When I first came to

the Journalism class, I was

shocked when I found only

seven people were enrolled

in this class. That meant we

seven people would have to

organize the Academy

News—brainstorming, in-

terviewing, writing stories,

editing, typesetting. It was a

huge challenge for us, but

we finally made it.

Not only did we make

the Academy News, we also

created something new and

fun. We had our “activity

reporter” Phoebe, who al-

ways wrote the weekly ac-

tivities, taking pictures and

recording the students’ best

moments. We had our

“sports reporter” Howard,

who always came in the

latest sports news, writing

and analyzing sports stars’

career and life. We had our

“quiz expert” Yara, who

always made quizzes, ask-

ing students to research and

learn more knowledge. We

also had “best writers”

Lilly, Yvoon, and Sara, who

always wrote about what

Forever Trojans

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Editor’s

Reflection

1

Announce-

ments

3

TAN Quiz 4

Making

Friends

5

Survey

Results

6

Final

Thoughts

7

Mapping

Friends

8

EDITOR’S REFLECTION

The Academy News A P R I L 2 7 , 2 0 1 2 V O L U M E 5 3 , I S S U E 1 4

One More Quiz? How

well do you know

USC? Take the quiz on

p. 4 and maybe you

can win a prize!

Check out the Lan-

guage Academuy

Superlatives on p 6.

Who is the most beau-

tiful? Who is the class

clown?

Find your friends’

pictures in the Oral

Skills photos !

See Reflection on p. 2

P A G E 2

P A G E 2

were

was happening, including a wide

variety of stories and sharing their

stories with teachers and students

at USC Language Academy. We

made a miracle.

The TAN staff’s experience

gives us a lesson that challenge is

not always difficult; it can bring

hope and create miracles. The

most essential thing to success is

your determination and effort.

"Fight On" is the fight slogan

of USC. It is not only what USC

students always say. More impor-

tantly, it is a kind of spirit that

USC Trojans have to encourage

themselves. Once you have made

up your mind to do something,

keep working and fighting. You

will succeed.

Fight on!

Sisi Lin

EDITOR’S REFLECTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Above: Oral Skills 302 with Marilyn Gomez

Below: Oral Skills 101 with Katie FitzSimon

April Birthdays Yi Hong 10

Heather Robertson 14

Qingwei (Claire) Jiao 15

Eddie Chong 18

Yu-Chun (Klaus) Chang19

Yujing (Oranda) Yan 20

Nezar Alhaidar 20

Natalie Reyes 23

Xiaonan Han 26

Nawaf Alabdulwahab 27

Tianyan (Echo)Wang 27

SHOUT OUTS Champ: I love you all! Miter: I love you all, too! Jimmy: See you in summer. Yan: It’s a fun semester! Meshal: TGIF

P A G E 3

If you are planning on staying at the Language Academy for

summer A session, please see Gil and pay your program fees

by Wednesday, April 25th. The program fee is $2650.00 if

you pay before the early payment deadline!

Be a PAL—Peer Academy Leader

Former and current students are welcome to

join us during Orientation to help out the

USC Language Academy staff as PALs.

You’ll get to help the new students get to

testing, answer questions, eat lunch with

them, and help them with email,

USCard and many other things. Email Pam

at pyamamot@usc.edu if you are interested

in helping out during Orientation on Tues-

day, May15th and/or Wednesday, May 16th.

What has been your favorite memory at the USC Language Acad-

emy? Answer this question in Language Acad-

emy’s World of Mouth blog and you will be

entered to win a USC Bookstore gift certificate!!

Questions on how to post your answer? Email

Jessica: jessica.stern@usc.edu

Above: Oral Skills 502 with

James Hutzell; Right: Oral Skills

303 with Dawn Atkinson.

Michael Cannon (front right

joined in the photo.

P A G E 4

How well do you know the USC Campus? Take this final quiz and you may win a USC Teddy Bear!!

