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USC Establishes Institute for
Study of Jews in American Life
October 5, 1998
Scholars to examine contributions to the arts, business,
media, literature, education, politics and law.
life, is a member of the institute’s core founding
faculty. “Through this institute, we can examine
IN RECOGNITION OF THE VITAL ROLE Jews what it takes to maintain heritage in the face of
have played in shaping the politics, culture, change, how change occurs in the face of new
commerce and character of the region, USC is opportunity, and how these factors combine to
shape the future,” she said.
As a think tank, the Institute for
“It has been a privilege for me to encourage
the Study of Jews in American Life
will invite scholars from USC and
the establishment at USC of the first academic
other institutions to study the evolution of the Western Jewish commuresearch center on the West Coast to concentrate
nity within American society.
Researchers and community leaders
on contemporary issues in Jewish life.”
will examine the ongoing contributions of American Jews to the arts,
– S T EV E N B . S A MP L E
business, media, literature, educaby Zsa Zsa Gershick
Rossier School
of Education’s 90 years
of history
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establishing an interdisciplinary research center
where scholars can study the evolution of the
Jewish community in the Weste rn United
States.
The Institute for the Study of Jews in
American Life – the first research center of its
kind – will initiate and fund scholarship and
host symposia and conferences. The institute’s
events will explore contemporary issues of
Jewish identity and culture and encourage dialogue and partnerships among Jewish communities and other groups in this complex and
important region.
“It has been a privilege for me to encourage
the establishment at USC of the first academic
research center on the West Coast to concentrate
on contemporary issues in Jewish life,” said
President Steven B. Sample.
“With its Southern California regional focus
and emphasis on interdisciplinary research and
education, the new Institute for the Study of Jews
in American Life reinforces two major priorities of
the university’s strategic plan. This institute will
advance USC’s academic mission and help elevate it to a new level of excellence in coming
years.”
BARRY GLASSNER, a professor of sociology in
the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, will
serve as director of the institute, which has been
created in collaboration with Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion and will work
closely with USC’s Hillel Jewish Center.
Rabbi Susan Laemmle, USC dean of religious
Members of the institute’s core faculty, with videotapes
from the Jewish Heritage collection: clockwise, from top
left, Michael Renov, professor of critical studies; Ruth
Weisberg, dean of the School of Fine Arts; institute
Director Barry Glassner, professor of sociology; Selma
Holo, director of the Fisher Gallery; and Morton Owen
Schapiro, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Glassner, Renov, Schapiro and Weisberg are also on the
institute’s advisory board.
USC Scientist
Proposes a First
– Gene Therapy
In Utero
❑ W. FRENCH ANDERSON
KICKS OFF A DEBATE BY
SUBMITTING ‘PRE-PROTOCOLS’
TO NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF
HEALTH COMMITTEE
by Eva Emerson
USC GENE THERAPY pioneer W.
French Anderson is ready to
explore a new frontier in genetic
medicine – correcting genetic disorders before children are even
born.
Anderson, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
and director of the USC Gene
Therapy Laboratories, and his colleagues have submitted the first
proposals for in utero gene therapy to the Office of Recombinant DNA Activities at the
National Institutes of Health
(NIH).
Although this marks one of
the first steps toward the
approval of clinical trials, the submission of the so-called “pre-protocols” is simply meant to initiate
discussion and is not considered
part of a formal approval process.
The proposals, discussed at
the Thursday, Sept. 24, and
Friday, Sept. 25, meeting of the
national Recombinant DNA
Advisory Committee (RAC), outline Anderson’s aim to develop
clinical protocols to use bio-engineered viral vectors to cure
genetic diseases before birth.
THE COMMITTEE WILL discuss the
scientific, ethical and public policy issues related to attempts at
in utero gene therapy, with
Anderson’s pre-protocols taking
center stage.
“This is something that’s
never been attempted, but the
success of our large-animal
experiments suggests it may be
an effective and relatively safe
way to transfer a therapeutic
gene into a child with a genetic
disorder,” said Anderson, who
was at the NIH campus in
Bethesda, Md., to discuss the
matter last month.
continued on page 2
Morton Owen Schapiro Appointed VP for Planning
by Zsa Zsa Gershick
MORTON OWEN SCHAPIRO,
an expert on the economics of
education and dean of the
College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences, has been named USC
vice president for planning.
He will continue to serve
concurrently as dean. Schap i ro ’s appointment, effective
immediately, was announced
by President Steven B. Sample.
As vice president for plan-
ning, Schapiro will provide
leadership in developing and
implementing a long-term cap ital and strategic planning
process for USC. His initial
efforts will focus on a review of
responsibility center management.
“We’re pleased that Morty
Schapiro is taking on this additional responsibility,” Sample
said. “As vice president, he will
guide our long-term planning
processes, working closely with
As vice president for planning, Morton Owen Schapiro will provide leadership
in developing a long-term planning process for the university.
Gene Therapy: Debate Begins
continued from page 1
“At this point, we’re not asking for any kind of approval,”
said Anderson, who characterizes the proposals as “conservative and facts-only statements
backed up with a lot of data.”
“We are still two to three
years away from requesting
approval to use an in utero technique in a patient. We just want
to open up the public discussion,” Anderson said. He noted
that reviews of the proposals
from other scientists and ethicists have been surprisingly
favorable.
“This is very different from
the situation 10 years ago. When
we initially put out our idea to
do the first gene therapy trial in
1987, all 14 of our reviews were
extremely negative. This time, all
18 reviews were supportive.
Some even thanked us for
putting it out there,” he said.
Claudia Mickelson, a scientist
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and chair of the RAC,
was typical in her review.
“I want to thank Dr. Anderson
and his colleagues for submitting
these drafts to the RAC. I
applaud the effort to solicit as
much public and peer discussion
at this early stage as possible,”
Mickelson wrote. “Dr. Anderson’s
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willingness to open the discussion on the use of gene transfer
in this patient population is quite
audacious.”
ANDERSON HAS DEVELOPED a
new generation of improved
gene therapy delivery tools
that he thinks will allow more
efficient gene transfer. As well,
help shape the implementation
of critical components of USC’s
existing strategic plan, but will
also provide leadership in
designing future blueprints to
allow USC to strengthen its
position in the very competitive landscape of
American higher edu“We’re pleased that Morty Schapiro
cation.”
Schapiro is a wideis taking on this additional
ly quoted authority
on college financing
responsibility. As vice president, he and affordability and
on trends in educawill guide our long-term planning tion costs and student
aid. He is frequently
processes.”
– ST EV E N B . S A M P L E
asked to testify on
higher education pol icy before U.S. SenSchapiro has been dean of ate and House committees.
Schapiro is the author or cothe College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences since 1994, and a author of more than 50 articles
professor of economics in the and five books: The Student Aid
college since he joined the Game: Meeting Need and
USC faculty in 1991. He Rewarding Talent in American
served as chair of the depart- Higher Education; Paying the
ment of economics from 1991 Piper: Productivity, Incentives
to 1994.
Sample recently and Financing in U.S. Higher
appointed him to a second Education; Keeping College
five-year term as dean, begin- A ff o rdable: Government and
Educational Opportunity; Selecning July 1, 1999.
“I am looking forward to tive Admission and the Public
working with Morty in his new Interest; and Filling Up America:
role as vice president,” said An Economic-Demographic Model
Armstrong, USC provost and of Population Growth and Distrisenior vice president for acade- bution in the Nineteenth Century
mic affairs. “He will not only United States.
our provost, Lloyd Armstrong.
As one of the nation’s premier
authorities on the economics of
higher education, he will offer
creativity and insight that will
help take USC to the next level
of excellence,” Sample said.
HE HAS RECEIVED numerous
fellowships, contracts and research grants from the National
Science Foundation, the U.S.
Department of Education, the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the College Board and
others to study the economics
of higher education.
Schapiro served from 1990
to 1991 as professor of economics at Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass. He was an
associate professor of economics there from 1987 to 1990,
assistant professor from 1980 to
1987, and assistant provost
from 1986 to 1989.
Schapiro earned his bachel o r’s degree in economics
magna cum laude from Hofstra
University in 1975. He earned
his master’s degree and his
doctorate in economics from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and 1979, respectively. ■
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Chronicle
Editor
Christine E. Shade
Associate Editor
Melissa Payton
Contributing Editors
Zsa Zsa Gershick Brenda Maceo
it may be that doing gene therapy on a fetus could work better than on children or newborns. That is because the viralderived vectors carrying the
corrective gene can only enter
dividing cells, and the cells of
the rapidly developing fetus
divide often.
The pre-protocols also raise
the possibility that doing gene
therapy in uter o could increase
the chance of genetically altering sperm or egg cells, changes
that
would
be
passed on to offspring.
Although that is
not the goal of the
proposed therapy,
that potential does
bring up the issue of
the safety and desirability of germline
engineering, an item
sure to be debated
at the meeting.
THE PRE-PROTOCOLS
deal with genetic disorders both of which
have been linked to
dysfunction in a single gene. Some cases
of severe combined
W. French Anderson, director of USC’s Gene i m m u n o d e f i c i e n c y
Therapy Laboratory, and his colleagues have (SCID) – commonly
submitted to the National Institutes of Health known as the bubblebaby disease – are
the first proposals to do in utero gene therapy .
caused by a flaw in the gene that
encodes for adenosine deaminase (ADA) and leaves a child
without a functional immune
system.
The rare, often fatal disorder
caused by an ADA-deficiency
was the first disease in which
gene therapy was attempted, in
1990, by Anderson. In 1993, USC
faculty at Childrens Hospital Los
Angeles performed the first gene
transfer into the blood stem cells
isolated from the umbilical cord
in newborn patients with this
same disease.
Anderson proposes to inject a
corrective ADA gene attached to
an improved retroviral vector
into a fetus early in the second
trimester.
