Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 52 | Thursday April 8, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
12 · Classifieds
15 · Crossword
16 · Sports
Pants on fire: Liars embark
on national tour for new
album, Sisterworld. PAGE 7
Narrow victory: Trojan baseball
sneaks by visiting Roadrunners for
4-3 win. PAGE 16
Hot wheels
Passers-by stopped to view the antique cars on display on Trousdale Parkway on Wednesday as part of a Visions and Voices event. The
event also included a panel discussion featuring Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum, Denise Sandoval, a professor
of Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge, and Beth Werling, collections manager of material culture at the Museum of Natural History.
Owen Zheng | Daily Trojan
By amanda pillon
Daily Trojan
Based on this year’s admissions numbers, earn-ing
a spot at USC was harder this year than ever be-fore.
Of the 35,730 applicants, 8,500 were admitted for
the fall semester for a total acceptance rate of 23.8
percent, according to Tim Brunold, USC’s director
of undergraduate admissions. Last year, 24.1 per-cent
of applicants were admitted.
Based on its acceptance rate, Brunold said USC
remains among the 40 most selective universities
in the country and among the eight most selective
schools in California.
“Getting into USC makes me proud of what
I’ve done and everything I’ve accomplished,” said
Vivian Yan, an admitted student from Orange
County, Calif. “I know you can’t measure success by
where someone’s gotten in, but it makes me feel like
I’ve done something worthwhile.”
This year’s class is also slightly stronger than
last year’s, with an average SAT score more than 20
Admissions
more selective
than ever
The freshmen admissions rate dropped from
24.1 percent last year to 23.8 percent this year.
| see admits, page 3 |
By Joe Peters
Daily Trojan
Highlighting a week of events focused on
global health, USC will host a health career
fair Thursday to help students realize that
there are opportunities in global health be-yond
traditional careers.
The career fair is being held as part of Global
Health Awareness Week, a joint venture be-tween
USC and UCLA that was first held last
year. This year’s theme is “Urbanization and
Health,” and the event has featured a number
of speakers and workshops.
At the career fair, which will be on
Trousdale Parkway from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
representatives from organizations including
the Red Cross, Doctors for Global Health and
TOMS Shoes will be present to discuss jobs
and volunteer opportunities with students.
Ivette Flores, program manager of the USC
Institute for Global Health, said she hopes
that this week’s events will remind students
about the interconnected nature of the world
and the impact they can have on it.
“Los Angeles itself is a global village,”
Flores said. “Even if you never leave your back-yard
and you live in L.A., you are experiencing
global health issues because of the diversity of
the population: health outcomes, mortality is-sues
... Global health transcends all boundar-ies
and affects everyone.”
USC student coordinators Kelly Leech and
Minh Tran are optimistic about the turnout
at the fair because attendance at all of this
week’s events has been high.
“Attendance is up — people are talking
about global health week online and on the
Facebook page, and we’re getting a lot of mes-sages
from the website,” Leech said.
Various events have taken place this week
at UCLA and USC, on both the Health Sciences
Campus and University Park Campus. On
Monday evening, an exhibit by photojournal-ist
Paul Rockower, “Public Health through a
USC, UCLA collaborate to host Global Health Awareness Week
The awareness week will feature a
fair on health opportunities to be held
Thursday on Trousdale Parkway.
| see health, page 3 |
By Natalie Chau
Daily Trojan
Coming back to the school where
it all started, the Invisible Children
organization will be hosting an
event Thursday to raise awareness
about the crisis in Uganda and its ef-fect
on children.
USC alumni Jason Russell and
Bobby Bailey, along with co-founder
Laren Poole, began Invisible
Children after they visited Africa
as students to create a filmmak-ing
project. After seeing the toll the
Lord’s Resistance Army — a mili-tant
group terrorizing communities
Invisible
Children tour
stops at USC
The movement that started at
USC will return Thursday as
part of the ‘Legacy Tour.’
| see tour, page 11 |
By liz warden
Daily Trojan
Election results have been tallied for the
Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood
Development Council, and the elected executive
board, including a USC student, consists of new fac-es
ready to tackle issues concerning the local com-munity.
Shawn Simons will be returning as president of
the neighborhood council but will be working with
a new executive board. Ashley Ramos, a junior ma-joring
in political science, will serve as one of the
two representatives for Area 3, the area that in-cludes
North University Park.
Ramos will be replacing Samantha Foley, a se-nior
majoring in political science and international
relations, and Daniel Wu, a senior majoring in Los
Angeles urban studies, both of whom were appoint-ed
to the council and served for a year.
Though a number of students showed interest
in running for the council, Ramos is the only one
One student elected to neighborhood council
Junior Ashley Ramos will serve on the
North Area Neighborhood Development
Council as the Area 3 representative.
| see council, page 6 |
Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan
Community · The North Area Neighborhood Development Council, pictured here during
a meeting at the University Village in March, recently elected a new executive board.