media bytes FACULTY SOUND BYTES “My vision of the future is that digital medicine will help us live easier, and hopefully it will be harder to die.” LESLIE SA XON — Keck School of Medicine, BBC News (U.K.) bit.ly/digmedicine
“We’re training ourselves to check our messages every couple minutes. People are constantly looking down to check their phones. They can’t stop.” K A R E N N O R T H — USC Annenberg School,
Social Trojans
Asian News International bit.ly/media-desires
USC SWIPES FOR THE HOMELESS ensures that students’ unused dining dollars go to people who need meals. Last fall, the nonprofit organization worked with USC Hospitality to collect more than $21,000 from students who donated their extra dining dollars after the last day of finals. Proceeds provided 2,300 pounds of food for the Los Angeles Mission.
“Every time they put out a new [James] Bond film it’s a very delicate dance and could go wrong very easily. You have to make him seem powerful in the world we live in now.” RICHARD JEWELL —
USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles Times bit.ly/Bondfi lm
FACEBOOK “Yes we can” — L I C I E N “I love you all @ USC stay positive stand strong” — R AY E Z I O N M C C OY
“Many ports on the West Coast are in denial as to their tsunami hazard.” C O S TA S S Y N O L A K I S —
P H OTO B Y D I E T M A R Q U I S TO R F ; T I R E B I T E R P H OTO B Y G I A N N A A R D I T TO
USC Viterbi School,
Tirebiter and friend USC Auxiliary Services’ Gianna Arditto posted a photo of her pooch, Dita, next to famed USC mascot George Tirebiter.
Associated Press bit.ly/tsunami-resistant
“No one said ‘Wow!’ like Huell Howser — everything about California turned him into a kid on Christmas morning.” MARTIN K APLAN —
USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times bit.ly/Huell_Howser
For the Record: The photo of the Endeavour (Media Bytes, Winter 2012, p. 5) was taken by Gretchen B. Lees.
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