Letter from the Editor


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There’s a sense of doomsday in the air. It isn’t just discouraged — it’s near-apocalyptic. Rapid fires blazed up and down California last week, engulfing Napa and Sonoma counties in the north and Orange County just an hour away from campus. We’re expecting The Big Earthquake any day now. A campus shooting scare marked the […]

When apathy is a moral disgrace


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When the nation elected Donald Trump to the presidency last November, it was the first election in recent memory that inspired such monumental emotion. At USC, when students streamed directly to Tommy Trojan in the heart of campus, a sense of community felt immediately necessary. The next morning, there were tears, and in the months […]

A new kind of echo chamber


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Perhaps President Donald Trump was right when he claimed that climate change is a hoax — despite increasing global temperatures, there are millions of young “snowflakes” at college campuses nationwide. The so-called snowflake generation has become defined by its diplomatic, fragile, politically correct culture that, as some politicians decry, has gone too far. “The American […]

Living apart, together


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We live in our own self-imposed exile. The existence of other ways of looking at things shocks us, outrages us, drives us to action — on the streets, in the voting booths and on social media. We don’t know “how the other half lives,” and for good reason — the other side often holds views […]

A digital disconnect


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America’s universities suffer from cognitive dissonance. We prop up institutions of higher education as harmonious laboratories of dialogue and marketplaces of ideas, but in reality, campuses remain divisive and polarizing. Sadly, the worst is yet to come. A 2016 Freshman Survey by the UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found that freshmen already arrive to campus […]
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