USC student in Metro crash identified

March 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment


Jacob Fadley | Jacob Fadley (Facebook)

Jacob Fadley | Jacob Fadley (Facebook)

By Max Schwartz 

The USC School of Cinematic Arts has released a statement identifying Jacob Fadley as the driver of the car that collided with a Metro rail train on Saturday.

The USC student directory lists Fadley as an MFA student in the cinematic arts, film and television production program. On Fadley’s Facebook page is a post from 2014 that illustrates what appears to be his letter of acceptance, marked to an Ohio address. The silver Hyundai Sonata involved in Saturday’s crash has an Ohio license plate FGV7189.

There are no Facebook posts on his wall about the incident. A LinkedIn account under the name Jacob Fadley has Hilliard, Ohio as the location – the same location as the photo of the admission letter. The LinkedIn profile states Fadley has been a photo journalist in the United States Army since April 2008. Prior to working for the Army, the account says he worked for the United States Navy for five years beginning in June 2002. The same account says he attended Ohio University, and enrolled at USC in 2014.

The statement from the school does not provide an age of the student, however, according to Sgt. Hendley Hawkins of the LAPD South Traffic division, the driver involved in the crash is 31 years old.

The following is the statement from Dean Elizabeth M. Daley of the School of Cinematic Arts:

As many of you have already heard, one of our graduate production students, Jacob Fadley, was seriously injured in a collision with a [Metro Rail] train Saturday morning. We have been following his condition closely in tandem with the USC Office of Student Affairs and have been in touch with his family. While Jacob was very seriously injured he is currently in stable condition. We are hopeful that he will recover and be able to continue pursuing his dream of becoming a filmmaker. We will keep the SCA community posted on his condition as we learn more.  I know you join me in sending him and his family our very best wishes.

We encourage anyone in need of support to contact your advisor in Student Services or the counselors in Student Counseling Services or the Center for Work and Family Life.

Reach Civic Center Bureau Chief Max Schwartz here; follow him on Twitter here.

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Timeline: South LA protests of the Ferguson decision

November 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment


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Life without parole in USC murder case

November 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment


By Ani Ucar and Celeste Alvarez

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Javier Bolden, the last defendant involved in the 2012 murder of two USC graduate students, Ming Qu and Ying Wu, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole Monday morning.

Judge Stephen Marcus announced the decision about three weeks after a jury of seven women and five men found Bolden guilty in two counts of first degree murder as well as two other charges including attempted murder and assault with a firearm for a separate shooting of two victims at a party in February 2012. [Read more…]

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South LA voices with South LA views, Thursday at USC

October 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment


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To some students, the University of Southern California may seem like a world unto itself. Yet the school is also just one piece of the South Los Angeles community, a role worth examining as USC launches development projects like the new University Village.

The panel discussion “Voices of South L.A: Civic Action and Community Voice” happening Thursday Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium (ASC room G26) aims to delve into conversation on various efforts by the university and other groups to address disparities and injustices in South L.A. (Tickets are sold out, but you can get on the waitlist.) The event, hosted by the Visions and Voices program, will bring together community organizers, residents, journalists and scholars to discuss views on South L.A.  Intersections spoke with event organizer Alison Trope, a professor in USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, about what attendees can expect from the event.

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40 years for four shots

August 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment


Brandon Spencer is paying a 40-year price for four shots that killed no one

By Olga Grigoryants and Daina Beth Solomon

brandon-spencerLike any proud father, James Spencer is eager to show off photos of his son.

Seated at a desk in his Inglewood apartment on a recent Friday evening, the 59-year-old shuffled legal documents, news clippings and letters until he unearthed a photo of a young man wearing a white dress shirt and a black tie — Brandon Spencer at age 18, suited up for work as a security guard.

Now the younger Spencer wears a different uniform. He has recently begun serving a 40 year prison term for opening fire at a Halloween party two years ago at the University of Southern California. 

When neighbors, friends and family heard that Spencer had been charged with four counts of attempted murder, many reacted with disbelief. They thought: “Nah, it can’t be Brandon.”
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USC conference explores urban poverty

March 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment


With one out of five children living in poverty, America is facing a social crisis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in California – the state with the highest rates of poverty in the U.S. Poverty experts from across the country are meeting this week for The Innovating to End Urban Poverty conference at USC to assess which policies are working, and which ones aren’t, and how they can work together to be more effective.

The conference comes 50 years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional War on Poverty.” Billions of dollars have been spent on poverty programs and there is a move in Congress to answer the question, do they work?

Visit the conference’s Twitter page to see what participants in the invitation-only event are saying.

Richard Parks, Executive Director of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation, and Raphael Bostic, Professor and Director of USC's Bedrosian Center on Governance | Bryony Inge

Richard Parks, Executive Director of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation, and Raphael Bostic, Professor and Director of USC’s Bedrosian Center on Governance | Bryony Inge

Annenberg Radio News’ Bryony Inge talked with Raphael Bostic, Professor and Director of USC’s Bedrosian Center on Governance, and Richard Parks, Executive Director of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation, about the goals of the conference.

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USC Rossier School of Education supports South LA teachers

November 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment


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Dr. Aissa Riley, USC graduate and teacher at Jefferson High School. | Grace Lim

Even teachers who have graduated with master’s degrees from USC’s Rossier School of Education may need some help with running their classrooms — and Rossier is ready to pitch in. The school is creating a system where alumni can access resources such as faculty assistance. Dr. Aissa Riley, a USC graduate and teacher for ten years at South L.A.’s Jefferson High School, thinks the new initiative will be invaluable.

Listen to an audio story from Annenberg Radio News to hear her comments: 

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USC students protest campus lockdown

October 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment


USCCampusFencesAfter a campus shooting during a student-run Halloween party one year ago, USC began tightening its nightly security measures — causing some students to question the university’s intentions. Since last January, campus access from 9 p.m. to 6 p.m. has been limited to students, faculty, staff and registered guests.

USC has installed fences both permanent and temporary to enforce the new rules. To student Makiah Green from USC’s Change Movement, the fences symbolize racial and economic divides on and around USC. She began a petition last week to urge President C.L. “Max” Nikias to find different ways to keep the campus safe.

What side of the fence are you on? Listen to the opinions of Green and other students in an audio story from Annenberg Radio News:

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Coliseum deal could go forward today

June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment


The California Science Center Board of Directors could vote at its meeting June 5 to approve the latest terms of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum lease agreement with USC.

If approved by the Board, the agreement would give USC full managing rights at the state historical landmark and guarantee the university 70 percent of the parking spaces in the Science Center’s deck on 25 event days per year (33 if the NFL uses the stadium temporarily). It would also extend USC’s lease from 2054, the expiration date agreed upon in a December 2012 plan, to 2111 — a 98-year deal.

But opponents of the deal spoke out at public forums this week, saying that the loss of parking would take both revenue and visitors away from the California African American Museum , the California Science Center and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. [Read more…]

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A garden grows at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment


USC students helped St. Mark’s Luthern Church on Vermont Avenue plant a garden.   Take a look:

 

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