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by Christine E. Shade
U
sually visitors to art galleries
only get to see finished products
– framed paintings, hardened
bronzes, pre-assembled assem-
blage. But in the case of a new exhibit open-
ing this week at the Fisher Gallery, patrons
will be treated to an unusual art experience.
They’ll get to watch a muralist create an art-
work right before their eyes.
Chicano artist Gronk will paint directly
onto gallery walls, using ordinary acrylic
house paints. The result – if his past multi-
colored murals charged with dark humor
and political statements are any indication –
will be anything but ordinary.
By opening day of “The Mythic Present
of Enrique Chagoya, Patssi Valdez and
Gronk,” the former street artist will be deep
into the creative process for the as-yet-unti-
tled mural, which will flow across three walls
in the gallery, ultimately covering an area
more than 11 feet high and 92 feet long. He
is expected to continue working – before an
appreciative audience – for 10 days.
The exhibition opens at noon on
Wednesday, Dec. 6, and continues through
Feb. 17. It features recent works by three
contemporary Latino artists, two of whom –
Gronk and Patssi Valdez – were born and
raised in East Los Angeles, and maintain stu-
dios in the city. The third, Enrique Chagoya,
is from the San Francisco Bay area.
Gronk and Valdez began as street
artists/performers, outside the mainstream
art world. Both were founding members of a
group known as ASCO – the Spanish word
for nausea – a performance art group built
around various forms of protest. In the mid-
1970s, Gronk joined two other ASCO
members in spray-painting his name on the
CH ONICLE
Unive ity of Southern California
Published for the USC Faculty & Staff December 4, 1995 Volume 15 ' Number 14
In this issue
Dance Week 1995 .............................2
USC in the Community....................3
Bad news about bad breath................4
Gang proliferation.............................5
Mythic T uesdays at the Fisher............6
Calendar............................................8
The Hunger Wall..............................12
meets pre-Columbian
in Latino art exhibition
continued on page 7
Midas soft-touch
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
makes a stop at USC Dec. 5
to promote
his new
book, The
Road Ahead,
which maps
out the soft-
ware
mogul’s vision of the future of
the information age and per-
sonal computing. Admission is
free. For details, see Calendar
“Highlights,” page 9.
Crossing (1995, acrylic and oil on Amate paper), by Enrique Chagoya. From the Fisher Gallery exhibit, “The Mythic Present of Chagoya, Valdez and Gronk.”
by Eric Mankin
I T’S HARD TO IMAGINE TWO
MORE DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
than cardiology and highway
engineering, but a new tech-
nique for analyzing 3-D X-ray
images may lead to new tools
for both – resulting in a less in-
vasive way to diagnose certain
heart problems and a promising
new method for creating more
durable freeway surfaces.
The technique uses new
computer algorithms developed
by Richard M. Leahy, from the
School of Engineering’s Signal
and Image Processing Institute,
to interpret and quantify data
acquired by X-ray computed to-
mography (CT).
CT is a technique for pro-
ducing images of the internal
structures of three-dimensional
X-ray
double
vision
continued on page 6
Exhibit curator Max F . Schulz, preparing to hang
Gronk’s La Tormenta (1994, woodblock).
Pop
USC engineers,
radiologists team
up to develop dual-
application scan-
ning technology.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
COURTESY OF FISHER GALLERY
IRENE FERTIK
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
CH ONICLE
Unive ity of Southern California
DECEMBER 4, 1995
Page 2
Editor
Diane Krieger
Staff Writers
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Irene Fertik
Calendar Editor
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Eric Mankin
Christine E. Shade
Meg Sullivan
Carol T ucker
James Lytle
by Christine E. Shade
T
he elegant Korean fan
dance is a dance of pre-
cision. The slightest
turn of the head, each delicate
foot placement, is executed with
grace and poise.
In contrast, the Slavic folk
dance seems downright boister-
ous. Which makes sense, since
many Slavic dances trace their
origins to celebratory harvest
festivals.
The university community
can get a look at each of these
dances – as well as other interna-
tional and American dance styles
– during USC Dance The-
atre’s Dance Week classes
and at its annual “Fall Show-
case.” Classes are held during
the week beginning Monday,
Dec. 4, and the showcase
event takes place Friday, Dec.
8, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Margo K. Apostolos,
associate professor and director
of dance and movement in the
School of Theatre, said the pro-
gram will draw together eclectic
styles of dance that match USC’s
multicultural community.
“This semester, the reper-
toire of the dance company has
expanded to include a variety of
ethnic, folk and popular dance
forms,” said Apostolos. Authen-
tic costumes, headdresses and
props will add to the drama of
the dances.
A series of dance participa-
tion/observation classes will pre-
cede the Friday evening perfor-
mance:
' Monday, Dec. 4, at
l p.m., Cathy Person’s African-
Caribbean dance class (open to
participation) meets in the
Physical Education Building,
Room 207;
' Tuesday, Dec. 5, at noon,
Joey Letteri’s tap dance class per-
forms for spectators at the Per-
forming Arts Annex;
' Wednesday, Dec. 6, at
3 p.m., Glenda Arnold’s jazz
dance class (open to participa-
tion) meets in the Physical Edu-
cation Building, Room 207;
' Thursday, Dec. 7, at
4:30 p.m., Letteri’s jazz dance
class is open to observers at the
Performing Arts Annex.
Student choreographers will
present group and solo perfor-
mances at the Friday evening
program. Dancers include Katri-
na McKinley (hip-hop, African
modern and jazz); Vania Rich
(traditional Brazilian samba);
Sunny Kang (traditional Korean
fan dance); Lisa Goodgame (tra-
ditional Slavic folk dance);
Christine Schnauber (African
tribal dance); and Tanynya Pat-
terson (gospel dance).
Many of the movements in
the Korean fan dance are derived
from nature, said Kang, a sopho-
more biology major. The wave,
for instance, replicates the grace-
ful flow of rivers; the flower for-
mation performed throughout
the dance reflects the flowers of
Korea. In the time of Korea’s first
king, young maidens used the
fans to hide their faces as they
entertained royalty and officials,
she said. It was considered
improper to show one’s face or
hands in the presence of men.
Many traditional Slavic
dances are performed in a circle
or a line, said Goodgame, a grad-
uate student in the Department
of Slavic Language and Litera-
tures. “Simplicity and repetition
of movements make some of the
dances ideal for working with
larger groups,” she said.
The samba lies at Brazil’s
multicultural heart, according to
Rich, a sophomore international
business major and a true Cario-
ca. Its movements are drawn
from influences of African
rhythms and European harmon-
ics, its distinctive dance steps
and colorful costumes inspired
by street parties during Carnival.
When dancing to the samba, the
realities of life are forgotten,
Rich said, “and even the poorest
man can be a king and the poor-
est lady a queen.”
In many American cities,
street dance is ubiquitous, erupt-
ing spontaneously on any
corner. This provided cre-
ative fodder for McKinley, a
senior theatre major from
Chicago, who drew on
“street dance and funk” and
“years of pompom dancing,
African modern dance and
jazz” to choreograph several
of the showcase pieces.
O
n Dec. 12, the dance
group will perform on
the Health Sciences
Campus at a location to be
determined. Prior to the campus
appearances, the troupe will per-
form during a dance rehearsal for
women from the neighborhood
Sunshine Mission.
To foster future dance appre-
ciation and skills in young chil-
dren, Apostolos said she is also
planning a special dance class for
children of USC faculty, staff
and students. For more informa-
tion, call 740-1297. v Robert Wynne
Dance Week 1995
Brazilian dancer Vania Rich will demonstrate the traditional samba at the
Dance Theatre program’s annual showcase Dec. 8.
When dancing to the
samba, “even the poorest
man can be a king.”
– Vania Rich
IRENE FERTIK
It features nations such as Southern Rhodesia – not Zimbabwe – and the United Arab Republic – not Egypt. In
this and other ways, the Leavey Library Globe is a curious, time-bound artifact, according to geography profes-
sor Curtis Roseman (center, leaning over Canada). “It shows 1964 geopolitics frozen in time,” said Roseman,
who presided over the globe’s Nov. 16 dedication in the library. He and his son trucked the six-foot diameter
behemoth to USC in 1992 from the Denver suburb of Englewood, where the fiberglas globe had been on dis-
play at the local World Savings Bank for 27 years. When the bank relocated, its parent company donated the
beloved orb to USC’s Department of Geography. Mar Martinez, a 1995 museum studies graduate, restored
the teal and tan sphere with support from the Trojan League of Los Angeles. The globe was too large to pass
through the library’s front door. A work crew had to ease it through a double-sized fire exit before they could
permanently install it in the well of the library’s four-story staircase. “We were all set to cut out walls,” joked
Leavey director Chris Ferguson (below Roseman). “It just barely fit.”
Leavey’s global housewarming
IRENE FERTIK
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
Joy of giving
M
any children in the
neighborhood near
the University Park
Campus can’t expect much for
Christmas. But they can count
on Project Special Friend,
which hosts a holiday “shop-
ping spree” every year at Toy
Liquidators in the Citadel Mall.
Now in its fifth year, Project
Special Friend will give 115 lo-
cal elementary school children
$10 cash each to spend as they
like at the toy store. T o sweeten
the treat, T oy Liquidators
will cut its prices that day
by about 80 percent to
make the kids’ money go a
long way.
“It’s the most amazing
thing,” said Yolanda M. Za-
bala, a community service
officer who helps coordinate
the program. “Most of these
kids are from large families,
and instead of just buying
toys for themselves, they go
out and buy their little
brother or sister something.
That, to me, is the best
meaning of Christmas.”
On the morning of Sat-
urday, Dec. 23, children
from Lenicia B. Weemes El-
ementary School, Norwood
Street Elementary School,
Vermont Avenue Elementary
School, Holy Name of Jesus Ele-
mentary School and the 32nd
Street/USC Magnet Center will
be transported via USC buses to
the toy store. The Education
Consortium of Central Los An-
geles and USC Civic and Com-
munity Relations coordinate
participation among the schools.
