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had to vacate their wins from the 2007-2008 regular season, after violating NCAA rules regarding former Trojan O.J. USC IMAGE Mayo. Apart from athletics, this past semester two students were Is Troy collapsing? caught having sex on top of Waite Phillips Hall; the male was identified as a member of USC’s Kappa Sigma fraternity. b isy el a hernandez Photos were taken of the couple in various sexual positions and later leaked to the media. The University of Southern is “I was going through airport security, and was wearing one of the most prestigious universities in the world, known my USC jacket. One of the security guards said ‘Oh, USC ... for outstanding academics, a dominant football program that’s the school with those people having sex on the roof and its extensive network known as the Trojan Family. But right?’” says Danny Ramirez, a junior at USC. “I laughed, but

due to recent scrutiny from the NCAA and wild acts done by was surprised that of all the things USC is known for, people Elisa Hernandez students on campus, after its long reign has the glory of Troy having sex on a roof was what came to mind.” begun to collapse? Kappa Sigma had been in the news once before when an In the past two years alone, USC’s football program was e-mail sent to its members went viral. The message referred to fill the seats of the L.A. Coliseum. suspended from attending any bowl games for two full seasons to women as “targets” and asked members to spread the The acts on campus have actually initiated students to with a high reduction in their scholarships. Most recently the names of the women they have had sex with. The e-mail take action by conducting a walkout on campus to protest NCAA rejected USC’s appeal to reduce the sentence to only provided code names, categories by race and a rating system sexual violence. They hosted seminars about how silence is one season. So, unfortunately the Trojans will not be able to so members could create their lists. Investigations were not consent and how students must respect the female body. participate in post-season play of the newly established Pac- conducted and found that the e-mail had not come directly USC will always have its share of detractors; since it is held 12. from the fraternity, but by then the damage had been done. so high on a pedestal, every move will be under a microscope. USC has lost top recruits due to sanctions, and “I think, from an administrative point of view, these acts But as a Trojan Family, under great adversary students have unfortunately the dedicated players here have had to suffer are considered extremely harmful, because it might affect shown that the criticism will only create a stronger bond from the mistakes of past players. But even so, the athletic who will fund or donate a vast amount of money to the among current and former students. program continues to rebuild its image through players school,” says Tatiana Hernandez, who is looking to apply to Troy continues to stand tall; as long as the USC student such as football quarterback Matt Barkley and wide receiver USC for grad school, “but then again, from a young adult’s body acknowledges its mistakes and does what it can to not Robert Woods. perspective, a lot of people brush events like that off because let unsavory acts go unpunished, this empire will cease to fall. “It’s still USC football … regardless of rules, we still they find college to be experimental.” All Trojans can do is continue to look forward to the new dominate. We’re the NFL team of L.A.,” says Robert Stephens, Although USC has taken some hits to its reputation, if semester, season and year. They must learn from their past a sophomore at USC. anything it has only strengthened the student body. Since the mistakes and turn weakness into strength. By doing this they USC’s basketball program also faced scrutiny as they self- NCAA sanctioned the football team, the support from the will rise from the criticism and learn the true meaning behind sanctioned themselves during the 2009-2010 season. They student section has only increased, and thousands continue FIGHTING ON!

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to do after graduation. It was a horrible experience for him COMMENCEMENT because he didn’t know what he was going to do, and I only remembered this part of his speech because I felt the same way when I had to do it. SPEECHES I really do wish I had remembered his speech as a guiding light to my future endeavors, but now all I have are fond What They Should Really Be fading memories. But really, I don’t think anyone could recall what their commencement speaker said when they were About graduating.

