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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 58 | Friday april 19, 2013 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports Read on: the l.a. times festival of Books brings literature, culture. PAGE 5 Season champs: women’s tennis wins the pac-12 regular season title. PAGE 12 C- S PA N B R OA D C A S T P O E T R Y S TAG E TA R G E T D O N AT I O N C E N T E R TA R G E T S TAG E CO O K I N G S TAG E C- S PA N B U S L A T I M E S S TAG E YA S TAG E L A T I M E S PAV I L I O N U S C S TAG E E TC . S TAG E H OY S TAG E TOMMY T R OJA N CampuS By rachel Bracker and reBecca dancer daily trojan Students, staff and alumni in support of El Centro Chicano stood in front of Tommy Trojan at noon on Thursday to protest the university’s decision to relocate the center to the Student Union. About 40 protestors with signs reading “We belong here” and “No taxation without representation” shouted “Si se puede” and “Fight on” at the protest. Student speakers said that they were speaking on behalf of the students who used El Centro and that the university’s impending decision to move El Centro did not take student voices into account. The El Centro Ambassadors, a united group of students against the proposed relocation of El Centro, started a petition on April 3 that objected to the university’s decision to relocate the center from the United University Church, where it has been for 33 of its 40 years, to the Student Union, where other cultural centers student organizations currently are located. Protesters voiced complaints detailed in the petition, a chief criticism being that the proposed space to move El Centro is half the space in the United University Church. El Centro Director William N. Vela, who observed the protest from several yards away, said he estimates that between 200 and 400 students pass through El Centro each week. “What we’ve started in the last El Centro Chicano protests continue The El Centro Ambassadors’ petition against the relocation received over 800 signatures. | see ProtEst, page 3 | rachel Bracker | Daily Trojan “We belong here” · Edgar Aguilar, a senior majoring in theatre, protests the relocation of El Centro Thursday near Tommy Trojan. aCademiCS By noah zucker daily trojan Electronic music has invaded the mainstream music charts and USC appears to have taken note. The Thornton School of Music will offer a new course, “Electronic Dance Music” (MUSC 499) in the fall. The course will present a comprehensive look at the history and development of the electronic music genre. Thornton School of Music Dean Robert Cutietta said the new course reflects Thornton’s ability to respond to rapidly evolving music trends. “We are constantly reevaluating our classes to keep up with the times,” Cutietta said in a statement to the Daily Trojan. “I am very excited to be part of a music school that is so nimble and quick to adapt to the times and reinvent itself in response to changes in our art form.” Cutietta said he hopes the course, which will be offered to all students including non-music majors, will attract students from other schools of the university to Thornton. “We take very seriously our mission to provide relevant and meaningful musical experiences to the USC students who are not music majors,” Cutietta said. In 2009, Thornton introduced the Popular Music degree program. After having success in that program, Thornton decided to introduce additional popular music classes. “In concert with [the Popular Music program], we are trying to expand our offerings to [non-music majors] who are also interested in studying the cultural and historical aspects of popular music,” said Joanna Demers, the chair of Thornton’s musicology department. Demers said the course will take a chronological approach in examining EDM. “Each week we will present a different focus,” Demers said. “We’ll be starting off with the history of German electronic music, and then we’ll make our way into the ‘70s with groups like Kraftwerk, and then look at disco and other dance music genres.” Along with reading assignments, students will be assigned frequent listening assignments. Reflecting the multifaceted nature of EDM, the course will also focus on the visual aspects of EDM. “It’s a very easy time to teach this because so much of the material is available on YouTube,” Demers said. “I don’t think this sort of course would have been possible five years ago just because there wasn’t nearly the video documentation available then that we have today at our fingertips. It’s really going to be a very multimedia experience.” Demers also said the course offering will be unique for a music school of Thornton’s stature. “I think this type of course is revolutionary and original,” Demers said. “It takes some of the same questions that have been asked about hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll music and are now being applied to electronic dance music.” The course in electronic dance music will be taught by Sean Nye, who completed a dissertation on electronic music at the University of Minnesota and will be coming to USC after winning a highly competitive Thornton school to offer new electronic dance music course The new electronic dance music course will examine the historical, visual and technological aspects of the genre. | see musIc, page 3 | univerSity By reBecca dancer daily trojan The School of Cinematic Arts announced this week that it will collaborate with the Beijing Film Academy to establish a joint program set to begin this June. The China-U.S. International Master Classes and Industry Summits in Cinematic Arts aims to foster cultural and industrial exchanges between American and Chinese film industries, according to a statement made by Naga Film, one of the projects’ SCA joins partnership with Beijing The university’s collaboration with the Beijing Film Academy will begin in June. | see fIlm, page 2 | design by christina ellis For more coverage, see page 5.