Community service officer
Jaccoma Maultsby, who initi-
ated the program five years ago,
said about $1,000 must be
raised through donations to en-
able each child to spend $10.
The Department of Public
Safety subsidizes the program if
donations fall short.
The project also receives sub-
stantial volunteer support from
USC and nearby community
groups. The Department of
Auxiliary Services provides the
buses, snacks and USC T-shirts.
The Student Volunteer Center
recruits volunteers. Other spon-
soring organizations that offer
contributions and volunteers in-
clude Delta Sigma Theta soror-
ity, the Knights of Columbus
Council No. 621 and the Met-
ropolitan Employment Develop-
ment Department-Employer
Advisory Committee.
In addition to taking kids on
the holiday shopping spree, Pro-
ject Special Friend will buy toys
for 500 other youngsters at the
USC School for Early Child-
hood Development. Operated
under USC Civic and Commu-
nity Relations, the school runs
Headstart and state preschool
programs.
Maultsby said Santa and his
helpers – alias DPS officers and
other volunteers – will take the
toys to the school on T uesday,
Dec. 19. The toys are
handpicked for each
child, based on their
needs. Project Special
Friend even takes re-
quests for some gifts.
For example, last
year’s presents included a
stroller. Jennifer de la
Cruz – whose daughter
Carla attends the School
for Early Childhood De-
velopment – used to ac-
company her 4-year-old
child to school toting a
baby in a backpack.
T eachers learned that the
woman did not own a
stroller. So when the toys
were delivered to the
school last year, so was a stroller.
“This was our gift to her,
but the greatest gift to us was to
see the smile on her face,” Za-
bala said.
T o donate to Project Special
Friend, call 740-4373.
O, T annenbaum
L
ow-income families, se-
niors and disabled people
who can’t afford a Christ-
mas tree can get a free one be-
tween Dec. 18 and 22.
The annual Christmas T ree
Giveaway, coordinated by the
Bob Porter Foundation, will dis-
tribute about 10,000 trees this
year. The foundation is assisted
by the Department of Auxiliary
Services and the Department of
Public Safety. The trees are do-
nated by various growers.
The giveaway takes place in
Parking Lot 1, at V ermont Av-
enue and Jefferson Boulevard.
Hours are 1 to 6 p.m. on Dec.
18, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 19
through Dec. 22. T o contact the
foundation, call 694-0495.
Holiday feast
S
ixty-eight families who
otherwise could not afford
a Thanksgiving dinner re-
ceived baskets of turkeys, stuff-
ing, cranberry sauce and other
fixings, thanks to the USC
Neighborhood Academic Initia-
tive. The NAI plans to give sim-
ilar food baskets to the families
for Christmas.
The NAI students whose
families had the most need were
identified by the NAI parents
group to receive the baskets, said
Bonnie Montoya, administrative
services coordinator.
Each year since 1991, the
NAI has provided food baskets
at Thanksgiving and Christmas
to needy families of NAI stu-
dents who attend the NAI’s Pre-
College Enrichment Program at
USC.
Virtual turkeys
T
he staff of the USC In-
formation Sciences In-
stitute in Marina del
Rey collected enough money to
purchase 11 turkeys for the
Clare Foundation in Culver City
and 21 turkeys for the Southern
California Veterans’ Services
Council in Inglewood. ISI also
received generous donations of
canned food and clothing,
which were given to the Clare
Foundation, personnel manager
Lisa Moses said.
In addition, ISI will conduct
its annual toy drive from Dec. 8
through Dec. 15 to benefit the
two groups. ISI began holding
the Christmas toy drive as well as
year-round food and clothing
drives after the Los Angeles civil
unrest. In past years, the 240-
member staff has contributed
several hundred toys, Moses said.
For more information, con-
tact Moses at (310) 822-1511,
ext. 104.
Tins and toys
U
SC faculty, staff and
students can show
their holiday spirit by
contributing toys and food to
neighborhood residents
through Christmas Is
Community, an annual
food and toy drive spon-
sored by Auxiliary Ser-
vices.
People are being
asked to donate non-per-
ishable canned goods as
well as toys, preferably
new ones, said Rick Mc-
Cormick, senior man-
ager of T ransportation
Services. Collection bins
will be available at all
University Park Campus
parking gates Dec. 8
through Dec. 22.
Contributions will
be taken to the USC
Catholic Center, 3207 Univer-
sity Ave., where they will be dis-
tributed to people living in the
community. This year marks the
13th year of the drive. For more
information, contact Mc-
Cormick at 740-3579.
In addition, for the third
year, the Health Sciences Cam-
pus is holding the Auxiliary
Services Food and Toy Drive.
The drive, which began Nov.
17 and runs through Dec. 19,
will collect non-perishable food
and toys to benefit the Wyvern-
wood Apartments, a privately
run, low-income apartment
complex near the Health Sci-
ences Campus.
Collection barrels have been
set up at all of the gate entrances
to the campus, said Mark May,
HSC manager of transportation
services. May said the toys do
not have to be new, but should
be in good condition.
The drive is coordinated
with the office of Councilman
Richard Alatorre, and the goods
are combined with donations
from other companies, May
said. On Dec. 20, children at
the apartment complex will line
up to receive a toy and see Santa,
who is usually a Spanish-speak-
ing employee with HSC trans-
portation services.
For more information, con-
tact May at 742-1201.
Greek food
F
raternity and sorority
chapters are donating
funds to buy food for resi-
dents of the community, said
Beth Saul, assistant director for
Greek Life.
The Interfraternity and Pan-
hellenic Councils hope to raise
more than $400, which will go
toward the food bank at St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church. The
councils will either buy the
products or give the money to
the church to buy what is
needed for the food bank, Saul
said, because the students don’t
have access to vans to transport
the goods.
“Despite the fact that Greek
students are very busy studying
for exams, they wanted to do
something to help the commu-
nity during this holiday season,”
she said.
For more information, con-
tact Saul at 740-2080. v DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 3
This monthly column spotlights USC’s community service efforts. The current issue focuses on holiday programs. Articles by Carol Tucker.
More information
For more information on
community programs, con-
tact the USC Office of Civic
and Community Relations
at 740-5480. A database
of more than 200 such
programs is available via
USCgopher, under the
“Campus Resources” menu.
From left, Y olanda Zabala and Jaccoma
Maultsby with Jennifer de la Cruz, her daugh-
ter Carla and the new stroller for the baby.
Felis Caslin and her sons Darr , 11, and Thor , 7, open a
Thanksgiving gift basket from the Neighborhood Academic
Initiative, as program director James Fleming looks on.
Caslin’s daughter Patricia, 15, (not shown) is an NAI scholar .
IRENE FERTIK
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 4
Got a big date?
Think popping a
breath mint or spritz-
ing a breath spray will do the
trick? Think again.
Researchers at the School of
Dentistry have examined thou-
sands of patients in the Oral
Medicine Clinic and concluded
that the origin of bad breath is
more complex than people gen-
erally believe. Besides the obvi-
ous malodorous effects of certain
foods, bad breath can be attrib-
uted to poor dental hygiene,
dental decay, periodontal dis-
ease, side effects of medications
and even clinical depression.
“Depressed people some-
times complain of bad breath
and a metallic taste in the
mouth,” said Charles F . Shuler,
director of the Center for Cran-
iofacial Molecular Biology and
an associate professor in the De-
partment of Oral Pathology.
“No one has identified exactly
the medical cause.”
Because the causes of halito-
sis – bad breath – can be very
complex, it’s not often cured by
mouthwash, breath mints or pills
that stabilize stomach acidity.
That news could stir up foul
winds for the breath-freshening
industry, which according to the
Chemical Marketing Reporter
sold American consumers $825
million in mints and breath
fresheners last year.
Shuler and his col-
league Mahvash
Navazesh, vice chair
of the Department of Dental
Medicine and Public Health,
drew their conclusions based on
observation of patients at USC’s
Oral Medicine Clinic. Dentists
throughout the region refer pa-
tients to this clinic for evaluation
of oral lesions, oral infections
and altered oral physiology, or
the evaluation of lesions of the
hard and soft tissue that may
represent either malignant tu-
mors or premalignant condi-
tions. Many patients are also re-
ferred for the evaluation of bad
breath and bad tastes.
Based on their clinical im-
pressions, Shuler and Navazesh
have come up with several rec-
ommendations to eliminate
these symptoms and determine
the precise causes.
They recommend increasing
the level of dental home care
first – brushing several times a
day and flossing daily – as the
first line of defense against hali-
tosis. This approach removes
one of the prime causes of bad
breath and bad tastes. If the
problem persists, a visit to the
dentist should be scheduled.
In most cases, an oral exami-
nation can reveal the causes of
bad breath – an infected gum, a
cavity or periodontal disease.
However, if none of those prob-
lems is evident, there are three
main possibilities to explore:
' Systemic disease. Depres-
sion often causes a decreased flow
of saliva, which causes dry mouth
that can turn into bad breath.
With uncontrolled diabetes, sali-
vary gland tissue is often infiltrat-
ed by fatty tissue, reducing sali-
vary function and leading to gum
disease and oral infection.
' Side effects of medica-
tion. Steroids have anti-inflam-
matory properties that can lower
the body’s resistance to infection
and promote fungus growth.
Antibiotics remove bacteria from
the body, altering the chemistry
in the mouth and resulting in
increased amounts of fungi and
yeast. Antihistamines, high
blood pressure medications and
some antidepressants and anti-
anxiety medications may also
decrease saliva.
' Diet. Several foods con-
tribute to bad breath, including
garlic, onions, alcohol and spicy
foods. This type of bad breath is
the easiest to correct. Just don’t
eat them!
“Most people think
they can cure bad
breath by buying
over-the-counter products,”
said Navazesh, who is also direc-
tor of the Oral Medicine Clinic.
“The reality is, they may need
professional care.”
Some over-the-counter prod-
ucts can even be counterproduc-
tive. “Many mouthwashes have
some percentage of alcohol, and
that can work as a surface dehy-
drant if used too frequently,”
Navazesh said. “If the surface of
the mouth becomes too dry, that
makes people more susceptible
to yeast infection.”
