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		<title>USC soccer parts ways with Head Coach Jane Alukonis</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Following a disappointing season, the University will search for a new coach for the 2027 season.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/06/usc-soccer-parts-ways-with-head-coach-jane-alukonis/">USC soccer parts ways with Head Coach Jane Alukonis</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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<p>Following a disappointing season, the University will search for a new coach for the 2027 season.</p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-22sdvs7l-1dbde92ac0729318e9fb8073951fa44b '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop="text" ><h6><span style="font-weight: 400;">Head Coach Jane Alukonis, pictured in August 2025, is parting ways with USC soccer after five seasons at the helm. (Henry Kofman / Daily Trojan file photo)</span></h6>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite accumulating a 50-26-19 record during her tenure, the team saw its worst season under Alukonis in 2026, going 2-10-6 — its fewest wins since the program’s inaugural 1993 season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following three successful seasons at the helm to start her career with the Trojans, including the University’s first-ever Big Ten title two years ago in its first season in the conference, Alukonis and USC saw a steep decline in 2025 with a .500 record. The downhill trend extended into this season with the worst conference record in program history, failing to record more than three wins in conference play for the first time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will start the search for a new coach immediately, looking around the nation, according to the press release.</span></p>
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<h1><strong>Los dominicanos tenemos que desaprender el racismo contra los haitianos</strong></h1>
<p>Comentarios recientes de Alofoke son parte de una historia de antihaitianismo.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al ser dominicana, gran parte del lenguaje que escuché en mi juventud fue racista. El ejemplo más común es que al pelo lacio las personas le decían “pelo bueno” y al pelo rizado, “pelo malo”. Cuando era niña, no le daba importancia. Simplemente era como se decía. Era una forma de hablar común, igual que decir “vaina” en vez de “cosa” o “que lo que” para saludar a tus amigos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">También me pasé casi toda la vida escuchando sobre cómo las mujeres del Cibao, el norte del país, son más bonitas que las mujeres capitaleñas, del sur. La única “lógica” de este pensamiento era que las cibaeñas tenían la piel más clara y el pelo más liso. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He escuchado últimamente a muchos decirme las palabras “I no Black, I Dominican” cuando les digo de dónde soy. La frase viene de un meme popular, y a veces lo que quiero es ponerme a la defensiva, especialmente cuando me lo dice una persona que no es latina y no sabe nada sobre mi país ni sobre los problemas que nos afectan. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pero también debo reconocer que el meme viene de un lugar de verdades, ya que he sido testigo de demasiados dominicanos que reaccionan a que les digas que tienen piel oscura como si fuera el mayor insulto.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ser dominicana es uno de los orgullos más grandes de mi vida. Somos los creadores del merengue y de la bachata y, más recientemente, del dembow, un estilo de música urbana que está creciendo día a día. Venimos de una isla pequeña con, en mi opinión, las playas más hermosas y los mejores jugadores de béisbol. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pero por todo el orgullo que tengo, debo reconocer que hay una gran diferencia entre el patriotismo y el nacionalismo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Podría escribir un libro completo sobre la historia de mi país y las raíces de estos pensamientos que han existido por siglos, pero mi motivo con este artículo no es educar sobre la historia de mi país. Lo que quiero hacer es condenar al antihaitianismo, que es dirigido contra quienes comparten la isla de Hispaniola con la República Dominicana. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En octubre, el equipo nacional de fútbol de Haití le ganó al equipo nacional de la República Dominicana en Santo Domingo. Para muchos dominicanos, fue una derrota bastante dura, ya que nos ganaron en nuestra capital. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al día siguiente, el presentador de radio e influencer Santiago Matías, reconocido como Alofoke, escribió más de 10 mensajes en X con lenguaje derogatorio y racista contra los haitianos. Insinuó que los dominicanos deberían invadir Haití y “convertirlos en [sus] esclavos”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alofoke no es un cualquiera con un micrófono. Es un presentador que tiene una asociación profesional con Sony y es el fundador de Alofoke FM, una de las emisoras más grandes de Santo Domingo. También es el fundador de Dominicanos Primero, un partido político independiente que lo respalda como candidato presidencial para el 2028. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lo que más me duele sobre la situación es que en casi cada mensaje, al lado de palabras ofensivas y asquerosas, Alofoke puso la bandera dominicana — una bandera que he llevado con tanto orgullo por toda mi vida. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alofoke no representa a todos los dominicanos, y sí existen dominicanos que se pronuncian en contra del odio. Pero también hay muchos que, aunque no sean tan extremos o vocales como Alofoke, simplemente no les importa lo suficiente como para ser defensores.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Desde 1930 hasta 1961, había un dictador en la República Dominicana que fue entrenado por los Estados Unidos llamado Rafael Trujillo, o “El Jefe”. Trujillo es recordado por su brutalidad contra los dominicanos, pero casi nunca escucho a dominicanos mencionar la Masacre de Perejil de 1937.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La masacre fue una matanza auspiciada por el estado que resultó en la muerte de entre 9.000 y 30.000 haitianos viviendo en la frontera de Haití y República Dominicana. La dictadura de Trujillo no es una parte bonita de nuestra historia, pero si honramos a los dominicanos que murieron, deberíamos también honrar a los haitianos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los haitianos que nacen en la República Dominicana ni siquiera pueden ser ciudadanos del país si sus padres están indocumentados. No tienen nacionalidad oficial en ningún país, y muchas de estas personas ni siquiera han pisado Haití.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Me hace triste y decepcionada, especialmente porque cuando los dominicanos y otros latinoamericanos vienen a los EE.UU. en búsqueda de una vida mejor, a nosotros también nos tratan mal. ¿Cómo podemos tener esa experiencia y después hacerlo nosotros mismos a otros en nuestro propio país? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El racismo casual nos hace daño a todos, y cuando personas con la influencia que tiene Alofoke se sienten autorizadas a difundir odio, solo es una culminación de lo que hemos dejado crecer al no usar nuestras voces y decir que está mal. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mis padres me criaron a ser orgullosa de donde vengo, tanto que tengo mi ciudadanía dominicana y votaré en las elecciones, pero cuando amas a tu país, tienes una responsabilidad de señalar sus errores. Unidos, yo sé que podemos ser más fuertes. </span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Del aula a la clínica: el español que no se aprende en la clase</span></h1>
<p>Solamente cumplir con el requisito de idioma no es suficiente, hay que aprender.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Durante toda la extracción, el niño me tomó de la mano mientras yo ayudaba al dentista con mi otra mano. En ese momento, yo no era solo una voluntaria, sino que era alguien en quien él confiaba.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Como voluntaria de la Thousand Smiles Foundation, cada tres meses ayudo a traducir para los pacientes y los profesionales de la salud. Ese día, cuando empecé a hablar con su madre para explicarle el procedimiento, me di cuenta de que ella era sorda y no podía hablar. La única persona con quien podía comunicarme era el paciente: un niño nervioso que solo hablaba español. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unos minutos antes, estábamos hablando del Mundial y de qué equipo apoyaba el niño. Poco a poco, él empezó a sonreír y hablar más. Cuando llegó el momento de sacar el diente, el niño ya no parecía tener tanto miedo.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Había estudiado español desde el kínder, pero ninguna clase me había preparado para un momento como este. Mi español no era perfecto y no sabía todas las palabras médicas, pero pude ayudar a un paciente a sentirse tranquilo. Ese día, aprendí algo que ninguna clase me había enseñado: estudiar un idioma es diferente de usarlo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En una ciudad con tanta diversidad de idiomas como Los Ángeles, el español es necesario para trabajar en el campo de la salud. Sin embargo, cumplir con el requisito de idioma no es suficiente. Los estudiantes de USC, especialmente los de pre-salud, deben aprender practicar español con pacientes reales. Aprender un idioma no es solo hablar correctamente y usar la gramática correcta, sino también es una forma de conectar con otras personas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cuando llegué a USC, ya había cumplido con el requisito de idioma, podría haber dejado de estudiar español, pero mientras hacía voluntariado, mis experiencias con pacientes que hablaban español me hicieron cambiar de opinión. Mi aprendizaje del español no había terminado; apenas estaba comenzando. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Me di cuenta de que todavía tenía mucho que aprender, especialmente en situaciones médicas. Por eso, este año decidí estudiar español como mi especialización secundaria. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este semestre, empecé a observar a un cirujano ortopédico pediátrico. Un día entré con él a una sala para examinar a una niña que tenía algunas vértebras unidas y que necesitaría una cirugía para corregir su columna vertebral cuando fuera un poco mayor. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mientras el doctor mostraba las radiografías de su columna en la computadora, los padres que no hablaban inglés miraban las imágenes con miedo en sus ojos. El padre sacó su teléfono para abrir una aplicación de traducción. Antes de que pudiera escribir o decir algo, el doctor dijo: “Puedo explicarles las radiografías de su hija en español. Si tienen alguna pregunta, pueden preguntarme.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los padres se miraron con alivio y guardaron el teléfono. Mientras yo estaba en una esquina de la sala, observé cómo sus expresiones de miedo cambiaron y empezaron a hacer preguntas y describir las dificultades que tenía su hija para moverse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Después de observar esta conversación, aprendí que hablar el idioma de un paciente hace más que facilitar la comunicación. Permite que las familias participen en conversaciones sobre su propia salud y se sientan cómodas expresando sus preocupaciones. Este era el tipo de relación y conexión que yo quería tener con mis pacientes en el futuro cuando fuera una doctora.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Esta experiencia me recordó a mi propia familia. Como hija de inmigrantes de Irán, crecí viendo cómo las barreras del idioma afectaban a mis padres y especialmente a mi abuela durante sus citas médicas. Sin mi madre, muchas veces ella estaba nerviosa y no hablaba mucho, pero cuando mi madre traducía para ella, se sentía más cómoda para hacer preguntas sobre su salud. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ver esto cuando era pequeña me enseñó que los pacientes no deberían depender de sus familias para sentirse comprendidos por sus doctores. Ahora, gracias a mis experiencias en clínicas, entiendo por qué aprender otros idiomas es tan importante para los estudiantes que quieren ser futuros profesionales de la salud. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En mi clase de “Advanced Spanish: Arts and Sciences”, aprendemos gramática, vocabulario y cómo comunicarnos en diferentes situaciones. Aunque estas clases me han dado una buena base, hablar español con mis compañeros es diferente de usarlo con pacientes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En la clínica dental de Thousand Smiles Foundation, a veces era difícil encontrar las palabras médicas correctas y tenía que buscar otra manera de explicar las cosas que quería decir. Estos momentos me enseñaron que lo que aprendemos en clase es solo el primer paso.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Por supuesto, saber un poco de español no puede reemplazar a los intérpretes médicos profesionales, especialmente cuando se necesitan explicar diagnósticos o riesgos de un tratamiento difícil. Sin embargo, hasta una conversación sencilla en español puede ayudar a los pacientes a sentirse más cómodos y a confiar en sus doctores. Esto puede hacer una gran diferencia para un paciente que tiene miedo y necesita preguntar sobre su salud.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mientras los estudiantes de USC se preparan para inscribirse en las clases del próximo semestre, recomiendo que los estudiantes de pre-salud sigan estudiando español aunque ya hayan cumplido con el requisito de idioma. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pueden tomar clases de español médico como “Spanish for the Professions” o “Medical Spanish for the Health Professions” y hacer voluntariado en organizaciones como Mobile Clinic at USC y Flying Samaritans para practicar con pacientes reales.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todavía recuerdo al niño que no quería soltar mi mano y a los padres que tenían miedo. Aunque mi español no es perfecto, puedo ayudar a mis pacientes a sentirse más seguros durante momentos difíciles como estos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para el niño y los padres, lo más importante no era escuchar todas las palabras perfectas, sino que había alguien que podía escucharlas y entenderlas. Al final, eso es lo que quiero que todos mis futuros pacientes sientan cuando entren a mi consultorio. Quiero ofrecerles mi mano cuando tengan miedo y recordarles que los escucho y que estoy aquí para ayudarlos.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jose Ugarte está ganando aproximadamente 5 % más votos que su adversario. </span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-u352wa-c36e33b53342405d712fe1eb4267be72 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop="text" ><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jose Ugarte y Estuardo Mazariegos son candidatos para el distrito 9, que incluye a USC. (</span>Los Angeles City Council District 9 / Wikimedia and Mike Dennis. Modified.)</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al momento de la publicación, Jose Ugarte tiene la mayoría de los votos con </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">52,5 % y el</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> otro candidato, Estuardo Mazariegos, tiene 47,5 %.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El distrito 9 incluye USC, Exposition Park y varios sitios para las Olimpiadas y los Juegos Paralímpicos de verano de 2028. En esta elección hay 29.275 y contando</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> comparado con la última elección en la que el actual miembro del ayuntamiento, Curren Price, ganó, que tenía 12.528 votos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johanna Maska, estratega de campaña para el expresidente Barack Obama por ocho años, enfatizó la importancia del voto de los jóvenes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Los jóvenes tienen que conocer su poder en las elecciones locales y saber qué tan importante es ponerle atención a su gobierno local”, dijo Maska en inglés. “Porque cuando tengan algún problema, su representante local puede ayudarles más rápido a navegar el gobierno.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ugarte había sido respaldado por Price; él será el primer representante que no sea nNnegro para el Distrito 9 desde 1963. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Según el sitio web de su campaña electoral, Ugarte llegó a L.A. de niño, habiendo nacido en Oaxaca, México, y al inicio sin papeles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creció en la ciudad y luego empezó una carrera en política nacional, incluso trabajando para la campaña de Obama en Nevada. Después regresó a L.A. y ha estado trabajando en proyectos públicos desde 2013. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Jose ha sido instrumental en traer inversiones importantes al Sur de Los Ángeles, incluso en proyectos transformativos como la renovación del L.A. Memorial Coliseum, la construcción del LA Football Club Stadium y el desarrollo del George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art”, dice el sitio web de Ugarte en inglés.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Su adversario Mazariegos es originario de Guatemala y es codirector de la Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Ha sido respaldado por el capítulo local de los Democratic Socialists of America, la organización que también respaldó a la alcaldesa electa, Nithya Raman, y a la recién elegida </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Angela Gonzales-Torres en California District 34.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Otros miembros del DSA incluyen al alcalde de Nueva York, Zohran Mamdani, y más recientemente, a seis nuevos miembros de la House of Representatives, quienes también fueron elegidos en estas elecciones.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yo diría que los candidatos de la DSA están saliendo bien por los EE.UU. con buena razón. Les caen bien a la población que está enfrentando dificultades”, dijo Jaiya Chetram, un estudiante de </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">tercer</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> año estudiando artes dramáticas, en inglés. “Están luchando por la gente, y yo creo que es una cosa buena y beneficiosa”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hassan Zuniga Cruz, un organizador principal para ACCE, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ha trabajado junto a Mazar</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">iegos en varios proyectos en su comunidad. Zuniga Cruz </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">cree</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> que un tema importante en esta elección es la gentrificación que sigue creciendo, en parte por Airbnb y también por la expansión de alojamientos para estudiantes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tal vez ustedes no saben, como estudiantes, que fuera de esta burbuja donde viven, hay una comunidad de clase trabajadora”, dijo Zuniga Cruz en inglés. “Hay gente que está compitiendo con ustedes para obtener alojamiento asequible … pero desafortunadamente, así es el mercado”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Una mayor diferencia entre las dos campañas fue la fuente de sus patrocinadores. Mazariegos colectó el 71% de sus fondos de donantes dentro de L.A., mientras que Ugarte recogió casi la mitad desde fuera de la ciudad.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Mazariegos] rechaza todo dinero de [corporate PACs], desarrolladores de bienes raíces y asociaciones policiales&#8221;, dice el sitio web de Mazariegos en inglés.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Las dos campañas han recibido dinero de varios grupos externos. Según un artículo del Los Angeles Basin, Ugarte recibió más de $300.000 de un comité organizado por Airbnb y más de $200.000 de la Asociación de Apartamentos de California. Mazariegos recibió más de $200.000 de United Teachers Los Angeles y ACCE.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Cualquier candidato que gane va a tener que seguir la lucha y parar [la gentrificación],” dijo Zuniga Cruz en inglés. “[Si no,] la gente va a seguir siendo empujada a las calles, siendo estudiantes o miembros de la comunidad, porque no podemos pagar por el alojamiento”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En esta elección, el número de personas que salieron a votar en el condado de L.A. ya ha superado el de la última elección intermedia. Por el momento, 32% de los votantes registrados votaron en este ciclo, en comparación con 28% en 2022.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maska </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">dijo</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> que es importante quedarse al tanto de las acciones del gobierno para poder monitorear el cambio que está pasando y ver el impacto de su voto.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A [los votantes jóvenes] les importa el resultado, pero cuando se involucran, y votan, y se quedan involucrados después de votar, es ahí que logran a hacer cambio”, dijo Maska en inglés.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La clavadista está en su primer año en la Universidad después de haber practicado clavados más de 10 años</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Núñez Sanchez recibió el honor al lado de dos olímpicos, Krzysztof Chmielewski y Minna Abraham.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Núñez Sanchez empezó con clavados a los ocho años. Quedó inspirada porque los clavados se parecían a la gimnasia, según su madre, Dora Sanchez. Durante los últimos 10 años, Núñez Sanchez competía haciendo clavados representando a su estado, Guanajuato, en niveles nacionales e internacionales. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Núñez Sanchez] es muy persistente, entonces ella no ha quitado la vista de su objetivo”, dijo Arlette Niño, una prima de Núñez Sanchez.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Núñez Sanchez estudió en el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey antes de venir a USC para estudiar geodiseño. En 2022 compitió en el FINA World Junior Diving Championships.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[USC tiene] un programa deportivo y académico increíble”, dijo Núñez Sanchez. “Me gustó mucho que nos den la oportunidad de poder seguir practicando el deporte que amo y al mismo tiempo continuar con mis estudios”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanchez dijo que ir a los Estados Unidos fue una meta para su hija desde los 15 años, cuando fue a Canadá a participar en una competencia de clavados. Núñez</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Sanchez</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> trabajó y practicó durante varios años para llegar a USC. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nattalia ha sido una niña muy perseverante, siempre disciplinada también”, dijo Sanchez. “Es una niña que trabaja por lo que sueña, y sé que el sueño no se terminó cuando se fue de [México] para la USC. … Viene en sueños más grandes y por los que no dude en que los va a alcanzar”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ir de la escuela preparatoria hasta la universidad es una transición grande, e ir de México a los EE.UU. durante esa transición fue difícil al inicio para Núñez Sanchez. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ha sido algo difícil … pero he aprendido muchísimas cosas estando acá sola sin mi familia [y] sin mis entrenadores en México”, dijo Núñez Sanchez. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aunque adaptarse fue un obstáculo, ella dijo que ha podido hacerlo rápido por los recursos que le ofrece USC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Acá nos ofrecen literalmente todo … buena alimentación, recuperación y todas las personas también han sido súper atentas”, dijo Núñez Sanchez. “No he tenido la oportunidad de sentirme [nostálgica], entonces se puede decir que [la transición] va bien”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Además de describirla como trabajadora con mucha disciplina, la familia de Núñez Sanchez también dijo que es empática y trabaja bien en equipo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[En] cualquier lugar que vaya, [Núñez Sanchez] es una persona que con el simple hecho de conocerla [o] acercarte a ella es algo muy bonito. Es una persona que vale la pena tener, ya sea en tu equipo, de amiga, de familia, de todo”, dijo Niño. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El equipo de clavados de USC abrió su temporada </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">el 23 de octubre en Bloomington, Ind</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">iana. Núñez Sanchez dijo que le pudo haber ido mejor en su </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">primera competencia universitaria.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Pero me sirvió para aprender cómo son las competencias acá. … Estoy emocionada por seguir mejorando y representar [USC] en futuras competencias”, dijo Núñez Sanchez.  </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pablo Rodriguez contribuyó a este reporte. </span></i></p>
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<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;"> LatiFAM crea oportunidades para estudiantes latines interesados en el cine</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> La organización busca crear un espacio de comunidad y apoyo para estudiantes.</span></p>
