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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 193, NO. 27 DAILY TROJAN Sophomore guard Derryck Thornton and the men’s basketball team beat Oregon 72-70 Thursday. PAGE 08 2 · News 3 · Opinion 4 · Lifestyle 6 · Classifi eds INDEX 7 · Sudoku 8 · Sports Photo from USC website Soto Street settlement · The Department of Toxic Substances Control alleged that USC transported and stored hazardous waste at its Soto Street Building in Los Angeles, which holds administrative offices. By KARAN NEVATIA News Editor USC reached an $89,142 set-tlement with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control for alleged violations of the California Health and Safety Code involving unauthorized transport and storage of hazard-ous waste, DTSC said in a press release Wednesday. According to settlement doc-uments, between 2013 and 2015, USC allegedly shipped 7.5 tons of hazardous waste including the harmful chemicals toluene, hy-drochloric acid and chloroform to its Soto Street Building in Los Angeles. The building, which houses USC administrative offices and the Health Sciences Campus fitness center, wasn’t authorized as a waste storage facility. The settlement also alleges that USC failed to prepare a manifest to in-form the DTSC of the waste trans-portation. USC reached the settlement with DTSC in mid-December last year. Of the $89,142, $47,142 was paid out to the DTSC, and $42,000 was given to ‘supplemental envi-ronmental projects,’ the settle-ment documents say, through a DTSC program that encourag-es using settlement cases to fund programs to improve California environmental health. The payments include a $35,000 payment to the Coalition for Clean Air, which will use the mon-ey to install community-based air quality monitoring devices in the Wilmington-San Pedro region of Los Angeles, according to the DTSC news release. “We expect to add 50 to 100 new monitors that will collect data about the levels of health destroying particulate matter emitted from trucks, refineries and rail yards, particularly along the Alameda Corridor,” Victor Polanco, a CCA project manag-er, said in an email to the Daily Trojan. Furthermore, USC is making a $7,000 payment to Nurturing Students with Nature to aid its goal of providing environmental education to urban Los Angeles students, through experiences in nature spaces throughout the re-gion. “DTSC continues to hold vio-lators accountable and protect public health, and at the same time promote projects that ben-efit communities most burdened by pollution,” DTSC Director Barbara Lee said in statement emailed to the Daily Trojan. “The Department appreciates that USC agreed to fund two projects that will help improve the lives and health outcomes of some of USC pays over $80,000 in hazardous waste settlement Part of the money will fund environmental health projects throughout Los Angeles. | see WASTE, page 2 | Emily Smith | Daily Trojan A diverse voice · Anna Deavere Smith, an actress, writer and professor, spoke about her upcoming fi lm Notes from the Field, about the school-to-prison pipeline problem in the United States on Thursday. By JOCELYN WOODS Staff Writer Students and faculty members fi lled the Wallis Annenberg Hall on Thursday to see actress and writer Anna Deavere Smith speak in the third installment of USC Annenberg-HBO Diverse Voices Forum series. The event was mod-erated by Director of the School of Communication Sarah Banet- Weiser. Smith, known widely for her play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, spoke about her upcoming fi lm Notes from the Field, which will premiere Feb. 24 on HBO. In Notes from the Field, which has been adapted from the stage to the screen, Smith said she depicted the personal accounts of students, parents, teachers and administra-tors caught in America’s school-to- prison pipeline, the dispropor-tionate tendency of disadvantaged students end up going from school to prison. In 2011, Smith was introduced to the concept of the school-to-prison pipeline and recounted the story of a Baltimore child who peed in a wa-tercooler and was taken to jail. “That really blew my mind!” Smith said. “I couldn’t believe something like that could happen in my hometown. That was when I realized that rich kids, even middle class kids, get the opportunity [to be] mischievous while poor kids are met with a path to prison.” Smith said that this story served as the catalyst for both her play and Notes from the Field . Drawn from over 250 interviews of people living and working within a challenged system, she said she decided to elucidate a lost gener-ation of American youth through her stimulating portrayal of 18 characters. In them, she hopes to inspire awareness and change. As an actress that Banet-Weiser said “brings souls to life,” Smith noted that history builds a con-text in which people won’t pursue a better future. “The knowledge of history is the opposite of hopelessness,” Smith said. “I want the people that watch this to be inspired to act on it.” Wyatt Vinchi, a senior major-ing in theatre, said he was empow-ered by Smith’s work. “She has no fears when she is conveying her truth, and especial-ly during our political climate, we need strong voices,” Vinchi said. “She is one of my invisible men-tors. This was incredible.” HBO’s Anna Deavere Smith speaks on ‘Notes from the Field’ The actress and playwright talked about her upcoming fi lm adaptation on Thursday.
