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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 32 | Tuesday March 2, 2010 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 10 · Sudoku 12 · Classifieds 16 · Sports Nightclubbing: Niteflip.com provides students with a guide to Downtown events. PAGE 7 Old fashioned: Hurling, a sport with a 2,000 year history, is gaining a following at USC. PAGE 16 By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan Students came together Monday to remember Sandy Roberts, a USC student who died Saturday night after a car crash in Kern County, near Bakersfield, Calif. The School of Cinematic Arts and USC Hillel both offered services in honor of Roberts, hoping to give his friends and fellow students a venue to reminisce and grieve. Roberts, a sophomore majoring in cinema-television production, was riding in a car driven by Nicole Deane, also a sophomore majoring in cinema-television pro-duction, when the car lost control and veered into on-coming traffic. Both Deane and Roberts were trans-ported to Kern Medical Center, where Roberts was pronounced dead. In response to requests from Roberts’ friends, USC Hillel held a memorial service Monday night, inviting the entire USC community. Memorial held for USC student killed in crash The student who survived the crash was in stable condition at the hospital as of Monday night. | see memorial, page 11 | By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan More than 50 Marshall stu-dents planning to spend their spring break meeting with busi-nesses in Santiago, Chile, were told late Sunday night — less than 48 hours after an earth-quake shook the country’s coast — that the trip was canceled. Chile was struck by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning, killing more than 700 people and displacing more than 2 million residents. The earthquake’s epicenter was southwest of Santiago, Chile’s capital, but the initial earth-quake and its aftershocks still caused significant damage. Santiago fared better than Concepción, another major city located farther south, but the earthquake was powerful enough to leave many people without power, gas or water and to close one of the city’s major bridges and its only airport. A group of Marshall freshmen was slated to visit Santiago over spring break as part of the school’s Learning about International Commerce Program (LINC). Students in the program take a two-unit class focused on a spe-cific country’s culture and busi-nesses and then visit that coun-try in March or May. Though most experts believe Santiago will recover quickly, Marshall administrators felt they needed to make a quick decision and, because they can’t be sure the country and its business will be stable in time for spring break, Spring break trip to Chile canceled Marshall students who were set to travel to Santiago are waiting to hear the new plans. | see chile, page 11 | By tucker reed Daily Trojan Few students would disagree that USC’s wireless Internet service is due for some fine-tuning, but they might not realize the amount of work and money re-quired to improve wireless coverage. In 2006, Information Technology Services began working to improve its wireless coverage, which had been in place since 2002. ITS added almost 1,000 wireless Internet access points to the pre-existing 620, increasing coverage roughly 160 percent. But those improvements have not satisfied USC students. In fact, every candidate in the recent Undergraduate Student Government election men-tioned improving wireless as one of his or her plat-form points. “We’ve had enough student feedback to know that there’s an issue, and I think it’s why you saw can-didates talking about it in the student government campaigns,” said John Baldo, director of university affairs for USG. “I think everyone kind of agrees it is something we should have. I think ITS is pretty on-board with making sure we have it.” Newly elected USG president Chris Cheng said USG’s focus for next year will shift toward improv-ing wireless in the residence halls, as many students have complained about the spotty coverage. “Before the elections, we had a research period where we talked to as many students as possible,” Cheng said. “There really is a high demand for im-provement in the residence halls, and in the core academic buildings — Von KleinSmid and Taper Hall, places where a lot of people have their General Education courses.” Kevin Durkin, director of communications for ITS, said sometimes it is not the number of access points that creates a weak signal but other types of interference, such as microwave ovens or the wire mesh in the walls of buildings. Cheng stressed that USG is not suggesting that ITS isn’t doing its job in providing wireless to stu-dents. “But in places where the wireless is weak and low, we want to strengthen it,” he said. Until recently, wireless coverage was inconsis-tent, even in Leavey Library, a main study spot for Wireless coverage constantly a concern Undergraduate Student Government officials have been pushing to improve wireless access because of students’ complaints and requests. | see wireless, page 5 | By Grace Wong Daily Trojan As Undergraduate Student Government President Holden Slusher and Vice President Ashlie Chan begin their last month in of-fice, they hope to pass on projects they have started to the new admin-istration and assist in the transition to a new administration and loca-tion. In that time, Slusher and Chan will put on USG’s Council of Presidents, hold one last promotional event and primarily focus on transitioning. “I just really, really want none of the projects that [we] started to fall off the map,” Slusher said. “It’s not just like a Slusher-Chan thing, and then they’re done. We do USG proj-ects because students want it and that’s what should drive the change.” Slusher did express some disap-pointment in being unable to ac-complish certain projects he had hoped to. Among others, Slusher and Chan hoped to extend the hours at the Lyon Center and also increase safety in the libraries. “You get to start a lot of projects, but you’re lucky if you finish a cou-ple,” Slusher said. Slusher, Chan working to ensure a smooth transition The outgoing administration is helping with the move to the Ronald Tutor Campus Center. | see Transition, page 3 | Tim Tran | Daily Trojan Remembered · About 150 students gathered at USC Hillel on Monday night for a memorial service in honor of Sandy Roberts, a sophomore majoring in cinema-television production, who died in a car accident in Kern County Saturday night. Daily Trojan File Photo Final days · USG President Holden Slusher plans to use his final weeks in office to focus on making the transition as easy as possible.