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<div class='flex_cell av-1iqn523y-3e65d68fe0b1ac188a04c711d394219b av-gridrow-cell av_one_fourth no_margin av-hide-on-mobile  avia-builder-el-12  el_before_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  content-align-top'  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'></div></div><div class='flex_cell av-1eiqmmr2-5c2fa56992e0f26a777ce17ff451c0bb av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_cell_one_fourth  el_before_av_cell_one_fourth '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m9metg0g-1b707955fe0ef5a970c6add06d1bed30 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop="text" ><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para estudiantes latines que están interesados en tener una carrera en cine y entretenimiento, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">encontrar personas con intereses y experiencias similares puede ser difícil.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Los estudiantes en USC tienen la oportunidad de unirse al Latine Film And Media Association.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">LatiFAM es una organización multicultural en la USC School of Cinematic Arts. La organización reúne a estudiantes con diferentes experiencias y especialidades académicas que comparten el mismo interés por el cine y quieren crear más oportunidades para las voces latines en la industria del entretenimiento. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aunque la mayoría de los miembros están estudiando cinematografía, ese no es un requisito para ser miembro. Tampoco es un requisito ser latine para unirse a esta organización. Los </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">copresidentes</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de LatiFAM, Samantha Caldera y </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenny Tapia-Ramos</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, hicieron esto muy claro. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[LatiFAM] solamente es para crear un sentido de comunidad entre latinos y cine aquí en el campus”, dijo Caldera, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">una estudiante en su tercer año estudiando producción de cine y televisi</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ón, en inglés.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para Caldera, unirse a LatiFAM fue una manera de ayudarla a encontrar comunidad. Ella empezó en USC como estudiante de ingeniería y después se transfirió a SCA. Cuando se unió a SCA, aún no se sentía como que tenía su lugar, especialmente porque había muy pocas otras personas latinas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Después de escuchar sobre LatiFAM de algunos amigos, ella decidió hacerse miembro. Ahora, como copresidenta, Caldera espera hacer la organización más activa y ayudar a más estudiantes a involucrarse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tapia</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Ramos</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, un est</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">udiante en su cuarto año</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> estudiando gestión escénica, dijo que la organización es más que simplemente traer a estudiantes latines juntos para ver películas. LatiFAM usa hojas informativas y oportunidades de establecer contactos para ayudar a que los estudiantes tengan oportunidades fuera de USC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Es una organización que da la bienvenida a estudiantes principiantes”, dijo Tapia</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Ramos</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> en inglés. “No hace falta estar necesariamente tan orientado ni tan informado como lo están los chicos del cine”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los dos copresidentes están de acuerdo en que una de las partes más importantes de LatiFAM es hacer que los estudiantes sientan que pueden tener una carrera profesional en un área donde puede ser difícil entrar. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isabella Mancinas, una estudiante de tercer año que estudia comunicación e inteligencia y operaciones cibernéticas, también </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">forma parte del comité directivo como directora de comunicaciones</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Mancinas se enteró de LatiFam antes de comenzar en USC, cuando una estudiante que conocía le recomendó la organización. Después de asistir a una demostración gratuita de una película, decidió mantenerse involucrada. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Como directora de comunicaciones, Mancinas se encarga de reunir oportunidades de cine, desarrollo profesional, proyecciones locales y actividades accesibles en Los Ángeles para compartirlas con los miembros de LatiFAM. También dijo que la organización está intentando ampliar su presencia en redes sociales y hacer que su boletín sea más fácil de compartir para atraer a nuevos estudiantes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mancinas también señala que conseguir el primer trabajo puede ser uno de los obstáculos más difíciles para quienes quieren entrar a la industria. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A veces, equipos de producción nos mandan mensajes por Instagram y dicen que están buscando llenar ciertas posiciones”, Mancinas dijo en inglés.  “Ponemos esto en los correos porque para la producción de cine específicamente, gente o compañías buscan esa experiencia”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Algo de lo cual los dos copresidentes están muy orgullosos es el festival anual de cine. El festival exhibe películas que tienen a actores, directores, productores y escritores latines. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El evento da la oportunidad a estudiantes, personas establecidas y a cineastas emergentes para compartir sus proyectos. El festival también incluye sesiones de preguntas y respuestas con personas que trabajan en la industria. Esto les da la oportunidad a los estudiantes de escuchar a expertos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mancinas dijo que también es importante que el festival represente diferentes culturas y experiencias dentro de la comunidad latine. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Definitivamente no quisiéramos que nuestro festival de cine fuera monoétnico”, dijo Mancinas en inglés. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mancinas</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentar historias de distintas comunidades es importante para que más personas puedan sentirse representadas en las películas. Aunque considera que actualmente hay más representación latina en los medios que cuando era pequeña, Mancinas dijo que todavía existen estereotipos en los papeles que reciben los actores latinos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Siento que las personas todavía son encasilladas en ciertos papeles, como el de la latina atrevida”, dijo Mancinas en inglés. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para Mancinas, LatiFAM también busca demostrar que cualquier persona puede formar parte de la industria del cine y apoyar a los estudiantes mientras desarrollan sus carreras. La organización quiere ayudar a sus miembros a tener conexiones y oportunidades necesarias para perseguir sus intereses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nuestro objetivo es educar y creo que eso es nuestro gran objetivo”,  dijo Caldera en inglés. “Solo queremos demostrar que es alcanzable”.</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC celebra a los estudiantes de primera generación</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El lunes el First Generation Student Assembly organizó un evento para estudiantes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La celebración tenía una actuación de la </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/30/trojan-marching-band/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trojan Marching Band</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, donde tocaron canciones para conmemorar a los estudiantes de primera generación en el campus. La asamblea planeó varias actividades y se enfocó en enfatizar lo que significa ser primera generación y por qué este tipo de representación es importante en la universidad.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“En realidad, hoy es el día actual conocido como el día de primera generación”, dijo Jose Calderon, un estudiante de segundo año estudiando neurociencias, en inglés. “Entonces, poder decirle a la gente que hoy se celebra … se siente muy especial porque, como estudiante de primera generación y siendo una minoría, me hace sentir visto, y lo aprecio”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Varios estudiantes participaron en las actividades y miembros de la asamblea se reunieron para socializar con otros estudiantes de primera generación. En una mesa, había notas adhesivas donde los estudiantes escribían palabras de afirmación y motivación para otros estudiantes de primera generación. Luego, los estudiantes las pegaban en un póster que decía “First-Gen” y se tomaban fotos frente a él. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“El propósito de esta asamblea es formar una comunidad … para los estudiantes [de primera generación] que batallan cuando tratan de encontrar una comunidad”, dijo David Gonzalez, un estudiante de tercer año estudiando industria de la música, en inglés. “Yo, formando parte de esta comunidad, he notado que he creado buenas amistades con las que puedo contar en el futuro, y se sienten buenas vibras aquí”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los miembros de la asamblea repartieron galletas, y mercancía de USC. Mientras daban regalos, también participaban y socializaban con otros estudiantes que compartían la misma experiencia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Algunos estudiantes describen la experiencia de ser el primero en su familia en asistir a la universidad como una situación difícil, pero dicen que vale la pena. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Es difícil navegar por algunas cosas, como la ayuda financiera”, dijo Brianna Gutierrez, una estudiante de primer año estudiando filosofía, política y economía, en inglés. “Pero estando en esta asamblea, encontré una comunidad que me puede ayudar y apoyarme. … Mis papás nunca fueron a la universidad, así que estar en esta posición me motiva a completar esta meta”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muchas de las notas adhesivas en el evento leían cosas como “No te des por vencido,” “Recuerda que tu trabajo vale la pena&#8221;, y varios estudiantes se quedaban a leer las notas. Fue un evento donde hubo representación, inclusión, y sobre todo, apreciación para todo tipo de estudiante de primera generación que se esfuerza en este capítulo de sus vidas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aun así, este evento solo abre una introducción a las festividades, donde la asamblea y USC estarán presentando una semana llena de eventos y actividades. Cada tarde, habrá eventos que conmemoran a los estudiantes de primera generación, ya sean eventos sociales de talento o otros donde se harán manualidades. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La semana de primera generación continuará con mucha diversión hasta el 6 de noviembre, y continuará representando la experiencia e importancia del reconocimiento para este grupo de estudiantes en USC. </span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">THIS interpreta en situaciones médicas</span></h1>
<p>La organización se enfoca en ayudar a hispanohablantes en citas médicas.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este es el poder de THIS, un club estudiantil que capacita a estudiantes de USC para interpretar del inglés al español en eventos de salud gratuitos en el área de USC. Los miembros de THIS son intérpretes “ad hoc”, es decir, capacitados pero sin certificación. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ayati Mishra, una estudiante de tercer año de neurociencia, dijo que el club existe porque hay una brecha entre los servicios de salud con organizaciones estudiantiles y la comunidad de Los Ángeles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Se trata de que esas personas puedan recibir el cuidado y los recursos que necesiten en su propio idioma con comodidad”, dijo Mishra en inglés. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No es necesario ser hablante nativo ni ser un estudiante de medicina para participar en el club. Aunque la mayoría de los miembros son del área de la salud, el club “no está restringido” a ellos, dijo Mishra. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al unirse al club, los miembros nuevos empiezan la capacitación. Cada semana cubre un tema nuevo, como diabetes o infecciones respiratorias. Para enseñar, usan diapositivas, vocabulario en Quizlet y casos prácticos entre compañeros. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Una copresidenta del club, Danica Minh González Nguyễn, una estudiante de cuarto año de ciencias biológicas, dijo que los nuevos miembros deben asistir de ocho a diez talleres. También aprenden la ética de la interpretación, la ley HIPAA y las desigualdades que enfrentan quienes sólo hablan español. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Es muy difícil [de] navegar el sistema de salud en Estados Unidos si no hablas inglés”, dijo Nguyễn. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al final del semestre, los miembros nuevos tienen una entrevista con la mesa directiva para ver si están listos para interpretar.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Antes de interpretar solos, los nuevos miembros pueden acompañar a un intérprete con más experiencia. Sarah Rundquist, una estudiante de tercer año de ingeniería biomédica, dijo que, con este acompañamiento, aprendió más que el idioma médico. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Aprendes donde te sientas, a quién miras y si sigues usando la primera persona si el doctor la usa”, dijo Rundquist en inglés.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El club colabora con otras agrupaciones del campus para oportunidades de traducción. Por ejemplo, han trabajado con USC Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program, un club estudiantil que organiza exámenes renales en la comunidad cerca de USC. THIS también ha trabajado con Southern California Healthcare Outreach, que orienta sobre seguros y Medicare. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En los eventos, los intérpretes trabajan de varias formas. Cuando hay mucha gente, Rundquist se sienta con los médicos y cuando hay menos pacientes hispanohablantes, acompaña a uno por todas las estaciones. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Así tienen más continuidad y reciben el mismo nivel de atención que los pacientes que hablan inglés”, dijo Rundquist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rundquist dijo que sin intérpretes, las clínicas serían mucho menos valiosas para los pacientes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“¿Qué van a aprender los pacientes si no entienden [a los médicos]?”, dijo Rundquist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hay unos desafíos en la traducción del español al inglés médico. Saber terminología técnica no es suficiente, dijo Rundquist, pero cuando ella no conoce una palabra, se lo dice al paciente honestamente.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Normalmente están felices de que estés ahí y de que estés tratando de ayudar”, dijo Rundquist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nguyễn habló de las diferencias culturales como un desafío. Ella explicó una de sus experiencias en un evento cuando un médico le preguntó a un paciente con sobrepeso qué comía. El paciente enumeró las pupusas como una de las comidas que comía, pero el médico no reconoció las pupusas. Lo mismo ocurre con enfermedades tradicionales en las comunidades hispanas como el empacho. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“El trabajo de un intérprete [es] traducir, pero también [es] crear puentes entre el paciente y el médico”, dijo Nguyễn.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para Nguyễn, el club conecta a estudiantes con la comunidad latine fuera de la Universidad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Como estudiantes que vivimos en esta comunidad que es mayormente latina, tenemos la responsabilidad de dar nuestras experiencias y capacidades a la comunidad en que vivimos,” dijo Nguyễn. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Esa idea de devolver algo es la que resaltan otros miembros. Rundquist dijo que el club es una forma de usar una habilidad que ya se tiene. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Es una gran manera de involucrarse en la comunidad y devolverle algo, tomando una habilidad que ya tienes y desarrollándola para que sea muy útil”, dijo Rundquist. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para ella, esa ayuda importa especialmente en L.A. porque hay mucha gente que habla español y muchos problemas de acceso a la salud. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En THIS, como dijo Nguyễn, es la responsabilidad de los miembros que nada se pierda en la traducción y los médicos tienen que entenderlo y usar todo a su disposición si quieren servir a su comunidad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No estoy diciendo que ‘Oh, necesitas juntarte a THIS para hacer esto’”, dijo Nguyễn.  “Solamente estoy diciendo si quieres ser alguien que su trabajo es para servir a otros necesitas saber y aprender cómo es el mejor modo para servir a esas personas.”</span></p>
<h6><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aviso: Danica Minh González Nguyễn ocupó anteriormente el cargo de miembro de redacción en el </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> en otoño de 2023. Nguyễn ya no está afiliado a este periódico.</span></i></h6>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a seasonal routine, like how we switch from pumpkin spice to sugar cookie coffee syrups. The temperature drops, and the holidays call for love and gathering. Suddenly, everyone is looking for someone to share a blanket with, to ice skate with and a plus one for holiday dinners. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a natural gravitation and it’s easy to see why it catches on. It’s a craving for romantic love and connection people want to satiate so badly. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But it’s not about romance at all. We’re busier than ever: With class obligations and job prospecting, the part of us that wants to make or create something has gone hungry. Yet we mistake that hunger to create for a hunger to be chosen. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The restlessness felt when the day is done is incredibly easy to mistake for the friction of romantic desires. The ungratified drive to build and think gets stalled in our society’s romance-dominated culture: It makes you think you want to build a relationship, when really, you just need something to do.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you’ve crossed everything off the to-do list, there’s an ache in your chest you can’t quite name. Then, you open social media to see story posts about National Boyfriend Day or an interview video about the search for love. You might even open a dating app. But you can also open a notebook, a sketchbook, a voice memo or a blank document. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Only one of those routes feels like the answer to our problems. None is a wrong choice, but one asks someone else to hold your hand — the others start with you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Life sets a relationship up as a milestone. Romance is the one place our culture hands us permission to feel big, to be vulnerable, to obsess, to lose sleep over. Art also asks for the same things — but nobody is as incentivized to go towards it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sigmund Freud would not have been surprised by this urge for love ties. In “Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego,” first published in English in 1922, Freud argues that libido, his term for the energy of love and desire, is the essence of what binds people together through what he describes as “libidinal ties.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He links this dynamic to the human desire for passionate love, which shows how easily we can hand our attention and priority over to another person; how it’s an instinct to follow someone — an ego ideal. In other words, we give the best version of ourselves to someone else to hold. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Freud also described a different path called sublimation: It’s how someone redirects their drive that can’t be acted on — often sexual or aggressive ones — into activities society values, like art. While the concept of sublimation is antiquated, the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">core law remains: energy has to go somewhere.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being a Freudian is not necessary to see this behavioral pattern. A 2018 study of 658 young adults who kept daily diaries for 13 days, conducted by psychologists Tamlin Conner, Colin DeYoung and Paul Silvia, found that on days when people reported more creative activity than usual, they reported more positive feelings and a greater sense of flourishing the next day. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If a few hours of making something can improve your mood the day after, some of the nights we spend swiping on dating apps might be better spent sketching, writing or recording something. And not as a punishment or as a healthy habit, and not because love isn’t worth wanting: More so because creating is something you can start tonight, by yourself, without anyone’s help.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be fair, cuffing season isn’t entirely unfounded. Winter is cold, the days are short and wanting company is one of the most innately human experiences. The impulse to be close to someone is human, not embarrassing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But intimacy isn’t inherently romantic. It can take shape in the form of a friend who sits beside you as you play a song on the guitar, or a roommate who looks at the final result of a painting you made. Art can be a reason to be together with your closest circle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">None of this is an argument against love. Being chosen and beloved is a beautiful thing, and a hunger for reciprocated passion is not a flaw. The point is that romance isn’t the only hunger we have — and it isn’t always the one talking to you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So much of our focus is on feeding one of those cravings — sometimes it’s the only one we think about feeding. We ask for someone to fill our cup when we could easily pour our own drink. Why wait for someone to choose you when you can choose yourself?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get busy, and not with someone else. Get a hobby or two. Find something that curbs your appetite. The person who’s right for you will still be there, and you’ll arrive with a life that’s already yours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tie yourself to a project. See what that teaches you. Take the playlist and the blanket — get cozy. Bring something you made to the table, and watch how fulfilling that is. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a crazy season of college football, the committee can’t decide what they want.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While these rankings are usually a breath of fresh air from the AP Poll — I have my own separate list of grievances for another time — these new rankings are bad. Like really bad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, let me emphasize that these rankings are the only ones that matter in the end: The CFP Selection Committee decides who goes to the playoffs and who doesn’t. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With all that in mind, you’d imagine the committee would have a set-in-stone criteria that they use to rank all the teams, right? Maybe they go purely based on wins and losses or head-to-head matchups. Or perhaps they go a more analytical route. They might even think more abstractly, using “quality losses” or the “eye test” to rank teams. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On first glance, the rankings seem like they’re based on record. Miami, the No. 1 team in the country, has a perfect 8-0 record on the year. However, the only other two undefeated teams left are No. 3 Utah and No. 8 UCLA. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regardless of my ties to USC, No. 8 seems pretty low for a squad with an unblemished record, especially considering they’re three spots below No. 5 Alabama, which already has two losses this year. In fact, there are five other Power Four teams with less than two losses ranked below the Crimson Tide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well that makes sense in a way, I suppose; you can’t look at records in a vacuum. Maybe the committee largely values strength of schedule. Those analytics could explain Alabama’s ranking, as they boast the No. 7 strongest schedule in the nation — so the committee must value that above all else. But would that also explain why the top-ranked squad has the 47th-best strength of schedule? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was a flop. Let’s step away from the numbers — maybe it’s who beat who that’s most important. After all, No. 6 Kentucky’s only loss came to the Crimson Tide, explaining why they’re a spot below them despite having a better record. The committee also respects this for teams with the same record; that can be seen with No. 9 BYU ahead of No. 11 Notre Dame. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, with teams that boast similar records, head-to-head matchups are respected. Got it. This would hold up — if it held up. Apologies for continuously harkening back to Alabama — though I believe they’re one of the most overrated teams — but they were soundly taken down by a Tennessee squad that has the same record as them, yet the Volunteers sit all the way down at No. 13. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On that same note, No. 4 Indiana, who I will get to later, is eight spots ahead of No. 12 Ohio State, who beat them, while the Buckeyes are another eight spots ahead of No. 20 USC, who </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/02/usc-upsets-ohio-state-to-shock-the-college-football-world/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">just took them down on Halloween</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is really frustrating. How about the quality of a team’s losses? I mean, No. 14 LSU is ranked so high, despite the fact that it has no good wins and commendable losses. Someone explain, then, why a one-loss Wake Forest team is below the two-loss Tigers at No. 16, with its sole loss at the hands of the committee’s No. 1-ranked team. It simply doesn’t make sense. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OK, let’s just throw everything else out the window: If nothing else, these rankings have to be based on which team looks the best on the field, regardless of record or analytics. Well, that’s also false. Indiana — told you I’d get back to them — in no way looks like the fourth-best team in college football. Four of the Hoosiers’ five conference wins have come by less than one score, all against unranked opponents. Plus, they don’t know who their starting quarterback is.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s stay in the Big Ten. Since the loss of senior quarterback Dante Moore — and frankly before that too —- No. 23 Oregon has not looked like a good football team. No squad with two unranked losses should be in the top 25. Point blank and the period, as my co-editor Dillon Zamperin would say. I give up. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are so many more categories I could bring up to show the inconsistency within the CFP poll, like common opponents or margin of victory — and I didn’t even mention any of the teams not ranked. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, I do concede that since this year of college football has been one of the wildest we’ve seen in years, it’s hard to respect all of these factors. All I wish for is some sort of consistency, rather than picking and choosing when and when not to implement these criteria. Is that too much to ask?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t worry, though: When I become the chair of the CFP Selection Committee in a few years, everything will get better, and all the rankings will be correct. Book it.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caleb Olguin is a sophomore writing about the ever-changing college football landscape in his column, “The Redshirt Report.” He is also a sports editor at the</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Daily Trojan.</span></p>
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<p>The California Science Center will open a 200,000 square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Nov. 13, the museum will open the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a 200,000-square-foot expansion dedicated to aviation and space exploration. Developed over four decades in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the new center will feature artifacts and interactive experiences about flight and planetary exploration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenneth Phillips, the California Science Center&#8217;s curator for aerospace science, has worked at the museum for nearly 40 years. He said the expansion is intended to give visitors a deeper understanding of the science and engineering behind space exploration.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It&#8217;s a major project that aims to help people understand how we fly &#8230; and also how we explore space, how that has changed over time, how it&#8217;s changed us,” Phillips said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The center is divided into three multi-level galleries: the Korean Air Aviation Gallery, the Kent Kresa Space Gallery and the Samuel Oschin Shuttle Gallery. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Korean Air Aviation Gallery explores the principles of flight through aircraft exhibits, including part of a Korean Air-operated Boeing 747, displayed with a passenger cabin and its internal structure exposed. Visitors can also explore different types of aircrafts and use drones to simulate delivering medical supplies across a model of Los Angeles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Kent Kresa Space Gallery focuses on space exploration, featuring rockets, robotic spacecraft and astronaut capsules. It also includes telescopes, a walk-through section of a solid rocket booster, and interactive experiences that let visitors program a miniature Mars rover and explore a replica of the International Space Station. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Samuel Oschin Shuttle Gallery features the orbiter Endeavour, a reusable spacecraft that carried astronauts and cargo into orbit. Phillips said that “the Endeavour is entirely unique,” and that people “can&#8217;t find another fully authentic space shuttle anywhere in the world.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It will be displayed vertically alongside its external tank and two solid rocket boosters, recreating the shuttle’s full launch configuration. The external tank is particularly significant, Phillips said, because it served as the structural backbone of the shuttle system, holding the fuel needed to propel the orbiter into space. The decision of having a vertical display in the museum was first introduced on paper in 1992. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Barnhart, a research professor of astronautical engineering and director of USC’s Space Engineering Research Center, said the display’s most notable feature is its size. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “It forces you to look up,” Barnhart said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The expansion will also increase the scale of the Science Center’s offerings, nearly doubling its exhibition space, adding 100 hands-on exhibits and 100 artifacts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All the exhibits that are there are designed for accessibility to the general audience,” Phillips said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Barnhart, making aerospace engineering accessible means giving visitors the opportunity to interact with it rather than simply observing it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Having a hands-on exhibit at this new center … is incredibly important because it&#8217;s the visceral connection that students, kids and even adults get to understand truly what aerospace engineering [is],” Barnhart said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The center’s location in the heart of South Central also presents an opportunity to engage younger audiences in science and engineering, with the center being within reach of several local communities and schools.