USC Mock Trial Team Sweeps Regionals
Photo/Courtesy of Olu Orange
The USC team in recent years has been among the top performers in the western region and finished the 2006 season with an overall national ranking of fourth out of 564 teams.
The sweep of the top places at the regional tournament earned USC two bids to the national finals and enables members to skip past two national qualifying events and advance directly to the AMTA National Championship Tournament, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Fla., April 13-15.
Olu Orange is the team’s head coach. Orange, an adjunct professor of political science at USC College, is a practicing criminal and civil rights attorney in West Los Angeles.
USC Mock Trial Team members who participated in the competition are (in alphabetical order):
• Ashley Anderson, junior, business administration
• Chris Bloom, junior, neuroscience
• Tom Burke, junior, neuroscience
• Marina Braverman, sophomore, communication, “All-Regional Witness”
• Alex Clendennen, freshman, business administration
• Andrea Contreras, junior, neuroscience
• Mercedes Cook, sophomore, psychology
• Gina Davidson, junior, psychology
• Sharisse Deal, junior, communication
• E.J. Dieckman, senior, broadcast journalism
• Meredith Elkins, freshman, public relations
• Tashiya Gunesekera, sophomore, English
• Jeffrey Gurrola, sophomore, political science, “All-Regional Attorney”
• Sarah Holl, senior, political science, “All-Regional Attorney”
• Vassi Iliadis, freshman, comparative literature
• Akhi Johnson, junior, “All-Regional Attorney” and “All-Regional Witness”
• David Kass, junior, communication
• Kilie Latendresse, senior, philosophy
• Michael Maloney, junior, cinematic arts, “All-Regional Witness”
• Lilyanne Ohanesian, senior, political science
• Christina Paquette, sophomore, English
• Faye Paul, senior, philosophy
• Jaymes Sanford, senior, international relations
• Mane Sardaryan, sophomore, philosophy
• Jeffrey Skinner, sophomore, international relations, “All-Regional Witness”
• MiRi Song, sophomore, philosophy
• Katherine Tong, senior, political science major
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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