Also proposed is a genetic
treatment for alpha-thalassemia,
a common genetic disease that,
in the most severe cases, results
in death in the womb. The disease results from defects in the
alpha forms of hemoglobin, the
oxygen-carrying molecules of
the blood.
For this procedure, Anderson
proposes delivering gene therapy to blood stem cells taken
from the fetus. These transformed stem cells would then
be re-introduced into the developing fetus, where they would
help repopulate the body with
gene-corrected blood cells. ■
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Meg Sullivan
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Mary Ellen Stumpfl
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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 October 5, 1998
USC IN THE COMMUNITY
This column spotlights USC’s community service efforts. Articles by staff.
A CRISIS IN CHINA
MOBILIZES STUDENTS
USC’s sense of community took
on a global focus as the worst
flooding in 50 years ravaged
Southern China this summer.
The disaster mobilized the USC
Chinese Students and Scholars
Association (CSSA) when it
learned 8 million children were
left without school facilities.
The CSSA students went into action to raise funds for
Hangqiaoxiang Primary School,
one of many that were destroyed.
CSSA president Feng Zeng
said USC’s students wanted to
help children in their homeland
and were directed to Principal Li
Yinmou and his school. Li asked
for assistance in raising $10,000 to
help fund construction of a new
building. The CSSA began fund
raising in early September and to
A member of the Chinese army helps to move families who were flooded out
of their homes. More than 3,000 people died and millions became homeless
from the flood damage. USC’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association started a fund drive to aid one of the more than 40,000 schools that were flooded.
date have raised more than $6,400.
“We’re in competition with
UCLA, and we’re beating
them,” Feng
said with pride.
Feng, a political
science graduate student,
said an important byproduct
of the campaign
was the positive
image of Chinese students at
USC.
Dixon
C.
Even though his school building has been destroyed by the Johnson, direcflood, a young boy still finds a place to do his lessons. In tor of the Office
the background, the river crests near the roofs of homes. of International
Services, wrote the organization:
“I am exceptionally proud of the
CSSA and your members for the
various activities you are conducting to raise money for Chinese
flood relief. It is especially gratifying to know that although you
are far away from your homeland,
you are both concerned and
actively involved in efforts to rebuild a primary school.
“The specificity of your project makes the appeal all the
more compelling. I hope you will
be able to obtain pictures of the
[new] school and the assistance
effort and make them available to
all.”
The CSSA held a fund-raising
Saturday, Oct. 10: Staff Appreciation Day
USC’s Team – 150 Strong – Joins 25,000
Others at AIDS Walk Los Angeles
USC students, faculty
and staff were among
the 25,000 volunteers
who took part in the
14th annual 10K AIDS
Walk Los Angeles on
Sunday, Sept. 28, helping to raise more than
$3 million to further
AIDS research. USC’s
participation was organized by the Student Senate’s Community Outreach Committee, directed by
Heather Yamanoha.
Last year – the first
year USC sent a team –
just 35 people took
part; this year, Yamanoha said, more than
150 Trojans helped raise funds for AIDS Project Los Angeles, walking together as a team. “It was a really great experience,” said
Yamanoha, a junior majoring in public policy management. “It
was awesome” as well as touching, she said. “I saw many people
carrying signs with the names of loved ones who had died.”
Yamanoha’s committee arranged for Transportation Services to
provide trams, which carried USC’s team from the campus to the
event’s starting gate at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
party in Bovard Auditorium on
Saturday, Sept. 19. The event,
Feng said, featured Chinese
dancers who demonstrated “the
essences of Chinese dance,
music, Beijing opera, Chinese
kung fu and Tibetan dance.”
More information on the
CSSA efforts to aid the primary
school can be found by visiting
their Website at: http://wwwscf.usc.edu/~usccssa/flood/flood.
html.
For those interested in
donating to rebuild the school
in China, CSSA-USC can be
contacted in Topping Student
Center, Room 100. ■
El Presidente Steven B. Sample
Extiende una invitación muy especial a todos los empleados de
la USC con derecho a beneficios a asistir al
President Steven B. Sample
partido de fútbol entre USC y California
Cordially invites all USC benefits-eligible staff
to be his special guests at the
el sábado, 10 de octubre de 1998
en el Memorial Coliseum de Los Angeles
USC vs. California Football Game
Saturday, October 10, 1998
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
for
Staff Appreciation Day
con motivo del
Free entry and free meal tickets with USC Staff I.D.
Tickets may be picked up near Gate 19 only.
Food tickets may be used at the USC
staff concession stand only.
Día del Empleado de USC
Debe mostrar su tarjeta de identidad de empleado de USC
para recibir boletos de entrada y comida gratis.
Debe recoger sus boletos en la Entrada 19 solamente.
Los boletos para la comida se podrán usar solamente en el
puesto para empleados de USC o “USC Staff.”
La hora del comienzo del partido no se ha determinado
todavía.
Game time, 3:30 p.m.
La hora del comienzo del partido es 3:30 p.m.
Each staff may bring up to 3 family members.
If you have more than 3 children,please make special
requests by calling ext.0-6614.
Cada empleado podrá asistir con 3 miembros de su familia. Si
usted tiene más de tres hijos,puede solicitar un número mayor
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Exploring Contemporary Issues in Jewish Life
A Musical Coup –
Thelonious Monk Jazz
Institute Heads to USC
“Through this institute, we can examine what it takes to
maintain heritage in the face of change, how change occurs
by Ed Newton
in the face of new opportunity, and how these factors
combine to shape the future.”
– R A B B I S US AN L AE MM L E
tion, politics and law, as well as
the relationships between
Jewish Americans and other
groups, including African
Americans, Latinos, Asian
Americans and Arab Americans.
The institute’s contemporary focus, combined with its
location on the West Coast, set
it apart from – and make it an
important complement to –
the many Jewish studies programs across the nation that
center on Judaism from a historical or religious perspective.
Its offices will be located on
the third floor of Grace Ford
Salvatori Hall.
INAUGURALAND
ACADEMICEVENTS
The institute’s inaugural
public event, a special screening of Pier Marton’s documentary Say I’m a Jew, is planned
for Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7
p.m. in Room 108 of the
G eo rge Lucas Instru c t ion al
Building. Say I’m a Jew
explores identity issues confronting the children of
Holocaust survivors, both in
Europe and the United States.
After the screening, cultural
historian Sander L. Gilman, the
University of Chicago’s Henry
R. Luce Professor of Liberal Arts
in Human Biology, will discuss
the film and its implications.
Gilman is the author or editor of
more than 50 books.
The institute’s first academic conference, “Eye &
Thou: Jewish Autobiography
in Film and Video,” exploring
c on te mp o rary
issues
of
American Jewish identity, will
be held Oct. 24-26 in the
Norris Cinema Theatre. The
conference is presented with
support from the Righteous
Persons Foundation, the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, and USC alumna and
community
leader
Carol
Brennglass Spinner, in memory of her father, Edwin
B re n n g l a ss .
SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES
The institute’s scope of activities is expected to include:
• Conferences featuring
eminent scholars and leaders
f rom business, govern m en t
and the media.
• Several distinguished
lecture series.
• Community-based interethnic dialogue groups coordinated and facilitated by institute-affiliated researchers.
• Research projects to
launch and support new scholarship, exhibitions and publications.
• A visiting-faculty program featuring prom in en t
scholars from around the
world.
• A summer undergraduate
study and internship program
sponsored jointly by USC and
Hebrew Union College.
• Publication of books and
journal articles for academic
and general audiences.
• Special programs and
i n t e rd e p a rtmental events to
educate USC undergraduates
about the American Jewish
experience.
• Support of graduate
research assistantships, doctoral fellowships and postdoctoral appointments for young
scholars.
CORE FOUNDING
FACULTY
The core faculty is composed
of USC and HUC scholars
from more than a dozen disciplines, including Rabbi
Laemmle; Warren Bennis, professor of finance and business
economics, Marshall School of
Business;
Solomon
Wo lf
Golomb, professor of mathematics and electrical engineering systems, School of
Engineering; Selma Reuben
Holo, director of USC’s Fisher
Gallery and Museum Studies
Program; Michael Renov, professor of critical studies,
School of Cinema-Television;
Morton Owen Schapiro, dean
of the College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences; and Ruth
Weisberg, dean of the School
of Fine Arts.
ADVISORY BOARD
Glassner, Laemmle, Renov,
Schapiro, Brennglass Spinner
and Weisberg are also on the
institute’s advisory board. Other
advisory board members are
Rabbi Lewis M. Barth, dean of
the Los Angeles campus of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion; Mark
Benjamin, USC alumnus and
community leader; Alan Berlin,
USC alumnus and community
leader; Theodore E. Harris,
emeritus professor of mathematics, USC; Marlene Adler Marks,
USC alumna and journalist;
Scott A. Stone, USC alumnus
and community leader; Louis
Warschaw, USC alumnus and
community leader; and Ruth
Ziegler, USC alumna and community leader. ■
M A R KY O U R CALENDAR:
• Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in Room 108 of the George Lucas Instructional Building, a screening of
Say I’m a Jew. After the screening, cultural historian Sander L. Gilman, the University of Chicago’s
Henry R. Luce Professor of Liberal Arts in Human Biology, will discuss the film and its implications.
• Saturday, Oct. 24 - Monday, Oct. 26, in the Norris Cinema Theatre, the institute’s first academic conference, “Eye & Thou: Jewish Autobiography in Film and Video,” takes place. It will explore contemporary issues of American Jewish identity,
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The Thelonious Monk Institute of
Jazz Performance will move to
USC in the fall of 1999.
Offering one of the nation’s
most intensive college-level programs in jazz studies, the institute, now at Boston’s New
England Conservatory of Music,
will bring an all-star cast of artists
in residence to Los Angeles to
work directly with young musicians.
The list of musicians teaching
the institute’s master classes has
included
Herbie
Hancock,
Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter,
Grover Washington Jr., Slide
Hampton, Jackie McLean, Barry
Harris, Jimmy Heath and Clark
Terry. Master bassist Ron Carter is
the institute’s artistic director.
