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."
The South Carolina GOP’s internal war has created a leadership vacuum. A populist Democrat could fill it, but only by abandoning the national party's playbook on social issues.
Cheating concerns are more real than ever, but the culprit isn’t AI; it’s stale assignments, poor pedagogy and broken IT infrastructure.
The first panel shows a phone with a red dead battery screen. The second panel shows a computer with a dead battery screen. The third panel shows a person sitting at a desk with a charger in hand and a look of contemplation on their face. The fourth panel shows the person slumped over their desk with a computer charger plugged into their ear.