Breath mints are quick fixes
that offer temporary refresh-
ment, but they can have bad
side effects, too. Sugar-free
mints can cause upset stomach,
and mints containing sugar can
lead to cavities, which can cause
further bad breath.
As for new pills to control
bad breath, Navazesh said no
large-scale studies have at-
tempted to prove or disprove
their effectiveness. In most cases,
breath mints and mouthwash
simply replace one odor with an-
other. And the results only last a
few minutes, she said. v UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
Down at the mouth?
Prozac may help, but forget about Lister-
ine. USC dental researchers say a host of
physiological factors – including clinical
depression – are at the root of bad
breath. And over-the-counter remedies,
they warn, can do more harm than good.
by Robert Wynne
USC dentists Charles F . Shuler and Mahvash Navazesh at the Oral Medicine Clinic.
IRENE FERTIK
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 5 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
Once they move, gang
members are more likely to re-
duce their gang activities than
to establish new gangs or set up
drug franchises, criminologist
Cheryl Maxson has found.
“In the absence of other in-
formation, people have thought:
‘Los Angeles gang members are
coming in here and selling drugs
and bringing violence with them.
If we could just get rid of them,
we wouldn’t have a problem,’”
said Maxson, the study’s lead au-
thor. “But that’s just not true.”
On the contrary, research
shows that most of the nation’s
gang problem is homegrown, ac-
cording to sociology professor
Malcolm W . Klein, co-author of
the study.
“Street Gang Migration
in the United States” is the
first attempt at investigating
gang migration on a na-
tional scope. The study will
be published in the forth-
coming issue of the National
Institute for Justice Journal.
The NIJ, which is the re-
search arm of the U.S. De-
partment of Justice, pro-
vided funding for the study.
In 1992, researchers sur-
veyed law enforcement offi-
cials in more than 1,000
American cities, including
the nation’s 190 cities with
populations over 100,000.
They followed-up with tele-
phone interviews of 226 city
officials and 42 community
representatives. Finally, they
conducted in-depth inter-
views with law enforcement,
school officials, service
providers and gang mem-
bers in three cities: Milwau-
kee, Napa, Calif. and Lawn-
dale, Calif.
The researchers – who in-
cluded history graduate student
Kristi Woods – defined a gang
migrant as any known gang
member who moved from one
city to another for as short a
time as two days and as long as
indefinitely.
T
he findings cast doubt
on the theory that
outside agitators are
responsible for the nation’s gang
problem. Only 5 percent of
cities reported an onset of mi-
gration prior to the emergence
of local gang problems. In fact,
the emergence of indigenous
gangs preceded the onset of mi-
gration in 54 percent of cases.
In the remaining 41 percent of
cases, local gangs first appeared
in the same year as gang mi-
grants.
In followup interviews with
law enforcement officials in 211
cities with migration, 81 percent
of respondents disagreed with
the statement “without
migration, this city
wouldn’t have a gang prob-
lem.” One-third of these
respondents said their de-
partments viewed gang
migration as a minor prob-
lem or no problem at all.
Only 18 percent of depart-
ments described the prob-
lem as “severe.”
“Officials have been blam-
ing outsiders for their prob-
lems, but they have to look
closer to home for the
sources of their gang prob-
lems – as well as the solu-
tions,” said Maxson, a re-
search associate at the
university’s Social Science
Research Institute.
While gang migration
doesn’t appear to have
spawned the nation’s gang
problem, it is a common oc-
currence. Of the 1,105 cities
in the study, 710 (or 64 per-
cent) experienced some
street or drug gang migra-
tion. By contrast, only 87 of
these cities (or 13 percent)
had such migration in 1986.
“The numbers of cities
that reported gang migra-
tion was staggering to every-
one,” said Klein, who directs
the Social Science Research
Institute.
Though authorities in
many cities reported encoun-
tering gang migration, the
actual numbers tended to be
small. Of the 597 cities that pro-
vided an estimate of gang migra-
tion, half counted no more than
10 gang migrants in 1991 (the
year preceding the survey). Only
5 percent of cities reported more
than 100 new gang arrivals in
the prior year.
“Gang migration is a wide-
spread but shallow problem,
with hundreds of cities seeing
the arrival of outside gang mem-
bers but in relatively low num-
bers,” said Klein, author of The
American Street Gang (Oxford,
1995).
M
otivations behind
gang migration also
challenged stereo-
types, the researchers found. Ille-
gal activities explained only 32
percent of the moves, with drug
market expansion cited as the
primary motivation in only 20
percent of these cases. Respon-
dents said social reasons ac-
counted for most (57 percent) of
the moves, with family reloca-
tion the single most popular mo-
tivation (39 percent).
“Gang members move for
many of the same reasons as the
rest of us – so their families can
find better housing, get better
jobs and leave unsafe environ-
ments,” Maxson said.
Relocated gang members ap-
peared to take seriously concerns
about their families’ safety. In in-
terviews with gang members, the
overwhelming majority claimed
they got in less trouble after they
had moved.
“Many realized they had
been getting into trouble, and
they wanted to change that,”
Maxson said.
Despite this pattern,
few cities with large
gang populations have
programs aimed at in-
suring the success of this
transition, the re-
searchers note.
“Officials are miss-
ing out on a window of
opportunity to help en-
tire families turn over a new
leaf,” Maxson said. “If social
service agencies could pull
them into social programs, they
could have an even more posi-
tive effect.”
In one area, researchers did
confirm popular perceptions. Los
Angeles turned out to be the chief
exporter of gang members. Cities
within the Los Angeles area were
cited as sources of migration by
63 percent of law enforcement
sources. However, researchers
cautioned against reading too
much into this figure.
“The abundance of gang
members relocating from Los
Angeles may just reflect the fact
that more people of all kinds are
moving out of the area, owing to
a continued downturn in South-
ern California’s economy,” Max-
son said.
The Chicago area was the
second most frequently cited
source of gang migration (men-
tioned by one-third of respon-
dents), followed by New York
(12 percent) and Detroit (10
percent). v T racking the
growth of an
urban cancer
by Meg Sullivan
T o collect their data, Cheryl Maxson and Malcolm W . Klein surveyed law enforcement officials in more than 1,000
American cities. Their conclusion: Gang migration is a widespread but shallow problem.
I
t’s true that gang members are fanning
out across the country, but they aren ’t
responsible for the proliferation of gangs in
America’s cities and towns. Contrary to
popular belief, relocated gang members
usually don’t precede the emergence of local
gangs, according to a new USC study.
“Gang members move for
many of the same reasons as
the rest of us – to find better
housing, get better jobs.
”
– Cheryl Maxson
In 1987, only 87 cities had observed gang
migration. By 1992, that number had in-
creased nearly tenfold – to 710 cities.
Source: “Street Gang Migration in the United States.”
Gang Proliferation
1985-1992
IRENE FERTIK
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 6
front of the L.A. County Mu-
seum of Art, claiming ownership
of the museum and its collection
as part of an anti-museum
movement. Today, museums
and collectors alike own works
by both Gronk and Valdez.
“That’s a nice irony,” said
Max F. Schulz, curator for the
Fisher Gallery show.
T
he exhibit was
mounted as part of
USC’s yearlong pro-
gram paying homage
to the contributions of Latino
Americans to the city of Los An-
geles and the state of California.
Selma Holo, director of the
Fisher Gallery, called the show
“an exciting exhibition of three
artists whose body of work is in-
creasingly important to all of
California – helping us to un-
derstand elements of our shared
cultural history.”
The works address social,
political and personal issues, and
cross-cultural boundaries, often
using both shock and humor to
convey their ideas.
In the exhibition catalogue
foreword, curator Schulz notes
that “the intersections of history,
myth and personal experience
underlie the work” of the three
artists. Chagoya brings ethnic-na-
tionalist issues to the exhibition,
Gronk contributes Chicano-soci-
etal issues, and Valdez addresses
Chicana-feminist issues. All
three have received national and
international recognition.
“Their art draws easily and
unapologetically on the popular
media — movies, TV, comic
books — of their childhoods,”
Schulz said.
W
hile researching
the current show,
Schulz came
across the sur-
prising scope of Chagoya’s work
at a solo exhibition at San Fran-
cisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial
Museum. He knew at once that
he wanted to include the artist in
his exhibition.
Fifteen works by the Mexi-
can-born artist are included in
this exhibition, including a series
of multicolor etchings on paper
from The Bread of Days: Eleven
Mexican Poets, published in 1994.
Many of his pieces are oil on gal-
vanized steel, or acrylic and oil on
Amate paper – a material used in
pre-Columbian times. His paint-
ings, charcoal and pastel draw-
ings, codices and aquatint etch-
ings blend relics of Mexico’s past
with realities of America’s present.
Chagoya frequently mixes con-
temporary cartoon characters
with Aztec and Mayan images.
Early on, Chagoya studied
economics, then worked in rural
development. After emigrating
to the United States in the mid-
1970s, he worked as a free-lance
graphic designer before studying
at the San Francisco Art Institute
and UC Berkeley. He is now on
the art faculty at California State
University, Hayward.
Valdez, once known mainly
for her photo-collages and exper-
imental films, recently had a solo
exhibition at the San Jose Mu-
seum of Art.
Most of the dozen acrylics on
canvas included in this show
were painted by Valdez in a
flurry of creativity during the
past six months, Schulz said. An
exception is the 1993 “Cactus
Queen,” which Valdez wanted to
include as an example of her
body of work on “the paradig-
matic Eve/Virgin Mary.” In it,
the Madonna is portrayed as an
Indian maize/vegetarian princess.
T ouches of Cubism and Sur-
realism enliven Valdez’ domestic
scenes and religion-based themes
in the acrylics. Early childhood
experiences figure heavily in her
works. She mixes Catholic tradi-
tion and Christian mythology
with 20th-century Latino views
of the past and future, Schulz
said. Once mainly a conceptual
performer who engaged in site
installations, she received her
bachelor’s degree from Otis/Par-
sons School of Design in 1985.
