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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE The Daily Trojan catches up with the electro band Hyper Crush. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 38 | www.dailytrojan.com wednESday, march 12, 2008 forging west Two USC bands, Danger Bees and Charts and Maps, head out on a West Coast tour. 7 Tandem of troy Senior co-captains Jimmy Killian and Juan Figueroa have led the men’s volley-ball team to national recognition. 16 Cool Running Albert Nguyen, a senior majoring in health and humanity, grabs some air at the K-Swiss free running collegiate tour Tuesday afternoon. K-Swiss is using the tour to promote the sport of free Jonathan Wong | Daily Trojan running and to advertise its Ariake line of shoes designed specifically for free running. Benefits of special interest floors debated By TAREN FUJIMOTO Daily Trojan Special interest floors offered through TrojanHousing reflect the desire of some students to live in fa-miliar communities, students and ex-perts said, but they also cause some students to question whether they are a restriction or a springboard for integration into the larger USC Tro-jan Family. Journalism and communication professor Félix Gutiérrez said he thinks special interest floors will con-tinue to be useful as long as there are students who want to live on these floors. “I don’t see how it’s retarding,” he said. “I think it gives students a place where they can feel at home in an en-vironment that reinforces their back-ground and where they want to go in their academic careers.” Gutiérrez said it’s impossible to graduate from USC without interact-ing with people of races and cultures different than one’s own. “You didn’t come here to lose who you are,” Gutiérrez said. “You come here to build on who you are.” Gutiérrez was involved in launch-ing ethnic-themed houses at Stanford University when he was an assistant dean of students in the 1969-70 school year, and is aware of the important role such residence units play. “The kids were very lonely and spread out throughout campus,” he said. “There were no Latino activities for them.” As campuses like USC seek to at-tract a racially diverse student body, white students are involved in organi-zations that reflect their culture, but minority students are not, he said. According to the El Centro Chi-cano website, “the floors” as they are referred to, are open to “all students who have an interest in the Latino culture and those who want to expe-rience their first year at USC in a sup-portive and close-knit multicultural community.” The Latino floors, floors six and seven in Fluor Tower, house 64 fresh-man residents — 32 per floor — and two residential advisors per floor, ac-cording to the website. There is also a Latino Floor Alumni Fund, established in March 2003, to provide additional resources for current residents and staff’s pro-gramming needs. Interested indi-viduals and parties are able to make a tax-deductible donation, and 100 per-cent of funds go directly to support-ing student-initiated programs and Faculty and students say the floors give students a home away from home. | see special interest, page 11 | Opinion | New hunting classes reminiscent of the past, writes columnist Laura Reeve. PAGE 4 Housing co-op allows tenants to make a profit By KYLA SEGALA Daily Trojan As students make final deci-sions about housing choices for next year and rent prices continue to climb, another alternative — Figueroa Arms — the oldest co-op in Los Angeles, gives students the chance to be their own landlords. Figueroa Arms, built in 1925, allows students to buy an apart-ment for an average of $200,000, either up front or in regular in-stallments. While living there, students pay monthly dues of ap-proximately $318 per month for the apartment, which includes gas, taxes, security and cable services. When they move out, students can sell the apartment and earn interest. A co-op is different from a typi-cal apartment because the tenants own the property. Students and other residents are on the co-op board, so when they want repairs made, they don’t have to rely on a landlord. “It’s cheaper than paying a land-lord and being at the whims of the landlord,” said Maria Stallings, the mother of a student who lives at Figueroa Arms. “It gives par-ents another alternative.” When Farrah Farzaneh, a grad-uate student in the construction management program at Viterbi and a real estate agent, transferred to the Marshall School of Busi-ness as an undergraduate student, she leased an apartment through Monthly payments on Figueroa Arms apartments go toward ownership. | see figarms, page 11 | DPS will patrol structures over break By MARSHALL WILSON Daily Trojan With spring break just around the corner, the Department of Pub-lic Safety will increase its patrols to keep crime low