Spring game gives USC a chance to start over


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It seems like just yesterday I was writing about the 2012 spring game. National championship hopes were high, as was talk about a Heisman Trophy for Matt Barkley. The stars were aligned for the Trojans, to say the least. A year later, things couldn’t be more different. There is no quarterback certainty. There aren’t really […]

Different genres duke it out in the box office


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It was another robust weekend at the box office as four films managed to earn more than $18 million each, with the Evil Dead remake hauling in $25.7 million —which is more than the rest of the franchise combined. Though Evil Dead didn’t turn out to be the most terrifying film ever (as it declared […]

Letter to the editor


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Rallying against fossil-fuel investments  USC students take pride in the large sums of money the school receives to enhance our educational experience. It’s with a cumulative endowment of $3.5 billion that ’SC is able to maintain its standing as one of the top research institutions in the world. But while our university is grateful for […]

Pro-life rights also include life of mother


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On Monday, Praveen Halappanavar was questioned in an Irish court about the events surrounding the death of his wife, Savita Halappanavar. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist who moved from southwest India to Dublin with her husband in 2008, was 17 weeks pregnant when she was sent to University Hospital Galway on Oct. 21, 2012 after […]

Losing and fan loyalty in baseball


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Take me out to the ballgame. It’s a phrase customarily sung, but not as often spoken in earnest. The experience of witnessing a baseball game in person is completely unparalleled. The yard evokes eternal summer by day, and at night the stadium lights glow like a Christmas tree. Baseball games aren’t deafeningly raucous the way […]