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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 174, NO. 18 | Friday September 16, 2011 InDEX 2 · Quick hits 4 · Opinion 5 · Sports Extra 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Lifestyle By Denise Gonzalez Daily Trojan The first All Fellows Forum, a new monthly panel series that aims to bring graduate students together to discuss topics of shared interests with an inter-disciplinary approach, was held Thursday. About 50 students and facul-ty came to “New Perspectives on Islam and the Middle East,” which focused on issues related to events that have transpired in the region during the past few months. Meredith Drake Reitan, as-sistant dean of graduate fellow-ships, said she organized the new forums to bring students in the graduate school together. “The goal of these events is to foster a community of interdis-ciplinary scholars,” Reitan said. “We’re interested in new ap-proaches and bringing students together from all over the univer-sity to think about issues from a variety of angles.” She also said this series is a chance for the students to become more involved while giving them a “really strong push toward inter-disciplinary work.” The university has several interdisciplinary programs in place at the graduate level, and the program is designed to con-nect them within the university, Reitan said. The monthly forums bring to-gether university-funded fellows to discuss a variety of topics in a scholarly and social environment. “I hope it is something that will last the students long after USC,” Reitan said. Two graduate students and one professor discussed the ways they collected information about cur-rent events in the Middle East and the conclusions they drew from Crime By David Lowenstein Daily Trojan A suspect was arrested in the shooting of two USC students at an off-campus party, the Los Angeles Police Department an-nounced Thursday. Tyson Tiree Smith, 21, was ar-rested Wednesday night in the City of Signal Hill near Long Beach, Calif., LAPD Southwest Division Capt. Melissa Zak said. Two USC students, a male un-dergraduate student and a female graduate student, were shot early on the morning of Sept. 4 on the 1200 block of West 37th Place af-ter a confrontation occurred be-tween the shooter and the vic-tims. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office filed two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a firearm against Smith, the district attor-ney’s office said. LAPD and the Dept. of Public Safety used photographic and vid-eo evidence from the crime scene to identify the suspect and track him down, Zak said. “A combination of several dif-ferent sources of video were used in the investigation,” DPS Assistant Chief John Thomas said. “It was a combination of technol-ogy, interviews and the whole gambit to piece together what re-sulted in an arrest.” Thomas said that security cam-eras installed as part of a DPS se-curity expansion west of Vermont Avenue contributed to the arrest of Smith. “The [newly-installed] camer-as played a part in [the arrest] but so did everything else,” Thomas said. One shot was fired at the vic-tims after a confrontation over a pair of Beats by Dr. Dre head-phones escalated. The bullet hit the female student’s finger and then hit the male in the chest. The female victim performed CPR on the male victim, likely saving his Suspect in Sept. 4 shooting arrested The male victim of the shooting was released from the hospital Wednesday. | see Arrest, page 2 | All Fellows Forum holds first panel The series was designed to spark interdisciplinary interest among graduate students. graduate school Chris Pham | Daily Trojan Speaking up · Graduate students Laila Shereen Sakr (left) and Maytha Alhassen discussed the usage of the term “Arab Spring.” Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan Invite only Donors attended a reception to kick off the Campaign for the University of Southern California in the International Plaza of the Ronald Tutor Campus Center from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday. President C. L. Max Nikias and other noted faculty and staff will speak in Bovard Auditorium from 10:30 a.m. to noon today. academics By Arlene Washington Daily Trojan Imagine your first year of college if you had your posse with you. The Posse Foundation has brought this sense of friendship and community to USC for 12 freshmen students from New York City, who said this unique scholarship has helped them transition into college. The Posse Foundation is a national organization founded in 1989 that aims to create a network of leaders from diverse backgrounds, who will not only be successful individually, but also have an impact on their university campus. A multicultural group of scholars are awarded a merit-based scholarship from each participating university where the “posse” enrolls and attend college together. “A couple of days ago, me and one of my Posse peers pulled an all-nighter together in Leavey Library,” said Vidal Woods, a freshman and Posse Scholar majoring in international relations. “It’s great that I have someone that I already know and can turn to for support at the start of the year.” President and founder of the Posse Foundation, Deborah Bial, began the Foundation after a student once said, “I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me.” Since then, she has promoted the importance of leadership to freshmen campuses at 38 partner colleges. “This really is a leadership merit award allowing students as a group to come to USC and further that leadership in the classrooms and organizations on campus,” said Bial. “They bond together, but are not only diverse in race and sexuality, but interests as well.” The students’ mentor, George J. Sanchez, vice dean for diversity and strategic initiatives, said the Posse scholarship expands upon previous USC initiatives to increase diversity. “This will help USC in their recommitment to establishing itself as a premiere institution that can produce a generation of urban leaders of the future,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said he is thrilled with the Posse’s progress so far and believes this diverse addition to the Trojan family will help build on programs USC has with local communities such as the Norman Topping Scholars, who are awarded academic scholarships based on merit and community involvement. “We officially meet as a group First group of Posse Scholars transition to USC together The 12 students have received both a full-tuition scholarship and a supportive community. | see Posse, page 3 | Check out Saturday’s game against Syracuse in the Sports Extra, page 5. | see Forum, page 2 |
