Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 178, NO. 26 | Monday February 25, 2013
InDEX 2 · Roundup 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
For the children: The Trojan
Dance Marathon celebrates
its sixth year. PAGE 5
Bruined: The Trojans are
unable to stop Bruins in a
75-59 defeat. PAGE 12
Courtesy of USC News
Sweet melodies · The $7 million donation from Thornton School of Music professor Alice
Schoenfeld will establish a scholarship fund. Schoenfeld donated $3 million to Thornton in October.
coliseum
By madisen keavy
Daily Trojan
Viterbi School of Engineering
students will complete the process of
repairing the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum’s famous thermometer,
which has been stuck at 70 degrees
for more than a few decades.
A group of 30 engineering classes
proposed a bid for the revitalization
with an initial budget of $300. Each
class was responsible for one aspect of
the project. Meanwhile, professional
bids had projected construction costs
to be between $5,000 and $10,000.
David Cape, a senior majoring
in mechanical engineering and a
member of the Spirit of Troy drum
line, spent long days playing on the
field of the Coliseum. He witnessed
the stagnant thermometer that
always read 70 degrees. For more
than 30 years, the thermometer in the
Coliseum did not move.
The thermometer was installed in
1955 on the east end of the Coliseum.
Cape and his team members
Charlie Palmer, Andrew Ezarik and
Ryan Magruder created a prototype
under budget at $280. Out of the
three final teams, this foursome won
and was given $1,000 to, as Cape
described, “beef up the system.”
The final design was voted and
chosen by a group of professors,
including Yann Staelens and Charles
Radovich, in association with the Los
Angeles Coliseum Commission and
Los Angeles Coliseum Commission
representatives.
These improvements included
polishing, fixing minor problems, and
installing a backup battery that resets
to 70 degrees automatically when the
power goes out or is turned off.
The project was tedious, as team
members dedicated lab time and
free time to create the best possible
solution for the historic venue.
The four-member team had a final
product ready for the last home
football game in November 2012, but
still continued to finalize their design
by outlining the process of repairing
the themometer in the future.
The backup battery system was
installed in December and the final
manual that outlined repair methods
was completed two weeks ago. Now,
the team focuses on creating spare
parts in case of future repairs after
their graduation.
Cape felt the process offered real
world experience like that they would
face after graduation.
“It felt very much like we were
a company,” Cape said. “We were
stumbling across trying to make it,
do everything within a budget within
Viterbi students finish project repairing thermometer
The Coliseum thermometer
was installed in 1955 and has
read 70 degress for five years.
William Ehart | Daily Trojan
Heatwave · The thermometer in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was mostly fixed by undergraduate
Viterbi engineering students in November. The students created spare parts and an instruction manual.
student life
By Diana boyrazyan
Daily Trojan
For many students, sleep serves
as solace from the pressures of
everyday life. But sometimes,
stress manages to creep in the final
minutes of consciousness.
“Getting enough sleep is always
a struggle, but even when I’m
falling asleep I constantly think
about what I still need to do and
feel guilty about it,” said Theresa
Kurth, a senior studying aerospace
engineering.
She’s not alone. An annual
study from the the American
Psychological Association found
that more than 52 percent of
millennials have stayed awake at
night in the last month because of
stress, and 44 percent of millennials
reported feeling irritability or
anger because of stress.
The APA also found that
Americans between the ages of
18 and 33 have gotten worse at
managing stress each year during
the past three years.
Robin Siegal, an adjunct lecturer
at the USC School of Social Work,
said this might be because the
millennial generation is coming
of age during the worst economic
Stress level
for millenials
rises annually
Millenials are more likely to
manage have trouble sleeping
at night because of stress.
| see Stress , page 3 |
Campus
By Chelsea Stone
Daily Trojan
Thornton School of Music violin
professor Alice Schoenfeld donated
$7 million to the school on Friday
to establish the Alice and Eleonore
Schoenfeld Endowed Scholarship
Fund for Strings Students, a
scholarship to support violin and
cello students.
Schoenfeld also gave a $3 million
endowment in October 2012 to
name and renovate the Alice and
Eleonore Schoenfeld Symphonic
Hall, the school’s symphonic
rehearsal space. The facility was
renovated during the summer of
2012, adding an updated sounding
system and audio and video
recording capabilities.
Schoenfeld’s total donation of
$10 million is the largest gift ever
given by a long-standing faculty
member. Schoenfeld’s contribution
is also the largest gift to date for
Thornton’s $75 million fundraising
initiative, which kicked off
Friday. The initiative is part of the
Campaign for the University of
Southern California, a $6 billion
fundraising effort.
Schoenfeld has taught violin
instruction and performance for
more than 50 years at USC and
currently holds the Alice and
Eleonore Schoenfeld Endowed
Chair in String Instruction.
The scholarship fund is named in
honor of Shoenfeld’s sister, Eleonore,
a cello professor at the Thornton
School who died in 2007. The two
sisters, known as the Schoenfeld
Duo, toured internationally for
decades. Schoenfeld made her
debut at age 10 with the Berlin
Philharmonic.
Thornton professor gives
school $7 million donation
Alic Schoenfeld’s total gift of
$10 million is the largest given
by long-standing faculty.
| see Thornton, page 2 |
| see coliseum, page 2 |