Others must step up after Farmer’s injury


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George Farmer’s 2013-14 season is over before it even began. The junior wide receiver suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a torn medial collateral ligament in practice Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.  Farmer, who was the top receiver prospect in the class of 2011, prepped with current Trojan star Marqise Lee and […]

Letter to the editor


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Protesting for students’ rights The trend in the last three years has been unconformity. Around Europe, thousands of students took to the streets to protest governments’ implementations of new austerity measures. In the Middle East, we witnessed the youth rise against authoritarian governments, using social networks and new technologies to consolidate an Arab Spring that […]

Euthanasia lingers in ethical gray area


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A smoking revolver, one dead woman and a confession from the very man who committed the act — the evidence for murder is all there in the details of Arizona man George Sanders’ “mercy killing” of his 81-year-old wife, Virginia. Lost in the distant objectivity of the headlines, however, is a heartbreaking story of love, […]

Jurassic Park looks to wipe out competition


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The box office rose to nice enough levels over the Easter weekend, with G.I. Joe: Retaliation commandeering a $51 million-plus total for its four-day opening weekend. Though that’s slightly less than the take of its predecessor, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, that film opened in the middle of the summer. The real story is […]

Four reasons to watch baseball


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People these days don’t like baseball. Maybe that’s not entirely true, but America’s favorite pastime—and its first—has certainly taken a backseat to the fast-paced, media juggernauts that are football and basketball. Sure, baseball is slow. Those foreign to the game pick up on a seeming lack of action and an overabundance of “in-between” time. Baseball […]

Women of Troy head north to face Ducks


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After a mostly forgettable month of March, the USC women’s lacrosse team hopes to get back on the right track to start the month of April as they head up north to take on Oregon on Thursday, April 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the first live-broadcasted lacrosse game on the Pac-12 Network. The Women of […]