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the Science Center seems to be geared towards younger children, its exhibits are intended for visitors of all ages. Phillips said the center’s educational mission includes helping visitors become informed citizens who can make decisions about how society’s resources are allocated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to its exhibits, the new center will offer opportunities for students interested in science and engineering. Phillips said the Science Center has previously had several dozen high school interns each year, some of which were paid. The institution also helps students connect students to internship opportunities in aerospace engineering across L.A., including at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Phillips, USC students have also contributed to exhibits in the new center, including a multiplayer game in which visitors work together to design a mission to Mars or the moon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daniel Brooks, a Santa Monica resident who visited the museum with his daughter, said he sees the upcoming addition as another way for L.A. to strengthen its cultural and educational offerings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s always great to learn,” Brooks said. “L.A. has great museums and is a world-class city. It should have the best.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although space exploration is constantly evolving, Barnhart said preserving earlier technologies in a museum serves both a technical and an emotional purpose. From an engineering perspective, historical artifacts allow researchers to study technological development and space exploration innovation, potentially informing future innovations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On a more personal level, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barnhart said,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> seeing those achievements firsthand allows visitors to understand the progression of space exploration and connect with the people and milestones behind it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There&#8217;s a connection that truly can only be made by historically seeing where we have been to truly hopefully understand where we are today,” Barnhart said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The center aims to help visitors understand how scientific discoveries are made, from the questions researchers ask to the technologies they develop in order to investigate them, turning dreams into reality. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Phillips compared the process to a game of hide-and-seek, in which scientific exploration allows people to uncover things about the natural world that would otherwise remain unknown. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All kids love that game,” Phillips said. “Nature seems to lend itself to that. It seems to like to play that game, which is great for people who are curious.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new exhibits officially open to the public Nov. 13, and tickets, which are technically free, will cost $4 due to a service fee for kids, adults and students. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The century-old diner will reopen Nov. 19 under Hope the Mission, a nonprofit.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mw1qglgl-464e47f0d62a4dafc677188f409e6efa '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop="text" ><h6 class="p1"><span class="s1">The Original Pantry Cafe plans to stay true to it’s origins, bringing back its classic menu staples, including the coleslaw, pancakes and potatoes. It&#8217;s also rehired some of its long-time staff members. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Marina Yazbek / Daily Trojan)</span></h6>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 24-hour diner located in downtown Los Angeles was open for a century before shutting its doors in March 2025. After hearing of the closing, Ken Craft, founder and CEO of Hope the Mission, decided to reopen the place with a mission to help end homelessness. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are an organization that&#8217;s all about second chances,” Craft said. “[This project] really aligns itself with our philosophy and our core values, that we don&#8217;t give up on people and we don&#8217;t give up on things.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hope the Mission is</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">the “largest rescue mission” in the United States, managing 35 homeless shelters, providing 3,300 beds as well as 10,000 meals a day to assist those who are in need. They plan to direct the net profit from The Original Pantry Cafe toward supporting these services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a business that lived among the L.A. community for over 100 years, Craft said that honoring long-time customers was an important part of bringing the diner back. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[For] anybody that walks into The Original Pantry Cafe, if they&#8217;ve ever been here before, it has the same look, the same feel,” Craft said. “We replaced the flooring with the same type of flooring. All we did was paint and stain the walls the same colors that they were. We kept up a lot of the same pictures and images.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Changes to the space were primarily limited to updating the kitchen equipment and HVAC system. In addition to replicating the physical space, staying true to the community and employee base of the restaurant was a crucial factor in the hiring process.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Original Pantry Cafe made an agreement with Unite Here Local 11, a hospitality worker union, to hire employees from the union. Furthermore, 14 of the approximately 50 workers hired worked at the cafe before its closing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Here is a real, authentic union environment that&#8217;s been persisting for 70 years or so, and some of the people that are coming back have worked here 50 years,” said Kenneth Small, general manager of The Original Pantry Cafe. “It&#8217;s a real slice of Los Angeles DNA.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond the appearance and structure, the cafe’s classic diner food is crucial to its identity. For Daniel Hur, the cafe’s executive chef, creating a menu that satisfied the nostalgic palate of returning customers while still updating some menu items proved difficult. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For iconic items such as the coleslaw, potatoes and its traditional breakfast staples, Hur kept the menu relatively the same, but he also looked for places where he could add elements like texture and acidity to add variety.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Over the past few months that I&#8217;ve been working here, that&#8217;s been the No. 1 thing that&#8217;s been on my mind,” Hur said. “How do we maintain the integrity of what the pantry was, but at the same time, not try to kind of rehash the past.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, Craft hopes that The Original Pantry Cafe will return to operating at the same volume as before. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Multiple generations tell stories about, ‘Oh I remember going there with my dad,’ or ‘I remember my grandpa took me there,’” Craft said. “Our goal is to eventually, once we get it open and established, to move back toward the 24/7 timeframe.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To reestablish the diner as a staple for sporting events, Craft plans on incentivizing college students to come to the diner on game days. One plan Craft hopes to carry out is posting on the diner’s social media that USC and UCLA students should come to The Original Pantry Cafe dressed in their school’s merchandise on USC versus UCLA game days for some “friendly competition.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Whichever school eats the most pancakes, we give them credit for what the jerseys they&#8217;re wearing,” Craft said. “We&#8217;re going to tally it, and the winning school, we&#8217;re going to hang their jersey in the corner for the next 365 days.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Craft intends to grow the community coming to the diner, he also said that some people have already shown their support. The names of donors, whose contributions to the reopening ranged from $5,000 to $350,000, are etched onto plaques hung up on the wall of the establishment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There really was community engagement that allowed us to fund the reopening of [the diner],” Craft said. “It wasn&#8217;t nonprofit dollars; it was community members that stepped up and said, ‘We believe in the vision, and we want to help make it happen.’”</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Learning to develop the human side of ourselves is better than any technology.</p>
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<p>Though I love my major, the uncertainty of securing a job postgrad creeps up as steadily as the days left until my commencement dwindle.</p>
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<p>Though these anxieties feel new and grandiose to me, history demonstrates that these concerns are cyclical. When power looms emerged during the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, British textile workers were displaced and rose up in protest. When computers emerged in the mid-19th century, skeptics began to question whether a fully automated future lay ahead.</p>
<p>Though these concerns seem disproportionate to the impacts those technologies had on society in hindsight, the commonality is clear: Technological advancement raises workers&#8217; concerns of job insecurity.</p>
<p>For my own sake, I’d like to believe worries over job insecurity and AI-induced anxiety can simply be linked to the discomfort that comes with change. However, recent data has shown the difficulty college graduates have had in securing a job following graduation: The United States Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey shows a steady increase in college graduates&#8217; unemployment rates since 2022, with percentages higher than all workers as a whole.</p>
<p>Besides exploring one’s identity in early adulthood, if the goal of college is to gain expertise in an area of knowledge to prepare for a professional environment, what happens when the doors into those environments close?</p>
<p>Seeking and exploring other avenues of satisfaction may be the answer. According to a 2022 study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, psychologists have proposed a way to explore interests and skills in a way that can easily be overlooked: play.</p>
<p>The exploration of pleasurable and voluntary leisure activities is more important now than ever. In a study analyzing play’s contribution to development, a 2022 study from researcher Wing Ho found that emerging adults who engage in recreational play are linked to greater emotional intelligence and resilience.</p>
<p>During a time of extreme uncertainty regarding the future, this finding suggests ways in which we can mitigate potential incoming distress.</p>
<p>Exploring new hobbies and activities can aid in teaching you how to be resilient and emotionally capable of handling rapid change. Engaging with others in low-stakes, for-pleasure activities such as writing music, making art and playing sports allows one to escape the challenges of an ambiguous future while also finding sources of enjoyment that were previously unknown.</p>
<p>Indulging in non-professional pursuits in a period of time of political turmoil, unemployment and unaffordability seems counterintuitive, especially for those who sought college degrees in hopes of future stability. However, the alternative requires you to tirelessly follow technology’s unpredictable evolution without guaranteed success.</p>
<p>Technological advancement, though daunting and controversial, brings about a unique opportunity to challenge comfortable and predictable paths of life. Engaging with that uncomfortability can bring about new skills and interests applicable to other parts of life.</p>
<p>Invest time into play and make it a priority. In turn, the skills you learn will help you navigate a changing future.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Saturday, the No. 4 Trojans (14-5, 1-4 MPSF) will head north to face No. 8 UC Santa Barbara (21-9, 3-1 Big West Conference) at Santa Barbara High School for their third consecutive road match. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will try to get another game into the win column after dropping the three of its past four matches. The Trojans look to repeat their result from earlier this season, where USC tallied a decisive </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/02/mens-water-polo-clobbers-competition-at-triton-invitational/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">27-10 victory over the Gauchos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and avoid a three-game skid. </span></p>
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<p><b>Tackling defensive obstacles</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Defense has been the main test for Head Coach Marko Pintaric’s squad this season. The Trojans gave up 17 goals to No. 2 Stanford (17-2, 4-1 MPSF) on Saturday, and a season high of 18 goals to No. 1 UC Berkeley (14-4, 3-2 MPSF) the next day. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is completely uncharacteristic for our team … I attribute this to a fairly new team,” Pintaric said in an interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “We are assembled of new faces, new roles and we are still trying to fall into these roles.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While USC has a number of strong upperclassmen, much of the Trojans’ success has been found in their younger players. USC’s leading goal scorer, sophomore 2-meter Strahinja Krstic, has scored 49 goals so far this season, matching his freshman year total. Krstic has also forced 72 exclusions, and is followed by freshman 2-meter Tyler Anderson, who has tallied 39 drawn exclusions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the two teams met early in the season, USC won by a large 17-goal margin and had nearly double the number of shots on goal than the Gauchos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans’ offensively oriented performance has proven to be a double-edged sword, according to Pintaric.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[There are moments] where we focus way too much on our offense that our defense was heavily affected,” Pintaric said. “These moments cannot happen. This is what we’re working on right now, and we are trying to eliminate that in order to get ready for the rest of the season.” </span></p>
<p><b>Strong Santa Barbara talent</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">UC Santa Barbara will enter Saturday’s matchup on a three-game winning streak following the Gauchos conference victories against top teams like No. 9 UC Irvine, No. 12 Long Beach State and No. 7 UC San Diego.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Santa Barbara, especially lately, is playing very good water polo,” Pintaric said. “We know [its] matchups, and they’re a very young and explosive team.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Similarly to USC, UC Santa Barbara has a lot of young talent. The Gauchos’ top scoring threat is freshman attacker Luigi Canepa. The youngster has tallied 78 goals this season, 13 in Santa Barbara’s past three games. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the two teams met in August, USC limited Canepa to just one goal. Instead, it was senior attacker Finn Genc who was the Gauchos’ leading scorer, posting a hat trick. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The lucky thing is we do know them because we already played them, the game plan is going to be to stop these talented shooters,” Pintaric said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond their attackers, the Gauchos have two strong centers: juniors Kai Ross and Camren Simoncelli. Ross has drawn 38 exclusions this season and scored 20 goals. In the teams’ matchup earlier this season, the Trojans kept Ross from scoring and gave up zero exclusions to him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simoncelli, brother of USC freshman defender Nate Simoncelli, has scored 35 goals this season on a .500 shooting percentage and drawn 20 exclusions. Like the previous players, the Trojans were able to hold Simoncelli to a single goal in August’s match. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will look to defeat UC Santa Barbara for the second time this season Saturday at 1 p.m. at Santa Barbara High School.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Gauri Kolhatkar, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and a Mindful USC teacher, the retreat offers everyone a chance to slow down together. Participants might arrive feeling restless or weighed down by personal challenges, Kolhatkar said, but by the end, they have connected with themselves, the beach and one another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s an opportunity to meet ourselves and meet our environment,” Kolhatkar said. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mindful USC offers free classes, retreats and drop-in meditation groups for students, faculty, staff and alumni. Its offerings include introductory mindfulness courses, sound baths, self-compassion workshops and nature-based programs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2014, Alan Weiss, professor emeritus in the Marshall School of Business, and Varun Soni, the dean of religious life, helped establish the program to give Trojans tools to navigate the pressures of university life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over time, the program has expanded</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> its offerings to address a wider range of interests and challenges. Program Director Allyson Pimentel said it now provides roughly 25 to 35 course offerings each semester and averages around 1,000 to 1,500 course registrations. She estimated that undergraduate students make up 60% of participants. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some classes address stress and anxiety, while others focus on joy, compassion and lovingkindness. Nature-based offerings, including student-led tree tours and sound baths are also popular, P</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">imentel sa</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">id. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mindful USC’s free, non-credit classes cover a range of interests, from</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mindfulness Lab 1: Essentials of Mindful Meditation,”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a five-week virtual series, to</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mindful of Earth: Nature and Wellbeing,” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a seven-week in-person series. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want these tools, these techniques, these practices to be available to anyone in our community who is interested,” Pimentel said. “They’re free.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Kolhatkar, flexibility is central to making mindfulness accessible. Instruc</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">tors offer guidance while </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">giving participants room to decide what works for them. People can sit, stand or lie down, Kolhatkar said, and no one is expected to approach the practice in one particular way. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Oftentimes the way it can be portrayed, mindfulness in the wellness universe, can be portrayed as perhaps something that there’s a lot of ‘should’s,’” Kolhatkar said. “We try and dispel that kind of thinking.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Angelike Dexter, who has taught with Mindful USC since 2016, leads workshops on self-compassion and parenting. Dexter </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> some participants return to her classes year after year. One alumni couple, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">she recalled,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has taken turns attending a parenting class since 2018. For her, th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eir return is one sign that par</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ticipants find value in the program.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elliott Law, a Mindful USC teacher and t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">he program&#8217;s community outreach manager</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, l</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eads a mindful eating course that helps participants develop tools to understand habits around food.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Law said the program’s offerings have broadened in recent years, with more activities designed to appeal to different interests and that this range gives people different ways to try mindfulness.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Law sees mindfulness as a skill that students can use beyond the classroom when life gets difficult. The practices, he said, can help people “manage those ups and downs and kinda ride the waves.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For participants unsure about attending a mindfulness activity, Law said teachers work to create a supportive group environment. They establish shared expectations and invite people to contribute at their own pace. In one drop-in group, he recalled a student who shared feeling overwhelmed and later heard another student describe similar feelings adding that they were glad not to be alone. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That sense of connection is part of what Pimentel hopes participants take with them. Mindfulness, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">she said</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, can help people pay attention to their own needs and to those of the people around them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mindful USC’s upcoming programming includes an in-person tree tour Nov. 7 from 11 a.m. to noon at </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">EF Hutton Park</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The tour will combine learning about campus trees with guided meditation and a “Sense and Savor Walk.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was held at the Plaza Hotel in 1995, a decade before I was even born. The release of the “Angel” collection in 1997 put models on a divine pedestal, although the now-famous wings didn’t grace the runway until 1998. And, despite the heights of the show, everyday Americans scored a ticket to the runway show through their television sets for nearly two decades. A phenomenon was born.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every fall, viewers looked forward to seeing Gisele B</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ü</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ndchen and Adriana Lima on their screens — until they didn’t.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2019, the show was put on hiatus following persistent declines in engagement. In the year leading up to the show’s cancellation, the company was plagued by scandal after scandal: Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner was exposed for having close ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and then-CMO Ed Razek disparaged the idea of including transgender and plus-size models. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The company has since made immense strides to improve its reputation. In 2020, Wexner was replaced as CEO, and more inclusive product sizes were added — although many consumers continue to call on Victoria’s Secret to further expand their size range. The show returned from its hiatus in 2024 as a rebuke of Razek — who resigned from the company in 2019 — featuring a handful of plus-size models as well as two transgender Angels, Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevertheless, the Victoria’s Secret of the 2010s was entirely oriented around the ideal of thinness — especially compared to brands at the time like SKIMS and Savage X Fenty, which chose to embrace women’s curves instead of pretending like they were an anatomical disgrace. In 2019, the skinny-obsessed, hypersexualized culture that supported the Angels’ ascent no longer existed, although we might be now seeing its revival.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proliferation of GLP-1 weight loss drugs has resulted in an “Ozempidemic,” similar to the “heroin chic” craze of the 2000s when the Angels first debuted. Despite the continued popularity of SKIMS and Savage X Fenty, the “slim thick” body types they initially promoted are no longer in vogue. Women are now encouraged to shrink their bodies to their smallest sizes possible, which might explain the Angels’ recent resurgence in popularity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s fashion show took place Oct. 18, marking the return of the lauded Fantasy Bra, the show’s bejeweled centerpiece, after eight years — this time modeled by Kylie Jenner — and with it, a return to the culture that supported the Angels’ initial rise. The show attracted 3.6 million viewers, a three-year peak.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While viewers seven years ago might have grown disillusioned with the fantasy Victoria’s Secret models sold, extreme thinness has once again become a standard many women aspire to. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for the brand to become an advocate for real women’s bodies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2024 show attempted to showcase a more diverse group of models, but ultimately missed the mark. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The inclusion of a few curvier Angels didn’t negate the fact that most of the models were skinnier, taller and leggier than the average woman. The plus-size models who did walk the runway were dressed in notably different looks from their peers, clad in more modest bodysuits and minidresses instead of the show’s typical push-up bras and thongs.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There was a massive discrepancy between the message that the relaunched fashion show set out to convey and the message that was sent to viewers. The tokenization of conventionally attractive curvy models didn’t make Victoria’s Secret seem more in touch </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">— rather, it achieved the opposite effect. The 2024 show, much like its predecessors, still felt like a parade of unachievable beauty standards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s show featured more plus-size models than ever, although they still made up less than eight of the 80 featured Angels. Despite the need for considerable progress, the Ozempidemic has unfortunately made showcasing all types of bodies on the runway at all worth applauding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Victoria’s Secret is by no means as inclusive as SKIMS or Fenty, but the intent to do better is real. Even this year’s all-woman lineup of performers — Megan Thee Stallion, Tate McRae, KATSEYE and Megan Moroney — reflected an increased willingness to depict women from all walks of life. We can acknowledge the Angels’ initial positioning was highly problematic while supporting the runway’s evolution. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As long as the fashion show exists, it possesses the ability to move and reflect culture. For as long as I can remember, the Victoria’s Secret Angels have been considered the paragon of contemporary beauty standards. Maybe the runway’s next era doesn’t sell a fantasy of magically transforming into a 5-foot-10, size-zero model overnight, but one where all women feel comfortable in their own skin. That’s a fashion show I would want to watch.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fiona Feingold is a senior writing about women in the entertainment industry in her column, “Femininomenon,” which runs every other Friday.</span></i></p>
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<p>Nithya Raman, current city councilmember for District 4, beat incumbent Karen Bass Tuesday night.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raman ran on a campaign that said Bass did not do enough in her time as mayor and positioned herself as a candidate for change. Her progressive platform included expanding housing, protecting renters and getting United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of L.A. Though she criticized Bass in her campaign, after winning the election Raman posted a video thanking her voters and paying tribute to Bass. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Bass] has given decades of her life to making this city what it is today,” Raman said in the video. “From her time as an emergency room nurse, to starting Community Coalition, to her leadership in Sacramento and in [Washington,] D.C., and then becoming the first woman mayor of Los Angeles.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the lead-up to the race, Raman led Bass by 11% in one poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies that was co-sponsored by the</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Los Angeles Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In the week leading up to the election, Bass was able to completely erase that lead and tied Raman with support from 40% of likely L.A. voters. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though the race was close, Bass conceded to Raman on Thursday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;While this is not the outcome we hoped for, the people of Los Angeles have spoken,&#8221; Bass said in a statement. &#8220;I have called Councilmember Nithya Raman to congratulate her on her victory, and I have committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless transition. Moving this city forward is what Los Angeles needs from all of us.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raman will officially begin her term as mayor on the second Monday of December, Dec. 14, per the Los Angeles Charter and Administrative Code. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To every voter who voted for Mayor Bass or chose not to vote at all, just know this: I am going to City Hall to work every single day to earn your trust,” Raman said in the video, “and to earn your trust in this city again.” </span></p>
