Vol. CXL VII. No. 8
Hillers sukkah tent damaged
This is the second year in a row that the sukkah has been damaged by vandals.
By JOANNA WU
Staff Writer
A Jewish sukkah on University Avenue that belongs to the USC Hillel Foundation was vandalized for the second time in two years while staff members were gone for the Sukkot holiday Tuesday, said Rabbi Jonathan Klein, the Ruth Ziegler Rabbinic direc tor of Hillel.
A sukkah is a tent or temporary dwelling place that is built in remembrance of the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt It is part of the Sukkoth celebration, the Jewish Feast of Booths or Tabernacles that runs from Oct. 17
to 24.
The sukkah was apparently vandalized Tuesday evening sometime between 6 and 6:30 p.m. with red spray paint, Klein said.
The sukkah was then destroyed and torn down Wednesday night, he said. Klein estimated the cost of the damage at about $400.
The Department of Public Safety is currently investigating the incident as a crime of vandalism, not a hate crime, said Capt. Gloria Graham, DPS captain of operations.
“Every time we have an incident like this around a church or similar area, there is always a question of whether it was a hate crime," Ufahani said. 'There was nothing about this incident to show that it was.”
Klein also said that they do not
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Damaged. A Jewish sukkah, a temporary dwelling that is built to remember the exodus from Egypt, was damaged and vandalized with red spray paint. DPS and members of Hillel said that they do not think it was a hate crime.
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Medical school deans talk about future of the field
Dr. Gerald Levey and Dr. Brian Henderson spoke about the good of medical service.
By ALLISON DUNN
Staff Writer
The deans of both major Los Angeles medical centers spoke about their visions for the future of health care Thursday evening at a symposium titled “Medicine in 2015: A Dean’s Perspective.”
Dr. Gerald S. Levey from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Dr. Brian E. Henderson from the USC Keck School of Medicine spoke to a full audience in Taper Hall, room 101.
"This was the most successful program we’ve had so far. I think we drew the largest crowd because these speakers are the most high profile people we have had thus far," said Joshua Hornstein, program director of the "Becoming a Physician” lecture series.
The event was the sixth of its kind in the ’’Becoming a Physician" lecture series.
“These men have the most capacity to change and gear their schools towards the major medical changes that will be happening in the near future," Hornstein said.
The lecture series began last winter in an effort to help undergraduate students understand more about existing and emerging issues in medical ethics.
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Shoah hosts
Holocaust history at l/SC
President Sample and Steven Spielberg unveiled the foundation to a packed house.
By MEILEE WONG
Staff Writer
The testimonies of 52,000 survivors, rescuers and others involved in the Holocaust will now be housed in the USC School of Letters. Arts & Sciences as a part of the newly formed USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
President Steven B. Sample joined producer and director Steven Spielberg to unveil the foundation to a packed house at Bovard Auditorium Thursday morning. Spielberg, a member of USC’s board of trustees. served as the Shoah Visual History Foundation's founding chairman. Doug Greenberg will oversee the foundation’s "reincarnation" as a new institute at USC, Spielberg said.
"USC is very proud to join the Shoah Foundation in the common cause against prejudice and intolerance around the world." Sample said.
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Representing. Producer and director Steven Spielberg unveils the newly formed USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Fast-a-thon attracts all religious beliefs
Quick
Fact
During the Fast a-thon about 464 people pledged to avoid from food, drink, bad behavior and rursing from sunnse to sunset.
The Fast-a-thon raised about $2,S(X)for the homeless, about $400 more than last year.
By JOANNA WU and TONY CHIORAZZI
Staff Writer*
The Muslim Student Union raised about S2J00 for the homeless in the second annual Ramadan Fatf-a-Thon. About 464 people made a pledge to fast from food and drink, bad behavior, cursing, losing one's temper and having intimate relations from sunnse to sundown.
The Muslim Student Union, with the Office of Religious Life and the Interfaith Council, and sponsored by the Student Senate Discretionary Board, hosted an breaking-of-the-fast Thursday evening at the Omar Khattab Mosque on Exposition Boulevard. Students and guests had Persian food, learned more about Ramadan and Islam and heard from a speaker from the Coalition to Preserve Human Dignity, the participat ing charity.
During the month of Ramadan. Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown. commemorating the prophet Muhammad’s receiving of the Koran
from Allah.
“Poverty is not going away unless someone does something about it," said Ahmed Darwish. the organizer of the Fast-a-thon, and a senior majoring in industrial and systems engineering.
There is always a problem of hunger and homelessness in our immediate community which |>eople often overlook because it's in our backyard. Darwish said.
It’s really important for the Muslim Student Union to step up and show that Islam is about caring for the less for-I see FMt page S I
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