Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 166, NO. 28 | Thursday February 26, 2009
By emily bucko
Daily Trojan
Students with entrepreneurial aspirations
had the opportunity to view a showcase of stu-dent
businesses and network with each other
Tuesday during the first Entrepreneurship Expo
held by USC’s chapter of the Kairos Society, a
national student entrepreneurial organization
launched in 2008.
The university’s Lloyd Greif Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies is the oldest entrepre-neurial
program in the nation and in 2007 was
rated No. 1 in the nation for its entrepreneur-ship
studies graduate programs.
“Small business entrepreneurship is the job
creation machine of our economy,” said Patrick
Henry, an assistant professor of clinical en-trepreneurship
at USC’s Marshall School of
Business.
Ventures in Tuesday’s event — which show-cased
six different student-run business-es
— ranged from a blog known as College
Trillionaires, which advises college students
in the world of investing, to P’Tones Records,
a company that gives underprivileged children
the opportunity to learn how to run a record la-bel.
The event preluded an upcoming national
conference in New York City that will be attend-ed
in April by the top 500 student entrepreneurs
in the country, and which will include the un-veiling
of the best 100 ventures of the group.
“The purpose of this [expo] is to provide in-spiration
to pursue entrepreneurial ventures
and to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of
the students,” said Josh Friedman, a sophomore
majoring in business and the president of the
USC chapter of the Kairos Society.
Chris Murphy, a junior majoring in business
and co-owner of Shacked clothing, presented his
surf-inspired apparel line to the expo attendees
and talked about his passion for his company.
“When you’re doing what you love, it doesn’t
even feel like work,” he said.
Following the venture showcase, student
business owners were available to answer
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2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
12 · Classifieds
14 · Crossword
16 · Sports
Free speech: Students use
chalk as way to express
themselves. PAGE 7
Nightmare on Child’s Way:
Baseball falls 10-1 to Pepperdine at
Dedeaux Field. PAGE 16
President Steven B. Sample delivered a sermon during Ash Wednesday services at Bovard Auditorium. More than 500 students
attended the tri-congregational service, which united Lutheran, Episcopalian and Catholic parishioners from USC and the surrounding
community. At the event, it was noted that USC was the first university to unite the three denominations to mark Ash Wednesday.
Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan
By madeline reddington
Daily Trojan
Trojan Hospitality received an or-der
of more than 700 sets of silver-ware
for EVK Tuesday to replace
dining supplies that have been dis-appearing
throughout the year, said
EVK manager Edith Hernandez-
Rubio.
She said that students have been
walking out of the dining hall with
cups, silverware, bowls and plates
since the beginning of the year,
and many items have been found
in freshmen dorms near the dining
hall. Dining hall tableware often goes
missing during the course of the
year, but this year has been espe-cially
bad, Hernandez-Rubio said,
and the workers at EVK have start-ed
adding plastic silverware and
Styrofoam cups to the dining hall
dishes.
She said this helped, but until
Student entrepreneurs showcase their businesses
The event honored student-run businesses
and was hosted by the Kairos Society,
which created a chapter at USC last year.
| see businesses, page 11 |
EVK replaces
diminishing
dinnerware
Trojan Hospitality officials say
supplies normally dwindle, but
not as much as this semester.
| see evk, page 10 |
By laura nelson
Daily Trojan
Officials have confirmed that a
recent string of reported thefts in
Lyon Center locker rooms marks
an increase from the number of
thefts at the same time last year.
The majority of the report-ed
crimes are grand theft or pet-ty
theft, Department of Public
Safety officials said. The Career
and Public Services report, pub-lished
daily by DPS, has reported
17 locker room-related thefts from
the Lyon Center since Jan. 5.
“This has been an issue that
has come to our attention, and it’s
been an issue for a while now,” said
DPS Capt. David Carlisle. “We are
working hard to stave off the prob-lem.”
Multiple sources at the Lyon
Center declined to comment.
Patrick Bailey, the associate
dean and executive director of
Student Life and Involvement, said
the Lyon Center is working closely
with DPS and the LAPD on the is-sue
of theft.
“The most important thing that
I would stress at this time is that
At Lyon
Center,
theft up
The Lyon Center is working
with DPS and the LAPD to
cut down on property crimes.
| see theft, page 11 |
Amaresh Sundaram Kuppuswamy | Daily Trojan
Talking business · Students in attendance at the first Entrepreneurship Expo, hosted by
the Kairos Society, network with other entrepreneurs Tuesday night at Hoffman Edison Hall.