Students should engage diversity at USC


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At the beginning of this semester, I entered a Monday class early to find several students sporadically placed around the 50-seat room. The class was “diversely” composed of white Americans, Asian-Americans and international students from China, South Korea and India. When I entered the room the following Wednesday, the class had completely self-segregated, with each […]

Students have potential to add substance


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As college students, we have a tendency to get bored. Really bored. But you can’t blame us — our society today suffers from a hyperactive attention span, which has become problematic to say the least. Just take a look at the present state of popular culture. Audiences fixate on the latest thing in entertainment one […]

Letter to the editor


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Presence of guns creates a safer society John Gudenzi’s opinion article published April 23, titled “Presence of guns would trigger anxiety,” is laden with misrepresentations. The most heinous of them is the misrepresentation of the ruling by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which decided to revoke the earlier ruling — not on the basis of […]

Contentment should not be relative to others


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The next time an eyelash falls out of your eye, or the next time a ladybug lands on your arm, don’t wish for a happy future. Many of us, especially graduating seniors, have this seemingly innocent hope on our minds with the approaching summer. But when it comes to happiness, Buddhists seem to have had […]