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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program.  According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12.  For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.[/quote]

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up. 
Woah. The football team costs 23 million.  :shock: The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out.  Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.[/quote]

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq?  If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City?  I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?[/quote]

Like the LA poster you are conflating Los Angeles the city, and the particular neighborhood under discusion - South Central LA.  The later is dangerous.  Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica etc. not a problem to visit.  reminds me of a neighbor who heard of all the violence in Mexico and asked if she should cancel her vaction plans for Cancun.[/quote]

I posed the question.  If you are saying that L.A. Has parts as violent and dangerous as Baghdad, why is this not national news?  How can the city possibly keep this extreme violence from pouring over to the other neighborhoods?  I would not visit outside of Baghdad either.[/quote]

no - the green zone is an enclosed area with a wall to protect those inside from the dangers without. Kinda like the fence around USC built for the same purpose.  Do any other universities have a barrier like that? This was done to protect the students from the crime spilling over from the immediate neighborhood.  [/quote]

The wall may explain how these dangerous, violent, powderkeg of hardened criminals and drug gangs who roam the streets of south central, just waiting for the National Guard to be brought in at any moment, are kept out of USC.

However, how is this enormous security threat kept away from the rest of the city -- is the entire city walled off as well?[/quote]

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