For the past week or so, a lot of students and professors have been up in arms over the issue of the school’s administration reportedly ignoring the SCALE student group. They’re the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation. While I don’t claim to know all the details, the essential issue is that they’re trying to stop USC from using sweatshops for the USC clothing that’s sold in the Bookstore. To do this, they’ve tried a number of protests. On April 10, they held a sit-in outside President Sample’s office in Bovard. I read that at one point, they entered the building and began interfering in order to get attention and try to open dialogue with the university. This has grown to be a big issue, even with a letter of complaint being published in today’s Daily Trojan and signed by a long list of professors. Well, I disagree.
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In response to an article in the Daily Trojan, U.S. empire going way of the Romans.
What made the USA into the superpower that it is? Military spending. Where did most of the nation’s major technological advances in the past 100 years come from? Military spending.
The atomic bomb, nuclear energy, the Internet, and so on… all from military research.
It was the first time we beat UCLA in over two years. Since 1997, we won just four of twenty-two matches (source).
While having breakfast at EVK, I read an excellent article in the Daily Trojan by my friend Blessing Waung. The premise is that USC students wear other schools’ paraphernalia. She believes this is a bad thing, instead preferring that USC students wear nothing but cardinal and gold. (To read the article, see: Wearing rivals’ colors detracts from USC.)Â Although I certainly understand where Blessing is coming from, I respectfully disagree. When I see other students wearing the colors or logos of other schools, my respect for them does not decrease and, most of the time, it doesn’t bother me a bit. But before you start calling me a traitor, let me explain my reasons– then you can judge and let me know if you find fault with them.
I watched the start of the game, with George Lucas and the kickoff. It was 3-3 at halftime, and we watched the Michigan band play. My dad was siding with the University of Michigan, where he earned his undergraduate degree. =)
I don’t have much personal opinion to say about this, so I’ll pull a few quotes from news articles.
George Lucas made a public announcement today, September 20, saying that his Lucasfilm Foundation will give $175 million to the University of Southern California. This is the largest single donation the university has ever received. Part of the money will be used for the construction of a new 137,000-square foot, state-of-the-art home for the university’s acclaimed cinema school.
This article in the Daily Trojan is about the gas situation. I have two major points to make here.
- Using gasoline is economically beneficial. No other form of energy packs such a tremendously huge amount of power in a small space, especially in a liquid form that can be transferred that extremely high rates (compared to electricity).
- We will not run out of gas. As I learned in Professor Sproul’s microeconomics course, there is such a thing as the law of supply and demand. If the supply goes down, prices will go up, and demand will be satisfied. The only possible way a problem could arise is if the government forces gas prices to stay down at an artificially low level. If free market forces are allowed to work, then we’ll have as much gas as we need (or can afford).
I’ve decided to start posting some short comments on articles in the Daily Trojan, USC’s student newspaper. This particular article is interesting because it tries to advocate the view that people should stop worrying about Facebook’s changes. Here’s one sentence that makes me sick: Continue reading ‘DT: New Facebook just caters to our use of site’
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