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by Ed Newton
R u m o rmonger Matt Drudge was,
as is his custom, spreading gossip
on the Internet the other day.
This time it was about a cert a i n
Cabinet official who was suppos-
edly growing very restless in his
job. There was also, delivered to
b rowsers with the intriguing label
“Contains Graphic Description,”
yet another lurid account of
Paula Jones’ alleged encounter
with Bill Clinton.
The day’s Drudge Report was
just another entry in the vast,
u n c o n t rolled electronic network
that has been unleashing a tidal
flow of chat, creating a
myriad of business oppor-
tunities and, according to
some, revolutionizing the
practice of journ a l i s m .
Onto this shifty terr a i n
now steps the O n l i n e
J o u rnalism Review, the
A n n e n b e rg School for
C o m m u n i c a t i o n ’s new
e l e c t ronic magazine. The brain-
child of Annenberg Dean
G e o ff rey Cowan, it’s an ambitious
attempt to direct the hard scru t i n y
byCarol Tucker
Raphael, 13, has been kicked out
of school several times, but he
does have one interest that keeps
him out of further trouble: the
t h e a t e r. Raphael sees every pro-
duction at the 24th Stre e t
Theater and frequently helps out
with productions – running the
lighting or rehearsing lines with
the actors.
Kids like Raphael are the re a-
son the 24th Street Theatre will
p resent a free Saturday series of
youth and family pro g r a m m i n g
in the University Park neighbor-
hood. Beginning this fall, the pro-
gram, “Something for Every o n e , ”
is one of 14 USC-community part-
nership projects that will re c e i v e
$400,000 in grants from the USC
Good Neighbors Campaign this
y e a r.
The 1998 USC Neighborh o o d
O u t reach grants will be form a l l y
announced on We d n e s d a y , May
20, by President Steven B. Sample
and Jane G. Pisano, senior vice
p resident for external re l a t i o n s
and Good Neighbors Campaign
c h a i r.
In its fourth year, USC Neigh-
b o rhood Outreach will pro v i d e
grants, ranging from $11,750 to
$40,000, derived from $453,154
pledged by faculty and staff to
the 1997 Good Neighbors Cam-
continued on page 11
May 18, 1998
Inside
U SC IN THE COMM UNIT Y 3
E NGINEE RS T RAD E CA REER S 1 3
C A L E N D A R 1 4
FOR THE R ECO RD 1 5
C h r o n i c l e
Published for the USC Faculty & Staff
V O L U M E 1 7 N U M B E R 3 0
S t rengthening the Bond Between
U S C and Hebrew Union College
of journalistic standards at the
flood of electronic information, as
the Columbia Journalism Review
and the American Journ a l i s m
Review have done with traditional
news outlets.
“On-line journalism pre s e n t s
t e rr i fic opportunities and serious
potential problems,” Cowan said.
“I thought the best way to discuss
the developments that were tak-
ing place and to critique the pro b-
lems was with a journ a l i s m
Good Neighbors
Campaign Funds
14 Community
P a rt n e r s h i p s
A n n e n b e rg School’s
On-line Journal Steps Up
to the Electronic Plate
continued on page 12
A USC student assists two 9-ye a r -
olds in an aft e r - s chool pr o g ram at
Weems El e m e n t a ry Sch o o l .
by Carol Tucker
W
hen Alfred E. Gottschalk
became dean of the fledg-
ling Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion
campus in the Hollywood Hills in 1958, he
envisioned an alliance with USC that
would strengthen both institutions.
A decade later, Gottschalk’s dre a m
became a reality: He moved the Los
Angeles campus to 30th and Hoover
s t reets, next to the USC University Park
Campus, beginning an academic exchange
between the two schools that has gro w n
and pro s p e red. Now, the two institutions
jointly offer one of the country ’s stro n g e s t
Judaic studies pro g r a m s .
“ We have a wonderful academic re c i-
p rocity agreement between HUC-JIR and
USC that has led to a broadening of both
institutions’ teaching missions and
involvement in the larger community , ”
said President Steven B. Sample. “We are
close partners in our core mission of pro-
viding the best possible education to the
students at our respective institutions.”
The academic partnership, which
began with a meeting between Gottschalk
1998 commencement
coverage is on
pages 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10.
6
High-tech tools
can help keep low-tech
buses on a ro l l .
1 6
Published for the USC Faculty & Staff
U N D E R G R A D U A T E / I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A R Y
At Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, near USC:
P resident Steven B. Sample; Lewis Barth, dean of HUC-JIR’s Los
Angeles campus; and Morton Owen Schapiro, dean of the College
of Letters, Arts and Sciences, which includes the School of Religion.
continued on page 4
“On-line journalism presents
terrific opportunities and serious
potential problems.”
– GEOFFR EY COWA N
2 UN I V E R S I T Y O F S O U TH E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
A Lively Symposium Honors a Master of Robotics
G e o rge A. Bekey, left, celebrated his 70th birthday in a
most scientific fashion, with a May 1 and May 2 sympo-
sium, “Computing the Body, Embodying the Brain,” and a
banquet. Researchers from around the world made pre-
sentations in the eclectic fields to which Bekey has con-
tributed – robotics, analog and hybrid computation, sys-
tem identification and control, human-machine systems,
neural networks, biomedical rehabilitation and human
operator models. Since coming to USC in 1962, Bekey has
helped found and run the Engineering Computer
L a b o r a t o ry, played a crucial role in the creation of the
d e p a rtment of biomedical engineering, served as the
first chair of electrical engineering systems from 1968 to
1972, served a second term from 1978 to 1982, served as
chair of the computer science department from 1984 to
1989 and was director of the USC Robotics Institute fro m
1984 to 1989. He has published more than 180 papers, co-
a u t h o red a text, co-edited several books and was the
founding editor of the Institute of Electrical and
E l e c t ronics Engineers’ Transactions on Robotics and
A u t o m a t i o n . Bekey is the Gordon Marshall Professor of
Computer Science, director of the USC Center for
Manufacturing and Automation Research and director of
the Robotics Research Laboratory. Here, colleague, col-
laborator and friend Michael A. Arbib, professor of com-
puter science, presents Bekey with a birthday present. n – Bob Calverley
by Monika Guttman
A $3.5 MILLION G I F T f rom the Kurt and Erma Rose Tru s t
will help to establish as many as six new endowed chairs at the
U S C / N o rris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The gift will also fund a new program to recognize those
who have included the USC/Norris in their wills.
The Rose bequest will prove to be among “the most impor-
tant gifts the Norris has ever received,” predicts Bill Wa t s o n ,
d i rector of development.
T h e re have been nine chairs established at the USC/Norr i s
since 1994, said Watson, and the goal is to have 22 fully fund-
ed chairs.
“Endowed chairs help ensure the future of the cancer cen-
t e r,” Watson said.
The first $3 million from the bequest will be divided into
$500,000 “lead
gifts” toward the
$1.5 million needed
to fully fund a chair.
“This gives individ-
uals who may not be
able to give more
than $1 million the
ability to endow a
chair in their name,”
he said.
The endowment
of a chair re q u i re s
that a gift of capital – $1.5 million, in this case – be invested
so that the re t u rn on the investment supports the re s e a rch of a
succession of medical scientists. The principal of the gift
remains in place in perpetuity to support the chair and suc-
ceeding holders.
“Our priority now is to use new endowed chairs as a means
of re c ruiting and retaining distinguished physicians and scien-
tists,” said Peter Jones, director of the USC/Norr i s
C o m p rehensive Cancer Center. “With the addition of the Dr.
N o rman Topping T o w e r, we have doubled the size of the
U S C / N o rris. We are well on our way to fulfilling our vision of
bringing scientists and physicians side by side in the pursuit of
a cure for cancer. ”
THE FINANCIAL SECURITY OF ENDOWED CHAIRS e n a b l e s
physicians or scientists to pursue ideas that might seem risky
or to strike out on a re s e a rch course that is long and perh a p s
d i fficult to fund through regular grant applications.
Another important element of the Rose gift will be the
establishment of the Kurt and Erma Rose Heritage Circle, said
Watson. The Circle will identify and contact individuals who
have made bequests to USC/Norris in their wills. The Circ l e
will establish a recognition area in the hospital and host an
annual event at USC/Norris to honor donors.
“ We will bring them into the Cancer Center and show them
firsthand the important work their gifts will support,” said
Wa t s o n .
P a rt of the impetus for the Circle, said Watson, was the
bequest from Kurt and Erma Rose, individuals who had not
contacted USC/Norris before their deaths. “We’ve had dozens
of individuals step forw a rd and let us know we’ve been given
revocable trusts in their wills,” Watson said. “We hope to re c-
ognize them and others who may not yet have identified
themselves so we can demonstrate the importance of their
gifts to us.”
The Kurt and Erma Rose Heritage Circle will be dedicated
June 14 at 3 p.m. at USC/Norris. For more information, please
contact Debra Watson at (213) 764-0700. n $3.5 Million Gift to USC/Norr i s
to Establish Six Endowed Chairs
“Our priority now is to use new
endowed chairs as a means of
recruiting and retaining distin-
guished physicians and scientists.”
– PETER JONES
D i rector Peter Jones says the center is well on its way to bringing
scientists and physicians together in the pursuit of a cure for cancer.
3 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
For Colleen Babineau, watching
the Norwood Street Elementary
School kids and their families
laughing and talking as they ate
snacks was a gratifying sight.
T h a t ’s because the families
w e re n ’t eating donuts or cup-
cakes. Instead they were munch-
ing on carrots, broccoli, bananas,
peaches and other vegetables and
f ru i t s .
“It was really fun to see fami-
lies sit down and have healthy
snacks,” said Babineau, one of
t h ree 1997-98 Presidential Fel-
lows who coordinated the USC
P reventative Health Care Neigh-
bor Outreach Project. “They
c o u l d n ’t get enough. They were
even taking (the fruits and veg-
etables) home.”
The families were learn i n g
basic information about nutrition
during a small health fair org a-
nized at Norwood on March 7 by
Babineau, a graduate student in
social work and public adminis-
tration; Jinah Choi, a Ph.D. stu-
dent in the School of Pharm a c y ;
and Chanel Ko W i e d e r k e h r, a
Ph.D. student in the School of
D e n t i s t ry.
Other 1997-98 Pre s i d e n t i a l
Fellows who participated in the
p roject were Allen T . Chien, a
doctoral student in the School of
D e n t i s t ry, and School of Medi-
cine student Robert G. W a t k i n s .
Under the USC Leadership
Institute, the Presidential Fel-
lows program provides leadership
development for students in
the professional and graduate
schools. Students are re q u i red to
develop a project benefiting the
Los Angeles community. This
y e a r, students could also or g a n i z e
an international project with
s u p p o rt of the Center for Inter-
national Business Education and
R e s e a rch in the Marshall School
of Business.
Along with nutritional advice,
the families received basic infor-
mation about dental hygiene and
o v e r-the-counter medicines. The
USC students sought to pre s e n t
basic health information in a fun
w a y, Babineau said. For in-
stance, the children cre a t e d
human fig u res out of their fru i t s
and vegetables, and played a
game to learn the diff e re n c e
between candy and pills.
The Norwood fair was a
collaboration with the
schools of dentistry, phar-
macy and social work and
USC Civic and Commun-
ity Relations. Families par-
ticipating were primarily
drawn from the L o s
Angeles Police Depart -
ment Southwest Division’s
Hispanic Outreach Pro g r a m .
With the Norw o o d
event under their belts,
Babineau and Choi organized a
full-scale health fair April 18 at
the True Life Pre s b y t e r i a n
C h u rch in Lincoln Heights,
attracting about 150 childre n ,
l a rgely from Chinese families
who attend the church. For the
Lincoln Heights event, the col-
laboration was expanded to
include the School of Medicine
and the School of Nursing.
Watkins told youngsters what to
expect when they visit the doc-
t o r, while a team of nursing stu-
dents gave blood-pre s s u re
checkups and provided health
i n f o rm a t i o n .
“Our communities are in dire
need of this type of inform a t i o n .
Many children didn’t know how
to brush their teeth or have basic
nutritional information,” said
Babineau, who works as a special-
ist in USC Civic and Community
Relations. “We may not change
p e o p l e ’s thinking overnight, but
this was a way to introduce fami-
lies to healthy living.” n USC IN THE COMMUNITY
This column spotlights USC’s community service eff o rts. Articles by Carol T u c k e r.
P residential Fellows Give a Boost to Healthy Lifestyles
A USC nursing student takes a re s i d e n t ’s blood pre s s u re at an April 18 health
fair at the True Life Presbyterian Church in Lincoln Heights. About 150 childr e n
– most of them from Chinese families who attend the church – learned what to
expect during a visit to the doctor.
“We may not change people’s
thinking overnight, but this was
a way to introduce families to
healthy living.”
– COLE EN BABINEAU
Showing kids that snacks can be both delicious and nutritious was one goal
of the USC Preventative Health Care Neighbor Outreach Pr o j e c t .
P rogram Gives Lanterman Students Work T r a i n i n g
NOT SO LONG AGO, developmentally disabled
people were kept isolated in homes or institutions.
But times are changing.
Following a nationwide trend, USC is helping
to groom developmentally disabled high school
students for mainstream jobs.
The university is participating in a school-to-
work training program that provides Frank D.
L a n t e rman High School students with the skills
and experience they need to get jobs after they
graduate. Lanterman is a special education school
in the neighborhood north of the University Park
C a m p u s .
“The trend is to bring severely disabled and
trainable mentally re t a rded people into the work-
ing world and the community,” said Gerard Barn e s ,
a special education teacher in Community Based
I n s t ruction (CBI) at Lanterman and a graduate of
U S C ’s Master of Professional Writing Pro g r a m .
“For many, it’s a hard adjustment,” said Barn e s ,
who became interested in working with the dis-
abled while volunteering in Best Buddies, a student
p rogram that lets USC students mentor Lanterman students.
“ Yet, when they come out of the program, they’re more independent, more sure of themselves, and
they have skills they can use in volunteer or paid positions. It’s really remarkable to see the changes,” he
s a i d .
T wo Lanterman students, William Cleveland and Mike Williams, began volunteer work this spring in
the Facilities Management Services’ satellite office at the Health Sciences Campus. They work in the shop,
sweeping, painting, cleaning up and “just really helping out,” said Ruth Fajardo, manager of human
re s o u rces in Facilities Management Ser v i c e s .
Cleveland and Williams are dropped off by a Lanterman bus at the University Park campus, then hop
on a tram to HSC. They practiced this run 10 times before starting their volunteer jobs, Barnes said. But
now the tram drivers know them, and the commute is easy .
HSC FACILITIES MANAGEMENT often needs help with trades work, painting or moving jobs, said
Mark May, assistant director of building trades. Recently, the students helped paint the ware h o u s e .