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 174, NO. 18 | Friday September 16, 2011 InDEX 2 · Quick hits 4 · Opinion 5 · Sports Extra 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Lifestyle By Denise Gonzalez Daily Trojan The first All Fellows Forum, a new monthly panel series that aims to bring graduate students together to discuss topics of shared interests with an inter-disciplinary approach, was held Thursday. About 50 students and facul-ty came to “New Perspectives on Islam and the Middle East,” which focused on issues related to events that have transpired in the region during the past few months. Meredith Drake Reitan, as-sistant dean of graduate fellow-ships, said she organized the new forums to bring students in the graduate school together. “The goal of these events is to foster a community of interdis-ciplinary scholars,” Reitan said. “We’re interested in new ap-proaches and bringing students together from all over the univer-sity to think about issues from a variety of angles.” She also said this series is a chance for the students to become more involved while giving them a “really strong push toward inter-disciplinary work.” The university has several interdisciplinary programs in place at the graduate level, and the program is designed to con-nect them within the university, Reitan said. The monthly forums bring to-gether university-funded fellows to discuss a variety of topics in a scholarly and social environment. “I hope it is something that will last the students long after USC,” Reitan said. Two graduate students and one professor discussed the ways they collected information about cur-rent events in the Middle East and the conclusions they drew from Crime By David Lowenstein Daily Trojan A suspect was arrested in the shooting of two USC students at an off-campus party, the Los Angeles Police Department an-nounced Thursday. Tyson Tiree Smith, 21, was ar-rested Wednesday night in the City of Signal Hill near Long Beach, Calif., LAPD Southwest Division Capt. Melissa Zak said. Two USC students, a male un-dergraduate student and a female graduate student, were shot early on the morning of Sept. 4 on the 1200 block of West 37th Place af-ter a confrontation occurred be-tween the shooter and the vic-tims. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office filed two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a firearm against Smith, the district attor-ney’s office said. LAPD and the Dept. of Public Safety used photographic and vid-eo evidence from the crime scene to identify the suspect and track him down, Zak said. “A combination of several dif-ferent sources of video were used in the investigation,” DPS Assistant Chief John Thomas said. “It was a combination of technol-ogy, interviews and the whole gambit to piece together what re-sulted in an arrest.” Thomas said that security cam-eras installed as part of a DPS se-curity expansion west of Vermont Avenue contributed to the arrest of Smith. “The [newly-installed] camer-as played a part in [the arrest] but so did everything else,” Thomas said. One shot was fired at the vic-tims after a confrontation over a pair of Beats by Dr. Dre head-phones escalated. The bullet hit the female student’s finger and then hit the male in the chest. The female victim performed CPR on the male victim, likely saving his Suspect in Sept. 4 shooting arrested The male victim of the shooting was released from the hospital Wednesday. | see Arrest, page 2 | All Fellows Forum holds first panel The series was designed to spark interdisciplinary interest among graduate students. graduate school Chris Pham | Daily Trojan Speaking up · Graduate students Laila Shereen Sakr (left) and Maytha Alhassen discussed the usage of the term “Arab Spring.” Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan Invite only Donors attended a reception to kick off the Campaign for the University of Southern California in the International Plaza of the Ronald Tutor Campus Center from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday. President C. L. Max Nikias and other noted faculty and staff will speak in Bovard Auditorium from 10:30 a.m. to noon today. academics By Arlene Washington Daily Trojan Imagine your first year of college if you had your posse with you. The Posse Foundation has brought this sense of friendship and community to USC for 12 freshmen students from New York City, who said this unique scholarship has helped them transition into college. The Posse Foundation is a national organization founded in 1989 that aims to create a network of leaders from diverse backgrounds, who will not only be successful individually, but also have an impact on their university campus. A multicultural group of scholars are awarded a merit-based scholarship from each participating university where the “posse” enrolls and attend college together. “A couple of days ago, me and one of my Posse peers pulled an all-nighter together in Leavey Library,” said Vidal Woods, a freshman and Posse Scholar majoring in international relations. “It’s great that I have someone that I already know and can turn to for support at the start of the year.” President and founder of the Posse Foundation, Deborah Bial, began the Foundation after a student once said, “I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me.” Since then, she has promoted the importance of leadership to freshmen campuses at 38 partner colleges. “This really is a leadership merit award allowing students as a group to come to USC and further that leadership in the classrooms and organizations on campus,” said Bial. “They bond together, but are not only diverse in race and sexuality, but interests as well.” The students’ mentor, George J. Sanchez, vice dean for diversity and strategic initiatives, said the Posse scholarship expands upon previous USC initiatives to increase diversity. “This will help USC in their recommitment to establishing itself as a premiere institution that can produce a generation of urban leaders of the future,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said he is thrilled with the Posse’s progress so far and believes this diverse addition to the Trojan family will help build on programs USC has with local communities such as the Norman Topping Scholars, who are awarded academic scholarships based on merit and community involvement. “We officially meet as a group First group of Posse Scholars transition to USC together The 12 students have received both a full-tuition scholarship and a supportive community. | see Posse, page 3 | Check out Saturday’s game against Syracuse in the Sports Extra, page 5. | see Forum, page 2 | |