Recently, Valdez turned her ener-
gies to canvas, producing a body
of work in rich, lush colors.
A recent journey to Mexico,
said Schulz, has brought warm
earth tones to her paintings.
A
s for Gronk, in
1995 the artist
painted wall instal-
lations at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin–Madison’s
Elvehjem Museum and at the
Tucson Museum of Art. Next
year, he has been commissioned
to paint one at the National
Gallery in Washington, D.C. A
PBS documentary video of
Gronk creating the mural in
Wisconsin will be shown at the
Fisher Gallery in February.
A high-school dropout who
uses only the middle name his
mother gave him (from a Brazil-
ian-Indian word meaning “to
fly”), Gronk began as a guerrilla-
style street artist-performer and
portable muralist. He has
worked in film, theater and
opera-set design and has become
known for his public site-spe-
cific wall paintings, where he en-
gages in conversations with on-
lookers and incorporates their
suggestions into his work. He is
a printmaker and painter as well.
An enigmatic female figure
named “La Tormenta” – always
seen from the back – glides
through many of his works.
Schulz expects La Tormenta to
appear in the Fisher mural.
Gronk does not seem to
mind that much of his work is
transitory. “It’s the process that
muralists find most exciting,”
Schulz said. Gronk’s mural will
be painted over at the exhibi-
tion’s end, ceasing to exist other
than on a video recording.
In addition to the mural, the
Fisher exhibit will feature several
other works by Gronk: a three-
foot-square wood block print
featuring the elusive La Tor-
menta, as well as a wall filled
with preliminary working draw-
ings and notes – often penned
on found materials, such as
restaurant napkins – for the
mural.
According to Schulz, the
Fisher Gallery is exactly the right
place to exhibit the work of three
important – but very different –
Latino artists. It’s an opportunity
to introduce the work of
Chagoya – an immigrant turned
academic artist – to Southern
Californians, to showcase
Valdez’s most recent artistic voy-
ages into her Chicana-feminist
memories, and to allow Gronk –
who sees himself as a role model
for Chicano kids – to show
neighborhood youngsters that
they can, indeed, paint their
own futures, Schulz said.
Future elements of the uni-
versity’s Latino art initiative will
include a Latino-themed mural
by Chicana artist Judy Baca (to
be permanently installed in the
Norman Topping Student Cen-
ter); a public artwork commem-
orating the legacy of activist
César Chávez; the permanent
acquisition of Latino/Chicano
artworks; and a lecture series on
Latino/ Chicano topics. v “The Mythic Present of Enrique
Chagoya, Patssi Valdez and
Gronk” runs from Wednesday,
Dec. 6, through Friday, Feb. 16,
1996. Gallery hours are noon to
5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday,
and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Satur-
day. Admission is free.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
EXHIBITION “THE MYTHIC
Present of Enrique Chagoya,
Patssi Valdez and Gronk,”
the Fisher Gallery’s “Wake
Up Call!” series presents a
special talk, titled “Is the
Mythic Really Present in
Latino Art Today?”
Moderated by Charles
Merewether, curator of the
Getty Center for the History
of Arts and Humanities, the
event takes place Saturday,
Dec. 9, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
in the Fisher Gallery.
Also linked to the exhibit
are a variety of “T uesday at
Fisher” events, including:
f
Dec. 12, a “One-
on-One with
Gronk.” Guests can
talk with the artist as he exe-
cutes his three-wall mural;
e
Dec. 19 – a walk-
through of the exhibi-
tion, led by curator
Max F . Schulz;
e
Jan. 9 – a walk-
through of the exhibi-
tion, led by Fisher
Gallery director Selma
Holo;
e
Jan. 16 – Children’s
Education Day, a “pa-
per” mural-painting
event for 32nd Street Mag-
net School students (specta-
tors welcome);
e
Jan. 23 – a walk-
through with artist
Patssi Valdez;
f
Feb. 6 – a showing of
Gronk! A Work in
Progress, a documen-
tary video courtesy of the
Elvehjem Museum of Art
and Wisconsin Public Televi-
sion;
e
Feb. 13, a School of
Theatre production
with drama, poems
and prose inspired by themes
in the exhibition, coordi-
nated by theatre artist-in-res-
idence Paul Backer.
Programs take place in
the Fisher Gallery from
noon to 1 p.m. Participants
are encouraged to bring a
bag lunch. Desserts and bev-
erages will be served. To at-
tend either the “Wake Up
Call!” or T uesday events, call
740-4561 to reserve a space.
– C.S.
‘Mythic’
T uesdays
at the
Fisher
The Magic Room (1995, acrylic on canvas), by Patssi Valdez.
COURTESY OF FISHER GALLERY
Latino art
continued from page 1
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 7 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
objects by measuring X-rays that
pass though a patient or an ob-
ject while rotating the X-ray
source around the target. By
viewing the object from many
different angles, CT can avoid a
common pitfall of conventional
X-ray film, called the shadowing
effect. This effect causes, for ex-
ample, the ribs or backbone to
be superimposed on images of
the heart and lungs.
For years, Leahy – who is an
associate professor in the De-
partment of Electrical Engineer-
ing/Systems – has been working
on ways to improve the quality
of CT images, and also to de-
velop computer methods to ana-
lyze the resulting pictures. His
research with collaborators in
two widely separated areas is now
reaching a useful point.
n
MODERN CT SCANNERS ARE ABLE
TO PRODUCE A SINGLE IMAGE
of a patient in about a second.
However, a specialized imaging
system, known as “Cine CT,” is
able to produce images 20 times
per second. These images can
be combined into a movie
showing activity of living tissue
– the beating of a human heart,
for example.
Working with Samuel M.
Song – a USC postdoctoral stu-
dent who has since joined the
radiology department at UC San
Francisco – Leahy began devel-
oping CT computer software,
specifically a method called “op-
tical flow,” to analyze sequences
of cardiac images to extract in-
formation about the motion of
the heart from one CT frame to
the next.
This type of computer analy-
sis offers a great potential advan-
tage. A skilled human eye can
see qualitative patterns in Cine-
CT scans – it can determine, for
example that motion of the heart
wall is abnormal or that blood
flow in the vessels is constricted.
But computer analysis can, at
least in principle, do more. It
can actually take a precise nu-
merical measurement of the mo-
tion of the heart wall and of the
blood in the heart.
These results can then be
used to diagnose or assess car-
diac disease by detecting abnor-
mal blood flow in the chambers
and valves of the heart. Or they
can be used to measure changes
in the biomechanical properties
of the myocardial wall resulting
from heart disease, leading to an
improved understanding of the
disease’s effect on the function-
ing of the heart.
Present methods for doing
this involve surgery that intro-
duces a catheter into blood ves-
sels going to the heart – an inva-
sive and complication-prone
procedure. Leahy’s Cine-CT
method offers a potentially safer
alternative.
n
TO MAKE SUCH MEASUREMENTS,
THE COMPUTER HAS TO LEARN
to read the CT images. Com-
puters can be taught to track
images of moving objects by
finding and following the edges
of the object, the way human
eyes do when watching a ball
roll. In the case of a
ball, it’s very clear
where the surface
ends. The computer
can be trained to “see”
the rounded, high-
contrast edge – which retains
the same shape – and look for it
in successive images.
Although this approach
works well for tracking simple
man-made objects, the images
found in CT scans often don’t
have bright, sharply defined
boundaries that maintain a
consistent form over time. As
anyone who has ever puzzled
over an X-ray knows, soft tissue
shows up as a vague shape – a
kind of abstract, gray-on-gray
painting. A series of images
shown, one after another, indi-
cate movement. But the often
vague boundaries and chang-
ing, irregular shapes in motion
are impossible for computer
edge-recognition software to
handle.
An alternative is the “optical-
flow” method – which keeps
track of areas of consistent gray-
ness, and follows them as they
move, or flow, over time. When
Leahy began looking at the
problem, such software had been
used only to describe and track
two-dimensional images for au-
tomated or computer vision.
However, the bodies being
examined are three-dimensional,
and the great virtue of CT tech-
nology is its ability to gather
three-dimensional data. In a se-
ries of studies, Leahy found
mathematical techniques for
adapting two-dimensional, opti-
cal-flow computer algorithms to
three-dimensional Cine-CT
data. By doing so,
Leahy and Song were
able to actually cal-
culate how far each
part of the heart
moves throughout
the heart cycle.
Leahy and Song
have been collaborat-
ing with cardiologist
Bruce H. Brundage
at UCLA-Harbor
Medical Center, and
with Douglas P.
Boyd, CEO of Ima-
tron Inc., a San Fran-
cisco-based manufac-
turer of medical
imaging equipment
that builds Cine-CT
instruments.
“There are not
yet any clinical ap-
plications, but I
think it has great po-
tential,” Brundage
said. “The software
needs to be devel-
oped, but it would
be a neat way to ac-
tually look at re-
gional function of
each chamber of the
heart. It might even
allow us to know if
there is stenosis –
leakage – at an in-
dividual heart
valve.”
n
SIMULTANEOUSLY, LEAHY HAS
BEEN WORKING WITH CIVIL
engineers to adapt the same
technique to another, quite
dissimilar problem – non-de-
structive analysis of what hap-
pens to certain building mate-
rials under stress.
One such material is as-
phalt. The familiar road surface
is a mixture of very thick oil,
gravel, sand and air. Familiar
though it is, asphalt is an ex-
tremely variable and poorly un-
derstood material, according to
one of Leahy’s collaborators,
Costas Synolakis, an associate
professor in the
Department of
Civil Engineering.
While engineers
have been using it
for centuries, they
don’t have a detailed, theoretical
model of how it behaves under
stress – what actually happens
when a heavy truck, for exam-
ple, rolls over a section of pave-
ment. Normally, the only way
to analyze asphalt’s behavior is
by stressing it and then essen-
tially performing a structural
“autopsy” after the fact.
Such an examination is time-
consuming and difficult to carry
out, according to Synolakis, and
provides limited information.
