The Israel-Hamas war has raged on for practically the entire academic year. In December, I wrote a column criticizing the USC administration’s response to the conflict. In the piece, I reprimanded the Daily Trojan, which has been woefully inept at covering the war. Protests have continued on campus in support of both sides, and the administration has been untested since it wrongfully suspended Professor...
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Madelyn Sequeira makes the argument that USC must provide more resources for pregnant undergraduate students – beyond access to abortion.
The war between Israel and Hamas has revealed potentially unseen levels of campus polarization concerning a single geopolitical issue. Student divisions have unveiled themselves along religious, cultural, and moral lines. Campus apologists for the unprovoked massacre and pogrom of October 7th have made their priorities clear: the ends justify the means. Hidden behind a faint shield of anticolonialism, students worldwide still cheer on the atrocity as mere freedom fighting.
Los Angeles, it is often observed, is a city of contrasts. A place famed for its celebrities and its street gangs, and where sunny days turn to neo-noir nights. On the streets near USC, you can find one of the most striking examples. Just a couple of blocks from the Romanesque Revival architecture and manicured lawns of campus lie tarpaulin tents pitched on concrete, ramshackle shelters to some of LA’s burgeoning population of rough sleepers...
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? The magic mirror, a mystical object most recognizable from the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White, encapsulates the Evil Queen’s envy and ego as she desperately searches for validation. Throughout the story, the Queen gazes into the mirror, summoning the trapped soul inside, pleading for it to tell her she is the most beautiful in all of the land. Alas, before the Queen meets her tragic ending, she is told that there is indeed someone more fair— her arch nemesis and stepdaughter, Snow Wh
“Gym culture and gym bros are so toxic and is so unhealthy” This is something I hear all the time from non-gym goers and gym criticizers on social media and on the internet as a whole. The issue is, they’re completely wrong.