Rams’ success depends on fans


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They packed the Coliseum, buying every seat available — for a preseason game. Ten thousand more seats were opened up, and those were snatched up too. Apparently, that’s what happens when you bring the NFL back to Los Angeles, a city starved for professional football since the Rams and Raiders both left in 1994. Now, […]

First-generation students encounter difficulties at USC


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This week, more than 400 first-generation college students began classes at USC. This year’s freshman class was the most selective in the University’s history, as more than 54,000 applications were received and roughly 17 percent were accepted. Of those that ended up coming to USC, approximately one fifth is the first in their families to […]

Relationships require honesty


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I went to an all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, my whole life before entering college. At 15, the only girls that I really talked to were my mother and my sister. My mom is my mom, and well, my sister was 7 at the time. I did not have a lot of experience with girls. […]

Higher education is not a business venture


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In the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, policymakers began to view higher education more as a private good than a public good, meaning that universities benefited individual students more than the nation at large. In previous decades, public universities enjoyed robust support from state and federal government and tuition at some of the […]