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<p>Thorelea is only released to paint the portraits of the High Court and grant them immortality, as the monarchy’s century-long rule is powered by the generationally inherited gift of the “court painter,” Thorelea’s — and her deceased mother’s — power.</p>
<p>The only other mortal in the palace is Prince Kelter, the king and queen’s son, who is also dead set on gaining immortality through one of Thorelea’s portraits.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost ironic how “Fallen Beauty’s” beautiful language — almost mimicking the extraordinary gift Thorelea has to paint a soul back to life — is used to mask key storytelling issues that lie beneath the prose’s surface. There’s no doubt that Scholte’s writing is gorgeous, with beautiful descriptions of Thorelea’s paintings, vivid imagery of the kingdom and the castle, and of Thorelea’s inner dialogue during interactions with other characters.</p>
<p>But while the language is lush and lively, the flaws under the surface are cold.</p>
<p>The painful thorn lying under the garden of beautiful language is clunky storytelling: Boatloads of information and world-building are frequently thrown at the audience, with little room to digest all of it and even less to understand it fully. Scholte also didn’t set up any high stakes in the beginning, which both created a dragging feeling that the loads of information tried to compensate for and risked losing readers early on.</p>
<p>For instance, “Fallen Beauty” opens with a memory of Thorelea’s childhood in which she speaks with her mother in the tower until the former portraitist is taken away, leaving a young Thorelea alone. The narrative then jumps to when she discovers her powers as a painter. But it’s not until about sixty pages in that the stakes behind the connection between Thorelea’s immense power and Prince Kelter’s desire to become immortal are revealed.</p>
<p>Similarly, the book&#8217;s tagline promises a “haunting, wintery tale of art, obsession, and the price of love.” But for Thorelea and Prince Kelter’s relationship, that “price” doesn’t exactly seem worth paying until certain points of the story.</p>
<p>While their initial dynamic built on Thorelea and Prince Kelter’s deal — if he helps her regain her physical strength lost after being locked away for so long, she will paint his portrait — is arguably the most interesting part, their budding relationship throughout the story lacks a sense of charm and depth beyond what seems like solely shallow attraction, with very few complexities and nuances. Scholte’s attempt at meshing their personalities and complexities to create a twisted fairy-tale couple results in a pair that is simply dysfunctional.</p>
<p>Prince Kelter, as the leading man and love interest, also falls victim to storytelling shortfalls. His romantic backstory is a betrayal by a lackluster, short-lived romance with Emora, a deceitful girl in the High Court. His history is revealed way too early, and wasn’t all that appealing or enthralling. It defeated any anticipation around building up to the reveal of his not-so-simple backstory and the unexpectedly tender side of his character.</p>
<p>His dialogue and interactions with Thorelea, while sometimes charming, are also ridden with trauma-dumping and complaints about his family that don’t quite add to their supposed romance or intimacy. While he does slowly reveal himself to her throughout the novel, it’s through snarky comments or half-baked lines that are a poor attempt at combining charm and dark humor.</p>
<p>The true tragedy of “Fallen Beauty” is the immense potential in the fine details of the characters’ abilities, backgrounds and personalities. The kingdom’s culture is imaginative and distinct, and Thorelea’s gift is undeniably mysterious. But the book rushes to explain both details and world-building before readers can discover them. This defeats the whole point of a fairytale — it’s supposed to be captivating and magical the whole way through, not only at certain points.</p>
<p>A solid idea is there: a unique concept and character details, along with the structure of a universe that can pop off the page with a better narrative and worldbuilding. “Fallen Beauty” has the makings of a gorgeous, dark fairytale reimagining, and the prose may be captivating enough to hold a reader who prefers atmosphere and detail over pacing. But for those who need a consistent narrative driven by high stakes and character chemistry, Scholte’s execution just doesn’t deliver.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, Angelenos voted for governor, mayor, local officials and propositions.</p>
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<p>This “blue tsunami” left some USC community members surprised, curious and excited.</p>
<p>While some polls forecasted Democrat victories, members of the USC community said they were surprised Democrats won both chambers of Congress by large margins.</p>
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<p>“I am, in some ways, not surprised, because it was predicted. But I am surprised at how big the blue wave was,” said Willa Seidenberg, a former professor of professional practice in journalism.</p>
<p>Historically red states flipped blue, including South Carolina, Texas, Maine and Iowa. Kansas elected a Democratic senator for the first time since 1932.</p>
<p>“I&#8217;m a little surprised because there were a lot more turnovers in states than I expected,” said Benjamin Whiting-Eismann, a freshman majoring in viola performance.</p>
<p>Attendees at an election watch party at Annenberg Hall cheered and applauded as CNN announced that Democrats had won both chambers of Congress.</p>
<p>The watch party was hosted by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, in partnership with the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and the USC Open Dialogue Project, and was open to all members of the USC community.</p>
<p>Democrats needed to flip at least four seats to regain control of the Senate, and at least three seats to gain power in the House. As of Nov. 4, they flipped seven Senate seats and 31 in the House.</p>
<p>Ruby Belt, a junior majoring in political science, emphasized the importance of the midterms.</p>
<p>“Right now, the Republicans have a trifecta, and that&#8217;s given President Trump all the avenues he needs to do basically whatever he wants,” Belt said at the CPF on Monday. “[The power shift] will really provide an opportunity to bring back some of those checks and balances.”</p>
<p>Belt said she thinks that the Democrats’ control of Congress may “cause a lot of stalemates” but will be “more of a check on executive power than what we have now.”</p>
<p>Bob Shrum, director of the CPF and a professor of the practice of political science, said the midterm elections are important to the functioning of the United States’ democracy because they change the whole balance of power in Washington.</p>
<p>He said that the Democrats taking the House and the Senate back from the Republicans means there will be a “divided government, which is not always bad for the country.”</p>
<p>“It could be good for the country, actually,&#8221; Shrum said.</p>
<p>Trump’s ability to advance legislation through Congress will be limited by a Democratic victory, Shrum said.</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s a little bit better of a feeling to know that there&#8217;s more of a balance in the government, because a worry of mine was that there was no balance, and that kind of defeats the purpose of checks and balances,” Whiting-Eismann said.</p>
<p>Channing Mack, president of USC’s Political Union and a senior majoring in political science, said he’s surprised by how much the Democrats won.</p>
<p>“[I’m] extremely surprised by the Senate,” Mack said. “I&#8217;m from the South, and so I really didn&#8217;t expect Texas, especially Mississippi, which is still in play, and South Carolina to go the way it did. It really speaks to the way the country is going and what people are tired of.”</p>
<p>Tom Hammond, the president of the Trojan Democrats and a junior majoring in business administration, predicted the blue wave. Hammond was confident Democrats would win the House, but thought that winning the Senate was less predictable.</p>
<p>“If we hadn’t invaded Iran, the Senate would [have been] completely up in the air,” Hammond said. “We&#8217;d be in a very different situation in this set of midterms.”</p>
<p>Mack thinks that the new Congress will initiate more legislation and investigations; he said that these changes were representative of what people wanted.</p>
<p>“It was just a time for change, and democracy did its thing and put a check on the powers,” Mack said.</p>
<p>At the time of publication, a few key races remain undecided, including Senate races in Alaska, where Democrat Mary Peltola holds a narrow lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, and Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by a razor-thin margin.</p>
<p>“[The Democrats] have both chambers, and they&#8217;re going to try to pass some good bills. Trump may veto it, but people will see that ‘Hey, we tried, we did the right thing, we put forth the legislation,’” Mack said. “We&#8217;re going to see a lot be done in the next month.”</p>
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<p>One year after USC announced the AI Strategy Committee, students and faculty remain torn about the implications of AI in education.</p>
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<p>USC takes a decentralized, shared-governance approach to AI integration on campus, according to associate teaching professor of writing Dana Milstein. Instead of administrative regulations, individual AI strategies are left to each department, with loose guidance such as recommended language to include in syllabi, according to Milstein.</p>
<p>Instead of instating campus-wide AI policies, Milstein said, each professor devises their own strategies for integrating AI in the classroom and designing new ways of teaching and learning.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We should have that kind of academic freedom to decide what is the best, most appropriate use [of AI] in our classrooms, depending on what we&#8217;re teaching and our pedagogies, so I do appreciate that,” said Elisa Warford, a professor of technical communication practice. “Instructors are still struggling to figure out what to do.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghna Chellapilla, a sophomore studying economics and data science, said that while many students are learning to use AI in personal endeavors, she also feels the need to learn where to draw the line between tasks that can be carried out by AI and tasks that require human oversight.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It would be really interesting to see where we draw the line between using AI to make something more efficient versus [where] we&#8217;re just using it to completely replace jobs,” Chellapilla said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With many classes diverging in their respective approaches to AI in the classroom, students are left to their own discretion to decide how they will use AI in their educational pursuits and beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The fact that there&#8217;s not a consistent answer [on how AI should be used] is, I think, very healthy for students in the long run,” said Mark Marino, a teaching professor of writing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The discussion around the costs and benefits of AI has led faculty to form their own discussion groups, including one led by Marino and Trisha Tucker, a teaching professor of writing, that meets once a month to discuss different topics surrounding AI. Some discussions they’ve had include what a hypothetical “AI 101” class would look like and whether AI plagiarism checkers are effective.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “big reckoning,” according to assistant professor of computer science Robin Jia, is deciding how to assign homework so students are incentivized to internalize material. Several professors are devising new strategies for designing homework assignments and grading assessments to accurately measure students’ comprehension of class material.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Warford said she noticed a sudden increase in “flawless” writing over the past year, and that she actually prefers papers where “there’s an actual human mind behind it.” Because of this, she started administering written tests, but noted the tradeoff is that students won’t engage in longer writing processes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jia said he tried oral exams for the first time this year, booking one-on-one 15-minute sessions with students to discuss a standardized set of questions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You&#8217;re still going to need to be able to talk with your future coworkers, explain to them your ideas [and] maybe debate with them,” Jia said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond the classroom, the University has also gone full force into providing AI-related programs, including majors, minors, intensives, elective courses and even a partnership with OpenAI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This year has kind of been a huge 180 turn,” said Isabella Martinez, a sophomore majoring in computer science/business administration. “I&#8217;m just hoping that it&#8217;ll continue happening because I feel like it is a good resource, and I&#8217;ve learned a lot through AI.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The introduction of so many AI-focused programs matches </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/11/13/usc-announces-free-chatgpt-program-at-inaugural-ai-summit/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the optimistic sentiment at last year’s AI summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which framed AI as a pivotal opportunity for students to take advantage of and integrate into their education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ella Goldklang, a freshman majoring in health promotion and disease prevention studies, said she isn’t aware of any resources to help her learn to better prompt AI and wishes there were such resources.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Balancing extracurriculars with your schoolwork sometimes puts a large amount of pressure on students to get everything done,” Goldklang said. “Sometimes that [means] understanding the content [won’t] be the priority.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite various classrooms’ approaches to AI, Marino encourages students to do their own research to find a balance between using and not using AI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Don&#8217;t ever expect us to be able to hand you the answer, because your [process of] finding your way towards that answer will be one of the most important parts of your development as an undergraduate,” Marino said.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans’ (9-13, 3-9 Big Ten) first opportunity to reverse their fortunes will be on the road against a struggling Maryland (12-11, 2-10) squad. This matchup could have Big Ten Tournament ramifications, as USC is 13th in the conference and Maryland is 15th. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To qualify for the Big Ten tournament, USC must stay in the top 15 in the conference standings. A loss to Maryland would leave the Trojans fighting for their conference tournament lives heading into their bout with a struggling Rutgers (11-13, 2-10). </span></p>
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<p><b>Bright spots look to lift struggling offense</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After starting the season 6-4, the Trojans have struggled in conference play. After opening Big Ten play with a win over Northwestern (7-16, 0-12), USC went on a four-game losing streak and has struggled ever since. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heading into Thursday’s matchup, the Trojans are coming off a three-match losing streak against three ranked teams: No. 1 Nebraska (23-0, 12-0), No. 7 Wisconsin (16-6, 10-2) and No. 19 Minnesota (14-6, 8-4).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans won just one set in this stretch and were swept twice. On top of that, USC hit under .200 in two of those three losses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Offensive struggles have plagued the Trojans’ season. After finishing fifth in the conference in kills per set in 2025, USC has dropped to 17th in the conference this year. The Trojans are also at the bottom of the conference in hitting percentage at .201. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will need to bring its A-game to win and rewrite its offensive struggles. The Trojans will need quality production from their star redshirt junior outside hitter London Wijay and sophomore opposite hitter </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/27/skys-the-limit-for-volleyball-hotshot-abigail-mullen/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abigail Mullen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite recent struggles against the Gophers, Wijay leads the team with 231 kills. Wijay is looking to bounce back from a brutal performance against Minnesota, where she recorded just one kill, hitting .111 with two errors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Wijay also had one of the best performances of her career against Wisconsin, posting 20 kills and 10 digs while hitting .450, and she will look to replicate the success against Maryland.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wijay is complemented by Mullen, who leads the team in kills per set with 3.14. Mullen is coming off a pair of strong performances, recording 16 kills against Wisconsin and 12 kills against Minnesota.  </span></p>
<p><b>Defense aims to neutralize Terrapin threats</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will be facing a Maryland squad that has also struggled in conference play. After beating Northwestern on Oct. 10, the Terrapins have gone on a six-game losing streak in which they have won only three sets and been swept four times.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maryland has also had its share of offensive struggles as it sits right above the Trojans in kills per set with 12.41. That being said, the Terrapins do have their share of offensive weapons. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team is led by freshman outside hitter Ava Brown, who has 207 kills this year. Brown registered double-digit kills in five of her last eight contests, including 14 in her most recent game against Washington (17-4, 8-4).   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alongside Brown is senior outside hitter Sydney Bryant, who leads the team in kills per set with 3.03. Bryant has also played well down the stretch with six games of double-digit kills in her last eight contests. Like Brown, Bryant recorded 14 kills in Maryland&#8217;s last matchup. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hot hitting for Maryland doesn’t stop there, though, as freshman outside hitter Brooklynne Brass recorded a team-high 16 kills and 10 digs against Washington.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the weapons Maryland boasts on offense, USC has the dominance at the net to neutralize the Terrapin attackers. The Trojans are fourth in the conference in blocks per set with 2.61, compared to Maryland&#8217;s 2.12. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The block party is led by redshirt junior middle blocker Leah Ford, who ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 1.23 blocks per set. Ford has also been one of USC’s most efficient attackers, as she’s also ninth in the conference in hitting percentage at .374. Ford has hit over .400 in three of her last five matches. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining Ford is junior middle blocker Mia Tvrdy, who ranks ninth in the conference with 1.17 blocks per set. Tvrdy is third on the team in kills with 163, and she has recorded six or more kills in all but four of her games this season. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC, which last beat Maryland 3-0 at Galen Center in 2025, will look to extend its all-time winning streak against the Terrapins to three.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will travel to College Park, Maryland, to take on the Terrapins on Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Xfinity Center.  </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Belonging has become something students feel they need to purchase. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outfit you loved back home might suddenly feel different around a new crowd. You might become interested in brands, styles or activities you never considered before. Some of that is genuine self-discovery, but some of it comes from an urge to fit in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That distinction matters when college students and their families are expected to spend a record average of $1,437.79 on back-to-college shopping this year, according to the National Retail Federation. According to that same survey, college shoppers planned to spend an average of $194 on dorm or apartment furnishings, $182.39 on clothing and accessories, and $133.34 on personal-care products. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, those numbers don’t mean students are spending thousands just to look a certain way. But they raise an interesting question: How much of what we call “dressing for college” is actually about preparing to be perceived?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suddenly, spending extra time choosing the perfect outfit doesn’t seem so random. It’s not necessarily about the clothes themselves. It’s about what wearing them might communicate before you’ve even introduced yourself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And at USC, that distinction feels relevant: USC has a reputation for wealth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A study published in Psychology of Marketing examining the transition from high school to college found that possessions representing both a person’s past and their new status can help them navigate that change. That doesn’t mean USC students are shopping to impress their classmates, but it does suggest that how students present themselves on campus can serve a purpose beyond practicality. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there’s another influence we shouldn’t overlook: the people whose approval we’re hoping to earn.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2005 study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that consumers can develop stronger connections with brands symbolically associated with groups they identify with. A purchase becomes about more than personal preference, but also about feeling connected to a group they feel connected to. In other words, what we buy can be influenced by the people we want to see ourselves alongside.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That doesn’t mean everyone is secretly copying their classmates. It means our preferences don’t always develop in isolation. Sometimes what feels like personal taste is partly influenced by the social environments we enter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s nothing wrong with finding inspiration online or wanting your surroundings to reflect your personality. But when we repeatedly see the same products associated with the college experience we want, it’s worth questioning when inspiration starts feeling like an expectation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, we can’t ignore the financial side of the confusion. Not everyone has the same budget to experiment with their appearance, decorate their living space or replace perfectly functional belongings. When fitting in starts looking like a shopping list, students who can’t afford everything on it may feel like they’re arriving empty-handed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But belonging isn’t supposed to be another expense on the cost-of-attendance breakdown.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buying new things is not inherently superficial. Sometimes a new outfit does make you feel more confident. Decorating your dorm can make an unfamiliar place feel like home. Personalizing your college experience can be super exciting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there’s a difference between using purchases to express who you are and expecting them to create who you are. One option gives your identity a visible form; the other risks making you believe that without the right products, you’re somehow less prepared to belong.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The issue isn’t wanting those things. It’s forgetting that the version of yourself you’re shopping for is still someone you haven’t truly met yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No matter how perfectly curated our shopping carts are, we shouldn’t have to buy belonging.</span></p>
