Weekender provides very fond memories


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I love the Weekender. We all love the Weekender. Nothing there is groundbreaking. The Weekender is a fun tradition, and the rivalry with Stanford over the past few years has made it all the more exciting. As a freshman, less than a month into my college experience, I made my first Weekender trip. It was, and […]

Stanford football has been on the rise


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For anyone looking for some interesting reading material on the five-hour drive up for the Weekender, the Stanford Daily has published quite the football story. Though Trojan die-hards would have to swallow their pride a little bit to get through it, it nonetheless provides some great context on the rivalry before going into this weekend’s […]

USC fall sports are more than football


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It’s no surprise that USC’s football team is the focus of campus in the fall. They’re preparing for their first conference game against No. 7 Stanford this Saturday. But although all the attention is on them, there are other teams in the fall who have started their seasons strong and deserve support from Trojan fans […]

99.9% makes for the perfect summer album


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During my junior year of high school, my friend Billy, who is my guru for everything in the world of electronic music, showed me something called a boiler room on YouTube after a session of mixing music. He explained to me that these were invite-only shows where an artist, usually a DJ-producer hybrid, would show […]

Questions still linger for football despite win


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The Trojan football team picked up a much-needed victory Saturday, with a workmanlike win over the Utah State Aggies. Although expected, it was encouraging to see the Trojans bounce back from the dejecting experience that took place in Arlington, Texas last week. It is infinitely better to enter next week’s matchup against Stanford with some […]

Football needs to rediscover confidence


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How do you know that your football program is having a bad start to the season? Let me count the ways: have two players embroil themselves in rape investigations and a third suspended for stomping on an opponent’s groin, have your best player get into a fight and walk out of practice, lose your starting […]

Standardized testing spotlights inequality


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Each year, students in California public schools sit to take the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress exam, which determines how prepared students are for college. Those test scores were just recently released, and while students in the Los Angeles Unified School District scored better on this year’s state standardized test than last year’s, […]

USC Football has broken discipline system


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When head coach Clay Helton was hired, there was a sigh of relief from fans who expected him to be the one to clean up the football program. Ever since the Reggie Bush debacle sent USC into a full-blown tailspin it has yet to recover from, there have been innumerable issues including the arrest and […]

USC will rebound from this disaster


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The USC football team must have thought Labor Day was Saturday. With the exception of a very solid first quarter, in which they somehow emerged with a 3-point lead, the Trojans essentially took the rest of the day off. When it was all said and done against the defending national champions in the most highly […]