Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 167, NO. 5 | Wednesday June 17, 2009
SUMMER TROJAN
InDEX
2 · News Digest
2 · Sudoku
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
12 · Sports
Allentown: A review of
Woody Allen’s latest comedy,
‘Whatever Works.’ PAGE 5
Floyd is out: Coach’s resignation
leaves the basketball program in
great uncertainty. PAGE 12
By alexandra tilsley
Summer Trojan
A recent article by Inside Higher Ed exposed an
error in USC Viterbi’s data-reporting that could al-ter
— potentially drastically — the Viterbi School of
Engineering’s No. 7 ranking on U.S. News & World
Report’s annual list. Viterbi officials insist the error
was not an intentional attempt to improve the school’s
standing.
Inside Higher Ed reported on June 8 that Viterbi had
misreported the number of faculty members who are
also members of the National Academy of Engineering,
a number which is used by USNWR as a criterion for
ranking on their list. The report by Inside Higher Ed,
which scrutinized statements by Viterbi officials as
well as the Viterbi website and USC staff directory, led
Viterbi to report to U.S. News that its actual number
of NAE members was 13, rather than the 30 that were
originally reported.
The discrepancy occurred because Viterbi reported
all NAE faculty members to USNWR, not just full-time,
tenure-track professors, as the USNWR survey stipu-lates.
Viterbi Associate Dean Margery Berti, who sub-mitted
the data to USNWR, said the mistake was an
innocent one and USC never intended to deceive poten-tial
students using the USNWR rankings.
“The Viterbi School has truly excellent full-time and
part-time faculty and they contribute tremendously to
the academic experience of our students,” Berti said.
“A lot of these are faculty who have earned membership
in the National Academy of Engineering. We view them
as part of our team, but U.S. News & World Report no-tified
us of a difference in our definition and a discrep-ancy
in our reporting.”
Berti said she has worked with USNWR to adjust the
number.
Robert Morse, director of data research for USNWR,
wrote in an online post that USNWR has been working
Article shows
discrepancy in
Viterbi reports
Viterbi officials say they are working with U.S.
News & World Report to correct the mistake.
| see viterbi, page 3 |
By alexandra tilsley
Summer Trojan
After a string of robberies in the
North University Park area, the
USC Department of Public Safety
has responded with a string of ar-rests.
The first arrest occurred June
10, when DPS and LAPD officials
apprehended 26-year-old Anthony
Paul Hood, who they believe was re-sponsible
for three armed robberies
between June 2 and June 7. Then, on
June 12, DPS detained a suspect in
an attempted robbery that had oc-curred
earlier that morning.
DPS Capt. David Carlisle said
the arrest of Hood was the result
of tactics implemented by DPS in
partnership with LAPD.
“We saw some patterns and we
implemented some specific strat-egies
because of what we saw
through crime analysis,” Carlisle
said.
Hood was arrested around 7:30
p.m. June 10 near the 1200 block of
29th Street. DPS officials detained
him as he was entering a vehicle.
Carlisle said DPS had noticed
that new residents had moved into
the area, and were often seen loi-tering.
By monitoring the area and
recognizing patterns, they were
able to pick out Hood as the poten-tial
culprit in the three robberies.
DPS officers were monitoring
the area the night of June 10 be-cause
they suspected a drug deal
was occurring, and recognized
Hood from their information and
DPS arrests
suspects in
robberies
Officials say they believe one
suspect was responsible for
three separate area incidents.
| see arrests, page 3 |
Members of USC Lambda march Sunday in the L.A. Gay Pride Parade as part of the city’s annual
weekend festival promoting gay rights. Many notable Californians, including Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, participated in the parade.
Showing support
Lakers Parade:
Route and Closures
r Figueroa Street will be closed
between the Staples Center and the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from
8 a.m. until noon.
r Cherry Street will be closed
between Pico and Olympic
boulevards from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
r The Adams, Martin Luther King,
Exposition and Olympic exits of the
I-110 freeway will be closed from 10
a.m. until the end of the parade.
r Parking structures 1, 2 and the
Parking Center will be open to the
public.
r Parking Structure X will be
closed.
Figueroa St.
University
Park
Campus
Coliseum
Cherry St.
Staples
Center
Martin Luther King Blvd.
Jefferson Blvd.
Exposition Blvd.
Hoover St.
Vermont Ave.
ympic Blvd.
S. Broadway
Pico Blvd.
Venice Blvd.
Washington
Ol
Blvd.
I-10
I-110
Leah Thompson | Summer Trojan
Dieuwertje Kast | Summer Trojan
U.S. News & World Report’s
Top 10 Engineering Schools
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Stanford University
University of California —
Berkeley
Georgia Institute of
Technology
University of Illinois —
Urbana-Champaign
Carnegie Mellon University
California Institute of
Technology (tied)
University of Southern
California (tied)
University of Michigan —
Ann Arbor
University of Texas —
Austin
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10. Leah Thompson | Summer Trojan