Skywriting poor use of funds In response to the Aug. 27 article “Dedication ceremony commemorates opening” by Natalie Chau, I was alarmed to read that the Graduate and Professional Student Senate had purchased Ronald Tutor some skywriting as a gift. While this generosity in normal circumstances should be applauded, one wonders at the wisdom of [...]
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USC’s effort to curb Internet piracy conflicts with emerging practices in multimedia recontextualization.
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Cardinal and Gold needs more green It’s every Trojan’s nightmare: USC is losing to UCLA.  Not in football, nor academics, but something that affects every student, professor, and employee of USC: our campus’ sustainability.  In an annual list of Eco-Enlightened U.S. Universities, USC is ranked 124 out of 162.  And we aren’t losing by just [...]
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Though USC is often seen as the private school with the inflated price tag across town, UCLA’s business school is making a precarious step toward privatization — one which will come at the expense of the students’ wallets.
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Fear is a primal instinct we experience every day — from the stress of asking someone out to the anxiety of graduating and having to survive on our own. I recently tried to make a list of the things I fear most. I swallowed my stereotypical self-conceptions about laughing in the face of danger and [...]
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As the war in Iraq draws to a close, the U.S. can again focus on problems in Afghanistan.
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Shallow as it might seem, celebrity involvement in global crises often benefit the causes.
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Famous rock stars that serve as professors — those are our tuition dollars at work. And for good reason. If you haven’t heard, rock musician Steve Miller has joined the USC faculty this semester to work with undergraduates in the popular music and music industry programs. When a university attracts acclaimed musicians such as Miller [...]
Read the rest of this article »Students need fuel, not new luxury Plaza
Gateway and Tuscany apartments make new Icon Plaza housing replacing Chevron redundant and leave USC short a gas station.
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Response to the op-ed I wanted to correct some misinformation that was included in the Daily Trojan Op-Ed on Sept. 10 which indicated USC has a “free-speech zone.”  No such zone exists on campus. The author also implies that the university does not respect free speech rights.  This too is false.  As stated in the [...]
Read the rest of this article »Last week, the NCAA announced the Academic Progress Rate multi year scores that cover the ...
For 15 years, Caryl Smith Gilbert has been molding champion track and field athletes and ...
USC senior Bryshon Nellum, who closed out his USC career with an NCAA championship in ...
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With the official start of summer just around the corner and a glimpse of those ...
Chinatown Summer Nights has mastered the blend of L.A.’s trendiest music and marketplaces with the ...
The following incidents were reported in the USC Dept. of Public Safety Daily Incident Log between Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11. Crimes against a ...
John Mork’s long relationship with USC came to a peak last Monday when USC announced that the B.S. ’70 and M.S. ’12 alumnus would become ...
After submitting itself for reaccreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, USC’s Dept. of Public Safety was granted a postponement of approximately ...
Many members of the USC community voiced their concern following the May 4 incident in which the Los Angeles Police Department shut down a party ...
On June 7, John Zawahri killed five people and injured five more at Santa Monica College. [caption id="attachment_67323" align="alignright" width="300"] Danny Razzano | Daily Trojan[/caption] As investigators ...
Brown’s proposal is no cure-all, but offers long-awaited aid to the state’s most vulnerable students.  The end of May marks the latest round of revisions to ...
USC experienced some roster turnover this week that benefitted the squad’s defense but depleted the depth of what is considered by many to be the ...
Two USC baseball players were taken in the Major League Baseball draft conducted late last week. Junior infielder James Roberts was drafted in the 15th ...
Led by the outstanding performances of sprinters Bryshon Nellum and Aaron Brown, the USC men’s track and field team placed fifth with its most points ...
Hopping onto the tech bandwagon is no easy feat these days. The competition that goes on in Silicon Valley for bright engineers and marketing superstars ...
Does it ever feel as though life gets too bogged down in the minutiae of “he said, she said” drama? Ever wonder what happens when ...
Only God Forgives, the second collaboration between director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling, fails to live up to the brilliance and intensity of ...
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The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...
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