Luckily for us, we have many famous speeches saved Epstein/MCT Linda D. b nsy de i e guerra online, either through YouTube or through Ted Talks. Because I don’t really remember my own commencement speaker, I J.K. Rowling spoke of failure at a Harvard commencement. S o you’re officially becoming an alumnus. like to believe my watching J.K. Rowling speak about the I am both super excited and regrettably sorry for you. For me importance of failure during Harvard’s 2008 commencement for being truly real were found in op-ed columnist David graduating was a polarizing transition: Stomach pains from is like her actually speaking at my graduation. Plus it’s Brooks’ New York Times piece “It’s Not about You.” It’s like drunken late-night debauchery were replaced with stomach accessible anytime. You can never get enough inspiration, the anti-commencement speech, no frou frou of “follow your pains from late-night work ulcers. especially when you feel that life after graduation is like a dreams” or “be whoever you want to be.” I agree with him that Many of my past columns involved the trials and triumphs stormy raincloud. while nice words to say are completely misleading. I have gone through since leaving UCLA, but let me tell you, I For the Harry Potter author, it wasn’t the typical “life was “College grads are often sent out into the world amid am extremely far from having the life experience necessary to hard at first but then it gets better” shpeel. She addressed rapturous talk of limitless possibilities. But this talk is of no give any type of commencement speech myself. the idea of what failing miserable really meant in the grand help to the central business of adulthood, finding serious I remember during my commencement ceremony, there scheme of things: things to tie yourself down to. The successful young adult was this big controversy over having actor James Franco as “So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply is beginning to make sacred commitments – to a spouse, a commencement speaker. People were outraged by the idea because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I community and calling – yet mostly hears about freedom that someone who had graduated a year before could have the stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than and autonomy. Today’s graduates are also told to find their life experience to relate to the graduating class a year later. what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing passion and then pursue their dreams. The implication is Plus, he was already wildly successful while the rest of us were the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at that they should find themselves first and then go off and live and still are finding our way. anything else, I might never have found the determination to their quest. But, of course, very few people at age 22 or 24 Eventually, about a week or two before, Franco dropped succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.” can take an inward journey and come out having discovered out (for reasons unclear) and was replaced by a member of Inevitably failure happens, no one likes it, but some like a developed self.” the band Linkin Park. The speaker talked about his Kappa Ms. Rowling had the determination and luck to get out of it. When graduating, “follow your dreams” makes sense, but Phi Beta commencement ceremony where each person stands It brings optimism to the whole idea of “failing.” for the rest of us who have already experienced graduating, in front of a microphone and tells everyone what he plans However, the words of wisdom I have gravitated towards Brooks’ words ring the most true.

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b i y c ndy kyungah lee century masters, artists who work in the form of sculptures and many more. Discover for yourself what happens when TEL-ART-PHONE artists try to play “Telephone” with their art. The result is After its latest successful exhibition (Arataland! by Michael truly amazing and it just once again reminds you of how Arata) in the Critics-as-Curators series, Beacon Arts presents creativity can never be boxed into a limited sector. to the public another one of its master exhibitions of the Beacon Arts Building is located at 808 N. La Brea Ave., North series, this time curated by Mat Gleason. Featuring over 80 Inglewood. For more information, visit beaconartsbuilding. artists, TEL-ART-PHONE is based on the classic children’s com. game of “Telephone.” Until July 3, indulge in the joy of playing “Telephone” with art at the Beacon Arts Building in The Art of Inglewood. This past Saturday on May 28 at Gnomon Gallery, the official Curated by the founder of the Coagula Art Journal (a opening of The Art of Legacy Effects took place providing the freely distributed contemporary art magazine), Mat Gleason, public with an opportunity to take a look inside the creative the exhibit gathers a myriad of artists including Ray Beldner, workflow behind blockbuster films such as Avatar, Tim Biskup, Coop, Sean Duffy, and many more to galvanize and Thor. our desire for creativity. Founded in the summer of 2008 by Alex Alvarez (the The point of the exhibition is to play a game of founder and CEO of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects), “Telephone” – a game that has many names such as “Chinese Gnomon Gallery is one of Hollywood’s most celebrated Whispers” (which may seem more familiar to others). The and revered premier art galleries for the entertainment one-of-a-kind exhibit was assembled by handing a work industry. Works from the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Piece by Greg Martin, the second artist in one series from of one artist to another to inspire a new artwork, and the in conjunction with the renowned artists of Legacy Effects, the TEL-ART-PHONE exhibit at Beacon Arts Building resulting piece was then again passed onto another artist the gallery exhibits film art such as maquettes from movies who did the same, except the artist had no idea of what like Ironman 2, Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar. able to make it to the opening event on the 28th, it may be the first artwork looked like. This process was repeated and It is truly sensational and fresh to see the artworks of worth it to go re-watch a few of the movies after you see the the results were put together in order of production in the some of the movies you may have really enjoyed recently, or artworks. I swear you cannot watch the movie in the same exhibit. The excitement of the show? You will see a trail of further back in the past. It sheds new light onto the way you way you did as before – you will begin to focus more on the the workings of the creative process through a long line of will enjoy movies, by helping you understand how and why artwork than on the plot. The 100-plus combined years of works that are so individual yet exploring what seems to be such popular and well-known movie characters are iconic. experience, Alan Scot, John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan, and a similar subject. Legacy Effects is an award winning full service character Lindsay MacGowan, the masterminds of Legacy Effects, Even more tantalizing to the viewer as well as the artists design, prop design, make-up, and animatronics studio. The continue to feed the film industry’s craving for live-action is the fact that the artists all had different mediums they works that are produced in this studio provide us with the effects. specialized in. Eccentric in its selection of artists, Gleason insight into how much work and time is spent on developing Gnomon Gallery is located at 1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd., brought together abstract painters, realism masters, mid- some of the most iconic characters today. Perhaps if you were Hollywood. For more information, visit gnomongallery.com.

