Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 168, NO. 37 | Friday October 16, 2009
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
10 · Sudoku
12 · Sports
Grand opening: Cirque du
Soleil brings its latest show,
Kooza, to LA. PAGE 5
What rivalry? USC has owned
Notre Dame in recent years, but the
Irish think it’s their year. PAGE 12
By nicole dailo
Daily Trojan
Exploring the sights, sounds and tastes of
Downtown Los Angeles will soon be easier for USC
students. The Undergraduate Student Government,
USC Transportation and LA Live have finalized plans
for a free shuttle running from campus to the nearby
sports and entertainment venues.
“I think it’s really important to know that we now
have a safe and reliable way for students to plug into
the Downtown entertainment and night scene,” USG
President Holden Slusher said. “I’m really excited for
students to get out and take advantage of Los Angeles.
It’s going to be great for students to have this diverse
opportunity.”
The shuttle will start running on Nov. 6, stop-ping
at Figueroa Street in front of The Lab and on a
private street between the Staples Center and the
Nokia Theatre, said Tony Mazza, director of USC
Transportation.
Departing every 30 minutes, the shut-tle
is scheduled to make the 2.5-mile
trek to LA Live on Fridays from 6 p.m. to
2 a.m., on Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and on
Students to
get LA Live
tram service
Free shuttle organized by USG, USC and LA Live
will run on weekends starting in November.
| see tram, page 2 |
By kate mason
Daily Trojan
Three separate but similar inci-dents
in the past month have au-thorities
looking for a man with a
penchant for feet.
The first incident occurred Sept.
11, by 37th and Catalina streets. A
female student — a junior major-ing
in print journalism who chose
to remain anonymous — said she
was riding her bike to her friend’s
house around 3:30 p.m. when the
suspect gestured for her to ride
over to him.
The man told her he was a podi-atry
student at USC conducting re-search
on the arches of people’s feet
and would like to look at her feet.
“He was like, ‘I was wondering
if I could take a look at your arch.’
I told him no, and that I was late
meeting my friend. He was like,
‘You know what, it’ll only take two
seconds, I just have to look at your
foot,’” the student said. “Because
I was wearing flip flops, I held out
my foot.”
After the student held out her
foot, the man began to massage
and fondle her feet. When the stu-dent
realized the man was not ac-tually
a podiatry student, she tried
to walk away but he yanked her
Loiterer
gets off on
wrong foot
Man repeatedly harasses
female passers-by in North
University Park area.
| see fet, page 3 |
By jacqueline kurth
Daily Trojan
In an effort to close the cultural
gap between international and do-mestic
students and to introduce
the student body to cultural diver-sity
on campus, the International
Student Assembly is hosting
USC’s first Multicultural Carnival
Saturday in McCarthy Quad.
With the largest number of in-ternational
students of any uni-versity
in the United States, USC
has 41 countries represented in its
student body.
But, many of those students
struggle with adapting to the so-cial
and cultural gaps between
international and domestic stu-dents,
according to Eshan Saluja,
director of programming and de-velopment
for ISA.
“I think there is a huge gap be-tween
international students and
domestic students,” said Saluja,
a junior majoring in business ad-ministration.
“Even though USC
has the largest international
population, the problem is that
there is not that much interac-tion
apart from class or group
work. Americans hang out with
Americans, Chinese with Chinese
and Indian with Indian.”
ISA is hoping the carnival, slat-ed
to run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
will serve as a jumping-off point
for students from different cul-tures
to interact with one another.
The carnival will include booths
from different international stu-dent
organizations on campus,
featuring culture-specific activi-ties
such as a chopstick game with
the Chinese Students Association,
as well as samples of the country’s
cuisine.
“We are trying to encourage the
connection between different na-tionality
groups ... including do-mestic
students,” said Matthew
Leung, executive director of the
ISA and a sophomore majoring in
business finance.
The Carnival will feature inter-national
activities, and also some
traditionally American pastimes.
Leung said the ISA is hoping to
attract even more visitors to the
carnival by broadcasting the USC-Notre
Dame game on a high-defi-nition
TV.
“We are trying to see if we can
incorporate American culture
with the different internation-al
games so we don’t involve only
international students and so we
can attract domestic students,” he
said. “Also, international students
can learn about football, which is
an American experience as well as
a Trojan experience.”
A number of students plan-ning
to participate in the event
said they are looking forward to a
chance to promote their own cul-ture.
“Apart from wanting to get to
know other cultures, we want to
tell other people about our cul-ture,”
said Silviana Hurniawan, a
junior majoring in communication
and the public relations officer
for the Association of Indonesian
International Student Assembly to host cultural carnival
Event will give international
and domestic students an
opportunity to interact.
| see carnival, page 3 |
Mike Lee | Daily Trojan
Diversion · Members of the International Student Assembly post
flyers for their Multicultural Carnival, to be held on Saturday.
Dieuwertje Kast | Daily Trojan
Lively · Beginning in November, USC students can take advantage of a free shuttle from USC to Downtown’s entertainment
hub, LA Live. The shuttle, funded by LA Live, will run on weekends and will depart from in front of The Lab every half hour.