Identification anxiety: the making of a name


By
 in ,
Freshman year, during the initial onslaught of new people, I rarely saved real names in my phone. There was just no way to differentiate Tyler Ps from Tyler Ts, Julies from Julianas, so I saved numbers with context instead. My contacts became searchable by names like Birnkrant, Polo and GE, and remembering people got infinitely […]

In light of its unsavory history, rename Von KleinSmid Center

Lida Dianti

By
 1 Comment/in , ,
Professor George Sanchez, the Vice Dean of Diversity and Strategic Initiatives for Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, compiled a selective timeline documenting the history of racism at USC at the diversity forum last Wednesday. Perhaps the most jarring of his findings was about the man the Von KleinSmid Center is named after: chancellor […]

My Weekend at PennApps


By
 in , ,
Around 1,400 students descended upon the University of Pennsylvania this past weekend to participate in PennApps, a student-run college hackathon at the nation’s first university. For 36 hours straight, teams worked on programming new mobile apps, websites or hardware that they hoped would impress their peers and, perhaps more importantly, the judges who awarded cash […]
© University of Southern California/Daily Trojan. All rights reserved.