn with Love," an autobiography dedicated to his wife.
Spitzer said Carl Franklin's determination paid off, and Spitzer credits him with making USC what it is today.
“His fund-raising efforts are responsible for the rise in status of USC in the last 35 years," Spitzer said. “Thirty years ago you wouldn’t have recognized the school. So much of what is here now is due in part to Carl and Carolyn."
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Faculty and staff kick off annual goodwill campaign
Month-long event will raise money for neighborhoods surrounding campus.
By CANNY LAM
Contributing Writer
The 10th annual Good Neighbors campaign, a USC fund-raising program that benefits neighborhoods surrounding the University Park and Health Science Campuses, began Oct 1 and runs until the end of the month.
Faculty and staff from the 18 schools and 45 departments of USC will raise money to fund community programs. All of the money goes toward helping nonprofit organizations around the two campuses.
The fund-raising theme for this year is “Come Play With Us."
“Children learn through play and the vast majority of the money will go
to school children," said Doris Gallan, director of Good Neighbors campaign.
Throughout October, participants will mail in checks or cash with their pledge forms. Some employees provide payroll deductions, Gallan said.
Besides the $800,000 fund-raising goal, the campaign committees would like to attract 4,000 participants.
Last year, the campaign raised $650,000 with 3,500 participants, and distributed the funds among 26 different organizations.
This campaign will differ from last year's “See It, Feel It, Be Part of It" because, for the first time, students will be able to participate in the campaign. This year, participants can also use their discretionary funds on USC cards and credit cards to donate small amounts of money such as $5 or $10, Gallan said.
To attract participants, the cam-
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The 10th annual Good Neighbors campaign set its fund-rais-ing goal at $800,000.
Last year, the campaign raised $650,000.
Organizers hope 4,000 volunteers will take part.
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Pumping up. Cecilia Kim, a graduate student studying planning and development, fills up her gas tank at USC’s gas station near the Parking Center Monday.
Students feel the pinch as gas prices climb to historic highs
Price of crude oil is high, but some say it will not affect prices at the pump.
By MICHELLE YOUNG
Contributing Writer
The price of crude oil has been fluctuating around the $50 mark since Monday, the highest in its 21 years of trade on the New York Mercantile exchange.
The price of oil went from roughly $43 a barrel to $50 a barrel, but a change in oil prices takes about one
to two weeks to affect the price of gasoline at the pumps, said Charles Cicchetti, Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business and Economy in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
“The gasoline prices probably will not be affected by (the spike). This was a pretty quick run up; it’ll probably be a quick run down." Cicchetti said. "If it does (affect the gasoline prices), it will be 10 days before it affects the pump."
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A change in oil prices takes about one to two weeks to hit the price of gasoline at the pump.
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