World Bank president rules out U.S. isolation
The president of World Bank, along with USC faculty, spoke to students and staff Thursday night.
By BRENOA DURAN
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To remedy poverty and inequality in underdeveloped countries, the economic gap that currently exists needs to desist, said James Wolfensohn, president of World Bank, and a panel of USC faculty members who spoke Thursday evening at the Davidson Conference Center.
Wolfensohn spoke (o more than 100 students and faculty, at the discussion. "Why Development is Important in the United States,'
which was about the World Bank's focus on poverty and the economic state of its 184 member countries around the world that was also televised in an international Web cast.
Wolfensohn, who is serving his second five-year term as president of World Bank, said the company is committed more than ever to urging countries that resource-rich coun tries such as the United States, to be more aware of the needs of underde veloped countries.
‘“It’s not possible to live behind a wall anymore. The image of the World Trade Centers collapsing is the image of that wall coming down,’’ Wolfensohn said.
Issues of development are important to the United States because of the economic interdependence that it has with the rest of the world.
Wolfensohn said
By 2015, Wolfensohn said 40 percent of global trade will be with developing countries, which are in need of stability
"There is no safety in an interde pendent world, unless you have equity," Wolfensohn said.
With the population growing to an estimated 3-billion over the next 50 years, Wolfensohn said making larger contributions to financially developing countries would help stabilize the world for future generations.
"Our country has a lot to contribute. If we would contribute at least $100 billion a year, we could advance the human condition in a developing country," Wolfensohn said.
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L-A. Marathon runners will race through downtown Sunday.
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Agavm (iasparyan. a I'SC sophomore will t>c run ning the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, some thing two years ago she never thought she could do
"It shows how things can change in such a short tune." she said
Gasparyan joined a four month training program organized by Michael Murphy. | directoi of USC s leadership program. He has been coach ing 50 USC students, faculty
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Deteroriating rings rescued for anniversary
1984 Olympic Rings were found in the parking lot of the following the Olympic Rings story.
Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center.
By AARON BURGiN
SU0 Writer
In 1984. Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games, and more than 2 billion people watched Rafer Johnson, gold-medal winner in the 1960 Olympic decathlon, light the Olympic Rings and Flame at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
This event marked the beginning of the Olympics and the rejuvenation of the 88-year-old world celebration.
On Thursday, those same Olympic
Rings, severely weathered from 20 years of negligence, were transported to the Ampersand Contract Signing Group facility, where they will undergo an
eight-week renovation in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Olympic games in Los Angeles.
"With the Olympics occurring this year and the Olympic Torch being run through Los Angeles, it would only be fitting that this landmark be restored to lend to the moment" said Greg Bishop of Tri-Sight Communications, a USC student-run public relations company
The rings, which until recently were located’ in the parking lot of the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center, will be restored to their original appearance and equipped with neon lighting.
With more thiui half of the world’s population watching the 1984 torch lighting ceremony, the rings became a source of pride for many Angelenos, Bishop said.
"The rings are a monument," Bishop said. "They were never meant to be a monument, but they became an important piece of Los Angeles history"
After the Olympics, the rings were removed from the Coliseum to make
room for the new football scoreboard, beginning the rings' 20-year odyssey from dty landmark to oversize refuse.
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake. the Memorial Coliseum Commission decided to move the rings from their indoor storage to outdoors, where the wind and rain eventually took their toll on the two-ton rings.
Margaret Famum of the Memorial Coliseum Commission said she watched the rings erode over time and thought that something had to be done.
"I agonized over the fact that the rings were wasting away," said Farnum, who worked on the 1984 Olympics Games
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Trojan Dance Force wins nationals in Vegas
USC dance team beat UCLA for prize at the United Spirit Association Nationals.
By KRISTIN MAYER
Staff Writer
The Trojan Dance Force claimed victory at the United Spirit Association Nationals in Las Vegas Monday, adding a fourth athletic team to USC's list of national championship titles captured this academic year.
At the competition, which drew 21 dance teams from four-year universities around the country, USC upset the status quo of previous years by pushing the favored University of Missouri and UCLA into second and third places, respectively.
‘It's probably the most intense two minutes and 15 seconds of your life," said Allison Lindauer. a senior majoring in business and captain of the Trojan Dance Force. “In these competitions. if you're not working as a team you won't win.'
The U.S.A. Nationals are well-known for being highly competitive, said Anne Fasnacht. a senior majoring in communication and three-year member of the team.
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Lauren Dragicevich, a sophomore majoring in theatre act ing, demonstrates the profound energy of the Trojan Dance Force at a recent basketball game The dance squad performs 15 to 20 rou tines at the Trojan Das ketball games The U.S.A. Nationals was their first of three competitions this year