“ We have our more experienced people work with them,” he said. “It seems to be a great work expe-
rience for them. It also allows USC and our department to further help with the community . ”
Another student, Douglas Garcia, has been helping the athletics department in Heritage Hall
since fall. This is a favorite assignment for the youths, who often get to meet USC football play-
ers and other athletes. Garcia has been helping with office work, such as labeling envelopes, and
working in the equipment room. “He’s been a delight. He does a very careful job and it’s been
g reat having him,” said Jill Dennis, athletics administrative assistant.
Other nearby organizations participating in CBI include Mount St. Mary ’s College and USC Head Start
at St. Vi n c e n t ’s Elementary School.
The Lanterman students go through a rigorous training and screening process before they are
assigned to jobs. CBI also works with the employer to ensure a good match between the student’s inter-
ests and the workplace environment. For instance, Garcia wanted to work in an office, while Cleveland
and Williams pre f e rred being outside, Barnes said.
As volunteer workers at USC, the Lanterman students are learning skills such as being on time, dre s s-
ing pro p e r l y, taking direction and working with others. When they graduate, the students will have re c-
ommendation letters from USC or other organizations where they volunteere d .
“The goal is that after graduation, the students can find part-time paid work or volunteer work, and
bring into the job the same skills they learned at USC,” Barnes said. n Douglas Gar c i a , ri g h t , helps out in the athleti c
d e p a rtment in Heritage Hall . “ I t’s been great hav i n g
h i m , ” said administra ti ve assistant Ji ll Dennis.
4 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
An Academic Partnership That Grows Stronger Each Y e a r
continued from page 1
and then-USC Pre s i d e n t
N o rman T opping, is expanding
even further this fall. HUC-JIR
is adding 12 courses and two
faculty members, and USC stu-
dents will be able to minor in
Jewish American studies or in
traditional Judaic studies.
HUC-JIR – founded in Cin-
cinnati in 1875 and now with
campuses in Jerusalem, Los
Angeles and New York – is one of
the world’s leading institutions of
higher Jewish learning. Because
of its partnership with USC,
m o re than 500 USC underg r a d -
uates take Judaic studies courses
t h rough USC’s School of
Religion and HUC-JIR’s Jero m e
H. Louchheim School of Judaic
Studies. In conjunction with
HUC-JIR, USC offers a Ph.D. in
religion and social ethics, with a
concentration in Judaic studies.
M o re o v e r, graduate students
in HUC-JIR’s Irwin Daniels
School of Jewish Communal
S e rvice can receive a double
m a s t e r’s with several USC pro-
fessional schools, including social
work, gero n t o l o g y, public admin-
istration and communications.
The joint programs groom stu-
dents for professional leadership
in Jewish communal serv i c e .
LEWIS BART H , dean of the
HUC-JIR Los Angeles campus,
described the relationship with
USC as “absolutely extraord i-
n a ry . ”
“ F rom the days of Norm a n
T opping onward, there has been
outstanding cooperation, both on
the highest levels of administra-
tion and between professors here
and in the School of Religion as
well as other academic depart-
ments at the university,” Bart h
said. “It has been a re m a r k a b l e
relationship – for the students
and faculty, as well as for institu-
tional development, the local
community and the gre a t e r
Jewish community . ”
The “academic re c i p ro c i t y, ”
as Sample describes it, began
with HUC-JIR professors teach-
ing Hebrew language and a few
Judaic studies courses to USC
s t u d e n t s .
When USC and HUC-
JIR first began its academic
alliance, USC had only one
faculty member teaching in
Judaic studies, recalls Jack
C ro s s l e y, director of the
School of Religion. The
HUC-JIR faculty intro-
duced courses such as Jews
in the Modern World and
graduate seminars in Jewish
ethics, which became avail-
able to upper-division USC
s t u d e n t s .
Over the years, more
Judaic studies courses were
added that fulfilled general
education re q u i re m e n t s ,
and students could major in
religion with an emphasis in
Judaic studies.
FOR THE FIRST TIME t h i s
fall, USC students will be able to
minor in Jewish American stud-
ies as a new concentration in the
American Studies and Ethnicity
P rogram, or in traditional Judaic
studies through the
School of Religion.
Also this fall, 12 new
u n d e rgraduate courses
in Judaic studies and
Jewish American stud-
ies will be added;
HUC-JIR has hire d
two new faculty mem-
bers to accommodate
the expanded number
of courses.
Because of the high quality of
faculty and curriculum pro v i d e d
by HUC-JIR, the “alliance
enables USC to be top-notch in
an area that would be difficult for
us to do alone,” said Mort o n
Owen Schapiro, dean of the
College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences, which includes the
Sociology professor Barry Glassner will dir e c t
the Institute for the Study of Jews in
American Life. The new USC think tank and
r e s e a rch center will focus on the evolution of
the We s t e rn Jewish community within
American society.
School of Religion.
For undergraduates, the
p rocess is seamless. The courses
a re taught by HUC-JIR faculty
on the USC campus, and stu-
dents have full access to HUC-
J I R ’s extensive Judaica re s e a rc h
l i b r a ry. “With more than 100,000
volumes, the Frances-Henry
L i b r a ry is one of three major
Judaica re s e a rch libraries in
S o u t h e rn California,” Barth said.
The Judaic studies classes –
especially popular ones, such as
“The Holocaust,” “Jewish
H i s t o ry” and “Jerusalem: Jewish,
Christian and Muslim ‘Holy
City’” – draw a hetero g e n e o u s
g roup of students. Most are not
Jewish, but all gain a better
understanding of Judaism, said
Reuven Firestone, HUC-JIR’s
p rofessor of medieval Jewish
studies and director of the
J e rome H. Louchheim School of
Judaic Studies and the Edgar F .
Magnin School of Graduate
S t u d i e s .
F i restone recalled one stu-
dent who was raised Catholic and
l e a rned her maternal grandmoth-
er was Jewish; she wanted to
l e a rn more about her grandmoth-
e r’s heritage. “There are a lot of
myths everybody has about
e v e ry b o d y. The classes bre a k
down stereotypes and bring peo-
ple together,” he said.
Many students in the joint
Ph.D. program have gone on to
p rominent careers as rabbis and
leaders in the Jewish communi-
t y. Among them are Rabbi
Daniel Gordis, dean of students
at the University of Judaism.
Another is Rachel Adler, a facul-
ty member with the first joint
appointment at USC and at
HUC-JIR. She specializes in
m o d e rn Jewish thought,
Judaism and gender.
“I felt I received very cre-
ative, interd i s c i p l i n a ry solutions
to some of the needs I
e x p ressed,” Adler said, adding
she also enjoyed “a tre m e n d o u s
amount of individual attention.”
The partnership has been
equally important for HUC-JIR
graduate students in the Irw i n
Daniels School of Jewish
Communal Service. Over the
past 30 years, nearly 550 students
have graduated from the school,
said Director Steven Wi n d -
m u e l l e r. The majority have
obtained dual degrees fro m
HUC-JIR and USC by taking
c o n c u rrent courses in the schools
of social work, gerontology and
public administration, and, most
re c e n t l y, the Annenberg School
for Communication.
“These students have the
o p p o rtunity to earn a degree in
p rofessions such as social work,
and then walk into the Jewish
c o m m u n i t y, fully knowledge-
able and pre p a red to take a
leadership role in that commu-
n i t y,” Windmueller said. “Both
p rograms have helped each
o t h e r. ”
T O D A Y, HUC-JIR is helping USC
develop the new Institute for the
Study of Jews in American Life.
The institute will be a think tank
and re s e a rch center focusing on
the evolution of the We s t e rn
Jewish community within
American society. Initially, the in-
stitute is planning lecture series,
c o n f e rences and exhibitions.
“Having HUC-JIR right
a c ross the street is an extraord i-
n a ry re s o u rce,” said Barry
G l a s s n e r, sociology pro f e s s o r
and director of the institute.
“The HUC-JIR faculty have
been instrumental as we’ve
been organizing the institute,
and defining and implementing
its mission.” n U S C ’s undergraduate team recently won first prize in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Electric
Plane Design/Build/Fly Competition, held in April in Wichita, Kan. This was the first year that USC has entered the com-
petition, which tests speed and maneuvering of model radio-controlled aircraft. The USC team scored 1,042 points to
win first place, while the second-place team scored only 516 points. In taking first place, USC’s team defeated teams fr o m
other outstanding schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of T echnology and the University of Illinois. Team mem-
bers – shown hoisting their winning entry high – were, from left: David Sandler, Kevin Helm, Stuart Sechrist, Nathan
P a l m e r, QiHuan Chen, Ryan Romo, Philip Haworth and faculty adviser Ron Blackwelder, professor of aerospace engi-
neering. Not shown is team member Jacob Evert .
Flying High With a First-Place Finish
T h u rgood Marshall A w a rd
Because of HUC-JIR’s partnership
with USC, more than 500 USC
undergraduates take Judaic studies
courses.
U S C ’s Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs hosted its third
annual Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Leadership A w a rds Banquet on
T u e s d a y, April 28, at the Faculty Center. Edwin M. Smith, an expert on
i n t e rnational and foreign relations law, received the center’s
Distinguished Faculty Aw a rd in recognition of his intellectual contribu-
tions to USC and the African American community of Los Angeles.
Smith, left, holds the Leon Benwell Professorship in Law and
I n t e rnational Relations in the School of Law. Timothy Pinkston, assis-
tant professor of electrical engineering systems, presented the award to
Smith, who delivered an address on civil rights.
U N D E R G R A D U A T E
5 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
by Monika Guttman
IMAGINE A WORLD w h e re
the deadly effects of chro n i c
diseases like Alzheimer’s and
cancer have been eliminated.
In this medical utopia, a
b a b y ’s genetic profile is deter-
mined at birth and then med-
ical interventions abolish his
or her genetic mutations, leav-
ing the child to mature with-
out chronic or life-thre a t e n i n g
disease. Instead of dying in
their 70s, 80s or 90s, most
adults would live to be 130.
Such a world is not that far
a w a y, predicts William B.
S c h w a rtz, professor of medi-
cine and a renowned medical
economist, in his upcoming
book Life Without Disease:
The Pursuit of Medical Utopia.
“ We are on the verge of a re v-
olution in molecular biology
and molecular medicine that
brings the hope of control and
even prevention of some of
the medical plagues we now
face,” he said.
S c h w a rtz, formerly chair of
the department of medicine at
Tufts University, expects such
a vision of the future will take
many people by surprise.
“Many physicians over 40
who have been out of medical
school for a number of years
a re n ’t aware of the enorm o u s
accomplishments in genetic
medicine in recent decades,”
he said. “The only reason I feel
c o m f o rtable speaking about it
is that I’ve spent over a year
studying the new re s e a rch and
talking with expert s . ”
S c h w a rtz calls Life Wi t h o u t
D i s e a s e the “culmination of a
lifetime of work.” In his clini-
cal and laboratory re s e a rc h
and in his economic re s e a rc h
over many decades, he has
found that one of the driving
f o rces of recent medical
p ro g ress has been the advance
of bioengineering.
“I think what we look for-
w a rd to now is a completely
new paradigm, a completely
new way of thinking about
medicine,” he said. “Instead of
dealing with the conse-
quences of disease by re p l a c-
ing a hip or doing an angio-
p l a s t y, we will be thinking
instead about avoiding dis-
ease, about preventing human
s u ffering, about making cer-
tain we intervene early
enough so that these diseases
of all sorts will be tre a t e d
without the expensive inter-
ventions that we now are
engaged in.”
UTOPIA, HOWEVER, IS STILL
DECADES AWAY
This utopia, Schwartz cautions, is
still decades away . Getting there ,
he predicts, will be
v e ry expensive and
will re q u i re diffic u l t
decisions and re -
s o u rce allocation as
health care rationing
becomes a cert a i n t y.
“ Without ques-
tion, in the next 10
to 20 years, as we
develop these new
methods of clinical
i n t e rvention –
gene therapy or
ways of neutraliz-
ing the effects of
the abnormal proteins which
mutant genes induce – we’re
going to have a long period in
which therapy is quite costly , ”
he said. “This is because these
therapies will not be fully
e ffective at first and we’ll
spend a lot of money try i n g
them out. Partly it is due to
the fact that, initially, we’re
going to convert a number of
diseases that are now fatal into
longstanding, chronic diseases.
Many forms of cancer that kill
quickly will be converted into
c h ronic diseases that are very
expensive. “
That means, he said, that
society will have to learn to
accept rationing of medical
c a re, particularly care that
yields small benefit but is nev-
e rtheless very costly.
FOR EXAMPLE, S c h w a rt z n o t e d ,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) can be very helpful or
even life-saving for someone
with a head injury. But there is
only a 1 in 2,000 chance that if
someone has had re c u rre n t
headaches and the physician
o rders an MRI that it will find
a treatable tumor or an-
e u rysm. “We ’ re just not going
to be able to do a $1,000 MRI
on every patient who has an
occasional headache, because
the cost per case discovery
will be $2 million, “ he said.
S c h w a rtz, who is also a fel-
low at USC’s Pacific Center for
Health Policy and Ethics, is
quick to note that most peo-
ple in the U.S. do not re a d i l y
accept the idea of rationing.
“If it’s me or my family, I want
the test even if the chances
a re only 1 in 2,000,” he said.
“What this means is we’ve got
to confront the issue publicly.
We’ve got to help the public
understand that there is a
wide range of benefits fro m
these expensive technologies
and ask the question, ‘Are
you willing to pay the bill for
the one in 2,000 chance that
you’ll be helped?’ If so, we’ve
got to let health care costs go
up sharply. If the answer is
that we’re not willing to pay
that bill, then we’ve got to
limit the availability of this
c a re and the public has to re c-
ognize and accept that re -
a l i t y. ”
THE RISE IN HEALTH-CARE costs
in the past several decades is
l a rgely attributable to ad-
vances in health care, he
notes. “As a physician, I re -
member very clearly how 25
years ago people were totally
disabled by the pain of hip
disease, totally bedridden or
going around with a walker
b e f o re hip replacement sur-
g e ry became commonplace. I
remember when lens implants
w e re not feasible and people
w e re struggling with their
vision in a major way, and
w h e re retinal detachments
regularly caused blindness;
prior to angioplasty, coro n a ry
a rt e ry disease created in-
tractable pain. “
Although the advances are
expensive, he said, “I do feel
we have improved the quality
of life enorm o u s l y. ”
Despite experience in
recent years with HMO and
federal Medicaid attempts at
rationing care, says Schwart z ,
most of the public has not
come to terms with the fact
that medicine can’t do every-
thing for every b o d y. In his
book, Schwartz predicts public
p rotest will be carried out
mainly in the court system,
which will be forced to deter-
mine acceptable levels of
physician care. “We act with
our HMOs and the govern-
ment as if we can have it both
ways – cost containment and
i m p rovements in quality of
c a re,” he said. “It just isn’t
p o s s i b l e . ”
E v e n t u a l l y, in 40 or 50
years – well within the life
expectancy of today’s young
adults – the cost of medicine
should go down, not up, he
maintains. “The deeper our
insight into the molecular
character of medicine, the eas-
ier it’ll be to devise therapies
which are absolutely re s p o n s i-
ble and inexpensive.”
