Men’s basketball is outside top 25 in rankings
USC will enter the 2016-2017 season predicted to finish seventh in the conference.
Biden announces cancer research project with USC
The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience will add data to the project.
USC/LA Times poll criticized for survey methods
The Daybreak Poll currently shows greater voter support for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
REVIEW: Indie film Moonlight is the most beautiful movie of the year
There is a scene in Moonlight in which a small boy is taught by an older companion to float, and then swim, in the dazzling brim of the Miami shore. Both are black; the boy is Chiron, the youngest version of him the audience will see, and the older man is Juan. Though Juan feeds […]
REVIEW: Lady Gaga recreates her image in newest album Joanne
Lady Gaga is reinventing herself. The critical and commercial failure of her third album, Artpop, was largely due to an unfortunate overshadowing of Gaga’s musical talents by her eccentric persona. Since then, Gaga has attempted to strip away this persona to showcase her raw singing talent, first by collaborating with legend Tony Bennett on the […]
Demand more from online news
The line between news and entertainment has become increasingly obscured. The proliferation of media technology in the last 20 years has precipitated a veritable revolution in the ways the news is presented. Mobile phones and dot-com addresses have replaced the printed newspaper and television. These contemporary platforms have foregone the seemingly antiquated structures of the […]
Third debate was fierce, but covered little ground
In their final face-off, the presidential candidates didn’t try to talk about platforms.
DarkMatter performs intimate poetry session
Alok Vaid-Menon blew into the microphone. The two poets combined an intoxicating rustle with a subtle whistle through the loop station. They added layer after layer of subtle sounds that became water crashing on shore. The audience remained silent in awe as they created a painting with their lips. They lifted their hand from the […]
My Trojan Experience: College Expectations vs. Reality
In the months leading up to college, I subconsciously began forming expectations for what college life would be like. With each day college approached, my expectations grew higher. Simply put, I expected college to be fun and full with new experiences. I had completely disregarded the actual academic “school” part of college. My […]
Sips Tea: How To NOT Be Problematic This Halloween
Breaking news: It rained on Monday! Granted, it wasn’t a downpour or even a storm, but there were clouds and a drizzle, so it counts. It’s always been funny to me that as soon as one drop of rain hits the USC campus, students scatter. There is often a spike in absences that day (myself […]