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<h1>Growing up with a DJ dad is great</h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exchanging music helped both of us develop our tastes. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At nearly every event growing up, my dad was blending song into song. It was just a fact of life that my dad was the one playing music, from elementary school celebrations to middle school dances, weddings, birthdays and even my senior year barbecue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every event called for different genres of music: Spanish accordion music for my tío’s birthday party, 80s hits for wedding receptions and slower songs for our dances. It’s safe to say that my dad covered most bases when it came to music.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’d always hear him preparing songs the night before his gigs. He introduced me to genres and artists I had never heard before, and likely would not still listen to if it were not for him. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I remember one time, while he was preparing for a wedding, he played “That’s How Strong My Love Is” by Otis Redding, a song that really stuck with me. I listen to that song to this day, and I can say it’s in my top three favorite songs of all time. Every time I hear it, I remember the first time my dad spun it for me. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether it’s the Beastie Boys or Selena, Michael Jackson or Prince, house music or freestyle mixes, my dad introduced me to it all. Everything he’s introduced me to, at least to some extent, still holds up in my playlists today. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, that’s not to say that I get my music taste solely from him; I’ve developed a taste of my own as I’ve gotten older, albeit not as varied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I know the cliché — I’m a sports editor, I grew up playing basketball, football and baseball, and yes, my favorite genre of music is hip-hop. The rap and sports trope does not escape me. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, I visited USC and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time for a Drake concert in my freshman year of high school. A year later, I was back again to see Kendrick Lamar at the Crypto.com Arena.  What could I possibly show my dad when it comes to music? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, beside me at all those concerts was my dad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though he only knew the most mainstream songs by these two artists, the concerts — and the six-hour car rides there and back — introduced him to some of the deeper cuts I listened to regularly. Now, I catch some of the songs we heard during those concerts in my dad’s song rotation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only that, but my dad was at every one of my middle school’s dances and didn’t know what we were listening to. So he came to me — and my siblings — to ask for input on what to include in his mix. Although they were part of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">our</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> everyday lives, my dad had not heard of 2019 anthems like “Sunflower” by Post Malone and Swae Lee or “EARFQUAKE” by Tyler, The Creator.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hearing these songs played — not only at my events but at his other gigs too — always made me smile, knowing I was the one who suggested them to him. Even outside of his gigs, I’d hear him playing those songs at home; After all the music he had introduced me to, it felt nice to do the same from my rotation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This exchange helped strengthen our relationship, and looking back, I’m thankful I grew up with a DJ dad.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He showed me new music, artists and genres I may never have discovered on my own, and I got to do the same for him. I could show some of this music to my friends who have similar music tastes, and share the songs my dad shared with me. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On one occasion, I was passed the aux in the car with my friends, and instead of queuing up what we usually played, I decided to go with classic 80s artists. Billy Joel, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more were all a hit, as I got to pass on the music knowledge that I got from my dad to my friends. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this is to say, it shouldn’t be embarrassing to share your music taste with your parents. Even if they make you cringe when dancing to your Spotify Wrapped playlist, don’t be afraid to play your favorite songs just because they’re around. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead of putting in your AirPods for long car rides, throw on an album that you both like. Or, even better, throw on an album that your parents don’t know, or vice versa. You may introduce each other to songs you never thought you’d like. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Jam Journal” is a rotating column featuring a new </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> editor in each installment, commenting on the music most important to them. Caleb Olguin is a sports editor.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before jumping in, here&#8217;s a look at some of the milestones from the previous edition of </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/22/pairs-of-vikings-bills-race-to-career-milestones/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Milestone Watch”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that were crossed in Weeks 7 and 8:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former Trojan Makai Lemon caught his first career receiving touchdown in the NFL in his Week 7 match against the Dallas Cowboys. In his three years at USC, Lemon hauled in 14 receiving touchdowns.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In just his second week back from suspension — due to an ongoing criminal investigation for battery and criminal destruction of property — Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs turned 21 carries into 39 yards and a score against the Carolina Panthers. He officially reached 75 career rushing touchdowns, the third most among running backs since he entered the league in 2019. Jacobs has found the end zone three times in the past two weeks, with his other two scores coming off receptions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Week 7, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Daniel Jones’ lone interception fell into the hands of Minnesota Vikings safety Harrison Smith, bringing Smith&#8217;s career total to 40. The Vikings’ defense also forced Jared Goff&#8217;s first interception of the year in Week 8.</span><i> </i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other side of the ball for the Vikings, receiver Justin Jefferson eclipsed 600 career receptions in Week 7, making him just the seventh player to reach that mark through 99 career games since 1933.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, with two against the Cleveland Browns in Week 8, Pittsburgh Steelers punter Cameron Johnston crossed 200 career punts downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Week 9 begins, here is another set of players nearing history to keep your eye on:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another punter, the Cowboys’ Bryan Anger, is closing in on a similar milestone to the one Johnston hit last week. Anger is one punt downed inside the 20-yard line away from 350 in his 15-year career. This season, the Cowboys have the second-fewest punts in the league, but when they do punt, Anger has been incredibly efficient with 11 of his boots downed inside the 20 on just 19 attempts. He currently sits third all-time among active NFL punters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/22/pairs-of-vikings-bills-race-to-career-milestones/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">previous edition of this column</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> highlighted the race between Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen and his teammate running back James Cook III to 5,000 career rushing yards. Despite productive games against the Ravens, they each remain just short of the milestone. The chase now extends into Week 9, with Allen and Cook just 9 and 34 yards away from the mark, respectively. Facing a stifling Vikings defense, this race will likely come down to the wire.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the AFC South, running back Jonathan Taylor has had a solid year despite the Colts’ 2-6 record through Week 8. The seventh-year back is closing in on 10,000 career scrimmage yards, currently 121 away at 9,879. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taylor is currently seventh in the league in scrimmage yards this year with 812, averaging just over 100 per game. The Colts have a favorable Week 9 matchup against the Cowboys, who have allowed the most yards per game to opposing offenses in the league this year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Orleans Saints tight end Juwan Johnson is one catch away from 250 career receptions. He has been one of quarterback Tyler Shough&#8217;s favorite targets this year, having hauled in 26 catches on 38 targets. Johnson is currently the third-leading receiver for the Saints this year after finishing second in 2025 behind only receiver Chris Olave. Shough is tied for the most pass attempts per game this season, so expect Johnson to cross this milestone soon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a season-ending injury to Terry McLaurin, receiver Stefon Diggs now serves as the Washington Commanders’ primary pass-catcher. The veteran is one receiving touchdown away from 80 in his career, and he&#8217;s already seen the end zone five times in 2026. Currently tied for sixth in receiving touchdowns this year, Diggs is likely to hit the mark soon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb is half a sack away from 50 career sacks. Chubb has dealt with various injuries in the NFL, but finished with at least 7.5 sacks in the five seasons he has played 14 or more games. Chubb has 1.5 sacks this year, but the Bills&#8217; next two opponents — the Vikings and the New York Jets — should be great opportunities, as they have allowed 3.0 and 2.9 sacks per game, respectively, in 2026.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the NFL trade deadline looming, teams and players alike should be especially motivated this upcoming week, so expect some extra history to emerge from the chaos.</span></p>
<p><i>Finn McNamara is a junior sharing notable NFL history to watch for each week of the season in his column, “Milestone Watch.” </i></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> International students make up 26.1% of USC’s student body but aren’t receiving enough support to face increasingly uncertain work policies.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">International students make up 26.1% of USC’s student body but aren’t receiving enough support to face increasingly uncertain work policies.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is one of the sweeping policies President Donald Trump’s administration is championing as part of its campaign to “protect American jobs.” More recently, the Department of Homeland Security proposed new fees for F-1 international students seeking optional practical training, a temporary employment authorization that lets students work in the U.S. after graduation, with the stated goal of “making it easier for American citizens to compete in the job market.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proposal seeks to establish a $70,000 fee per student to apply for the initial OPT, and a $30,000 fee for subsequent OPTs. This sum will be imposed on the school that recommends the student for OPT, meaning students can’t even decide for themselves whether they are willing to pay for authorization. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given that the average starting salary for bachelor’s degree holders in 2025 in the U.S. was $67,983, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the proposal essentially asks for an entire year’s worth of salary just to be authorized to work in the U.S.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the Trump administration targets international students seeking employment opportunities in the U.S., universities should take on the responsibility of protecting their students against turbulent policies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is especially true for USC, a school that thrives on diversity and has a 26.1% international student ratio as of the 2025-26 academic school year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internships are an important part of college life and the transition from student to worker. Many employers assess a new graduate’s potential job performance based on their past internship performance. Without the chance to complete internships in the U.S., international students will face difficulty finding jobs and fitting into a workplace in the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s work-related policies are not inclusive of international students. Most of USC’s on-campus jobs are reserved for work-study students, but international students are not eligible for work-study. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s Office of International Studies doesn’t provide students with career and internship guidance; it only provides administrative and technical help with visas, tax forms and documentation. Walking through the internship fair this semester as an international student, it was also frustrating to see that almost all participating firms have a clear “No” to the question, “Are you willing to accept CPT or OPT?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC can’t change employers’ shifting attitudes toward hiring international students as Trump’s policies tighten. USC could instead invite more companies willing to sponsor international students or to accept CPT and OPT authorizations to career fairs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since such a large proportion of USC’s students are international, a separate international student internship fair would likely also have enough participants to succeed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, this is not to say USC’s Career Center made no effort to support international students. But even when support exists, that support is not widely known and tailored enough. The general drop-in advising, Handshake, and Career Center events and workshops apply to international and domestic students alike, yet fail to recognize and support the specific hardships international students face in searching for employment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC can also refer to tailored career support in other U.S. colleges for improvements. The University of Chicago established an International Student Career Resource Center to help international students be competitive candidates through special internship programs open to all, as well as on-campus employment opportunities that are generally open to international students. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arizona State University highlighted its career center resources in a directory, which compiled employers that have hired international student alumni in the past three years through CPT and OPT, so the internship search process could be easier than searching in a sea of ineligible opportunities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">George Washington University pairs international students with international alumni for peer mentorship and hosts workshops to help international students navigate networking and interviewing in a foreign environment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the meantime, international students at USC can also seek alternatives to summer internships that require CPT. USC’s spring semester at the Washington, D.C., campus requires all students to complete an internship during the program, which would allow international students to seek CPT authorizations per the Trump administration’s policy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internships are not the only way to show employers that a student is right for the job. Students can also take volunteer opportunities to develop a similar skill set as a formal internship or take leadership positions in clubs and campus organizations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While these workarounds can help international students refocus and seek more opportunities, they will not replace institutional support that USC should provide.</span></p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/04/election-night-photo-essay/">Midterm elections at USC</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nithya Raman took a late lead against incumbent Karen Bass.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/04/mayor-cd-9-races-too-tight-to-call/">Mayor, CD-9 races too tight to call</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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<p>Nithya Raman took a late lead against incumbent Karen Bass.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have now entered the Becerra era,” Becerra announced in his victory speech. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, in Los Angeles, the mayoral race was nowhere near as close to being called. At the time of publication, no one had won the mayor&#8217;s race. As of 1 a.m., Nithya Raman led Karen Bass by .2 percentage points. In the June 2 primary, Bass secured 34% of the vote to Raman&#8217;s 29%.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the lead-up to the race, Bass was trailing Raman by 11% in one poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Los Angeles Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In the week before the election, Bass was able to erase that lead, tying Raman with support from 40% of likely L.A. voters. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As mayor, Bass helped reduce homicide by 19% last year, fast-tracked affordable housing and helped bring down the amount of unsheltered homelessness by 11%. Bass campaigned on continuing this legacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raman&#8217;s progressive platform included expanding housing, protecting renters and getting United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of L.A.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bass told her supporters Tuesday night that she was confident she would get “four more years.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Griffith Park, Raman told her supporters Tuesday night that there were still many votes to count and Angelenos would have to let the count finish.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The race for District 9’s City Council member was also not called by the time of publication. As of 1 a.m., Jose Ugarte led Estuardo Mazariegos by 11.4 percentage points.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the primary elections, Ugarte received 39.45% of votes, while Mazariegos came in second with 26.21%. This will be the first time since 1963 that CD-9 has not elected a Black councilmember.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ugarte ran on a platform dedicated to cleaning up South Central’s streets and improving public safety in the district by increasing the number of police officers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mazariegos’ platform included improving tenant protections, improving transportation infrastructure and increasing the minimum wage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">L.A. County saw more than 1.5 million vote-by-mail ballots, and more than 385,000 people voted at vote centers, according to the L.A. County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk. The final count could take several weeks.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;ve been in line for maybe 40 minutes, and I’m still in the middle,” Lee said. “I&#8217;m really happy to see that people, especially the student population, are interested in being involved in the democratic process, because it&#8217;s a privilege to have some kind of say in our government, even if it&#8217;s just one vote. It still counts for something.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The polling site at USC Village saw hundreds of students lining up to cast their ballots for the 2026 midterm election on Tuesday. ABC7 reported that other universities, such as Cal State Northridge, saw over 200 students waiting roadside to make their voices heard. By 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, the Los Angeles  County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk reported that turnout had already surpassed the overall turnout for the 2022 midterm elections. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By Tuesday evening, all eyes were on the multi-story screen of the Annenberg Hall Forum as students and faculty gathered for the Election Night Watch Party. The event was </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hosted by the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Dornsife Center for the Political Future, the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and the Open Dialogue Project.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The watch party began with a panel led by students who had been reporting along the campaign trail of 2026 candidates, followed by a panel from the CPF’s 2026 Fellows. Outside of nationwide races, the city of L.A.  saw various elections for its mayor, city council, city attorney and eight measures on the 2026 ballot. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christina Bellantoni, the director of the Annenberg Media Center, had led the student panel and was at the watch party when the Senate was called as a confirmed Democratic majority. She said this call made her consider the role that a blue Congress will play amid President Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;m really thinking about what&#8217;s next,” Bellantoni said. “All of it is fascinating. And what does Trump do? What does he say? How does he act? Does he work with them? As a professor, I think about all these things; I teach a political reporting class.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">election results for the 2026 L.A. mayoral election may not be called for a few days, partially due to the California rule allowing ballots to be processed after Election Day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A major question revolving around the 2026 midterm elections was whether the Democratic Party would flip Congress. Audience members looked between their personal devices, which documented their local races, and the big screen in the center of the atrium, projecting the nationwide results.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tom Hammond, a junior majoring in business administration and the president of Trojan Democrats, said he initially thought he was overconfident in his election predictions but did not think so as results came in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Fifty-three [Democratic] seats is looking like a realistic scenario, not just my far-flung expectations,” Hammond said. “This seems like a major shift … Texas has been something that, as a party, we&#8217;ve dreamed of flipping for decades now. It&#8217;s always just out of reach, and the fact that it may go to us — by a real margin as well, not just by a few thousand votes — is incredible. I&#8217;m speechless.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eli Mayer, a freshman majoring in economics, said that as a Texas native, the incoming results from the state and their implication nationwide were especially poignant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Something important to a lot of people in Texas is that we have somebody not like Ken Paxton,” Mayer said. “I describe it as good versus evil, because you have somebody as blatantly evil as Ken Paxton going against somebody who&#8217;s an amazing human being. It&#8217;s a real testament to how the country is doing and how there is hope in the world, and we&#8217;re not doomed for eternity.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When C-SPAN projected that the Democrats had won the House, the watch party erupted into applause. Michael Amato, a senior majoring in public policy and staff assistant of the Center for the Political Future, said he registered to vote in California specifically for this election and felt the difference in atmosphere compared to the 2024 general election. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was not expecting this,” Amato said. “Races I did not think would be competitive are competitive. Democrats are up in South Carolina and Kansas; those are two states I would not have even dreamed of being competitive tonight. It&#8217;s definitely a different vibe. I was here in 2024, and it was very low energy among the students, but right now the crowd is buzzing, and I&#8217;m so excited.”</span></p>
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<p>The front racks could have dressed a touring production of “Les Misérables”: cropped jackets with braided cording across the chest, double rows of brass buttons, collars stiff and high. Two racks over hung mandarin collars and knotted fastenings lifted from somewhere considerably farther east than Paris.</p>
<p>Nearly everything on that wall carried a history the tag omitted — military authority on one side, a Western fantasy of Asia on the other — and the trend cycle had co-opted both as aesthetics.</p>
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<h4><span style="color: #991b1e;">How the jacket got its braid</span></h4>
<p>The “Napoleon jacket” is high fashion’s name for the hussar’s dolman, the braided tunic of light cavalry that French Empire officers made fashionable across Europe. Its defining detail, the horizontal cording known as frogging, though, took a longer route to the mainstream.</p>
<p>Frog fastenings have been knotted into Chinese dress for centuries — in Mandarin, they are known as pankou, or “coil fasteners.” The Hungarian hussars may have adapted them from Chinese or Ottoman dress or arrived at a lookalike on their own, and Napoleon’s campaigns spread the style across the continent. The most authoritarian garment on the rack may owe its signature ornament to an Eastern craft Europe, but naturally, it was never credited.</p>
<p>The jacket’s namesake took more from the East than a fastener: In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt with an army and corps of scholars, an expedition postcolonial scholar Edward Said, in his 1978 book “Orientalism,” called “the very model of a truly scientific appropriation of one culture by another.”</p>
<p>Standing between those two racks, I kept returning to Said’s broader definition of Orientalism: “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.”</p>
<p>That conquest is cut into the garment itself. A hussar’s dolman was tailored for a man riding into someone else’s country, its braid there to signal his rank to everyone he rode past. The braid is cheaper and more widely accessible now, but the posture it projects — command, conquest, a presumed authority over other people — still emanates from the jacket.</p>
<p>In “Discipline and Punish,” philosopher Michel Foucault argued that by the late 18th century — Napoleon’s era — the soldier had become malleable, an “inapt body” from which “the machine required can be constructed.”</p>
<p>The Napoleon jacket is that project made visible — every body identical, upright and waiting for an order. It is an odd fit for a generation already disciplined in subtle ways: a watch that tells us when to stand, a weekly screen-time report that grades our habits, an app streak that punishes a missed day.</p>
<h4><span style="color: #991b1e;">A tradition of wearing it wrong</span></h4>
<p>Wearing these garments has not always meant endorsing them. In 1964, a Portobello Market stall named “I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet” — after the general who led Britain’s campaign in Sudan — began selling replicas of Victorian military uniforms to a generation that wore them to transgress the empire that issued them.</p>
<p>In 1967, Jimi Hendrix, himself a former soldier, posed for photographer Gered Mankowitz in a hussar’s pelisse over a bare chest. The National Army Museum describes the ’60s’ subversive borrowing as a display of “a deep irreverence for and disengagement from” the symbols being worn.</p>
<p>That irreverence never survives the trip to a mass-market rack. Georg Simmel described the mechanism in a 1904 essay: The fashions of the upper classes “are abandoned by the former as soon as the latter prepares to appropriate them.”</p>
<p>This cycle now runs through a phone. A silhouette moves from a runway or a subculture into an influencer’s closet, then to a label like Cider, which unethically manufactures in developing countries to keep prices low. Each stage sands off context. Hendrix’s pelisse was a joke at the army’s expense; the version on the rack is a sanitized military emblem with a lot of buttons.</p>
<p>The orientalist pieces complete a stranger loop. A frog closure or mandarin collar produced in China, filtered through a Western idea of Asia and sold in L.A. on a website that can be filtered by mood, has traveled the full circuit Said described — a culture’s dress, restructured by someone else’s fantasy of it, marketed back as atmosphere.</p>
<h4><span style="color: #991b1e;">How to assemble the look</span></h4>
<p>If you wear this jacket, wear it against itself. Buy it secondhand and oversized — a vintage bandsman or cadet jacket carries a real history — and layer it over something that subverts its militaristic connotation, such as a slip dress or faded band tee.</p>
<p>For frog closures and mandarin collars, go to the source: vintage qipao jackets, Asian designers, shops in Chinatown.</p>
<p>And if you, like me, find the Napoleon jacket horrendously ugly, the best styling choice remains declining to buy one.</p>
<p><em>Julia Ho is a senior writing about fashion history, pop culture and the shopping decisions in between in her column, “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” which runs every other Wednesday. She is also a chief copy editor and the staff development director at the </em>Daily Trojan<em>.</em></p>
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<p>On Monday, Matchbox Productions hosted “GRAVEYARD SHIFT,” a sold-out concert featuring Los Angeles bands American Cherry, Mad Hunny and first-time headliner her favorite band. The event reached maximum ticket sales at 1 p.m. with about 130 attendees registered for that night.</p>
<p>The concert marked Matchbox Productions’ first-ever organized event. The students behind the project were challenged by the “Live Music Production and Promotion” course to approach organizing, booking, marketing and producing a live concert.</p>
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<p>When designing the lineup, direction and mission of their concert, the student producers were driven to connect with and feature the L.A. DIY and indie artist community.</p>
<p>“We want[ed] to give a space for newer upcoming artists to be able to perform because there&#8217;s so many bands in L.A. and there&#8217;s so much going on always, … [we wanted to give] them an opportunity to perform for a new college market,” said Sydney Caso, a student organizer for Matchbox Productions and a junior majoring in music industry.</p>
<p>William Gray, a junior majoring in music industry and part of the production group, viewed the concert-coordinating process as a chance to explore the bridge of talent and production in action.</p>
<p>“I like the opportunity of putting multiple bands from different places on one bill, and it&#8217;s a small enough community that they&#8217;re going to connect,” Gray said. “It&#8217;s all that spider web of the L.A. scene; I think it’s really cool that we&#8217;re a part of it.”</p>
<p>From the group’s initial founding in late August to the production of “GRAVEYARD SHIFT,” Matchbox Productions has been at work creating their show. The team communicated with charitable organizations, connected to venues and artists to build their lineup and marketed their November show through social media content and physical media.</p>
<p>The student producers partnered with climate action and resource relief charities Project Ropa and FoodCycle L.A., respectively, to donate all ticket proceeds in support of their causes. At the concert, FoodCycle L.A. tabled and collected canned food donations, passed out candy and educated attendees on its mission and efforts in L.A.</p>
<p>Matchbox Productions found it crucial for FoodCycle L.A. to be in attendance to educate guests and spread awareness for the charities that guests contributed to with their ticket purchase.</p>
<p>The night kicked off with an eager and early crowd to support the opening performance of post-hardcore punk band American Cherry. The L.A.-based band, fronted by a female singer, performed in the context of topical issues around women&#8217;s empowerment, referencing the Cornell 7 case and the midterm elections.</p>
<p>“The way that this country is going is so scary, and we find so much community with music, and expression of art, and our love and creativity,” said Cat Parkes, the lead singer. “Being a part of the [DIY music] community and finding that common ground with music is what continues to fuel me and everybody else, and so [we need to] keep that going.”</p>