NEW AND DIFFERENT
PROBLEMS MAY ARISE
S c h w a rtz acknowledges that
achieving a medical utopia
Physician Foresees a ‘Medical Utopia’
“We are on the verge of a revolution
in molecular biology and molecular
medicine that brings the hope of con-
trol and even prevention of some of
the medical plagues we now face.”
– WILLIA M B. SCH WA RT Z
Wi lliam B. S ch w a rt z ,p ro fessor of medicine, o f fers a new slant on health
care in his book ,w h i ch will be available soon. He contends that futu r e
advances in medicine that may improve health and extend lifespans – by
d e cades – will also have social and po l i ti cal consequences.
P ro c e d u res that were impossible only a decade ago are
now routine. And diseases that are now fatal may soon
segue into chronic illnesses. A medical economist looks
at the future of U.S. health care .
will bring new and diff e re n t
p roblems.
“Even if we are successful
in eliminating most illnesses
and maintaining quality of life
until 120 or 130 years of age,
which I think is very likely,
t h e re ’s a dark side: If people
a re living healthfully and hap-
pily to 120, they’re not going
to want to die. There will be
p re s s u re to prolong life even
f u rt h e r, to prevent aging. It
will have enormous social and
political consequences.”
Still, Schwartz looks for-
w a rd to what he sees as the
e n o rmous pro g ress of the
f u t u re .
“I’ve been in medicine for
a good many decades,” he
said with a smile. “I’ve been
v e ry excited about the med-
ical advances of the last
decades, as a laboratory sci-
entist and as a clinical consul-
tant. What I really re g ret is
that I won’t be around for the
next 30 or 40 or 50 years to
see a period of change in
medicine that will make pre-
vious changes pale.” n
6 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
With Good Humor and Wisdom, USC’s 115th Commencement
Speaker, Bill Cosby, Delivers a Rousing Send-Off to Graduates
May 8, 1998, Alumni Park
C O N G R AT U L ATIONS to those
of you who have graduated.
Congratulations to those who
have not fulfilled the full commit-
ment, but who are fooling your
p a rents by walking anyway –
m o re news at 11! Congratulations
to those of you who graduated
magna cum laude, summa cum
laude, cum laude ... and then the
75 percent: Thank you, lawdy.
And their “thank you, lawdy”
p a rents, who will take a “thank
you, lawdy” to get rid of your
b i l l s .
Those of you who are graduat-
ing from any college in life for the
first time, this is it. Y ou can’t use
anything else as an excuse. This
is your diploma. Y our parents re a l-
ly don’t care if you don’t have a
job. That’s not it. Their commit-
ment to you is over; you can max
yourself out to death for the re s t
of your life. They’re not going in
their pocket anymore !
N o w, let’s examine what this
is and why they’re surro u n d i n g
you here .
W h a t did you do that was so
fantastic? Think about your high
school days. Measure the hours
spent in your high school days
against the hours spent in your
college days. You worked hard e r
in high school ... and you took
longer to graduate. Think about
yourselves and what you said to
these old people surro u n d i n g
you. “I’m burned out.” Burn e d
out. OK, what did you do? Y o u
had one class, T uesday and
T h u r s d a y . Three hours. So what
did you do? Well, you went in and
you sat down. The pro f e s s o r
worked. You got up and left. Y o u
did that T uesday and Thursday,
then you had four hours off before
you had another class. T wo hours,
you went in and you sat down,
took notes, then you had a mid-
t e rm exam. Now whose fault was
that? Well, we’re not going to
mention that because it was only
30 percent. So you manipulated
your way through, which is OK.
Y our parents want to
know how you’re
doing. You said fin e .
T h a t ’s a hell of a word ,
fin e.
What does fin e
mean? Well, let’s go
into the Bible. God
saw that God had cre-
ated certain things, and when
God saw the things that God cre-
ated, God said, “That’s good.”
God made trees, looked at it and
said, “It’s good.” According to
university standards, good is a 74.
What is fine? You guys are in tro u-
ble, I’m telling you. These peo-
ple behind you are smilin’, but
they ain’t laughing! They want
you out of the house; your sisters,
your brothers want you out. They
fixed a wonderful home without
y o u .
I R E M E M B E RC L E A R LY one of
our daughters finishing her fre s h-
man year. She finished it because
the school said it was over. We
found out she had a 1.7 GP A. She
cried a lot. She said she was sorry,
and then as she was leaving the
room, she looked at me and she
said, “Dad, I could do a lot better
if I had my own apartment.” I
said, “I don’t understand.” She
said, “Well, a lot of people in the
d o rm want to talk about their life,
and their life is really messed up,
and I had to talk to them, and by
the time I finished listening at 5
o’clock in the morning, I couldn’t
s t u d y . So I could do a lot better if
I had my own apartment.” So I
said OK. She took two steps and
said, “Can I have a car?” I said,
“ Your campus is only four square
blocks!” She said, “Well, Dad,
you don’t understand. Our library
is the pits and I have to drive to
Boston, and they have a lot more
bars – uh, l i b r a r i e s – in Boston.”
And we watched her and we
n u rt u red her; we paid for a lot of
m e d i o c r i t y . She pulled the 1.7 up
to a 2.0. We were so happy we
sent her for the summer to
Nassau. Just to celebrate! That
was her re w a rd for having a 2.0.
Poor Heather [Zachary, USC
valedictorian] probably got a job
s o m e w h e re that summer. But our
daughter would not have liked
Heather because Heather would
be the truth. Our daughter, when
she was in undergraduate school,
would probably have wanted to
beat Heather up. Nobody likes
Heather; there ’s a lot of people
out there who think Heather is
not the real world. Heather is not
the real world. I’m sorry, Heather,
you gotta face up to it. I would get
b o d y g u a rds if I were you.
H e a t h e r, coming in here, showing
us up – she could have fallen
asleep if she wanted to.
[ P retending to be a student:] “I
d o n ’t know what the hell her
p roblem is. Then to flaunt her in
f ront of my parents on the day
that I’m celebrating my thank you,
l a w d y d a y.” Heather, why don’t
you leave now. Please excuse
H e a t h e r. Heather, actually, I’m
s o rry, I have to tell the tru t h .
Heather never went here .
Heather works for the FBI and
the CIA. And she was put here to
make you all turn around and go
back in to school again.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s too
late to tell you all this, and that’s
the best time to tell you some-
thing, because you’ll have an
excuse. Y ou happen to be, what-
ever you are at this time in your
life, the result of your own pro d-
uct. You have put yourself out,
and you are now trying to sell
yourself. I saw the people stand
f rom the School of Music – yes,
t h e re you are. Quincy [Jones,
h o n o r a ry degree recipient], look
at ‘em, they want jobs, that’s why
they stood up. They don’t like
you, Quincy; they don’t like your
music, they just want a job, that’s
all. You hear them, don’t you
Quincy? T ake every name!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, it’s
time for you to turn your life
a round. It’s not really that impor-
tant; I met a young black man
walking down [here], and I said,
“How are you feeling?” He said,
“I’m nervous!” I said, “Why? It’s
over! You’ve done it!” He said,
“ Well, I’m nervous.” Why would
you be nervous? You have
achieved that which your pare n t s
have been harping on you all your
life. They said, “Get a college
education.” Well, you’ve done it!
Why are you nervous? Y o u ’ v e
h e a rd your president tell you: Y o u
have a fine education! Why are
you scared? ‘Cause you’ve lost
c o n t rol. Maxed out on your cre d i t
c a rds, no more help. Oh, you’re in
big trouble. Think about all of the
days, think about your college cal-
endar days. God, what a gre a t
time you had for four or five years,
man. How many days off did you
get in September, how many days
o ff in October? How many in
November? God bless you,
December is a throwaway! Half
of January is gone, you’re back in
school again, and then comes
M a rch and April, wow, let’s thro w
that ... We go on a spring bre a k !
For what? Sitting for thre e
hours T uesday and Thursday?
And damn it, you tell me
y o u ’ re burned out? You got
e v e ry right to be scare d .
Because if that happened
beyond these walls, there is
“Those of you who are graduating
from any college in life for the first
time, this is it.”
P h i l a n t h ropist Walter H. Annenberg, 1998 commencement speaker Bill Cosby and President Steven B. Sample share a
moment before the May 8 ceremonies. On the dais, Sample welcomed Annenberg as “one of the greatest Trojans of all.”
A n n e n b e rg, who turned 90 on March 13, accompanied his wife, Leonore, who received an honorary degree. Thr o u g h
their foundation, the Annenbergs have given USC $153 million over the years. Cosby and his wife, Camille, have also
given millions of dollars to educational causes.
continued on page 7
Bill Cosby with Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the School of Cinema-T e l e v i s i o n .
Cosby can now include his USC doctorate of fine arts, honoris causa, along with
his many other honorary degr e e s .
PAG E 6 & 7 PHOTOS: LEE SALEM
7 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
no spring break, you bunch of
b u m s !
Yeah, you’re scared and
you’ve got every right to be
s c a red! Your parents are fright-
ened, more than ever before ,
because now you might come
back. For all of our intelligence
that God gave us, we are the only
things on the face of this Eart h
who allow our children to come
back, time and time again. A fro g
will kill tadpoles that try to re -
enter the house. Bears will kill
and maul their young to keep
them from coming back in the
cave. But we allow them to come
back in, with diplomas higher
than we have. Many of these par-
ents don’t have a college educa-
tion, and they spent on you
$180,000 and you want to come
back home. Hell, we could have
bought you a house five years
a g o !
H AVE FUN, MAN, be rich about
yourselves, you are your own
p roduct. I can’t help you; you go
get a job wherever you can. Just
d o n ’t be an intern for anybody,
because that’s a French word for
slave. I swear to God –
d o n ’t be an intern. T e l l
them to name you
something else, but
d o n ’t be an intern .
Those of you who have
this old b.s. about “I
just want to see if I can
e a rn a living” – you
can! Get a job! Move in
with the same people
you lived in the dorm
with! Those of you
who do not live in the United
States of America, we know you
plan to never come back. Give us
the money now. We don’t want to
chase you around, sending out
letters, please give – we know you
took the education, you’re going
some place and we’ll never hear
f rom you again unless some-
b o d y ’s busted for drugs or fallen
in some river somewhere .
Look at the graduates fro m
1948, only four of ‘em left. That’s
you out there 50 years from now –
only four of you will show up. Y o u
w o n ’t find Heather because she
works for the CIA and the FBI;
she’ll be at another university, 4.0-
ing herself. And where did they
get the name “Heather?” They
pulled it out. Heather sounds like
4.0. You know, Jocelyn? 2.6.
All right, I’m getting ready to
leave now, but two notes for you
h e re: This whole blown-up thing
about making change in the
world. “I just hope that I can
make a change in the world.” OK,
you’ve thought about it, haven’t
you. That’s rough. If you’re going
to make a change in the world,
think about all the things you
have to do. President Clinton is
t rying to make a change in the
world. There are people aro u n d
him who are going to make a
change in h i m. They’re going to
make a change in him and his
family around the world while he
makes a change in the world and
the world makes a change and it
goes round and round. No matter
w h e re you go, there ’s always
someone who can step on your
parade while you’re making the
change. Y ou can be that big, pre s-
ident of the United States, and
not make a change in the world.
Israelis and the Palestinians,
fighting forever and ever and ever
– just trying to make a change.
War doesn’t really change much.
Lot of cleanup afterw a rds. Build
up and then tear down. So what is
the change? How can you make a
change? V e ry simple: in you. It’s
not the role – I haven’t pre a c h e d
any sentence or paragraph that
leads you to go out and right the
world, no. Just change yourself,
t h a t ’s all. Find out what you know
can be strengthened and do it,
and ask for no applause. I’m not
asking you to go to jail, or stand in
f ront of the FBI and the CIA,
South African government; I’m
just saying make a change in
yourself. I’m not asking you to
like Asians, or Irish or Africans;
I’m just saying make a change in
you. And make it honest, that’s
all.
And the last thing, if you can’t
do that, and this is dead serious,
because this one causes a chain
reaction that goes all around the
world and you will have made a
change, and a big one: Pay off your
student loan. I swear to God,
think about it! If you pay off your
student loan, you enable another
person to pick up the loan and get
an education! Look at the change
you’ve made! Y ou did that! Y o u
stopped politicians from saying,
“ We ought not have a loan
because they don’t pay it back.”
You are young people, you say
that we old people have ru i n e d
the world – all right, pay off your
damned student loan! Allow
those coming behind you the
o p p o rtunity to enter. Those folks
out there in the Class of ‘48, meet
with them. Shake their hands.
D o n ’t ask ‘em what it’s like, just
ask ‘em how do they feel. Things
w e re diff e rent back then, way
back then. Jackie Robinson had
played one full year for the
B rooklyn Dodgers. Marian
Anderson had not yet done her
number in Carnegie Hall. That’s
the Class of 1948. Lot of changes.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is
beautiful after I speak at these
May 8, 1998, Alumni Park
C O N G R AT U L ATIONS to all of you. T o d a y ,
after years of hard work, we have fin a l l y
succeeded. We are graduating from an
esteemed university , and each of us is
poised on the brink of even greater accom-
plishments as the future rapidly draws
n e a r .
On this day, success in college means
many diff e rent things to many diff e re n t
people. For some of us, it means that we
achieved an impressive GPA. For others, it
means that we led a sports team to victo-
ry. For many of us, it means that we made
a diff e rence in the quality of life either on
campus or in the community . And for every
single one of us, success means getting a
USC degree and becoming a member of
the T rojan Family .
Like on graduation day, success outside of
college can have multiple meanings. All of us hope
for at least some degree of economic success in
our careers. Graduating
f rom ‘SC puts us in a
w o n d e rful position to
achieve this goal.
H o w e v e r, being tru l y
successful means so
much more. If I had to
pick the most impor-
tant lesson that my
four years at USC have
taught me, it is that
you can never enjoy
t rue success until you
feel a sense of satisfac-
tion that can only be
derived from personal re l a t i o n s h i p s .
I haven’t always defined success as I do
t o d a y. Before I came to USC, re l a t i o n s h i p s
w e re not nearly as important to me. In fact,
had I gone to any other university, I might
never have known what I was missing.
H o w e v e r, the friendly atmosphere at USC vir-
tually forces us into making relationships with
other people. Through the immense stru c t u re
of activities and student life, I have met
friends who will always have a special place in
my heart. Some of my freshman-year neigh-
bors from Dean’s Hall remain my best friends
t o d a y. Similarly, had I not participated in clubs
on campus, I would have missed out on many of
my closest relationships. Without them, I cert a i n l y
would not have had as much fun in college.
Friend relationships are not the only ones
that have added to
my personal satisfac-
tion at ‘SC. Because
p rofessors here are
so actively involved
in undergraduate ed-
ucation, I have been
able to make lasting
ties with several fac-
ulty members. They
have helped me to
g row in sophistica-
tion both within the
c l a s s room and out-
side it. They have
given me advice, helping me to chart the path
of my future. And even today, they continue
to serve as encouraging mentors as I look to
t o m o rrow with excitement and appre h e n-
s i o n .
