Summer 2005
FEATURES
Paint and Tell By Nick P. Divito
Meet postwar California art expert, distinguished Newsweek art critic and prolific abstract painter Peter Plagens. Did we mention he’s a Trojan?
- A Man of Many Layers
How to describe the process of an abstract-existentialist painter who also happens to be a world-class art critic?
Game Plan By Eric Mankin
They are often slammed as the root of all social evil, so why are videogames the hottest thing in academe? Because, say experts, they’re also the key to an avalanche of 21st-century innovations. Best of all, it’s a field USC is poised to dominate.
- The Secret Garden
Part post-psychedelic fantasy, part cutting-edge integrated media research, “Chôjô” lays the groundwork for jaw-dropping game-tech innovations.
- We Got Game
USC videogamers are moving beyond the shoot-’em-up basics.
- Out of the Rec-Room, into the Classroom
Though always extremely popular, videogames remained locked for decades in a rec-room subculture, largely invisible to the rest of society.
First Ladies of Troy By Annette Moore
USC owes much to the Bovard clan – an Indiana family that gave the university its first and fourth presidents. But as the saying goes, behind every great man – which Marion McKinley Bovard and George Finley Bovard assuredly were – is a great woman. This is the story of Jennie Allen Bovard and Emma Bradley Bovard, two immortal Trojan women.
- Bovard Men
Few alumni realize how appropriate it is that the seat of USC administration should be housed in a building called Bovard.
President’s Page
“We are not satisfied!”
Last Word
Forceful females from antiquity.
DEPARTMENTS
Mailbag
We get letters...
What’s New - Shelf Life - People Watch
- News and notes on all things Trojan.
- Activist artists in Mexico and wanna-be law students.
- A “rock star” in China and a journalist in high-tech research.
Alumni & Friends
Bikers without borders.
Class Notes
Keeping up with the Trojans.
• Glimpses of History
Class Notes
Marriage, Births and Deaths
Alumni Profile
A Poet Who Didn’t Know It:
Corinne Lee ’83
Alumni Profile
Shoe’s Gotta Have It:
Taryn Rose MD ’88
Alumni Profile
Corps Values:
Jason Rothbard ’93, MPA ’04
In Memoriam
Cornelius J. Pings
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