<p>Bringing up the energy with their quick-tempoed pop-punk sound, the all-girl trio of Mad Hunny invigorated the crowd. The trio, dressed as different animals for Halloween, performed their recently released song “Shell of a Man,” taking the set to a new level of performance and vocality. Lead vocalist Kaia Lobato commanded the entire venue to fall to the floor and rise into an aggressive, spirited mosh as she screeched, “Who do you think you are?”</p>
<p>Following Mad Hunny and performing on a stage for the first time, headlining act, her favorite band used their humble charisma and charm to put on a touching and delightfully rowdy performance to finish off the night in style.</p>
<p>The Texas-based band, who came from humble beginnings with their initial work in L.A. performing “street tour” shows outside grocery stores and along beachside streets, have gained recognition for their DIY approach to performances and touring.</p>
<p>“Coming to L.A. definitely taught us a lot, not only about music, but character as well; it kicked us a lot,” said Guillermo Straube, the band’s bassist and vocalist. “Some of us were homeless and we were doing these street shows … no one was booking us, so we just wanted to go out there [and] take matters into our own hands.”</p>
<p>When approached to headline their first performance at “GRAVEYARD SHIFT,” her favorite band resonated with Matchbox Productions&#8217; mission and outcomes for the concert.</p>
<p>“We were automatically on board as soon as they said all profits go to charity,” Astrus said.</p>
<p>Her favorite band brought a positive and enthusiastic energy to cap off the night, with uplifting original songs such as “Modern mona lisa” and “Pocket Perfect,” which brought groups of audience members to dance with one another.</p>
<p>The group reached out to the audience and encouraged everyone to “spread the love” among the crowd, advising men in attendance to speak up and look out for women at live events, reminding them “we all have hers.”</p>
<p>The night ended with crowd surfing and dancing along with the band, who eventually joined the audience in the pit and established a personal connection between attendees and performers.</p>
<p>“Long live DIY forever. We need more of that in the community,” Parkes said. “Support your local band. Support your community.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC dropped two games to Wisconsin and Minnesota to open November matches.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The battle ahead for the Trojans (9-13, 3-9 Big Ten) was not an easy one, as they were set to face No. 7 Wisconsin (16-6, 10-2) and No. 19 Minnesota (14-6, 8-4) over the Halloween weekend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite garnering chances against the Badgers, USC dropped both matches, falling to 3-9 in conference play and winless in Big Ten matches at Galen Center. The four-set loss to Wisconsin gave way to the straight sweep against Minnesota, and with time running out on the season, NCAA Tournament hopes grow slimmer for the Trojans.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Obviously we want the win, [but we] didn’t get the win,” interim Head Coach Megan Moenoa said in a postgame news conference Friday. “The way we played is going to catapult the way we play and train from this point on.”</span></p>
<p><b>Badgers take down Trojans in four competitive sets</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Friday night, the Badgers traveled to Los Angeles to face the Trojans. After winning the first set 25-17, things were looking all Wisconsin, even in front of 3,367 of USC’s home fans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It wasn’t until the start of the second set that momentum started to shift in USC’s favor. Junior middle blocker Mia Tvrdy served the first ball of the set, and it went perfectly between the Badgers players for Tvrdy’s first ace since the Sept. 24 match against Northwestern (7-16, 0-12).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Tvrdy wasn’t done, executing another ace on the very next serve. She finished the night with six kills, and although USC lost a 24-22 lead for the 26-24 second-set loss, a fire was lit within the team.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC was able to scrap and fight for the third-set victory before the fourth one was once again lost in the final plays to further shatter its playoff hopes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Redshirt junior outside hitter London Wijay remained consistent throughout the match, as she has all season; her five kills in the third set helped the Trojans salvage a much-needed set victory in the face of defeat. She ended the match with 20 kills and 10 digs for her third double-double of the year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Anything that’s competitive I love, and I play up to that,” Wijay said in a postgame news conference. “We did a lot of attacking practice to go with our scouting.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another success story for the Trojans has been sophomore opposite hitter </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/27/skys-the-limit-for-volleyball-hotshot-abigail-mullen/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abigail Mullen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who once again found herself on the right side of the stat sheet in Friday’s loss. With 16 kills, one shy of tying her season high, Mullen consistently found herself near the top of the pack, helping keep USC in the match from start to finish.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, it was the inability to stop Wisconsin freshman outside hitter Decelise Champion, whom Moenoa mentioned prior to the game as a potential major threat, that hurt USC the most. Champion’s 21 kills helped the Badgers take the match and improve their record in conference play.</span></p>
<p><b>Tough straight-set loss to Gophers</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hoping for a bounce-back win on Sunday, the Trojans came back out against the Gophers with optimism. However, the result was nowhere near positive, as USC was swept 25-19, 25-16, 25-23.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wijay, normally a major factor, was fairly quiet in Sunday’s contest, playing just two sets and recording only one kill. Instead, the load was split between Mullen and redshirt senior outside hitter </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2024/12/05/from-the-bench-to-the-court-adonia-faumuina-brings-unwavering-support/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adonia Faumuina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mullen recorded a game-high 12 kills, while Faumuina just missed out on double digits with nine kills of her own. Faumuina made up for it with a strong defensive performance, blocking four shots and digging five balls.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although the first two sets quickly got out of hand for the Trojans, the third set was reminiscent of the third one against the Badgers just two days prior. USC went down 7-2 to start the set but clawed its way back into the match, even taking a 12-10 lead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Still, the Gophers spoiled the Trojans’ lead in a back-and-forth affair that saw Minnesota ultimately prevail. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With a loss in both matches over the weekend, USC dips to four games under .500. The Trojans’ chances of making the playoffs look exceedingly rare as they are in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2021 season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC heads to Maryland 12-11, 2-10) Thursday at 4 p.m. before going to Piscataway, New Jersey, to play Rutgers (11-13, 2-10) Saturday at 10 a.m. for the final true road trip of the regular season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At USC, students are pursuing their personal pleasures in various ways; partying is a primary one, as evidenced by the Halloweekend parties across and near University Park Campus. Partying is the quintessential expression of the belief that joy is doubled when shared. However, maybe it is time to understand happiness not as contingent upon external forces but as an inner light subject to our mindset.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many students say partying is fun not necessarily because of the nature of partying itself, but because of the performance associated with it. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Yu, a freshman majoring in media arts and practice, said that while she was not much of a party person in high school, coming to USC, she found out that it’s a fun experience and that she enjoys dressing up and going out. In a more general sense of Yu’s experience, college is a transformative experience where one redefines their sense of happiness. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many other students agree with Yu in that the enjoyment they feel at parties is not solely because of parties themselves but is also dependent on other factors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These perspectives lead to one conclusion: To some, partying is a means, not an end. When asked about what makes parties enjoyable, both Yu answered supplementary aspects</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> rather than the act of partying itself. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This shows that people do not perceive parties as a direct source of happiness, but rather as events that can facilitate activities that, in turn, lead to happiness. If parties are not essential in our progress toward happiness, then why do so many people still flock to such events? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alcohol seems to be imperative to enjoying parties. According to a study published by Psychological Science, alcohol functions as a social lubricant, making connections with strangers easier than when one is sober. Alcohol may be the cherry on top of an already exciting party: The delight of exquisite music and outfits is amplified by the existence of liquid courage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, alcohol may have its perks. However, we must not let this lure us into choosing the easy way to happiness. Alcohol is supplementary; we need to remind ourselves what we are truly chasing.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In his book &#8220;Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle argues that happiness is in itself desirable. We chase happiness not because it brings us other things that are valuable but because happiness is invaluable on its own. We can question our goals and desires and why we pursue them, but in the end, we want to be happy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although this logic is one-dimensional and reductionist, the gist of the idea — when we trace all of our daily activities to their very core, all is done because of our underlying longing for happiness — is true. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reason we drink is often not because we find meaning in drinking itself, but because of the relaxed feeling we get in otherwise rigid or awkward social settings. If genuine connection is what we want, why not go for it by itself, without the mediation of alcohol? The mediation process makes us confuse our true desire for connection with a desire for alcohol.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, extrapolating from Aristotle’s ancient but universal theory, we must understand that the feeling of contentment or satisfaction is within us. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chase Williams, a sophomore majoring in business administration, said the misconception of the “true college experience” — partying and being super extroverted, which isn’t everybody’s cup of tea — creates an unspoken social pressure that encourages students to drink. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is especially true in a diverse school such as USC. Every person has a unique road to happiness. However, when society forces someone to think of happiness as achieved through a fixed performance of drinking, it not only risks reducing them to a unidimensional being but also robs them of their chance to realize their full potential. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dissecting and scrutinizing oneself is hard, and alcohol provides an easy way out. To confront ourselves, we must first be true to ourselves and our desires. But at times, we are afraid that those wishes are not compatible with social expectations and will be seen as weird. Thus, we censor ourselves and conform to the safe, recognized way to happiness: alcohol. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our early stages of life, often characterized as dynamic, ironically make us more susceptible to our peers’ gaze when we do not have an established core yet. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, realizing what makes us happy doesn’t immediately translate to actual happiness, and often causes more despair when it is not achieved. Nevertheless, we must embrace that uncertainty and risk in order to achieve true happiness and true self. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We cannot let external ideas or practices define us. However hard it may be, we must define ourselves not through alcohol or parties, but through constant contemplation. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans (1-0) opened the season in Las Vegas with a dominant 100-68 win over the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (0-1). Superstar senior guard JuJu Watkins made her long-awaited return to the court after </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/09/28/juju-watkins-to-miss-entire-2025-26-season/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">missing her junior season with an ACL injury</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, not skipping a beat in her first official game in 588 days. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was great just to be out there with my team again,” Watkins said in a postgame news conference. “[I’m] grateful to be out here today.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The victory marked USC’s first time scoring 100 or more points in a season opener since the 1985-86 season, when they eventually went on to play in the national championship game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year&#8217;s team will look to continue building on that momentum, with the win over the Rebels marking what USC hopes is the first of many en route to a deep postseason run.</span></p>
<p><b>Star guards take control of the game</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those anticipating the first look at the Trojans’ three No. 1 recruits sharing the floor were not disappointed. Watkins, sophomore guard </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/02/26/a-facilitator-of-flair-family-and-full-court-effort/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jazzy Davidson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and freshman guard Saniyah Hall accounted for 66 of USC’s 100 points, with each of the stars going for over 20 points.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hall and Davidson were lethal from the field, shooting 7-for-8 and 10-for-11, respectively. Davidson had a complete game, leading all scorers with 23 points while adding five rebounds and four assists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hall sparkled on the court in her collegiate debut, scoring 22 with seven rebounds, two blocks and two steals. Hall also put her shooting on display, shooting 3-of-4 from three, leading the Trojans.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I had a little bit of nerves in the beginning,” Hall said in a postgame news conference. “But as time went on, I just got used to it, and I was having fun out there.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In her return, Watkins scored 21 points with five rebounds and two steals, though she wasn’t as efficient as her counterparts shooting-wise. The veteran guard shot just 9-for-22 from the field, missing all five of her 3-point attempts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watkins remained on a snap count in her first game back, playing just 25 minutes — tied for the lowest mark in her career, excluding the game where she suffered her season-ending injury. Despite her limited role, though, her presence is already making an impact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With their first game sharing the court behind them, Davidson and Watkins are already developing chemistry, with both players providing productivity and having a consistent presence in the game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We have a whole lot of unselfish players as well, and everybody&#8217;s willing to make the extra pass to get the best shot,” Davidson said in a postgame news conference. </span></p>
<p><b>Supporting cast helps Trojans secure victory</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans took control early, outscoring the Rebels 29-15 in the first quarter. UNLV responded in the second, briefly cutting the lead to single digits, yet the Trojans entered halftime ahead 52-39.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Veteran presence was key in shutting down the Rebels’ offense. Junior guard Kennedy Smith contributed 12 points while adding a block and a team-high four steals on the defensive side of the ball. Junior guard Ryann Bennett was close behind Smith, tacking on three steals of her own.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC extended its lead, going into the fourth quarter up 84-49 and leading by as many as 42 points thanks to shooting 58.8% from the field. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In all, the Trojans had five scorers in double digits, with freshman forward Satiya Fagan adding 11. With all the weapons at her disposal, Head Coach Lindsay Gottlieb said she knows her squad is capable of great things. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This was a great first game for us; we have a special group, we’re excited about it,” Gottlieb said in a postgame news conference. “[There are] so many ways we can get better, which is the exciting thing.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the few downsides for USC on Monday was cleaning up on the glass, as UNLV outrebounded the Trojans 40-35. The effort was led by Rebel redshirt junior forward Meadow Roland, who grabbed six rebounds in the game. USC trailed on the offensive glass as well, with just 14 offensive rebounds to the Rebels’ 21. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite losing the rebound battle, the Trojans made up for it by facilitating UNLV turnovers while limiting their own. USC forced 24 turnovers on 13 steals, converting them into 32 points, a key factor in the win.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We have firepower,” Gottlieb said. “If we can stay committed to the process of getting better on both ends of the floor, good things are ahead; try and take it one step at a time.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will return to Galen Center to host Utah State University (1-0) for its home opener Sunday at 5 p.m.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The way to make good art, or any art, is overcoming the need to make perfect art.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a five-minute break, during which somehow my entire taste changes, I decide the paragraphs must be scrapped and rewritten. I hate the new ones, but the show must go on, so I write three more. I decide I hate the entire thing, so I open a new tab in the same document and start brainstorming a new direction for the article. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I simply cannot write anything until every thought, possible direction and its punctuation is absolutely perfect. Because of this, sometimes I can’t write at all; still, in my head, writing nothing seems better than writing something mediocre. But putting pen to paper, even poorly, is better than never picking up the pen at all. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In George Orwell’s “Why I Write,” the lauded author states that “writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle. … One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Orwell says the reason for this attraction between a self-identified writer and the writing is unknown; however, the unknown, vague yet powerful desire is reason enough. In fact, most writers begin to write because they can’t fathom not doing so. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, a writer’s motive is as susceptible to change as anything else. In truth, the more you care about the work you do and the art that you create, the more you want it to be good. Standards rise alongside the love you have for your creations. Eventually, they can become too high for anyone to meet. At that point, the only feeling left is the disappointment of never meeting the unreachable standards you have set for yourself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even worse, logic can’t save an artist from endless self-loathing and critique; accurately measuring value and success is excruciatingly difficult.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are, indeed, standards for journalistic writing: You have to follow Associated Press style, banish the Oxford comma and maintain some form of dedication to corroborating facts. Beyond that, though, I couldn’t say with certainty what exactly makes an article good; I’ve read great pieces written in stylistically questionable ways. I’ve also read widely loved articles that I have absolutely hated. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even writers we consider among the greats, who have built significant followings and sold dozens of best-sellers, doubt themselves. Stephen King, one of the most commercially successful writers of our time, said in a 2000 interview with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that he questioned whether his success was a matter of luck. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notably, in the 1970s, King had written and published a few books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. King said he was moved to write under a pseudonym “to see what was in the name.” He went on to say he was curious to know whether to credit his success to something in him, or whether he had just “won the publishing lottery.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Richard Bachman, King sold far less than he did under his real name, even though the content and style were so similar that a Washington, D.C., bookstore clerk became suspicious. The man in question, Steve Brown, dug through the Library of Congress copyright records and confirmed that Richard Bachman was really Stephen King. After the correlation was officially revealed, Bachman’s book sales increased tenfold. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the end, it seems King’s name made his books successful and his writing desirable. Yet, it’s important to remember that Stephen King became Stephen King because readers liked his books enough to read them in the first place. King’s failed experiment thus reiterates the impossibility of determining one’s art’s value. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative doubt has no quick resolution. As long as you care deeply about your creations, you’re condemned to care about their quality. Without the suffering and the stakes, creation isn’t the same.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t know if my writing is any good, and I don’t know if I’ll ever consistently feel like it is. However, I do know why I write. Orwell is right; I hate my life when I don’t write. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Baldwin once wrote, &#8220;You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can&#8217;t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We write not because we are certain what we say will matter or because we’ll change lives, but because we can’t live in a world where we say nothing at all. </span></p>
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<p>USC is mentioned in the report for suspending students before investigations were completed.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The joint report highlighted how USC banned or temporarily suspended students from campus before the conclusion of disciplinary proceedings or conviction of a crime. This came in response to their participation in pro-Palestinian encampment protests.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It also referenced USC’s move in April 2024 to </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/15/valedictorian-will-not-speak-at-class-of-2024-commencement/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cancel Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian speech</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At the time, pro-Israel groups accused Tabassum of “promoting antisemitic views” in light of pro-Palestinian posts Tabassum liked on social media and a link on her Instagram profile to a slideshow that called for a one-state solution involving the abolition of the state of Israel. At the time, the University cited safety concerns as the reason for this decision.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Justin Mazzola, deputy director of research at Amnesty International USA, the response to pro-Palestinian protests created a “domino effect” on college campuses, leading to the suppression of free speech. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It draws a huge contrast to other protest movements that we’d seen in the past,” Mazzola said. “Students occupied buildings or space on campuses, but were largely allowed to express themselves without the fear of police violence.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nika Llamanzares, a senior majoring in communication, said she remembers feeling fearful amid the crackdown on protesters during her freshman year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There was one point where I was locked out of campus,” Llamanzares said. “I know a lot of people were scared of speaking up, even in class about the event, fearing that they would [experience] retaliation from the professors who tend to lean more right.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Saunders, a sophomore majoring in music industry, said he experienced heightened security measures following protests in 2024. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Three years ago, you couldn’t get onto campus if you didn’t have a USC ID,” Saunders said.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Llamanzares said the crackdown has had lasting effects on campus protest movements. She said she does not expect to see another major protest on campus in the next few years. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“From what I’ve seen since then, protests on campus have been minimal,” Llamanzares said. “As much as I want to believe that the student body will continue to express themselves how they did that year, I honestly think it might be a little too soon for that.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Ryoma Suzuki, a freshman majoring in artificial intelligence, said individuals have the opportunity to express their opinions through student-led groups and clubs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Actively hosting events where people outside the community can interact [and have] conversations would be good as well,” Suzuki said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The report claimed that international students who were involved in protests were targeted by the Trump administration, which has resulted in the arrest, detention and deportation of some. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Khalifa Alfzari, a junior majoring in biological sciences, said that despite his personal support for pro-Palestinian protests, his status as an international student makes him hesitant to participate directly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I usually don’t put myself out there because a lot of times international students have, and it never ends well,” Alfzari said. “I am vocal on social media, but in person, not really.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mazzola said he believes the future is largely dependent on the November midterm election, though he said the change won’t be immediate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We don’t expect to see a wholesale change until 2028,” Mazzola said. “But hopefully, with a new Congress in 2026 and starting in 2027, we can get them to hold members of the [Trump] administration accountable for what they’ve been doing in terms of their attacks [on free speech].”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ACLU and Amnesty International USA report claimed that as part of its campaign against pro-Palestinian movements, the Trump administration has utilized federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, to suppress protests on college campuses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Llamanzares said she thinks that with the protests being so recent in USC history, what the student body needs most is time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The courage would have to build within the students themselves. I don’t think the administration is going to change,” Llamanzares said. “People need a little more time to recuperate.” </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anya Motwani and Duo Yang contributed to this report.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two new Trojans dominated in the blowout win to open the season on a high note. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In their first-ever college basketball game, the two brothers lived up to their nickname, combining for 39 points as the No. 21 Trojans (1-0) opened their season at Galen Center with a 95-63 win against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (0-1). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three of the Trojans&#8217; five starters Monday night were the children of former NBA players: Accompanying the Ratliff twins was sophomore guard Alijah Arenas, son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas. All three players had dominant performances in Monday night’s win over Milwaukee, showing signs of promise that USC hopes will continue throughout the season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I would say my first college experience was definitely eye-opening,&#8221; Darius Ratliff said in a postgame news conference. “We played a couple exhibition games before this, we saw that there were certain things we needed to work on, and then we got in the lab and produced.” </span></p>
