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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 35 | Tuesday October 14, 2008 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Crossword 10 · Cryptogram 12 · Sports Queen Diva: Mixed reviews for Madonna’s 11th album. PAGE 5 Retooling: USC’s offense makes adjustments for Saturday’s game. PAGE 12 By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan A group of Trojan alumni who founded the university’s student ra-dio station KSCR in 1975 has cre-ated an endowment to raise money for the station after its funding was cut by nearly 50 percent last year. The endowment aims to raise $1 million by 2010, marking KSCR’s 35th anniversary. “It was certainly [a goal] that we thought we could reach and be at-tainable, one that we thought the donor would feel was in a range that was doable,” said Bob Moore, co-founder and first general manager KSCR. Undergraduate Student Government cut KSCR’s funding by nearly 50 percent last April and redistributed the funds among a group of other student organiza-tions. When the cut was announced, founding members including Moore, Julie Fosgate, Rosemary O’Brien and Ron Redmond decided to help KSCR stay afloat. O’Brien had the idea to create the endowment, now called KSCR Friends, after several brainstorm-ing sessions with USC administra-tors. When she proposed the idea to her co-founders, she said, the proj-ect took off. “One thing led to another,” Moore said. “We all e-mailed back and forth to decide what we could do to help, and it seemed that the logical thing to do was to start an endowment.” KSCR Friends officially kicks off its fundraising campaign Nov. 1 to coincide with Homecoming Week. KSCR alumni will be on campus at a KSCR booth throughout the week and there will be opportunities for supporters to make donations. The endowment drive comes just as KSCR is looking at some big changes. In 2010, because of Founders start endowment for cash-strapped KSCR After the station’s funding was cut by half, a group of alumni set a goal to raise $1 million. | see KSCR, page 2 | By Rohan venkataramakrishnan Daily Trojan Neuroscientists at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute have released a study that iden-tifies two distinct brain regions with competing responses to risk that researchers say could ex-plain why some people are more likely than others to take risks. Zhong-Lin Lu, professor of psychology and co-author of the study, said the research is one of the first that actively points out how the brain treats risk and ac-curately determines where this process takes place. “We can see risk as a battle be-tween two forces,” said Antoine Bechara, professor of psychology at USC, in a press release. “There is always a lure of reward. There’s always a fear of failure. These are the two forces that are always battling each other.” Subjects were given a famil-iar gambling task to measure their response to risk, while the researchers observed their reac-tions with functional magnetic resource imaging. The function-al magnetic resonance imaging revealed more activity in one re-gion for risk-averse volunteers, with greater activity in the oth-er region for those willing to take risks. “Human decision-making isn’t entirely rational,” Lu said. “It seems like people often inject emotion into the way they treat risk. ... This research shows that how often you take risks can be determined by [a] simple equa-tion.” While the research pinpoints how the brain treats risk and where this process takes place, it does not address why some peo-ple might be more willing to take risks. “That is the enormous, deeper question,” Bechara said. “We are already following up the study with other projects and we also have plans to do more to under-stand the ‘why.’” First author Gui Xue, a post-doctoral research associate at USC, put forward a few possible reasons. “Different people could have different brain structures, so maybe that particular part of the brain has more volume for those who take risks,” he said. “It could be genetic or epigenetic, or even both, we don’t really know. But we have more data and we’re do-ing the research, so we will find out.” Researchers discover brain link between risk, reward Scientists find more activity in particular part of brain for those more likely to take risks. | see brain, page 2 | By Callie Schweitzer Daily Trojan At 3:15 p.m. on a sunny Thursday, it’s hard to imagine a group of third and fourth graders who want to be inside. But at the St. Agnes Parish School, at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Adams Boulevard, 13 stu-dents work to transform a classroom into a stage fit for dancers. When USC freshmen Pany Faed and Emma Stokes- Raab finally walk through the classroom door to teach an hour of dance instruction, they’re treated like queens — after just one week of class. “The best part is working with the kids,” said Faed, who is majoring in political science. “They are so en-thusiastic and always so ready to learn. ... I love work-ing with them and getting to show them a little bit of something that means a lot to me.” Bringing dance into the classroom and the lives of local school children is exactly what Dance Included, a dance program taught by USC students at public schools in the USC area, has strived to do since it be-gan in 2003. In 2004, the program had eight volunteer instruc-tors and reached approximately 160 students. This year, the program has 21 instructors and is reaching between 200 and 315 students, said Tu-Oanh Phan, president of Dance Included and a junior majoring in international relations global business and communi-cation. The instructor volunteers teach weekly, tuition-free dance classes at seven schools in the area surrounding USC’s campus. This year, they are also teaching a class at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center, a recreational center near the Coliseum. Dance Included began offering after-school classes in 2003, but later expanded to teach classes during the school day after receiving requests from elementary school teachers. The program now offers ballet, jazz, hip-hop and salsa classes, which usually have between 15 to 20 stu-dents. This year, they introduced a pom class, which is a mix between cheerleading and dance. In Faed and Stokes-Raab’s hip-hop class, there is already a sense of camaraderie and trust among the children. The seven girls dance around, mouthing every word of Ciara’s “One, Two Step” as the six boys in the class snicker and look at one another when they are told by Faed to “look cute.” The room is filled with laughter and glee coming from two rounds of freeze dance. In Faed and Stokes-Raab’s class, it’s about much more than dancing. “It gives the students an outlet to express | see dance, page 3 | The dancing queens (and kings) For a group of nearly two dozen USC students, Dance Included is a way to share their passion with local students. Twenty-one USC students volunteer to teach dance classes at seven elementary schools near campus. 21 Days Until Election COUNTDOWN Gary Fung | Daily Trojan Antoine Bechara Photo courtesy of Tu-Oanh Phan
