Spring 2006
FEATURES
Ten Great Student Jobs By Jeremy Rosenberg
About 7,000 Trojans hold down campus jobs. A few of them are so cool, getting paid is a bonus.
Tender Hearts By Katie Sweeney
Thanks to intricate surgeries and earlier diagnoses, most tots with broken tickers don’t just survive. They thrive.
USC’s Lists and Urban Legends Compiled by Annette Moore
A convoluted cul-de-sac of Trojan facts, figures and anecdotes – some bona fide, some outright unverifiable.
Treasures of the Huntington By Pamela J. Johnson
Privileged scholars of California history are up to their elbows in the great library’s unfathomable depths.
President’s Page
USC and Los Angeles: working to create an urban paradigm for the 21st century.
Last Word
Amazing how many musical masterworks were hatched in a Swan’s nest on the Avon.
[Last Word] Timeless Beauty - Answers - Winter 2005
DEPARTMENTS
Mailbag
Readers weigh in.
What’s New - Lab Work - Arts & Culture - Shelf Life - People Watch
- Cake for thousands, alight with 125 candles; permanent home for the definitive Holocaust video-archive; bittersweet memories of Trojan football’s banner year; make peace, not ‘Warcraft.’
- A peek into the perifrontal cortex of habitual prevaricators; “eggciting” results in reproductive medicine; random newsbits from USC’s Inquiring Minds.
- Dead End signals a new beginning; a thoroughly modern Cinderella; an impromptu Midori moment; and heads-up on what’s Now Playing.
- How American patriots dreamed up penitentiaries; a double take at First Takes; Traveler goes prime time.
- Lucero in the locker room; Troy’s Iron Maiden; Lu Chen’s genius for brains; Carl St.Clair at the podium; how David Carter juggles sports and business.
On the cover: Band manager Julie Mattson, hard at work on the practice field of dreams. Photograph by S. Peter Lopez
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