Page 1 |
Save page Remove page | Previous | 1 of 16 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large (1000x1000 max)
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Go online for coverage of the USC Stevens Institute’s new Facebook application. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 33 | www.dailytrojan.com wednesday, march 5, 2008 lost and found Mendelson finds that value is in the search as he seeks remnants of his family’s Holocaust history in “The Lost.” 7 Under the tide The USC baseball team had four errors in its 10-5 loss to No. 24 Pepperdine on Tuesday afternoon. 16 Photo courtesy of Dillon Nichols Survivors | During his trip to Kirehe, Rwanda over winter break, USC student Dillon Nichols spent time with natives at one of the health clinics founded by Paul Farmer and Partners in Health. USC tram driver retires after 34 years By LAURA SIMURDA Daily Trojan After 34 years as a USC tram driver, Francisco Lopez — whose riders have described his rides as memorable and enjoyable — retired Monday. Emigrating from Guatemala in 1973 to the United States, Lopez first began working as a janitor at USC because he lacked a firm grasp of the English language. But after three years of studying English, he felt confident enough with his communication skills to request a transfer to the transporta-tion department, beginning his long career there. Thanks to his enthusiastic de-meanor, he began cultivating strong relationships with the regular riders on his tram. “It’s almost like a family on my tram,” Lopez said. Over the years, Lopez drove a number of tram routes, including routes A and B as well as the route to Bunker Hill. Students and staff said they have enjoyed sharing their mornings and afternoons with Lopez. “He’s the nicest shuttle driver that I’ve ever come into contact with, and I ride a lot of shuttles,” said Valerie Fitzgerald, a supervisor with the Degree Progress Department of the Registrar’s Office. Many staff said they will miss seeing Lopez on their commute to work. Tram driver Francisco Lopez impacted students who came along for the ride. | see lopez, page 3 | Adults consider Internet to be important, study finds By JENNIFER SMITH Daily Trojan In a 2008 study, The Annen-berg Center for the Digital Future found that more than two-thirds of adults under 50 believe online communities are extremely impor-tant in their lives. The study is part of an annual eight-year-long project that tracks the impact the Internet has on adults. Jeffrey Cole, research director for the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, said he was in-spired to conduct the annual sur-vey after realizing researchers had lost a valuable opportunity by not annually surveying the impact of television on American life. “I had become convinced around 1997/1998 that the impact of the Internet would be far more significant than television,” Cole said. “Our goal here was to do the study of the Internet that we should have done for television in the 1940s.” College students were included Online communities have overwhelmingly affected the lives of college students. | see internet, page 6 | Foundation documents Rwandan genocide By JEAN GUERERO Daily Trojan The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education has taken the latest ini-tiative in university-related efforts to shed light on the Rwandan geno-cide, during which almost 1 million Rwandans were methodically mur-dered in 100 days. Next month, the institute’s ex-ecutive director, Douglas Green-berg, will travel to Rwanda to begin organizing a project with IBUKA, the umbrella organization for all of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor groups. Greenberg and IBUKA plan to interview Rwan-dan survivors about their experi-ences during the genocide. Greenberg said these visual tes-timonies will be available on the in-stitute’s online archive, the largest of its kind in the world, to educate people about the harmful effects of prejudice. “Rwanda looms, I think, as a moment of international failure with respect to genocide, and it looms as one of the most egregious violations of human rights in the last couple of decades,” Greenberg said. IBUKA officials will mainly con-duct the interviews in Rwanda, but Greenberg said the Shoah Founda-tion will provide technological and financial assistance. The Shoah Foundation, found-ed in 1994, has already collected about 52,000 visual testimonies from people who were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust be-tween 1933 and 1945. “[The testimonies] transcend continental barriers by providing a window to other people’s experi-ences,” said Kathy Schmidt, a ju-nior majoring in psychology who is the executive director of the USC International Student Coali-tion Against Genocide:: 1 Million Strong 4 Rwanda. Schmidt said the visual testimo-nies have aided humanitarianism because of their ability to depict the situation. “When you see these testimo-nies, you see [the survivors] in real life and students actually start to cry,” she said. Greenberg said the Holocaust project was only the beginning of “an unfortunately long list of other examples of racism and violence that need to be documented.” The Holocaust survivor testimo-nies are searchable from the USC network and those of 14 other uni-versities throughout the world. Many USC professors said they are appreciative of the Shoah Foun-dation’s latest project. USC Shoah Foundation calls attention to genocide with archive of visual testimonies. | see shoah, page 3 | Leah Thompson | Daily Trojan Veteran driver | Francisco Lopez began working at USC after he emigrated to the United States from Guatemala in 1973. Opinion | Columnist Laura Reeve recounts the perils of the L.A. Marathon. PAGE 4
