Sustainable curriculum is a must


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USC often gets flak for not being among the most environmentally-friendly institutions. But what people don’t seem to notice is the university’s capacity to effect environmental change in the realm students and faculty come from all over the world to benefit from in the first place — education. The Education and Environment Initiative, which pioneered […]

Clippers owner casts sorry light on the industry


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Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is arguably one of the worst owners in professional sports. He has been (and still is) involved in countless discrimination lawsuits. He heckles his own players on the court and refused to pay for one of his longest-tenured assistant coach’s cancer treatments because they “didn’t fall under […]

Donation to the College should fund professors


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USC’s College of Letters, Arts & Sciences is all too often perceived as the university’s dowdy, bookish older sister. In the wake of a recession that caused a 25.6 percent drop in USC’s endowment — one of the largest hits among private institutions in the country — and a hiring freeze that lasted two years, […]

Competitive arena needs room for emotion


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It’s been popular to hate the Miami Heat this year. The championship parade before they even played a game and their early season struggles made them easy targets for critics from the beginning. So when Heat players cried in the locker room after a regular season loss to the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, fans and […]

“Calif. and USC must LEED the way”


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The U.S. Green Building Council recently named the top 10 states “with so-called green commercial and institutional structures,” according to the Los Angeles Times. California, surprisingly enough, didn’t make the cut.