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Dress code prank bugs students

Skull and Dagger's annual prank had students take off their sunglasses, hats.

Security guards dressed in black stood outside Commons Tuesday afternoon, asking students to take off their sunglasses and hats and to turn their cell phones off before stepping into the building. Confused and unaware that it was a prank, many students obliged after reading the flyers that read USC was enforcing a campuswide dress code policy that had been on the books since 1913. (1) comment

Protecting children in the nick of time

Greeks give local children watches designed to protect them from being kidnapped.

Protecting children in the nick of time

Forty-three inner-city children gathered around the front of the Kappa Kappa Gamma house to receive "Amber Watches" on Wednesday afternoon as part of an effort to protect children from abduction and sexual predators. The presidents of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Kappa Alpha, in partnership with the Amber Watch Foundation, presented the safety watches to the children of the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA. (0) comments

Landlords, students worry about homeless

Property owners say it is the city's responsibility to combat rise in homeless.

Some landlords and property managers around USC have expressed concern at the number of homeless people found digging through Dumpsters and begging students for food. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority's 2005 homeless count reported that there are 35,000 chronically homeless people living in Los Angeles County. (1) comment

Programs prepare students for college

USC sponsors five education enrichment programs in South L.A.

When Jairo Umana was growing up, there was no such thing as "Saturdays." There was one more day of school, reading, writing and arithmetic to cram in before the proverbial day of rest. But he loved where it got him. "Who really wants to spend their Saturday taking math classes, taking college prep courses, taking English classes?" Umana said. (0) comments

state arson suspected as fire flattens home; six killed HAPPY VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - It took only minutes for fire to engulf a home in this rural Northern California community. When it was over, investigators found six bodies scattered throughout the house: in bedrooms, in the kitchen and in the living room. (0) comments

To submit an item for Upcoming, e-mail upcoming@dailytrojan.com. Thursday, April 12 11AM Robert Jensen of the University of Texas Austin talks openly about race and racism in America today, in the Montgomery Ross Fisher Building. Jensen says white supremacy cannot simply be relegated to racist extremists, but that society promulgates racism even though we consider it offensive. (0) comments

The following incidents were reported in the Department of Public Safety's weekly crime summary report between Monday, April 9, and Tuesday, April 10. Crimes against property A student drove a car into a fire hydrant Tuesday outside the Radisson Midcity Hotel. (0) comments

 

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