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Full text | Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 58 | Friday april 19, 2013 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports Read on: the l.a. times festival of Books brings literature, culture. PAGE 5 Season champs: women’s tennis wins the pac-12 regular season title. PAGE 12 C- S PA N B R OA D C A S T P O E T R Y S TAG E TA R G E T D O N AT I O N C E N T E R TA R G E T S TAG E CO O K I N G S TAG E C- S PA N B U S L A T I M E S S TAG E YA S TAG E L A T I M E S PAV I L I O N U S C S TAG E E TC . S TAG E H OY S TAG E TOMMY T R OJA N CampuS By rachel Bracker and reBecca dancer daily trojan Students, staff and alumni in support of El Centro Chicano stood in front of Tommy Trojan at noon on Thursday to protest the university’s decision to relocate the center to the Student Union. About 40 protestors with signs reading “We belong here” and “No taxation without representation” shouted “Si se puede” and “Fight on” at the protest. Student speakers said that they were speaking on behalf of the students who used El Centro and that the university’s impending decision to move El Centro did not take student voices into account. The El Centro Ambassadors, a united group of students against the proposed relocation of El Centro, started a petition on April 3 that objected to the university’s decision to relocate the center from the United University Church, where it has been for 33 of its 40 years, to the Student Union, where other cultural centers student organizations currently are located. Protesters voiced complaints detailed in the petition, a chief criticism being that the proposed space to move El Centro is half the space in the United University Church. El Centro Director William N. Vela, who observed the protest from several yards away, said he estimates that between 200 and 400 students pass through El Centro each week. “What we’ve started in the last El Centro Chicano protests continue The El Centro Ambassadors’ petition against the relocation received over 800 signatures. | see ProtEst, page 3 | rachel Bracker | Daily Trojan “We belong here” · Edgar Aguilar, a senior majoring in theatre, protests the relocation of El Centro Thursday near Tommy Trojan. aCademiCS By noah zucker daily trojan Electronic music has invaded the mainstream music charts and USC appears to have taken note. The Thornton School of Music will offer a new course, “Electronic Dance Music” (MUSC 499) in the fall. The course will present a comprehensive look at the history and development of the electronic music genre. Thornton School of Music Dean Robert Cutietta said the new course reflects Thornton’s ability to respond to rapidly evolving music trends. “We are constantly reevaluating our classes to keep up with the times,” Cutietta said in a statement to the Daily Trojan. “I am very excited to be part of a music school that is so nimble and quick to adapt to the times and reinvent itself in response to changes in our art form.” Cutietta said he hopes the course, which will be offered to all students including non-music majors, will attract students from other schools of the university to Thornton. “We take very seriously our mission to provide relevant and meaningful musical experiences to the USC students who are not music majors,” Cutietta said. In 2009, Thornton introduced the Popular Music degree program. After having success in that program, Thornton decided to introduce additional popular music classes. “In concert with [the Popular Music program], we are trying to expand our offerings to [non-music majors] who are also interested in studying the cultural and historical aspects of popular music,” said Joanna Demers, the chair of Thornton’s musicology department. Demers said the course will take a chronological approach in examining EDM. “Each week we will present a different focus,” Demers said. “We’ll be starting off with the history of German electronic music, and then we’ll make our way into the ‘70s with groups like Kraftwerk, and then look at disco and other dance music genres.” Along with reading assignments, students will be assigned frequent listening assignments. Reflecting the multifaceted nature of EDM, the course will also focus on the visual aspects of EDM. “It’s a very easy time to teach this because so much of the material is available on YouTube,” Demers said. “I don’t think this sort of course would have been possible five years ago just because there wasn’t nearly the video documentation available then that we have today at our fingertips. It’s really going to be a very multimedia experience.” Demers also said the course offering will be unique for a music school of Thornton’s stature. “I think this type of course is revolutionary and original,” Demers said. “It takes some of the same questions that have been asked about hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll music and are now being applied to electronic dance music.” The course in electronic dance music will be taught by Sean Nye, who completed a dissertation on electronic music at the University of Minnesota and will be coming to USC after winning a highly competitive Thornton school to offer new electronic dance music course The new electronic dance music course will examine the historical, visual and technological aspects of the genre. | see musIc, page 3 | univerSity By reBecca dancer daily trojan The School of Cinematic Arts announced this week that it will collaborate with the Beijing Film Academy to establish a joint program set to begin this June. The China-U.S. International Master Classes and Industry Summits in Cinematic Arts aims to foster cultural and industrial exchanges between American and Chinese film industries, according to a statement made by Naga Film, one of the projects’ SCA joins partnership with Beijing The university’s collaboration with the Beijing Film Academy will begin in June. | see fIlm, page 2 | design by christina ellis For more coverage, see page 5. |