Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 63 | Friday NOVEMBER 30, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 	 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Best in brunch: Bacaro L.A.
unveils a new and delicious
breakfast menu. PAGE 5
Game over: Monte Kiffin to
resign as USC’s assistant
head coach. PAGE 12
By yasmen serhan
Daily Trojan
Students residing in University Gateway received notice
Wednesday that Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market
applied in September for a permit to sell wine and beer.
Fresh & Easy, located on the ground floor of University
Gateway on Jefferson Boulevard, alerted residents that
the request for the permit would be presented at a public
hearing on Dec. 19 for those interested in speaking either
for or against the permit’s approval.
With the permit, the store could sell wine and beer
for outside consumption in their original containers,
according to the California Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control. However, minors would still be allowed
on the premises. Fresh & Easy requested to be able to sell
beer and wine between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. for
off-site consumption seven days a week.
In order to be issued a permit, applications must
Fresh & Easy
applies for permit
to sell alcohol
The grocery store on Jefferson Boulevard must
present its alcohol permit at a public city hearing.
| see alcohol, page 2 |
local activism
By morgan grenwald
Daily Trojan
Members of the Student Coalition
Against Labor Exploitation
and supporters from the USC
community gathered around
Tommy Trojan on Thursday in
remembrance of the 289 Pakistani
workers who died in a factory fire in
September.
SCALE’s current initiative is
to encourage USC President C.
L. Max Nikias to join the Worker
Rights Consortium, a labor rights
organization that investigates
working conditions at factories.
SCALE
hosts vigil
for workers
The Student Coalition Against
Labor Exploitation organized
a candlelight vigil Thursday.
| see vigil, page 2 |
Grace Ko | Daily Trojan
Remembrance · Students held white roses and photos of workers who were killed in a
factory fire in Pakistan to encourage the university to sign onto the Worker Rights Consortium.
academics
By eric burse
Daily Trojan
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The
transition to a digital society is
negatively threatening and mar-ginalizing
those at the bottom,
Annenberg Dean Ernest J. Wilson
III said at the Harvard University
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
this week.
By delivering the three-day
lecture series, which ended
Thursday, Wilson joined previous
Du Bois lecturers, including
former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and Cornel
West, a prominent professor in
Princeton University’s Center for
African-American Studies.
The lecture series is named
after scholar, writer, editor and
civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du
Bois, the first African American
to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard
University.
Wilson’s remarks during the
series focused on his study of a
wide variety of contemporary
digital-era issues.
Wilson described a “scissor
effect” in which minority
ownership, control and content in
media assets has decreased with
the growth of media dominance
and importance. In 2009, Wilson
said, African-Americans owned
1 percent of media properties.
Today, that number has declined
to 0.7 percent.
“We should care about this
because we are citizens and these
are matters of the life and death
of democracy,” Wilson said. “The
number of African-Americans
and other people of color in
positions of senior leadership and
ownership of media properties is
either stagnant or declining.”
Brandon Terry, a post-doctoral
student at Harvard, said Wilson’s
talk touched upon a very
pertinent issue.
“Dean Wilson is tackling
probably the most crucial
issue in politics and economics
right now,” Terry said. “We’re
on the cusp of an enormous
transformation of economy and
society which is brought on by
digital innovation.”
Wilson’s remarks considered
how Du Bois would react and
think about this new digital
divide. Wilson set up a website,
www.DigitalDubois.net several
weeks before the series. On
the site, Wilson posted four
questions, including how
the introduction of new
communication technologies has
affected the African-American
community and what the impact
has been on minority interaction
with other communities.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, CEO
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, was among those who
listed responses.
“Du Bois was a communicator’s
communicator,” Jealous wrote. “I
have no doubt that Du Bois would
use digital media and mobile
technology to do what he did in
his prime — reach out, inspire,
unify and activate members of
the black community and people
of good conscience of all colors.”
Michael Copps, a senior
adviser for Common Cause, also
contributed a post to the website.
“Broadband is the essential
Wilson discusses technology disparities at Harvard
Ernest J. Wilson III, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication
and Journalism, delivered three lectures at Harvard University.
| see wilson, page 3 |
Campus
By cecilia callas
Daily Trojan
Online gossip, hurt feelings,
bullying — as a generation that grew
up on the internet, most college
students have felt the burn of a nasty
anonymous email or message.
Enter “USC Compliments,” a
new Facebook page created by a
group of anonymous USC students
that allows the USC Facebook
community to spread kindness
by messaging the account with a
compliment for a fellow Trojan.
The administrators then post the
comment on their page with the
name of the compliment’s recipient,
leaving the sender completely
anonymous.
Two administrators, who
asked to remain anonymous, said
they created the page in hopes of
counteracting the online bullying
that happens far too often on the
Internet.
“So much gossip and bullying
occurs on social networking sites
these days, and we are hoping to
do our part to help people realize
that a positive word can be so much
more transforming than a negative
one,” the administrators said in an
’SC Facebook
page spreads
kindness
The two anonymous founders
of USC Compliments say they
hope to help students connect.
| see compliments, page 3 |
Eric Burse | Daily Trojan
The digital age · Dean Ernest J. Wilson III analyzes digital-era
technologies and their impact on culture in a lecture at Harvard University.