Scientists can only infer what
happened from what they find:
they can’t actually watch the
process as it happens. This kind
of analysis also destroys the
structure of the sample, making
further testing impossible.
Leahy, Synolakis and Manbir
Singh – a professor with joint ap-
pointments in the School of
Medicine’s Department of Radi-
ology and engineering’s Depart-
ment of Biomedical Engineering
– began a series of experiments
using a CT scanner at the
USC/Norris Comprehensive
Cancer Center to scan 4-inch-di-
ameter samples under stress.
With minor adjustments to
the software Leahy had devel-
oped for medical engineering,
the scientists found it was possi-
ble to do something that had
never been done before – chart
what was happening to each of
the components of the asphalt.
“We were able to measure
how much each interior point of
the core moved during deforma-
tion,” Synolakis said. “This cal-
culation has long been one of the
Holy Grails of mechanics. Up to
now, to predict the mechanical
behavior of composite materials
such as this core, engineers used
averages of the material proper-
ties over the entire core, most of-
ten obtained from mechanical
tests of specially prepared cores.”
“This process was prone to
error,” Synolakis said, “particu-
larly if the specially constructed
core contained microscopic in-
homogeneities that affected its
macroscopic behavior. Using the
new process, not only is it possi-
ble to screen the cores for de-
fects and identify non-standard
samples, but it makes possible
the complete characterization of
the composite material.”
It will also help engineers cre-
ate new materials, giving them
new insights into which parame-
ters in materials like asphalt are
related to improved performance.
Asphalt is not the only heav-
ily used but poorly understood
composite material that the new
method can analyze. Synolakis
has already begun a study of the
behavior of concrete.
Leahy, Synolakis, Song and
Zheny Zhou, a former graduate
student at SIPI, published an
account of their new engineer-
ing method in the summer
1995 issue of the Proceedings of
the Royal Society. Synolakis will
present a talk on the new proce-
dure at the annual meeting of
the Transportation Research
Board in January 1996. v INTERDISCIPLINAR Y
Double duty: Richard Leahy, left, has created new X-ray interpretation software that can
be used by cardiologists to analyze heartbeats (lower images on screen), or by civil engi-
neers like Costas Synolakis, right, to study the behavior of building materials under stress
(upper images).
3-D X-ray
continued from page 1
“This calculation has long been one
of the Holy Grails of mechanics.”
– Costas Synolakis
IRENE FERTIK
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 8 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
Special Events
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.:
USC Spectrum Distin-
guished Speaker. Bill Gates
(Microsoft) presents the “Office
of the Future.” Bovard Auditori-
um. Free tickets from the USC
Ticket Office, 740-7111. (740-
2167)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, noon - 3 p.m.:
Author Signing. Ray Bradbury
(Fahrenheit 451, The Martian
Chronicles) will sign copies of his
books. Pertusati University
Bookstore. (740-2665)
Tuesdays, Dec 12, 19, noon:
T uesdays at Fisher. “One on
One with Gronk” featuring the
artist from “ The Mythic Pre-
sent” and “Walk-through of
The Exhibition with Curator
Max F . Schulz,” respectively.
Brown bag your lunch, bever-
ages provided. Fisher Gallery.
Free. (740-4561)
Friday, Dec. 15, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
& noon-1 p.m.: Faculty Staff
Clinic. Blood pressure testing
for benefits-eligible faculty and
staff. University Park Health
Center, 849 W . 34th St., Rm.
220. Free. (740-3757)
Monday, Dec. 18, 4 p.m.:
Faculty/Staff Holiday
Reception. USC Hillel begins
the Hanukkah holiday (Dec. 18
- 25) with latkes and candles
for all, hosted by dean Ruth
Weisberg (fine arts). Faculty
Center Banquet Room.
Reservations requested. Free.
(747-9135)
Wednesday, Dec. 27 - 30, 10
a.m. - 3 p.m.: Gamble
House Special
T ours/Hours. Self-
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Docent led tours. 4 Westmore-
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and under). (818-793-3334)
Lectures &
Seminars
Monday, Dec. 4, noon:
Population Research Semi-
nar: Cynthia Cranford (popula-
tion research) discusses “Labor
Migration Among Mexican
Immigrant Women in Los Ange-
les.” Population Research Labora-
tory, Rm. 387, Research Annex,
3716 S. Hope St. Free. Brown-
bag your lunch; beverages provid-
ed. (743-2950)
Monday, Dec. 4, 1:30 p.m.:
Behavioral and Cognitive
Neuroscience Seminar.
“Representation by Similarity
to Prototypes” by Shimon Edel-
man (Weizmann Institute of
Science). Seeley G. Mudd
Bldg., Rm. 807. Free. (740-
2222 or cbn.brown.bag@bcf.
usc.edu)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, noon: School
of Planning Colloquium.
Eileen McGurty
(urban
and
regional planning) presents
“Women and Waste: Municipal
Housekeeping or Radical Femi-
nism?” V on KleinSmid Center,
Rm. 152. Free. (740-2264)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m.: Nor-
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and V ern Bullough (nursing) ask
“American Physicians and Sex
Research in the 20th Century:
Why Have They Left the Field?”
Reception precedes, 5:30 p.m.
Optional dinner follows,
Edmondson Faculty Center, $22,
reservations required. Norris
Medical Library, Conference Rm.
Health Sciences Campus. Free.
(342-1130)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 4 p.m.: Eco-
nomic Development Semi-
nar. “The Effects of Mexican
Immigration in LA County” by
Enrico Marcelli (politics, eco-
nomics and public policy).
Kaprielian Hall, Rm. 319. Free.
(740-2108)
Thursdays, Dec 7,
14, noon: USC
Center for
Liver
Diseases Seminars. “Oxida-
tive Regulation of Protein Kinas-
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Chemopreventive Agents” by
Rayudu Gopalakrishna (cell &
neurobiology) and “Mitochon-
drial DNA Mutations and
Aging” by Norman Arnheim
(molecular biology), respectively.
Ambulatory Health Center (Old
Doheny Bldg.), Auditorium,
1355 San Pablo St. Free. (342-
5571)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 13, 4 p.m.:
Neuroscience Seminars. “The
Primate Brain in Social Context”
by Leslie Brothers (UCLA) and
“Prospects for a Neurobiology of
Consciousness” by Patricia
Churchland (UC San Diego),
respectively. Hedco Neurosciences
Bldg., Auditorium. Reception fol-
lows. Free. (740-9175)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 5 p.m.:
Biokinesiology and Physical
Therapy Panel Discussion.
“Validation of Joint Mobiliza-
tion T echniques: Is it Possible?”
Participants: Jim Harrison,
Arthur Hsu, Rob Landel, Kim
O’Connor, Steve Reischl; Chris
Powers, moderator (biokinesiol-
ogy & physical therapy). Center
for Health Professions, Rm.
147-E, Health Sciences Cam-
pus. Free. (342-2900)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 6:30 p.m.:
Women in Science
Lecture. LAS Dean of
Research Maria Pellegrini
presents “From Washing
Glassware to Becoming Dean,
My Experiences in Science.”
Seaver Science Center, Audi-
torium. Free. (740-3166)
Friday, Dec. 8, 3 p.m.:
Geography Collo-
quium. Dawn
Wright (Oregon
State Universi-
ty) presents
“From Pattern to
Process on Deep Ocean
Floor: A GIS Approach.”
Kaprielian Hall, Rm. 415.
Free. (740-0050)
Friday, Dec. 8, 1 p.m.:
W .V .T . Rusch Engineering
Honors Colloquium. “Galileo
Mission” by Kent Kellog (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory). Grace
Ford Salvatori Hall, Rm. 106.
Free. (740-4710)
Friday, Dec. 8, 1 p.m.:
IPR Seminar. “Sexual Arousal
in the Context of Everyday Life”
by Cynthia Hedricks (biopsy-
chology & occupational therapy).
Center for Health Professions,
Rm. 101, 1540 Alcazar St.,
Health Sciences Campus. Free.
(342-2622)
Friday, Dec. 15, 10 a.m.:
T ransportation Seminar. Tom
Horan (Claremont Graduate
School) addresses “The Impact of
Information T echnology on
T ransportation, Cities, and
Beyond.” Seaver Science Center,
Auditorium. Free. (740-4894)
Workshops &
Conferences
Monday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. and 1
p.m.: Internet Resources
Workshops. “Internet: Get-
ting Started as a World Wide
Web Author” and “Introduction
to the Internet and the Internet
Gopher,” respectively. Wednes-
day, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.: “Internet:
Pine E-Mail.” Friday, Dec. 8, 1
p.m.: “Internet: The World
Wide Web.” Norris Medical
Library, microcomputer class-
room. Reservations required.
Free. (342-1968)
Mondays, Dec. 4, 18, 6:30 p.m.:
Small Business Workshops.
“Earthquake Recovery Assistance
for the Property Owner” by Hans
Hagenmayer and Andrew De
Camara (Business Expansion
Network) and “Import/Export
and Your Small Business: The
Insider’s Guide” by William O.
Hessian (Wuhan University),
respectively. University Village,
Suite 1. Admission: $30, $25.
(743-1736)
JUST ONE LONG HOLIDA Y
In celebration of Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwan-
zaa and the winter solstice, works by Southern
California artist Charles Bibbs will be shown
through Dec. 22 in the United Ministry
Lounge. Bibbs – who was instrumental in the
founding of Art 2000, a multicultural visual-
arts association fostering artistic appreciation
among diverse ethnic groups – explores con-
temporary African and African-American
themes in his work. “The Works of Charles
Bibbs” – featuring acrylic paintings, clay vessels,
masks and mixed-media paintings – is on view
Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Admission is free. A reception for the
artist is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 6, from 4 to
7 p.m., in room 103 of the University Religious
Center. For information, call 740-2667.
WHITHER THE SEX DOC?