Saxophonist Carl Atkins is its program director.
The institute’s move to USC
was announced Sunday, Sept. 27,
at a jazz gala in the Washington,
D.C., home of Vice President Al
Gore and his wife, Tipper, who
hosted the institute’s tribute to
George Gershwin and Duke
Ellington.
“This new partnership is a
powerful symbol of the USC
School of Music’s growing stature
as a world leader in jazz education,” said President Steven B.
Sample, “and it clearly demonstrates the arts’ importance to
the university’s mission.”
Thelonious Monk Jr. is chairman of the institute. “This new
alliance solidifies the institute’s
base of operations in Los Angeles
and enables us to enhance our substantive programming throughout
the Southern California region,”
Monk said.
EVERY TWO YEARS, the Institute
of Jazz Performance selects a
group of students from around
the world to participate in its program. Every student receives a
scholarship for full tuition, room
and board, and a monthly
stipend for living expenses.
During their two years in the
program, students receive personal mentoring, ensemble
coaching and lectures on the jazz
tradition. They study composition, theory, ear training, improvisation, keyboard skills, arranging, orchestration, performance
techniques, musicology and
other subjects that will prepare
them to be professional jazz
musicians and educators.
Students also receive ample
opportunities to perform. In
1996, students traveled with
Herbie Hancock and Wayne
Shorter to India and Thailand,
where they presented a series of
courses and performances. In
1998, students traveled to Chile,
Argentina and Peru, where they
performed before 34 heads of
state at the Summit of the
Americas. Institute instructors
lead the students in community
outreach programs in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles
and other locations.
At the USC School of Music,
the institute’s students will enroll
as Thelonious Monk Institute fellows. Like other USC jazz students, they will earn a certificate
diploma or a bachelor’s, master’s
or doctoral degree.
Larry Livingston, dean of the
School of Music, believes the
institute’s move to USC will further establish the university at
the forefront of jazz education.
“It will afford an opportunity for
artistic synergy at the highest
level between faculty and students,” he said.
Shelly Berg, chairman of the
jazz studies program, agrees: “As
these fine young musicians tour
worldwide, they’ll be associated
not only with Monk but also with
USC. When they start their solo
careers, they’ll always carry that
USC connection with them.”
USC’s jazz studies program
boasts many well-known musicians among its faculty members,
including John Clayton, John
Thomas, Ndugu Chancler, Jeff
Hamilton, Thom Mason and
Bruce Eskovitz. Alumni of the
program include Herb Alpert,
Lionel Hampton, Patrice Rushen,
Lee Ritenour, Tom Scott, Billy
Childs, Charles Owens, Bruce
Eskovitz, Larry Koonse, Tim
Emmons, Donald Vega and John
Thomas.
“The USC School of Music has
a long-standing reputation as
one of the most vibrant music
schools in the world,” Livingston
noted.
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance first
opened in 1995 at the New
England Conservatory of Music
and graduated its first class in
1997.
The institute is already a major
presence in the Los Angeles jazz
scene. Last year, it joined forces
with the Los Angeles Music Center
to increase jazz performances at
the center’s downtown arts complex and elsewhere in Los Angeles
County. The first year of the institute’s Los Angeles program has
included a major concert, a lecture-concert series on the history
of jazz and an expansion of the
program’s public schools program
called Jazz Sports LA, as well as
seminars and symposiums. Herbie
Hancock is artistic director of the
Music Center program. ■
Molecular Marker May Help Identify Bladder
Cancer Patients Who Are Likely to Relapse
by Eva Emerson
A USC STUDY SHOWS that a
molecular test may indicate which
patients with locally advanced
bladder cancer will most likely
have the cancer recur and which
will be cured following surgery.
Reporting in the July 15
Journal of the National Cancer
Institute, John P. Stein, Richard J.
Cote and colleagues at the USC/
Norris Comprehensive Cancer
Center show that patients with
tumors that express low levels of
the tumor suppressor protein p21
are more likely to relapse and die
from the disease than those with
elevated p21 levels.
“Our findings should help us
to determine which patients will
most likely benefit from continuing treatment after surgery, and
which patients could be spared its
toxic side effects,” said Stein,
assistant professor of urology.
The publication marks the
USC/Norris team’s latest work in
the emerging field of molecular
diagnostics. By focusing on the
nature of genetic changes in cancer cells and how these changes
relate to the clinical course of disease, scientists have begun to
forge new tools that may be used
to predict how an individual will
respond to treatment.
Stein and Cote studied 242
men and women, aged 49 to 83,
who had surgery to remove the
bladder after being diagnosed
with locally confined cancer.
Participants were followed for an
average of 8.5 years. Researchers
analyzed bladder tumor tissue
using antibodies specific to the
p21 protein and tested for alterations in the expression of the p53
tumor suppressor protein.
Scientists found that 36 percent of tumors were p21 negative
and 64 percent p21 positive.
Patients with p21-positive tumors
survived disease-free significantly
longer than those patients with
p21-negative tumors. Those in
the latter group had a higher risk
of recurrence and poorer overall
survival, independent of other
predictors.
About 50,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer each
year.
In general, tumor suppressor
genes and proteins regulate the
cell division cycle, acting as
brakes on tumor cell growth. The
p21 protein interacts with other
proteins, including other tumor
suppressors such as p53, to control
when and how the cell replicates.
If p21 is not present, this critical
growth checkpoint disappears,
allowing the cell to divide in an
uncontrolled fashion.
Earlier work by USC researchers has shown that tumors
in bladder cancer patients with
alterations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene are more likely to
recur or progress to metastatic disease. In addition, p53 is known to
be a primary regulator of p21,
since genetic changes in p53 may
lead to loss of p21 expression and
function. This in turn leads to
unregulated cell growth, and is
thought to contribute to the aggressive behavior of some tumors.
Importantly, researchers in
this study found that some
patients with dysfunctional p53
are able to maintain p21 expression. These patients show similar
rates of recurrence and survival as
patients with normal p53 and p21.
“We reasoned that if p21 is
expressed despite alterations in
p53, then cell cycle control might
be maintained and the tumors
would be less likely to progress,”
said Cote, associate professor of
pathology and urology.
In the future, molecular markers will let doctors manage
patients with a clearer idea of the
benefits of treatment in that individual, Stein said. “This repre-
sents a great advantage to physicians and patients,” he said.
To help move molecular diagnostics from the research lab to
the clinic, Cote and Stein are
leading a multi-center, randomized clinical trial using p53-status
in tumor cells and other molecular markers like p21 to guide
treatment decisions in bladder
cancer patients – one of the first
of its kind. ■
“Effect of p21(WAF1/CIP1) Expression on Tumor Progression
in Bladder Cancer” by John P.
Stein, David A. Ginsberg, Gary
D. Grossfeld, Sunanda J.
Chatterjee, David Esrig, Ming
G. Dickinson, Susan Groshen,
Clive R. Taylor, Peter A. Jones,
Donald G. Skinner and Richard
J. Cote. Journal of the National
Cancer Institute. Vol. 90, No. 14,
July 15, 1998.
Richard J. Cote, associate professor of pathology and urology, above, and John
P. Stein, assistant professor of urology, studied 242 men and women who had
surgery to remove the bladder after being diagnosed with cancer.
A Small Pouch Makes a Big Difference in the Life of One Little Girl
Megan Hickey went waterskiing for the first time this summer.
While a sixth-grader struggling to master skis on a lake may seem like ordinary summer fun, Megan
is no ordinary kid. Just being able to put on a swimsuit without the external urine collection bag she
had to wear most of her life was an unprecedented freedom.
This new freedom comes thanks to a Kock pouch, a surgically created makeshift bladder fashioned
for Megan at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center one year ago by Donald Skinner, professor
and chair of the department of urology. Skinner holds the Hanson-White Chair in Medical Research.
A pioneer of this procedure, Skinner has performed countless Kock pouches, but Megan’s surgery
was only the second time he performed it on a child.
The pouch means Megan – who lost her bladder to a form of bladder cancer known as rhabdomysocarcenoma – is free from an external urine collection bag for the first time since she was 3 years old.
“She’s doing wonderfully,” Skinner said after Megan’s recent one-year checkup. “Basically, she is
now able to do all normal activities without anyone knowing she is any different.”
Megan was never the kind of kid to let something like an external bag slow her down. She has given
her time generously to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. And even before the summer 1997
operation, she was an avid swimmer, softball player and junior championship golfer. But with the tough
social world of junior high approaching, the Kock pouch gives Megan the chance to blend in with other
kids who sometimes ask tough and insensitive questions.
“It’s been very tough,” said Megan’s mom, Jill Hickey. “I think right now her quality of life overall is
so much better. Her spirit is fabulous.” ■
– Phil Davis
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Rossier School: 90 Years of Education Innovation
This retrospective on the School of Education is part of an
ongoing series marking the USC History Project.
by Meg Sullivan
IN 1876, private schools were so
popular with Los Angeles’s
minuscule population that the
city’s board of education met to
consider discontinuing its lone
public high school.
Not that it would have been
such a terrible loss: The high
school only stayed open until
12:15 p.m. each day since,
according to an unpublished thesis from 1940, “The principal in
his capacity of city superintendent needed to visit the other
schools.”
But the tables turned when
the city, with a population that
swelled from 11,000 to 70,000
between 1880 and 1888, then
plunged into a depression. With
so many parents unable to send
their children to private schools,
enrollment in Los Angeles high
schools soared to 600 students.
As the Los Angeles public
school system struggled to cope
with the growth spurt, it found a
ready partner in the faculty of a
Hentschke, the dean of the USC
Rossier School of Education.
Over the next year, the
school’s faculty and administrators will be developing a strategic
plan to decide the best use of a
$20 million gift from longtime
supporters Barbara and Roger
Rossier, in whose honor USC’s
School of Education was recently
renamed. But school officials
know that they will not stray
from the school’s traditional allegiance to urban schools.
