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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE See photos of Dwight Lewis, a rising USC men’s basketball star. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 10 | www.dailytrojan.com WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 From hitler to playboy Annenberg exhibit traces magazine covers as they grow and change through the years. 5 Strong start The No. 6 USC men’s tennis team wins its third straight dual match of the season. 12 Climate Change Guest lecturer Dale Jamieson said climate change is more than just an environmental problem, but a moral problem as well. In an lecture given for the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, Jamieson combined his knowledge of philosophy and environment to shed new light on the issue. Above: In a passionate speech about climate change, Jamieson tells students in Doheny Memorial Librabry about the future of the planet. SEE PAGE 3 WARMING UP LAUSD to build fewer schools By NICOLE DAILO Daily Trojan The Los Angeles Unified School District’s plan to scale back its $20 billion school construction and renovation program is ex-pected to affect schools through-out the district, including those that belong to the USC Family of Schools. The program, conceived in 1997, relies on state and local bond mea-sures for funding which originally included plans to build 150 new schools. After significant decreases in enrollment, LAUSD has decided to downsize the construction to 132 schools. “It’s been a program that’s evolved over time, and that evolu-tion has included identifying new projects,” said Ed Van Ginkel, se-nior development manager at the facilities division of LAUSD. “We revised our program because of shifts in demographics and differ-ent goals that the district is trying to achieve.” Those goals include stopping the practice of involuntary stu-dent busing and standardizing the academic calendar throughout the district, Van Ginkel said. Some schools remain in session for a shorter period of time than others, and many are on a year-round sys-tem because of overcrowding. James A. Foshay Learning Cen-ter, a member of the Family of Schools, is one of the institutions whose high enrollment requires it to use a year-round system. The school has 3,500 students, but can only accommodate 2,400 at one time. “As a year-round school, as an overcrowded school, we have any-where from eight to 17 teachers who have no classrooms. We have more staff than classroom space,” Assistant Principal Dimone Wat-son said. Decreased enrollment, Watson acknowledged LAUSD’s trend, but said it was no reason to stop construction of new schools, es-pecially since overcrowding is still a significant problem in many ar-eas. “Because property values have gone up, people can’t afford to move out. People are staying, so we’re starting to exhaust kids. You can’t just clear ground and leave LAUSD enrollment drops, but officials say overcrowding is a problem. | see LAUSD, page 2 | Former USC student’s music website a hit By TAREN FUJIMOTO Daily Trojan As a senior in the School of Cine-matic Arts with one semester left un-til graduation, James Miao decided to take a leave of absence — to develop a music website. The website, called thesixtyone, is a music discovery game that launched this December. “I knew if I continued on, I would have to take a job that I didn’t want,” said Miao, a former Interactive Media Division student. “If I do something, I need to do it really well.” Miao created thesixtyone with the help of California Institute of Tech-nology graduate and friend Samuel Hsiung. They named it after High-way 61, the road Elvis, B.B. King and Bob Dylan traveled on to play and share their music with the world. The website, which he called a “col-laborative filter based on user taste,” rewards members of the online com-munity who help others listen to good music. Musicians from different genres add their music to the site, and lis-teners can choose to bump up a song’s popularity. Users are not able to bump down a song because a song that does not get bumped up by lis-teners speaks for itself, Miao said. Each time a person bumps a song, it costs them points, but if other listeners bump the same songs, the person earns points. Collecting more points increases a person’s skill level. Points drive interaction and are like virtual currency, Miao said. Miao, who was a residential advi-sor at the time, he took a break from college. He said his decision to leave school shocked his friends and resi-dents. “It was really awkward at the time,” he said. “While people were moving in, I was sitting there packing all my stuff.” Miao said he wrote a letter explain-ing why he left school to stop rumors circulating about his disappearance, which included everything from aca-demic trouble to death. But Miao said he had been think-ing about leaving school since his sophomore year of college. After Website allows listeners to promote music in an online