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Questions linger with dismissal
Controversy: Director of successful program in Marshall School of Business supposedly fired; students wonder why
By JULIE KUO
Contributing Writer
USC’s Marshall School of Business dismissed its director of the Leadership Program in Distribution Management for possible political issues, sources said.
Natasha Krywcun vacated the position Oct 14 without receiving a two-week notice.
“The communication to disband (the program) was communicated on the same day to me and Natasha," said Gary L. Frazier, professor of marketing, who was also the program’s executive director.
A committee of senior faculty in the program decided the program would be better managed as a regular concentration within Marshall,
said David Stewart, Marshall’s deputy dean.
Krywcun, who received her Master of Business Administration degree from USC, worked for the business school for nearly 15 years, a source “very close” to her, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
As director, Krywcun’s job was to help students in the program find internships that provided more experience than they would receive had they not been in the program.
She also developed relationships with companies, fund raised, assisted in strategic planning, planned student activities such as golf tournaments with sponsors, raised scholarship funds and planned field trips.
Krywcun developed “long-term partnerships" between companies
and students, the source said.
Several sources said Krywcun had numerous contacts with businesses on the West Coast, where the leadership program was the only one of its kind.
“The program no longer exists; therefore the position no longer exists,” the source said. “There’s really no program now” because the program’s main parts — career placement and internships — were gone.
Krywcun’s layoff was an internal personnel matter and was not appropriate for comment by anyone, Stewart and Frazier said.
Frazier emphasized that Krywcun was laid off, not fired. A person who was fired usually would not be rehired, whereas someone who was laid off might be rehired at another time because layoffs generally occurred for financial reasons.
Michael Williams, an alumnus of the program who graduated with
honors'in May 2001, said the program’s termination was an excuse to release Krywcun.
“They could not prove that (the program) needed a new director because Natasha was successful, and the only way to get rid of Natasha was to get rid of the program,” he said.
The program helped students with their career and internship options apart from the office of career placement
Krywcun was not fired because of insubordination, the anonymous source close to her said.
Students in the program said Krywcun was not allowed to say goodbye to them, and this was confirmed by the source close to her.
Krywcun was not bitter, the source said, and students still kept contact with her.
Donors paid for the "industry-driven program, which bridged the I see Dismissal, page 14 I
Protest fest.
Stacey Castaldo, a sophomore majoring in international relations, and Derek Poulton, a junior majoring in international relations and East Asian language and culture, protest on the streets of San
Francisco following a week of events on campus put on by the student organization Peace and Conflict Scholars. For full coverage, see page 7.
Boisterous by the bay
Antiwar history of USC still evident
Activism: Demonstrations today limited to debates, other peaceful approaches
By ALISON SHACKELFORD
Contributing Writer
A look at the current political climate as well as USC students’ reactions to the first U.S. war against Iraq may explain why the possibility of a second war against Iraq has produced relatively little protest at USC.
From Iraq’s August 1990 invasion of Kuwait to America’s January 1991 invasion of Iraq, there was little discussion and even less action at USC regarding Saddam Hussein, Daily Trojan archives showed. But once the
Persian Gulf War began, coverage of the Middle East sprang from the opinion pages to the news pages.
USC antiwar protests were countered with USC rallies supporting U.S. troops. Students were up in arms. They used graffiti and vandalism to express their views.
A Jan. 18,1991, article noted that the wave of campus activism was out of character for USC and reflected the “flower child” USC had not seen since the 1960s rather than the more traditional "spoiled child” of USC.
Two weeks after the war began, a Feb. 6,1991, news article revealed that visible student expressions about the war were already dwindling.
Today, student sentiment against a war with Iraq runs high even
though war was still only a possibility, said Heather McLean, a senior majoring in international relations and the president of the campus group Peace and Conflict Scholars.
“Besides a few random people who have come to our table on Trousdale who have been emphatically pro-war, I would say 99 percent of students are against war or at least the way the U.S. is going about it,” she said.
She cited e-mails from students, meetings with groups from other campuses and an enthusiastic response to peace pledges the group passed out for people to sign as evidence of student opinion against a war with Iraq.
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SIDEBAR
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Event: Many organizations gather in McCarthy Quad to speak out against war
By VINEET BHARGAVA
Contributing Writer
“You must be the change you wish to be in this world.” — Gandhi This quote on one of the banners at McCarthy Quad on Friday summed up the event that took place there.
About a hundred students gathered in the quad to give their part to I see Event, page 15 I
Traveler trainer to retire after this season
Tradition: Saukko ready to pass on job after working with horses for last 12 years
By SARA RODRIGUEZ
Contributing Writer
She.goes to the games and cheers with all her might Her heart beats cardinal-and-gold blood to her veins. She said she thinks the Rose Bowl is USC’s bowl, and she wants it back.
But she is not a student, and she is not an alumna. She is Patricia Saukko, the woman who has been behind the Traveler horses for the last 12 years and who planned to retire after this season.
Saukko began raising and caring for the Traveler horses when her husband, Richard Saukko, the original Traveler rider and owner, died in 1992.
“I married him, and I did what he did,” Patricia Saukko said. “And when he died, my son and I carried on the tradition.”
But now that the Traveler tradition has been secured, she was ready to pass on the job, she said.
“Richard left me with two horses when he died, and they were very good horses," Saukko said. “I wanted to make sure there was a fine organization and that everything was in place, not only with the horses, but even within me. That’s what made me stick with it. I think that’s why we are at the place we are now.”
The tradition of Traveler began in 1961 when Richard Saukko was spotted at the Rose Bowl parade with his horse and was invited to ride Traveler during the USC home football games.
Since the start of her work, Patricia Saukko and her son, Chuck O’Donnell, have trained and cared for Traveler I through Traveler V, plus stand-in horses, bringing the total to about 13.
“We start with a show horse,” she said. “We teach him style and make sure that he responds to the rider’s legs and commands until he has a nice form. Then we take him to the Coliseum, where there are a lot of people in a small spot The appearances help him get used to people, different people, old and young.”
Preparing the horses for the Coliseum’s environment was the most difficult part of the job, she said.
“There’s a famous jockey, Chris McCarron, and he came to the first game this season,” she said. “We had just gone through the fly-over, and the team was behind us in the tunnel, and it just looked like there was no order at all — and here comes Traveler, and he was just amazed that they would bring a horse in there.”
The Coliseum was not a natural place for a horse, she added.
“Prolonging the thrill of the touchdown, that's his job, and coming out to 'Conquest' — but it's I see Saukko. page 14 I