In much the same way that USC has facilitated
these bonds with faculty, the university has
enabled me to develop meaningful r e l a t i o n s h i p s
with administrators. Few schools around the
c o u n t ry can boast of the same level of involve-
ment and support that administrators here
p rovide for students. In terms of re c o g n i t i o n ,
they are the unsung heroes of USC.
T h rough my ties to the university, I have
also made bonds of friendship to many in the
s u rrounding community. USC’s commit-
ment to public service actively encour-
ages such relationships, and I am a hap-
pier and more successful person today
because of them.
As I pre p a re to head to the East Coast
for law school, I lament the fact that I
will soon be leaving USC. However, I con-
sole myself with the knowledge that my
ties to the university will always re m a i n .
USC is a unique university in a unique
e n v i ronment. Here I have learned the
i m p o rtance of relationships, and for the
rest of my life I will benefit from this
d i s c o v e ry.
Any one of us here today could tell a
s t o ry about how our ties to others have
a l ready contributed to our accomplishe-
ments in ways we never anticipated.
Over the past four years, I have come to
see that there is often a clear connection
between our relationships and the level of
success we attain. Though we like to call our
Cosby Wows ‘Em
continued from page 6
Heather Zachary, 1998 V a l e d i c t o r i a n
The valedictorian gets a hug from Bill Cosby . Soon aft e r
s pe a k i n g, Cosby peeled off his robe to reveal his CNTV
s w e a t s h i rt . In his spe e ch , he ribbed Za ch a ry about her ster-
ling academic ca r e e r; she laughed and took it in stri d e .
continued on page 15
“How can you make a change?
Very simple: in you. Just change
yourself, that’s all. Find out what
you know can be strengthened and
do it, and ask for no applause.”
“[Faculty members] have given me
advice, helping me to chart the path of
my future. And even today, they continue
to serve as encouraging mentors as I
look to tomorrow with excitement
and apprehension.”
continued on page 15
8 8
U N I V E R S I TY O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
A Joyous Day of Academic Celebration – U
by Melissa Payton
IRREVERENCE got tossed into
the usual mix of pomp and tra-
dition at USC’s 115th com-
mencement Friday, May 8, as
keynote speaker Bill Cosby
d e l i v e red a memorable talk that
was part stand-up comedy and
p a rt Sunday serm o n .
C o s b y, wearing a black-and-
gold School of Cinema-
Television baseball hat with tas-
sel, exhorted graduates to have
fun and “just change yourself,
t h a t ’s all.” Pay off your student
loan and thank your pro f e s s o r s ,
he added in a rambling 40-
minute speech that touched on
his own difficulties with a less-
than-studious daughter.
“ You guys are in trouble, I’m
telling you,” he told graduates.
“These people behind you are
smilin’, but they ain’t laughing!
They want you out of the
house; your sisters, your bro t h-
ers want you out. They fixed a
w o n d e rful home without you.”
Cosby had the once-nerv o u s
graduates and their parents in
stitches throughout the cere m o-
n y, mugging and gesturing to
the crowd even when he didn’t
have the flo o r.
“ E v e ryone expected an
uptight speech, but this was dif-
f e rent,” said an approving Roza
Matevosian of La Cre s c e n t a ,
getting a B.S. in dental hygiene
for her second bachelor’s
d e g ree. “I enjoyed it; it gave me
the chills, especially when he
talked about challenging your-
self and being honest with your-
s e l f . ”
When Cosby wasn’t shaking
things up, honorary degre e s
w e re awarded to a scientist, a
business leader, a philanthro p i s t
and a musical legend. V a l e d i c -
torian Heather M. Zachary
spoke about the
i m p o rtance of re l a-
tionships, echoing a
theme sounded a
few minutes earlier
by President Steven
B. Sample, who mar-
veled at the “intense
loyalty” of the
Trojan Family to
U S C ’s institutional
v a l u e s .
“Stay in touch
with your fellow
graduates, with your
friends and your
favorite pro f e s s o r,” Sample said.
“ Take advantage of the connec-
tions you’ve made during your
on-campus years at USC, and
build new Trojan connections i n
the coming years.”
AT THE END of the cere m o n y,
Sample conferred degrees on
8,300 bachelor’s, master’s and
doctoral degree candidates as a
c rowd of nearly 50,000 – par-
ents, friends, faculty, staff and
students – watched under over-
cast skies.
Cosby himself received an
h o n o r a ry doctor of fine art s
d e g ree, which he solemnly dis-
played to the crowd from his
p e rch on the platform stage as
Sample wrapped up the cere-
m o n y.
“ We’ve got to keep this guy
under control!” Sample said in
mock exasperation early on
when Cosby began clowning.
“ D r. Currie, that’s your job,” he
told Board of Tru s t e e s
C h a i rman Malcolm R. Curr i e ,
who sat next to Cosby.
In his speech, Cosby teased
v a l e d i ctorian Heather Zachary, a
political science major with a 4.0
G PA and a long list of accom-
plishments in her four years at
U S C :
“Heather is n o t the re a l
world. ... I’m sorry, I have to tell
the truth. Heather never went
h e re. Heather works for the FBI
and the CIA.”
Z a c h a ry, reached at home
later in V a n c o u v e r, Wash., said
she didn’t mind being ribbed
by Cosby. “It was hilarious.
E v e rybody was saying, ‘Heather,
a re you OK?’ But I thought it
was great. You have to have a
sense of humor. I talked to him
a f t e rw a rd and said, ‘We at the
FBI are starting a file on you.’
He laughed and he gave me a
big hug. He was just re a l l y
n i c e . ”
C o s b y, who wrote the best-
seller F a t h e rh o o d, often took the
point of view of a parent vexed
by free-spending, complaining,
angst-ridden youngsters.
“Congratulations to those of
you who graduated magna cum
laude, summa cum laude, cum
laude ... and then the 75 per-
cent: Thank you, lawdy. And
A Sampling of Satellite Speakers
• At the cinema-TV cere m o n y, “E.R.” executive producer John We l l sw a rned graduates, “There will be
f rustrations. You will be staring at a Xerox machine in the belly of some rundown production building
at Disney wondering just how long it’ll take to pay off $40,000 in educational loans when you’re mak-
ing 300 bucks a week. Or trying to find out where to find a cappuc-
cino for a hysterical director at 2 a.m. in Salt Lake City in the pour-
ing rain. But your time will come. And when it does, what you’ve
l e a rned here ... will shine through. We want to make something
beautiful, important, moving, out of nothing. Silver nitrate spre a d
on thin layers of emulsion. It is an insane thing to want to do. But
this is your legacy now . ”
• After receiving an honorary
doctor of music degree at the
main cere m o n y, Quincy Jones
u rged School of Music graduates
at their satellite ceremony to
fight racism and intolerance. “Go
out and find a song to love, a
poem that touches your heart ,
and take time to let the whisper
of God into your heart,” he said.
“Music is the Esperanto of the soul. ... After 550 years of We s t e rn
music, with all of that diversity, the youth of the entire world made
the choice of listening to music from the Mississippi Delta and
Chicago.”
John Wells of “E.R.”
Composer and producer Quincy Jones.
LEE SALEM
In Their Own Wo rd s :
• Cara Ramos, graduating with a B.A. in so
to graduate school in social work, plus I’v
Belize native, who works as an assistan
not help feeling nostalgic. “I’ve had a wo
the friendships will last a lifetime.”
• Cort Escherich has a degree in busin
Consulting, an information design consul
allowed me to get an awesome job,” said
• Vivien Lu: “This is a new start in life for
s t a rt my career again.” A dentist in China
t ry to pass the state dental board exams n
a re a .
• Jennifer Lewis won the School of Urb
W h i t n a l l Aw a rd, graduated with a master
Peace Corps. “I want to give back somethi
work in the Ukraine for the Peace Corp
safety pro g r a m .
Rose Beattie, an undergraduate
vocal major, opened the ceremony by
singing the national anthem; Kyle
Barisich, an undergraduate major-
ing in vocal performance, led the
singing of the alma mater at the end.
9 U N I V E R S I TY O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998 9
Corp.; Leonore Annenberg ,
p h i l a n t h ropist and art collector;
Quincy Jones, musician and
e n t re p reneur; Edward C. Stone,
d i rector of the Jet Pro p u l s i o n
L a b o r a t o ry; and Cosby.
Despite his public antics,
Cosby has a serious side as an
educator and philanthropist. He
has a doctorate in education
f rom the University of
Massachusetts, and he and his
wife have donated millions of
dollars to educational causes.
A poignant moment came
when Sample welcomed “one
of the greatest Trojans of all,”
p h i l a n t h ropist Walter H.
A n n e n b e rg, who turned 90 on
M a rch 13 and accompanied his
wife, Leonore, on the com-
mencement platform. Thro u g h
their foundation, the
A n n e n b e rgs have given USC
$153 million over the years,
including the largest single gift
to USC ever: a $120
million donation in late
1993 to establish the
A n n e n b e rg Center for
C o m m u n i c a t i o n .
A n n e n b e rg, who
rode an elevator to
reach the platform
b e f o re the cere m o n y,
walked down the
Doheny Memorial
L i b r a ry steps under his
own power when it was
o v e r.
After the cere m o n y,
the graduates fanned
out to satellite cere-
monies conducted by their aca-
demic units, where they
Above left, President Steven B. Sample welcomes the graduates and their fam-
ilies. Above, the recessional of re d - robed Ph.D. recipients. Far left, Lawford
Anderson, president of the Academic Senate, holds the ceremonial mace as he
leads the faculty into Alumni Park. Near left, Anton M. Simeonov with 1-year-
old Kalina in front of T ommy Trojan. Simeonov received his Ph.D. in chemistry.
B e l o w, Paul L. Robinson’s wife, Angelia, helps him with his robe. Robinson,
f rom Riverside, received his Ph.D. in geography. Near right, both Delfi n e
Anderson and Carolyn Allen re t u rned to school when they were 50-plus. Now
they each have a master’s degree in professional writing. T op right, Alber t o
Behar gets congratulations from his special friend, Melinda Sheginar. Behar
received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Far right, bottom, Marta Jean Larson
gives a final Trojan salute now that she has her B.A. in psychology.
USC’s 115th Commencement, May 8, 1998
received their diplomas and cer-
tificates and heard speakers
ranging from stars of entert a i n-
ment and captains of industry to
their own deans and school vale-
d i c t o r i a n s .
Assemblyman Roderick D.
Wright (D-48th Dist.) told
School of Social Work graduates
that “good social work doesn’t
cost, it pays. ... The value of
social work is that for every
potential inmate kept out of
prison, we save $30,000. For
e v e ry child kept out of foster
c a re, we save $4,000 to $6,000
per month. More o v e r, for each
of those persons we keep out of
the system, we have taxpayers
and homeowners and intact
f a m i l i e s . ”
continued on page 10
At Cromwell Field, toddlers soon
discovered that the big, bouncy
pole-vault landing cushion made
a great jungle gym. They jumped
and bounced and whooped while
their tired parents sat on the edge
of the cushion.
their ‘thank you, lawdy’ pare n t s ,
who will take a ‘thank you,
lawdy’ to get rid of your bills.”
After a lengthy send-up of a
typical student’s relaxed class
schedule and brief academic
c a l e n d a r, Cosby said indig-
n a n t l y :
“ You tell me you’re burn e d
out? You got every right to be
s c a red. Because ... beyond these
walls, there is no spring bre a k ,
you bunch of bums!”
Cosby turned serious at the
end when he described the
graduates as “beautiful flo w e r s ,
human flowers, from your par-
ents. You are God’s childre n ,
whomever your God may be.
Make a change in yourself;
enjoy your life.”
H O N O R A RY DEGREES w e re
a w a rded to Roy A. Anderson,
c h a i rman emeritus of Lockheed
s o c i o l o g y, has a bright future. “I’ve applied
e just been promoted at work.” Still, the
t counselor at Southwest College, could
o n d e rful time at USC. I know that some of
ess and a job lined up with Anderson
ting firm. “USC has given me support. It’s
d the Sherman Oaks re s i d e n t .
me. I came from China two years ago to
, she now has her D.D.S. degree and will
next month, then start her practice in this
an Planning and Development’s Gord o n
’s in urban planning and plans to join the
ng for all I’ve received,” she said. She will
s’ environmental protection and nuclear
PAGE 9 PHOTOS: IRENE FER T I K
A WWW USC Commencement Event
U S C ’s 115th commence-
ment was broadcast with
video and audio on the
World Wide Web, and
a round Southern Califor-
nia on the Pacific Bell
Digital TV Network and on
local cable’s L.A. Channel.
Right, co-anchors Kristine
E. Dillon, associate vice
p resident for student
a ffairs, and T e rry Anzur ,
assistant professor of journalism, interview Dean Morton Owen Schapiro of the
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the beginning of the br o a d c a s t .
B e l o w, students and staff of the USC ITV Network, working under the
s u p e rvision of Jason Chan, production manager, run the broadcast from a
t e m p o r a ry control room in Associate Provost Jerry Wa l k e r’s offices. John
Supra, manager, consulting services, and Tom Seago, systems analyst, both
in the Information Services Division, said the 200 slots accommodating
viewers of the
Webcast filled up
and stayed full as
computers from as
far away as India,
Indonesia and
Colombia checked
in and out of the
USC Website. To
date, more than
10,000 viewers
have visited the
site. n 10 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
ALL DAY, EMOTIONS, ran high
as graduates celebrated with
their families, lining up for a
final picture next to T o m m y
Trojan, finding their satellite
c e remonies or taking a break on
a campus bench.
Some parents had multiple
c e remonies to attend – and mul-
tiple duties, like Marg e ry Bert i ,
assistant dean for academic
a ffairs in the School of
Engineering. At 10:30 a.m. she
watched her son Massimo
“Max” Berti receive his bache-
l o r’s degree in exercise science.
At 1 p.m. she hosted a cere m o-
ny at the Seeley G. Mudd
Building for 27 engineering and
computer professionals who lost
Contributing to this story were Bob Calverley, Zsa Zsa Gershick, Ed Newton, Meg
Sullivan and Carol T u c k e r.
It Was a Day Filled With Pride
continued from page 9
their jobs in the 1990s aero s p a c e
crash and were receiving mas-
t e r’s degrees with a specializa-
tion in multimedia and cre a t i v e
t e c h n o l o g y. At 3 p.m., she was at
the School of Engineering grad-
uate cere m o n y, which she had
o rganized. As she read the
names of graduates, she came to
son Davide Berti, who was
receiving his master’s degree in
computer science.
