COUNTERPOINT: To stop corruption scandals, strip universities of elitism


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It would be fair to ask “How do we stop this from continually happening?” Short of finding a way to fundamentally transform human nature, I’m not sure it’s possible. Wherever there are great concentrations of wealth, power and prestige —whether in governments, corporations, universities, churches or other institutions — there will always be tantalizing opportunities […]

POINT: Apply Title IX guidelines broadly to fight systemic abuse


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Another top University administrator is out at USC. David Carrera, USC’s vice president of advancement and health sciences development, is no longer working at USC while in the midst of an investigation into sexual harassment toward female colleagues. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Carrera is just the latest USC employee being investigated […]

Cross Section: For mental health, it’s time to talk solutions


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When I was a high school student, studying on the AP track at Ohio’s top public school, I heard two stories about plagiarism. First, that it is an accident a lot of the time. Second, that when it happens, you can get into serious trouble. In fact, I remember the perils of plagiarism being drilled […]

Response to Weinstein exposes GOP hypocrisy


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When Harvey Weinstein’s revolting behavior became public — when female actors stepped forward en masse to lament that they, too, had been subjects of Weinstein’s abuse, and producers and industry agents denounced and dropped him in droves, when he lost his job, lost friends, lost his marriage (all rightfully so) — all the GOP thought […]

You Do Uterus: The Republican War on Women helped make Harvey Weinstein


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America’s favorite “large adult son” and “very good boy” Donald Trump Jr. took a page from his father’s book this weekend, taking to Twitter to blast left-leaning politicians and celebrities alike for failing to immediately comment on sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer and Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein. “Thoughts on Harvey Weinstein?” he tweeted at […]

OPINION: Media diversity must include mental health


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Last week was Mental Illness Awareness Week, which surprised me. It was the first time I had heard of such a thing, even as someone who has recently been taking time to actively focus on mental health. There are a handful of awareness months dedicated to similar causes, which admirably acknowledges mental health awareness as […]

Narrative of ‘ungrateful’ minorities built on racism


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President Donald Trump is hardly a master of rhetoric, though the one positive thing that can be said about the commander-in-chief’s tweeting habit is that he’s efficient. Really. Even without the new 280-character limit, Trump attaches adjectives to nouns like no one’s business. Very few people he tweets about escape without a description: Secretary of […]

USC internships are pay-to-play


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Midway through a day at my internship, standing in line at a taco shop with a list of orders in my hand, my mind started to wander to an old PBS show I used to watch as a kid. Set in the midst of the American Revolution, a young man works as an apprentice in […]