Bonnie and V ern Bullough, both of the depart-
ment of nursing, question the diminished role
of physicians as researchers and clinicians in the
realm of sexuality and sexual behavior. The Bul-
loughs address the issue in the second of a four-
part Friends of the Norris Library Lecture series,
“Aesculapius and Eros: Sex, Science, and Soci-
ety.” Their talk, “American Physicians and Sex
Research in the 20th Century: Why Have They
Left the Field?” is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 6,
at 6 p.m., in the conference room of the Norris
Medical Library on the Health Sciences Cam-
pus. It follows a wine and cheese reception at
5:30 p.m. Admission to the lecture and recep-
tion is free. An optional $22 dinner follows in
the Edmondson Faculty Center. For informa-
tion or for dinner reservations, call 342-1130.
CALEND AR
Highlights
An exhibit of “The Works of Charles
Bibbs” celebrates Hanukkah, Christmas,
Kwanzaa and the winter solstice, in Room 103 of
the University Religious Center, through Friday,
Dec. 22, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
CHARLES BIBBS
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
The USC Concert Choir, conducted by
David Wilson, presents The Christmas Story
by Ron Nelson together with David Maslan-
ca’s Litany for Courage and the Seasons and
Leonard Bernstein’s Choruses from The Lark,
and other holiday favorites in a free concert in
Hancock Auditorium, on T uesday, Dec. 5, at
8 p.m. Bach’s Cantata 191 Gloria in excelsis deo
gives the title to another free concert of season-
celebrating music by the USC Chamber
Singers, conducted by William Dehning. The
program also features Musgrave’s Rorate Coeli,
James Hopkins’ In excelsis gloria, as well as an
overture of English carols on Friday, Dec. 8, at
8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. “Gloria in
excelsis deo!” will be broadcast as part of
KUSC’s “Music from USC” program on
Wednesday, Dec. 20. (See below for more KUSC
holiday programming highlights.)
SEASON’S GREETINGS
With this last issue of 1995, USC Chronicle
takes a winter break. The next issue will be
Jan. 8. The deadlines for submissions to the
calendar section for the weeks of Jan. 8-15,
and Jan. 15-22, are noon Thursday, Dec. 21
and Jan. 4, respectively. Happy holidays!
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 9 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
Microsoft head
honcho Bill
Gates will
speak in
Bovard Audito-
rium on T ues-
day, Dec. 5 at
8 p.m. Tickets
for the event
are free to fac-
ulty, staff and
students on a
first come, first
served basis,
from the USC
Ticket Office.
For more
information,
call USC Spec-
trum, 740-
2167.
KATHLEEN KING
Wednesdays, Dec. 6, 13, noon:
Women’s Spirituality Discus-
sions. Julie Morris (Episcopal
Chaplain) conducts an interfaith
group for faculty and staff. Free.
(740-2673)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.:
Database Searching Work-
shop. “Basic Medinfo Medline
Searching.” Norris Medical
Library, microcomputer class-
room. Reservations required.
Free. (342-1968)
Saturday, Dec. 9, 8:15 a.m. -
3:15 p.m.: Third Annual
Family Law Institute. “The
Ethics of Custody Litigation.”
Participants include: Charles M.
Calderon (California State Sen-
ate, D-Montebello), Jonathan
H. Cannon (Orange County
Superior Court), Erwin
Chemerinsky (Law Center),
Mary E. Lund (Los Angeles
County Superior Court), Isolina
Ricci (Judicial Council of Cali-
fornia). Law Center. Admission:
$225, $185 (includes lunch,
parking, and program materials).
Reservations required. (740-
2582)
Thursdays, Dec. 14, 21, noon:
Parenting Seminars. Sandi
Schwarm (USC Child Care Pro-
grams) presents “The Basics of
Encouragement” in Norris
Library Conference Room,
Health Sciences Campus and
Bovard Administration Bldg.,
Rm. 153, respectively. Brown-
bag lunch. Free. (743-2446)
Music
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.:
USC Concert Choir.David
Wilson, conductor. Ron Nel-
son: The Christmas Story; David
Maslanca: Litany for Courage
and the Seasons; Leonard Bern-
stein: Choruses from The Lark.
Hancock Auditorium. Free.
(740-7111)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 12:10 p.m.:
Music at Noon: Musicians
from the School of Music per-
form. United University Church,
817 W . 34th St. Free. (740-
7111)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.:
USC Early Music Ensemble.
“Music from the High Renais-
sance and Baroque for Solo
V oice, Strings and Winds.” James
T yler, music director; Belinda
Wilkins, soprano; Nina T read-
well, lute; Inga la Rose, recorder;
Joëlle Fancher, viola da gamba.
Bach: Arias from Cantata 211,
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht;
Vivaldi: Concerto for T wo Vio-
lins, Lute and Basso Continuo;
T elemann: Concerto for
Recorder, Viola da Gamba.
Strings and Basso; T orelli: Con-
certo a quattro; Handel: Horn-
pipe. “Now Love, that everlasting
boy; works by De Rore, Guami,
Conversi. Hancock Auditorium.
Admission: $5, $2. (740-7111)
Thursday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.: ’SC
Jazz at Ground Zero. USC
jazz combos and musicians from
the Jazz Studies Program per-
form. Free. (740-3119)
Fridays, Dec. 8, 15, 7:30 p.m.:
R.D. Colburn School of Per-
forming Arts. “Friday Night
Recitals.” Student performance.
Studio A, 3131 S. Figueroa St.
Free. (743-2306)
Friday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.:
USC Chamber Singers. “Glo-
ria in excelsis deo!” William
Dehning, conductor. Bach: Can-
tata 191 Gloria in excelsis deo;
Musgrave: Rorate Coeli; James
Hopkins: In excelsis gloria; Over-
ture of English carols. Hancock
Auditorium. Free. (740-7111)
Saturday, Dec. 16, 3 p.m.:
R.D. Colburn School of Per-
forming Arts. “California
Children’s Choir.” United Uni-
versity Church, 817 W . 34th St.
Free. (743-2306)
Film &
Theater
Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m., Sunday,
Dec. 3, 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 4
through Wednesday, Dec. 6, 7
p.m.: Massman Theatre. An ’
Push Da Wind Down by Lisa
Harper is the story of a runaway
slave girl rescued and adopted
into a Cherokee family, with
whom she walked the “T rail of
T ears” in 1838. Admission: $5,
$3. (740-7111)
Friday, Dec. 8, 7, 9:45 p.m. and
midnight: DKA Movie. Alicia
Silverstone, Stacey Dash and
Brittany Murphy star in Clueless,
directed and written by Amy
Heckerling. Norris Cinema The-
atre. Admission: $3. (740-1945)
Daily through March: Storm-
chasers, noon, 2, 4, 6 and 8 p.m.;
Yellowstone, 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.;
Search for the Great Sharks, 1, 3,
7 and 9 p.m.; Africa: The
Serengeti, 10 a.m. California
Museum of Science and Indus-
try, 700 State Drive, Exposition
Park. Admission: $6, $4.75, $4.
(744-2014; for groups and
advance bookings, 744-2016)
USC Radio
Wednesdays, Dec. 6, 13, 7:30 p.m.:
Rabbit Ears Radio. “The V el-
veteen Rabbit,” told by Meryl
Streep; “The T rees of the Dancing
Goats,” told by Patricia Polacco
(repeated Sundays, Dec. 10, 17, 7
a.m.), respectively; 8 p.m.: Music
from USC. Southern California
Jazz presents ELF; USC Classical
Guitar Ensemble presents “From
Bach to Brouwer,” respectively.
Saturday, Dec. 9, 10:30 a.m.: Tex-
aco Metropolitan Opera.
James Levine conducts Weill’s Rise
and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Cast: T eresa Stratas, Helga Der-
nesch, Gary Lakes, Kenneth
Riegel, Timothy Noble, Jan-Hen-
drick Rootering. Wednesday, Dec.
20, 7:30 p.m.: “The Night Before
Christmas” told by Meryl Streep
and “The Gingham Dog and the
Calico Cat” told by Amy Grant,
respectively. 8 p.m.: USC Cham-
ber Singers, present “Gloria in
excelsis deo!” Wednesday, Dec. 27,
7:30 p.m.: “The T alking Egg”
told by Sissy Spacek. 8 p.m.:
KCET Simulcast: T exaco
Metropolitan Opera. Daniele
Gatti conducts Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly, with Catherine Malfi-
tano and Richard Leech. KUSC,
91.5 FM. (743-5872)
Holiday Programming High-
lights. Sunday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m.:
“Christmas from Musical Clock
to Street Organ.” Sunday, Dec. 17,
3 p.m.: “The Hanukkah Story.”
The a cappella Western Wind
V ocal Ensemble presents 25 selec-
tions including Ladino, Yiddish
and Israeli songs (repeated Sun-
day, Dec. 24, 10 a.m.). Monday,
Dec. 18, 8 p.m.: “Echoes of
Christmas, 1995” with the Dale
Warland Singers. Friday, Dec. 22,
8 p.m., 9 p.m.: “A Christmas
Casual Concert,” featuring the
Pulitzer Prize-winning Karolju by
Christopher Rouse; and “Joy to
the World – A Jazz Celebration of
Christmas 1995,” respectively.
Sunday, Dec. 24, 3 p.m., 5 p.m.:
“The Christmas Revels;” and
“Bah! Humbug!” with Robert
MacNeil, starring James Earl
Jones and Martin Sheen (repeated
Monday, Dec. 25, 7:30 p.m.),
respectively. Monday, Dec. 25, 7
a.m., 9 p.m.: “Carols for Christ-
mas,” and “ Anonymous 4 – On
Y oolis Night.” KUSC, 91.5 FM.
(743-5872)
Thursday, Dec. 14, 8 p.m.:
Live Broadcast: Pacific Sym-
phony Orchestra. Klaus
Donath, conductor; Helen
Donath, soprano. Mozart: Sym-
phony, No. 23 in D, K. 181;
Bella mia fiamma, K. 528; Ch’io
mi scordi te?, K. 505; Alleluja
from Exultate, jubilate, K. 165;
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in
C, D. 944. KUSC, 91.5 FM.
(743-5872)
Sports
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 5:45 p.m.:
Women’s Basketball. USC vs.
