Janitors speak about their fight for wages, benefits


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Salvador Hernandez still remembers when he started working at USC almost 25 years ago, even down to the day he first stepped on campus — April 9, 1991. The school was smaller back then, he said, and quieter, a good environment for his work as a janitor, which often required him to clean nearly every […]

‘Bathrobe Crusader’ starts bathrobe business


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Sophomore Josh Barach recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to turn what started as an Instagram joke into a full-fledged business. With a mission to “[change] the world before he changes his clothes,” Barach takes on the persona of “Mr. Bathrobe Crusader” to spread his love of luxury bathrobes. It all started when Barach and his […]

5 tips for making language gains abroad


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When I decided to study abroad in Shanghai, I knew I wasn’t going to be getting the traditional study abroad experience. I wouldn’t be able to jet set on weekends and explore surrounding countries. But I chose Shanghai for a reason. I wanted to make serious language gains in a short amount of time and […]

Midterm meltdown


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With the fifth week of school behind us, college students know that midterms are waiting on their doorsteps. If they are anything like me, it means that there are three days left before that test that’s anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of their grade, and desperation has set in so deep that the it […]

Kessler’s record season unnoticed


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It’s not often that a quarterback completes nearly 70 percent of his passes, throws 39 touchdowns to just five interceptions, racks up nearly 4,000 yards and still goes as unnoticed as Cody Kessler. Those were Kessler’s numbers last season when his team went 9-4, so Kessler flying under the radar could be attributed to him […]

Students attend political engagement conference


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Students Sarah Dhanaphatana and David Moreno returned to campus late Sunday night after representing USC at a Harvard Institute of Politics conference “Campus Activation: Increasing Student Voting and Political Engagement” over the weekend. Undergraduates from across the country traveled to Harvard University to participate in the conference, which featured lectures from political practitioners, expert organizers […]

Millennials must accept slow change


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For all the criticism millennials receive, we are truly a generation of getting things done. Or so it seems on social media. Last weekend an incident of racial injustice against our Undergraduate Student Government President Rini Sampath got that ball rolling. It led to national media coverage, a blast email from the University entitled “Important […]