Autumn 2002

FEATURES

Shaping the Information Revolution
Even people who know USC very well are often surprised to learn it has a bustling, vertical campus in Marina del Rey. This unseen piece of the School of Engineering has quietly birthed info-tech breakthroughs for 30 years.
by Eric Mankin

Communicator with a Conscience
A lifelong reformer who stands “one degree of separation from the galaxy,” USC Annenberg School dean Geoffrey Cowan is committed to harnessing the forces of communication technology to serve, not exploit, democracy.
by Diane Krieger

Her Day in Court
Few attorneys ever have the privilege of presenting a case before a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Kara Oien had it in her second year of law school.
by Melinda Myers Vaughn

Amazing Space
Making their way through USC’s Labyrinth Project, writers, artists and filmmakers are defining transcendent new art forms that enshrine multimedia’s most vital component: the human factor.
by John Zollinger

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note

President’s Page
Summer in the city

Last Word
The words behind the music

DEPARTMENTS

Mailbag
Through rain, sleet and snow...

What’s New - Shelf Life - People Watch
Health, humanities and more - Read ’em and reap - Stars in our firmament

In Support
Portraits in philanthropy

Alumni News
On Commencement, a Pulitzer Prize, a Congressional Medal of Honor and more

Class Notes
Who’s doing what and where?

Alumni Profile
Ready to Iraq and Roll:
Seth Kumi MA ’92, PhD ’96

Alumni Profile
Driving Ms. McGill:
Jill McGill ’94

Alumni Profile
Wunderkind War-Correspondent:
Seth Doane ’00

In Memoriam
Edward and Rita Polusky