community. | see music, page 11 | DPS to increase use of security cameras By CALLIE SCHWEITZER Daily Trojan Surveillance cameras recording the neighborhood surrounding cam-pus have contributed to a reduction of crime at USC over the past year and a half, Department of Public Safety officials said. The cameras have been so effective that plans are in the works to have as many as 70 cameras recording the surrounding neighborhood, DPS Chief Carey Drayton said. One DPS officer watching a closed circuit surveillance camera noticed two males acting suspiciously near Jefferson Boulevard and Orchard Avenue early last Monday morning, DPS Capt. Dave Carlisle said. At approximately 1:20 a.m., the of-ficer reported the behavior to patrol officers who sent another officer to the scene. The officer then detained one of the suspects and the other was detained when additional offi-cers were called into the area, Carlisle said. DPS officers discovered that the suspects, men ages 18 to 20, had just robbed a victim who was a nonstu-dent and not a member of USC fac-ulty or staff. DPS recovered the victim’s prop-erty and a handgun from one of the suspects, Carlisle said. In addition, one of the suspects was riding a re-portedly stolen student bicycle. “I’m pleased that our officers saw these two on the surveillance camera and were able to call our officers to the scene,” Carlisle said. “To me it’s just an example of the value of those cameras.” Once the suspects were detained and arrested by DPS officers, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at the scene and took over the investigation. The suspects were then transferred to the Southwest Divi-sion Station where they were charged with armed robbery, and an addition-al charge of receiving stolen property, was filed against the suspect with the bicycle. Drayton said the DPS cameras would only continue to improve to help them make similar arrests. “We let where crime is occurring drive where we place the cameras,” he said. Drayton said the 15 cameras DPS currently has installed are used to survey the areas surrounding campus and detect people committing crimi-nal acts such as robbery and tag. DPS Officer Sonya Hudson, who was at the incident at Jefferson and Security cameras around the USC campus help to decrease crime, DPS says. | see cameras, page 11 | SPORTS | The USC squash team heads to the West Coast Collegiate Invitation. PAGE 15 LIFESTYLE | Columnist Patrick Skelly lists the 10 toughest film characters. PAGE 7
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Full text | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE See photos of Dwight Lewis, a rising USC men’s basketball star. Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 10 | www.dailytrojan.com WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 From hitler to playboy Annenberg exhibit traces magazine covers as they grow and change through the years. 5 Strong start The No. 6 USC men’s tennis team wins its third straight dual match of the season. 12 Climate Change Guest lecturer Dale Jamieson said climate change is more than just an environmental problem, but a moral problem as well. In an lecture given for the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, Jamieson combined his knowledge of philosophy and environment to shed new light on the issue. Above: In a passionate speech about climate change, Jamieson tells students in Doheny Memorial Librabry about the future of the planet. SEE PAGE 3 WARMING UP LAUSD to build fewer schools By NICOLE DAILO Daily Trojan The Los Angeles Unified School District’s plan to scale back its $20 billion school construction and renovation program is ex-pected to affect schools through-out the district, including those that belong to the USC Family of Schools. The program, conceived in 1997, relies on state and local bond mea-sures for funding which originally included plans to build 150 new schools. After significant decreases in enrollment, LAUSD has decided to downsize the construction to 132 schools. “It’s been a program that’s evolved over time, and that evolu-tion has included identifying new projects,” said Ed Van Ginkel, se-nior development manager at the facilities division of LAUSD. “We revised our program because of shifts in demographics and differ-ent goals that the district is trying to achieve.” Those goals include stopping the practice of involuntary stu-dent busing and standardizing the academic calendar throughout the district, Van Ginkel said. Some schools remain in session for a shorter period of time than others, and many are on a year-round sys-tem because of overcrowding. James A. Foshay Learning Cen-ter, a member of the Family of Schools, is one of the institutions whose high enrollment requires it to use a year-round system. The school has 3,500 students, but can only accommodate 2,400 at one time. “As a year-round school, as an overcrowded school, we have any-where from eight to 17 teachers who have no classrooms. We have more staff than