<p><b>Trojans leave no doubt in win</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From tipoff, the Trojans controlled the game, scoring first and never looking back. USC bested the Panthers in each half, outscoring them 46-29 and 49-34, respectively. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not once did USC take its foot off the gas, with the Trojans’ dominance stretching wire-to-wire. With four minutes remaining in the contest, USC held its largest lead of 36 points before eventually winning by 32.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each Trojan possession maintained the same level of intensity throughout the 40 minutes of play, as USC held the advantage in fast break and second-chance points. The Trojans also scored 40 points from within the paint, demonstrating their physicality. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ratliff twins led the charge, exceeding expectations in their collegiate debuts. Adonis Ratliff had 25 points, two blocks and three assists, while Darius Ratliff tallied 14 points, five blocks and two assists. Both players achieved a double-digit plus/minus when they were on the hardwood, showing their instant impact. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the twins provided 39 of the Trojans’ 95 points, they were not the only ones with successful performances. In his long-awaited return </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/12/15/mens-basketball-plagued-with-injuries/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">after a shoulder injury cut his junior season short</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, senior guard Rodney Rice had 15 points while leading the team with nine assists in 34 minutes played. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arenas had the second-highest point total with 21, shooting an efficient 9-for-14 from the field while grabbing a team-high eight rebounds. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior guard KJ Lewis also made his Trojan debut, scoring 10 points in his first game after transferring from Georgetown in April. USC spread the wealth, with five Trojans reaching double-digit points and the team combining for 25 assists — a higher total than all but one of their games last season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think we had 198 passes tonight, so we were a couple passes short of where we want to be,” Head Coach Eric Musselman said in a postgame news conference. “But when you have 25 assists in a college game, that&#8217;s an incredible number.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans&#8217; 3-point shooting efficiency also proved key in the win. In the first half, USC attempted nine threes, making four; in the second half, USC sank eight out of its 13 attempts from beyond the arc, resulting in a stellar 3-point percentage of 61.5%.</span></p>
<p><b>Not all good for USC </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was not all sunshine and rainbows for the Trojans, though, as this game was marked by a back injury to junior forward Jacob Cofie. After securing a rebound well into the first half, Cofie exited the game and did not return. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He’s dealing with severe back spasms, and I am concerned about him playing against [Wichita State University],” Musselman said. “There was no way that he could continue tonight.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aside from Cofie’s injury, Monday’s game revealed many aspects of the Trojans’ game that can be improved. While USC crushed its opponent on the scoreboard, the two sides had a similar number of turnovers, with the Trojans amassing 14 to the Panthers’ 17. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toward the end of the game, despite leading by over 30 points, Musselman could be seen slamming the scorer’s table in frustration at his team’s turnovers in transition. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We just have to play every possession as if it were 0-0,” Musselman said. “We had sloppy turnovers in transition because we wanted to run, but when you run, you have to get a shot on goal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will look to cut down on the turnover woes in its next match, when it travels to Nevada to face off against Wichita State in the Caesars Lake Tahoe Classic on Sunday at 8 p.m.</span></p>
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<h6>Dahlia Beck, Daily Trojan</h6>
<h4>Trojans anticipate outcomes of 2026 midterm election</h4>
<p>While waiting to drop off her ballot in line, which stretched from the Great Lawn back to the entrance of Cafe Dulce, Kaya Lee, a senior majoring in legal studies, said she was excited to see students engaging politically.</p>
<p>“I’ve been in line for maybe 40 minutes, and I’m still in the middle,” Lee said. “I’m really happy to see that people, especially the student population, are interested in being involved in the democratic process, because it’s a privilege to have some kind of say in our government, even if it’s just one vote. It still counts for something.”</p>
<p>The polling site at USC Village saw hundreds of students lining up to cast their ballots for the 2026 midterm election on Tuesday.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/04/trojans-anticipate-outcomes-of-2026-midterm-election/"><strong>Read more</strong></a></p>
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<h6>David Rendon, Daily Trojan</h6>
<h4>Mayor, CD-9 races too tight to call</h4>
<p>At 8 p.m. Tuesday night, as the California polls closed, the Associated Press called the California governor’s race for Xavier Becerra.</p>
<p>“You have now entered the Becerra era,” Becerra announced in his victory speech.</p>
<p>However, in Los Angeles, the mayoral race was nowhere near as close to being called. At the time of publication, no one had won the mayor’s race. As of 1 a.m., Nithya Raman led Karen Bass by .2 percentage points.</p>
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<h6>Alexia Shafran, Daily Trojan</h6>
<h4>A guide to in-person voting near USC</h4>
<p>Those who want to vote in person can do so without leaving campus, thanks to a Los Angeles County vote center that opened Saturday at USC Village.</p>
<p>The center, in Room UVN-1200, will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Monday and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Election Day. It is one of the 523 vote centers opening across the county Saturday, joining the 123 that have been open since Oct. 24 for a countywide total of 646.</p>
<p>This guide covers casting a ballot in person atin and around University Park. For registration deadlines, mail ballots and voting as an out-of-state voter, read the Daily Trojan’s September voting guide.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/11/02/a-guide-to-in-person-voting-near-usc/"><strong>Read more</strong></a></p>
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<h6>Elsa Zepeda Juárez, Daily Trojan</h6>
<h4>Guide to Los Angeles city ballot measures</h4>
<p>Election day is only about two weeks away, and elected officials aren’t the only thing on the ballot. Beyond voting for individuals and California statewide ballot measures, Los Angeles residents will also vote on eight city ballot measures in November. Here’s a breakdown for all eight.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/19/guide-to-los-angeles-city-ballot-measures/"><strong>Read more</strong></a></p>
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<h6>Jack Farringer, Daily Trojan</h6>
<h4>Raman, Bass make their case to voters</h4>
<p>Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced off against District 4 City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Tuesday night in an hour-long debate — the only public debate the two have scheduled before the election. The candidates exchanged personal attacks and discussed differing visions to address homelessness, traffic safety and affordability concerns among college students.</p>
<p>Raman tried to paint Bass as an establishment politician who is emblematic of the issues facing L.A., while Bass touted her accomplishments in reducing homelessness and attempted to persuade voters that the city is on the right track.</p>
<p>The debate, hosted by NBC4 and Telemundo 52, gave L.A. voters a glimpse into each candidate’s policies before in-person early voting begins Oct. 24. Ballots have already been mailed out to voters across the state.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/15/raman-and-bass-make-their-case-to-voters/"><strong>Read more</strong></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The attention economy has turned sexual visibility into an unavoidable commercial trap.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On YouTube blind-dating shows and reality TV hits like “Love Island,” content is optimized for “clip farming”: engineering isolated moments of graphic disclosure or sexual performance designed to be chopped up for short-form videos. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When contestants enter these spaces not just to date, but to build micro-celebrity status that routes traffic to larger follower bases, it begs a fundamental question: Are these platforms actually trying to sell human connection, or are they just monetizing sex? </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s nothing wrong with platforming sex, but the clip-farming and attention-grabbing strategies used to attract eyes aren’t championing sexual openness or liberation — it’s just profitable. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Society has certainly made strides. We live in an era where people can engage with sexuality far more openly than in previous generations. On social media, netizens demystify taboo subjects, share access to sexual health information and foster discourse on relationships and boundaries. Sexual freedom exists on a broad spectrum, and people have the right to express their sexuality — or maintain their privacy — without being derogatorily labeled loose or uptight.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, acknowledging this progress exposes a critical paradox: Society’s greater comfort with sexual visibility doesn’t mean it has developed a healthier or more emotionally grounded understanding of sex itself. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sex captures attention, and in an attention economy, that makes it an unbeatable commercial product. Engagement with sexually provocative content turns attention into increasing visibility and revenue, creating a structural incentive to hypersexualize online products. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But this dynamic is no longer confined to reality television or viral dating shows; it’s expanded rapidly through advertising. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence, suggestive imagery and sexually charged ads can be produced cheaply and endlessly. The result is an ecosystem that floods social media feeds with hyper-sexualized clickbait that decouples sexual imagery from personhood simply to keep eyes on screens. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we see now is the attention economy at work in damaging ways. Sexuality becomes hollow when the individual disappears behind a performance made solely for engagement. Under this framework, distinct identities — whether framed as goth, coquette or the girl next door — are flattened into recognizable sexual market categories. Even women who don’t subscribe to these aesthetics find their personal expression flattened into consumable tropes beyond their control. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because shock generates engagement, content creators and producers may feel pressure to become more explicit or provocative to maintain visibility. A recent example is </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/21/dont-let-them-tell-you-how-to-be-sexy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sydney Sweeney’s campaign for Novig</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a sports betting platform, that relied on the imagery of a woman covering her naked body with sports gear — two completely unrelated concepts linked only by the marketability of female exposure. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The core issue isn’t individual women expressing or monetizing their likeness but a system whose incentives flatten identities for engagement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this conversation, we also overlook a major segment of this space: children and general audiences. Today, users of all ages occupy the same feeds and public digital platforms without consenting to continuous sexual exposure. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sexual destigmatization doesn’t require the total erasure of boundaries between adult and general-audience spaces. True autonomy requires the ability to choose, and people cannot meaningfully opt out when sexualized advertisements and algorithmic recommendations appear in utterly unrelated contexts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sexual liberation includes the freedom to not perform. Platforms must take responsibility for where sexualized content is amplified and who is forced to encounter it. Content producers and advertisers should question whether sexuality serves an expressive purpose or merely functions as clickbait. And audiences, with their autonomy, also need to examine what they reward through clicks, shares and outrage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If sexual liberation was meant to expand our human choices, the attention economy has twisted it into one inescapable default: mandatory exposure. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC followed two one-goal wins over the Golden Bears with a seven-goal loss Sunday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No. 4 USC (14-5, 1-4 MPSF) fell 17-13 to No. 2 Stanford (17-2, 4-1) at Avery Aquatic Center on Saturday before falling 18-11 to No. 3 UC Berkeley (14-4, 3-2) at Spieker Aquatics Complex on Sunday. The winless weekend marked the Trojans’ first pair of consecutive losses this year and their largest defeat of the season. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While both games remained competitive well beyond the opening quarter, with USC entering the fourth tied with Stanford and reaching halftime even with Cal, neither position translated into a victory.</span></p>
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<p><b>Stanford pulls away late</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During Saturday’s loss, the Trojans overcame a three-goal third-quarter deficit, scoring five times in the period. Sophomore driver Efe Naipoglu’s goal with 47 seconds remaining tied the game at 11, setting up an interesting final quarter. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recovery set up USC to potentially reverse its earlier results against Stanford, which had </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/23/usc-mens-water-polo-finishes-third-at-overnght-mpsf-invitational/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">beaten the Trojans 10-8 in September</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and 16-12 in October. Instead, the Cardinal replicated their dominance, outscoring USC 6-2 in the final eight minutes to complete their third victory over the Trojans this season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Naipoglu and freshman driver Ante Jerkovic led USC with three goals apiece, while freshman 2-meter Tyler Anderson added two. Despite eight Trojans finding the back of the cage, the distribution could not prevent another four-goal loss to the Cardinal on Saturday. </span></p>
<p><b>UC Berkeley flips the season series</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans entered Sunday having defeated the Golden Bears twice, winning 13-12 at the Overnght MPSF Invitational on Sept. 20 and 15-14 in a sudden victory Oct. 3. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In nearly a month, USC went from a one-goal win to a seven-goal loss. The Trojans surrendered a season-high 18 goals in Berkeley, breaking the previous record of 17 allowed to Stanford just a day prior.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s earlier conference victory required contributions at both ends of the pool. Redshirt junior goalkeeper Charles Mills made a career-high 15 saves, senior utility Luke Nelson forced overtime with a goal in the final second of regulation and sophomore 2-meter Strahinja Krstic delivered the winner in the matchup a month ago. Sunday’s rematch initially followed a similar pattern, with the teams tied 4-4 after the first quarter and 8-8 at halftime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The difference, however, emerged after the break. Cal outscored USC 5-1 in the third quarter and 5-2 in the fourth. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Krstic’s power-play goal tied the score at 9-9 early in the third, the Golden Bears responded with eight straight unanswered goals. USC went more than 12 minutes without scoring before Anderson ended the drought with just under three minutes to go. By then, Berkeley led 17-10, and the effort came too late.</span></p>
<p><b>Extra attempts fail to produce an advantage</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In both defeats, USC generated more shots than its opponent but struggled to match the efficiency on the other end.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans attempted 33 shots against Stanford’s 25, converting 39.4% of the time compared to the Cardinal’s 68%. Against Cal, USC had a 34-29 advantage in attempts but scored on just 32.4%, while the Golden Bears converted on 62.1% of their attempts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC also recorded more steals in both games, finishing with a combined 22 to its opponents’ 17. Those additional possessions still didn’t offset the score. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jerkovic, senior driver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/08/robert-lopez-duart-brings-vigor-and-drive-to-water-polo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert López Duart</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Anderson each scored twice Sunday, with Mills finishing with six saves against Berkeley after making just three against Stanford.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After staying within reach of both Bay Area opponents, USC returns south, needing to sustain its offense and limit the scoring runs that decided its weekend. The Trojans have only two regular-season opportunities to respond and improve before hosting the MPSF Tournament from Nov. 20 to 22. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans visit No. 11 UC Santa Barbara (21-9, 3-1 Big West) Saturday at 1 p.m. at Santa Barbara High School.</span></p>
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<p>Students held voter registration tables and hosted discussions to promote political engagement.</p>
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<p>“[My parents] explained the process to me and tried to break it down for me, even though I was in second grade at the time, so I really wanted to make sure I stayed politically engaged throughout college,” Wang said. “That&#8217;s why it was my mission to join VoteSC and make sure that people are aware of what&#8217;s happening.”</p>
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<p>Trent Winston, the external affairs director of the USC Political Union and a junior majoring in political science, said the nonpartisan club encourages its members to civically engage through political conversation during general meetings and speaker events. A few weeks ago, the group’s general meeting topic was the 2026 midterm elections.</p>
<p>“We&#8217;ll have a question like, ‘What issue do you guys think is going to define [the] 2026 midterms?’” Winston said. “It&#8217;s open for everyone to share their ideas [and] what issues they think are the most important.”</p>
<p>Winston said a popular discussion topic regarding the elections was affordability and inflation. He said Political Union members discussed how the election was a referendum on President Donald Trump “more than anything else.”</p>
<p>The Political Union also planned a post-election social to discuss election results that will be open to everyone Tuesday at 10 p.m.</p>
<p>Wang said VoteSC started preparing for the elections in January by tabling alongside other campus organizations. Most recently, VoteSC partnered with USC Sustainability for a voter registration workshop to answer people’s questions about the voting process on Oct. 14 and Oct. 15.</p>
<p>VoteSC partnered with other student organizations to host an event for National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 15, which featured merchandise such as game day pins that read “Trojans vote.”</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we kept collaborating with [other student organizations] in order to really generate high turnout,” Wang said. “We&#8217;ve been really trying to make an effort to branch out and work with a wide variety of organizations across campus to make sure that we&#8217;re targeting a wide variety of audiences.”</p>
<p>To bring awareness to out-of-state students, Wang said VoteSC worked on teaching students about mail-in voting and absentee ballots.</p>
<p>Similar to the Political Union, VoteSC hosts interactive political discussions during general meetings, including seminars on mail-in ballots and a “Midterm Media Workshop” for members to brainstorm social media content and resources to keep others informed about the midterm elections.</p>
<p>Other groups have taken a different approach to engaging members, such as the Democracy and Fair Elections Lab, a research initiative focused on nonpartisan, evidence-based quantitative analysis of redistricting, election administration and voting rights. Jake Marks, the lab’s data science manager and a research assistant, said its goal is to increase transparency around elections.</p>
<p>“Universities like USC across the country hold a really pivotal role in making sure that students are able to become engaged in elections,” said Marks, a junior majoring in human security and geospatial intelligence. “The lab has offered students the ability to conduct political polling [on congressional races] … to see who&#8217;s ahead.”</p>
<p>Marks said the lab provides opportunities for members to engage with the current elections by allowing them to research and publish academic articles. Marks co-wrote an article on how mid-decade redistricting affected racial representation using U.S. Census Bureau-derived race data.</p>
<p>Tom Hammond, the president of Trojan Democrats and a junior majoring in business administration, said the organization has been fairly focused on the local level for the elections.</p>
<p>“We’ve done a fair amount of canvassing, door knocking for our endorsed candidates locally, primarily for mayor and our local city council district,” Hammond said.</p>
<p>The Trojan Democrats endorsed Jose Ugarte for the Los Angeles City Council District 9 race, which covers USC, and City Councilmember Nithya Raman for mayor. Trojan Democrats ran a Q&amp;A session with Ugarte, who visited campus Oct. 29.</p>
<p>“We had some people who had some harsh questions for him about his track record,” Hammond said. “I&#8217;m glad that we can provide an opportunity for [people] to earnestly get that trust from [politicians] and to provide that transparency.”</p>
<p>Hammond said the club also held an entire meeting dedicated to “discussing the merits” of both mayoral candidates and examining their track records by going through all of their policy proposals.</p>
<p>The Daily Trojan reached out to USC College Republicans for a comment but did not receive a response. The organization hosted a conversation with State Assembly Member Carl DeMaio in May to talk about California’s Proposition 39, the voter ID initiative on the midterm ballot.</p>
<p>Wang said she hopes voting becomes ingrained in USC’s culture and a lasting part of the student experience.</p>
<p>“Even after the elections are over, we hope to build a culture at USC where civic engagement doesn&#8217;t just happen around Election Day, around the presidential election, around any election year,” Wang said.</p>
<p><em>Disclaimer: Allie Wang served as a deputy copy editor at the Daily Trojan in Spring 2024. She is no longer affiliated with the paper.</em></p>
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<p>Parents heard from the project’s Student Advisory Board.</p>
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<p>Headed by Neeraj Sood, Kamy Akhavan and members of its student advisory board, “The Trojan Conversation: Introducing the USC Open Dialogue Project” sought to explain the project’s mission and operations on Friday afternoon.</p>
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<p>Neeraj Sood, the project’s founding director and a professor of public policy as well as finance and business economics, said the project’s first strategy is to “decentralize dialogue.”</p>
<p>“I’m not the expert at [decentralizing dialogue], but there are a lot of smart people at USC,” Sood said during the event. “I want to get their ideas, and I want to be a catalyst where I can implement some of those ideas.”</p>
<p>Sood hopes to enact students’ strategies. Three members of the project’s Student Advisory Board were present to share their experiences with the ODP, including why they joined and their goals for this year.</p>
<p>According to Jeremiah Boisrond, a senior majoring in legal studies and a member of the Ssudent Advisory Board, ODP launched an initiative this year to bridge the conversational gap between different student political organizations by bringing their leaders together. Such groups included Trojan Democrats, USC College Republicans and Turning Point USA’s USC chapter.</p>
<p>Christine Kiekhaefer attended the talk while her child was at home studying. Kiekhaefer remembered attending the same event at last year’s Trojan Family Weekend and said she returned because she was curious about how the project evolved.</p>
<p>“Having the students was really wonderful,” Kiekhaefer said. “I really appreciated hearing the students and what their interest in open dialogue is, and especially that they had different areas of interest, whether it was law or other things.”</p>
<p>Kiekhaefer said she could relate to experiences students described: Understanding where other people are coming from is like “a moment of enlightenment” and is very rewarding even if you disagree.</p>
<p>David and Valeria Roane were also among parents in attendance. They attended alongside their student and said they first heard about the ODP during orientation week in August.</p>
<p>“This session was very interesting because we could hear the perspective from the students,” Valeria Roane said. “One person talked about their idea; the other one is talking about, in practice, how the dynamics work and how much you see that [the ODP] changed the students.”</p>
<p>Some students mentioned not just how the project has impacted the student body, but how advisory board members themselves have changed their views after interacting with the ODP. Boisrond said ODP taught him to come into conversations “willing to understand and really want[ing] to listen.”</p>
<p>“When I came to USC, I was pretty jaded. … Whenever somebody came to me with a sensitivity point that I didn&#8217;t agree with, I was so quick to chalk up their argument to be nonsensical,” Ethan Osiegbu, a junior majoring in human biology and a member of the Student Advisory Board, said. “[Understanding others’ experiences] allowed me to become a better facilitator, a better communicator, a better person.”</p>
<p>David Roane said college campus culture today is very different compared to the political environment he grew up in.</p>
<p>“You all have a lot to overcome. I look back to when I went to university in the mid-early to mid- &#8217;80s, … it wasn&#8217;t this kind of winner-take-all, and ‘If you don&#8217;t have my point of view, I&#8217;m going to destroy you,’” David Roane said. “College students now,; I can see why they&#8217;re scared to give their opinion.”</p>
<p>Kiekhaefer said compared to last year’s talk, the ODP has “a more firm framework” in its approach.</p>
<p>“[The talk brought] key points of the ODP and a little bit more information about how they&#8217;re working with faculty and staff and students to spread information about the framework and get people doing it,” Kiekhaefer said.</p>
<p>Kiekhaefer said she felt hopeful for USC students after attending the event.</p>
<p>“I’m optimistic. I love that there is a framework to discuss how these discussions can happen,” Kiekhaefer said. “It&#8217;s always nice when someone&#8217;s thinking in a structured, methodical way about how we can have better conversations.”</p>
