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.dailytrojan.com	February	7,	2006	Vol.	CXLV1II,	No.	19
THIRD OF SIX PROFILES OF STUDENT SENATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
LEADING
WITH RESPECT
Gary Lee and Andrea Schwartz say they have the leadership skills and connections to take Senate forward.
By JOANNA LIN
Staff Writer
In 45 minutes sitting at Commons with Gary Lee, no fewer than a dozen students stopped to say hello to the presidential candidate.
"Students need to see someone they recognize, someone they’ve worked with and that they feel comfortable talking to,”
Lee said.
With his involvement with various student organizations on campus and running mate Andrea Schwartz’s experience in the Greek community, "we can lead such a wide variety of students," Lee said.
It is in leading students that sets their ticket apart from others, both I,ee and Schwartz said.
“It's easy to manage an organization, but it's hard to acquire the leadership to effectively lead an organization." Schwartz said. “I think we have the skills to lead."
Lee said he and Schwartz, the vice president of
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Look for a complete guide to the Student Senate election Monday in the Feb. 13 issue of the Daily Trojan.
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Familiarity. Gary Lee has held many leadership positions on campus Andrea Schwartz is the vice president of membership for Delta Delta Delta.
WEATHER
Today: Mostly sunny. High 81, low 51. Tomorrow: Sunny. High 79, low 55.
House approves bill to cut loans by $11.9 billion
The cut could force some private lenders to stop offering loans to college students.
By CATHERINE LYONS
Staff Writer
The House of Representatives narrowly passed a part ol President Bushs Deficit Reduction Act on Feb. 1 that will cut $12 billion from federal student loan programs.
The cut is onlv one third of the president s $39-billion deficit reduction plan, which slashes money from domestic programs and puts it toward greater defense spending.
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INDEX
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Swing. The Grammy Jazz Ensemble, all high-school musicians, perform in Bovard Auditorium Monday as part of the Grammy Foundation’s Grammy career day. The event was held on 13 college campuses across the country.
Grammy event unites kids, stars
The Grammy Foundation hosted a music industry career day on campus.
By DANIELLE SCHUMAKER
Contributing Writer
The Recording Academy, which will host the Grammy Awards Wednesday, and several partner companies brought top music industry professionals to USC Monday to leach Los Angeles high
school students about the music business.
The annual Grammy Career Day encourages high school students to pursue careers in the music business by providing an opportunity for personal interaction with industry professionals in an educational environment.
"These activities are occurring at 13 universities all over the country this spring," said Kristen Madsen, the Grammy Foundation’s senior vice president. The USC Thornton School of
Music hosted the Los Angeles chapter for more than 1,300 public high school students.
“We offer insight on exactly what is involved in the industry. We represent singers and songwriters, but also producers. engineers and a whole bunch of career tracks that people can take." said Jimmy Jam, vice chairman of the Grammy Foundation.
Each of the three panels students opted to attend consisted of five profes-I see Grammy page 11
Business Dean Gupta resigns
Yash Gupta will continue to he a faculty member in the Marshall School of Business.
By COURTNEY WILLIS
Staff Writer
Provost C.L. Max Nikias named Thomas W. Gilligan the interim dean for the Marshall School of Business Friday after Yash Gupta, former dean of Marshall School of Business, resigned Thursday, effective immediately.
Students, faculty members and staff were notified of Gupta's resignation and Gilligan's appointment through a memorandum sent out by Nikias in an e-mail.
“Dr. Gupta has informed me that his career path has brought him to the conclusion that he should resign from his current position,’’ Nikias wrote in the memo.
Carl Marziali, media representative of the USC Media Relations, said the school is not commenting on why Gupta stepped down.
Gupta will continue to teach as a tenure faculty member, where his new position is professor of information and operations management in the Information and Operations Management Department at Marshall.
The Marshall School of Business referred all calls to the University Relations Office.
When asked why Gupta stepped down, Gilligan said he only knew what was presented in the memo — that his “professional past has caused him to go somewhere else and resign from the position.”
It is not often when deans resign effective immediately, Gilligan said, but it is not unheard of.
Gilligan speculated that Nikias picked him because he wanted to highlight the importance of continuity and because he was also part of Gupta’s leadership team for
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1987, when he left the California Institute of Technology and came to USC as an assistant dean.
Beginning in 2000, he served as the chair of the department of finance and business economics for three years. Since summer 2005, he was the vice dean for undergraduate and doctoral education at Marshall.
“Someone will have to assume the responsibilities of my old position,” Gilligan said.
But he thinks the change of leader-I see Gupta, page 11 I