COUNTERPOINT: Millennials need independence after college, not to be stuck with each other


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Designer Troy Evans has redefined the meaning of life after college — by bringing dorm living into the adult world. Earlier this month, Evans debuted his downtown Syracuse floor plans for dorms for grown-ups, or, as Evans likes to call it, “Commonspace.” Twenty-one microunits, each packed with a tiny kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, surround a […]

Is new LA affordable housing fund a sham?


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The Los Angeles County Supervisors recently devised a $100 million-a-year plan to combat the rampant issue of affordable housing by 2020. The affordable housing fund, authored by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas, was led last month by a unanimous vote in favor. The fund seeks to construct and maintain affordable housing, which might include […]

COLUMN: Unpaid internships aren’t cheap


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Just last week, I had the privilege of accepting my fifth unpaid internship. That’s a combination of five semesters or summers during which I have worked entirely voluntarily. I suppose I am officially a supporter and an advocate for the commonly despised unpaid internship. It’s not that I have not had any opportunities to earn […]

COLUMN: In age of social media, grieving is complicated


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The world that people my age are growing up in is not fit for saying goodbye. I’ve tossed around this idea before. It’s the over-discussed one that says technology has made life for millennials so convenient now. Social media lets us instantaneously connect or reconnect with people whom we haven’t seen in awhile. Today you’ll […]

COUNTERPOINT: Federal investigations finally put pressure on colleges to reform sexual assault policy


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As colleges across the country, under increasing federal and public pressure, have begun to increase enforcement for sexual assault policy, some have questioned whether federal intervention is a net positive, given the red tape, strict requirements and harsh punishments it entails. But using federal investigations as a reason to pump the brakes on sexual assault […]

POINT: Campuses, not the government, should be in charge of sexual assault


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One in five women will experience sexual assault at some point in her college career, most during their freshman or sophomore years. And as sexual assault becomes one of the most rapidly growing crimes in America and universities repeatedly show ambivalence toward rape victims, the national government has become involved. However, given the lack of […]

Steps need to be taken to reverse state drought


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If you know anything about California right now, you know the state is facing a severe — albeit man-made — drought. For the past four years, 37 million Californians in our state have suffered from the impacts of extreme to exceptional levels of drought throughout the region. In an effort to reverse current California Gov. […]

COLUMN: Coddled college student narrative is unproductive


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The journalistic pieces that decry the slow death of free speech at the hands of liberal universities show a peculiar trend of employing liberal rhetoric to do so. A recent piece for The Atlantic invokes the authority of various respected feminists and feminist organizations to illustrate how federal sexual harassment policies impede academic freedoms. This […]

Technology helps long-distance relationships


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Trojans breathed a sigh of relief as October came to a close. By Sunday, we had scrambled to put together and successfully rock our Halloweekend outfits and picked out our classes for next semester. Some of us received our LSAT scores and study abroad acceptance emails. To top it all off, daylight saving time gave […]

COLUMN: Prop 47 will help reduce overcrowding in prisons


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The stigma regarding those who hold non-violent drug-related offenses is rampant in California. Though under Proposition 47, these offenders have the opportunity for shorter sentences in prison, they are faced with greater issues once they are released from jail: being labeled as unproductive members of society, being unable to build careers and likely committing future […]