“It is urban areas, impacted
by tremendous
demographic
The school that is perhaps best-known
t r a n s f o rm a t i o n ,
that require new
for preparing administrators has more and better curricula, approaches
graduates working as superintendents
to teaching, faculty, retention sysof schools than any other American
tems and outreach programs,”
college or university.
Hentschke said.
In remaining
true
to
the
“Just as they were nearly a school’s roots, school officials will
hundred years ago, our students be tapping a proud history
are the leaders in redefining qual- indeed. By the school’s calculaity and excellence in urban edu- tion, USC has conferred more
cation today,” said Guilbert C. than a quarter-million degrees on
professionals who have helped
Southern California become a
Waite Phillips was an
industrialist, philanthropist and humanitarian whose bequest to
the school assured construction of a new
building, which was
named in his honor.
fledgling university that had
been founded just a decade
earlier.
In 1896, USC founded a
department of pedagogy, which
then evolved into a department
of education in 1909; by then, the
city’s high school population
exceeded 1,500.
Now 90 years later, the USC
Rossier School of Education is
still helping schools cope with a
student population that is not
only increasingly poor but increasing outright.
ly as an adjunct at her
alma mater, Andrus
went on to found the
National Association of
Retired Persons. USC’s
Andrus Gerontology
Center, a research institute for aging, is named
in her honor.
national trend-setter in the areas
of educational policy, institutional finance, applied technology
and urban educational partnerships.
In fact, the school that is perhaps best-known for preparing
administrators has more graduates working as superintendents
of schools than any other
American college or university.
Notable graduates include
Ethel Percy Andrus, Ph.D., 1930.
A local high school principal for
20 years who taught intermittent-
THE SCHOOL has produced two best-selling
authors.
Leo Buscaglia, an
education professor for 20 years
at the school, burst on the scene
in fall 1969 with Love 1A,
a self-actualization course based
on the premise that love leads
people gently back to themselves. The course earned
Buscaglia the title of “Teacher of
the Year” and begot Love, the
first in a long series of best-sellers, including Personhood, Loving
Each Other and Fall of Freddie the
Leaf. Buscaglia – known internationally as “The Love Doctor”
and “Dr. Hug” – died this sumcontinued on page 7
Waite Phillips Hall – still sporting part of the scaffolding – as it nears completion, December 1967. The building was dedicated on May 17, 1968.
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Far left, Guilbert C. Hentschke,
dean of the Rossier School of
Education, with John B. Orr in
front of bronze plaques of
past education deans. Orr
served as dean of the school
from 1981 to 1988, when
Hentschke was named to the
post.
Below, Thomas Blanchard
Stowell was chairman of the
department of education in
1909; in 1918 he was named
Highlights in 90-Year History of
USC’s Rossier School of Education
• 1896 – USC’s College of Liberal Arts founds a department of pedagogy under the chairmanship of James
Harmon Hoose.
• 1909 – The College of Liberal Arts founds a department of education under the chairmanship of Thomas
Blanchard Stowell.
• 1911 – California Department of Education grants USC
the right to confer high school teaching certificates.
USC was the first institution in Southern California and
the third in the state to be so accredited.
Education’s History
mer at 74.
Laurence J. Peter, hired in
1965 to teach about learning disabilities, developed the humorous analysis of administrative
stultification The Peter Principle in
1969 while on faculty at the
university. His success, which
included the 1972 publication of
a sequel called The Peter Prescription, eventually took him out of
the university world.
The school also can take
credit for initiating several
important university-wide traditions. The origins of USC’s summer session can be traced back to
teachers and administrators seeking to further their education
during their summer breaks.
Thomas Blanchard Stowell, the
school’s first dean, persuaded the
university first to offer master’s
degrees and then to establish a
defined graduate program. And
no formal career placement
services had been offered on
• 1918 – USC establishes the School of Education;
campus until the founding in
1917 of USC’s Teachers’
Appointment Registry.
No wonder a standing-roomonly crowd of faculty, staff, students, alumni and other supporters recently gathered in front of
the school for an anniversary celebration, including a rousing
round of Happy Birthday to You
with the Trojan Marching Band.
“Our history really reflects the
history of this university and of
public education and society in
general,” Hentschke said. “We
have always been a private institution with a public purpose. It’s
a proud history.”
EVEN THOUGH USC had established a department of pedagogy
13 years earlier, the Rossier
School of Education traces its
beginnings to the 1909 founding
of the department of education
under Stowell, who had come to
USC after heading a school for
teachers in New York.
Two years later, the California
Among the school’s notable graduates is Ethel Percy Andrus, who received her
Ph.D. in 1930, then taught as an adjunct. She went on to found the National
Association of Retired Persons. USC’s Andrus Gerontology Center – a research
insitute for aging – is named in her honor.
Stowell serves as founding dean.
• 1920 – Lester Burton Rogers assumes the deanship.
• 1923 – School of Education awards its first bachelor of
science in education (B.S. in Ed.) degree.
• 1928 – School of Education awards its first doctor of
education (Ed.D.) degree.
• 1946 – Osman R. Hull is named dean of the school.
• 1953 – Irving R. Melbo is named dean.
Department of Education granted USC the right to confer high
school teaching certificates, thus
becoming the third institution in
the state (behind Stanford and
UC Berkeley) and the first in
Southern California to become so
accredited, according to a 1930
Los Angeles Times article.
Originally, USC’s department
of education was part of the
College of Liberal Arts, the predecessor to today’s College of
Letters, Arts and Science, but
Stowell lobbied successfully for
the establishment of a separate
school of education in 1918.
The following year, the first
USC alum became superintendent of the Los Angeles school
system. She couldn’t have known
it at the time, but 1920 honorary LL.D. recipient Susan M.
Dorsey was about to start a proud
tradition. With the exception of a
four-year period between 1948
and 1954, USC alumni would
hold a lock on the job for the next
50 years, according to an unpublished 1970 doctoral dissertation
on the school’s early history.
After retiring from the deanship, Stowell donated his books
to the school, providing the seeds
for the school’s library, now one of
the nation’s largest education collections, with more than 153,900
volumes.
In 1920, Lester Burton
Rogers, a graduate of Columbia
University’s teachers college on
leave from Lawrence College in
Appleton, Wis., became the
school’s second dean. The school
gave its first bachelor of science
degree in 1923 and its first doctorate of education in 1928.
Before 1928, the school had oper-
• 1954 – School of Education combines resources with the
John Tracy Clinic to train teachers of hearing-impaired
children.
• 1968 – Waite Philllips Hall of Education is dedicated.
• 1974 – Stephen J. Knezevich assumes the deanship.
• 1974 – Irving R. Melbo Chair in Education is established.
• 1981 – John B. Orr is named dean.
• 1983 – Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Education
is established.
• 1986 – Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum Theory is
established.
• 1987 – In partnership with the USC Division of External Relations and the USC School of Social Work, the
School of Education launches the Inter-Professional
Initiative (now commonly known as the Family of Five
Schools).
• 1987 –Stephen Crocker Professorship in Education is
established.
• 1988 – Guilbert C. Hentschke is named dean.
• 1995 – Center for Teaching and Learning through
Multimedia is established in partnership with the
Education Telecommunication Network, a telecommunication service of the Los Angeles County Office of
Education.
• 1995 – Emery Stoops and Joyce King-Stoops Dean’s
Chair in Education is established.
• 1996 – Fahmy Attallah, Ph.D., and Donna Attallah
Chair in Humanistic Psychology is established.
• 1998 – Leslie Wilbur and Norma Lash Wilbur-Evelyn
Kieffer Professorship in Higher Education is established.
• 1998 – School of Education is named in honor of
Barbara J. and Roger W. Rossier.
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20 Years of Conserving L.A.
Calendar
Signorile, Reporting to Taper Hall
Writer Michelangelo Signorile speaks
at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5.
If spin is to be believed, writer Michelangelo
Signorile is an odd amalgam of contradictory
traits. Gossip columnist Liz Smith once called
him a “terrorist.” Hollywood power broker
David Geffen: “fascist.” Others have heaped
on epithets ranging from “queer radical” and
“leftist ideologue” to “Puritan” and member of
“the new gay right.” Although it’s possible that
one man could be all these and more, it’s not
terribly likely. But you can decide for yourself
when Signorile – the author of Queer in America:
Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power and, most
recently, Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay
Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles and the Passages of Life –
delivers the keynote address for National Coming Out
Week, “Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power.” The
three “closets of power” Signorile discusses are
Washington politics, the New York media and the
Hollywood entertainment industry, all of which he
believes are keeping gay people invisible in American
society. His talk also addresses some of the challenges
that lesbian and gay college students face when coming
out in the 1990s. Signorile speaks at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct.
5, in Room 301 of the Taper Hall of the Humanities. The
event is co-sponsored by the USC’s Unruh Institute of
Politics and the Gay, Lesbian and Bi Assembly.
Admission is free. For another National Coming Out
Week event, see the “Unruh Institute of Politics and
Lambda Grads” listing below. For more information, call
the Unruh Institute of Politics at 740-8964 .
In some ways Los Angeles may be the epitome of a
20th century throw-away culture, but the city does
have a history. And at least one organization has been
working to preserve its heritage. The Los Angeles
Conservancy, the largest member-supported local historic preservation group in the nation, is celebrating its
20th anniversary of preservation efforts with a special
afternoon of activities at the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum. These include: children’s kite-decorating
and kite-flying; guided tours of the Coliseum; food
tasting from historic L.A. restaurants; music; and a
silent auction of anniversary banners by acclaimed
artists and architects, including Laddie John Dill,
Frank Romero, Tim Street-Porter, Nancy Powers and
Brian Murphy. Admission to the event – which takes
place Sunday, Oct. 11, from noon to 4 p.m. – is $25;
for conservancy members, $20; children under 12, free.
Food-tasting vouchers are sold separately at the event.