“My voice was cracking. I
knew I had to get it together, so
I took a couple of deep bre a t h s
and I got to call his name,” she
said. “After that, we went over
and got in line to take a picture
with T ommy T rojan. It was a
long day.” n In the Speakers’ Own Words:
• Jane Pisano, senior vice president for external affairs and dean of the School of Public Administration,
at the public administration satellite ceremony: “Building community is the challenge of the 21st centu-
ry at the city, region, state, nation and world level. We are diverse. The challenge is to celebrate that
diversity and at the same time, become one...That’s the goal. Achieving it is easier said than done, but I
know this: At the heart of a multicultural society are diff e rences over cultural values that must be
resolved. And that conversation about values will go on through your entire lives.”
•Christopher Logue Henry, student organization president, speaking at the School of Social Work satel-
lite ceremony: “We didn’t enter this field because we thought it would be easy. We followed our con-
victions and decided to respond to unmet human need. Neglected and abused children, perople with HIV-
related disease, people with mental illness and those stricken with poverty deserve to be treated with
dignity and re s p e c t . ”
• William D. Foote, developer and a founding member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
Development, at the School of Urban Planning and Development satellite ceremony: “Your enviro n m e n t
is far more complex than that of the generations preceding you. In some ways it’s more fragile. In other
ways it’s more stable, given what we’ve learned – I think mostly by trial and erro r.” Foote told the grad-
uates “the revolution in information and telecommunications technology can change the pattern of re a l
estate development and population migration of the future . ”
B e l o w, the Legington family: proud parents Robert and Gloria, with Ti ffany Nicole
Legington, who received her B.S. in industrial and systems engineering. Right, the
School of Journalism satellite cere m o n y.
S u re, 2-month-old Antony César’s mother, Sherry Beckman, may be getting her M.F .A from the
School of Cinema-TV , but he’d just like to nap a little longer.
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11 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
ing. He re p o rted N e w s w e e k’s fail-
u re to re p o rt. But other journ a l i s t s
w e re on the beat. ... With or with-
out the Internet and Drudge, the
s t o ry would have detonated and
f renzy would have ensued.”
On the other hand, there has
been a lot of legitimate investiga-
tive re p o rting on the Intern e t
re g a rding Lewinsky, Jones,
Clinton, Starr and the rest.
“Some of the best re p o rt i n g
last month on the investigations
of Bill Clinton never made it to
newsprint,” said another art i c l e ,
by OJR contributing writer Matt
Welch. He cited in particular the
stories by Murray Waas in Salon,
showing that a key Whitewater
witness was receiving cash pay-
ments from conservative million-
a i re Richard Mellon Scaife and
that a principal in the so-called
“ T ro o p e rgate” scandal had
e m b ro i d e red the tales he told to
newspaper re p o rt e r s .
Of course, OJR has a lot more
on its mind than just Drudge and
L e w i n s k y. Weekly editorial
meetings in the Annenberg offic e
of Executive Editor Larry Pry o r
have a global cachet as the discus-
sion rambles through about 30
stories in various stages of devel-
o p m e n t .
The setting is Pry o r’s gray-
toned, clutterless office on the
g round floor of the Annenberg
School. Outside, the “news-
room,” a grid of about two dozen
computer stations, is in full swing.
I t ’s here that the rest of the on-
line program is housed: the
A n n e n b e rg News Service, with
about 70 students providing daily
stories for the Los Angeles T i m e s
Web site and other electro n i c
outlets, and the High School
J o u rnalism Project, training
younger journalists to use the
W e b .
SO FAR, OJR has been, by
I n t e rnet standards, a success.
The first issue attracted as many
as 20,000 readers, according to
tracking statistics. It was a T o p
Five recommendation on the
Yahoo Web site. And
the feedback, other
than some gripes about
technical re a d a b i l i t y,
has been largely posi-
t i v e .
A d v e rtisers have
tried to buy space on
the Web site, but the
editors have elected to
keep OJR free of com-
m e rcial influences. “We can
a ff o rd to be independent – to say
it the way we think it is,” Pry o r
s a i d .
P ry o r, a 35-year veteran of the
Los Angeles Ti m e s and a former edi-
tor of the Times Web site, likes
the global approach. “In our fir s t
issue, we published a list of 50
names to know [in the Intern e t ] , ”
he said. “Then we got deluged
with e-mail telling us how pro v i n-
cial we were. Why are all the peo-
ple on the list Americans? Don’t
we know the Web is worldwide?”
So OJR put out its intern a-
tional list last month, ranging
alphabetically from Georg e
Adams, editor of a satirical Hong
Kong Web site, to James W i n t e r, a
Canadian communica-
tion studies pro f e s s o r
who puts out a weekly
on-line magazine. (The
U.S. list ranged, not
alphabetically but in
rough order of impor-
tance, from Bill Gates to
Leah Gentry, editor of
the Los Angeles T i m e s W e b
s i t e . )
“ We see our role as
being watchdogs,” Pry o r
said, “but we want to be
helpful to the public, giv-
ing them the re l i a b l e
places as well as the unre-
liable ones, which they
might want to avoid. Or
w h e re they might go
with the awareness of
what they’re getting
i n t o . ”
OJR editors also see it
as providing a service for
j o u rnalists in a new fie l d .
“ We really want to be
helpful to on-line jour-
nalists,” Pryor said. The
Web, with its 24-hour
a c c e s s i b i l i t y , has alre a d y
succeeded in speeding up the
news cycle, as well as pro v i d i n g
re p o rters greater and more imme-
diate access to re s e a rch data. The
i n c reasing competitiveness has
also spawned some shoddy jour-
nalism, OJR writers have pointed
out, as re p o rters rushing to beat
the competition have failed to
fully check out their stories.
“ We need to train journ a l i s t s
in using this new technology , ”
P ryor said. “It’s essential to their
j o b s . ”
P ry o r’s co-editor, Robert
S c h e e r, longtime columnist and
c o rrespondent for the Los Angeles
Ti m e s, was absent from the edi-
torial meeting this day. But
Patrick Dent, an Annenberg
j o u rnalism graduate and OJR’s
technical director; Joshua Fouts,
p rogram manager; and Pry o r
briskly plowed through an agen-
da that included decisions about
what stories to assign, what writ-
ers to employ and how much to
pay (usually $200 to $250 for a
7 0 0 - w o rd story, with higher fees
for more ambitious pieces).
A package of censorship sto-
ries was about to bow, as well as
O J R ’s up-to-date coverage of the
felony trial of computer hacker
Kevin Mitnick. (Pryor: “Hacking
is an exciting element of the W e b
that we don’t want to ignore . ” )
O J R ’s watchdog role has
t u rned up more good than bad,
P ryor suggested.
“The more involved I get
with on-line journalism, the more
i m p ressed I am with the quality , ”
he said. “There ’s a lot of evidence
that it’s getting stro n g e r. We want
to recognize that.”
WELCH’S MARCH 31 story –
“Stop the Presses – Print the
Madness!” – contended that a
number of top investigative
re p o rters, like former L o s
Angeles Times reporter Murray
Waas, tired of the complacency
of the mainstream press, have
joined Web magazines. The sit-
uation at newspapers like the
Times has “driven a number of
quality reporters from print to
digital, fostering a handful of
Web sites that investigate and
b reak legitimate stories,”
Welch wrote.
I t ’s a phenomenon that print
re p o rters are reluctant to
acknowledge, Pryor said. News-
papers have even refused to re c-
ognize important breaking stories
that appear in on-line publica-
tions, he said, and mainstre a m
j o u rnalists tend to write off the
Web as the turf of cults and
ru m o rm o n g e r s .
“On-line journalism may be a
new medium,” Pryor said. “That
d o e s n ’t mean that it’ s unre l i a b l e
or that it lacks cre d i b i l i t y.” n re v i e w. ”
It has a deceptively bro a d
mandate. In three months of
operation, OJR has, among many
things, looked at Internet censor-
ship in Cuba and China, analyzed
the latest software to create W e b
pages, done edgy features on on-
line publications like Salon
Magazine and T abloid, re p o rt e d
on the use of the Internet in
Katmandu and, of course, tracked
the pro g ress of the Monica
Lewinsky story on the Intern e t .
The magazine can be found at
h t t p : / / w w w. o j r. o rg .
THE REVIEW’S first “issue” –
as with most on-line publica-
tions, OJR sends out a monthly
block of stories but publishes
new, timely articles throughout
the month – included a story by
David Corn, Washington editor
of The Nation, acknowledging
that the Lewinsky story, “the
first made-by-the-Intern e t
scandal,” had put on-line jour-
nalism on the map.
But Corn challenged some
widely held notions about the
Lewinsky story.
E v e rybody knows by now
that it was on-line re p o rt e r
D rudge, the former manager of a
CBS store in Burbank, who bro k e
the story about alleged pre s i d e n-
tial indiscretion, no? No.
A c c o rding to Corn, all Drudge did
was re p o rt the rumor that
N e w s w e e k had delayed publication
of its own story that Clinton had
engaged in an affair with a 23-
y e a r-old intern .
“ D rudge did not do any leg-
work,” Corn wrote. “He did not
engage in primary news gather-
QUICK T A K E S
• Jack E. T u rm a n, assistant
p rofessor of biokinesiology and
physical therapy, has been
named the American Physical
Therapy Association’s out-
standing new teacher of the
y e a r. The Marg a ret L. Moore
A w a rd for Outstanding New
Academic Faculty Member has
been given each year since
1989 to honor excellence in
teaching and re s e a rch. T u rm a n
teaches Neuroanatomy and
Principles of Disease and also
studies the neurological devel-
opment of mammalian brains.
T u rman, who was nominated
by his students and peers, said
he was surprised and pleased to
receive the award, which
includes a $1,500 prize. “I’m
v e ry happy for the depart m e n t
and the university. It’s also nice
to be recognized as a basic sci-
entist,” he said. T u rman will re -
ceive the award at a confere n c e
in Orlando, Fla., on June 7.
• The first Academic Senate
Distinguished Service A w a rd s
w e re presented to Tim Gus-
t a f s o n, associate professor of
English, and Barbara J.
S o l o m o n, vice provost for fac-
ulty and minority affairs, at a
reception Thursday, May 7.
Gustafson, who is also dire c t o r
of the Program in American
Studies and Ethnicity, was hon-
o red for his work with under-
graduate students and for his
role as a faculty master in
B i rnkrant Hall. Solomon, who
attends Academic Senate
meetings as a liaison with the
P ro v o s t ’s Office, was honore d
for her work on behalf of facul-
ty and her “tireless eff o rts in
working with members of the
Senate.” Senate members
praised her work on the faculty
handbook and proposed re t i re-
ment plan in part i c u l a r.
• Gene therapy pioneer W.
F rench Anderson has been
named to the Oklahoma Hall
of Fame. Anderson, a native of
T ulsa, and five others including
c o u n t ry singer Reba Mc-
E n t i re, will be inducted into
the hall on Nov. 18 at T u l s a ’s
P e rf o rming Arts Center. Ander-
son is a professor of biochem-
i s t ry and molecular biology in
the School of Medicine and
d i rector of the Gene Therapy
Laboratories. The author of
m o re than 200 articles and four
books, he has won a number of
p restigious awards, including
the King Faisal Intern a t i o n a l
Prize in Medicine and the
National Hemophilia Foun-
d a t i o n ’s Dr. Murray Thelin
A w a rd. Anderson was a fin a l i s t
for the American Institute for
Public Serv i c e ’s 1995 Jeff e r s o n
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room which sports about two dozen computer stations. The Annenberg News Serv i c e ,
which provides stories for the Los Angeles Times Website is also housed her e .
Kid Watch ($25,750)
Funded for the second year, Kid Watch is now 350 volunteers
s t rong and growing, providing a safe haven for children attend-
ing the USC Family of Five Schools as they walk between
home, schools and other neighborhood institutions. A surv e y
shows that, as a result of Kid Watch, residents believe their
c h i l d ren are safer, crime has decreased along Kid Watch corr i-
dors, and a sense of community is being re s t o red. The
N e i g h b o rhood Outreach grant will support an administrative
assistant and social work graduate students to conduct a pro-
gram evaluation. The grant also covers T - s h i rts, materials and
other costs. The pro-
gram is a partnership of
the Department of
Public Safety, the USC
Family of Five Schools,
the Los Angeles Police
D e p a rtment Southwest
Division and the Los
Angeles Unified School
District Police Depart -
m e n t .
Mission Science ($36,000)
This hands-on science workshop for youngsters teaches fundamental science concepts through fun
and creative projects. Funded for the second year, Mission Science is being expanded to Weemes and
V e rmont elementary schools. The
N e i g h b o rhood Outreach grant will
s u p p o rt upgrading and rewiring of
science classrooms and provide per-
manent exhibition and storage
space at the two schools. A 1997-98
grant funded the rewiring of a class-
room at 32nd Street/USC Magnet
C e n t e r. The funds will also pro v i d e
stipends for up to four teachers to
run the Mission Science workshops
and work-study wages for USC stu-
dents and Math, Science and
T echnology (MaST) High School
students to work as science instru c-
tors. Mission Science is a joint eff o rt
of the School of Engineering and
32nd Street/USC Magnet Center,
with V e rmont and Weemes ele-
m e n t a ry schools.
paign. Of the total, $393,364 was
pledged to Neighborhood Out-
reach.
A nonpro fit corporation
founded in 1993, Neighborh o o d
O u t reach funds USC-community
p a rtnerships that make a posi-
tive, visible impact in the neigh-
b o rhoods surrounding the Uni-
versity Park and Health Sciences
C a m p u s e s .
“USC Neighborhood Out-
reach is helping to create and
maintain important USC-commu-
nity partnerships,” Pisano said.
“ T h rough the grant awards, we
a re providing a real incentive for
USC faculty, staff and students to
work with our neighbors. This
kind of face-to-face interaction
changes perceptions the commu-
nity and the institution have
about each other . ”
The majority of the pro g r a m s
t a rget the USC Family of Five
Schools, which are Foshay Learn -
ing Center and 32nd Street/ USC
Magnet Center, and Norw o o d
S t reet, V e rmont Avenue and
Weemes elementary schools. The
p roposals that received Neigh-
b o rhood Outreach funding for
1998-99 and their amounts are :
USC Readers W o r k - S t u d y
P rogram ($33,731)
S p u rred by President Clinton’s
twin goals of increasing funding
to higher education and pro m o t-
ing education in communities,
the federal government has
made new work-study money
available to students who do
community work. The USC
Readers Work-Study pro g r a m
was developed last spring to
engage USC students as “re a d-
ers,” or one-on-one literacy
tutors, in the USC Family of Five
Schools. Up to 1,000 elementary
students receive 40 hours of
tutoring or small-group instru c-
tion. Aw a rded for the second
y e a r, this Neighborhood Out-
reach grant augments the work-
study funds by supporting site
c o o rdinators at each school as
well as a training coord i n a t o r
and training materials. USC
Readers is a partnership of the
USC Volunteer Collaborative and
the USC Family of Five Schools.