classroom space,” Assistant Principal Dimone Wat-son said. Decreased enrollment, Watson acknowledged LAUSD’s trend, but said it was no reason to stop construction of new schools, es-pecially since overcrowding is still a significant problem in many ar-eas. “Because property values have gone up, people can’t afford to move out. People are staying, so we’re starting to exhaust kids. You can’t just clear ground and leave LAUSD enrollment drops, but officials say overcrowding is a problem. | see LAUSD, page 2 | Former USC student’s music website a hit By TAREN FUJIMOTO Daily Trojan As a senior in the School of Cine-matic Arts with one semester left un-til graduation, James Miao decided to take a leave of absence — to develop a music website. The website, called thesixtyone, is a music discovery game that launched this December. “I knew if I continued on, I would have to take a job that I didn’t want,” said Miao, a former Interactive Media Division student. “If I do something, I need to do it really well.” Miao created thesixtyone with the help of California Institute of Tech-nology graduate and friend Samuel Hsiung. They named it after High-way 61, the road Elvis, B.B. King and Bob Dylan traveled on to play and share their music with the world. The website, which he called a “col-laborative filter based on user taste,” rewards members of the online com-munity who help others listen to good music. Musicians from different genres add their music to the site, and lis-teners can choose to bump up a song’s popularity. Users are not able to bump down a song because a song that does not get bumped up by lis-teners speaks for itself, Miao said. Each time a person bumps a song, it costs them points, but if other listeners bump the same songs, the person earns points. Collecting more points increases a person’s skill level. Points drive interaction and are like virtual currency, Miao said. Miao, who was a residential advi-sor at the time, he took a break from college. He said his decision to leave school shocked his friends and resi-dents. “It was really awkward at the time,” he said. “While people were moving in, I was sitting there packing all my stuff.” Miao said he wrote a letter explain-ing why he left school to stop rumors circulating about his disappearance, which included everything from aca-demic trouble to death. But Miao said he had been think-ing about leaving school since his sophomore year of college. After Website allows listeners to promote music in an online community. | see music, page 11 | DPS to increase use of security cameras By CALLIE SCHWEITZER Daily Trojan Surveillance cameras recording the neighborhood surrounding cam-pus have contributed to a reduction of crime at USC over the past year and a half, Department of Public Safety officials said. The cameras have been so effective that plans are in the works to have as many as 70 cameras recording the surrounding neighborhood, DPS Chief Carey Drayton said. One DPS officer watching a closed circuit surveillance camera noticed two males acting suspiciously near Jefferson Boulevard and Orchard Avenue early last Monday morning, DPS Capt. Dave Carlisle said. At approximately 1:20 a.m., the of-ficer reported the behavior to patrol officers who sent another officer to the scene. The officer then detained one of the suspects and the other was detained when additional offi-cers were called into the area, Carlisle said. DPS officers discovered that the suspects, men ages 18 to 20, had just robbed a victim who was a nonstu-dent and not a member of USC fac-ulty or staff. DPS recovered the victim’s prop-erty and a handgun from one of the suspects, Carlisle said. In addition, one of the suspects was riding a re-portedly stolen student bicycle. “I’m pleased that our officers saw these two on the surveillance camera and were able to call our officers to the scene,” Carlisle said. “To me it’s just an example of the value of those cameras.” Once the suspects were detained and arrested by DPS officers, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at the scene and took over the investigation. The suspects were then transferred to the Southwest Divi-sion Station where they were charged with armed robbery, and an addition-al charge of receiving stolen property, was filed against the suspect with the bicycle. Drayton said the DPS cameras would only continue to improve to help them make similar arrests. “We let where crime is occurring drive where we place the cameras,” he said. Drayton said the 15 cameras DPS currently has installed are used to survey the areas surrounding campus and detect people committing crimi-nal acts such as robbery and tag. DPS Officer Sonya Hudson, who was at the incident at Jefferson and Security cameras around the USC campus help to decrease crime, DPS says. | see cameras, page 11 | SPORTS | The USC squash team heads to the West Coast Collegiate Invitation. PAGE 15 LIFESTYLE | Columnist Patrick Skelly lists the 10 toughest film characters. PAGE 7 |