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…Continue Reading…
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…Continue Reading…
It was the first time we beat UCLA in over two years. Since 1997, we won just four of twenty-two matches (source). Last season we finished 8-14 overall, 1-6 Pac-10. But we regrouped, and this year we’re having an amazing season. We’ve won every match so far (schedule). This year has been a complete turnaround….Continue Reading…
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…Continue Reading…
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. =) Then we went out and attempted to find two geocaches, which we couldn’t find….Continue Reading…
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…Continue Reading…