USC serial fondlings are no laughing matter


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Over the past four months, USC students have received a sudden influx of email alerts from the Dept. of Public Safety, and it’s not just about a rise in cell phone theft. Since January, DPS has received 16 reports of sexual harassment near campus. In these 16 incidents, a man, who police suspect is the […]

Sen. Marco Rubio brings promise of American Dream


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In early 2010, Sen. Marco Rubio was polling at 3 percent in the U.S. Senate race against then Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. By April 2010, Crist dropped out to run as an independent because Rubio was overwhelming his chances with the Republican Party. On Nov. 1, the Wall Street Journal published an article called, “Who’s […]

Nuclear power offers clean source of energy


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With ongoing global negotiations to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities, we’ve heard quite a bit lately about nuclear power’s capacity as a weapon. North Korea has also been the subject of much defense speculation, earning United Nations sanctions for test launches held in recent years. Amid all the talk about nuclear power’s menacing threat, it is […]

It’s time for a woman president


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I’ll never forget seeing a picture of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, bending over at the waist, while a 5-year-old black boy reached up to touch Obama’s hair because the kid wanted to see if it felt like his. The image conveys a product of years of struggle for civil rights by people […]

Yemen’s failure is a reflection of civil unrest


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This week, a natural gas export plant in the Shabwa province of southern Yemen was shut down after being sieged by armed tribesmen. This latest setback after weeks of unrest in Yemen underscores a glaring truth of the Middle East’s poorest country: Yemen is a failed state. For years, many in both academic and popular […]

Media misinterprets response to article


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Amid the past year’s explosion of campus assault awareness, one September 2012 case stood as an emblem for the horrors of rape culture and its effect on college campuses. Now, the November 2014 Rolling Stone article vividly recounting the assault of “Jackie,” a student at the University of Virginia who used a version of her […]

Body cameras can’t provide indisputable evidence


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The shooting of Walter Scott by officer Michael Slager in North Charleston, South Carolina, this past week has brought last year’s outrage over Ferguson and Garner back to the front lines. Body cameras still seem to be America’s favorite solution to this problem. Mayor of South Charleston Keith Summey said that in response to the […]

To avoid tragedies, police forces need to apply body cameras


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Earlier this month, a brutal cell phone video emerged in which a white police officer shot an unarmed black man. Michael Slager, the officer who has been charged with murder, fired his pistol eight times, striking the victim, Walter Scott, in the back. Scott collapsed and died from his wounds a short while after. Critics […]

To save oceans, resolve acidification problem


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A 20th-century dictum on aquatic environmental protection proclaimed, “the solution to pollution is dilution.” The world’s oceans are so vast that it was believed that human output would ultimately yield a negligible effect on the global environment. Faced with unprecedented issues of planetary degradation resulting from a saturation of human byproducts, the foolishness of such an […]