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Bono dry. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and USC have agreed to stop alcohol sales at all home football games starting with this season's home opener against Arkansas on September 17. Margarita sales at the Coliseum ended last year.
Beer banned at Coliseum
Recent rowdy behavior at games cited as reason for ban on alcohol sales.
By LAUREN WOJCIK
Staff Writer
USC President Steven B. Sample announced last week that beer would no longer be sold at home football games, effective this autumn.
‘To make the Coliseum more family-friendly. USC, as the host university, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, as the operator of the Coliseum, have agreed to end
the sale of alcohol inside the Coliseum on USC game days, beginning with the season opener on September 17," wrote Sample in a letter released from his office on May 25.
This measure is intended to reduce the number of alcohol-related disturbances, which the letter stated have beeii on the rise in recent years.
“Longtime attendees at our games have witnessed an escalation in the rude behavior of fans, rudeness that is almost always exacerbated by alcohol consumption," Sample wrote. “I have received dozens of letters from irate Trojans who say they can’t and they won’t take their families to USC games
anymore because drunken fans create a hostile and frightening environment."
In addition to prohibiting the sale of alcohol, the new ban also warns that any fan found to be possessing alcohol in the Coliseum will be removed.
“Any fan who possesses alcohol inside the stadium, who acts in a drunken or disorderly way, or who uses threatening or obscene language will be evicted from the Coliseum and will permanently lose the privilege of buying tickets to our home football games," the letter says.
USC is the last Pacific-10 Conference school to prohibit the sale of alcohol at
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USC is the last Pacific-10 school to ban alcohol sales at sporting events.
Only one Big-10 university sells alcohol at football games.
"My hope is that we will find ways to make journalism education even more relevant to this new era. ”
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By ADRIAN FLORIDO
Contributing Writer
The USC Annenberg School of Journalism and four other leading journalism programs across the country have announced the launch of a $6 million initiative to revitalize journalism education.
Geoffrey Cowan, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, along with the deans of the Columbia School of Journalism. Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism announced the Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education on Mav 2b.
"We are compering schools but are working cooperatively together," said Loren Ghiglione, dean of the Medill School of Journalism. “This isn't a first, but it's certainly unusual. The fact that we're getting together is great."
The initiative aims to address the growing problems faced by the journalism profession and is being funded for the first two years by a $2.4 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and $1.7 million from the Knight Foundation.
The collaborative effort hopes to elevate the standing of the journalism profession by better integrating journalism programs into their respective universities and working more closely with other disciplines and departments.
"We’re trying to develop new techniques and apply them in relevant ways in which people can use them," Cowan said. “My hope is that we will find ways to make journalism education even more relevant to this new era."
The initiative will also fund national investigative reporting projects to be undertaken by students within each university program and the creation of a national task force, headed by the deans of each school, to focus
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World-renowned USC seismologist dies
Legend. Aki wrote "Quantitative Seismology," a seminal work in the field, and also founded the Southern California Earthquake Center.
Keiiti Aki was an author and professor at USC, MIT and the University of Tokyo.
By JAN1NE KAHN
Contributing Writer
Keiiti Aki. founding director of the USC-based Southern California Earthquake Center and recipient of nearly every top medal in the field of seismology, died May 17 on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. He was 75.
Aki. a USC professor and mentor to dozens of Ph.D. students, fell to the street on May 13 and checked into a hospital the next day. Despite surgeons' efforts, he fell into a three-dav coma and died, according to e-mails from
his second wife, geophysicist Valeric Ferrazzini. He was later buried in Le Tampon on La Reunion.
In his 50-year career, Aki pub: lished scores of important seLsmologic papers, and co-authored a book called “Quantitative Seismology," which is now in its second edition and consid ered to be one of the most important works on the subject.
“It is the most referenced citation in all of seismology," said USC profes sor and SCEC director Tom Jordan. “It was a very important book because it brought together many concepts that had been developed over a number of years, but had never been put together in a way students could really access.” Jordan calls Aki's book a “handbook bf the theory of seismology.' a remark
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