10 Tips on Maintaining a Year-Round Beach Body


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Avoid foods you KNOW are bad for you. If the food seems unclean and bad for you, you’re probably right. Specifically, try to refrain from junk food, processed foods, fast food, and edibles that are high in carbs, fat, oil, or sugar. If you are hungry and looking for a quick meal, opt for healthy […]

Sex and the Campus: “All About Sex”


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Welcome to Sex and the Campus, a weekly column where I discuss all things love and relationships. It should be noted that I do not claim to be any kind of expert in either area. Dating is hard, but hopefully reading this column won’t be. If you have any burning questions about love and relationships, […]

Viscarra’s Vice: Chargers aren’t at home in Los Angeles


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A Sunday afternoon at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., is quite the experience. Upon entering the stadium, you can confirm that a 27,000-seat venue for professional football winds up being unique as one of the most intimate spectacles in sports. The cheapest seats here give fans fantastic proximity and a clear vantage point of […]

History of mass gun violence may define our past, but it cannot define our future


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On Monday at noon, reports of an active shooter on our campus ground daily university life to a jarring halt. While the Los Angeles Police Department and USC Department of Public Safety later found the reports to be false, the incident was particularly unnerving following a weekend of mass shootings across the United States. Early […]

Narrative of ‘ungrateful’ minorities built on racism


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President Donald Trump is hardly a master of rhetoric, though the one positive thing that can be said about the commander-in-chief’s tweeting habit is that he’s efficient. Really. Even without the new 280-character limit, Trump attaches adjectives to nouns like no one’s business. Very few people he tweets about escape without a description: Secretary of […]