![]() 2020: USC shifted all its classes online in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic - a monumental behind-the-scenes effort taken up by teaching experts, administrators and information technology specialists to make the transition as smooth as possible.The new leadership role will build a framework that reinforces USC’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging and to address ongoing challenges of discrimination and bias. 2021: USC hires Christopher Manning as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer.They bring home 21 medals, and the golden streak continues: USC has won a gold medal in every Summer Olympics since 1912. 2021: A record 65 USC-affiliated athletes compete at the Tokyo Olympics.2021: The Presidential Medallion, the university’s top honor, was awarded to all of USC’s staff, faculty and health care professionals in recognition of their extraordinary work during the COVID-19 pandemic.It’s the university’s third victory in the league wide competition focused on diverting the waste generated at home football games from landfills to recycling or composting. 2021: USC wins the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2021 football season.Folt announces that USC will be carbon-neutral by 2025. Tradition of Support for the Armed Forces.Past Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients.Today, USC is home to more than 48,000 students and over 4,400 full-time faculty, and is located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world. When USC first opened its doors to 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880, the “city” still lacked paved streets, electric lights, telephones and a reliable fire alarm system. The gift provided land for a campus as well as a source of endowment, the seeds of financial support for the nascent institution. Hellman, a German-Jewish banker and philanthropist. Downey, an Irish-Catholic pharmacist and businessman and Isaias W. Childs, a Protestant horticulturist former California governor John G. It took nearly a decade for this vision to become a reality, but in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community – Ozro W. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water.Los Angeles was a rough-and-tumble frontier town in the early 1870s, when a group of public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney first dreamed of establishing a university in the region. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. They don’t see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead-where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. They don’t see a city with the nation’s highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don’t ask where the water comes from. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding-Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies-resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC.
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