while students are away, DPS officials said. “Spring break, as well as winter break, is a particularly vulnerable time because students are away. Opportunists know our break schedules, and they take this time to break into residential complexes and cars,” DPS Officer Wyman Thomas said. Operation GIFT, which stands for Group Initiative for Theft Pre-vention, began in the winter of 2004. Its primary focus is reducing vehicular crimes around campus. Prior to 2004, DPS reduced nor-mal patrols during university holi-days and neglected off-campus uni-versity housing, DPS officials said. Operation GIFT, however, calls for an increase in patrols. “During breaks, people leave their cars in driveways and in the streets, so we came up with the idea that if we remove those cars from the streets and put them in the parking structures, that would reduce the amount of vehicular thefts,” Thom-as said. After its implementation, GIFT was successful in reducing crime. Prior to Operation Gift, there were 30 automobile break-ins dur-ing winter break in 2002, and 40 in 2003. Automobile break-ins decreased by 90 percent after GIFT was im-plemented, dropping to just four during the 2004 winter break. Eight were committed in 2005. With Operation GIFT’s success in reducing auto burglaries, DPS ex-panded its plan to include residen-tial complexes. In 2002 and 2003, there were 30 residential burglaries, 15 in 2002 and 15 in 2003. After GIFT, that number was cut in half with seven residential bur-glaries in 2004 and eight in 2006. “This clearly worked,” Thomas said. “We had to keep this up, so keeping in mind the success of the plan during winter break, we decid-ed to apply Operation GIFT during spring break in 2005. This place is like a ghost town when the students are gone, so all of Officers will continue Operation GIFT to minimize automobile break-ins. | see DPS, page 11 | Operation GIFT’s primary focus is to reduce vehicular crimes. • Prior to Operation GIFT, there were 30 automobile break-ins during winter break in 2002, and 40 in 2003. • Automobile break-ins decreased by 90 percent after GIFT was implemented, dropping to just four during winter break of 2004, compared to eight in 2005. • With Operation GIFT’s success in reducing auto burglaries, DPS ex-panded its plan to include residential complexes. • In 2002 and 2003, there were 30 residential burglaries, 15 in 2002 and 15 in 2003. DPS’ Spring Break ‘GIFT’
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Full text | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE The Daily Trojan catches up with the electro band Hyper Crush. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 38 | www.dailytrojan.com wednESday, march 12, 2008 forging west Two USC bands, Danger Bees and Charts and Maps, head out on a West Coast tour. 7 Tandem of troy Senior co-captains Jimmy Killian and Juan Figueroa have led the men’s volley-ball team to national recognition. 16 Cool Running Albert Nguyen, a senior majoring in health and humanity, grabs some air at the K-Swiss free running collegiate tour Tuesday afternoon. K-Swiss is using the tour to promote the sport of free Jonathan Wong | Daily Trojan running and to advertise its Ariake line of shoes designed specifically for free running. Benefits of special interest floors debated By TAREN FUJIMOTO Daily Trojan Special interest floors offered through TrojanHousing reflect the desire of some students to live in fa-miliar communities, students and ex-perts said, but they also cause some students to question whether they are a restriction or a springboard for integration into the larger USC Tro-jan Family. Journalism and communication professor Félix Gutiérrez said he thinks special interest floors will con-tinue to be useful as long as there are students who want to live on these floors. “I don’t see how it’s retarding,” he said. “I think it gives students a place where they can feel at home in an en-vironment that reinforces their back-ground and where they want to go in their academic careers.” Gutiérrez said it’s impossible to graduate from USC without interact-ing with people of races and cultures different than one’s own. “You didn’t come here to lose who you are,” Gutiérrez said. “You come here to build on who you are.” Gutiérrez was involved in launch-ing ethnic-themed houses at Stanford University when he was an assistant dean of students in the 1969-70 school year, and is aware of the important role such residence units play. “The kids were very lonely and spread out throughout campus,” he said. “There were no Latino activities for them.” As campuses like USC seek to at-tract a racially diverse student body, white students are involved in organi-zations that reflect their culture, but minority students are not, he said. According to the El Centro Chi-cano website, “the floors” as they are referred to, are open