Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 175, NO. 11 | Thursday January 26, 2012
InDEX 2 · Roundup 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Olé: Fiesta
proves to be
more than just
a children’s
marionette
show.
“File-sharing doesn’t have
to be a problem in the first
place. What if copyright laws
are just outdated?”
Searching for
answers:
USC looks to
snap an eight-game
losing
streak, as it hosts
Colorado.
sports 12
lifestyle 5
opinion 4
weather
Sunny
hi 81
lo 52
today tomorrow
Sunny
hi 76
lo 52
By Annalise Mantz
Daily Trojan
The Undergraduate Student
Government held a forum
Wednesday for Lyon Center
administrators to field student
concerns ranging from problems
with broken equipment to a
shortage of space for outdoor
soccer teams.
Mike Kohl, the president of
the Recreational Club Council,
Justine Gilman, senior associate
director of recreational sports at
the Lyon Center and Sara Shin,
coordinator of intramural sports,
comprised the panel.
Lyon Center representatives
also informed students of the
scope of the recent renovations
to the gym. Gilman said the
university spent more than $2
million replacing lockers, lights
and repainting the main gym over
winter break.
Gilman said these repairs
were possible because of the
cooperation of university
administration, but stressed the
importance of voicing concerns
to the administration.
“Both our president and
provost are aware that recreation
is a priority and the more they
hear from the students that is
a priority, the more it will be a
priority,” Gilman said.
USG representatives who put
on the event said they realized the
importance of making student
concerns heard.
“The forum is a great way for
students to voice concerns to the
administration of the Lyon Center
directly,” USG President Monish
Tyagi said. “We’ve seen forums be
very successful on different issues
in the past.”
Students in the audience also
said it was helpful to have a direct
conversation with administrators.
Some said they were not aware of
the efforts to renovate the Lyon
Center.
“I was impressed with their
efforts to fix their facilities,”
USG Senator Pro Tempore Vinnie
Prasad said. “It gave us an insight
into what goes on behind the
scenes at the Lyon Center and
Students voice several
Lyon Center concerns
The university spent more
than $2 million to renovating
the gym, administrators said.
| see Forum, page 2 |
recsports
By David LowenStein
Daily Trojan
USC Libraries received a $5-million
donation from USC trustee Ronald Sugar
and his wife to endow the Valerie and Ronald
Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries, the
university announced Wednesday.
The endowment will be used to acquire
new literary collections, expand the libraries’
digital archives and the creation of the Dean’s
Challenge Grant, which will help fund pilot
programs and encourage innovation and
creativity.
Catherine Quinlan, the dean of USC
Libraries, will be installed as the first Valerie
and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair of USC
Libraries.
President C. L. Nikias said the donation,
the first to endow a chair in USC Libraries
history and the largest endowment of a
dean’s chair in USC history, will help support
USC’s core academic mission.
“The USC Libraries are of central
importance to the university’s academic
mission,” Nikias told USC News. “This
historic endowment gift ensures that the
USC Libraries will continue to lead the nation
— especially in the building of innovative
digital collections and resources.”
Quinlan said the expanded digital and
research collections will help USC’s rise as a
leading research institution.
“World-class library faculty, staff and
research collections are vital contributors
to USC’s continuing rise on the global
stage,” Quinlan said. “The Sugars’ generosity
will help ensure that our libraries are
able to support our talented students and
transformative faculty at USC. The impact
of this gift will be significant, enduring and
broadly felt at USC and beyond.”
Ronald Sugar, who earned his doctorate
in engineering at UCLA in 1971 and is the
former chairman and CEO of Northrop
Grumman Corp., an aerospace and defence
contracting company. He currently chairs
the Academic Affairs Committee of the
USC Board of Trustees and holds the Judge
Widney Professorship in Management and
Technology. He also serves on the boards of
Apple, Air Lease Corp., Chevron and Amgen.
Valerie Sugar graduated from USC with
a master’s degree in library sciences and
has served on the USC Libraries’ Board of
Directors, helping raise awareness of the
libraries’ special collections.
USC Libraries consists of 23 libraries and
information centers. USC Libraries also
launched USC Digital Repository, which
offers cloud-computing consultation service,
last year. This year, USC Libraries also
launched an online librarianship master’s
degree program.
“Great libraries fuel the work that takes
place at great research universities,” Valerie
Sugar said. “Through our gift, we hope the
USC Libraries continue to support a vibrant
community of critical thinkers, seekers of
knowledge and engaged world citizens for
many generations to come.”
USC Libraries receives $5-million endowment
Dean of USC Libraries Catherine
Quinlan will be installed as the
first Chair of USC Libraries.
Donations
Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan
Novel donation · USC Libraries, which consists of 23 buildings, launched a cloud-computing
consultation service and an online librarianship master’s degree program.
Rachel Bracker | Daily Trojan
Foreign affair
Siobhan O’Malley, a sophomore majoring in communication, asks Sabrina Chong, the associate director for
Annenberg International Programs, about the London and Argentina programs at the Study Abroad Fair on
Wednesday. The Office of Overseas Studies held the fair on Trousdale Parkway as part of Study Abroad Week.