Clean and Restore Our
E n v i ronment ($40,000)
Last year, Clean and Restore Our
E n v i ronment (CARE) created a
“ z e ro-tolerance” zone aro u n d
the University Park neighbor-
hood – removing graffiti within
24 hours in the streets surro u n d-
ing the USC Family of Five
Schools. This year, CARE will
d e c rease the number of “can-
vasses” available to graffiti van-
dals by using a number of meth-
ods that make a wall or stru c t u re
inaccessible to them. CARE will
continue to employ local at-risk
youth and adults, pro v i d i n g
them with job training and lead-
ership skills. The grant helps sup-
p o rt staff positions such as a pro-
gram coord i n a t o r, crew leaders
and at-risk youths who re c e i v e
paid internships. Partners are the
Division of Business Affairs and
the Y outh Empowerment Pr o j e c t .
Afterschool Enrichment
P rogram ($38,950)
How can children fill those
u n s t ru c t u red hours between
school and dinner time? Some
1,000 Family of Five Schools chil-
d ren each year reap the benefit s
of the Afterschool Enrichment
P rogram, which stimulates their
c reativity and intellectual ability
while filling the time void.
Funded for the fourth year, ASEP
o ffers after-school classes, taught
by qualified USC students, in per-
f o rming arts, visual and language
a rts, physical education, comput-
er literacy and other subjects.
This year, the pro g r a m ’s arts com-
ponent will be expanded
t h rough a new partnership with
the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art and another spring session
with the J. Paul Getty Museum.
USC student instructors will be
trained in classroom manage-
ment, and half of all classes will
be team-taught by two USC stu-
dents. Partners are USC Civic and
Community Relations and the
USC Family of Five Schools.
Web Masters/Info Masters
1998 ($15,408)
This partnership of the Leavey
L i b r a ry and the USC Family of
Five Schools continues the We b
Masters project begun last year,
o ffering instructional, technolog-
ical and care e r-planning expert i s e
at USC to a nucleus of 20 teachers
f rom the five schools. The teach-
ers will be trained in Internet and
Web authoring skills, which they
will then share with their peers.
The grant funds staff support for
the program, which this year will
emphasize enhancing each
s c h o o l ’s Web sites with inform a-
tion about colleges, admissions
p ro c e d u res and pre-college place-
ment testing.
Something for Every o n e
( $ 3 1 , 5 4 1 )
Last year the 24th Street Theatre
and the USC School of Theatre
Intersession Enrichment
P rogram ($23,500)
Funded for the fourth year, the
Intersession Enrichment Pro g r a m
(IEP) provides innovative courses
for students in the USC Family of
Five Schools who are off track.
This year, IEP has revamped its
c u rriculum with input fro m
William McComas, assistant pro-
fessor of science education, and
his graduate students. McComas
and his students will help IEP
with planning, delivering and
evaluating its series of science
and mathematics classes. The
p rogram is a partnership of the
School of Education, the Edu-
cation Consortium of Central Los
Angeles and the USC Family of
Five Schools.
P a rtners in Friendship
( $ 1 5 , 5 0 0 )
Troy Camp, a tried-and-tru e
Trojan tradition, will get a boost
f rom a Neighborhood Outre a c h
grant. This summer camp, org a-
nized and run by USC students,
p rovides many inner-city childre n
living near USC with their fir s t
outdoor wilderness experience.
Established in 1948 in Idyllwild,
T roy Camp provides this experi-
ence at no cost to the childre n ’s
families. Each year, USC student
volunteers raise $30,000 to
finance the program. With the
grant money, each Family of Five
school can send 28 children to
camp, freeing up Troy Camp vol-
unteers to expand the pro j e c t ’s
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took community youngsters for
“A Walk on the Wilde Side.” This
y e a r, there ’s “Something for
E v e ryone,” a free Saturday series
of theater workshops for neigh-
b o rhood kids and their families.
The series will consist of 16 pro-
fessional perf o rmances over
eight months, designed to teach
local youths about the arts and
meet one of the School of
T h e a t re ’s goals: creating Los
Angeles’ first international youth
theater festival. This festival is
planned for 1999 at the
University Park Campus. The
grant will help pay for dir e c t o r s
to produce the series, pro d u c t i o n
and publicity assistants, and the-
ater rental space for 16 pro d u c-
t i o n s .
Lincoln Heights T u t o r i a l
P rogram ($24,886)
Seeking to provide academic
assistance for Asian/Pacific
American immigrant and r e f u g e e
c h i l d ren in the Lincoln Heights
a rea, USC Asian Pacific American
Student Services has joined for-
ces with Lincoln Heights
N e i g h b o rhood Community Out-
reach. The Lincoln Heights T u t o r i a l
P rogram builds on last year’s pro-
gram, adding an interactive com-
puter learning component. The
p rogram offers a series of after-
school enrichment classes for fir s t -
t h rough sixth-grade students in
schools near the Health Sciences
Campus. USC students tutor the
grade-school children in subjects
such as math, science, physical
education and the a rt s .
New Programs Join Some Old Friends
continued from page 1
These children from 32nd Street/USC Magnet Center are working on a
science project. This year’s funding for Mission Science will add
Weemes and V e rmont elementary schools to the pro j e c t .
continued on page 13
13 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
education and outreach eff o rt s .
The Troy Camp executive board
will continue to raise funds for
the expenses of student coun-
selors, transportation and other
camp activities. Partners are the
O ffice of Student Activities and
the USC Family of Five Schools.
S t reet Law Pro g r a m
( $ 1 1 , 7 5 0 )
Founded in 1992, Street Law
teaches inner-city high school
students about legal literacy and
respect for law and its institu-
tions, as well as offers advice
about higher education. This
p a rtnership between the USC
Law School and Wo o d ro w
Wilson High School Administra-
tion of Justice and Law Magnet
p rovides an annual Mentor Day
and classroom lectures taught by
law students. The program will
be expanded to include more
mentor days and field trips as
well as technology for computer-
ized re s e a rch at Wo o d row Wi l s o n
and for high school students to e-
mail their mentors.
P roject Forw a rd Bound
( $ 2 7 , 0 0 0 )
P roject Forw a rd Bound builds on
the occupational therapy pro-
gramming developed at the
Salesian Boys and Girls Club and
at Unity House through last
y e a r’s Neighborhood Outre a c h -
funded program, Operation Safe
House. Project Forw a rd Bound –
which offers job training, art s
and crafts, social skills and one-
on-one mentoring for at-risk local
youths – is a collaboration of the
d e p a rtment of occupational sci-
ence and therapy and the
Salesian Boys and Girls Club,
Unity House, Soledad Enrichment
Action (SEA) Lincoln Heights, and
the Los Angeles County Pro -
bation Depart m e n t .
New Stories/New Cultur e s
( $ 3 7 , 5 0 0 )
Teaching children about their
ethnic culture, and how ster e o-
types and the media affect our
s e l f - d e finitions is the premise of
New Stories/New Cultures. The
p rogram is an after-school enrich-
ment series to help grade-school
c h i l d ren make critical choices
about images depicted in the
media and create new personal
stories and cultural “scripts.” The
i n t e rd i s c i p l i n a ry curriculum com-
bines narrative theory, anthro-
pology and occupational sci-
ence, using activities, film and
television excerpts, and other
forms of expression. The pro-
gram also incorporates a com-
munity health component. The
partners are the department of
occupational science and thera-
py, along with Foshay, Vermont,
and Weemes schools and
Esperanza Com-munity Housing
Corp. n P a rtners With the Community
continued from page 12
Engineers T rade Old Careers for
New – 27 Earn Master’s Degre e s
Island Explorers ($38,484)
Island Explorers, a pilot program in 1996-97, will sail again this
year with an expanded, multidisciplinary and multi-grade ocean
science curriculum targeting four of the Family of Five schools.
The curriculum focuses on the marine re s o u rces and enviro n-
ment of the San Pedro Channel and Santa Catalina Island. At the
same time, it introduces grade-school children to the basic con-
cepts of marine pollution and recycling, with opportunities for
hands-on, volunteer activities. Important components include
training teachers in using the curriculum and taking teams of
p a rents and children to the USC Wrigley Institute for Enviro n -
mental Science on Catalina Island. The program is a collabora-
tion of USC Sea Grant, the USC Social Science Research Institute
and Foshay, Ve rmont, Norwood and Weemes schools. n by Bob Calverley
It was a Kodak moment capture d
on CNN and flashed around the
w o r l d .
Ron Osborne, 59-year- o l d
grandfather who had been laid off
f rom three jobs in the past dec-
ade, proudly bearing the school
flag and leading the procession of
engineering graduates thro u g h
the throng in Archimedes Plaza
on commencement day.
Ron Osborne, recipient of a
m a s t e r’s degree in computer sci-
ence with a specialty in multime-
dia and creative technologies,
finally free of aerospace uncer-
tainties and employed in the
e n t e rtainment industry by
Panasonic in T o rrance, authoring
digital videodiscs at a new
Panasonic plant in T o rr a n c e .
“This totally keeps me away
f rom aerospace,” said Osborn e .
“A DVD holds 16 gigabytes, two
full-length movies with dire c t o r s ’
notes. This technology is tying
the entertainment industry to
c o m p u t e r s . ”
W H AT HAS HAPPENED to the
S o u t h e rn California engineering
and computer professionals who
lost their jobs in the 1990s con-
traction of the aerospace industry,
a contraction that continues
t o d a y ?
“We’ve been turning them
into taxpayers,” said Chry s -
ostomos “Max” Nikias, associ-
ate dean of USC’s School of
Engineering and director of the
s c h o o l ’s Integrated Media
Systems Center (IMSC). “With
help from private industry, we
created a graduate-level pro-
gram to retrain engineers and
computer scientists for jobs in
the rapidly growing multimedia
and creative technologies in-
dustry.”
In a special small cere m o n y
on commencement day, USC
h o n o red the 27 multimedia fel-
lows, the second class to success-
fully complete the program. Each
received a cert i ficate attesting to
his or her specialization in multi-
media and creative technologies.
All 27 earned a USC master’s
d e g ree in electrical engineering
or computer science.
“I love being around success-
ful people,” said Jasper W i l l i a m s ,
senior management analyst with
the city of Los Angeles and the
Private Industry Council, who
spoke to the new graduates. The
IMSC retraining program, the
brainchild of Nikias, is co-spon-
s o red by USC, the Los Angeles
Private Industry Council and the
Labor Employment T r a i n i n g
Corp. It receives funds thro u g h
Title III of the federal Job
T raining Partnership Act.
“This is the most expensive
retraining program the city of Los
Angeles has ever done,” said
Williams. “This is also the most
successful retraining program the
city has ever done.”
All but three of this year’s 27
graduates have found jobs in their
new profession, says IMSC care e r
placement coordinator Nancy G.
S w e e n y .
William Lo was engineering
manager for the now-defunct
M i c ropolis Corp. when he was
laid off in 1994. Now he’s a pro-
ject manager consultant helping
to develop a hand-held computer
to collect and transmit health-care
data, and he’s making more
money than he did before .
“My career in disk-drive man-
ufacturing was diminishing, but
now I’ve moved to a higher
level,” Lo said. “IMSC gave me
the chance to pro g ress with Los
Angeles, where multimedia and
c reative technologies are a rapidly
g rowing force in entert a i n m e n t ,
s o f t w a re, health care and mobile
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s . ”
T o engineer Joe Underw o o d ,
the 1990s have been a wild ro l l e r-
coaster ride. In 1990 he lost his
job working on a space-based
i n t e rc e p t o r. It happened again in
1993, when he was working on a
missile program, and again in
1996, when the university where
he taught was about to file for
b a n k ru p t c y. Now at age 65, with
plans to work at least another
decade, he’s doing consulting
work and negotiating with two
institutions for a teaching post.
U n d e rwood sees multimedia
as the technology of the future .
“If you don’t want to run with it,
you had better get out of the
w a y,” he said. “This technology
i s n ’t just expanding, it’s explod-
i n g . ”
TO QUALIFY for the pro g r a m ,
the students must be Southern
C a l i f o rn i a - a rea engineers and
computer scientists who were laid
o ff in the past four years. They
receive fellowships that
cover tuition, fees, books,
campus parking, gasoline
and even child care. And
all of the graduates re c e i v e
job-placement assistance
f rom Sweeny.
IMSC, which is a
National Science Foun-
dation engineering re -
s e a rch center, is curre n t l y
seeking funding to retrain addi-
tional engineers and computer
sciences for the burgeoning mul-
timedia industry.
“While the aerospace industry
continues to shed jobs in Southern
C a l i f o rnia, multimedia and cre-
ative technologies are gro w i n g
rapidly as consumer electro n i c s ,
e n t e rtainment, publishing, com-
puters and telecommunications all
c o n v e rge,” said Nikias. “This will
be a $40 billion market by 2000
and $65 billion by 2010. The mul-
timedia industry will need a lot of
highly trained talent.” n Ron Osborne carries the School of Engineering’s flag at commencement. Once
a laid-off engineer, Osborne now has a new master’s degree and a position
with Panasonic in T o rrance. The graduation of the class of multimedia fellows
was covered by CNN and re p o rted in a front-page May 12 Wall Street Journ a l
Work Week column.
S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A
“This will be a $40 billion
market by 2000 and $65 billion
by 2010...”
– CHRYSOSTOM OS ‘MA X’ NIKIA S
14 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
C a l e n d a r...in brief
FOUR SECRETARIES ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
On Friday, May 22, from 9:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., W a rren Christopher
(U.S. secre t a ry of state, 1993-97),
L a w rence Eagleburger (1992-93),
G e o rge Schultz (1982-89) and
Alexander Haig (1981-82) – men
with firsthand knowledge of the
development and implementa-
tion of U.S. foreign policy –
review some of the most critical
f o reign policy issues facing our
nation today. Former State
D e p a rtment spokesman
Hodding Carter moderates the
discussion, “A Changing U.S.
F o reign Policy for a World in
T ransition.” This 15th annual
R e p o rt of the Secretaries of
State takes place in Bovard
Auditorium. But if you can’t
make it in person, it is being
videotaped for later broadcast on
PBS stations across the U.S. (as
p a rt of the Peabody A w a rd - w i n-
ning series “Annual Report of
the Secretaries of State”) and for
distribution to 150 foreign coun-
tries via the U.S. Inform a t i o n
A g e n c y ’s WorldNet satellite.
T opics for discussion include:
“Africa: A New Relationship
After the Clinton Visit?”; “The
Americas: What Role for the
U.S. After the Santiago
Summit?”; “Asia: The Financial
Crisis and Its Impact on the
U.S.”; “Europe: Competitor or
Global Partner After Monetary
Union?”; “Iraq: A Postponed
C o n flict With the United
States?”; “Mexico: From Dru g s
to T rade”; and “Russia: How
Will Y e l t s i n ’s New Govern m e n t
A ffect Relations With the U.S.?”
Admission is free to USC facul-
t y, students and staff, but seating
is limited and tickets must be
obtained in advance. Tickets are
$15 to the public and must be
p u rchased by W e d n e s d a y, May
20, at the Los Angeles W o r l d
A ffairs Council, 911 Wi l s h i re
Blvd., Suite 1730. For USC ticket
i n f o rmation, call 740-2167; for all
other tickets, call 628-2333.