1. Where can you find the

only inverted fountain at USC? A. Queens Courtyard B. Stever Courtyard C. Trojan League Court-

yard D. Oscar Mendoza Court-

yard

2. Which two buildings were named after two students? A. Ronald Tutor and Von

KleinSmid (VKC) B. Waite Phillips (WPH)

and Grace ford Sal-vatori (GFS)

C. Anna Bing (Annenberg) and Eileen Norris Cinematic Theater

3. Which university does USC have a huge rivalry with? A. University of San Diego B. Pepperdine University C. University of Michigan D. UCLA

4. In what year did USC start putting flags on VKC? A. 1890 B. 2000 C. 2006 D. 1915

5. What year was USC estab-lished? A. 1810 B. 1880 C. 1845 D. 1844

6. Where was the first library at USC housed? A. College of Liberal Arts

building B. Doheny Library C. College of Architecture

Building

D. Leavey Library

7. How many flags are in VKC? A. 107 B. 150 C. 55 D. 60

8. Who is USC’s president? A. George W. White B. C. L. Max Nikias C. George F. Bovard D. Norman Topping

9. How many presidents has USC had? A. 10 B. 25 C. 11 D. 30

Fill out the answer cards the TAN Staff will pass around. Write your name on the card and hand it to a TAN staffer after breakfast.

THE FINAL QUIZ by Yara Hadi

Oral Skills 202 with Diana Hiciu

MORE

APRIL

BIRTHDAYS

Priscilla Caraveo 30

Miraz Adilov 30

Jen-Chiang Lai 30

Keiko Mochizuki 30

P A G E 5 MAKING FRIENDS AT LANGUAGE ACADEMY BY VIDAYLA (LILLY) SABAJAN

When I first started to study at

Language Academy, I didn’t

know what a wonderful time was

waiting for me. I think everyone

was excited and nervous about

this new episode in our lives. No-

body knew which group we were

going to attend, and I had a lot of

questions in my mind.

This was the first time that I

took classes in a university. When

I first came on the USC campus, I

was very impressed with the

structures and the areas for study

The libraries were very big and

sophisticated, and you can search

for anything you need. I love the

gardens and the fountains, where I

can listen to the water run. This

makes me feel in contact with na-

ture.

I had a big surprise when I no-

ticed that in my group I was the

only Latina and the rest of my

classmates were from Saudi Ara-

bia, China and Korea. I thoughts,

it was going to be a challenge for

me. I repeated to myself, very

scared, I really have to speak Eng-

lish. Another curiosity that I had

was how my teachers would be.

One week before, I had just met

Priscilla. Taylor, who asked me if

I was going to be a new student,

and I said yes. She gave me a

nice welcome smile.

Days were passing and little

by little, the ice was broken be-

tween the classmates. Everybody

started to make groups and talk to

each other. In Oral Skills I just

remember this particular group of

funny and friendly guys Aws, Mo-

hamed James, Andy, Eric, Abdul-

raham and Nawaf and Gui. Also I

have to mention the group of girls.

Sunho, Cristy Kelly, Hagueye,

and Hebah.

I had another three classes:

Journalism with Sonja Lovelace

as a teacher, very excellent and

kind

I really enjoyed this wonderful

group. Reading & Writing with

the Teacher Eddie Chong was a

very fascinating and interesting

group. Thanks to this class, I’m

not afraid to read English any-

more.

In Grammar with Heather, I

had a really hard time because I

felt no connection with her, but

while we were talking everything

went better. Now I feel more con-

fident. Also Jeminah, in writing

workshop, helped me to under-

stand the important process and

technical steps to be a good

writer.

In conclusion, I’d like to say to

everyone that all the special mo-

ments here at USC will be in my

heart because every step in my life

means I grow as a person and hu-

man being.

Thanks and good luck for eve-

ryone and remember: Be positive.

Always your friend

Lilly Bye Bye

Oral Skills 301 with

Sonja Lovelace

SHOUT OUTS

Ahmed: Hi!

