Congressional Republicans are failing due to incompetence


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After last year’s midterm elections, when Republicans won sweeping gains in both houses of Congress and shifted power in the Senate from blue to red, liberal pundits were understandably concerned about what new legislation would pass the legislature before the next election in 2016. With campaign promises ranging from creating new jobs to stopping ISIS, […]

A Venetian weekend: Island hopping and masquerades


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“Don’t go to sleep. Just stay up the entire weekend. You can sleep when you get back,” is what Sam — every SACI (Studio Art Centers International) student’s helpful guide to surviving in Florence — told me when I bid him adieu and headed off to the station to catch a train to Venice, Italy. […]

How I actually started learning to speak Spanish


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After years of Spanish classes, I still felt like I couldn’t actually speak any Spanish when I arrived in Chile. During my first week in Santiago, people were constantly like, ¿me entiendes? ¿Cachai?, using words I’d never even heard before, like paltas (avocados), carrete (party), fome (boring) and variations on wea which I still don’t […]

College life, beyond media portrayals and generalizations


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Where do we get the idea of what college is supposed to be like? I usually end up eating strawberry sorbet and singing along to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in old pajamas on a Saturday night. I know people who do the same, but I also know a lot of people who love to go […]

Misconceptions shattered in Amman, Jordan


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Marhaaban from Amman, Jordan! When I told people where I was studying abroad, I’d always be met by a beat of surprised silence and then, “So, like…the Middle East?” Yeah, the Middle East. It seems crazy that a college student like myself would choose to study in a country surrounded almost on all sides by […]

Weekends spent brunchin’ at Brick + Mortar


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Set only a few blocks away from the Santa Monica beach, this bustling and lively restaurant is the perfect ambient for brunch. Insanely busy, yet driven by attentive servers, Brick + Mortar was the closest thing to paradise on an early Saturday morning. With impeccable service and exceptional menus, it left me and my friends […]

USC Security Roundup


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The following incidents were reported in the USC Dept. of Public Safety incident report summary between Wednesday, Feb. 4, and Thursday, Feb. 5.  Crimes against property at 11:50 p.m. on Feb. 4, a suspect was arrested on suspicion of stealing backpacks at Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library. at 3:18 p.m. on Feb. 5, a student […]
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