San Diego State. Los Angeles
Sports Arena. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2
p.m.: USC vs. Boise State. Lyon
University Center. Saturday, Dec.
16, 12:30 p.m.: USC vs. Portland
Saints. Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Admission: $5, $3. (740-GOSC)
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.:
Men’s Basketball. USC vs.
Houston. Los Angeles Sports
Arena. Saturday, Dec. 9, TBA.
USC vs. Nevada-Las V egas. Great
Western Forum. Saturday, Dec.
16, 3 p.m.: USC vs. UC Irvine.
Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Wednesday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m.: USC
vs. George Mason. Los Angeles
Sports Arena. Admission: $15.
(740-GOSC)
Current
Exhibits
Fisher Gallery. “The Mythic
Present of Enrigue Chagoya,
Patssi Valdez and Gronk,” opens
Wednesday, Dec. 6 and contin-
ues through Feb. 17. “A Selection
of British Paintings from the Eliz-
abeth Holmes Fisher Collection”
runs through April 6. Hours:
noon to 5 p.m., T uesday through
Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Satur-
day. Free. (740-4561) v USCChronicle welcomes calendar listings
from all areas of the university. Items
should be submitted in writing to:
Calendar Editor
KAP 246, mc 2538, 740-6156
University Park Campus
e-mail: linda@skymir.usc.edu
Listings must be received no later
than noon Thursday, 11 days before
the week of the event.
All listings should include date, time,
place and descriptions of events, along
with telephone number for informa-
tion. Forms for submitting calendar
events are available from the USC
News Service at the above address.
The deadlines for submitting notices
of events to be held the weeks of Jan.
8 - 15, and Jan. 15 - 22, are noon
Thurs., Dec. 21 and Jan. 4, respectively.
CALEND AR
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 10 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 11 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
NEW JOBS (UPC)
Administrative Services Coordinator I - Req.
29804 - WESRAC —(Grade H)
Arts Laboratory Specialist (60%) - Req.
29951 & 29953 - Annenberg Center
— (Grade H)
Marketing Coordinator - Req. 29952 - An-
nenberg Center — (Grade H)
Budget Business T echnician - Req. 30864 -
Chemical Engineering (Grade G)
Administrative Assistant - Req. 30771 - Uni-
versity Advancement/GAA (Grade G)
Project Assistant (50-60%) - Req. 32131 -
Gerontology (Grade G)
Computer Operator III - Req. 30864A -
UCS (Grade F)
Secretary I - Req. 29960 - Public Relations
(Grade E)
Arts Laboratory T echnician I - Req. 32218 -
Cinema (Grade D)
Elevator Maintenance Mechanic - Req.
32105 - Facilities Management
(Grade PN)
Air Conditioning T echnician - Req. 30710A
- Facilities Management (Grade PM)
Scooter Mechanic - Req. 30879A - Facilities
Management (Grade PJ)
Lead Registered Nurse -Req. 29588 - SHC
(Grade HG/$37,000-$64,500)
JOBS STILL AVAILABLE (UPC)
Supervising Computer Scientist (Project
Leader) - Req. 30987 -
Engineering/ISI (Grade 99 - Salary
Negotiable)
Supervising Computer Scientist (Project
Leader) - Req. 31291 -
Engineering/ISI (Grade 99 - Salary
Negotiable) Note: Position Is Located
In The Wash. D.C. Area.
Computer Scientist - Req. 31290 - Engi-
neering/ISI (Grade M) Note: Posi-
tion Is Located In The Wash. D.C.
Area.
Development Director (Managerial) - Req.
30770 & 30958A - University Ad-
vancement/Development (Grade M)
MIS Director (PC System Support) - Req.
30620 - UCS Facilities (Grade M)
Clinic Manager - Req. 29585 - Student
Health Center (Grade HH)
MIS Director (Decentralized) - Req.
30230 - SBA/Information Resources
(Grade L)
MIS Manager (Decentralized) - Req. 29572
- Architecture (Grade L)
MIS Manager (Decentralized) - Req.
30260A - Engineering/ISI (Grade L)
Program Director - Req. 32291 - KUSC Ra-
dio (Grade L)
Program Director (Director, Language Cen-
ter) - Req. 31813 - LAS/Administra-
tion (Grade L)
Program Director - Req. 31873 - Program-
ming and Data Processing (Grade L)
Program Director - Req. 31150A - School of
Public Administration (Grade L)
Note: Position Is Located In The
Wash. D.C. Area.
Program Director - Req. 30769A - Univer-
sity Advancement/Development
(Grade L)
Program Director - Req. 30341A - Univer-
sity Advancement/GAA (Grade L)
Systems Programmer IV - Req. 31212A -
AIS/Financial Business Information
Systems (Grade L)
Systems Programmer IV - Req. 30425A -
Computer Science (Grade L)
Systems Programmer IV - Req. 31289A -
Engineering/ISI (Grade L) Note:
Position Is Located In The Wash.
D.C. Area.
Systems Programmer IV - Req. 30523 -
UCS/UNIX Systems And T echnical
Support (Grade L)
Systems Programmer IV - Req. 30863 -
UCS/Research & Development
(Grade L)
Associate Registrar - Req. 31111 - Academic
Records and Registration (Grade K)
Development Officer III - Req. 30845 -
Law Center (Grade K)
Development Director III (Regional Direc-
tor Of Development) - Req. 30327,
30328A & 30329A - University Ad-
vancement/ Development (Grade K)
Project Manager - Req. 32106 - Facilities
Planning & Management (Grade K)
MIS Manager - Req. 30557A - SBA/Infor-
mation Resources (Grade K)
Program Manager - Req. 29910 - Dentistry
(Grade K)
Program Manager - Req. 30639 - LAS/Ed-
ucational Opportunity Programs
Center (Grade K)
Program Manager (Banquet Manager) -
Req. 30688A - T own & Gown
(Grade K)
Program Manager (Co-Producer/Direc-
tor/Story Editor) - Req. 29340 -
KUSC Radio (Grade K)
Program Manager (Program Advisor) - Req.
30995A & 31300 - Engineering/ISI
(Grade K) Note: Position Is Located
In The Wash. D.C. Area.
Project Manager (50%) - Req. 32322 - An-
nenberg School for Communications
(Grade K)
Project Manager - Req. 32286 - Western Re-
search Application Center (WES-
RAC) (Grade K)
Public Communications Specialist (Medical
Communications Officer I) - Req.
31198A & 31200A - HSC/Public Re-
lations (Grade K)
Radio Program Host, KUSC - Req. 31826 -
USC Radio (Grade K)
Senior Business Officer I (Operations Man-
ager) - Req. 31000 - Engineering/ISI
(Grade K)
Staff Psychologist - Req. 29578 & 29587 -
Student Health Center (Grade K)
Systems Programmer III - Req. 30990A -
Engineering/ISI (Grade K) Note: Po-
sition Is Located In The Wash. D.C.
Area.
Systems Programmer III - Req. 30518 -
UCS Systems/Research And Develop-
ment (Grade K)
Computer Consultant Specialist - Req.
29949 - Annenberg Center
(Grade J)
Computer Consultant Specialist - Req.
30465A - SBA/Information Resources
(Grade J)
Computer Consultant Supervisor - Req.
30477A - UCS User Services
(Grade J)
Development Officer II (Direct Marketing
Manager) - Req. 30811 - KUSC Ra-
dio (Grade J)
Programmer Analyst III - Req. 32348 -
AIS/Systems & Programming
(Grade J)
Programmer Analyst III - Req. 32211 -
Gerontology (Grade J)
Systems Programmer II - Req. 30424A &
32146 - Computer Science (Grade J)
NEW JOBS (HSC)
Research Associate - Req. 1696 - Neurology
- (Grade 00)
Administrative Serv. Coord. II - Req. 1715 -
USCP Surgery - (Grade I)
Medical Secretary - Req. 1716 - USCP
Surgery - (Grade HD)
Office Assistant I - Req. 1707 - Biostatistics -
(Grade D)
Office Assistant I - Req. 1067 - Pediatrics -
(Grade D)
JOBS STILL AVAILABLE (HSC)
Sr. Clinical Administrator - Req. 1209 -
USCP/Surgery - (Grade L)
Project Manager - Req. 0256 - USC Physi-
cians - (Grade K)
Program Manager - Req. 1621 - USC Affili-
ates/IPA - (Grade K)
Clinical Administrator - Req. 0416 - Medi-
cine - (Grade J)
Development Officer II - Req. 2960 - VP
Health Affairs - (Grade J)
Administrative Services Manager - Req.
1606 - Urology - (Grade J)
Administrative Services Coord. II - Req.