to “all students who have an interest in the Latino culture and those who want to expe-rience their first year at USC in a sup-portive and close-knit multicultural community.” The Latino floors, floors six and seven in Fluor Tower, house 64 fresh-man residents — 32 per floor — and two residential advisors per floor, ac-cording to the website. There is also a Latino Floor Alumni Fund, established in March 2003, to provide additional resources for current residents and staff’s pro-gramming needs. Interested indi-viduals and parties are able to make a tax-deductible donation, and 100 per-cent of funds go directly to support-ing student-initiated programs and Faculty and students say the floors give students a home away from home. | see special interest, page 11 | Opinion | New hunting classes reminiscent of the past, writes columnist Laura Reeve. PAGE 4 Housing co-op allows tenants to make a profit By KYLA SEGALA Daily Trojan As students make final deci-sions about housing choices for next year and rent prices continue to climb, another alternative — Figueroa Arms — the oldest co-op in Los Angeles, gives students the chance to be their own landlords. Figueroa Arms, built in 1925, allows students to buy an apart-ment for an average of $200,000, either up front or in regular in-stallments. While living there, students pay monthly dues of ap-proximately $318 per month for the apartment, which includes gas, taxes, security and cable services. When they move out, students can sell the apartment and earn interest. A co-op is different from a typi-cal apartment because the tenants own the property. Students and other residents are on the co-op board, so when they want repairs made, they don’t have to rely on a landlord. “It’s cheaper than paying a land-lord and being at the whims of the landlord,” said Maria Stallings, the mother of a student who lives at Figueroa Arms. “It gives par-ents another alternative.” When Farrah Farzaneh, a grad-uate student in the construction management program at Viterbi and a real estate agent, transferred to the Marshall School of Busi-ness as an undergraduate student, she leased an apartment through Monthly payments on Figueroa Arms apartments go toward ownership. | see figarms, page 11 | DPS will patrol structures over break By MARSHALL WILSON Daily Trojan With spring break just around the corner, the Department of Pub-lic Safety will increase its patrols to keep crime low while students are away, DPS officials said. “Spring break, as well as winter break, is a particularly vulnerable time because students are away. Opportunists know our break schedules, and they take this time to break into residential complexes and cars,” DPS Officer Wyman Thomas said. Operation GIFT, which stands for Group Initiative for Theft Pre-vention, began in the winter of 2004. Its primary focus is reducing vehicular crimes around campus. Prior to 2004, DPS reduced nor-mal patrols during university holi-days and neglected off-campus uni-versity housing, DPS officials said. Operation GIFT, however, calls for an increase in patrols. “During breaks, people leave their cars in driveways and in the streets, so we came up with the idea that if we remove those cars from the streets and put them in the parking structures, that would reduce the amount of vehicular thefts,” Thom-as said. After its implementation, GIFT was successful in reducing crime. Prior to Operation Gift, there were 30 automobile break-ins dur-ing winter break in 2002, and 40 in 2003. Automobile break-ins decreased by 90 percent after GIFT was im-plemented, dropping to just four during the 2004 winter break. Eight were committed in 2005. With Operation GIFT’s success in reducing auto burglaries, DPS ex-panded its plan to include residen-tial complexes. In 2002 and 2003, there were 30 residential burglaries, 15 in 2002 and 15 in 2003. After GIFT, that number was cut in half with seven residential bur-glaries in 2004 and eight in 2006. “This clearly worked,” Thomas said. “We had to keep this up, so keeping in mind the success of the plan during winter break, we decid-ed to apply Operation GIFT during spring break in 2005. This place is like a ghost town when the students are gone, so all of Officers will continue Operation GIFT to minimize automobile break-ins. | see DPS, page 11 | Operation GIFT’s primary focus is to reduce vehicular crimes. • Prior to Operation GIFT, there were 30 automobile break-ins during winter break in 2002, and 40 in 2003. • Automobile break-ins decreased by 90 percent after GIFT was implemented, dropping to just four during winter break of 2004, compared to eight in 2005. • With Operation GIFT’s success in reducing auto burglaries, DPS ex-panded its plan to include residential complexes. • In 2002 and 2003, there were 30 residential burglaries, 15 in 2002 and 15 in 2003. DPS’ Spring Break ‘GIFT’ |