Trojans shine in international competition


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The USC women’s lacrosse team may have endured a frustrating end to the 2017 campaign, losing to Boston College in a NCAA quarterfinal after entering the tournament with a 10-game winning streak. For associate head coach Devon Wills and senior goalie Gussie Johns, however, the offseason brought a memorable rebound. The USC duo was named […]

USC looks to veteran leadership to set tone, fill gaps


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The reigning Rose Bowl champion Trojans enter the 2017 season with lofty expectations after last season’s dramatic sprint through the finish line. USC concluded last season with a nine-game winning streak, capping it off with a dramatic 52-49 victory over Penn State in the Rose Bowl. The blazing finish to the 2016 campaign has accelerated […]

USC Village prepares to welcome 2,700 students home


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  USC Village and its eight new residential colleges will open its doors to about 2,700 undergraduate residents on Aug. 17. The $650 million project is currently undergoing final touches before its debut this fall. The introduction of eight new residential colleges will increase university housing options and expand the development of the University’s residential […]

Women’s volleyball hopes offseason adjustments pay dividends


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On the surface, the USC women’s volleyball program appears to have held steady through a placid offseason. The team’s core has remained mostly intact while only two freshmen have been added to the roster. Small changes, however — paired with player and personnel development — have accumulated since the spring as the team tries to […]

Eyeing repeat, women’s soccer prepares for national title defense


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Before current head coach Keidane McAlpine arrived at USC in 2014, the women’s soccer program was experiencing a downturn. The team had not compiled a winning record since 2010, and McAlpine knew there would be no quick, easy fix to right the ship. So the former Washington State coach instituted a three-year plan to change […]

Transparency is key to new USG term


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Even after the summer break, the words “Austin-Morgan” still conjure up a feeling similar to “Hillary 2016;” it was written previously in this publication that the USG presidential race rocked an already election-sensitive campus. Past the doubled trauma of watching yet another inexperienced outsider go head-to-head with another surreptitiously deceptive heir-apparent, the most important distinction […]

USC needs more female faculty in STEM


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Last year, USA Today ranked USC as the third best college for women studying STEM, citing that the number of women in tenured faculty positions in the sciences has tripled at the University since 2000. But, as with the age-old growth versus proficiency debate in education, the gender ratio among STEM faculty at the University […]

For a successful year, prioritize mental health


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With the advent of the highly anticipated USC Village, it almost seems as if students are arriving at a new university: bigger and brighter than ever before, if not somewhat marred by recent revelations surrounding former Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen Puliafito. And yet, amid romps through the new Target and afternoons spent sampling […]

DOJ stance on affirmative action is offensive to minorities


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At the end of July, The New York Times published a report about the latest Department of Justice investigation. The report read like a work of satire: Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be looking into racial discrimination toward white college applicants as a result of affirmative action policies. According to the internal document obtained by […]

For public safety, progress fights on


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A running joke depicts USC as the “University of Spoiled Children,” but to others, those letters also stand for the “University of Serious Crime.” Drivers instinctively lock their doors in the area; students and parents pore through College Confidential forums anxiously reading tales of theft and crime and every day, at 9 p.m., the campus […]