Olympic dreams


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Alumnus Corey White practices javelin on Cromwell Field on Monday. White, who holds the USC school record for farthest javelin throw (270 feet), is preparing for the 2012 London Olympic Games. White was 13 centimeters away from the Olympic “A” standard and qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Winning smile


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Scott Yamano, a ’98 alumnus, receives the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Marshall Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at its Annual Networking Day on Saturday. Yamano is CEO of Dedicated Media, a company focused on U.S. online media sales.

Regina Spektor’s latest single hints at a promising album


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Three years after the release of her album Far, Regina Spektor dropped her latest single “All the Rowboats,” this past Tuesday. For an artist whose work remains largely indefinable by the music world —her albums have been classified in every genre from pop to anti-folk— Spektor seems very aware of her goals for her own music. […]

Does Lindsay Lohan’s comeback begin now?


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Hosting Saturday Night Live Saturday, appearing for interviews on the Today show Thursday and gracing magazine pages, it seems as if Lohan is everywhere. While this may seem like blast from the past, I can assure you that it is actually the year 2012. At this point, everyone knows who Lindsay Lohan is. She was […]

Speaking up


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Alumna Geraldine Knatz, executive director for the Port of Los Angeles, speaks to attendees of the USC Women’s Conference about working in a male-dominated field. The sold-out conference brought together more than 1,600 women in venues across campus on Thursday.

Fashion photographer Christie Zinner’s work displayed at USC Library


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With the start of Women’s History Month and with Paris Fashion Week amongst us, what better time to look into the work of a game-changer and mover-and-shaker of the times: fashion photographer Christie Zinner. Around 1943, when the world’s first fashion-week took place in Paris as an intended distraction from World War II, fashion photographer […]

Kid Cudi and Dot da Genius cover Nirvana in new album


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Kid Cudi and Dot da Genius’ debut as the band WZRD released their self-titled album earlier this week. The album features a track cover of Nirvana’s rendition of the Lead Belly original “Where did you sleep last night.” Nirvana is known as the first and only band to have covered the song in homage to […]

Sweet charity


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USC Best Buddies sells cookies and cupcakes on the corner of University Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard on Wednesday as part of its annual bake sale. Proceeds from the bake sale will help fund Best Buddies, a nonprofit that creates one-on-one relationships and leadership development for people with developmental disabilities.