Photos test millennials’ ties with black history


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Every year, February rolls around and people in the United States scramble. We scramble because we’re thinking of how to celebrate Black History Month in a way that acknowledges the significance of the month. We know that it’s coming, but after 40 years of its official designation, it can sometimes seem like the month has […]

College ranking systems are inherently political

Lily Vaughan

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Very few things in life are purely objective. And yet, college students find themselves buying into the facade of infallibility presented by U.S. News and World Report’s hailed Best Colleges ranking system. And for another truism: almost nothing is apolitical. The Very Important College List is no exception. Like reality television, rankings are supposed to […]

Could a new search engine save patients?

Valerie Yu

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These days, considering the astronomical amount of information it has on you, chances are, your search engine has achieved creeper status. It probably knows the stores you frequent, the restaurants you’ve scanned Yelp for — and maybe even a few medical issues. At IBM, inventor James Kozloski recently filed a patent for technology that takes […]

Self-education is vital to political engagement


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If you haven’t heard by now, there’s a presidential election taking place. No, I’m not referring to the one on the USC campus for Undergraduate Student Government but instead the one for the White House. The bid for the U.S. presidency is revving up today, as all the candidates stump across Iowa and the state’s […]

New USG rules make elections democratic


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As Trojans across campus stand upon the precipice of another Undergraduate Student Government election season — candidates’ websites will go live on Thursday — they are also mentally preparing themselves for the barrage of Facebook profile picture changes, debates between candidates and frenetic Trousdale Parkway campaigning that will color the next few weeks. It’s heartening […]

In light of its unsavory history, rename Von KleinSmid Center

Lida Dianti

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Professor George Sanchez, the Vice Dean of Diversity and Strategic Initiatives for Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, compiled a selective timeline documenting the history of racism at USC at the diversity forum last Wednesday. Perhaps the most jarring of his findings was about the man the Von KleinSmid Center is named after: chancellor […]