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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 65 | Tuesday December 2, 2008 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports Penn name: Sean Penn shines as California’s first openly gay politician in ‘Milk.’ PAGE 7 D-Day: USC defense holds Notre Dame to three points in a rout at the Coliseum. PAGE 16 By tiffanie wu Daily Trojan A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the November stabbing of USC senior Kellen Spani last month at a San Francisco bar. Herman Zhu is charged with attempted murder, as-sault with a deadly weapon and battery with serious bodily injury. He currently remains in custody, with bail set at $300,000, said the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. Another man, Aaron Ng, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of destroying evidence in connec-tion with the stabbing. Spani, who was visiting the Bay Area for the an-nual Weekender football game, was stabbed in the neck and chest outside a San Francisco bar Nov. 15 af-ter coming to the aid of one of his friends. Spani was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital but was re-leased soon after. According to witnesses, several men had been pro-voking Spani and a group of other USC students at the Balboa Café. Zhu’s next court date is scheduled for Dec. 16, and Ng will be in court Dec. 30. Pair charged in SF stabbing of ’SC student San Francisco man pleads not guilty to charges of attempted murder, assult with deadly weapon. By laura nelson Daily Trojan USC President Steven B. Sample has approved an athletic depart-ment’s plan for a new athletic com-plex that would be built where an intramural athletic field and a Thornton School of Music building currently stand. Plans for the facility have not yet been drafted, but Undergraduate Student Government Director of University Affairs Owen Caine said the complex might eventu-ally include a new strength and conditioning room, a new wing for Student-Athlete Academic Services, conference rooms and an auditorium. Carol Dougherty, senior associ-ate director of athletics, said the Athletics Department wants a new facility because the department has drastically expanded in recent years. In 1972, when Heritage Hall opened, the department support-ed 10 varsity teams. Now, Heritage Hall serves 19 athletic teams. “Football and all of our other ath-letic programs have become much more competitive since we built Heritage Hall,” said Caine, who will work closely with Dougherty on the project as a student representative. Plan calls for new football complex Facility would replace an intramural field and a Thornton music building. | see football, page 11 | By natalie chau Daily Trojan After more than two years of construc-tion, the $175 million Lucas Center is set to open Dec. 18. The donation that funded the center came as a gift from the Lucas Foundation, started by filmmaker and USC alumnus George Lucas. The building will house the School of Cinematic Arts. The move to the new facility will be a huge boost for the cinema school, said Douglas Wellman, the school’s director of facilities and operations. The current cine-ma building is operating at about 110 per-cent capacity, forcing many classes to relo-cate elsewhere. Keely Flanagan, a freshman majoring in screenwriting, said the current building feels a “little overcrowded.” “People consider the new film school to be the face of USC; it has that glitz and glamor factor,” Flanagan said. “I’m excited to take classes there.” Despite a few minor setbacks, Wellman said the construction is on schedule. “As in any construction, there was a cer-tain amount of things that didn’t quite work out right,” he said. “For example, we weren’t sure whether the steel had been ordered to the correct length. We just got the lighting fixtures that we ordered a year ago too.” The new facility will boast a main 137,000 square-foot building, a 36,000 square-foot instructional building and three separate soundstages. The main building is five floors, and in-cludes a 200-seat theater and a café, as well as post-production suites, offices and class-rooms. Several of the buildings were added to the plans part way through construction. “We originally were only building one building. Now we’re going to add four sound stages and two more buildings,” Wellman said. Lucas himself has come to campus to check on the construction progress. Lucas also raised more money during the con-struction to enable the school to add the ex-tra facilities. “His constant supervision of the project and his desire to make it the best school possible have really helped,” Wellman said. The new complex also sports several palm trees in front of the main entrance. The city of Los Angeles has recently discouraged new building construction from including palm trees; it has called the trees ecologi-cally unnecessary. Steven Dupruy, tree surgeon supervisor for the city of Los Angeles, said palm trees aren’t meant to survive in Los Angeles and don’t provide much shade. “The city isn’t really crazy so much about palms, because a lot of them are getting in-fected with funguses and they don’t contrib-ute to shading factor or cooling,” Dupruy said. There are no statutory restrictions against using palms in Los Angeles, and Wellman said the school stuck to all the codes necessary for making a new building and the palm trees were not really an issue. Construction hit a snag in October, when about 40 members of the Carpenters Union gathered outside the building’s construc-tion site to protest what they said were un-fair wage practices, but the protest did not cause a lengthy delay. New cinema building, two years in the making, set to open this month The new complex houses a 200-seat movie theater, sound stages and a cafe. Alexandra Tapley | Daily Trojan Final stage · The newest addition to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the $175 million Lucas Center, is set to open its doors Dec. 18 after two years of construction. Students gathered at the USC Chabad House Monday night for a vigil to remember victims of the terror attacks in Mumbai. The attacks began Wednesday and lasted for three days. Solidarity Young Kim | Daily Trojan ALSO IN NEWS Former USC Student Sentenced Zao Xing “Crossing” Yang was sentenced to five years probation for making threats at a party. Page 11.