For more information and to purchase tickets, call 8969114 or 623-2489.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Saturday, Oct. 10, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.: USC
Monday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. and 12:30
p.m.: Natural History Museum
Children’s Program. “Fine Feathered
Friends” is an opportunity for youngsters (between ages 3 and 5) to learn
what makes a bird of prey different
from other birds. Also included: stories, bird activities and a special tour of
the new “Hunters of the Sky” exhibit
with Paulette Heath, L.A. Zoo educator. The 10 a.m. program is for 3-yearolds; the 12:30 p.m., for 4- and 5-yearolds. Natural History Museum, 900
Exposition Blvd., Exposition Park.
General admission for adult/child
pairs: $25; $20 for museum members.
(763-3534)
“Successful Aging: An
Interdisciplinary Approach” brings
together health-care professionals from
a multitude of disciplines, all of whom
have a common goal – to provide quality care that promotes successful and
healthy living during the golden years.
The keynote speakers are Florence
Clark (occupational science and occupational therapy), discussing “The Art
of Successful Aging: How to Sculpt a
Meaningful Life in Older Adulthood”;
Leslie Blackhall (Pacific Center for
Health Policy and Ethics), discussing
“Ethics and Aging”; and Matthew
Guidry (U.S. Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion),
discussing “Staying Healthy by
Staying Active.” The symposium
leaders are Roseanne Mulligan (dental
medicine and public health) and
Bradley R. Williams (clinical pharmacy
and clinical gerontology). During the
afternoon, a case-study format promotes an interdisciplinary approach to
some of the complex problems that
interfere with successful aging, including frailty, dementia and stroke.
Doubletree Guest Suites, 1707 Fourth
St., Santa Monica. Admission: $100 for
health-care professionals; $30 for college students with current ID. (323442-2403)
Symposium on Successful Aging.
Monday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.: Unruh Institute of Politics and Lesbian, Gay
and Bi Assembly . See “Signorile”
UFO – Unusual Fiction Orator – at Doheny
Larry Niven has enjoyed a prolific career since his first
story, “The Coldest Palace,” was published in 1964. The
winner of several prestigious Hugos for achievement in
science fiction writing, Niven has also received the coveted Nebula award for Ringworld and is considered one of
the few writers, among them Bradbury and Asimov, who
have elevated the genre to an art form. Appearing at USC
on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at Doheny Memorial Library – in
the second Literary Luncheon of the 1998-99 season –
Niven discusses his Ringworld series, Destiny’s Road,
Lucifer’s Hammer and a work in progress. (Incidentally,
Niven is the grandson – his mother, the daughter – of the
library’s namesake.) Lunch is from 11:30 a.m., the author
speaks at 12:30 p.m., and the book signing is at 1:15. Cost
of lunch is $30; the lecture and signing are free. To RSVP
or for more information, call 740-2543.
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highlight.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11:30 a.m.: Literary
Luncheon. See “UFO” highlight.
Thursday, Oct. 8, 4 p.m.: Unruh
Institute of Politics and Lambda
Grads. Kenneth Sherrill (City
University of New York), author of The
Political Power of Lesbians, Gays and
Bisexuals, presents “Coming Out and
Strengthening American Democracy,”
a talk based on the premise that “one
measure of the successful functioning
of a democratic system is its ability to
incorporate the least of its citizens”
and that one consequence of lesbian,
gay and bisexual people coming out –
even though it may not be the motivating reason for doing so – is that
American democracy is made stronger.
For information about a related
National Coming Out Week event,
see the “Signorile” highlight above.
Von KleinSmid Center, Rm. 156.
Free. (740-8964 or 318-2950)
Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon: Trojan
Family Day. USC vs. California football, Leavey Library tours and pregame party – with guest appearances
by Traveler, the Trojan Marching
Band, yell leaders and song girls.
Alumni Memorial Park, Leavey Library
and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Call for admissions. (740-2300)
Sunday, Oct. 11, noon - 4 p.m.: Los
Angeles Conservancy 20th Anniversary. See highlight for more.
WORKSHOPS
Monday, Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m.: Small
Business Workshops. USC’s Business
Expansion Network (BEN) hosts a
series of Monday evening workshops
for local small-business owners, beginning with “Import/Export: The Keys
to Success,” a workshop on getting
started in international trade, led by
business analyst Howard Krisvoy, USC
BEN. The first half of the workshop
focuses on importing; the second half,
on TradePort, an export information
site on the World Wide Web. Suite I of
the University Village Shopping
Center, 3375 S. Hoover Blvd.
Admission, per workshop: $25 in
advance, $30 at the door. Sign up for
three workshops and attend a fourth
free of charge. (743-1726)
Tuesday, Oct. 6, noon: Tuesdays at
Fisher. In conjunction with the
“Robert Farber: A Retrospective”
exhibit, Mario Davila leads a children’s education workshop on making
collages. Refreshments served. Please
RSVP. For more on Farber, see gallery
listing. Fisher Gallery, 823 Exposition
Blvd. Free. (740-4561)
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1 p.m.: Norris Medical
Library Workshops. “Transitional
Ovid Medline” Wednesday, Oct. 7,
noon: “Unix Account Activation
Session.” Thursday, Oct. 8, 1 p.m.:
“Basic World Wide Web.” Pre-registration is required. Microcomputer classroom on the upper level of the Norris
Medical Library, 2003 Zonal Ave.
Free. (323-442-1968)
Through the semester: Adventures in
Information. Organized by USC’s
Information Services Division, these
ongoing classes and workshops cover
topics such as orientation; operating
systems and productivity tools; math
and statistics; Internet tools; World
Wide Web publishing; new directions
on the Web; power research; and special topics in research. For a detailed
schedule, pick up a pamphlet in one
of the libraries or visit the Web page at
http://www.usc.edu/adventures.
Locations vary. Free. (740-8823)
LECTURES, SEMINARS &
CONFERENCES
Tuesday, Oct. 6, noon: Cancer Center
Grand Rounds. Bruce J. Roth
(Indiana University Medical Center)
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discusses “Innovation in Prostate
Cancer.” Norris Comprehensive
Cancer Center, Topping Tower, 1441
Eastlake Ave., Rm. 7410. Free. (323865-0800)
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 12:30 p.m.: Center for
International Studies. Speaker:
Stephan Haggard (UC San Diego),
director of the Institute of Global
Conflict and Cooperation. Social
Sciences Building, Rm. B-40. Free.
(740-0800)
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2:30 p.m.: Harbor
Terrace Discussion Series. “Diversity
Is Worth Keeping: Damn the
Developers” by John L. Mohr (biological sciences). Harbor Terrace
Retirement Center, 435 W. Eighth St.,
San Pedro. Free. (310-547-0090)
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 8:30 a.m.: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Lecture. Michael Koss (pathology)
presents “Pulmonary Vasculitis.”
General Hospital, 1200 N. State St.,
Rm. 11-321. Free. (226-7923)
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m.: Birnkrant
Economic Development Seminar.
C.V.S.K. Sarma (economics) leads a
discussion of “Efficiency, Equity and
Environmental Protection in
India.”Kaprielian Hall, Rm. 319. Free.
(740-2108)
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m.:
Neuroscience Seminar Series. Harry
Lester (Caltech) discusses
“Pathophysiological Principles in Ion
Channel Diseases.” Reception follows. Hedco Neuroscience
Auditorium. Free. (740-9176)
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m.:
Architecture Lecture. Donald
Hensman, FAIA, on “Defining
Spaces: Fifty Years of Inspired
Residential Design.” Harris Hall, Rm.
101. Free. (740-2097)
Thursday, Oct. 8, noon: Andrus
Gerontology Center Colloquium.
Carl Renold (Distance Learning
Programs) discusses “Innovations on
the Information Super Highway in
Health, Behavior and Aging.” Andrus
Gerontology Center, Rm. 224. Free.
(740-8242)
Thursday, Oct. 8, noon: USC Research
Center for Liver Disease Seminar.
Michael Lieber (pathology and molecular biology) discusses “Gene Repair.”
Ambulatory Healthcare Center
Auditorium, 1355 San Pablo St., Rm.
102. Free. (323-442-1168)
Friday, Oct. 9, 11 a.m.: Hematology
Conference. Ira Shulman (pathology)
presents “Clinical and Laboratory
Manifestations of Autoimmune
Hemolytic Anemia.” General
Hospital, 1200 N. State St., Rm. 7441.
Free. (764-3913)
Friday, Oct.9, 3 p.m.: Geography
Colloquium. John Landis (UC
Berkeley) discusses “New Approaches
to Modeling Urban Growth and Its
Impacts in California.” Refreshments
provided. Kaprielian Hall, Rm. 417.
Free. (740-0050)
FILM & PERFORMING ARTS
Thursday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.: Thursday
Cinematheque. Filmmaker Isaac
Julien speaks and presents his new
film, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin/White
Mask, as part of the ongoing series from
the School of Cinema-TV’s critical
studies division. Lucas Instructional
Building, Rm. 108. Free. (740-3334)
Friday, Oct. 9, 7, 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.:
DKA Film. The Horse Whisperer stars
Kristin Scott Thomas and director
Robert Redford. Norris Cinema
Theatre. Admission: $3. (740-1945)
Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m.: Saturday
Explorer Series. See photo caption
right.
Daily through Oct. 15: IMAX Theater.
Big mammals on an even bigger
screen. Africa’s Elephant Kingdom –
written, directed and produced by
Michael Caulfield – tells the story of
an elephant family in Kenya’s
Amboseli National Park. When
drought threatens their survival, the
matriarch Torn Ear must lead them in
search of dwindling food and water. A
portion of the proceeds go to Save the
Elephants. Also playing is Into the
Deep, a three-dimensional glimpse into
the kelp forests of the Pacific. A 3-D
animated short precedes each showing
of Into the Deep. Show times: Africa’s
Elephant Kingdom, noon, 2, 4, 6 and 8
p.m.; Into the Deep, 10 and 11 a.m., 1, 3,
5 and 7 p.m. IMAX Theater,
California Science Center, 700 State
Drive, Exposition Park. Admission (2D) is $6.25 for adults, $4.75 for students 13 and older with a valid ID,
$4.25 for seniors 60 and older, and
$3.75 for children 4 to 12; admission
(3-D) is $7.25, $5.75, $5.25, and $4.75,
respectively. (744-2014; for groups and
advance bookings, 744-2019)
Through Sunday, Nov. 8: 24th Street
Theatre. Hidden in the archives of
its publisher’s library for over six
decades, The Great Magoo is the work
of Ben Hecht, two-time Academy
Award-winning screenwriter, and
Gene Fowler, a noted writer and poet.
