Archive for April 2011

Bob Cantu to return to USC

By Josh Selbe · Daily Trojan

April 21, 2011 at 5:53 pm

The 11th year assistant coach will be back on the sidelines for the 2011-2012 season.

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Director Tim Hetherington dies in Lybia

By Armen Karaoghlanian · Daily Trojan

April 21, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Tim Hetherington, the co-director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Restrepo, was killed in an attack in Libya Wednesday morning. The attack was caused by a grenade, which also killed and injured several other journalists and photographers. The 41-year-old filmmaker was scheduled to be honored in Los Angeles by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, [...]

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Black Eyed Peas open production school

By Jenay Ross · Daily Trojan

April 21, 2011 at 11:59 am

When you first hear the word “peapod,” you might think of vegetables or maybe those infant costumes that stores sell around Halloween. The Peapod Foundation, the Black Eyed Peas’ organization, definitely has nothing to do with either one of those things. The Peapod Foundation began as a charity that held toy drives for Los Angeles [...]

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Classifieds – April 21

April 21, 2011 at 12:30 am

Classifieds – April 21

The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.

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More college professors embracing social media

By Iuna Dones ·

April 20, 2011 at 11:32 pm

According to the study, 20 percent of teachers require students to interact online.

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Strategic plan seeks student opinion, input

By Jared Servantez ·

April 20, 2011 at 11:28 pm

Members of the Strategic Planning Committee hope to submit a draft by this coming summer.

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On These Shoulders We Stand set for campus screening

By Miles Howard · Daily Trojan

April 20, 2011 at 10:59 pm

Not everything began with Stonewall. Such is the pretext of Glenne McElhiiney’s On These Shoulders We Stand, a new and groundbreaking documentary about Los Angeles’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community from the 1950s through the early 1980s. On Thursday night, McElhiiney will screen her film on campus in Taper Hall Room 202 at 6 [...]

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Wake Forest sophomore forward to transfer to USC

By seth rubinroit ·

April 20, 2011 at 10:34 pm

Ari Stewart, who averaged 8.5 points per game last season, will be eligible to play in 2012.

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Draft defections give USC an edge in Pac-12

By Trevor Wong ·

April 20, 2011 at 10:33 pm

After the USC men’s basketball team was ousted in the First Four of the NCAA tournament, I thought there was a slight possibility it could lose junior forward Nikola Vucevic to the NBA after a stellar season. After all, who would blame him? I’d probably get tired shouldering USC’s inconsistent offense and facing constant double [...]

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Q&A with USC’s Kari LaPlante

By will laws ·

April 20, 2011 at 10:31 pm

Q&A with USC’s Kari LaPlante

Approaching graduation, the senior center looks back at her four years playing for USC.

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