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...
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...
“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.
