Campus involvement: Get it while itâs fresh.
Think back to the memories from freshman year. The good ones, the bad ones and the ones I can only laugh about now â everything was so new and exciting. New faces and friends, trepidation over the unfamiliar academic requirements. I also remember standing on the vast shore of extracurricular options at USC and wondering [...]
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Universityâs designation as international safe community shows benefits of urban location.
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Beck has not been honest about his intentions, nor did his critics understand the true problem with his rally.
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A paradigm shift has occurred in the mindset of college students in the United States, leaving us to muse about how and why we became the Zuckerberg Youth and the implications of our Web 2.0 lives.
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Three unenrolled students came to my Spanish class the first day, hoping to finagle a spot on the roster. Two doggedly returned the following class, forcing the teacher to shoo them away with a pained expression  â her class was already one over the roster limit. The students left and the rest of the class [...]
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DPS has made strides to create a stronger presence west of campus; but there is more to be done to improve safety in the neglected area.
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Last week, thousands of proud seniors braved the intense California sun and the earliest Friday morning wake-up call since their freshman year general education classes to participate in the universityâs 127th annual commencement ceremony. Graduate students who received their postgraduate honors joined them. Also in attendance were five honorary degree recipients â William J. Bratton, [...]
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that consumers are finally spending money on more than just basic material goods again. Itâs been two years since retailers, restaurants and other merchants made significant profits. Women are starting to splurge on cute shoes, families are celebrating birthdays at their favorites restaurants and couples are opting to improve [...]
Read the rest of this article »Students should engage diversity at USC
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 âdiverselyâ 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 [...]
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As college students, we have a tendency to get bored. Really bored. But you canât blame us â 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 [...]
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