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 35 | Tuesday October 14, 2008 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Crossword 10 · Cryptogram 12 · Sports Queen Diva: Mixed reviews for Madonna’s 11th album. PAGE 5 Retooling: USC’s offense makes adjustments for Saturday’s game. PAGE 12 By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan A group of Trojan alumni who founded the university’s student ra-dio station KSCR in 1975 has cre-ated an endowment to raise money for the station after its funding was cut by nearly 50 percent last year. The endowment aims to raise $1 million by 2010, marking KSCR’s 35th anniversary. “It was certainly [a goal] that we thought we could reach and be at-tainable, one that we thought the donor would feel was in a range that was doable,” said Bob Moore, co-founder and first general manager KSCR. Undergraduate Student Government cut KSCR’s funding by nearly 50 percent last April and redistributed the funds among a group of other student organiza-tions. When the cut was announced, founding members including Moore, Julie Fosgate, Rosemary O’Brien and Ron Redmond decided to help KSCR stay afloat. O’Brien had the idea to create the endowment, now called KSCR Friends, after several brainstorm-ing sessions with USC administra-tors. When she proposed the idea to her co-founders, she said, the proj-ect took off. “One thing led to another,” Moore said. “We all e-mailed back and forth to decide what we could do to help, and it seemed that the logical thing to do was to start an endowment.” KSCR Friends officially kicks off its fundraising campaign Nov. 1 to coincide with Homecoming Week. KSCR alumni will be on campus at a KSCR booth throughout the week and there will be opportunities for supporters to make donations. The endowment drive comes just as KSCR is looking at some big changes. In 2010, because of Founders start endowment for cash-strapped KSCR After the station’s funding was cut by half, a group of alumni set a goal to raise $1 million. | see KSCR, page 2 | By Rohan venkataramakrishnan Daily Trojan Neuroscientists at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute have released a study that iden-tifies two distinct brain regions with competing responses to risk that researchers say could ex-plain why some people are more likely than others to take risks. Zhong-Lin Lu, professor of psychology and co-author of the study, said the research is one of the first that actively points out how the brain treats risk and ac-curately determines where this process takes place. “We can see risk as a battle be-tween two forces,” said Antoine Bechara, professor of psychology at USC, in a press release. “There is always a lure of reward. There’s always a fear of failure. These are the two forces that are always battling each other.” Subjects were given a famil-iar gambling task to measure their response to risk, while the researchers observed their reac-tions with functional magnetic resource imaging. The function-al magnetic resonance imaging revealed more activity in one re-gion for risk-averse volunteers, with greater activity in the oth-er region for those willing to take risks. “Human decision-making isn’t entirely rational,” Lu said. “It seems like people often inject emotion into the way they treat risk. ... This research shows that how often you take risks can be determined by [a] simple equa-tion.” While the research pinpoints how the brain treats risk and where this process takes place, it does not address why some peo-ple might be more willing to take risks. “That is the enormous, deeper question,” Bechara said. “We are already following up the study with other projects and we also have plans to do more to under-stand the ‘why.’” First author Gui Xue, a post-doctoral research associate at USC, put forward a few possible reasons. “Different people could have different brain structures, so maybe that particular part of the brain has more volume for those who take risks,” he said. “It could be genetic or epigenetic, or even both, we don’t really know. But we have more data and we’re do-ing the research, so we will find out.” Researchers discover brain link between risk, reward Scientists find more activity in particular part of brain for those more likely to take risks. | see brain, page 2 | By Callie Schweitzer Daily Trojan At 3:15 p.m. on a sunny Thursday, it’s hard to imagine a group of third and fourth graders who want to be inside. But at the St. Agnes Parish School, at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Adams Boulevard, 13 stu-dents work to transform a classroom into a stage fit for dancers. When USC freshmen Pany Faed and Emma Stokes- Raab finally walk through the classroom door to teach an hour of dance instruction, they’re treated like queens — after just one week of class. “The best part is working with the kids,” said Faed, who is majoring in political science. “They are so en-thusiastic and always so ready to learn. ... I love work-ing with them and getting to show them a little bit of something that means a lot to me.” Bringing dance into the classroom and the lives of local school children is exactly what Dance Included, a dance program taught by USC students at public schools in the USC area, has strived to do since it be-gan in 2003. In 2004, the program had eight volunteer instruc-tors and reached approximately 160 students. This year, the program has 21 instructors and is reaching between 200 and 315 students, said Tu-Oanh Phan, president of Dance Included and a junior majoring in international relations global business and communi-cation. The instructor volunteers teach weekly, tuition-free dance classes at seven schools in the area surrounding USC’s campus. This year, they are also teaching a class at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center, a recreational center near the Coliseum. Dance Included began offering after-school classes in 2003, but later expanded to teach classes during the school day after receiving requests from elementary school teachers. The program now offers ballet, jazz, hip-hop and salsa classes, which usually have between 15 to 20 stu-dents. This year, they introduced a pom class, which is a mix between cheerleading and dance. In Faed and Stokes-Raab’s hip-hop class, there is already a sense of camaraderie and trust among the children. The seven girls dance around, mouthing every word of Ciara’s “One, Two Step” as the six boys in the class snicker and look at one another when they are told by Faed to “look cute.” The room is filled with laughter and glee coming from two rounds of freeze dance. In Faed and Stokes-Raab’s class, it’s about much more than dancing. “It gives the students an outlet to express | see dance, page 3 | The dancing queens (and kings) For a group of nearly two dozen USC students, Dance Included is a way to share their passion with local students. Twenty-one USC students volunteer to teach dance classes at seven elementary schools near campus. 21 Days Until Election COUNTDOWN Gary Fung | Daily Trojan Antoine Bechara Photo courtesy of Tu-Oanh Phan |