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The Fashion District: The last in a series on downtown Los Angeles. 7
Cleanliness (in college) not quite next to godliness. 6
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WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy High
77. low 51
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Sprinkler system floods Troy Hall
The fire sprinklers in Troy Hall went off early Sunday morning, flooding four rooms on the first floor and evacuating residents for nearly one hour.
Three fire trucks from the Los Angeles Fire Department responded around 2 a.m., where they discovered that there was no fire, but a broken sprinkler head, said Daren Kesterson, an engineer at LAFD.
Kesterson said the sprinkler head was in the hallway outside Room 136.
He said firefighters “stopped the water right away," and it stayed mostly in the hallway, only leaking about a foot of water into rooms 134 through 137.
There was “no real damage to (students’) rooms,” Kesterson said.
While the exact cause of the broken sprinkler is unknown, sprinkler heads "usually don’t break on accident” or on their own, he said.
Kesterson said the fire department is not investigating into the cause, and any investigation would be up to the university.
Department of Public Safety officials were unavailable for comment.
—Laura Davis, contributing writer
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Chase Tajima and Aresh Irajpanah say they will bring a mix of experience and outside perspective to Student Senate.
By JOANNA UN
Staff Writer
Playing off their leadership experiences in both Student Senate and the Greek community, Chase Tajima and Aresh Irajpanah say they can make USC a better place for students.
“The goals we had individually and together — it made sense for us to run together.
We re the best combination," said Irajpanah, currently the president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Tajima, the Senate vice president who is in the commuter constituency, said it is "difficult to reach 16,000 undergraduates from different majors, constituencies and backgrounds" But with his and Irajpanah's leadership experiences, he said they would be able to reach out to the student body.
“Innately, Senate is important to every student Whether or not you participate. I will see that
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Look for a complete guide to the Student Senate election next Monday in the Feb. 13 edition of the Daily Trojan
February 6,2006
USC hosts first CIA conference
Professors, officials and experts discussed issues of the intelligence community.
By CARLEY DRY0EN
Staff Writer
USC and the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence hosted the first of a series of regional conferences on intelligence studies at the Davidson Conference Center on Thursday and Friday.
The conference brought together USC professors, high-ranking govern-
ment officials and veteran intelligence officers from Washington, D.C., to discuss the issues confronting the U.S. intelligence community.
The goal of the conference was to give students an opportunity to discuss domestic issues with people who are knowledgeable in the field, said Donald Steury, CIA senior historian and a co-creator of the conference.
Steury, a former CIA officer-in-residence at USC, taught a course on intelligence at USC, conducted research and served as a resource for students inside and outside of the I see CIA, page 10 I
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Q and A. Panelists (right, back to front) Kevin O'Connell, Giles Scott-Smith and Nicholas Cull answer questions at last week’s CIA conference at USC.
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Ashcraft defense pleased by autopsy
The defense team is “extremely pleased” with the results of the recently released autopsy report in the Holly Ashcraft murder case, defense attorney Paul J. Wallin said Wednesday
Ashcraft, a third-year USC student, is charged with murder and child abuse in connection with a dead infant found in a dumpster behind the 29th Street Cafe in October.
Wallin’s statements came after deputy district attorney Efrain Aceves said that the report was "pretty much what we expected."
Aceves also said, "If we (the prosecution) cannot establish that the babv was born alive, then we do not have a case ... We are not dropping the charges," implying that the results of the autopsy report were enough to warrant continuing the case.
— Josh Sharp, staff writer
Track record. Chase Ta)ima (left) is the current Senate vice president Aresh Irajpanah s the current president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity He has no affiliation with any Senate branch
Vol. CXLVIII, No. 18
Freshman service interest up
A study by UCLA shows that 66.3 percent of freshmen think service is important. By THOMAS KELLEY
Contributing Writer
Challenging popular notions that today's youth are self-absorbed and out of touch, an annual study by UCLA reports that more college freshmen are committed today to social and civic responsibility than in 25 years.
'The American Freshmen" found that 66.3 percent of entering freshmen
in fall 2005 believe it is essential or very important to help others who are in difficulty, a 3.9 percent bump over last year. Researchers said the increase in
social awareness among entering freshmen might be related to the recent disasters of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
'The Indian Ocean tsunami occurred during their high school senior year, and Hurricane Katrina hit the southern Gulf Region in August, as many students began college,” wrote John Pryor, Dartmouth professor and co-author of the study, in a statement attached to the report’s findings. This widespread
rise in student attitudes reflecting social concerns and civic responsibility could be a reaction to the worst global and national disasters witnessed in their lifetime.”
The findings are based on the responses of 263,710 students at 385 colleges and universities around the country. The annual study started in 1966 and is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Project, conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA.
An all-time high of 83.2 percent of freshmen said they at least occasionally I see Fteahman page 3 I