Object Description
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Full text | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Go online for coverage of the USC Stevens Institute’s new Facebook application. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 33 | www.dailytrojan.com wednesday, march 5, 2008 lost and found Mendelson finds that value is in the search as he seeks remnants of his family’s Holocaust history in “The Lost.” 7 Under the tide The USC baseball team had four errors in its 10-5 loss to No. 24 Pepperdine on Tuesday afternoon. 16 Photo courtesy of Dillon Nichols Survivors | During his trip to Kirehe, Rwanda over winter break, USC student Dillon Nichols spent time with natives at one of the health clinics founded by Paul Farmer and Partners in Health. USC tram driver retires after 34 years By LAURA SIMURDA Daily Trojan After 34 years as a USC tram driver, Francisco Lopez — whose riders have described his rides as memorable and enjoyable — retired Monday. Emigrating from Guatemala in 1973 to the United States, Lopez first began working as a janitor at USC because he lacked a firm grasp of the English language. But after three years of studying English, he felt confident enough with his communication skills to request a transfer to the transporta-tion department, beginning his long career there. Thanks to his enthusiastic de-meanor, he began cultivating strong relationships with the regular riders on his tram. “It’s almost like a family on my tram,” Lopez said. Over the years, Lopez drove a number of tram routes, including routes A and B as well as the route to Bunker Hill. Students and staff said they have enjoyed sharing their mornings and afternoons with Lopez. “He’s the nicest shuttle driver that I’ve ever come into contact with, and I ride a lot of shuttles,” said Valerie Fitzgerald, a supervisor with the Degree Progress Department of the Registrar’s Office. Many staff said they will miss seeing Lopez on their commute to work. Tram driver Francisco Lopez impacted students who came along for the ride. | see lopez, page 3 | Adults consider Internet to be important, study finds By JENNIFER SMITH Daily Trojan In a 2008 study, The Annen-berg Center for the Digital Future found that more than two-thirds of adults under 50 believe online communities are extremely impor-tant in their lives. The study is part of an annual eight-year-long project that tracks the impact the Internet has on adults. Jeffrey Cole, research director for the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, said he was in-spired to conduct the annual sur-vey after realizing researchers had lost a valuable opportunity by not annually surveying the impact of television on American life. “I had become convinced around 1997/1998 that the impact of the Internet would be far more significant than television,” Cole said. “Our goal here was to do the study of the Internet that we should have done for television in the 1940s.” College students were included Online communities have overwhelmingly affected the lives of college students. | see internet, page 6 | Foundation documents Rwandan genocide By JEAN GUERERO Daily Trojan The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education has taken the latest ini-tiative in university-related efforts to shed light on the Rwandan geno-cide, during which almost 1 million Rwandans were methodically mur-dered in 100 days. Next month, the institute’s ex-ecutive director, Douglas Green-berg, will travel to Rwanda to begin organizing a project with IBUKA, the umbrella organization for all of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor groups. Greenberg and IBUKA plan to interview Rwan-dan survivors about their experi-ences during the genocide. Greenberg said these visual tes-timonies will be available on the in-stitute’s online archive, the largest of its kind in the world, to educate people about the harmful effects of prejudice. “Rwanda looms, I think, as a moment of international failure with respect to genocide, and it looms as one of the most egregious violations of human rights in the last couple of decades,” Greenberg said. IBUKA officials will mainly con-duct the interviews in Rwanda, but Greenberg said the Shoah Founda-tion will provide technological and financial assistance. The Shoah Foundation, found-ed in 1994, has already collected about 52,000 visual testimonies from people who were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust be-tween 1933 and 1945. “[The testimonies] transcend continental barriers by providing a window to other people’s experi-ences,” said Kathy Schmidt, a ju-nior majoring in psychology who is the executive director of the USC International Student Coali-tion Against Genocide:: 1 Million Strong 4 Rwanda. Schmidt said the visual testimo-nies have aided humanitarianism because of their ability to depict the situation. “When you see these testimo-nies, you see [the survivors] in real life and students actually start to cry,” she said. Greenberg said the Holocaust project was only the beginning of “an unfortunately long list of other examples of racism and violence that need to be documented.” The Holocaust survivor testimo-nies are searchable from the USC network and those of 14 other uni-versities throughout the world. Many USC professors said they are appreciative of the Shoah Foun-dation’s latest project. USC Shoah Foundation calls attention to genocide with archive of visual testimonies. | see shoah, page 3 | Leah Thompson | Daily Trojan Veteran driver | Francisco Lopez began working at USC after he emigrated to the United States from Guatemala in 1973. Opinion | Columnist Laura Reeve recounts the perils of the L.A. Marathon. PAGE 4 |