In the authors’ own words: “Despite
the multitude of eccentric comedians,
whiskey tenors, trained animals, dancing tootsies, stooges and ragtime
bands, it was composed in the vein of
the classics ... a drama full of passion
and birdcalls – something like Romeo
and Juliet.” The Great Magoo, set on
the back stages of vaudeville theaters
and on the streets in and around
Coney Island, follows the unlikely
love between an up-and-coming
singer-comedienne and a barker for a
boardwalk hoochie-coochie attraction.
In this production, award-winning
director Stephanie Shroyer casts
Hecht and Fowler as characters in
their own play and, using the playwright’s own notes on their characters’
quirky motivations, creates an intriguing story within the story. Show times:
Thursday through Saturday, 8 p.m.;
Sunday, 3 p.m. The 24th Street
Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St. in North
University Park, just west of Hoover.
General admission: $15; seniors
and students, $9. (323-667-0417
On Saturday, Oct. 10, at 1 p.m., husband-and-wife team Blue Palm – Jackie
Planeix and Tom Crocker – explore “The Five Senses” while juggling comedy,
dance and text. The “Saturday Explorer Series,” 16 free productions geared
toward children, youth and their families, is presented by the 24th Street
Theatre and the Glorious Repertory Company, its resident family theater company, through a grant from USC Neighborhood Outreach. No two Saturdays are
alike. The 24th Street Theatre is at 1117 W. 24th St. in North University Park, just
west of Hoover. Reservations are required; call 745-6516.
for ticket reservations; 745-6516 for
directions/box office)
MUSIC
Wednesday, Oct. 7, noon: Music at
Noon. Weekly recital series showcasing some of the finest soloists and
ensembles from the School of Music.
Refreshments and a pizza lunch provided. United University Church.
Free. (740-3224)
Thursday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.: SC Jazz at
Ground Zero. Weekly jazz performances resume for the fall semester.
Ground Zero coffee house, next to
Pardee Tower. Free. (740-3119)
EXHIBITS
Monday, Oct. 12, through Friday, Oct.
30: Helen Lindhurst Architecture
Gallery, Verle Annis Gallery and
Watt Hall 1. USC School of
Architecture mid-term presentations
and reviews. Watt Hall, second floor;
Harris Hall, first floor; and Watt Hall,
lower level, respectively. Gallery
hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Free. (740-2097)
Through Sunday, Oct. 18: Getty
Research Institute. Robbert Flick
(fine arts) creates photo-mosaics from
hundreds of images, distilled from
dozens of videotaped hours. Some of
his work, together with related pieces
by photographer Allan Sekula, is on
exhibit at the Getty Research Institute
for the History of Art and the
Humanities in “Port and Corridor:
Working Sites in Los Angeles –
Photographs by Robbert Flick and
Allan Sekula,” curated by Moira
Kenney. Getty Research Institute, J.
Paul Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center
Drive. Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. to
9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sundays.
Admission: free, but parking is $5 and
parking reservations are required.
(310-440-7300)
Through Sunday, Oct. 25: USC Hillel
Gallery . “Jerry Novorr’s Variations
on the Mogen David” – 20 pieces
on exhibit at USC’s Hillel Gallery –
explores Jewish themes and illustrate biblical stories in several
media; the variations on the Mogen
David, also known as the Star of
David or the Shield of David,
include paper cuts, leaded glass,
paper sculptures and metal sculptures. Hillel Gallery, Hillel Jewish
Center, 3300 S. Hoover Blvd.
Gallery hours: Monday through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. (747-9135)
Through Sunday, Nov. 8: 24th Street
Theatre Gallery. “Still Lives,” an
exhibit of Bill Brewer’s photographs,
features black-and-white and alternative-process images made between
1984 and 1997. A USC alumnus,
Brewer is a commercial photographer
working in Los Angeles. “As with
many commercial photographers,”
says Irene Fertik, who curated the
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TOURS
show along with Adam Avila and Bob
Douglas, “he has really let loose with
his personal vision.” Viewing hours:
Thursday through Saturday, 6 to 8 p.m.;
and Sunday, 1 to 3 p.m.; other times
can be arranged by appointment. 1117
W. 24th St. in North University Park,
just west of Hoover. Free. (745-6516)
Through Friday, Dec. 11: Clinical
Sciences Center. Representing the
first collaboration between Fisher
Gallery and the Institute for Genetic
Medicine, a satellite exhibit of Robert
Farber silk-screens is on view. For
more on Farber, see “Fisher Gallery”
listing. Hours: Monday through Friday,
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Clinical Sciences
Center, Health Sciences Campus, 2250
Alcazar. Free. (323-442-1144)
Through Saturday, Dec. 12: Fisher
Gallery. “Robert Farber: A
Retrospective,” organized by the
Robert D. Farber Foundation at the
artist’s bequest. This compelling
exhibit of the life work of New York
artist Robert Farber moves from his
early and impersonal (by his own
assessment) abstractions, influenced
by landscapes, to images of his
impending death from AIDS.
Included in the latter category is the
Western Blot series, where Farber juxtaposes the medieval experience of the
Black Death with that of AIDS today;
these mixed media constructions –
Masonite and wood panels painted
and collaged with photographic
images and text, framed by cornices,
gilt frames and Gothic arches – bear
poignant witness to both epidemics,
growing more and more personal as
Farber’s own T-cell count declines.
Farber’s last pieces explore the alternating hope and despair of his last
days. Fisher Gallery hours: noon to 5
p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. Fisher
Gallery, Harris Hall, 823 Exposition
Blvd. Free. (740-4561)
Through Sunday, Jan. 3 : Natural
History Museum. “Hunters of the
Sky” is an interactive, multimedia
exhibit exploring birds of prey.
Natural History Museum, 900
Exposition Blvd., Exposition Park.
Special exhibit admission: adults, $8;
students and seniors, $5.50; children 5
to 12, $2; free the first Tuesday of
every month and for children under 5.
Museum hours: Monday through
Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday
and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (763DINO or 763-3534 for programs and
workshops)
S P O RT S
Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m.: Men’s
Water Polo. California. A Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation match.
McDonald’s Olympic Swim Stadium.
Admission prices vary, call. (740-8444)
Saturday, Oct. 10, 3:30 p.m.: Football.
California. Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum. Admission: $25. (740GOSC)
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The Rossier School of Education’s 90 Years of History
Friday, Oct. 9, through Sunday, Oct.
11, 1-5 p.m.: The Blacker House .
Thirteen years after the infamous
removal of more than 50 of its components, the Robert R. Blacker House –
the first “ultimate bungalow” by
renowned Arts and Crafts architects
Charles and Henry Greene – is open
for self-guided public tours, with volunteers stationed throughout the
house to answer questions. Now a
preservation success story, this 12,000square-foot, 1907 master work has
been thoroughly restored; the project
– including a total cleaning of wood
beams and rafters, the replacement of
exterior shingles and the meticulous
re-creation and replacement of handcrafted lighting fixtures – was undertaken by current owners Harvey and
Ellen Knell in consultation with
Randell L. Makinson. Proceeds from
“Rebirth of a Landmark: The Robert
R. Blacker House of Greene and
Greene” benefit another Greene and
Greene landmark – the Gamble
House, USC. Next weekend, Oct. 1618, is the last time in the foreseeable
future that the house (a private residence) will be open to the public.
Last entry is half an hour before closing. General admission: $30 at the
door; senior/student, $25; children
under 12, with an adult, free. Call for
details about parking, the free shuttle
and house rules. (740-TOUR)
Gamble House . Maintained by USC
and the city of Pasadena, the Gamble
House (1908) is the most complete
and best preserved Arts and Crafts
masterpiece by renowned architects
Henry and Charles Greene. Last
admission one hour before closing.
Call for hours and information on
docent-led tours. 4 Westmoreland
Place, Pasadena. Admission: $5, $4,
$3. (626-793-3334)
Hancock Memorial Museum .
Designed after the Villa de’ Medici
and built in 1909, the Hancock mansion once graced the corner of
Wilshire and Vermont. The museum
is in the east wing of USC’s Allan
Hancock Building, Trousdale at
Childs Way. Open tours are on the
third Wednesday of every month. On
the other days, tours are by appointment only, Monday through
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission: $4, $3, $2, free for children
12 and under. (740-5144)
Cinema Complex. Weekly tours of
the Cinema-Television Center
Complex and state-of-the-art facilities
such as the Steven Spielberg Scoring
Stage, Lucas Instructional Building
and Harold Lloyd Motion Picture
Sound Stage, Fridays, 2 p.m. Tours
begin on the loading dock, 850 W.
34th St. Reservations requested for
groups of six or more. Free. (740-2893)
USC Campus. Hour-long walking
tours of the 118-year-old University
Park Campus start from the
Admissions Center, Trojan Hall.
Weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Reservations requested for large
groups. Free. (740-6616) ■
ated University High School, a
prep school that served as a
teaching school for USC students. In 1928, the school also
started sending its student teachers to local city schools – a tradition that continues.
During World War II, the
school faced yet another shortage
of educators. As early as 1942, the
school was preparing to train
“new teachers and administrators
to replace those called . . . away
by government, military and
industrial establishments,” according to the 1970 doctoral thesis by Leon Levitt, who went on
to become a professor in the
school.