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 32 | Tuesday March 2, 2010 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 10 · Sudoku 12 · Classifieds 16 · Sports Nightclubbing: Niteflip.com provides students with a guide to Downtown events. PAGE 7 Old fashioned: Hurling, a sport with a 2,000 year history, is gaining a following at USC. PAGE 16 By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan Students came together Monday to remember Sandy Roberts, a USC student who died Saturday night after a car crash in Kern County, near Bakersfield, Calif. The School of Cinematic Arts and USC Hillel both offered services in honor of Roberts, hoping to give his friends and fellow students a venue to reminisce and grieve. Roberts, a sophomore majoring in cinema-television production, was riding in a car driven by Nicole Deane, also a sophomore majoring in cinema-television pro-duction, when the car lost control and veered into on-coming traffic. Both Deane and Roberts were trans-ported to Kern Medical Center, where Roberts was pronounced dead. In response to requests from Roberts’ friends, USC Hillel held a memorial service Monday night, inviting the entire USC community. Memorial held for USC student killed in crash The student who survived the crash was in stable condition at the hospital as of Monday night. | see memorial, page 11 | By Alexandra Tilsley Daily Trojan More than 50 Marshall stu-dents planning to spend their spring break meeting with busi-nesses in Santiago, Chile, were told late Sunday night — less than 48 hours after an earth-quake shook the country’s coast — that the trip was canceled. Chile was struck by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning, killing more than 700 people and displacing more than 2 million residents. The earthquake’s epicenter was southwest of Santiago, Chile’s capital, but the initial earth-quake and its aftershocks still caused significant damage. Santiago fared better than Concepción, another major city located farther south, but the earthquake was powerful enough to leave many people without power, gas or water and to close one of the city’s major bridges and its only airport. A group of Marshall freshmen was slated to visit Santiago over spring break as part of the school’s Learning about International Commerce Program (LINC). Students in the program take a two-unit class focused on a spe-cific country’s culture and busi-nesses and then visit that coun-try in March or May. Though most experts believe Santiago will recover quickly, Marshall administrators felt they needed to make a quick decision and, because they can’t be sure the country and its business will be stable in time for spring break, Spring break trip to Chile canceled Marshall students who were set to travel to Santiago are waiting to hear the new plans. | see chile, page 11 | By tucker reed Daily Trojan Few students would disagree that USC’s wireless Internet service is due for some fine-tuning, but they might not realize the amount of work and money re-quired to improve wireless coverage. In 2006, Information Technology Services began working to improve its wireless coverage, which had been in place since 2002. ITS added almost 1,000 wireless Internet access points to the pre-existing 620, increasing coverage roughly 160 percent. But those improvements have not satisfied USC students. In fact, every candidate in the recent Undergraduate Student Government election men-tioned improving wireless as one of his or her plat-form points. “We’ve had enough student feedback to know that there’s an issue, and I think it’s why you saw can-didates talking about it in the student government campaigns,” said John Baldo, director of university affairs for USG. “I think everyone kind of agrees it is something we should have. I think ITS is pretty on-board with making sure we have it.” Newly elected USG president Chris Cheng said USG’s focus for next year will shift toward improv-ing wireless in the residence halls, as many students have complained about the spotty coverage. “Before the elections, we had a research period where we talked to as many students as possible,” Cheng said. “There really is a high demand for im-provement in the residence halls, and in the core academic buildings — Von KleinSmid and Taper Hall, places where a lot of people have their General Education courses.” Kevin Durkin, director of communications for ITS, said sometimes it is not the number of access points that creates a weak signal but other types of interference, such as microwave ovens or the wire mesh in the walls of buildings. Cheng stressed that USG is not suggesting that ITS isn’t doing its job in providing wireless to stu-dents. “But in places where the wireless is weak and low, we want to strengthen it,” he said. Until recently, wireless coverage was inconsis-tent, even in Leavey Library, a main study spot for Wireless coverage constantly a concern Undergraduate Student Government officials have been pushing to improve wireless access because of students’ complaints and requests. | see wireless, page 5 | By Grace Wong Daily Trojan As Undergraduate Student Government President Holden Slusher and Vice President Ashlie Chan begin their last month in of-fice, they hope to pass on projects they have started to the new admin-istration and assist in the transition to a new administration and loca-tion. In that time, Slusher and Chan will put on USG’s Council of Presidents, hold one last promotional event and primarily focus on transitioning. “I just really, really want none of the projects that [we] started to fall off the map,” Slusher said. “It’s not just like a Slusher-Chan thing, and then they’re done. We do USG proj-ects because students want it and that’s what should drive the change.” Slusher did express some disap-pointment in being unable to ac-complish certain projects he had hoped to. Among others, Slusher and Chan hoped to extend the hours at the Lyon Center and also increase safety in the libraries. “You get to start a lot of projects, but you’re lucky if you finish a cou-ple,” Slusher said. Slusher, Chan working to ensure a smooth transition The outgoing administration is helping with the move to the Ronald Tutor Campus Center. | see Transition, page 3 | Tim Tran | Daily Trojan Remembered · About 150 students gathered at USC Hillel on Monday night for a memorial service in honor of Sandy Roberts, a sophomore majoring in cinema-television production, who died in a car accident in Kern County Saturday night. Daily Trojan File Photo Final days · USG President Holden Slusher plans to use his final weeks in office to focus on making the transition as easy as possible. |