Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 166, NO. 44 | Monday March 30, 2009
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
10 · Sudoku
12 · Sports
Cheap eats: The classiest
bargain food Los Angeles has
to offer. PAGE 7
Sympathy for the devil: Baseball
avoids sweep by No. 3 Arizona State
with win on Sunday. PAGE 12
By Alexandra Tilsley
and Tiffanie Wu
Daily Trojan
A female USC student died following a hit-and-run
at the intersection of Hoover Street and Jefferson
Boulevard at approximately 3:00 a.m. Sunday, LAPD
said. A male student was also injured in the inci -
dent and was listed in stable condition at California
Hospital Medical Center on Sunday afternoon with
severe but non-life-threatening injuries.
The two students were walking southbound across
Jefferson Boulevard when a car travelling eastbound
did not stop at a red light and collided with the two
students, said Det. Jimmy Render of LAPD South
Traffic Division.
After the car struck the pedestrians, it continued
driving eastbound with the male student on its hood
until a passenger in the front seat of the car exited
the vehicle, moved the student from the hood of the
car to the sidewalk, then drove away, Render said.
The female student remained in the road.
“For someone to do this particular incident, it
lacks courage — that particular individual has no re -
spect for human life, and that individual should cer -
tainly go to jail for this incident,” Render said.
The female student, Adrianna Bachan, was a fresh -
man majoring in environmental studies from Santa
Barbara, Calif. She was also a member of the Pi Beta
Phi sorority.
“It’s heartbreaking for us to lose one of our girls,”
said Blessing Waung, president of the USC Panhellenic
Council. “The whole Greek community is reaching
out to support Pi Phi right now because they have lost
one of their sisters, and that’s something that no one
should have to go through.”
The male student, Marcus Garfinkle, is an unde -
cided freshman from Scottsdale, Ariz., and a member
of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
James Grant, director of USC Media Relations,
Student killed in hit-and-run near campus
Another student was in stable condition Sunday
afternoon after the morning incident, police said.
| see Hit-And-Run, page 3 |
Amaresh Sundaram Kuppuswamy | Daily Trojan
Investigation · Det. Jimmy Render of the LAPD South Traffic Division speaks with local news stations regarding the incident
in a press conference Sunday afternoon. Render said the crime is under investigation and officers are still looking for the suspects.
By callie schweitzer
Daily Trojan
On his 105th birthday, Emery
Stoops recited the following
words: “I’m turning 105, and next
year, I’ll still be alive.”
And he was right.
Stoops, USC professor emeritus
of the Rossier School of Education,
philanthropist and USC’s oldest
alumnus, lived to be 106.
Stoops, who died March 25 in
Playa Vista, Calif., left behind a
large legacy at USC.
“He was dedicated to USC and
very dedicated to the school of
education,” said Karen Symms
Gallagher, who holds the Emery
Stoops and Joyce King Stoops
Dean’s Chair in Education at
Rossier. “He didn’t ever see a chal -
lenge as a barrier, but as some-thing
that could be overcome or
confronted.”
Gallagher said Stoops, whom
she called “spunky,” was the em-bodiment
of a Trojan.
Benefactor
remembered
for dedication
Emery Stoops, 106, was an
active member of the Phi Delta
Kappa community at USC.
| see stoops, page 2 |
By nicole dailo
Daily Trojan
With many Americans searching for ways
to reduce their expenses amid the economic
recession, USC’s bookstores are suffering the
effects of the penny-pinching trend. Sales
have decreased significantly since November,
and they have only continued to drop, officials
said.
“We’re not immune from these outside
factors,” said Dan Archer, director of Trojan
Bookstores. “We’ve cut expenses and mon-itored
labor in order to make sure the ship
stays afloat, but it’s increasingly becoming
difficult.”
Sales are down 7 percent since last year,
resulting in a loss of $3.5 million across all of
USC’s bookstores.
Textbooks and general merchandise have
experienced the most significant profit losses
over the past few months, Archer said. This
decreased revenue has prevented Trojan
Bookstores from providing donations and
other forms of support to the USC community,
he added.
“When we say we’re down in sales, it doesn’t
mean we’re costing the university money to
exist,” he said. “It just means we’re finding
it hard to meet our university commitments,
because we do donations and programs, and
those things have to be looked at when con -
sidering funding.”
USC’s bookstores are not alone in their
efforts to battle the effects of the nation’s
struggling economy.
Across town, the UCLA Store is experienc -
ing troubles of its own, with sales of textbooks,
computers and apparel having decreased since
last year, said Patrick Healey, general mer-chandise
manager for the UCLA Store.
Despite a $650,000 reduction in textbook
prices for the current school year, sales are
still significantly lower than they were last
year because students are purchasing books
elsewhere, Healey said. In terms of apparel and
computers, considered areas of discretionary
spending, sales are down 17 and 75 percent,
respectively, he added.
“Students continue to explore options to
lower the costs of their college education,”
Healey said. “With the uncertainty of the cur -
rent economic conditions and adjustments to
the state budget, we are being fairly conserva -
tive in planning sales for the coming year.”
USC’s bookstores do not deal with changes
in the California state budget, but they do face
similar challenges in terms of textbook sales.
As more students attempt to save money by
turning to the Internet for textbooks, Trojan
Bookstores must find new and innovative
USC bookstores see $3.5 million drop in sales, officials say
Bookstore officials say new marketing
techniques will be used to help boost sales,
including discounts and online advertising.
| see sales, page 3 |
UCLA sales
Apparel sales are down 17 percent.
Computer sales are down 75
percent.
There was a $650,000 reduction in
textbook prices for the current
school year, but sales are still lower.
USC sales
Sales are down 7 percent since last year.
Total loss of $3.5 million dollars across
all USC’s bookstores.
Textbooks and general merchandise
have experienced the most significant
profit losses.
Bookstore sales on the decline
Amy Schilit | Daily Trojan