Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 171, NO. 9 | Thursday September 2, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
12 · Classifieds
14 · Sudoku
16 · Sports
By Suji Pyun
Daily Trojan
Five cadets took an oath of enlistment Wednesday after-noon,
promising to complete the Reserve Officers’ Training
Corps program and serve as officers in the future.
USC’s ROTC program has 35 cadets in total but five de-cided
to take this oath this afternoon, Maj. David Jackson
said.
“The oath is committing to be future army officers,”
Jackson said. “After two to four years of training, they will
accept the terms that they will be future army leaders.”
According to Maj. Robert Medina and Jackson, the ca-dets
will graduate and receive an officer’s rank commis-sion.
Cadets will learn leadership, become ethical decision
makers and train to become physically fit, morally straight
and technically competent.
Sophomore history major Cadet Michael Lockhart has
been in the army reserves for seven years. He joined the
ROTC program after working in Iraq as a battalion motor
sergeant and served there for 11 months and 16 days while
working with vehicles and equipment.
“I think I had a really good experience overseas and I’m
eager to go back in the future,” Lockhart said. “I love under-standing
why things are the way they are and hope to teach
history at USC or work in the ROTC or army in the future.”
A first-year graduate student at the School of Social
Work, Cadet Daniel Lee Burns has wanted to join the army
since high school to be part of the social work military pro-gram.
ROTC cadets
commit to
future service
Five cadets, some who have already served in
Iraq, agreed to serve after their time in ROTC.
| see cadets, page 6 |
By Rachel Bracker
Daily Trojan
The Rossier School of
Education is training teachers
from Crenshaw High School
as part of a greater effort
to revitalize the school in a
sustainable way.
Professors work in conjunction
with the Greater Crenshaw
Educational Partnership, which
is part of the Los Angeles Urban
League’s larger initiative to
improve the area with the help of
local institutions and community
members.
“The whole goal is to create a
new model of schooling that will
work for urban communities for
which current models have not
worked very well in the past,”
said Sylvia Rousseau, professor
of education and GCEP interim
executive director.
Last year, Rousseau helped
Crenshaw separated by into
small learning communities
that have themes such as social
justice or business. Within
each community, teachers will
apply problem-based learning
strategies and learn to integrate
multiple strategies in relation to
one problem.
“[Problem-based learning]
focuses on a contemporary
problem and uses it as a focal
point. For example, if the problem
were how to develop more
entrepreneurs, then in English
and math and social science and
science, learning will be related
to solving that problem,” said
Sandra Kaplan, one of six Rossier
professors providing training.
Last year, Rossier professors
trained two small groups of
Crenshaw teachers in areas
including literacy, numeracy,
assessment and special
education. The program plans to
increase the number of teachers
it trains throughout the year and
focus on how to sustain progress
in the school.
“The real model that you want
to move toward is something
called the professional
development school, which has
the continuing presence of faculty
helping the school,” Rousseau
said. “It’s a collaborative model
where the faculty is working with
teachers to improve the school.”
The collaboration between
Rossier professors and Crenshaw
teachers is key to creating the
best strategies for students,
Rossier professors train
Crenshaw High teachers
Both schools have been
collaborating for two years to
elevate teaching strategies.
| see Rossier, page 6 |
Kelvin Kuo | Daily Trojan
Proud · Five of the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps cadets pledged an enlistment oath Wednesday on the steps of the
Physical Education Building. The oath means the cadets will continue their service with the army after graduation.
By CYnthia ruiz
Daily Trojan
Nearly a year after its opening,
the USC Blood Donor Center is con-tinuing
its efforts to reach out to stu-dents
for more donors.
President C.L. Max Nikias has
been instrumental in getting the
message to potential donors. In a let-ter
to the Trojan Family, Nikias stat-ed
that students, faculty and staff
donating blood can help the univer-sity’s
hospitals become more self-sufficient.
According to Maria Muniz, man-ager
of the blood center, between the
mobile donor drives and the two do-nor
centers, USC is 75 to 85 percent
self-sufficient. She said that the new
donor center has helped to support
their progress.
“Trying to get to 100 percent effi-ciency
is an ambitious goal, but now
with the donor center it’s becom-ing
closer to reality,” Muniz said.
“Every month is getting better than
the last.”
Located in the University Village
right across from the main campus,
the center opened in an effort to in-crease
the blood bank so USC’s hos-pitals
can become self-sufficient.
Not many students, however,
know about the donor center, she
said.
“Last year we didn’t get enough
marketing out there to let the stu-dents
know that we’re here,” Muniz
said.
One way the center reaches out to
students is through its mobile blood
drives, which occur twice a month
on Trousdale Parkway. After the
blood drive, a donor is contacted and
asked to donate more regularly.
“They don’t know that we have
a center and it’s our opportunity to
grab their attention,” Muniz said.
Another goal of the center is to
reach a point where mostly USC stu-dents
and student organizations are
involved. Not only can students help
save lives by donating blood, but
they also have the opportunity to
fulfill community service require-ments
for their organizations.
“It’s really an effort to see how
many organizations we can have
represented at the donor center.
We’re really tapping into the student
base and getting them to be regular
donors and spread the word,” Muniz
said.
Alumna Karen Poon has become
one of those regular donors. Poon,
who graduated last December with a
degree in accounting, donated blood
for the fourth time Tuesday.
Blood center hopes to involve students
In an open letter, President
C.L. Max Nikias encourages
students to donate more blood.
| see blood, page 3 |
Tim Tran | Daily Trojan
Bleed cardinal · The center, located in the University Village, helps
provide the USC hospitals with 85 percent of their donated blood.
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