For Gysin, wisdom comes with age


USC outside hitter Jessica Gysin is 23 now, a sixth-year senior working on her master’s degree in political science. It’s been a long road to this point in her career, so let’s recap. She was a highly touted recruit coming into USC, garnering such honors as Gatorade State Player of the Year, Volleyball Magazine’s National […]

‘Richard’ rests on character’s deformities


In truth, Shakespeare’s Richard III needs us far more than we need it. It is a play purely for the stage, not the classroom. Without an audience with which its titular villain can manufacture an all-important connection, the play is nothing but a poetic mess of political and literal backstabbing, a crude and unsubtle pageant […]