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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 7 | Friday January 21, 2011 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports By Dara Weinraub Daily Trojan Through a new partnership, a group of USC students will be conducting research that will help voters form de-cisions about the potential candidates in the 2012 presi-dential election. USC undergraduate students will act on behalf of Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan voter edu-cation organization, providing information to the public about political candidates. Project Vote Smart, which has organized similar in-ternships with students at Oregon State University and the University of Arizona, has chosen to bring its intern-ship program to USC and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics because they see room for growth, according to Kate McElroy, the director of the Political Courage Test for Project Vote Smart. “USC and the Unruh institute are enthusiastic about what we’re doing,” McElroy said. “There’s this combina-tion of all these young, brilliant minds and something is going to come up that will completely change how we look at things.” Last spring, Project Vote Smart administrators visited USC along with other universities to find a new location for their project. Dan Schnur, the director of the Unruh Institute, said Project Vote Smart decided to hold the program at USC because of the enthusiastic students. “A lot of our students do typical political internships like working in governors’ offices,” Schnur said. “But Project Vote Smart comes to campus Students in POSC 395 will be researching political candidates for Project Vote Smart. | see politics, page 3 | By kira brekke Daily Trojan Bicyclists aren’t the only ones facing increased restrictions on campus roads. At the same time as the Department of Public Safety is planning to deploy more electric carts, the university is working to enforce rules to help decrease traf-fic decongestion. The Environmental Health and Safety department of Career and Protective Services is currently working to create a safety program to train people in the proper use of electric vehicles, and Ed Becker, ex-ecutive director of Environmental Health & Safety, said preliminary measures are being taken to draft an on-campus safety policy that will attempt to educate and spread awareness about the rules of oper-ating an electric vehicle. “It’s something that is already happening, and what we need to do is adapt the rules to make sure that we can control the growth in carts. It’s [about] controlling access and controlling the number of vehicles,” Becker said. Becker said there need to be ways to ensure that electric cart drivers obey the rules of the road and to discourage the idea that drivers can behave differently just because they are on campus. “Electric vehicles [are] a conve-nient way to get around but in or-der to have them coexist with all the other forms of transportation on campus, we have to have a clear set of rules and people following rules,” Becker said. Another concern being ad-dressed is how to prevent unreg-istered carts from coming onto campus, which has the potential to cause unwanted congestion or danger to those on campus. Mandating that all the vehicles have some sort of USC registration will discourage these unregistered vehicles on campus because driv-ers will be able to be identified and found if need be, Becker said. “The first step is having [the ve-hicles] first registered through a department, Becker said. “Not all of them are registered now, but by the end of the year, we’re hoping to have a full inventory.” DPS Capt. David Carlisle said University will regulate electric carts on campus The Environmental Health and Safety Department wants to decrease traffic on campus. | see carts, page 3 | By lily conover Daily Trojan First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged college students to take advantage of opportunities to study abroad in China during a speech in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The speech, delivered in front of more than 1,000 students, was in support of the president’s “100,000 Strong” Initiative, a plan Obama announced during his 2009 China visit that is a na-tional effort to greatly increase the number and diversity of Americans who are able to study in China through the promotion of programs and scholarships. In her speech, the First Lady emphasized the importance of pursuing study opportunities First Lady urges study in China Michelle Obama encourages study abroad to enhance international relations. | see China, page 3 | Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan It’s electric · The first step to decongesting the traffic on campus is to have all vehicles register through their departments by the end of the year. Synthetic princes: Tesla Boy electrifies Europe. PAGE 5 Roadtrip: Men’s volleyball continues road swing in San Diego. PAGE 12 Winter wonderland Freshmen Carly Shelar, undeclared, and Hannah Yelton, an industrial systems engineering major, enjoy ice skating in McCarthy Quad, where Program Board’s Special Events Committee set up a “Winter Wonderland” skating rink Thursday afternoon. The 45-person synthetic skating rink came complete with special skates to allow students to skate on the plastic surface, as well as fog and snow machines. Still, the warm weather seemed to throw students off. “They should hand out free lemonade and sunscreen [instead of hot chocolate],” said Annie Lee, a freshman majoring in biomedical engineering. Jennifer Schultz | Daily Trojan
