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COVID-19 at USC Gould Offers New Undergraduate Minors AILY ROJAN DMONDAY, APRIL 26, 2021 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THET UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 202, NO. 25 FORMER Gould offers new undergraduate minors STUDENT SUES The Gould School of Law will offer the new undergraduate PROFESSOR, USC minors starting in Fall 2021. By LAUREN MATTICE By FRANCESCA DE NES Digital Managing Editor Assistant News Editor Content warning: This article After a year of offering the le- has mentions situations of sexu- gal studies minor and in response al harassment and assault. to students’ increased interests in A former Marshall School social justice and immigration- of Business student is suing related issues, the USC Gould USC and a former professor she School of Law will offer two more worked for over allegations of specialized minors. sexual harassment and assault. Gould’s new law and social jus- The conduct spanned three years tice and law and migration stud- and is alleged to have been per- ies minors will be offered begin- petrated on other women who ning in Fall 2021. According to held similar student assistant Robert Rasmussen, the J. Thomas jobs, according to the lawsuit McCarthy Trustee chair in law filed through the Los Angeles and political science, it is ben- Superior Court Tuesday. eficial for people to familiarize Professor C.W. Park, the themselves with the law, regard- Robert E. Brooker professor of less of their professional back- marketing and the director of ground. the Global Branding Center, is “We added the specialized named in the suit, facing charges minors, each for an independent including sexual abuse and ha- reason ... The immigration minor rassment, civil rights violations, is really targeted for people who failure to prevent discrimina- want to understand some of Beth Mosch | Daily Trojan tion and harassment, gender vio- the complexities of the current Courses that satisfy requirements for the three undergraduate minors offered through the Gould School of lence, sexual assault and battery immigration crisis in this Law are taught mainly by Gould faculty, who also teach in the juris doctor degree. and intentional and negligent in- country,” Rasmussen said. “The fliction of emotional distress and second minor is a touch broader, of teamwork and collaboration know basic concepts of law in or- While Tyler originally went to a negligence. it’s focused on issues of social from Gould faculty. Zamany be- der to help them through their political science adviser to de- The plaintiff, unnamed in the justice, and our conception of lieves that the minors will be at- education and also through life.” clare a political science minor, suit, was hired to be Park’s stu- that is the required courses give tractive to undergraduate stu- The law and social justice mi- she ended up signing up for a mi- dent assistant in August 2016, you a background in law and dents because Gould is one of the nor is an 18-unit program that nor in Gould because she said it and, from then on, targeted by then the elective courses you top 20 law schools in the country. will teach students about the offered exactly what she wanted. Park who “used his position of can decide what aspect of social She also believes the minors are present justice system and pro- “I’m very interested in social power and authority over (the justice you want to learn more unique because 95% of the fac- vide critical-analytical skills justice,” Tyler said. “As a minority, plaintiff) to repeatedly sexual- about.” ulty that teach the courses are to understand where chang- it’s important to understand the ly abuse, assault and harass her Most of Gould’s students are full-time Gould faculty that also es to society must be made. law, and be educated on what on USC’s premises,” according to pursuing juris doctor degrees, teach J.D. students. The minor also provides an in- your rights are, and I’ve always the complaint. and the school does not offer any “It all goes back to our mis- terdisciplinary approach, as wanted to fight for people who The suit also alleges that undergraduate majors. Gould sion statement for the office of it can be satisfied by elective look like me.” three other women, all Korean began offering undergraduate the undergraduate programs at courses from the Annenberg The 20-unit law and migration American like Park, faced the minors because law affects Gould, which is to educate un- School for Communication and studies minor introduces stu- same violence as undergradu- everyone, and students can dergraduate students [and] to in- Journalism, the Dana and David dents to the American legal sys- ate student assistants. The filing broaden their education by troduce them to the concepts of Dornsife College of Letters, Arts tem by looking at it through the points to previous complaints by understanding the concept of law law early on in their education so and Sciences