Students should engage diversity at USC
At the beginning of this semester, I entered a Monday class early to find several students sporadically placed around the 50-seat room. The class was “diversely” composed of white Americans, Asian-Americans and international students from China, South Korea and India. When I entered the room the following Wednesday, the class had completely self-segregated, with each [...]
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Local students make colorful pinwheels during Spirits in Action Day, held on McCarthy Quad on Saturday. More than 150 participants attended the festival, which was hosted by 250 USC student volunteers. Spirits in Action is a non-profit organization run by USC students that strives to empower local students with disabilities.
Read the rest of this article »Implementation, not awareness, is the issue
The USC south area Residential Education staff, which covers Pardee Tower, Trojan Hall, Marks Hall and Marks Tower residence halls, is currently hosting Alcohol Awareness Week, a week full of activities that will educate students about alcohol safety. On Sunday, the residential staff kicked off the week with a barbecue social. Students discussed alcohol- and [...]
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Matt Barkley. Dwight Lewis. Jennifer Song. These are students known for their athletic talents. They get recognized with scholarships and accolades. You’ve even read about them in this space. But it’s been a goal here at “Spittin’ Sports” to draw your attention to some of the lesser known but equally talented athletes on campus. Today, [...]
Read the rest of this article »Decision can be tough for spring admits
For the 1,000 students offered spring admission, the acceptance can be a let down.
Read the rest of this article »Financial aid should benefit all students
Assistance for continuing students is needed just as much as scholarships for incoming freshmen.
Read the rest of this article »Good to the last drop? In moderation
College students should realize their over-dependence on coffee has negative consequences.
Read the rest of this article »College brings new friends, ditches old
The unofficial relationship handbook describes multiple ways to break up with a significant other: via Facebook relationship statuses, texts, instant messages and Post-it notes. But when it comes to friends, there isn’t much literature about how to go about ending a relationship. When two friends have an argument, they deal with the matter alone. Most [...]
Read the rest of this article »Students help create change once more
The student movement serves an instrumental role in President Obama’s political career once again in health care reform.
Read the rest of this article »Census bus rolls onto campus to spread awareness among students
Many students say they do not know how to participate in the census, though officials say it is important that they do.
Read the rest of this article »A new type of undergraduate experience will be added to the university as music icons ...
Video from the scene, courtesy of USC Black Student Assembly. Students, alumni, faculty and community members ...
[gallery link="file" ids="67092,67091,67090,67089,67088,67087,67086,67085,67084"] Photos by Razan Al Marzouqi More than 100 students gathered in front of Tommy ...
With a runoff election almost two weeks away, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy ...
Architect and USC alumnus Anthony Marnell, '72, donated $1 million to the School of Architecture ...
UPDATE: Photos from the scene, courtesy of USC student Christopher James. Multiple USC students were detained ...
On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...
The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...
A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...
A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...
The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights.  One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...
Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...
As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...
For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...
When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...
Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe.  Set in New York ...
Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...
Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...
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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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