AFTER THE WAR, USC’s education school geared up for yet
another growth spurt as returning
GIs started settling en masse in
Southern California. From July 1,
1949, to June 30, 1950, the state
Department of Education issued
799 credentials to teachers and
administrators who had been recommended by USC, according to
a 1950 alumni publication. That
was more than twice the number
of any other university in the
state, the Southern California
Alumni Report stated.
As housing tracts replaced
agricultural acreage in Orange
and Riverside counties, the San
Fernando and San Gabriel valleys and the Inland Empire, the
school’s alumni helped launch
waves of suburban school districts. As the alumni’s influence
blanketed Southern California,
so it spread throughout the state
Department of Education. In a
1950 alumni magazine article,
Osman Hull, dean of the School
of Education from 1946 to 1953,
recalled having attended a state
Commission of Education meeting. Among appointees to influential statewide jobs, nearly
three-quarters were Trojans.
“I was almost embarrassed,”
Hull confessed.
And that was before what the
school remembers as “The
Melbo Years” – the near-mythic
tenure of Irving R. Melbo, a former deputy superintendent and
director of curriculum for
Oakland’s school system who
served as dean from 1953 to 1973.
THE MELBO YEARS
“It was really under Melbo
that the school attained national
prominence,” said John Orr, an
emeritus professor of religion and
Hentschke’s immediate predecessor as the school’s dean.
In the six years after Melbo
become dean, the number of faculty members rose from 67 to its
all-time peak of 90. Offerings at
the school also became increasingly specialized. In a measure of
the school’s growing
influence in educational counseling and
psychology, the Veterans Administration
established at the
school a now-defunct
counseling center for
returning Korean veterans.
In 1954, the school
allied with the John
Tracy Clinic to provide training for
teachers of the hearing impaired; the relationship continues
today. During this
period the school
launched
special
offerings for school
administrators and
superintendents – thrusts that
also remain strengths.
Under Melbo’s watch, the
School of Education, which had
shared facilities with other academic units, got its own home. In
1968, the school dedicated Waite
Phillips Hall, named after the
Oklahoma oil tycoon whose
bequest funded the construction.
Also under Melbo, a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval
Reserve, the school became one
of the nation’s premier trainers of
teachers at Department of
Defense schools at military bases
in Europe and Asia. The programs trained military personnel
whose job involved instruction
and retrained military personnel
leaving the service; they also provided education for dependents
of military personnel and civilians in those countries.
The programs were discontinued in the 1980s as the military dismantled Cold War outposts, and university officials
decided to concentrate on
enhancing campus research
efforts. But the program left in its
wake a strong network of support
for the school.
Irving R. Melbo served as dean from
1953 to 1973, a period now fondly
recalled as “the Melbo Years.”
Quantico, Va. The secondranking female in the
Marines,
Wilson
could
become No. 1 this spring
when the only other higher
female officer is scheduled to
re t i re .
Other high-ranking female
alumni include Mary Gonzales
Mend, who earned an Ed.D. in
1977. Formerly the superintendent of the Stockton Unified
School District, she is director
of the American School
Foundation, a private K-12 college preparatory school in
Mexico City. The parents of the
school’s students hail from the
city’s business, professional and
diplomatic community.
AS THE CALIFORNIA State
University
system
has
assumed USC’s one-time role
as trainer of most of the state’s
teachers, the Rossier School of
Education has incre a s i n g l y
emphasized its role in applied
research. Today, those
e ff o rts anchor all 23 of
“Our mission remains clear:
the school’s programs.
Take the Center for
to prepare agents of educational Multilingual and Multicultural Education,
change for the largest, most
which, after its 1983
founding, offered some of
complex, and most diverse
the state’s first credentials
in bilingual education.
educational system in urban
The center’s efforts today
include the education of
education today.”
Latino teachers aides,
who have proven much
– G UI L B ER T C . HE N T S C HK E
more likely to complete
education degrees and
become teachers than students who start out with no classAMONG GRADUATES of the room experience.
program is Frances Wilson,
Another example of applied
who received an Ed.D. from research allowing a unique eduUSC at Pearl Harbor in cational experience can be found
Hawaii. Now a brigadier gen- at the school’s Center for
eral in the U.S. Marine Corps, Teaching and Learning through
she is the commander general Multimedia. Established in 1995
of the Marine base at
FOR THE RECORD
The following are newly listed positions at the university as
of Oct. 2, 1998. For previously listed positions visit the
Employment Office or USC’s job-listing Internet Website.
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 position, 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
represent an exhaustive listing of openings. For complete job listings, visit the
Employment Office at 3535 S. Figueroa
St., Room 100, on the University Park
Campus, or 1975 Zonal Ave., KAM 409,
at the Health Sciences Campus. For more
information, call 740-7252 at UPC or
342-1010 at HSC. Job listings may also be
found on the Internet Website at:
www.usc.edu/go/jobs. An employee
representative for disabled persons is
available on the employment staff.
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative
Action Policy
The University of Southern California is
proudly pluralistic and firmly committed to
providing equal opportunity for outstanding men and women of every race, creed
and background.
This university is also firmly committed
to complying with all applicable laws and
governmental regulations at the federal,
state and local levels which prohibit discrimination, or which mandate that special 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 specified
in such laws or regulations. This goodfaith effort 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 opportunity to realize their full potential as individuals and members of society. To 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)
PROFESSIONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE
Special Project Manager – Req. 07445 –
Annenberg School – (JC111063/Grade K)
Administrative Services Coordinator II (Office
Manager) - Req. 06991 – University Events
– (JC111031/Grade I)
Development Research Analyst – Req. 07042
– University Advancement/Development
Research – (JC129312/Grade I)
Arts Laboratory Specialist (Equipment
Engineer) – Req. 07446 – Annenberg
School – (JC169015/Grade H) Assistant
Manager, Auxiliary Services – Req. 07269 –
Hospitality Services – (JC143015/Grade G)
ADMINISTRATIVE/CLERICAL/TECHNICAL/TRADES SUPPORT
Administrative/Academic/Executive
Production Assistant – Req. 07862 (75%) &
06992 – KUSC Marketplace –
Education
in partnership with the Los
Angeles County Office of
Education, the research unit
offers master’s, Ph.D. and Ed.D.
degree programs in educational
technology. USC’s is the only
education school in Southern
California to offer all three
degrees.
At the same time, the
Rossier School has not lost
sight of the responsibility it has
always felt for improving local
schools, particularly those in its
neighborhood. In partnership
with the USC Division of
External Relations and the
School of Social Work, the
School of Education in 1987
(JC193107/Grade G)
SECRETARIAL/OFFICE SUPPORT
Office Assistant III (60%) – Req. 06748 – Academic Vice President – (JC111119/Grade F)
Secretary II – Req. 06435 – Safety & Risk
Management Services – (JC111015/Grade F)
Office Assistant II – Req. 07409 – Graduate &
International Admission – (JC11115/Grade E)
Student Services Technician III (50%) – Req.
07418 – Undergraduate Admissions –
(JC137515/Grade E)
Office Assistant I –Req. 07043 – University
Advancement/Office of the Senior Vice
President – (JC111111/Grade D)
COMPUTER
PC Engineer III – Req. 07163 – AIS/Computer
Operations – (JC167015/Grade H)
Data Entry Operator – Req. 07266 –
Bookstore/Sales Audit – (JC163011/Grade D)
FACILITIES SUPPORT
General Maintenance Worker – Req. 05177 –
LAS/Wrigley Institute for Environmental –
(JC179395/Grade F) Employee must live on
Catalina Island
LIBRARY SUPPORT
Library Assistant II (Cataloger) – Req. 07961 –
ISD/Metadata – (Grade C4/Per bargaining
Unit)
SERVICE SUPPORT
Material Handler I – Req. 07962 – ISD/
Administration (JC155007/Grade D)
FOR THE RECORD
MEMORANDUM
TO:
USC Community
FROM:
Maurice Hollman,
Associate Vice President,
Facilities Management Services
DATE:
Sept. 17, 1998
To learn about employ ment opportunities
through the Internet:
www.usc.edu/go/jobs
launched the Inter-Professional
Initiative. Commonly known as
the Family of Five Schools, the
program brings unique educational and cultural opportunities to students at the five pub lic schools in USC’s immediate
surroundings. By last count, the
program has touched 8,000
kids.
“The face and faces of
Los Angeles have changed,”
Hentschke said. “Some people are intimidated by this.
We at the Rossier School of
Education are inspired by it.
Our mission remains clear: to
p re p a re agents of educational
change for the largest, most
complex, and most diverse
educational system in urban
education today.” ■
Respondents were least satisfied with:
Building interior temperatures
Cost competitiveness for alterations and remodels
Restroom conditions
Feedback and notification of revised work schedules
Based on these results, the following strategies have
been developed and operating changes implemented:
SUBJECT: Customer Service Survey
Facilities Management Services conducted its second
annual university-wide Customer Service Survey during
the spring of 1998. With the goal of measuring customer perception of the importance of 25 key FMS
Services and customer satisfaction with those services,
7,500 randomly selected students, faculty and staff
were asked to participate. The survey used a scale of 15 to measure importance and satisfaction on these key
service issues and the methodology, used by companies
such as Xerox, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Boeing, is the
accepted standard for the facility management industry.