and the Suzanne lens of immigration law, how it af- other students to establish USC’s and its impact on society. that they can contribute to soci- Dworak-Peck School of Social fects communities in the United culpability. Maddy Zamany, the director ety in a more meaningful way as Work. States and the consequences it According to the suit, USC of undergraduate programs at informed citizens,” Zamany said. Olivia Tyler, a sophomore ma- has for society, both domestically knew Park had a “dangerous Gould, said getting the new mi- “Law is everywhere, so we want joring in journalism, was one of and internationally. propensity to sexually assault nors added to the undergradu- to make sure that our undergrad- the first students to declare a The curriculum for the minor and harass USC’s young female ate programs was the product uate students are informed, they minor in law and social justice. | see GOULD, page 2 | | see LAWSUIT, page 2 | Lorem ipsum COVID-19 AT USC — April 11-April 17 Over the week of April 11 - April 17, the test positivity rate for PCR testing was 0.3% among students and 0.1% among employees. CURRENT TESTING NUMBERS Between April 11 and April 17, PCR SURVEILLANCE TESTING USC’s Keck School of Medicine administered 10,779 PCR tests among students and employees. The results from all diagnostic tests, both surveillance and symptomatic, NEGATIVE: 6,920 NEGATIVE: 3,839 are now streamlined into one POSITIVE: 18 POSITIVE: 2 positivity rate statistic. The will report the STUDENTS Daily Trojan EMPLOYEES results every week on Sunday and can also be found on USC’s COVID-19 Dashboard. INDEX 2 · News 3 · Opinion 4 · A & E 6 · Classifieds 5 · Sudoku 8 · Sports DAILYTROJAN.COM DAILYTROJAN PAGE 2 APRIL 26, 2021 | WWW.DAILYTROJAN.COM NEWS GOULD | New minors offered for Fall 2021 ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES 2021 There will be seven special Summer Trojan online editions for the USC community: (Wednesdays) • May 19 • May 26 • June 2 • June 9 • June 16 • June 23 • June 30* *Supplement Issue June 30: Freshman-Transfer-Grad Student Orientations 50% Discount off regular Daily Trojan display advertisng rates. DEADLINES: Monday NOON prior to each Wednesday publication. Also available: Web site rotation (dailytrojan.com) and weekly e-mail blast. CONTACT: [email protected] | continued from page 2 | Vincent Leo | Daily Trojan The new minors offered are law and social justice and law and migration studies and are being offered this fall in response to students’ increased interests in social justice and immigration-related issues. | continued from page 1 | “Part [of this minor] is cours- should our stance be as a country allows students to understand the es about immigration law, so peo- towards immigration?’” complex concepts of immigration ple know the parameters, and Rasmussen said that he hopes law and migration studies, and then there are also courses not undergraduate students who take also equips stu- taught by the law school, but by Gould’s courses dents with an in- “understand how t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y “I think for too long, when you look at undergrad education, law impacts what approach through they’re doing,” elective courses there wasn’t enough … opportunities to understand how law even if they’re offered through fits into what you’re learning as an undergraduate. Law is a not going to law Dornsife and the social product. It shapes our society, and if you think a lot of school or plan- Sol Price School of what we’re studying as undergrads are issues that affect our ning on pursuing Public Policy. law further. Rasmussen said society, law is part of that.” “I think for too that the law and · · · long, when you look at undergrad migration studies ROBERT RASMUSSEN minor “allows for education, there people who care J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee chair in law and political science wasn’t enough … a lot about issues opportunities to of immigration to understand how be “sophisticated law fits into what other parts of USC, about some of consumers on the news.” He said you’re learning as an undergrad- the policy choices that we make,” that sometimes, people hear uate,” Rasmussen said. “Law is a Rasmussen said. “Law is how we about immigration on the news social product. It shapes our soci- implement the policy choices, but but do not understand what ety, and if you think a lot of what law doesn’t determine what they the ground rules are or who the we’re studying as undergrads are are … and the other courses help major stakeholders are in these issues that affect our society, law frame your thinking of, ‘What situations. is part of that.” | continued from page 2 | students before it hired (the plaintiff) to serve as Park’s stu- dent assistant.” The plaintiff seeks compen- satory and punitive damages, alleging that her employment and financial development suf- fered irreparable harm due to the abuse.
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