Wesley’s choice will haunt the Trojans


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USC basketball fans would like to forget this past season, when the Trojans only won two conference games. But first-year head coach Andy Enfield and fans got even more bad news on Wednesday when junior forward Byron Wesley, the team’s leading scorer from last season, announced that he would transfer and use his final year […]

Brandeis’ critics fail to recognize precedent of inviting Ali


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On Monday, Brandeis University announced that it revoked its 2014 commencement ceremonies invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a controversial Somali-born feminist and political essayist known for her criticism of female genital mutilation and her anti-Islamic sentiments, according to Time. This revocation came as a result of outspoken objection by Brandeis students and faculty who likened […]

Brandeis wrong to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali invitation


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Brandeis University’s recent revocation of its honorary degree invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born feminist and political essayist, has caused a firestorm of outrage. Though the university claims that its withdrawal of the invitation was due to Ali’s radically Islamophobic views, the truth shows otherwise. Brandeis should have stood by the invitation it extended […]

Fantasy baseball draft: Week two review


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Two weeks into the 2014 MLB season, things are starting to normalize. This is such a pivotal time in the year, because it’s the time when people are either feeling overly confident in their hot starters or uneasy about the players who are crawling out of the gates. There are plenty of guys that are […]

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The following incidents were reported in the USC Department of Public Safety incident report summary on Tuesday, April 15. Crimes against property at 3:46 P.m. on April 15, it was reported to DPS that someone had poured glue over the screen and keyboard over a student’s laptop computer at Watt Hall. At 5:55 P.M. on […]