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Full text | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 193, NO. 27 DAILY TROJAN Sophomore guard Derryck Thornton and the men’s basketball team beat Oregon 72-70 Thursday. PAGE 08 2 · News 3 · Opinion 4 · Lifestyle 6 · Classifi eds INDEX 7 · Sudoku 8 · Sports Photo from USC website Soto Street settlement · The Department of Toxic Substances Control alleged that USC transported and stored hazardous waste at its Soto Street Building in Los Angeles, which holds administrative offices. By KARAN NEVATIA News Editor USC reached an $89,142 set-tlement with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control for alleged violations of the California Health and Safety Code involving unauthorized transport and storage of hazard-ous waste, DTSC said in a press release Wednesday. According to settlement doc-uments, between 2013 and 2015, USC allegedly shipped 7.5 tons of hazardous waste including the harmful chemicals toluene, hy-drochloric acid and chloroform to its Soto Street Building in Los Angeles. The building, which houses USC administrative offices and the Health Sciences Campus fitness center, wasn’t authorized as a waste storage facility. The settlement also alleges that USC failed to prepare a manifest to in-form the DTSC of the waste trans-portation. USC reached the settlement with DTSC in mid-December last year. Of the $89,142, $47,142 was paid out to the DTSC, and $42,000 was given to ‘supplemental envi-ronmental projects,’ the settle-ment documents say, through a DTSC program that encourag-es using settlement cases to fund programs to improve California environmental health. The payments include a $35,000 payment to the Coalition for Clean Air, which will use the mon-ey to install community-based air quality monitoring devices in the Wilmington-San Pedro region of Los Angeles, according to the DTSC news release. “We expect to add 50 to 100 new monitors that will collect data about the levels of health destroying particulate matter emitted from trucks, refineries and rail yards, particularly along the Alameda Corridor,” Victor Polanco, a CCA project manag-er, said in an email to the Daily Trojan. Furthermore, USC is making a $7,000 payment to Nurturing Students with Nature to aid its goal of providing environmental education to urban Los Angeles students, through experiences in nature spaces throughout the re-gion. “DTSC continues to hold vio-lators accountable and protect public health, and at the same time promote projects that ben-efit communities most burdened by pollution,” DTSC Director Barbara Lee said in statement emailed to the Daily Trojan. “The Department appreciates that USC agreed to fund two projects that will help improve the lives and health outcomes of some of USC pays over $80,000 in hazardous waste settlement Part of the money will fund environmental health projects throughout Los Angeles. | see WASTE, page 2 | Emily Smith | Daily Trojan A diverse voice · Anna Deavere Smith, an actress, writer and professor, spoke about her upcoming fi lm Notes from the Field, about the school-to-prison pipeline problem in the United States on Thursday. By JOCELYN WOODS Staff Writer Students and faculty members fi lled the Wallis Annenberg Hall on Thursday to see actress and writer Anna Deavere Smith speak in the third installment of USC Annenberg-HBO Diverse Voices Forum series. The event was mod-erated by Director of the School of Communication Sarah Banet- Weiser. Smith, known widely for her play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, spoke about her upcoming fi lm Notes from the Field, which will premiere Feb. 24 on HBO. In Notes from the Field, which has been adapted from the stage to the screen, Smith said she depicted the personal accounts of students, parents, teachers and administra-tors caught in America’s school-to- prison pipeline, the dispropor-tionate tendency of disadvantaged students end up going from school to prison. In 2011, Smith was introduced to the concept of the school-to-prison pipeline and recounted the story of a Baltimore child who peed in a wa-tercooler and was taken to jail. “That really blew my mind!” Smith said. “I couldn’t believe something like that could happen in my hometown. That was when I realized that rich kids, even middle class kids, get the opportunity [to be] mischievous while poor kids are met with a path to prison.” Smith said that this story served as the catalyst for both her play and Notes from the Field . Drawn from over 250 interviews of people living and working within a challenged system, she said she decided to elucidate a lost gener-ation of American youth through her stimulating portrayal of 18 characters. In them, she hopes to inspire awareness and change. As an actress that Banet-Weiser said “brings souls to life,” Smith noted that history builds a con-text in which people won’t pursue a better future. “The knowledge of history is the opposite of hopelessness,” Smith said. “I want the people that watch this to be inspired to act on it.” Wyatt Vinchi, a senior major-ing in theatre, said he was empow-ered by Smith’s work. “She has no fears when she is conveying her truth, and especial-ly during our political climate, we need strong voices,” Vinchi said. “She is one of my invisible men-tors. This was incredible.” HBO’s Anna Deavere Smith speaks on ‘Notes from the Field’ The actress and playwright talked about her upcoming fi lm adaptation on Thursday. |