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 65 | Tuesday December 2, 2008 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports Penn name: Sean Penn shines as California’s first openly gay politician in ‘Milk.’ PAGE 7 D-Day: USC defense holds Notre Dame to three points in a rout at the Coliseum. PAGE 16 By tiffanie wu Daily Trojan A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the November stabbing of USC senior Kellen Spani last month at a San Francisco bar. Herman Zhu is charged with attempted murder, as-sault with a deadly weapon and battery with serious bodily injury. He currently remains in custody, with bail set at $300,000, said the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. Another man, Aaron Ng, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of destroying evidence in connec-tion with the stabbing. Spani, who was visiting the Bay Area for the an-nual Weekender football game, was stabbed in the neck and chest outside a San Francisco bar Nov. 15 af-ter coming to the aid of one of his friends. Spani was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital but was re-leased soon after. According to witnesses, several men had been pro-voking Spani and a group of other USC students at the Balboa Café. Zhu’s next court date is scheduled for Dec. 16, and Ng will be in court Dec. 30. Pair charged in SF stabbing of ’SC student San Francisco man pleads not guilty to charges of attempted murder, assult with deadly weapon. By laura nelson Daily Trojan USC President Steven B. Sample has approved an athletic depart-ment’s plan for a new athletic com-plex that would be built where an intramural athletic field and a Thornton School of Music building currently stand. Plans for the facility have not yet been drafted, but Undergraduate Student Government Director of University Affairs Owen Caine said the complex might eventu-ally include a new strength and conditioning room, a new wing for Student-Athlete Academic Services, conference rooms and an auditorium. Carol Dougherty, senior associ-ate director of athletics, said the Athletics Department wants a new facility because the department has drastically expanded in recent years. In 1972, when Heritage Hall opened, the department support-ed 10 varsity teams. Now, Heritage Hall serves 19 athletic teams. “Football and all of our other ath-letic programs have become much more competitive since we built Heritage Hall,” said Caine, who will work closely with Dougherty on the project as a student representative. Plan calls for new football complex Facility would replace an intramural field and a Thornton music building. | see football, page 11 | By natalie chau Daily Trojan After more than two years of construc-tion, the $175 million Lucas Center is set to open Dec. 18. The donation that funded the center came as a gift from the Lucas Foundation, started by filmmaker and USC alumnus George Lucas. The building will house the School of Cinematic Arts. The move to the new facility will be a huge boost for the cinema school, said Douglas Wellman, the school’s director of facilities and operations. The current cine-ma building is operating at about 110 per-cent capacity, forcing many classes to relo-cate elsewhere. Keely Flanagan, a freshman majoring in screenwriting, said the current building feels a “little overcrowded.” “People consider the new film school to be the face of USC; it has that glitz and glamor factor,” Flanagan said. “I’m excited to take classes there.” Despite a few minor setbacks, Wellman said the construction is on schedule. “As in any construction, there was a cer-tain amount of things that didn’t quite work out right,” he said. “For example, we weren’t sure whether the steel had been ordered to the correct length. We just got the lighting fixtures that we ordered a year ago too.” The new facility will boast a main 137,000 square-foot building, a 36,000 square-foot instructional building and three separate soundstages. The main building is five floors, and in-cludes a 200-seat theater and a café, as well as post-production suites, offices and class-rooms. Several of the buildings were added to the plans part way through construction. “We originally were only building one building. Now we’re going to add four sound stages and two more buildings,” Wellman said. Lucas himself has come to campus to check on the construction progress. Lucas also raised more money during the con-struction to enable the school to add the ex-tra facilities. “His constant supervision of the project and his desire to make it the best school possible have really helped,” Wellman said. The new complex also sports several palm trees in front of the main entrance. The city of Los Angeles has recently discouraged new building construction from including palm trees; it has called the trees ecologi-cally unnecessary. Steven Dupruy, tree surgeon supervisor for the city of Los Angeles, said palm trees aren’t meant to survive in Los Angeles and don’t provide much shade. “The city isn’t really crazy so much about palms, because a lot of them are getting in-fected with funguses and they don’t contrib-ute to shading factor or cooling,” Dupruy said. There are no statutory restrictions against using palms in Los Angeles, and Wellman said the school stuck to all the codes necessary for making a new building and the palm trees were not really an issue. Construction hit a snag in October, when about 40 members of the Carpenters Union gathered outside the building’s construc-tion site to protest what they said were un-fair wage practices, but the protest did not cause a lengthy delay. New cinema building, two years in the making, set to open this month The new complex houses a 200-seat movie theater, sound stages and a cafe. Alexandra Tapley | Daily Trojan Final stage · The newest addition to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the $175 million Lucas Center, is set to open its doors Dec. 18 after two years of construction. Students gathered at the USC Chabad House Monday night for a vigil to remember victims of the terror attacks in Mumbai. The attacks began Wednesday and lasted for three days. Solidarity Young Kim | Daily Trojan ALSO IN NEWS Former USC Student Sentenced Zao Xing “Crossing” Yang was sentenced to five years probation for making threats at a party. Page 11. |