Good Neighbors Ceebrates 10 years of Sharing
Beginning Monday, Oct. 3, employees will have an opportunity to make tax-deductible monetary contributions to the 10th annual USC Good Neighbors Campaign.
“A Decade of Sharing,” the theme of this year’s campaign, celebrates the 10 years that donations from the campaign have been used to fund community partnership grants.
Last year’s contributions supported 30 community outreach programs for 2005–06 that benefit local children and families. Programs range from literacy and math to sports, arts and science enrichment, health and safety.
To facilitate the contributions, employees will receive pledge cards sent via campus mail.
Donations can be made through single, lump-sum contributions or monthly payroll deductions. Staff and faculty who contribute 1 percent or more of their annual salary are invited to a dinner at the residence of President Steven B. Sample.
Contributors also can choose to support the United Way of Greater Los Angeles or a nonprofit agency or program designated by United Way such as USC GNC.
To learn more about the campaign, call (323) 442-3571.
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The Christian Science Monitor reported that the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the National Science Foundation will launch a partnership designed to provide science information to the public using the School of Cinematic Arts’ expertise in film, TV, Web sites and video games. The partnership will be the first between a federal agency and a film school, the story stated. School of Cinematic Arts Dean Elizabeth Daley said she hopes the program will provide screenwriters, producers and directors with knowledgeable science sources to advise them.
The Christian Science Monitor featured research by Gary Painter of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate which found that from 2000 to 2005 the number of recently arrived immigrants increased by 27 percent in smaller metropolitan cities, while the number decreased by 6 percent in larger traditional gateway cities like Los Angeles and New York. “Every city in the U.S. is getting a sizable immigration population. We are no longer a country where immigration is largely confined to just a few places,” Painter said. “We found that the immigrant communities in these smaller metro areas are much less developed. The questions we need to ask ourselves are ‘what sorts of policies do we want to pursue because of this?’” Daily Breeze and The Orange County Register also featured the research.
The Times of India (India) covered live demonstrations of robotic surgeries by Inderbir Gill, Mihir Desai and Monish Aron of the Keck School of USC. The demonstrations of robotic kidney and prostate surgeries from the USC Institute of Urology were transmitted to hospitals located in India, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, China and Kuwait.
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” reviewed the play “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers,” by Geoffrey Cowan of the USC Annenberg School. The play was co-written with the late Leroy Aarons, a former journalist. “Top Secret” poses many questions, Cowan said. He added: “What does it mean to print a story when the government is telling you that it is dangerous to do it, when everything you possibly know about it is telling you it is not dangerous? Sometimes there are real secrets, and sometimes the most important decision for an editor and publisher is to say, ‘We shouldn’t print.’”
Jewish Journal ran an op-ed by Martin Kaplan of the USC Annenberg School about research by the Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center which found that the average half-hour Los Angeles newscast contains only 22 seconds of local government coverage. The study found that crime stories received on average seven times more coverage. “L.A. may be hemorrhaging red ink, but ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ doesn’t apply to news coverage of fiscal mayhem,” Kaplan wrote. “Though crime led local news on one out of three broadcasts, stories about L.A.’s budget crisis topped local news only one time out of 100.” Los Angeles Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and La Opinion also covered the research.
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