By Nate Rieder Last week I wrote about the numerous sizeable donations USC has received in recent years and how they seemed to be imprudent and selfish expenditures. To balance things out, I’ve decided to write about a recent multimillion-dollar contribution to USC that seems at long last to be aimed at a department that is actually in quite dire need. I’m a pretty sick … [Read more...] about The Wealthy: Helping USC Stay Healthy
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Coachella Me A River
By Andrew Ramirez * This past weekend, for the first time this year, LA was hit with white hot temperatures—some authentic, shirt-sticks-to-your-skin desert burn. So hot it felt good sitting in the shade listening to the radio like you were in a Norman Rockwell painting or something, drinking beer and eating watermelon. Two hours to the Southeast, the Coachella music … [Read more...] about Coachella Me A River
Life Lessons for Earthlings and Others: The Five Commandments
By Sarah Ingerson To my fellow horror movie lovers, this blog is a most momentous occassion because I have decided to analyze my favorite horror film of all time. And no, it’s not Psycho or The Exorcist. It’s something much, much better. The Nun. OoOo. It’s hilarious, and awesome, and surprisingly unscary for a horror film. To this day, pretty sure there was only one scary … [Read more...] about Life Lessons for Earthlings and Others: The Five Commandments
Acupuncture: Superstition to Science
There is a story in China about a peasant who worked as a maintenance man in a newly established Western hospital. When he retired, he took some hypodermic needles and antibiotics with him to his village. People came to him when they had ailments and he would inject them with the drugs he had procured. Although this peasant had no knowledge of Western medicine or how to … [Read more...] about Acupuncture: Superstition to Science
Dumb it Down: The John Doe Center For Unselfish Charity
By Nate Rieder In my four years at USC I’ve witnessed an unprecedented amount of massive financial donations being made to the school. And while I’m happy to bask in the glory of our beautiful campus and state of the art facilities, the money that USC receives from its benefactors still makes me feel a bit uneasy. In these tumultuous financial times, there seems to have … [Read more...] about Dumb it Down: The John Doe Center For Unselfish Charity