Trojan athletes will shine over bye


What a whirlwind it’s been so far for USC’s 2014-15 football team. A player (and captain nonetheless) sprained his ankles and lied about the cause before another player quit the team, alleging head coach Steve Sarkisian was racist. USC’s athletic director was fined for trotting down to the sidelines at Stanford, and then Boston College […]

Nick Cave and the mythology of the rock star onscreen


From the ferocious Birthday Party concerts of the 1970s and ’80s to the release of last year’s soothingly sorrowful Bad Seeds album Push the Sky Away, Nick Cave has always been an artist whose work defies easy categorization.   The Australian rocker’s fearsome appearance — think Elvis Presley reincarnated as a fire-breathing, Goth-punk troubadour with […]

GOP is wrong to deny women equal pay


In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the average woman earns 78 percent of what a man makes despite working a similar full-time job, and Senate Republicans simply don’t care.   On Monday, Republican Senators unanimously rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act, a piece of legislation that attempts to fix the gap between money women […]
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