While USC offers a reasonable number of vending machines located around campus, students often face issues with actually receiving the products they paid for. Paired with limited beverage and snack options, USC's laissez-faire vending policy in practice leaves a lot to be desired.
Shein uses the allure of low prices and the pressure of influencer marketing to convince young people to keep buying. A new fast-fashion wardrobe might help you feel trendy, but it's certainly not helping the planet or your finances.
So, what’s in our selection right now? Start with walking tours tied to campus historical markers and exhibits that interpret places you pass every day. Our goal is to make it easy — delightful, even — to encounter that history and to see how your own time at USC fits a larger continuum.
Gen Z’s political fatigue isn’t simple apathy — it’s a product of feeds that reward spectacle and speed. Repeated shocks desensitize attention, while economic pressure and gendered information climates reshape who shows up to vote.
The increasing emotionality in politics is threatening productive debates and must be reduced to allow for political change and a reduction in political polarization.
After losing nearly half its budget, USC’s Student Government has made funding so confusing that student groups are turning instead to SOFAB — a new university-run board that’s faster, simpler, and far more effective.
Other universities have shown how technology can make complicated campus histories accessible. USC should follow their lead and turn the Horseshoe into an interactive educational experience.
Laboratory work and research projects build career-ready skills that classrooms alone cannot teach. For STEM students, undergraduate research bridges theory and practice, helping them gain real-world experience and a strong foundation for their future careers.
By outsourcing struggle to machines, students trade real learning for convenience and weaken the very skills education is meant to build.
With all the expenses college brings, is an annual athletics fee of $300 a charge that every student should bear?
While housing options for upperclassmen multiply yearly, first-year students are left to manage rising costs and construction delays. Temporary arrangements have left many first-year students in undesirable situations for the first semester. Cramped, makeshift living situations with a looming mid-year move hardly uphold USC's "No. 1 first-year experience."
