Sips Tea: How To Spice Up Your Vocabulary and Your Life


Now that I am comfortably back on my couch and not experiencing level five road rage during my commute from work in West Hollywood to Downtown, let’s all take a deep inhale and a sip of our tea. This week saw me in crisis mode. From preparing for three midterms I had this week to […]

Trustee donates $20 million to medical center


USC Trustee and alum Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne have donated $20 million toward the foundation of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, according to USC News. The facility, founded earlier this year by a $200 million donation from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, will focus on the holistic prevention of […]

US-China Institute hosts talk on policy, political situation


Relations between the United States and China have been a major part of the 2016 presidential election, from confrontations in the South China Sea to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s ceaseless denouncements of China’s trade policies. On Thursday, the U.S.-China Institute hosted “The China Card: Politics Vs. Policy,” a day-long conference at the Radisson Hotel […]