1174 - USCP Ob/Gyn - (Grade I)
Program Specialist - Req. 1616 - Family
Medicine - (Grade I)
Program Specialist - Req. 0639 - IPA -
(Grade I)
Project Specialist - Req. 0838 - IPR -
(Grade I)
Project Specialist - Req. 1201, 0342 - Pre-
ventive Medicine - (Grade I)
Administrative Services Coordinator I -
Req. 06946 - Medicine/G.I. Liver -
(Grade H)
Marketing Coord. - Req. 2920 - Peds/In-
structional Imag. Center - (Grade H)
Programmer Analyst I - Req. 0350 - Pre-
ventive Medicine - (Grade H)
Programmer Analyst I - Req. 1692 -
SOM/Faculty Records Office -
(Grade H)
Research Lab T ech III/Supv. - Req. 1306,
1343, 1344, 1322 - Gene Therapy
Lab - (Grade H)
Research Lab T ech III/Supv. - Req. 02849 -
Medicine/Cardiology - (Grade H)
Graphic Designer - Req. 2913 - Peds/In-
structional Imag. Center - (Grade H)
Staff Perfusionist - Req. 2840 - USCP
Surgery - (Grade HI)
Clinic Manager - Req. 2862 - USC Physi-
cians - (Grade HH)
Nursing Supvr. - Req. 0377 -
Medicine/Hematology - (Grade HH)
Nursing Supvr. - Req. 1651 - USCP Surgery
- (Grade HH)
Nurse Midwife - Req. 1175 - USCP
Ob/Gyn - (Grade HH)
Nurse Practitioner - Req. 1632 - Pediatrics -
(Grade HH)
Physical Therapist II - Req. 2958 - Physical
Therapy - (Grade HG)
Clinical Lab T echnologist - Req. 0031, 1185
- Pathology - (Grade HF)
Cytotechnologist (50-100%) - Req. 1657,
1659 - USCP Pathology - (Grade HF)
Physical Therapist I - Req. 2857, 1620 -
Physical Therapy - (Grade HF)
Research Nurse - Req. 1004 - Family Medi-
cine - (Grade HF)
Research Nurse - Req. 0230 -
Medicine/Hematology - (Grade HF)
Research Nurse - Req. 0339, 0338 - Pedi-
atrics/CMC-HMRC - (Grade HF)
RESEARCH ASSOCIA TES
Research Associate - Req. 0601, 1010, 2868,
2869 - Biochemistry - (Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 0091, 0093,
06928 - Cell & Neurobiology -
(Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 1705 - Medicine -
(Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 06715 - Microbi-
ology - (Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 1039, 1699 - Neu-
rology - (Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 06661, 0706,
0750, 2988 - Pathology - (Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 1633, 0918 - Pedi-
atrics/CMC-HMRC - (Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 0741, 05965,
06444, 1241, 1239 - Pharmacy -
(Grade 00)
Research Associate - Req. 1226, 06572 -
USCP - (Grade 00) v MEMORANDUM
November 1995
An open letter to the faculty and staff of
USC:
When I agreed to serve as director of in-
tercollegiate athletics at USC, it was the ful-
fillment of a dream. I promised President
Steven B. Sample that during my tenure we
would accomplish four primary goals:
1. Ensure that our student-athletes
earn USC degrees.
2. Administer a program built on in-
tegrity and adherence to all rules of inter-
collegiate competition.
3. Restore USC’s expectation to com-
pete and win at the highest levels.
4. Maintain a balanced budget.
That is our mission, and I am pleased that
we have made progress in each of these ar-
eas. I am writing to you now to report on
our progress and to ask for your support. It
has been clear to me since I took this job
almost three years ago that to succeed in
these four areas, intercollegiate athletics
must be fully integrated into the overall
mission of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia. In other words, we need your help
and look forward to working with you.
Here is a brief look at our progress in
meeting our goals:
Goal #1: We’re encouraged by our stu-
dents’ performance in the classroom.
Thanks to a substantial investment in aca-
demic support services, our graduation rate
for our student-athletes now stands at
60%, compared to 40% about a decade
ago. We are very proud of our athletes who
compete nationally for academic honors.
Just a few examples: Jeremy Hogue, start-
ing center in football, Rhodes Scholar can-
didate and brilliant all-around achiever;
Lukas Hovorka, All-American tennis
player, 3.96 student and Fulbright Scholar
candidate; and of course, swimmer
Desmond Koh, who finished a tremen-
dous career at USC this year and is now
studying at Oxford as USC’s eighth
Rhodes Scholar. While we’re pleased with
these and many other success stories, we
hope that our faculty and staff can help us
find new ways to create an environment in
which our student-athletes can thrive acad-
emically.
Goal #2: We have been working espe-
cially hard in the area of teaching student-
athletes about the need to follow all rules,
whether they appear significant or trivial.
Our recent actions to protect our students
from rogue agents have received consider-
able publicity, and we intend to continue
working with the NCAA and the legal sys-
tem to ensure that everyone is committed
to the job of serving and protecting the
students who are the core of American in-
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I hope that you will be able to enjoy
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this university’s noble mission.
Sincerely,
Michael L. Garrett
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first Heisman Trophy winner, was named di-
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DECEMBER 4, 1995 PAGE 12 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
L
ike millions of other Angelenos,
James Ragan was a witness to the
April 1992 civil disturbances that
violently divided Los Angeles along race
and class lines. A month later – in stark
contrast – the USC poet toured the for-
mer Czechoslovakia and watched as the
Czech and Slovak people engineered a
peaceful breakup based on principles of
nationalism.
The coincidence of seeing the fractur-
ing of Los Angeles and Czechoslovakia
led Ragan – who is director of the Master
of Professional Writing Program – to ex-
amine unexpected similarities between
the two places in his new book of poems,
The Hunger Wall (Grove Press, 1995).
“I saw these two major events occur-
ring one month apart,” Ragan said. “One
country separated peacefully, but the sepa-
ration had devastating effects. The other
place – Los Angeles – experienced a deep
split between the rich and poor. I tried to
reflect one in the other – see it as a global
problem in which old and new borders are
going up.”
The Hunger Wall – named for the wall
near Prague Castle – explores the similari-
ties between two cities that seem worlds
apart. In his poems, Ragan draws upon
personal experiences and historical re-
search to examine what it means to set a
“border” – whether it be cultural, racial or
economic – and to examine a widening
gap between the rich and the poor that’s
becoming dangerously explosive.
The book begins with a series of poems
about Praha (or Prague, the capital of the
Czech Republic), which retained most of
the former nation’s wealth and industry
when Czechoslovakia separated. He con-
trasts life in Prague with Humenne (Slova-
kia), where people gained national identity
at the expense of economic security.
The second half of the book focuses
on Los Angeles. The first section – called
Yang-Na, the Chumash Indian name for
Los Angeles – deals with the city’s wealthy
population and its history. The last po-
ems deal directly with T ajuta – the origi-
nal Spanish name for the Watts area.
Art, according to Ragan, can shed a
different light than empirical research on
many of the issues dividing society. Social
sciences can study empirical data, but po-
etry uses the mind and the heart to under-
stand events, Ragan said.
“The artist is always there to afflict
the comfortable and comfort the af-
flicted,” he said.
“We’re always looking for the
universal truths, and we’re always
looking for that truth in terms of
common suffering and common
compassion,” he said. “It has been
the aim of the artist to prick the
conscience of society and reflect the tem-
per of the times.”
R
agan sets up the metaphor of bor-
ders and separation with his first
poem, “The Hunger Wall,”
which describes how Bohemia’s King
Charles IV had a wall constructed along
the Vltava River in order to provide work
for Prague’s indigent people.
“This was written directly about the
experience of coming to Prague and see-
ing the Hunger Wall, which goes back to
the 14th century,” Ragan said.
The poem is a hopeful one – showing
that in an earlier time the rich sometimes
made an effort to help the poor.
Ragan – whose parents were Slovakian
immigrants – used a number of poems to
examine the Slovak side of his family. Al-
though Ragan was born in Pittsburgh, he
grew up speaking Slovak.
In Humenne section’s opening poem,
“The Separation,” Ragan uses the
metaphor of marriage and divorce to de-
scribe the country’s split.
Many of the poems use personal fam-
ily events to illustrate themes of strife and
division. “The Wedding,” for instance,
describes how an uncle was
killed in a drunken brawl at
Ragan’s parents’ wedding. Af-
ter the attack, the groom pur-
sues the killer into the hills
and blinds him in vengeance.
I
n the sections dealing
with Los Angeles, Ragan
alludes to many racial
and class divisions that have
marked the city’s history. Although he
makes few direct references to the 1992
civil unrest, Ragan depicts personal and
historical incidents demonstrating how
walls of separation rose as ethnic groups
became increasingly disenfranchised.
In the opening poem, “Many Smokes”
(an Indian name for Los Angeles, inspired
by the smoke that rose from the tar pits),
Ragan describes the city’s multiethnic roots
and an early sign of racial tension when the
Chumash and whites inhabited the city.
The poem “Olvera Street” examines
what Ragan calls the worst incident of
racial violence in Los Angeles history –
the 1871 Chinatown riots. Nearly 20
Chinese immigrants – who had
been imported to work on
the railroads – were
beaten and lynched by
vigilantes in response to
the accidental shooting
of a white farmer caught
in the crossfire between ri-
val Asian gangs.
The last lines describe
the beating of one of the Chinese
workers, but Ragan said they can
also be read as a reference to the Rodney
King beating.
In “Dog in the Storm Drain at Florence
and Normandie,” Ragan records a dog-
fight he witnessed at the now-infamous
South Central intersection.
Ragan recalls the incident: “I saw these
dogs going after one dog. They drove him
into a storm drain and kept trying to get
at him. It reminded me so much of what
had happened to Reginald Denny. The
dogs were like the men circling Denny.”
The final poem, “Purgatorio,” uses the
structure of Dante’s famous epic to trace
the evolution of Watts.
R
agan, who is currently on a
book tour promoting The
Hunger Wall, has lived in Paris,
Prague, London, Athens and Beijing. He
has received numerous poetry honors,
including two Fulbright professorships,
the Emerson Poetry Prize, two Pushcart
Prize nominations and the Poetry Soci-
ety of America Gertrude Claytor Award.
He has also been a finalist for the Walt
Whitman Center Book Award and the
PEN Center West Poetry Prize.
Ragan’s previous books include In the
T alking Hours, Womb-Weary and Lusions,
and he is co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko:
Collected Poems, 1952-1990. v The hunger wall
In their polyglot of streams, they found a language,
called it “many tongues,” and through its voice
broke the silence down to merging runnels.
Who among them first declined a share of water
who refused a prophecy or failed to owe his breath
to cranes or condors stroking wings above the wind?
We lost the road to the village
we lost the will,
the words, the language
of a common dance. The mind
pulls only a single thread.
Where he stares, unhooded, down to boxes,
the one with wired feet,
too heavy for his rope, leads an oak
behind him broken, with his neck
in train, and dragging both his knees
feeds the police baton his face,
the fifty-first lash, a memory of bones
falling down at birth; he prays for conviction,
to be as hollow as a ghost,
invisible, for the good of the race.
They sniff and whimper, each with cycling scents,
the smell of absence, the half-moon
of mutability surviving. The whole city is asleep.
What in the universe had they found him taking,
or breaking all rules, had he trespassed?
Poet James Ragan: “The artist is always there to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”
IRENE FERTIK
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