POINT: Uber surge pricing is a justice issue
Record New Year’s Eve prices showed that rider safety isn’t Uber’s priority.
Major-shaming ignores hardworking students
When I checked communication when applying to USC, I had no idea the stigma that would be attached to my major for the entirety of my undergraduate years. In case you have not heard, communication is a “joke” major — it is where you will find the most athletes and stereotypical sorority girls, so they […]
FOMO can be motivation, not isolation, for college seniors
No one likes to miss out. This is especially true for millennials tied to their phones, scrolling through Instagram timelines, refreshing Periscope live streams and watching Snapchat stories like it’s a reflex. If you wanted to, you could go a whole day knowing how your friends, classmates and that one person you once saw on […]
Education can stop cultural appropriation
When I was 19, I learned what cultural appropriation was. It was in a classroom at Stanford University in a white professor’s lesson called “Why cultural appropriation is never OK.” The professor presented many examples of how cultural appropriation manifests itself. The one example that stuck with me was one that I had committed many […]
POINT: LA’s new bike share program will revolutionize the city’s transportation
With the rising number of bike share programs in the United States, Southern California has at last caught up to the trend. Last Thursday, Breeze Bikeshare unveiled 500 bright green bikes on racks around Santa Monica and Venice, with plans to expand to other areas in the future. Using a kiosk system, the program allows […]
COUNTERPOINT: Bike share has the capacity to change Los Angeles, but will anyone actually use it?
When the first large-scale bike share in Los Angeles was unveiled a little over a week ago, environmentalists rejoiced at the opportunity for the city to finally lower the burdens for bike use in the city and hope to relieve some of the overwhelming traffic congestion that has come to define the area. And though […]
COLUMN: LAUSD needs proposed charter school initiative
Education is without a doubt one of the most important issues to Angelenos right now. And with the intent of many challenging existing programs to create ones which foster higher enrollment, graduation and retention rates, it is no surprise that the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education reviewed a report earlier this week which considers […]
Yale and Mizzou aren’t as similar as they seem
The University of Missouri and Yale University have garnered widespread attention in the last two weeks, and often in the same breath. But despite what their proximity in headlines may suggest, the events at each university have caught the public eye for different reasons. What they do have in common is that the coverage of […]
Even in tragedy, study abroad has value
This past Friday, as the world witnessed the tragedy in Paris unfold, I couldn’t stop thinking about study abroad. Those of us living half a world away heard news reports of shootings and explosions occurring in Paris, taking people’s lives in football stadiums and concert halls. The attacks, which ISIS claimed responsibility for, killed at […]
POINT: New ‘dorms for grownups’ address millennial need for companionship
On move-in day at the beginning of every fall semester, thousands of wide-eyed freshmen, armed with over-packed boxes and anxious parents, begin the complicated process of living with roommates in dorms or suites. The living space allows students new to the University to gain some independence while fostering social interaction, and resident assistants help them […]