BOOKISH ADVENTURES
The Emeriti Center Retire e
Book Club meets again for a lit-
e r a ry lunch at noon Thursday,
May 28. Carolyn Heine, acade-
mic re c o rds and re g i s t r a r, leads a
discussion of two Civil W a r- e r a
novels, Russell Banks’ C l o u d -
s p l i t t e r and Jane Smiley’s The All-
True Travels and Adventures of
Liddie Newton. Lunch at the
Faculty Center is $11. Reser-
vations are requested; please call
310-645-9453.
JEEPERS, CREEPERS, WHERE’D
YA GET THOSE GERMS?
W h e re can you step back in
time or step into an invisible
universe? At the new interactive
exhibit opening at the Natural
H i s t o ry Museum on Saturd a y,
May 30 – “Microbes: Invisible
Invaders ... Amazing Allies.” An
exploration into the smallest life
f o rms on Earth, “Micro b e s ”
takes visitors into a world
unseen by the human eye, a
world of bacteria, viruses, fungi
and protozoa – which both sus-
tain life and cause devastating
disease. Exhibit highlights
include three-dimensional holo-
grams of Ebola and E. coli
m i c robes floating in space; a
simulated kitchen filled with
m i c robes at work in foods such
as yogurt, cheese and bre a d ;
games illustrating the body’s
natural and antibiotic defenses
against harmful microbes; a re -
c reated ancient Egyptian tomb
and a medieval Parisian cata-
comb, chronicling the history of
infectious diseases; and
p resentations of new
f rontiers in medical
re s e a rch, including
gene therapy and the
c reation of synthetic
d rugs. An exhibit of a
d i ff e rent sort –
“ T re a s u res of the Sierr a
M a d re,” featuring 30
selections of plein air p a i n t i n g s
f rom the California Art Club – is
c u rrently in the museum’s
Rotunda. The Natural History
Museum is at 900 Exposition
Blvd., Exposition Park.
Admission is $8 for adults, $5.50
for students and seniors, and $2
for children 5 to 12. Museum
hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
T uesday through Sunday. For
m o re information, call 763-
DINO; for related programs and
workshops, 763-3534.
GROW YOUR BUSINESS
Beginning Thursday, May 21,
f rom 6:30 to 10 p.m., the USC
Business Expansion Network
o ffers 12 consecutive sessions of
“ F a s t T rac to Business Gro w t h , ”
a training program designed to
p rovide owners with assistance
in expanding their businesses –
in areas such as sales and mar-
keting, accounting and fin a n c e ,
and strategic planning. Part i c i -
pants are also provided with
one-on-one consulting. All
e n t re p reneurs with a City of Los
Angeles business license are eli-
gible. The program costs $250
and takes place in Suite 1 of the
Business Expansion Network,
University Shopping Center,
J e fferson and McClintock. For
m o re information, call 743-1726.
COMPUTER WORKSHOPS
v If you need to learn or
i m p rove your Internet naviga-
tion skills, here ’s your chance.
I n f o rmation specialists from the
N o rris Medical Library lead two
workshops on the subject:
“Basic World Wide Web” at 1
p.m. Thursday, May 21, and
“ S e a rching the World W i d e
Web” at 10 a.m. Friday, May 29.
The workshops are held in the
m i c rocomputer classroom on the
upper level of Norris Medical
L i b r a ry , 2003 Zonal A v e .
Admission is free, but pre - re g i s-
tration is re q u i red – call 342-1968.
v Len Wines, chair of the Emeriti
C e n t e r, answers questions and
solves pro b l e m s – if they’re re l a t-
ed to your Macintosh computer.
The Macintosh User Gro u p
meets at 11:45 a.m. on
W e d n e s d a y, May 27, in Leavey
L i b r a ry, Room B. Admission is
f ree. Be sure to bring at least
two formatted high-density
disks for share w a re and public
domain software. For more
i n f o rmation, call 937-4082.
SHARKS AND STA R F I S H :
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
E v e ry Saturday throughout the
s u m m e r, beginning May 23,
U S C ’s Wrigley Institute for
E n v i ronmental Studies hosts an
open house at the
Philip K. Wr i g l e y
Marine Science
Center at Big
F i s h e rman Cove on
Catalina Island. The
open house ru n s
f rom 2 to 4 p.m. and
includes a waterf ro n t
tour and moray eel
feeding; a video pre-
sentation and a mini
science lecture; an
o p p o rtunity for
guests to touch star
fish, anemones and
other sea cre a t u res; and a tour of
the USC Catalina Hyperbaric
C h a m b e r. The program contin-
ues through Sept. 9. Also
t h roughout the summer, a lar g e
number of leopard sharks call
the Wrigley Marine Science
Center home. They are quite
docile, and visitors are invited to
swim or snorkel with them in
the cove – daily from 10 am to 2
p.m. Reservations are re q u i re d
for the swim and can be made
by calling 310-510-0811.
RYMAN STUDENT ART
The Ryman Program for Y o u n g
A rtists provides training in draw-
ing and painting to talented high
school students. These full-
scholarship classes taught by
working artists are held on
S a t u rdays over a 12-week peri-
od. See the results at the student
exhibit going up on Monday,
May 18, in the Helen Lindhurst
Fine Arts Gallery, on the fir s t
floor of Watt Hall. The exhibit
continues through Friday, May
29. Gallery hours are Monday
t h rough Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Graduation and an opening
reception are scheduled for
T h u r s d a y, May 21, from 6:30 to
8 p.m. For more inform a t i o n ,
call 629-ARTS.
TWO STORIES ON
SEVEN STORIES
An old bull elephant tells the
dramatic story of A f r i c a ’s
Elephant Kingdom in Kenya’s
Amboseli National Park. When
d rought threatens the survival of
the family group headed by his
cousin, the matriarch T o rn Ear,
they must search for dwindling
food and water as around them
other elephants succumb.
D i rected, written and pro d u c e d
by Michael Caulfield, A f r i c a ’s
Elephant Kingdom is the inaugur-
al larg e - f o rmat film fro m
D i s c o v e ry Channel Pictures and
shows daily at the IMAX
Theater through June 30. Also
playing is Into the Deep, a thre e -
dimensional glimpse into the
kelp forests of the Pacific. Show
times are noon, 2,4,6 and 8 p.m.
for A f r i c a ’s Elephant Kingdom; and
10 and 11 a.m., 1,3,5,7 and 9 p.m.
for Into the Deep. The IMAX
Theater is at the Californ i a
Science Center, 700 State Drive
in Exposition Park. Admission
(2-D) is $6.25 for adults, $4.75
for students 13 and older with a
valid ID, $4.25 for seniors 60 and
o l d e r, and $3.75 for children 4 to
12; admission (3-D) is $7.25,
$5.75, $5.25, and $4.75, re s p e c-
t i v e l y. For more information, call
7 4 4 - 2 0 1 4 .
RADIO DAY S
S u n d a y, May 24, at 7:30 p.m.,
KUSC (91.5 FM) broadcasts a
KCET simulcast: the annual
National Memorial Day Con-
c e rt. Since its debut in 1990, the
c o n c e rt has touched the heart s
and minds of millions of
Americans seeking to honor
those who served the nation in
time of war. This broadcast fea-
t u res an array of world-class tal-
ent, military perf o rming gro u p s
and the renowned National
Symphony Orchestra. The
unique mix of music and dra-
matic readings airs live from the
west lawn of the Capitol in
Washington, D.C. And, on
S u n d a y, May 31, at 7 p.m., the
p rogram “Xerox Presents Music
F rom USC,” with Larry Liv-
ingston, airs a USC Symphonic
Winds concert, directed by H.
R o b e rt Reynolds, in works by
Gustav Holst, Cindy McT ee and
M o z a rt. For more inform a t i o n ,
call 743-2165.
THE THIRD WEDNESDAY
May 20 is the third W e d n e s d a y
of the month, which means
Hancock Memorial Museum is
open for open tours. Designed
after the Villa de’ Medici and
built in 1909, the Hancock man-
sion once graced the corner of
W i l s h i re and V e rmont. Now, the
original memorial rooms and fur-
nishings – including items fro m
the Mexico City palace of
E m p e ror Maximilian and
Carlota – which were saved fro m
the wre c k e r’s ball in 1937, are in
the east wing of USC’s Allan
Hancock Building, T rousdale at
Childs W a y. If you can’t make it
to this historic-cultural monu-
ment on May 20 or another third
W e d n e s d a y, tours by appoint-
ment are also available: Monday
t h rough Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Admission is $4, $3, $2, fre e
for children 12 and under. For
m o re information, call 740-5144.
“Virtual Invaders,” in the
new exhibit opening
May 30 at the Natural
History Museum, is a vir-
tual reality game that
simulates the continu-
ous defenses of the
b o d y ’s immune system
against infections. Here,
a teenage visitor tries to
block cartoon-like virus-
es from invading healthy
tissue. See the “Jeepers,
Creepers” listing.
N ATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The touch tank at the Wrigley Marine
Science Center. See the “Sharks and
S t a rfish” listing for more.
continued on page 15
15 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
FOR THE RECORD
The following are newly listed positions at the university as of May 17, 1998. For
p reviously listed positions visit the Employment Office or USC’s job-listing Internet W e b s i t e .
Job Openings
It is the university's policy that employees
who are laid off receive priority in being
relocated to other positions for which
they qualify. When applying for a posi-
tion, please refer to the job title, grade
level and requisition number. The Jobs
Still Available sections below have been
edited for space and do not necessarily
re p resent an exhaustive listing of open-
ings. For complete job listings, visit the
Employment Office at 3535 S. Figuero a
St., Room 100, on the University Park
Campus, or 1975 Zonal Ave., KAM 409,
at the Health Sciences Campus. For more
i n f o rmation, call 740-7252 at UPC or
342-1010 at HSC. Job listings may also be
found on the Internet Website at:
w w w. u s c . e d u / g o / j o b s. An employee
re p resentative for disabled persons is
available on the employment staff .
Equal Opportunity and Affirm a t i v e
Action Policy
The University of Southern California is
p roudly pluralistic and firmly committed to
p roviding equal opportunity for outstand-
ing men and women of every race, cre e d
and backgro u n d .
This university is also firmly committed
to complying with all applicable laws and
g o v e rnmental regulations at the federal,
state and local levels which prohibit dis-
crimination, or which mandate that spe-
cial consideration be given, on the basis of
race, religion, national origin, gender, age,
Vietnam veteran status, disability, sexual
orientation, or any other characteristic
which may from time to time be specifie d
in such laws or regulations. This good-
faith eff o rt to comply is made even when
such laws and regulations conflict with
each other.
USC strives to build a community in
which each person respects the rights of
other people to be proud of who and
what they are, to live and work in peace
and dignity, and to have an equal oppor-
tunity to realize their full potential as indi-
viduals and members of society . T o this
end the university places great emphasis
on those values and virtues that bind us
together as human beings and members of
the Trojan Family .
New Jobs (UPC)
• PRO F ES S I O NA L / A D M I N I S T RA TI V E
Development Dire c t o r-Specialist - Req. 06778
- University Advancement/Development
C o n s o rtium (JC129331/Grade M)
Public Communications Specialist (Director of
Public Information) - Req. 06623 - Music
(JC129119/Grade K)
Administrative Services Coordinator I
(Network Coordinator) - Req. 06819 -
Marshall School/Center for Eff e c t i v e
O rganization (JC111027/Grade H)
D e g ree Pro g ress Counselor - Req. 06859 -
Academic Records & Registrar
(JC137119/Grade H)
E d i t o r / Writer I - Req. 06550 - Dentistry
(JC129011/Grade H)
Student Programs Advisor I - Req. 06454 -
G e rontology (JC137611/Grade H)
Assistant Strength Coach - Req. 06636 -
Athletics (Grade 00/Negotiable)
• ADMINISTRA TI V E / ACA D M EI C /
C LERI CA L / T E C H N I CA L
Budget/Business T echnician - Req. 06671 -
Public Relations (JC113507/Grade G)
Student Services Assistant - Req. 06439 -
Social W ork (JC137517/Grade G)
C l e r i c a l / S e c re t a r i a l / O ffice Support
Receptionist - Req. 06672 - Public Relations
(JC111007/Grade D)
• FA C I LIT I ES SUPPORT
G rove W orker - Req. 06709 & 06710 -
Business Aff a i r s / P ro p e rty Sales, Dev. &
Management (Grade 00/$11,960)
T echnical Audio Visual T echnician II
(Assistant Video Coordinator) - Req. 06637 -
Athletics (JC173011/Grade F)
New Jobs (HSC)
• P RO F ES S I O NA L / A D M I N I S T RA TI V E
P rogram Manager (JC133015) - Req H04185 -
Opthalmology (Grade K)
P roject Director (JC 135019) - Req H052 Gene
Therapy Labs (Grade L)
Administrative Services Manager (JC 111033) -
Req H05214. Manage the HGT website -
Genen Therapy Labs (Grade J)
P roject Specialist (JC 135011) - Req H04647 -
Cell & Neurobiology (Grade I)
Systems Liason Specialist (JC 165819) - Req
H05266 , H05265 - USC Care (Grade I)
Administrative Services Coordinator (JC
111027) - Req H03798 (50%) - Cancer
Center (Grade H)
•A D M I N I S T RA TI V E / C LERI CA L /
T RA D ES SUPPORT
O ffice Assistant I (JC111111) - Req H05202 -
P h a rmacy (Grade D)
Administrative Assistant (JC 111019) - Req
H04645 - Must be literate in EXCEL and
capable of analyzing data - Cell &
N e u robiology (Grade G)
P rogram Assistant (JC 133007) - Req H05201 -
P h a rmacy (Grade G)
P roject Assistant (JC 135007) - Req H04240 -
OB/GY (Grade G)
Receptionist (JC 111007) - Req H04593 -
USCP/ Cardiothoracic Surg e ry (Grade D)
• CL I N I CA L / T E C H N I CA L / LI C EN S ED
R e s e a rch Associate - Req 04218, H04219,
H04220 - Ph.D or M.D. in molecular biolo-
g y , biochemistry or virology (Grade 00)
R e s e a rch Associate - Req H03966- Pharm a c y
(Grade 00)
R e s e a rch Associate - Req H03835 -
M e d i c i n e / C a rdiology (Grade 00)
R e s e a rch Laboratory T echnician II (JC
185015) - Req H2943 - Cancer Center
(Grade F)
R e s e a rch Laboratory T echnician II (JC
185015) - Req H03603 - Med/Pulmonary &
Critical Care (Grade F)
R e s e a rch Laboratory T echnician II (JC
185015) - Req H04144, H03976 - Phar m a c y /
Molecular Pharmacology & T o x i c o l o g y
(Grade F)
• HE A LT H - RELA T ED STRU C TU RE
S t a ff Perfusionist (JC 187911) - Req H04660,
H04658 - USCP/ Department of
C a rdiothoracic Surg e ry (Grade HI)
Physical Therapist (JC 187707) - Req H04169,
H04543, H04544 - Biokinesiology &
Physical Therapy (Grade HF)
Account Representative (JC 189115) - Req
H04486 - USCP/Surg e ry (Grade HD)
P e rfusion Assistant (JC 187907) - Req H04659
- USCP/Department of Card i o t h o r a c i c
S u rg e ry (Grade HC)
Medical Secre t a ry (JC 111083) - Req H05264 -
USC Care Medical Group (Grade HD) n To learn about employment opportunities through the
Internet:
www.usc.edu/go/jobs
Bill Cosby Sends the
Graduates Up and Off
continued from page 7
c e remonies because I see
nothing but beautiful flowers,
human flowers, from your par-
ents. You are God’s childre n ,
whomever your God may be.
