What do Spike Lee, Oliver Sacks, Anna Deavere Smith, Quincy Jones, the Getty Villa and Miss Lonelyhearts (the opera) have in common?
They’re all part of an ambitious university-wide commitment – unprecedented in USC history – to immerse all students in the arts and humanities. At his installation last September, Provost C. L. Max Nikias had surprised faculty when he – an engineer – identified among his top priorities the need to “affirm what is most essential and most enduring within the human spirit.” Nikias called upon “all USC students to develop an appreciation of the arts and humanities – regardless of discipline. “This is for the physicist as well as the philosopher,” he insisted, “for the mathematician as well as the musician, for the pharmacist as well as the journalist, for the engineer as well as the social worker…. It will enrich their lives.” Now, less than a year later, “Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative” is set to roll out a bulging calendar of some 80 major cultural events over the 2006-07 academic year – on average three or four events a week for the duration of the school
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