Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 174, NO. 2 | Tuesday August 23, 2011
By sophia lee
Daily Trojan
West 27th Place on Figueroa
Street is the first student
housing complex to regis-ter
for a Leadership in Energy
Environmental Development
platinum certification in the
country.
LEED rates buildings based
on the sustainability of the site,
efficient use of water, use of en-ergy
and atmosphere, use of sus-tainable
building materials and
indoor environmental quality.
Platinum is the highest level of
certification a building can re-ceive.
West 27th Place was careful-ly
planned in advance to meet all
of the standards for LEED cer-tification,
said David Hilliard,
principal the of real estate firm
Symphony Development. Walls
were constructed off-site, deliv-ered
piece by piece like LEGOs
and then assembled to minimize
wood waste.
“While building, we were able
to reduce up to 95 percent waste
throughout the building’s con-struction,”
Hilliard said.
Elevators are belt-driven, de-signed
not only to be energy-ef-ficient
but also to generate elec-tricity
on the down stroke. The
swimming pool on the third f loor
uses salt water instead of chlori-nated
water. All appliances are
Energy Star-rated; no light bulbs
are incandescent or f luorescent.
The apartment’s sustainability
was a selling point, said Christine
Rombouts, public relations repre-sentive
for West 27th Place. Many
students com-mented
on the
a p a r tme nt ’ s
Facebook page, expressing inter-est
in the building’s sustainabil-ity.
“Students were really vocal on
this,” Rombouts said. “They real-ly
care for sustainability. We were
pleasantly surprised.”
Resident Ian Ritchey, a soph-omore
majoring in business ad-ministration,
and Adam Maier,
a sophomore majoring in anima-tion
and digital arts, said they
heard about West 27th Place via
word of mouth and were attracted
by its sustainable quality.
“We grew up in cities [that were
into the sustainability movement]
so [sustainability] was a really
important thing for us,” Ritchey
said. “I was really impressed.”
Maier decided to live at West
27th Place because of the quality
of the apartments in comparison
to on- and off-campus housing
New building offers sustainable living
The complex is the first
housing for USC students to
attempt platinum LEED.
Housing
InDEX 3 · Quick Hits 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 16 · Classifieds 17 · Crossword 20 · Sports
Music Madness: Mötley Crüe
strikes again at the Sunset
Strip Music Festival.
lifestyle 8
sports 20
opinion 6
“Trying to usurp student
autonomy is not only
resented by many students
but is also damaging to the
reputation of the university.”
Déjá Vu: Women’s soccer drops
its season opener for the
second straight season.
West Germany and East
Germany declare that they
will reunify on Oct. 3.
campus
events
The Annenberg Innovation
Lab will hold its open house in
the Annenberg building from
3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The school of Policy, Planning
and Development will host a
Presentation with Dan Siegel
on understanding leadership in
Doheny Memorial Library at
3 p.m.
Sunny
hi 85
lo 65
tomorrow
Mostly Sunny
hi 85
lo 65
1990 this day in history
weather
today
DPS employee
remembered
page 6
Highlighter
party sees high
turnout
page 2
Megan Harmon | Daily Trojan
Club McCarthy
Tokyo Police Club frontman David Monks sings to a crowded McCarthy Quad at the
Welcome Week rally and concert on Saturday. After the Trojan Marching Band performed,
students enjoyed the opening acts of indie-rock bands Y LUV and Pepper Rabbit.
| see west 27th, page 2 |
By Amin jazayeri
Daily Trojan
John “Jack” Randolph Hubbard, eighth president of
USC and U.S. Ambassador to India, died Sunday and
was immediately remembered by colleagues and friends
alike.
President C. L. Max Nikias announced Hubbard’s
death at Salute to Troy on Sunday afternoon.
Hubbard served as president between 1970 and 1980.
Nikias said Hubbard was a true leader and a distin-guished
historian.
“He was a man of tremendous breadth and a champi-on
of our faculty and students. We look forward to a cele-bration
of his life and the legacy that has forever changed
USC,” Nikias said in an email.
Hubbard came to USC in 1969 and served as vice pres-ident
and provost for one year. In 1970 he was unani-mously
voted to succeed Norman H. Topping as univer-sity
president.
During Hubbard’s tenure, the push to transform USC
into an elite academic institution truly began.
Hubbard was known to have said, “It seemed, to me,
that this would be a good time, strategically, to become
aggressive as a university.”
This initiative propelled the grade point average
for admitted freshmen to 3.4 on a 4.0 scale, began the
construction of many major buildings and initiated
Eighth USC
president
passes away
President John “Jack” Hubbard is remembered
for prompting USC’s rise as an elite university.
| see hubbard, page 2 |
remembrance
Andrea Shen | Daily Trojan
Green living · Alanna Waldman (right), a sophomore majoring in
environmental studies, checks in with a leasing consultant.
GreeK
By Elizabeth Craig
Daily Trojan
Phi Gamma Delta, also known
as Fiji, received its official chap-ter
charter from its internation-al
headquarters on Saturday and
held an open house event Friday
in celebration.
Although Fiji was started at
USC in 1948, it closed its chapter
in 2000 because of financial in-stability
and returned to The Row
in October 2009. Since then, Fiji
has been nationally recognized as
a colony, which is a probationary
period before becoming an offi-cial
chapter, said Austin Hay, for-mer
president of Fiji.
During this period, the mem-bers
were not allowed to know
some national Fiji rituals and se-crets
and were not permitted to
put their Greek letters on their
house.
“We weren’t able to be brothers
in the strictest sense, and the le-gitimacy
wasn’t there,” Hay said.
“We weren’t allowed to have our
letters on the house or wear the
real pin.”
Fiji receives
its chapter
charter
Members said that achieving
offical recognition was difficult
to do, and they are honored.
| see charter, page 3 |
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