Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 2 | Tuesday August 28, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 14 · Sports 16 · Classifieds 16 · Crossword
Animated stills: DreamWorlds
exhibit brings color to School
of Cinematic Arts. PAGE 7
Center of attention: Khaled
Holmes begins third year as
starter. PAGE 20
Campus
By steve kearns
Daily Trojan
As students flocked to the
University Park Campus for the first
day of classes Monday, new, portable
bike lanes flanking Trousdale
Parkway prompted varied reactions
from students.
Part of a joint project by USC
Student Affairs and Undergraduate
Student Government, the bike lanes
are intended to enable students
to bike up and down Trousdale
without interfering with pedestrian
traffic.
An email sent to students by
Student Affairs mentions that the
new bike lanes are the result of the
“We are Considerate. We Are USC.”
campaign started in 2011.
“The goal is to make the campus
more hospitable to bikers and to
benefit the students on campus,”
said Michael Jackson, vice president
of student affairs.
If these lanes prove successful,
USC hopes to expand the bike lanes
to thoroughfares, such as Childs
and Watt ways.
“Student Affairs is excited about
the new bike lanes and hopes
this new experiment will be the
first step in a broader solution
to help keep USC a bicycle and
pedestrian friendly campus,” said
Tom Studdert, director at USC
Orientation Programs. “This goes
a long way in helping us maintain
safety for all Trojans, particularly in
the center of campus.”
USG President Mikey Geragos
said USG became interested in bike
lanes because of campus safety.
“The issue of bike safety on
campus came to my attention this
summer,” Geragos said. “While the
bike lanes are by no means the only
solution to this issue on campus, we
University, USG add
new bike lanes for safety
Students said the bike lanes
could be a promising way to
reduce accidents on campus.
| see Bikes, page 2 |
From the Archives
“Three-hundred feet. Down 3
½, 47 forward. One minute, 1 ½
down, 70. Altitude velocity light.
15 forward. Coming down nicely.
Two-hundred feet…
“Down 2 ½. Forward. Kicking
up some dust. Big shadow. For 4
forward; 4 forward drifting to
the right a little. Down one-half.
Thirty seconds.”
And then, “One small step for
man, one giant leap for mankind.”
These were the words Command
Pilot Neil Armstrong, one-time
graduate student at USC, spoke
a she stepped onto the surface of
the moon Sunday to explore its
bleak, forbidding crust in man’s
first visit to another celestial
body. The time was 7:56 p.m.,
PDT, as he swung his left boot
to the surface of the moon to
become the first man to set foot
on the lunar surface.
About 20 minutes later Edwin
E. Aldrin Jr. followed Armstrong’s
path down the ladder from
the spaceship Eagle and began
collecting rocks to bring back to
earth.
The third of the three-men
Apollo crew was waiting and
listening in lunar orbit. Michael
Collins, command module pilot,
has but one major duty — to keep
Apollo 11 orbiting the moon.
Then came the Kangaroo
Hop. Armstrong and Aldrin may
have touched off the latest fad in
dancing as they took advantage
of losing 5/6ths of their weight
and began testing the moon’s
gravitational pull.
Armstrong could have missed
his destiny — to become the first
man to set foot on the moon —
as the result of half a dozen close
calls.
In Korea he crashed his
Panther jet behind enemy lines,
but escaped a day later.
As a civilian pilot in 1962,
he plummeted uncontrollably
toward earth in his X-15 when the
rocket engine failed to start, but
it caught on just in time.
As commander of Gemini
8 in 1966, he had to abort the
scheduled three-day f light after
ten hours when a short circuit
threw the spacecraft’s thrusters
out of control.
Last summer he had to eject
from a lunar-landing research
vehicle at an altitude of only
100ft. when it spun out of control
and crashed.
Buzz Aldrin might have never
become an astronaut at all but
“Astronauts Armstrong,
hop, skip, jump”
This article first appeared
in the July 22, 1969 issue of
the Summer Trojan.
| see landing, page 6 |
Ani Kolangian | Daily Trojan
Traffic control · Students tested out the new bike lanes on Trousdale Parkway on the first day of classes
for the fall semester Monday. According to Student Affairs, the lanes are meant to reduce collisions.
By Daniel Rothberg
Daily Trojan
Neil Armstrong, who became
an American icon as the first
man to set foot on the moon,
died Saturday, weeks after heart
surgery. He was 82.
The former astronaut
underwent cardiac bypass surgery
earlier this month, just two days
following his birthday.
Armstrong, who attended
USC for graduate school, was the
commander of Apollo 11 when he
planted the American f lag on the
moon’s soil July 20, 1969.
“That’s one step for [a] man,
one giant leap for mankind,” he
famously radioed back to Earth.
In 1970, Armstrong received
a master of science in aerospace
engineering. Though Armstrong
was a few units short of
graduating, Richard Kaplan, an
aerospace professor at the time,
recalls the university awarding
him directed research credit for
walking on the moon.
“It made it really hard for
the next guy who did directed
research,” Kaplan said. “Where
was he going to walk? ”
In addition to his professional
achievements, Armstrong was
remembered for exemplary
character, including his humility
and dedication to public service.
“Honor his example of service,
accomplishment and modesty,
and the next time you walk
outside on a clear night and see
the moon smiling down at you,
think of Neil Armstrong and give
him a wink,” his family said in a
statement released Sunday.
Though Armstrong did
not remain involved with the
university after he graduated, he
came back in 2005 to deliver a
commencement speech in which
he urged graduates to develop
strong values and principles of
their own.
“You can lose your health
to illness or accident,” he said.
“You can lose your wealth to all
manner of unpredictable sources.
What are not easily stolen from
you without your cooperation are
your principles and your values.
They are your most important
possessions and, if carefully
selected and nurtured, will well
serve you and your fellow man.”
Kaplan said both Armstrong
and Apollo 11 crewmember
Buzz Aldrin were aware of
their mission’s significance and
Alumnus, astronaut Armstrong dies at 82
Armstrong is remembered as a
national hero as the first man
to set foot on the moon.
| see armstrong, page 6 |
remembrance
Photo by Lee Salem
Advice · Neil Armstrong spoke to graduates about the importance of
strong moral principles in his 2005 commencement address at USC.
From 1969
SUMMER TROJAN Staff