Motor voter bill holds partisan motivations


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For the past decade, Los Angeles has been plagued with upsetting records of low voter turnout. When citizens fail to exercise their right to play a role in the electoral process, they forfeit their ability to criticize the process’s main working components. It’s been years, however, since California policymakers have truly taken a bipartisan initiative […]

COLUMN: Does greek life still have a place on our campus?


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This month, we’ve seen a string of incidents on college campuses related to greek life that have sparked controversy. Recently, a UCLA fraternity hosted a “Kanye Western” themed party that featured students wearing blackface and dressed to imitate Kanye West’s wife, reality star Kim Kardashian. Late last month, Undergraduate Student Government President Rini Sampath experienced […]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Milo Yiannopoulos’ failure to acknowledge his own existence


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Last Wednesday, the USC College Republicans hosted British journalist and businessman Milo Yiannopoulos for a rollicking evening of denying the existence of rape, rape culture and trauma all at once. Nearly four years ago now, I was raped by a fellow USC student during my first undergraduate year. Today, as a graduate student, I work […]

COLUMN: Students should relax more, multitask less


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Exactly a week ago, I dropped my brand new iPhone into a toilet — a clean toilet, but a toilet nonetheless. As it turns out, iPhones don’t like being dropped in toilets, even if they’re put in rice for the next 48 hours. After self-loathing and tears, I began to reflect on my time with […]

COLUMN: Celebrities should play role in race discussions


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I might be the biggest Kanye West fan out there. I know everyone tries to claim this, but not everyone has two posters of Kanye hanging over his or her bed. So there, I win. But at UCLA, some fraternity and sorority members took their admiration of the artist too far by hosting a Kanye West-themed […]

COUNTERPOINT: In wake of transportation policy change, the University should offer employees housing


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In June, the University revoked its monthly $30 stipend to employees who purchase transit passes. To compensate for the subsidy cut, USC is offering three free parking passes per month for the University Park Campus only. In the absence of a concrete transit support system, the University should instead give all employees the option to […]

POINT: Removal of employee transit subsidies endangers sustainability and justice


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The past month just hasn’t been great PR for sustainability at USC. A few weeks ago, a protest by Environmental Core put the University’s lack of renewable energy infrastructure under the microscope. The event reinvigorated students’ requests to bring solar power to campus. And on Sept. 29, associate professor Lisa Schweitzer began the first of […]