News

Zimride provides alternative transportation, opens to strong student response

Zimride, a social networking site designed to link carpoolers, enjoyed its most successful launch ever last week as the USC program opened, enrolling more than ...

Vaccination clinic draws large numbers

Students, staff and community members lined up outside the Lyon Center Tuesday and Wednesday to receive free H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines, though there was ...

New AIDS awareness group hosts renowned speaker

The newly formed USC chapter of FACE AIDS, a group dedicated to HIV/AIDS advocacy, kicked off its awareness campaign Wednesday with speaker Kay Warren, a ...

For Good Neighbors, donations up, participation lagging

As organizers begin to tabulate the results of this year’s Good Neighbors Campaign, it appears they will meet their monetary goal but will fall far ...

Horowitz event spurs walkouts and protests

A private event hosted by the USC College Republicans featuring conservative speaker David Horowitz prompted protests and a walkout Wednesday night. The event came a day ...

College GOP will ban some from Horowitz

The USC College Republicans’ decision to bring David Horowitz, a conservative writer and activist, to campus sparked controversy from the moment it was announced, but ...

Opinion

Youth activism takes dip

Tuesday was the paper anniversary of the election that purportedly brought the US youth back to the polls and revived a long-stagnant interest in American ...

Nikias is the best choice for Sample’s successor

Replacing a president of Steven B. Sample’s caliber won’t be easy. His leadership and poise have launched this university to unprecedented heights. Though Sample has accomplished ...

Letter to the Editor

Why don’t you tell me what’s going on? One of the reasons that the USC football team has problems adjusting to the adversity of raucous crowds ...

Students should have input in successor

On Monday, USC President Steven B. Sample announced his retirement in August, bringing an end to a 19-year tenure marked by great achievement in the ...

Letters to the Editor

Cross purposes We have recently become aware of an event sponsored by the USC College Republicans on tonight, in which David Horowitz will be brought to ...

Vegetarians, meat-eaters spar at event

Each time we take a bite out of a store-bought (oftentimes hormone-pumped) chicken leg, we are making — consciously or not — an ethical choice. ...

Sports

Cross-town rivalry gives USC chance for revenge

If a USC vs. UCLA matchup is considered big in any sport no matter the circumstances, then the No. 1 men’s water polo team’s upcoming ...

Trojans in need of some home cooking

The No. 17 USC women’s volleyball team looks to rebound from a tough road trip last weekend as it hosts cross-town rival No. 7 UCLA ...

Maria Sanchez moves into second round at indoor championship

USC junior Maria Sanchez powered her way through the first round on Thursday of this year’s ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships hosted by Yale University. Sanchez ...

USC women’s soccer finishes regular season with tough road test

If the USC women’s soccer team was hoping for an easy game after a hard-fought 2-1 loss at No. 3 UCLA, it’s playing in the ...

Backfield gets a boost at practice

The return of running backs junior Joe McKnight and redshirt junior Allen Bradford was a welcome sight Wednesday for a USC team still dealing with ...

Swimming and diving team has all the pieces

Last season a sleeping giant awoke from within the waters of McDonald’s Swim Stadium, and a roar was once again heard across the Pac-10 — ...

Lifestyle

Disney delivers a not-so-cheery ‘Christmas Carol’

The cinematic depection of old, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge — Charles Dickens’ very own Grinch — is hardly original material. A Christmas Carol has been adapted too ...

Single-screen theaters cultivate best and worst of indie film

What can you say about a movie in 200 words? At the Daily Trojan, the word count for film reviews stands at somewhere around 800. At ...

Bond Never Dies: Festival examines a cultural icon

“The name’s Bond, James Bond.” Everyone knows those iconic words of the martini-slugging, woman-chasing 007, but if not for Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, Ian Fleming’s super-spy ...

Pricey cooking classes turn culinary novices into pros

Let’s face it: We talk about our sports teams with pride, but our campus food is nothing to boast about. Ridden with the likes of Taco ...

Clichés inevitable in likening cities

There are two destinations where dreamers go to pursue wealth and fame: If you’re reading this, you’ve probably chosen Los Angeles. The other city, LA’s ...

As Hanson matures, so does its purpose

Oh, how time flies. It’s been 10-plus years since the three blonde, shaggy-haired brothers known as Hanson left their first musical mark on the world. [caption id="attachment_4669" ...