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Player's safety key to future NFL success

As much as football is a sport popularized by physical contact and big hits, it must be acknowledged that eventually those same hits that deliver high tv ratings could eventually lead to the downfall of the NFL.


In Our Opinion: Honor the past by maintaining its precedent

Until 1963, black students weren’t allowed to enroll at USC. It wasn’t until Sept. 11 that year — 50 years ago today — that Robert Anderson, James Solomon and Henrie Monteith Treadwell came to campus and walked out of Osborne as the first black students at USC since Reconstruction.


Mopeds, motorcycles need to stay off the sidewalks

A steadily growing problem, not unlike the cycling woes of pedestrians in the past, has become quite evident this semester as students continue to use sidewalks as moped lanes. One needs only to walk the short distance between Thomas Cooper Library and Russell House to see the ever-increasing number of mopeds incorrectly parked at bike racks in front of both buildings. There are rows of Taotaos and Vespas taking up the spaces bicycles should be occupying, according to campus parking policy. The Parking Services web page states, “Motorcycles and motor scooters must have a valid permit to park on campus.