DM TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
MONDAY
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March 4, 2002
Of interest...
Demson Farmer breaks the game open as USC coasts to win, 79-45, against Oregon State / 20
News Digest	2	Opinions	4
Lifestyle	7 |	The Buzz	7
Roundup	13	Classifieds	16
Crossword	17	Sports	20
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Internships
available,
students
searching
Economy: Although career officials say there are many opportunities, many students think the opposite
By SEUNG HONG
Contributing Writer
Despite the weak economy and the decrease in job opportunities, internships are available, but students said finding internships this year is harder than in past years.
“Contrary to the job market slowing, the market for internships is growing,” Eiieen Kohan, executive director of the Career Planning and Placement Center and associate dean of student affairs, said in an e-mail.
This makes sense if students think of organizations that are downsizing, Kohan said. Such organizations still have projects, products and clients.
“In other words, the work has not gone away, but the workers have,” she said.
There’s a slight drop in paid internships, but overall, the numbers are about the same, said Tim Burgess, director of career development at the Annenberg School for Communication.
There’s still a lot of internships out there, he added. While career advisers are optimistic, some students remain hesitant about landing internships.
It is difficult to find internships, especially for large companies, said ' Edwin Ng, a junior majoring in business administration.
“The job I’m applying right now is an internship. We can definitely feel I see Internships, page 14 I
Once and Again
Administrators bow to
precedent rather than using creative solutions to improve campus and student life/4
R3 process begins final stage
Housing: Stories from upperclassmen make freshman lottery participants nervous about switching buildings
By ART PRIROMPRINTR
Residential Life Writer
Housing Administration will accomodate less than half of the 2,150 applicants to Phase 4 during this year’s Returning Resident Renewal process. Officials expect to offer 850 spots to the group, which begins selections Tuesday morning.
Phase 4 selections will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the lobby of Marks Tower, with residents holding lottery numbers of 1000 to 1065 hav-, ing the earliest appointment times. Specific appointment times for each
lottery number have been posted at Customer Service Centers throughout the housing system.
Alongside the appointment times, Housing has also posted the number of remaining spaces available in each building by room type.
The Cardinal Gardens Apartments complex, one of the more popular housing options, has five remaining two-bedroom, four-person apartments and no remaining one-bedroom, two-person apartments.
In Troy Hall, 138 spaces remain, 100 of which are one-bedroom,
three-person spaces and five of which are two-bedroom, four-person spaces. Troy East has 93 remaining spaces — four are two-bedroom, four-person apartments.
These numbers were posted Friday afternoon. Additional availability is posted at all Customer Service Centers.
It is impossible to predict how quickly the spaces will be taken once the selection process begins, Housing officials said.
If those with low lottery numbers show up with large roommate groups, spaces will disappear much faster than they would if applicants show up by themselves or in smaller groups, said Paula Salinas, Housing Administration’s assistant director of
contracts and marketing.
Not all of 2,150 applicants will actually show up to select housing, Salinas said.
A portion of Phase 4 applicants normally decide to find housing elsewhere, having applied to R3 as a backup plan in case other arrangements fall through.
Historically, Housing runs out of spaces about noon on the second day of selections. Any applicants who do not receive housing at the end of the process may enter their names on a waiting list
Spaces often become available later in the semester when students drop their contracts for various reasons. Last year, all applicants on the I see Housing, page 14 I
Curious
students
encounter
Sophia
Event: Mortar Board event draws crowd with fencing, spinning and speeches
By JEN MUCCIA
Contributing Writer
Students should strive to leam a little about everything and a lot about a few things, Judith Wong, president of USC’s Mortar Board said.
Students were given the opportunity to learn a little about a lot of things at USC’s first Renaissance Fair held Friday in McCarthy Quad. The event, called Philosophia, means “the love of knowledge” in Greek.
Established by USC’s Mortar I see Sophia, page 15 I
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Your Heiness. Namrata Dwived (left), a junior majoring in political science, and Mouy Tang, a senior majoring in economics, make crowns at Philosophia on Friday.
‘Axis of evil’ label draws criticism abroad
Politics: International students call Bush’s speech a foreign policy mistake
By MELANIE ZAHAR0P0UL0S
Contributing Writer
A month has passed since President George W. Bush declared Iran, Iraq and North Korea an “axis of evil" in his State of the Union address, and while an international political and intellectual debate rages, few have heard the voices of individuals from these three countries.
The majority of Iranian students interviewed at USC felt that media have significantly contributed to hostile sentiments, and feared that action against Iran or Iraq could
cause complete destabilization in the Mideast region. Bush listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism in his address after the country assisted the United States in Afghanistan, although more than 20 years have passed since the severance of diplomatic ties between the two nations.
“Iran sealed its borders, promised to help any U.S. plane or pilot that may land in Iran and allowed all the humanitarian supplies to be delivered through its border,” said ReZa Rejaie, who founded the Iranian Graduate Student Association inl995 and received her Master’s and Ph.D. at USC. “What do they get in return? Being part of an axis of evil.”
Some compared the axis state-r ment to the Ayatollah's “great Satan”
statements, saying that both were simply emotional appeals. However, the phrase was adopted almost immediately in the press. During his narration of the opening ceremonies at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Bob Costas referred to Bush as stone-faced when five skiers from Iran entered in the parade of nations and identified Iran as an “axis of evil” nation.
“I really felt sorry for this country (the United States),” said Shahin Jahromi, a computer engineering graduate student “It’s just another proof that free media only exists in dreams. In my own country it certainly doesn’t” /
Students feared that Bush’s statement poses a crippling threat to the fledgling democratic move-
I	see Bush, page 14 I
7 really feel sorry for this country (the United States). It 's just another proof that free media only exists in dreams. In my own country it certainly doesn’t~
SHAHIN
JAHROMI
student
Community outreach director forges new school relationships
Education: Katharine Diaz brings bilingual newspaper, arts enrichment programs to USC’s Family of Five Plus Two
By SHERRY ANNE RUBIAN0
Contributing Writer
USC’s new director of community outreach does everything from helping build programs for community schools to hosting a radio show.
Katharine Diaz is looking into providing more arts enrichment programs for the "Family of Five Schools Plus Two,” which includes music instruction and theater arts in the schools. Sharon Stewart, director of community outreach since November, shares some of Diaz’s goals.
I see Diaz, page 15 I