Make a change in yourself;
enjoy your life. And just
remember that your honesty
is owed to those who love you
and will go down any dark
alley to protect you, as long as
you tell them the tru t h .
I FORGOT ONE THING, I’m
s o rry. Some of you, to be kind,
kind of s l i c k e d a couple of
courses. The faculty, the pro-
fessors, many of them love
what they’re doing. They
d o n ’t do it necessarily for a liv-
ing; they do it because of the
love they have, because they
want to give. And so, in your
four or five years here, you
may have taken a course and
just decided “I’ll just do this
much and let it slide,” and you
d i d n ’t work.
P rofessors look at students
like that and sometimes feel
t h e y d i d n ’t do it. The pro f e s s o r
feels, “I didn’t do it, I didn’t
get through.” All I’m asking
you to do – write a note and
tell that professor he or she did
well, but you didn’t, but you
still respect that person,
because you’re out with us
n o w.
Thank you all very much
for having me, enjoy yourself,
and congratulations. n accomplishments in the acad-
emic sphere and the car e e r
world our own, we are clearly
dependent upon others. Look
into the life of any of us grad-
uating today, and you will see
an encouraging mentor, a lov-
ing spouse, understanding
friends, or supportive par e n t s .
This is certainly true for me.
Even as a freshman, I was
challenged by professors who
pushed me farther than I ever
thought I could go. But my
friends were also there ,
pulling me back into r e a l i t y
when I was headed for the
edge. My family has always
stood behind me and loved
me, no matter where I was
going. And my boyfriend
traveled with me, thro u g h
the good times, and the bad.
D o n ’t close the book on
these relationships that have
helped you to succeed as you
head on to write a new chap-
ter in your life. After this cere-
mony is over, I encourage you
to walk up to your family ,
friends and loved ones and
thank them for the part that
they had in your success. I
know that this is what I
intend to do. I would never
be up here today if it were n ’t
for some of you out there
l i s t e n i n g .
Thank you and congratu-
lations to all of you. n BEHIND THE SATIN CURT A I N ?
On Friday, May 22, thro u g h
S u n d a y, May 24, leading scholars
in a variety of fields from acro s s
the United States, Europe and
Russia meet for a gro u n d b re a k-
ing “Conference on Russian
P o rnography” at USC – examin-
ing the phenomenon across dis-
ciplines, media and periods.
Papers are presented in Russian
and English. Sponsored by
USC, the International Researc h
and Exchanges Board
( Washington, D.C.), and the
S o u t h e rn California Consort i u m
for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, the conference takes
place in Grace Ford Salvatori
Hall, Room 106. A reception at
U S C ’s Institute of Modern
Russian Culture is scheduled for
Friday at 5 p.m. For a complete
list of speakers, presentations and
panels, please contact the confer-
ence organizer at 740-2740.
SEMINARS AND SUCH
v As part of the Medical
I n f o rmatics Seminar series, John
A. Silvester, vice provost for
scholarly technology, discusses
“ I n t e rnet2: High-Speed
Highway for Researchers” on
M o n d a y, May 18. The focus of
this seminar – at noon in the
C o n f e rence Room of Norr i s
Medical Library, 2003 Zonal
Ave. – is on the new technology
designed to provide re s e a rc h e r s
with high-speed Internet con-
nection and its implications for
U S C ’s academic community. For
m o re information, call 342-1968.
v The T uesday Speakers’
F o rum presents two grand
rounds – one in emergency psy-
c h i a t ry, the other in consultation-
liaison psychiatry. The first is on
T u e s d a y, May 19; Jairo Gomez
and Anahit Matevosyan, fro m
the Division of Emer g e n c y
P s y c h i a t ry, present “Neuro p s y -
chiatric Manifestations of Brain
T umors.” The second is on the
following T u e s d a y, May 26;
Daniel Holschneider, Jonathan
M e y e r, Giovanna Pegolo and
Edmond Pi, from the Division
of Consultation and Liaison
P s y c h i a t ry, present “Clinical
Manifestations and Manage-
ment of Lithium T o x i c i t y.” The
l e c t u res are at 12:15 p.m. in
Hastings Auditorium, Hoff m a n
Medical Research Center, 2011
Zonal Ave. For more inform a-
tion, call 626-457-4180.
v On T u e s d a y, May 19, at 1:30
p.m., the Burbank Discussion
Series continues on the theme of
change with a presentation by
N o rman B. Sigband, distin-
guished professor emeritus of
business and pharm a c y, on
“Speaking Effectively – One to
One Thousand.” The talk is at
the Joslyn Adult Center, 1301 W.
Olive Ave., Burbank. For more
i n f o rmation, call 818-238-5353.
v The Division of Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine pre-
sents “Respiratory Issues in Burn
Patients” by W.R. Doughert y ,
f rom the department of surg e ry,
and “Emerging Antibiotic
Resistance” by M. Appleman,
d e p a rtment of micro b i o l o g y. Both
clinical lectures are at 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday – May 20 and May
27, respectively – in Room 11-
321 of the General Hospital, 1200
N. State St. For more inform a-
tion, call 226-7923.
v The Obstetrics and Gynecology
Calendar
continued from page 14
G r and Rounds continue on
F r i d a y, May 22, with “Pre t e rm
Labor Controversies HUAM,
Tocolytics, Salivary Estriol, and
Fibrinectin” by Kathleen M.
Berkowitz, from the Division of
M a t e rnal Fetal Medicine; and
on Friday, May 29, with “HIV
in Women – An Update” by
Alexandra M. Levine, from the
Hematology Division. Both lec-
t u res are at 10 a.m. in
Auditorium 1L-7, W o m e n ’s and
C h i l d re n ’s Hospital, LAC+USC
Medical Center, 1240 N.
Mission Rd. For more inform a-
tion, call 226-6931.
v Sandeep Rajan, hematology
fellow from the School of Medi-
cine, leads “Case Discussion”
on Friday, May 22, 11 a.m.
Another hematology confere n c e
is slated for Friday, May 29;
B e rn a rd Babior, from the
Scripps Research Institute, pre-
sents “Chronic Granulomatous
Disease Lessons in the Pathway
of Neutrophil Killing.” Both
c o n f e rences are scheduled to
take place in Room 7441 of the
General Hospital, 1200 N. State
St. For more information, call
764-3913.
v The Arcadia Discussion Series
concludes on T u e s d a y , May 26,
with “Space: the Ultimate
F rontier” by Seymour Lampert ,
p rofessor emeritus of mechanical
engineering. Scientific aspirations
and socio-economic factors
helped to shape America’s initial
p rogram for space exploration.
Aside from technical and scientif-
ic goals, what issues are most
likely to influence the nation’s
decisions for the future of deep-
space exploration? L a m p e rt
begins the discussion at 10:30 a.m.
in the Arcadia Community Center,
365 Campus Drive, Arc a d i a .
Admission is $2. Call 626-574-5130
for more information.
v “Human Gene Therapy” is
the topic at the Cancer Center
Grand Rounds on T u e s d a y, May
26. W. French Anderson, dire c t o r
of the Gene Therapy
Laboratories and professor of bio-
c h e m i s t ry and pediatrics, speaks
at noon in Room 7410 of the
N o rris Comprehensive Cancer
C e n t e r, 1441 Eastlake Ave. For
m o re information, call 764-0800.
Unless otherwise noted, admis-
sion to all events is free. n The V a l e d i c t o r i a n
S h a res Her Thoughts
continued from page 7
16 U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A C H R O N I C L E May 18, 1998
by Bob Calverley
H
igh technology
could improve low-
tech bus serv i c e ,
say USC engi-
neers. But the habits of bus
drivers and passengers will
have to change.
“ We want to see if intelli-
gent transportation systems
(ITS) technologies can
i m p rove bus scheduling,”
said Randolph Hall, associ-
ate professor of industrial
and systems engineering at
the School of Engineering
and associate director of the
s c h o o l ’s Center for Ad-
vanced Tr a n s p o rtation T e c h -
n o l o g y.
“Most bus schedules have
a lot of slack in them. If you
could reduce the slack
t h rough better control, you
could provide better serv i c e
without having to purc h a s e
m o re buses.”
Hall and Maged Des-
s o u k y, assistant professor of
industrial and systems engi-
neering, tested global posi-
tioning systems (GPS) that
p recisely track buses with
satellites, mobile data term i-
nals that enable drivers to
send passenger data to other
drivers and control centers,
and electronic fare boxes
that help reduce board i n g
t i m e .
A c c o rding to Hall, buses
a re trying to mimic the “hub
and spoke” systems in which
airlines funnel many flights
into a single airport at ro u g h-
ly the same time so that pas-
sengers can connect to desti-
nation flights with minimal
waiting. When incoming
flights are delayed, airlines
must decide whether to hold
or release the connecting
f l i g h t s .
“Bus systems now face the
same kinds of dispatching
decisions,” Hall said, “but
they lack the inform a t i o n
they need to make them –
real-time information re g a rd-
ing vehicle locations and the
number of passengers intend-
ing to transfer. ”
HALL AND DESSOUKY u s e d
simulations of Metro p o l i t a n
T r a n s p o rtation Authority
( M TA) bus lines to see if ITS
technologies could benefit
transfer passengers.
“ITS could save about 20
seconds per passenger per
t r a n s f e r,” Dessouky said.
“Such minuscule gains pro b a-
bly wouldn’t justify the
expense of installing the new
t e c h n o l o g y, but we think the
impact of ITS technologies
on the rest of the system
might yield more significant
benefits and savings. That’s
what we plan to investigate
n e x t . ”
ITS technologies could
c e rtainly make drivers more
e ffective and speed the trans-
fer of passengers, but both
drivers and passengers would
first have to change their
ways, said Diane E. Bailey,
assistant professor of industri-
al and systems engineering.
I
n another USC study,
Bailey and her students
recently rode Orange
County Tr a n s p o rt a t i o n
Authority (OCTA) buses to
o b s e rve drivers as passengers
b o a rded and debarked at 300
stops.The two factors most
likely to delay buses at stops,
they found, were passengers
asking questions and passen-
gers in wheelchairs getting on
or off the bus.
A c c o rding to Bailey, bus-
stop information kiosks with
displays to answer passen-
gers’ most common questions
might save drivers some time,
but they would be expensive
to install at all stops.
Bailey said that passengers
a re more likely to ask ques-
tions at minor stops than at
major ones. Furt h e rm o re ,
they usually ask questions
while boarding, so inform a-
tion displays aboard buses
would be ineff e c t i v e .
“Even if a low-cost solu-
tion could be found, it’s not
clear that passengers, espe-
cially elderly ones, would
re s o rt to the information dis-
play when a driver is there to
answer their questions,”
Bailey said.
Bailey said displays could
p rovide infor-mation about
shops, parks,
and other places
of interest along
routes, but the
interaction be-
tween drivers
and passengers –
an impor t a n t
social function –
would suff e r.
“It would
clearly detract
f rom quality of
life if accompanying policies
w e re to forbid discussion with
the driver, or if drivers were
i n s t ructed to direct passenger
queries to the system instead
of responding in person,” she
s a i d .
A
relatively simple and
inexpensive tele-
phone call-box sys-
tem could warn dri-
vers when a wheelchair pas-
senger is expected to board
f u rther along the route. This
i n f o rmation could let the dri-
ver try to gain the extra time
b e f o re stopping to pick up
the wheelchair passenger.
Drivers should be able to
accomplish this because both
USC studies indicate a surpris-
ing amount of slack in bus
s c h e d u l e s .
Dessouky said it has general-
ly been assumed that, once
behind schedule, a bus contin-
ues to fall further behind – caus-
ing other buses on the same
route to bunch together.
Passengers see this phenome-
non when, after a long wait at a
bus stop, two or three buses all
show up at once.
“ We found that bunching
does not occur with long-head-
way buses,” Dessouky re p o rt s .
“ T h e re ’s sufficient slack for
subsequent buses to slow down
or catch up.”
Headway is the time or
distance between buses, so a
long-headway bus is a good
distance ahead of the next
scheduled bus on that ro u t e .
Long-headway buses are most
common in suburban areas or
late at night.
“ S o u t h e rn California has a
lot of long-headway buses.
O C TA service is almost entire l y
p rovided by long-headway
buses,” Hall said.
When Bailey and her stu-
dents rode eight OCTA bus
routes, six of the buses began
their routes late and two
began on time, but only one
bus finished late – one of the
two that started on time,
showing that drivers can gen-
erally catch up if they fall
behind schedule.
Hall believes that ITS tech-
nology could arm drivers with
the information to better pace
their buses and adhere to the
s c h e d u l e .
“ I t ’s not just eff i c i e n c y, but
also a matter of public safety
when passengers have to wait
at a bus stop after dark,” he
s a i d .
O C TA HAS BEGUN i n s t a l -
ling GPS technology on its
buses, and the re s e a rchers pre-
dict that the price of the tech-
nology will continue to dro p .
They believe GPS might be
most useful when a bus bre a k s
down, giving authorities the
exact location of the bus before
a replacement vehicle is dis-
p a t c h e d .
All three re s e a rchers stro n g l y
believe that bus systems are
w o rthy investments, especially
in Southern Californ i a .
“ We’ve been oversold on
trains,” Hall said. “People in
Los Angeles have the impre s-
sion that trains are much better
than buses. For far less money,
you can provide greater benefit s
with buses.”
The USC studies were
funded by the Californ i a
P a rtners for Advanced
Transit Highways at UC
B e r k e l e y, Caltrans and USC’s
S o u t h e rn California Studies
C e n t e r. n H i g h - T ech T ools for Low-T ech T r a n s p o rt a t i o n :
Systems Analysis Gives Bus Service a Boost
ITS technologies could certainly make
drivers more effective and speed the
transfer of passengers, but both drivers
and passengers would first have to
change their ways.
Randolph Hall, left, and Maged Dessouky, professors of industrial and systems engineering, wanted to see if
intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technology could improve bus scheduling. After testing several such
systems, they believe benefits and savings are indeed possible.
S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A
Real-time information about vehicle
locations and passenger transfers
could help drivers stay on schedule.
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