New Jobs (HSC)
PROFESSIONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE
Director of Development-Managerial (JC
129327) - Req H04432 - SOM Development
(Grade M)
Project Manager (JC 135015) – Req H04581 RN license is required - Cancer Center
(Grade K)
Administrative Services Manager (JC 111033) Req H05305 - W.M.Keck Foundation
Neurogenetic Institute (Grade J)
ADMINISTRATIVE/CLERICAL/TRADES
SUPPORT
Administrative Assistant (JC 111019) - Req
H04897 - IPR (Grade G)
Project Assistant (JC 135007) - Req H1127 Nursing (Grade G)
CLINICAL/TECHNICAL/LICENSED
Research Associate - Req H04839 - Support
scientific research in mechanisms of Taxol’s
action - Pharmacy (Grade 00)
Research Lab Tech II (JC 185015) - Req
H04876 - Medicine (Endocrine) (Grade F)
Research Lab Tech II (JC 185015) - Req
H04243 - Cancer Center (Grade F)
Research Lab Tech I (JC 185011) - Req
H05151 - Cancer Center (Grade D)
HEALTH-RELATED STRUCTURE
Clinical Social Worker (JC 187311) - Req
H04831 - Responsibilities will include direct
service, clinical supervision and liaison to
three school Resource Teams. Supervisory
experience - Pediatrics (Grade HF)
Reimbursement Specialist (JC 189127) - Req
H04923 - Clinical Labs (Grade HE)
Reimbursement Specialist (JC 189127) - Req
H03748 - Radiology (Grade HE)
Clinic Assistant (JC 187603) - Req H03557 Otolaryngology/USCP (Grade HC)
Clinic Assistant (JC 187603) - Req H05232 Medicine/USCP (Grade HC) ■
environment
Professionalism of FMS staff
Technical competency of FMS staff
Approximately 1500 respondents, representing a 20%
return rate, identified the following issues as most
important:
• Cleanliness of building interiors
• Technical competency of FMS staff
• Restroom conditions
• Responsiveness of FMS staff
Respondents were most satisfied with:
Courteousness of FMS staff
Appearance of the campus landscape and exterior
• Established a dedicated heating, ventilation and air
conditioning (HVAC) response team to handle “hot and
cold calls.”
• Provide staff with additional training on estimating
methodologies and external market comparisons.
• Daily custodial services have been reorganized to
increase the frequency of cleaning in restrooms and
high use public areas.
• Greater emphasis will be placed on timely communication with customers regarding job status as well as
incorporated into FMS training programs.
The Facilities Management Services team joins me in
expressing our gratitude to those members of the USC
community who participated in this survey, with an
extra thanks to those who took the time to provide written comments. Only through continued communication
and constructive feedback from the campus community will we achieve our goal to provide the best possible
facilities services and become the benchmark for higher
education facilities management.
DigitalXpress, USC Forge Partnership
by Bob Calverley
DigitalXpress and the School of
Engineering have signed a memo
of understanding for the St. Paulbased provider of satellite communications services to deliver the
school’s graduate degree courses
to American corporations, starting
in September.
The DigitalXpress-USC alliance
enables employees of companies
across the United States to
increase their knowledge base or
to earn graduate-level degrees in
a broad range of engineering sciences from the convenience of
their workplace. Courses are
offered for the master of science
degree in several disciplines, as
well as a variety of specializations
within each field, including computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and systems
architecture and engineering.
Interactive television courses
are delivered from USC’s University Park Campus in Los Angeles
over the DigitalXpress satellite
network in one-way broadcast
video and two-way interactive
audio. Additional course materials
are provided to complement the
on-air segments. Most of the USC
engineering courses are taught by
tenure-track faculty members.
Companies wishing to receive
the USC graduate courses will
be
equipped
with
simple
DigitalXpress downlink gear, consisting of a small (0.9 meter)
receiving antenna and a VCR-sized
receiver that connects to a television or other video distribution
system. Existing DigitalXpress
clients can access the courses as a
benefit of their participation in the
DigitalXpress network.
To ensure continuity of service,
USC will continue to provide direct
broadcasts to existing clients.
Once companies have installed
the DigitalXpress downlink gear,
they can also take advantage of
DigitalXpress services for company-specific broadcasts, including
corporate communications and
employee training. The DigitalXpress satellite network can serve
multiple purposes without requiring several sets of hardware or
vendor connections.
“USC has been delivering engineering courses to corporations
in Southern California via microwave for 26 years,” said Leonard
Silverman, dean of the School of
Engineering. “The partnership
with DigitalXpress now gives us
an opportunity to offer advanced
continuing technical education
and degrees to a national audience. Earning a degree through
our program typically leads to significant career enhancement.
“With DigitalXpress as our
partner, we can now offer the
same high-quality educational
opportunities that our existing corporate students in Southern
California and Arizona already
receive. We are enthusiastic about
this new business/education partnership and are eager to send our
courses nationwide.”
Joel Wright, vice president of
marketing and business development for DigitalXpress, said the
company has high hopes for the
relationship with USC.
“We are pleased to inaugurate
our business-education partnership with USC’s highly acclaimed
engineering school,” Wright said.
“This history-making event clearly
reflects our commitment to be the
market leader in providing corporations with business education
and communications solutions.”
DigitalXpress specializes in
high-quality, low-cost satellite-todesktop digital video, audio and
data information distribution systems for businesses. ■
FOR MORE about the School of
Engineering, visit the school’s
Website at www.usc.edu/dept
/engineering/EngSchool. For
DigitalXpress product information, call (888) 591-1053 or visit
www.digxpr.com.
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C A L I F O R N I A
/
U N D E R G R A D U A T E
A Creek Runs Through It
by Meg Sullivan
CULVER CITY OFFICIALS still refer
to research completed last spring
by Robert Harris and his architecture students as “that dam
concept.”
But make no mistake: City Hall
is not deriding the semester-long
exploration of ways to maximize
the city’s location on the banks of
Ballona Creek.
In fact, City Council members
next week are expected to consider adopting some of the key concepts recommended by Harris, an
architecture professor, and the 12
USC undergraduates.
The recommendations, originally contained in a two-page,
illustrated brochure, include
damming the creek, a concretelined branch of the Los Angeles
River that is all but dry for most of
the year.
“The majority of the principles
are wonderful,” said Mark
Winogrond, the city’s community
development director. “We’re
using this work as the basis for
what will become an important,
broad-based, community-based
strategic plan for reviving Ballona
Creek.”
THE CITY COUNCIL COULD act on
the principles as soon as Oct. 12,
Winogrond said. But even if the
City Council doesn’t opt to adopt,
Harris and his students will have
left a mark at City Hall. On Aug. 24,
the City Council presented them
with a commendation for their
“extraordinary effort” that “will
have a lasting effect on the
restoration and beautification of
our environment, literally in our
own backyards.”
The work will also figure into a
video presentation being prepared
by La Ballona Creek Renaissance, a
grass-roots community organization dedicated to restoring the
health and beauty of the waterway that runs largely behind
Culver City homes.
Not bad for what started as a
class project for Architecture 402, a
required course for USC’s undergraduate architecture degree.
The students studied the history of Ballona Creek, researched
other cities on waterways, canvassed Culver City residents, consulted the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and extensively walked,
studied and photographed the
creek and its environs.
They emerged with visions
that are closer to San Luis Obispo
than Paris or Venice or even San
Antonio.
“While they wanted to orient
more of the town’s life around the
river, they realized that too much
development would never be
appropriate since the creek is adja-
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cent to numerous residential
neighborhoods,” Harris said.
THE MAIN IDEA, according to
Harris, is making more of the creek
that once was the community’s life
blood. The area’s first human
inhabitants – Los Gabrielenos, the
Gabrieleno Indians – used to hunt
and camp along the arroyo. Later
Thomas Ince decided to establish
Culver Studios, which is now
owned by Sony, in Culver City so
that he could use the picturesquely meandering Ballona Creek as a
backdrop for his movies. Then in
1935, the U.S. Corps of Engineers
lined the stream with concrete in
response to perpetual flooding
problems.
“Instead of feeling the presence of water, what you see now
is concrete walls with a somewhat
scruffy bottom,” said Harris, a
longtime champion of the Los
Angeles River. “There’s a bike path,
Ballona Creek snakes across the display used by professor Robert
improve the waterway’s appearHarris’ Architecture 402 class in its presentation at a Culver City
ance.
public meeting. Harris is optimistic that projects like the one his st uThey plan to urge moving
dents proposed could eventually bring back healthy creeks and rivers
ahead with the recomthat will also enhance life for city dwellers.
mendation to punch
holes
in
the
cre
e
k
’s
con“There’s a bike path, but it could
crete walls and fill them
ing the project a test bed for what
adventuresome recommendation
with plants, which, over
could happen elsewhere on the
– damming the creek – will come
be so much more. It’s a wasted
time, should lend a
Los Angeles River, but Harris is
up before the council.
more natural appearmuch more optimistic.
“One of the things in the
linear park.”
– ROBERT HARRIS
ance to the waterway.
“Right now it’s just a
report going to the council calls for
Meanwhile,
the
promise,” Harris said. “But this
studying the feasibility of that
council
will
decide
may ultimately prove to be a kind
dam concept,” Winogrond said. “It
whether to direct city staff to
but it could be so much more. It’s a
of demonstration for recapturing
might increase opportunities for
examine the feasibility of the secwasted linear park.”
the opportunities of our waterpassive or active recreation.”
ond bike path. Even the most
Among other things, the stuways.” ■
Winogrond stops short of calldents called for adding restaurants
and specialty stores along the
creek; establishing parks along its
shores; supplementing a bike path
on the north side with a bike path
on the south side; and studding
the concrete embankment with
planted trees, flowers and grasses.
Perhaps the most audacious
plan calls for installing two inflatable dams in the culvert at either
end the city. During the rainy season, the dams would trap water
that otherwise runs to the Pacific,
creating a sort of canal. Similar
dams are employed on less conspicuous stretches of the Los
Angeles River by the U.S. Corps of
Engineers, the USC brochure
points out.
“There might be boats and
canoes – it could be really wonderful,” said Harris.
But wouldn’t damming the culvert put residents on either bank
at risk for floods during heavy
rains?
“If there’s a lot of water coming downstream, you can deflate
the dams by pulling the plug,” he
said. “The water would pass
through and head for the ocean.”
While city officials acknowledge that recommendations that
would threaten the residential
The School of Medicine has completed a major redesign of its Web site. The site now features a more attraccharacter of the creek areas would
tive and intuitive interface as well as a dozen new images. The site is located at: http://www.usc.edu/schools
be a hard sell to city residents, they
/medicine/.
are enthusiastic about ideas to
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