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MOVIEREVIEWS The Trip (IFC) Who doesn’t love a road trip? One hand on the wheel, a heavy foot on the gas, adventure around every turn and miles of open road

unfolding before you; it’s one Phil Fisk of life’s great pleasures. But perhaps no road trip is quite Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip as enjoyable as one taken with people who make you laugh and, thanks to two brilliant British comedians, that is the sheer joy of watching The Trip. Originally broadcast in the UK as a six-part sitcom series, The Trip reunites director Michael Winterbottom with stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. The trio previous collaborated on Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, where the actors played similarly inflated versions of their public personas. Coogan is once again the narcissistic, hedonistic, lady-charming but lonely comedian unable to escape his most famous role, Alan Partridge, or break out as a true superstar; while Brydon is a happily settled-down family man with the ability to impersonate almost anyone, a feat which is winning him enough acclaim to start eclipsing Coogan. The film begins with Coogan inviting Brydon to accompany him on a road trip through Northern England’s lake country to experience some of the best fine dining the area has to offer. (English fine dining? See, it’s funny already.) From there, Winterbottom sweeps the audience along as silent passengers, watching as the pair bicker and bond against the backdrop of emerald green countryside or over a plate of impeccably prepared haute cuisine. There’s little plot to follow, simply the pleasure of watching two great actors carry the viewer from moments of hilarity to quiet bittersweet humanity. Feeling at times like a hilarious, hyper-intimate version of Jon Favreau’s series, “Dinner for Five,” each meal grounds the film, offering glorious glimpses of food porn but also forcing the actors, who largely improvised The Trip, to settle in for a mano y mano that brings out some of the film’s best comedic moments as they attempt to one-up each other, most notably in a brilliant battle of Michael Caine impressions (Brydon’s is so diabolically spot-on, so as he says, “stunningly accurate,” with your eyes closed, you could be watching Alfieor The Dark Knight). Considering Winterbottom’s most recent effort was the highly controversial Sundance offering, The Killer Inside Me, it’s lovely to see the director, whose work has ranged from 24 Hour Party People to Welcome to Sarajevo, offering up a film that’s smart, funny and unhurried. SPIRITEDBRUIN Now, that’s a good trip. Grade: A- by tien thuy ho —Sasha Perl-Raver The Trip releases in select theaters June 10. O ne of my closest friends at UCLA is Eva Mak, who is graduating this week after being a Bruin for three years. She is going to the University of Chicago Law School this fall. Here are some words from her on graduating and the future. GAMEON It’s very hard for me to say what I am going through “The Tomb Raider Trilogy” at the moment. It feels like I just started college, and (Square Enix) now it seems that I may never come back to the place “The Tomb Raider Trilogy” collects the I have called home for the last three years. I have

three most recent main-series games in grown so much from the time I started at UCLA. Stephanie Diani the long-running franchise: “Tomb Raider: College here is kind of the interim period Legend,” “Tomb Raider: Anniversary” and between your childhood and reality. On one hand, “Tomb Raider: Underworld.” “Legend” and you’re making decisions on your own, and on the other, you are surrounded by a campus “Anniversary” are both several years old, but community that literally holds your hand through all the adult decisions and experiences both games have been remastered in 720p you may encounter. for this collection. I feel like I have been faced with a choice in college. I could have taken the easy route, “Underworld”