It’s March 8. Dozens of young, eager J.Cole fans file into the Santa Ana Observatory on this mild Sunday night. Inside, the modestly sized venue is packed, seemingly beyond capacity, allowing Cole to send a message before even setting foot on stage – he is a force to be reckoned with. Cole is touring for his […]
Before you left for college, every adult in your life probably told you that these would be the best four years of your life. You arrived to USC bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to make the people who would end up being your sorority sisters or fraternity brothers for life, your new best friends, and your […]
As the Common Core is being rolled out into public schools this year, increasingly more parents across multiple states — Ohio, New Mexico and New Jersey — are opting their children out of Common Core exams. Why? Because the Common Core is just another standardised test among a slew of others that detracts from learning […]
Midterm week is full of mixed emotions. Most of us are probably crying over multiple midterms, inconvenient additional assignments and projects professors made due this week, and the fact that the only sleep we’re getting might be in Leavey. But at the same time Trojans, today is Wednesday which means you’ve almost made it through […]
CREAM’s opening this past weekend saw mountains of delicious ice cream, decadent cookies, and inhumanly long lines. Oh, the lines. The opening of CREAM drew humongous crowds for many of the same reasons that it will become the popular ice cream sandwich place: mostly, it’s delicious and also cheap — the sweet spot that launches […]
This spring break, I spent my time a bit differently than I would in the United States, and embarked on the classic four-countries-in-ten-days excursion with nothing but a backpack and iPhone camera in tow. In just over a week, my traveling buddy and I managed to make our way to Germany, Austria, Hungary and the […]
Tropical house has seen a wave of mainstream uptake in recent months through the success of producers like Thomas Jack and Kygo. For the past year, the Norwegian producer Matoma has been introducing his own flair to the tropical house craze, appealing to audiences through his dreamy revisits […]
A week ago, The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton, during the time that she served as secretary of state, corresponded exclusively through a personal email rather than through the government provided system. The extent of her usage of a personal account for government business is unheard of for her position, and should be […]
Midterm season is killing us all. You have three midterms in one day and you will probably spend the weekend locked up 24/7 in the library. There’s barely any time for eating, let alone cooking. So here you will find the perfect breakfast dish tailored for college students on a low budget and low on […]
I recently read something by Alice Walker about never walking in the same river twice, and though I might have read it before, her words really struck me profoundly as I set foot in Santiago again for my second semester. I had a conversation with another student from the United States who is also studying in […]