Yousef:

I’m going to

miss all of

you guys.

Yara: Hope

everyone had a

great semester.

Good luck

P A G E 6

Meet the academy superlatives

Many thanks to the Lan-guage Academy students who participated in the end-of-term survey. Here are the results. Are any of your friends mentioned here? YARA HADI

SURVEY RESULTS

Most fashionable Student Abdullah Al-Taife

Most attractive student Fahad Al-Anazi and Phoebe

Smartest Student at Language Academy

Damian Kim

Loudest Student Nezar, Yousef Al-Matar,

and Tito

Friendliest Student Fahmi Bahmdan

Most Hard Working

Student Ruba

Class Clown

Abdullah Sulaiman and Rancho

Always Early To Class

Yara Hadi

Coolest Teacher At The Language Academy

Deborah Detzel

Drama Elective Class Performs O. Henry’s “The Cop and The An-them”

The Drama Elective of Lan-

guage Academy performed the O. Henry classic “The Cop and the Anthem” on Monday, April 23, to an audi-ence of staff, faculty, and stu-dents from various other elec-tives.

Rancho performed the main role of a man trying to get arrested, but just when he has a change of heart and wants to go straight, the cop takes him to jail.

Priscilla Taylor, the Drama Elective instructor, prepared the class for six weeks, and the show brought out the tal-ents of all of the students.

Taylor said, “It’s wonderful to see the students go from reading and reciting to actu-ally being the character.”

Next stop: Broadway!

Above: Oral Skills 601 with Priscilla Caraveo;

Below: Students in the Drama Elective perform in “The Cop

and the Anthem,” in the Monday afternoon class.

Welcome Velkommen

Bienvenue Bienvenidos

Benvenuti Bem-vindo 歡迎 환영

ようこそ ยนิดต้ีอนรับ

Қош келдіңіз!

Xush kelibsiz

مرحبا بكم

Добро пожаловать

Courtesy of Google Translate

P A G E 7

The Best Days

Coming to the USC Language

Academy, I didn’t know what to

expect. Since I have been here, I

have met some great students and

staff members. Being in this acad-

emy is one of the best experiences I

have ever had. One of the best ex-

periences I had is writing for the

Academy Newsletter. Being part of

the newsletter gave me confidence

and really improved my English. I

want to thank all the students and

staff members for this great experi-

ence I had. I hope everyone has a

great summer vacation and I wish

everyone the best. See you in sum-

mer. Fight on.

Yara Hadi

Assistant Editor

Above: Oral Skills 401 with Priscilla Taylor

Below: Oral Skills 602 with Todd Kolberg

Oral Skills 402 with

Barbara Holmes

USC Language

Academy

Rossier School of

Education

Phone: 213-740-0080

Fax: 213-740-0088

Web: www.usc.edu/langacad

The Academy News is a weekly newsletter pro-duced by students in the Journalism Elective of the USC Language Academy. All students in the Lan-guage Academy Program are encouraged to send news stories and photos to Sonja Lovelace at slove-lac@usc.edu.

Check out The Academy News online at www.usc.edu/langacad.Go to “Student Informa-

tion” and then click on “The Academy News.”

P A G E 8 A P R I L 2 7 , 2 0 1 2

Editor Sisi Lin

Assistant Editor Yara Hadi

Reporters Sara Alshehri

Lilly Sabajan

Yining (Yvoon) Wei

Haoyang (Howard) Wen

Fengyi (Phoebe) Zhang

Advisor

Sonja Lovelace

THE TAN STAFF

Left to right:(back row) Haoyang (Howard) Wen, Fengyi (Phoebe)Zhang,

Yining (Yvoon)Wei, Sisi Lin; (front

row) Yara Hadi, Sonja Lovelace, Vidayla (Lilly) Sabajan

FIND FRIENDS

FROM EACH OF

THESE COUNTRIES.