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Did he make it? Part two of Ben Malcolmsons tryout for the Trojan football team. 20
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Rail line to break ground this summer
Metro Exposition line will start in downtown Los Angeles, run by USC and end up in Culver City.
By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD
Staff Writer
After more than a decade of planning, the groundbreaking for the new Exposition Light Rail Line is set for this summer.
The line will run southwest from the Seventh Street metro center in downtown Los Angeles to the corner of South Flower Street and Jefferson Boulevard, then turning west and running along Exposition Boulevard all the way to Culver City.
The ultimate goal of the Expo line is to reach from Los Angeles to Santa Monica. Thus far, only phase one, stretching from
downtown Los Angeles to Culver City, has been approved for construction.
Phase One of construction will include eight and a half miles of track with approximately 10 stations, said Ned Racine, senior community relations officer for the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority.
“I say approximately because we’re not sure if we will build a station at USC," Racine said.
As of a Dec. 15 board meeting with metro officials, there was no plan for a USC station, although there will be station at Flower and Jefferson and one at the comer of Exposition and Vermont Avenue.
There has been some friction between the EMLCA and USC concerning the construction of an underground metro tunnel spanning the distance between the Jefferson
stop and Vermont.
The new light rail will be built primarily "at grade," meaning that it will stay on street level. The only exceptions are two aerial stations at La Brea and La Cienega and a tunnel from Flower and Jefferson to Exposition and USC’s Pardee Way.
“The Los Angeles Department of Traffic decided that the intersection was too busy to put light rail in," Racine said.
USC President Steven B. Sample has said that he would prefer the Expo line to run underground from Flower Street and Jefferson Boulevard to Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, said Samantha Bricker, chief operations officer for the EMLCA.
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USC student film comes up big at College Emmys
‘Love Letter' was directed and produced by a class of 2005 graduate students.
By ALEXIS HAWKINS
Contributing Writer
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded a USC film the first place prize in the children's programming category at the 2006 College Television Awards, informally known as the College Emmys.
The film. "Love Letter." was directed by Trent Jones and produced by Borga Dorter and Samantha Reynolds. All three completed their master's degrees in cinema-television produc tion in May 2005.
“The children s programming category was very competitive ... there is only one winner and there were
over 144 participants from different schools,” Reynolds said
Jones said that they weren't sure if their film fit into the children’s programming or comedy category.
According to the film’s press kit "Love Letter" tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who faces humiliation at the hands of school bullies when he loses a letter written to the girl of his dreams.
Jones, a former professional theater director prior to attending USCs graduate program, loosely based “Love Letter" on William Shakespeare's “As You Like It" His wife. Cynthia Jones, wrote the script.
“It’s like a modern reference to Shakespeare and we use a lot of the same imagery." Jones said. For example. the boy in “Low Ijetter" finds his amorous confession pinned to a tree.
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Technology center role expanded
USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias announced a new plan for the institute early this month.
By THOMAS KELLEY
Contributing Writer
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launched within the Viterbi School of Engineering last year after an initial gift of $22 million by alumnus and investor Marc Stevens and his wile. The institute's expanded role will now make it the university’s central resource for technology development and transfer, according to a memorandum from Provost C.L Max Nikias and Senior Vice President Todd Dickey.
“Research universities in the 21st century will not only be judged by the quality of their research and the quality of their students, but also by how successful they are in transferring technological innovation into the marketplace in order to meet societal needs,” according to the memo.
Krisztina Holly, formerly the executive director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now heading the institute. Holly earned her bachelor's and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT.
'The role I see the Stevens Institute having is identifying diamonds in the rough and helping polish them so that they can be invested in from outside USC," she said.
Holly, who helped found MIT’s Deshpande Center in 2002, assisted MIT faculty and students in transferring scientific research to real-world applications through grants, symposia, mentoring and venture capital. Over four years, the center funded 47 projects, nine of which became startup companies with $40 million in raised capital to date.
“A university is about research and education,” Holly said. "The best wav to be the best is to attract the best. You
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Winners. (Left to right) Borga Dorter. Samantha Reynolds. Cynthia Jones and Trent Jones based their film on Shakespeare's "As You Like It.*
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Image courtesy of Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority
Promenade. The Exposition light rail line will eventually connect downtown Los Angeles to USC, Culver City and Santa Monica. The first phase of the construction, from downtown to Culver City, is expected to be completed by 2010.