With a win over Long Beach State and an exciting double-overtime tie with San Diego, the USC women’s soccer team has started its season off on the right foot. In fact, the team nearly pulled out the victory over San Diego, as the Women of Troy outshot the Toreros 13-6 on the game (6-2 in […]
Senior cornerback and co-captain Josh Shaw has been suspended from all football activities indefinitely after he admitted about lying about the nature of the ankle injuries he sustained on Saturday night. On Sunday, USC Athletics released a statement saying that Shaw was out indefinitely after suffering two high ankle sprains because he leapt from a […]
The story behind USC senior defensive back Josh Shaw’s recent ankle injury took a bizarre turn today, as the validity of his version of events came into question. Head coach Steve Sarkisian announced at practice this morning that the athletic department had received several calls questioning Shaw’s claims that he suffered two high ankle sprains […]
UPDATE: This column ran in the Aug. 26 print edition of the Daily Trojan, prior to the development of new information regarding senior cornerback Josh Shaw’s injury. For up-to-the-minute information on the developing story, please click here and subscribe to the Daily Trojan Twitter account (@DailyTrojan). When news broke that senior cornerback Josh Shaw suffered […]
For many returning students, the events surrounding Welcome Week will bring back some fond memories. It might have been the place where they met their current roommate, or the group of friends they hang out with, or the time they found out that USC has a lot of random free food and awesome events because, […]
The four defendants accused of the murder of USC graduate engineering student Xinran Ji have pleaded not guilty, according to the Los Angeles Times. Ji, 24, was killed after being struck with a blunt force object in the street near 29th Street and Orchard Avenue on July 24. He returned to his home on the fourth floor of […]
The LAPD has reached out for help in their search for Derek Adam Seehausen, a 26-year-old student at the Keck School of Medicine who has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday. Seehausen is a white male, six feet tall, weighs about 180 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. LAPD authorities also […]
USC announced new safety measures to improve security on the University Park Campus and the surrounding neighborhood on Thursday. The measures include adding additional neighborhood security ambassadors, upgrading security technology, instituting new safety education measures and expanding the service area of Campus Cruiser. The announcement comes three weeks after Xinran Ji, a 24-year-old male graduate […]
Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a two-star U.S. Army general who held three advanced USC degrees, was killed in Afghanistan in an insider attack on Aug. 5. Greene, a native of upstate New York, was 55 years old. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene’s family, and the families of our soldiers […]
In the 44 years since its humble origins in the basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego Comic-Con has evolved into a pop culture Mecca, a sacred pilgrimage every geek worth his or her popcorn salt feels obligated to make at least once, even if it means enduring hellaciously long lines and exorbitantly priced […]