USC discusses Bush speech
Students met at Parkside Suites to watch Bush deliver his State of the Union speech.
By LELAND ORNELAZ
Staff Writer
Students applauded and booed President Bush’s State of the Union address, displaying reactions as mixed as the politicians listening to Bush in the House chambers.
As Bush outlined his plan to. lead the country into 2006, students packed into the Parkside International Residential College third-floor lounge to hear the President’s agenda.
Those students who agreed with Bush’s vision on national security, social security and abortion clapped and nodded in approval, while Bush
critics shook their heads and sighed. One student jokingly took his pizza crust and gestured a throwing motion at the television set to voice his disapproval with the president.
A discussion on Bush's speech among the students followed the address.
Lee Sherman, president of the Political Student Assembly, moderated the discussion by bringing up some of Bush’s main points, such as energy policy, education and national defense.
The goal is to help students relate political to their own lives as well as help translate some of the political jargon that some people might find hard to follow, Sherman said.
He began the discussion by asking the students forget all their political
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Point of view. Students watch President Bush deliver his annual State of the Union speech Tuesday on ABC. The event was sponsored by the Political Student Assembly, the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics and Program Board.
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Senate campaigning begins today
The Elections Commission has already issued two infractions to candidates.
By IOANNA UN
Staff Writer
Campaigning for Student Senate elections began today, but one constituency is short senatorial candidates, and three complaints of Election Code violations have already been filed.
The commuter constituency,
which holds five seats in Senate, has only received two candidate applications. The original deadline to apply for candidacy, Jan. 24, has been extended to Friday for commuter senators.
The residential constituency has 10 candidates vying for five senator positions, and there are four candidates running for two spots as Greek senators.
Six tickets are running for president and vice president — one candidate pair more than in last year’s election.
The Elections Commission met yesterday for three hearings and has issued two infractions — one against presidential ifnd vice presidential ticket Gary I.ee and Andrea Schwartz and one against Greek senatorial candidate Debbie Liu.
The Elections Commission unanimously issued the Lee/Schwartz ticket an infraction for premature campaigning. The complaint was filed by Christopher Whittaker, a campaign volunteer for another unknown presidential and vice pres-I see Elections, page 13 I
Quick
Facts
Six tickets are running for president and vice president.
No complaints were filed last year before campaigning began.
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Classes offered for off-campus students online
Viterbi's Distance Education Network is a model for future technology plans at USC.
By ADRIAN FLORIDO
Staff Wnter
C.L. Max Nikias, USC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, outlined in a memo to USC deans, faculty and staff on Jan. 17 plans to offer classes to students in off-campus locations who would otherwise be unable to attend USC.
As technology-enhanced learning becumes more prevalent in colleges and universities across the country, Nikias wrote that he hopes that USC will embrace already existing models for providing students with alternative and supplemental learning methods, as well as develop more innovative techniques for bringing the benefits of technology to the classrwm. he wrote in a memft to USC faculty and staff.
Nikias cited the successful implementation of similar programs such as die one at USCs Viterbi School of Engineering.
Nikias stressed in the memo that in the future, all academic departments at USC will offer some form of technologically enhanced curricula
The use of technology at USC to supplement student learning has steadily grown over the years as programs.
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Rossier opens new
master’s program for sports industiy
The athletic administration elective is
Distant learning USC students who cannot attend classes on campus can watch lectures online and participate through webcams.
part of a two-year master's program.
By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD
Stair Writer
The Rossier School of Education is expanding options for students in one of its seven masters programs.
In fall of 2006, students in the Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs Network will have the option of participating in a new elective cluster called athletic administration.
The new athletic administration elective cluster will provide students with the opportunity to study the sports industry as it pertains to college.
The PASA program is a 41-unit, two-year masters program designed to prepare students to work m a variety of higher learning institutions.
The program consists of a set of core classes, followed up by an elective cluster geared toward a specific interest. The other two elective clusters of the PASA program are student affairs and counseling and advising.
“Our focus is: What is the goal for an academic institution with student athletes?" said Alexander Jun. associate professor of clinical education and director
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