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COLUMN: Tiny fan sections ruin game experience


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Attendance issues at sporting events aren’t a new topic at USC. The problem was further magnified when the football team got off to a slow start last fall. There were swaths of empty seats in the Coliseum throughout the season, and it hurts my soul to know that one of the smallest crowds in the […]

COLUMN: Daniel McLaughlin speaks music


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The story of Daniel McLaughlin’s love of music begins, like any proper rock opera, with a badass grandma. “The first band that I was into was Green Day, the American Idiot album. I remember having my grandma take me into Borders before it went out of business. I wasn’t allowed to buy the album, but […]

COLUMN: Gender wage gap: the good, the bad, the ugly


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New research about the gender wage gap shows that for millennial women, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that, according to the Resolution Foundation, the gender wage gap for millennial women new to the workforce has dropped from 16 percent for Baby Boomers women to 5 percent for millenials. The […]

COLUMN: Here I go again: lessons for future me, from me


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I finished the journal I’ve been keeping since I was 17 this week. The last page of writing was basically a love letter to the book itself. I made a list of all the things it survived. Then I read through past entries. In one, I described uncontrollable itchiness and napping two or three times a […]

COLUMN: Challenges should not extinguish hope


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On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama delivered a bittersweet farewell address. After eight years as a poised, prepared and conscientious president, it is hard to think back to Obama as the young, springy senator who spoke of  hope so very long ago. But perhaps, deep down, hope had been his mantra since his time as […]

COLUMN: Football has to live up to top ranking


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We told you so! The Trojan family is still basking in post-Rose Bowl glory. All of our kicking and screaming late in the season feels validated after the epic victory in Pasadena — USC is one of the best teams in the nation, and redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Darnold is the real deal. And you […]

COLUMN: Rose Bowl still tastes sweet one week later


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It’s now over a week since it happened. The college football season also officially ended Monday, after Clemson completed a comeback that rivals even ’SC’s. We’ve even had a couple of Trojans declare for the NFL draft already, adding a bittersweet touch to an otherwise perfectly rosy season. It’s now perfectly acceptable for Trojan fans […]