Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 171, NO. 22 | Thursday September 23, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
8 · Sudoku
12 · Classifieds
16 · Sports
Autumn looks: Get the
latest on this fall’s hottest
fashion styles. PAGE 7
Special attention: The Trojans
have been spending time on special
teams. PAGE 16
Brandon Hui | Daily Trojan
Words of wisdom · USC alumnus Thomas J. Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital LLC, and actor Rob Lowe discuss personal
and professional success in “Making Movies, Making Deals and Making it Big” on Wednesday night in Bovard Auditorium.
By Dara Weinraub
Daily Trojan
Bovard Auditorium was packed Wednesday night
with students interested in learning how to “make it
big.”
Actor Rob Lowe and real estate mogul Tom Barrack
came to USC to speak to students and faculty about
“Making Movies, Making Deals and Making it Big,”
hosted by the Marshall School of Business.
Lowe and Barrack, who is the chairman, CEO and
founder of Colony Capital, a private equity real es-tate
company in Los Angeles, have recently acquired
Miramax Films, along with USC Trustee Ronald Tutor.
“I love the business as much today as I ever did,”
Lowe said. “One of the things I love about Hollywood is
that there is a grand tradition of people using the plat-form
to transfer their focus into other areas.”
Lowe said he will not be forgoing his television
shows and movies, but Miramax will be able to offer
him another opportunity in the movie business.
Miramax has a film library of more than 700 movies,
including Kill Bill, Good Will Hunting and Pulp Fiction.
“Where you go to bust in this business is thinking
that to sweeten that film library you need one more
movie,” Barrack said. “After 25 years of investment, the
extraordinary returns are always the investments no
one else wants to make.”
From his own experience, Barrack said he encour-ages
students to leave their comfort zones.
“You have to be willing to take a big risk and you
have to be willing to fail. I never knew where I was go-ing
and I still don’t know where I’m going,” Barrack
said.
Lowe, on the other hand, said he has known since he
Rob Lowe and
Tom Barrack
speak at USC
The new owners of Miramax Films spoke about
success at an event hosted by Marshall.
| see bovard, page 11 |
By Lily Conover
Daily Trojan
With the opening of the Ronald
Tutor Campus Center, USC ad-ministrators
say they still have
no concrete plans for The Lot, a
temporary food court that was
erected during the construction
of the campus center.
The Lot, opened in 2008, was
home to a food court with quick
options such as ZAO Noodle, Red
Mango and Wolfgang Puck. It is
no longer in operation, but the
building is still standing.
USC Hospitality, to whom The
Lot was leased, handed the space
over to the university in June
once campus center construction
was complete, USC Hospitality
Director Kris Klinger said.
Now that the campus center
has replaced The Lot as the cen-tral
on-campus eating space, the
question remains of what will
happen to The Lot.
Though not a definite course of
action, one option the university is
considering is using the building
for “surge space,” said Joe Back,
associate senior vice president for
campus development and facili-ties
management.
“This is essentially space where
groups could be moved into tem-porarily
while work is being done
on their normal spaces. It would
give the university flexibility to
be able to move people [around],”
Back said.
This could provide USC with a
commodity it rarely enjoys: extra
space, Back said.
Plans currently in-clude
installing additional bicycle
parking behind the old kitchen of
The Lot, he said.
“Extra bike racks would be
good. I have noticed an increase in
[bike] traffic around the campus
center now that The Lot is closed,”
said Anna Lyon, a junior majoring
in anthropology.
Currently, the company
DormBikes is using The Lot as
storage for its bike inventory.
Despite the surge space idea
and the addition of bike racks,
the future of The Lot still remains
very much up in the air.
“There has been no indication
of any immediate plans from the
university,” Back said. “What is
happening now is mostly exteri-or
work, which should be done in
Administration has no permanent plans for The Lot
Campus development said The
Lot might serve as extra space
for departments in transit.
| see lot, page 6 |
By Lauren march
Daily Trojan
There has been a significant
rise in college students search-ing
for internships as a way to se-cure
a stable job after graduation,
according to a study by The Wall
Street Journal. University officials
say this trend has been seen in
USC students as well.
Students at USC have been
seeking out more internships,
said Angie Sabido-Wood, direc-tor
of employer relations and re-search
at the USC Career Planning
and Placement Center.
“In the last eight or so years,
the number of students on cam-pus
who have been looking for
internships has definitely been in-creasing,”
Sabido-Wood said.
She explained that more
Internships
lead to jobs,
study says
More students at USC are
looking for internships as
potential job prospects.
| see interns, page 10 |
Dan Doperalski | Daily Trojan
Empty · The company DormBikes has been using The Lot for stor-age.
Administrators said they have no permanent plans for the space.