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 7 | Friday January 21, 2011 InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports By Dara Weinraub Daily Trojan Through a new partnership, a group of USC students will be conducting research that will help voters form de-cisions about the potential candidates in the 2012 presi-dential election. USC undergraduate students will act on behalf of Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan voter edu-cation organization, providing information to the public about political candidates. Project Vote Smart, which has organized similar in-ternships with students at Oregon State University and the University of Arizona, has chosen to bring its intern-ship program to USC and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics because they see room for growth, according to Kate McElroy, the director of the Political Courage Test for Project Vote Smart. “USC and the Unruh institute are enthusiastic about what we’re doing,” McElroy said. “There’s this combina-tion of all these young, brilliant minds and something is going to come up that will completely change how we look at things.” Last spring, Project Vote Smart administrators visited USC along with other universities to find a new location for their project. Dan Schnur, the director of the Unruh Institute, said Project Vote Smart decided to hold the program at USC because of the enthusiastic students. “A lot of our students do typical political internships like working in governors’ offices,” Schnur said. “But Project Vote Smart comes to campus Students in POSC 395 will be researching political candidates for Project Vote Smart. | see politics, page 3 | By kira brekke Daily Trojan Bicyclists aren’t the only ones facing increased restrictions on campus roads. At the same time as the Department of Public Safety is planning to deploy more electric carts, the university is working to enforce rules to help decrease traf-fic decongestion. The Environmental Health and Safety department of Career and Protective Services is currently working to create a safety program to train people in the proper use of electric vehicles, and Ed Becker, ex-ecutive director of Environmental Health & Safety, said preliminary measures are being taken to draft an on-campus safety policy that will attempt to educate and spread awareness about the rules of oper-ating an electric vehicle. “It’s something that is already happening, and what we need to do is adapt the rules to make sure that we can control the growth in carts. It’s [about] controlling access and controlling the number of vehicles,” Becker said. Becker said there need to be ways to ensure that electric cart drivers obey the rules of the road and to discourage the idea that drivers can behave differently just because they are on campus. “Electric vehicles [are] a conve-nient way to get around but in or-der to have them coexist with all the other forms of transportation on campus, we have to have a clear set of rules and people following rules,” Becker said. Another concern being ad-dressed is how to prevent unreg-istered carts from coming onto campus, which has the potential to cause unwanted congestion or danger to those on campus. Mandating that all the vehicles have some sort of USC registration will discourage these unregistered vehicles on campus because driv-ers will be able to be identified and found if need be, Becker said. “The first step is having [the ve-hicles] first registered through a department, Becker said. “Not all of them are registered now, but by the end of the year, we’re hoping to have a full inventory.” DPS Capt. David Carlisle said University will regulate electric carts on campus The Environmental Health and Safety Department wants to decrease traffic on campus. | see carts, page 3 | By lily conover Daily Trojan First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged college students to take advantage of opportunities to study abroad in China during a speech in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The speech, delivered in front of more than 1,000 students, was in support of the president’s “100,000 Strong” Initiative, a plan Obama announced during his 2009 China visit that is a na-tional effort to greatly increase the number and diversity of Americans who are able to study in China through the promotion of programs and scholarships. In her speech, the First Lady emphasized the importance of pursuing study opportunities First Lady urges study in China Michelle Obama encourages study abroad to enhance international relations. | see China, page 3 | Carlo Acenas | Daily Trojan It’s electric · The first step to decongesting the traffic on campus is to have all vehicles register through their departments by the end of the year. Synthetic princes: Tesla Boy electrifies Europe. PAGE 5 Roadtrip: Men’s volleyball continues road swing in San Diego. PAGE 12 Winter wonderland Freshmen Carly Shelar, undeclared, and Hannah Yelton, an industrial systems engineering major, enjoy ice skating in McCarthy Quad, where Program Board’s Special Events Committee set up a “Winter Wonderland” skating rink Thursday afternoon. The 45-person synthetic skating rink came complete with special skates to allow students to skate on the plastic surface, as well as fog and snow machines. Still, the warm weather seemed to throw students off. “They should hand out free lemonade and sunscreen [instead of hot chocolate],” said Annie Lee, a freshman majoring in biomedical engineering. Jennifer Schultz | Daily Trojan |