<p><em>A previous version of this article ran misattributing a quote to Jeremiah Boisrond. The article was corrected at 5:40 p.m. on Nov. 5 to reflect that the quote was said by Ethan Osiegbu.</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In Los Angeles, USC fandom has to coexist with the teams students already love.</p>
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<h1>Trojan pride does not replace professional sports loyalty</h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Los Angeles, USC fandom has to coexist with the teams students already love.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is not a lack of school spirit. Instead, it is what it means to follow sports in the heart of L.A.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At many colleges, the university team is the local team. At Penn State, Beaver Stadium holds more than 100,000 fans in State College, a town of roughly 40,000 residents, showing how a game can shape an entire weekend. In places like that, the team is more than entertainment; it becomes a shared regional identity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC does not have that luxury, but it also does not have that limitation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trojan sports exist in an area with two NBA teams, two NFL teams, two MLB teams, a growing soccer culture and more celebrity fans than almost anywhere else. A USC student can arrive on campus already deeply loyal to the Lakers, Dodgers, Clippers, Rams, Chargers, LAFC or Angel City FC. They might also be carrying a hometown team from somewhere else entirely.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I grew up a Warriors fan, and becoming a USC student did not suddenly replace that loyalty with a new one. Instead, USC gave me a different kind of connection to sports: not about where I grew up or which team I watched with my family, but about the community I am now a part of.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That difference matters. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professional sports ask fans to identify a city, franchise or player they have followed for years. College sports are more immediate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The athletes are students sharing the same campus. The people in the student section are classmates. A win or loss becomes the first topic of conversation in a lecture the next morning, whether someone watched every possession or only glanced at the score on their phone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC sports culture is not the only thing happening in L.A. Rather, it is part of a much bigger sports landscape. That dynamic can make Trojan fandom feel less automatic than it does at schools where the college team has no professional competition nearby.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But it can also make USC fandom a more intentional choice. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC students do not have to give up their favorite professional teams to care about the Trojans. In fact, the mix of loyalties is part of what makes campus sports conversations interesting. One friend may know everything about the Dodgers’ farm system, another may be following the Sparks and someone else may only care about college football. Then, on game day, all of those people can still end up in the same student section.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is a different kind of fandom from the version often imagined in college-sports commercials. It is not one city, one color and one team. It is messier. It is more divided. It is also a perfect representation of L.A. as a whole.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem comes when USC tries to compete with professional sports teams on its terms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans cannot offer the star power of the Lakers, the history of the Dodgers or the constant spectacle surrounding L.A. sports; they should not have to, either. What USC can offer, though, is something pro teams cannot: the feeling that the game belongs to the people in the stands.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A USC football game is more than the final score because students have a role in building the atmosphere. The same is true for basketball, soccer, volleyball and every other sport played in cardinal and gold. The athletes are competing for USC, but the fans are also participating in a shared campus tradition that did not exist before they arrived. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is why it is unfair to judge Trojan fandom by whether students care as intensely as lifelong fans care about their professional team. Those loyalties are built differently. A person can be a devoted Lakers fan and still care deeply about USC basketball. They can follow the Dodgers all summer and still show up for a fall game at the Coliseum. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sports loyalty does not have to be exclusive to be real. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a city with so many teams and storylines competing for attention, USC does not need to become L.A.’s only team. It just needs to remain the students’ team while they are here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That may be the most valuable kind of fandom of all: not inherited, not required and not permanent, but chosen.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Riya Kalra is a sophomore writing about the intersection of sports and culture in her column, “Beyond the Whistle,” which runs every other Tuesday.</span></i></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sharon Horgan’s new HBO series is an entertaining look into aging.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The eight-episode television show, created by and starring Sharon Horgan, centers around her character Alex. She juggles her fast-moving job as a literary agent, raising an erratic son and finding love, all while dealing with new signs of aging. It is a season full of complicated relationships, dramatic twists and high emotions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show begins with Alex finding out she has a form of arthritis after her jaw locks — hence the opening episode’s title, “Lockjaw.” It’s clear that Alex’s insecurity about growing older is going to be an important part of the show. Her struggle is highly relatable, especially as media becomes increasingly obsessed with anti-aging.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite her insecurity, Alex takes the opportunity of her son, Ruarí (Aran Murphy), moving out to try and reignite her love life, seeing this life stage as her last chance to find romance. However, her plans are foiled in an awkward moment at the end of the first episode, when she wakes up from a hookup to find Ruarí back home. He is noticeably upset and tells her he wants to drop out of college, much to her confusion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Things are also complicated at work, where Alex has to deal with difficult clients, authors being poached and, probably worst of all, watching the irritating author she fired become a bestseller with his explicit goblin romantasy book. To add to all of this, her best friend Sam (Sharlene Whyte) happens to be her boss, and the lines between their personal and work lives start to blur. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unsurprisingly, issues in Alex’s love life, family life and work start to overlap and complicate each other. It is clear that she and Patrick (Rupert Friend), a charismatic old ex, really like each other, but they’re afraid of commitment due to their complex personal lives. However, their relationship does suffer somewhat from issues that could be solved with simple communication.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One thing that stands out about the series is how layered and charming the characters are, especially as they manage their difficult individual journeys. Alex is particularly endearing: someone you can’t help but root for, despite some less-than-ideal decisions. Her efforts to manage her aging body, love life and exasperating son are commendable. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One aspect of Alex&#8217;s characterization that could&#8217;ve been expanded upon is her passion for literature beyond just the drama of difficult authors and publishers. We get a little glimpse of this when she fights to represent an author she feels has potential despite Sam’s financially-focused protests against it. Still, her character is not developed enough beyond this. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, Alex is very worried about Ruarí, who is depressed after what happened at university, and even more so because his father and Alex’s ex-husband Lorcan (Owen McDonnell) is distant and self-centered — having made little effort to stay in his son’s life. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, we learn that Ruarí was ostracized after freshers’ week because he got blackout drunk with another student and woke up with his hands in her pants. He explains to his mother that while the student told him he was okay, news of the incident got out and his classmates started spreading rumors that he was a pervert.    </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show&#8217;s biggest pitfall was the way it handled this plot point. Especially given </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/29/fraternities-deserve-to-be-abolished/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">current commentary about sexual assault at universities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the show could have explored this topic more in-depth. Instead, Alex tells Ruarí that they’ll figure it out together and that eventually everyone will forget it ever happened. This feels somewhat inadequate considering the weight of what happened, even if Ruarí was wrongly ostracized.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonetheless, Ruarí is another refreshing character. Murphy has big shoes to fill as the son of Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy, but he does a solid job of portraying an awkward, troubled teenager. We get insight into some of the pressures he feels to be strong but not toxic, a relevant commentary on the societal expectations placed on young men. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the second-to-last episode, after relationship drama, work setbacks and a chaotic trip to Ibiza with her two exes and their girlfriends, things finally start looking up for Alex. Her relationship finally seems to be working out with Patrick, Ruarí starts working at her publishing agency and it looks like all of Alex’s literary deals are panning out. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, yet pretty expectedly, this is too good to be true. At the Women’s Literature Awards ceremony, Alex loses the author she wanted to represent, a difficult client has a medical emergency and Sam’s marriage is revealed to be in limbo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To make matters even worse, Alex discovers that Patrick may want children, something she can’t give him, which throws a wrench in their relationship. Alex eventually hooks up with the rude author she fired in a shocking twist. At this point, it&#8217;s mildly frustrating to see Alex avoid confronting her relationship issues head-on and turn to a random hookup instead, but the show is refreshing in its representation of how messy and exciting an older woman’s life can be.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The season ends in a very open-ended way. While matters are improving for Ruarí, Alex’s love life and work situation seem to be just as complicated, if not worse, than in the beginning. The season ends with Alex and Ruarí together in bed, scrolling through Ruarí’s absurd social media together — proving that, at the very least, Alex’s relationship with her son is still strong.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The interesting characters, complicated relationships and highly relevant storyline in “Youth” are very engaging, but there is definitely room for more social commentary and character exploration. Nonetheless, “Youth” is a highly entertaining look into the complicated life of an aging woman dealing with expectations of friends, family, work and society. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Generation Z, there is a greater emphasis on using social media as a way to inform and engage oneself in politics. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ximena Mercado, a sophomore majoring in legal studies, pointed to issues such as education, housing and financial aid as reasons young people are paying attention and being active about politics on social media. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re voting now, so we’re a lot more aware of the things that are happening around us,” Mercado said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2024 study by researchers Darian Harff and Desiree Shmuck suggests that people aged 16 to 22 prefer political information that is easily understandable, and they may turn to influencers who can explain complicated political issues in simpler terms. Influencers have the necessary platforms to draw significant attention to public issues, explain how followers can participate and combine information with entertainment.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Influencers’ roles in the conversation are imperative because we do not just consume the beliefs being spouted out; we display them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Ramos, a Ph.D. student studying communication, describes this as a “loop of identity” where users repost a celebrity’s political content to publicly validate and signal their own political identity. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A repost from an influencer can spread relevant information, but it also becomes a way to show others what kind of person we are and what politics we align ourselves with, based on where our repost came from and who endorsed it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, not every statement by a public figure is taken as truth. Mercado said it depends on the credibility of the celebrity who speaks on a given issue. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[High-profile celebrities] might be more reliable because they’re actually at the forefront of wanting change to happen, as opposed to other celebrities that make a one-minute video,” Mercado said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who people follow and are fans of — and what kind of credibility that celebrity has — informs others where they believe that follower’s political beliefs are. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gabbie Puzon, a Ph.D. student studying communication, said reposting political content becomes a way to publicly signal one’s beliefs, even if there is no way to determine whether the person took any action for that belief. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If I want people to know that I support a cause, I will repost something,” Puzon said. “They probably don’t know that I haven’t donated a single dime to it, but at least they know that this is a label I’m creating for myself.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frank Duarte, a sophomore majoring in legal studies, sees this disconnect between what his peers post and the actions they take.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They don’t actually leave the comfort of their home to go and advocate for what they believe in,” Duarte said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This phenomenon — how we see others’ place on the political spectrum through social media, while their true advocacy or lack thereof is obscured — should push us to consider what online political identity actually represents. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reposting a celebrity or influencer’s post does not automatically mean someone is uninformed or that learning about an issue through them makes that information meaningless. Social media can introduce young people to issues they may not have encountered otherwise. The problem comes when displaying support substitutes understanding why we support something in the first place. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s absolutely a middle ground, and you just have to be cautious and wary in what you use and how you use it,” Duarte said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celebrities and influencers will continue to be part of political conversations, and there is nothing inherently wrong with listening and recognizing that your beliefs align with theirs. But a celebrity endorsement or someone’s repost should be an invitation to learn more about the issues at hand, not just a tell that someone is politically engaged. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For young people, finding that middle ground means going beyond the repost. Cross reference claims, read about the policies being endorsed and seek out perspectives your algorithm may not automatically show. More importantly, ask whether you believe something because you understand it or because someone you admire told you it was worth supporting. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Gateway to Himalayan Art” introduces the exhibits with 66 objects dating back to the 13th century, centered around the themes of symbols and meanings, materials and technologies, and living practices. Curated for college students as part of an educational initiative by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, the traveling exhibit has stopped at universities across the country and now visits Pasadena. Alongside “We Are Connected,” the two exhibits feature over 100 pieces on display. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sonya Lee, a professor of art history, East Asian languages and cultures and religion, lent her expertise to adapt the Rubin show for Pasadena. Lee and the museum decided to give the Pacific Asia Museum’s holdings their own feature on interconnectedness, with Lee as the curator.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want to select objects that can complement, not overlap what they are bringing, and at the same time to provide a different interpretive portal to the Rubin exhibition,” Lee said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We Are Connected” was shaped into three sections, each focusing on a different way humans make connections. The first section focuses on the spiritual world and the invisible forces that surround them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">People often turn to these forces in uncertain times, such as sickness, pregnancy, war or death. From there, the exhibit moves down to earth, to monasteries, a place of gathering for communities to dance, sing and perform rituals, before looking inside the home and how humans relate to animals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The goal is to try to get people to think about not just how beautiful these objects look, but in fact, the underlying relationship [to a given culture],” Lee said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one of Lee’s favorite paintings stands a multi-armed deity in front of a structure with spells written out. Around the deity are 20 to 30 figures, only one of which is clearly human: the donor who paid for the painting. The human is tucked in the lower left corner, making an offering.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This painting reveals something about Buddhism, according to Lee. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you do good, you accumulate good merit, and conversely, if you do bad, you end up suffering the consequences, and so that determines the next life,” Lee said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Rubin Museum, across Himalayan culture, the commission and creation of religious art was one way to accumulate religious merit in the hopes of a long life, health and wealth. By commissioning this very painting, the donor was doing a good deed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lee said these beliefs can give us new perspectives on how people see the world. For Lee, they push people to think beyond their own world and lifetime, and consider how their choices affect all beings across many lives. If people think the animals around us could have once been our ancestors, this might teach us to treat the world with more compassion, according to Lee.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So we look at the world with more compassion, and that means when we decide where to dump our trash or toxins,” Lee said. “We [will] probably think twice about how this might impact other beings out there.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thinking open-mindedly about unfamiliar subjects is exactly what Lee hopes visitors will do. She said the exhibits are a teaching tool designed for learners, something that matters now more than ever, since she believes technology has made learning too easy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“With the internet and now with artificial intelligence, we all have become so complacent about learning,” Lee said. “What&#8217;s really great about learning about Himalayan art and cultures is that it&#8217;s so unfamiliar to most of us, and so it challenges [us] to really think hard and look hard, and in the process, learn something new.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The museum is also hosting a sand mandala exhibition tied to the exhibitions. A group of monks will travel from the Namgyal Monastery Dharma Center to the museum to build a mandala out of colored sand over three to four days. Once completed, a closing ceremony will be held Nov. 8, during which they will sweep the entire design away and share the sand with attendees. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lee said this act of destroying something that took days to build is “a way to express this idea of impermanence.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nothing lasts,” Lee said. “Not our body. Not even [our] spirit, because it gets back into this cycle of transmigration. ”</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Gateway to Himalayan Art” runs through Jan. 10. “We Are Connected: Highlights from the USC Pacific Asia Museum Himalayan Collection,” runs through May 2. </span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going to USC, however, has shown me how difficult that approach truly is. The school is a melting pot of culture: In 2025, a whopping 26.1% of students were of international origin. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every day, we expose ourselves to a range of people, all of whom represent their own societies, upbringings and core beliefs. Those beliefs, in turn, inform their most intimate choices.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a beautiful indication of how diverse USC is. However, it’s also opened my eyes to how little we really know about people. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the poem “Song of Myself,” legendary poet Walt Whitman writes: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lately, Whitman’s words have really resonated with me: They’ve helped me realize the dimensions that people carry — the same dimensions that are hardly ever shown on the surface. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oftentimes, we fall victim to trying to understand people based on what it is that we see in front of us. We use what we see on the surface to dismiss and justify our own beliefs — a mental shortcut we employ because it feels convenient. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In psychology, this is known as splitting. The process is characterized as dividing experiences into extreme, black-and-white categories, which helps us deal with the uncertainty and complexity of certain situations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the short term, splitting is a defense mechanism we use to protect the mind against overwhelming anxiety and situations we can’t quite comprehend. But in the long term, it can stunt a person’s ability to emotionally develop and meaningfully interact in social contexts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reducing a person to a single moment, label or social category does more harm than good, and our current political landscape thrives on this sort of division. In 2022, 72% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats viewed the opposing party as more immoral than other people in the United States, stats that jumped from 47% and 35%, respectively, in 2016. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcoming the complexity that being a human being entails is part of the effort of creating communities like college campuses that feel more vibrant and integrated. Embracing the multitudes that people contain is easier said than done, but perhaps it can start by truly, critically listening to what the person across from you has to say. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carl Rogers, a founding father of humanistic psychology, was one of the first people to coin the term “active listening.” In Rogers’ eyes, active listening doesn’t just mean recognizing what it is that the other person has to say, but truly considering their perspective: a combination of analyzing both the content and emotional tone of their words.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rogers also famously said, “Each person is an island unto himself”: Bridging the gap between your island and another includes accepting the full weight of what it would be like to be that person. This is part of assisting others to become a full-fledged person, which can only be achieved if all of their multitudes are given the space to breathe. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accepting that a person is so much more than any simple label begins with listening, but it must also be paired with the willingness to understand. This process of empathy is built on the simple fact that humans can be complex and therefore contradictory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It takes maturity to sway away from binary, rigid opinions about people — especially those who hurt or misunderstand you. Finding your own peace can start with embracing the idea that multiple things can be true at once about just one person.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engaging with others is an imperfect, beautiful process: Your opinions about people can change extremely quickly. What shouldn’t fade away, however, is the awareness that someone is so much more than just a single moment, mistake or label.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all must learn how to step outside of our own perspective. We all must understand that although “I contain multitudes,” everyone else does too. </span></p>
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<p>Dominic Fike’s latest album matures in its lyrical themes, but fails to innovate sonically.</p>
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<p>However, Fike’s latest album, “HOW TO QUIT SMOKING,” released Friday and was inspired by the milestone of his 30th birthday, promoting promises of breaking the singer’s own destructive habits. Recorded between hotel rooms, dressing rooms and tour buses — and released two years after the birth of his son — the aptly named album promises a vision where the Florida-born singer finally sees light at the end of the tunnel, even if, ultimately, he’s still deep in the cave.</p>
<p>Fike has always been reflective in his music, but “HOW TO QUIT SMOKING” feels like one of the first times where that reflection has led to growth — rather than rumination, numbness and cynicism.</p>
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<p>He opens with “WALLFLOWER,” both the first single released to promote the album and a track that sets the album’s tone sonically and thematically. It leans heavily into Fike’s familiar indie-pop sound but sets the groundwork for the exploration of self-discovery, the album’s biggest highlight.</p>
<p>“WALLFLOWER” illustrates a man who, under a rough facade, longs for a connection that’s meaningful. In a high-pitched, airy hook, he reaches out to a lover, pleading to reach new romantic heights that signify peace. Fike sings, “If I could fly off of the floor, would you let me?”</p>
<p>Many of the other tracks lyrically follow in the footsteps of its lead single, a notable departure from his previous works. Fike, whose discography is littered with ballads confessing to self-sabotage, broken promises and paranoia, now offers a new openness to genuine emotional intimacy.</p>
<p>“SQUEEZE,” “SMALL TOWN” and “HONEYLOVE” with Grace Ives are all highlights grounded in his classic indie-pop sound, creating a vibe that’s dreamy, blissful and fitting for someone daring to believe in something he never has before. Fike the young adult might have been doomed to repeat harmful cycles, but perhaps Fike the 30-year-old father can have different relationships.</p>
<p>On “DOOMSDAY,” Fike mixes a soft-pop hook with confessional rap verses over a sensual acoustic guitar. He blends different musical styles, but they all tie back into his desire for connection, with a level of vulnerability that’s central to the album.</p>
<p>“PANGEA,” the fourth and final single dropped prior to the album’s release, is one of the strongest examples of Fike’s newfound openness, expressed through his signature indie-pop sound.</p>
<p>Over smooth guitar strings that emulate the intimate, in-your-backyard sense of familiarity the singer is known for, the sound feels like ground Fike has already trod repeatedly musically — mildly disappointing, but no less lyrically compelling.</p>
<p>While the indie-pop sound is certainly dominant, Fike also taps into his familiar R&amp;B and hip-hop repertoire to vary the album’s pacing. “WHITE KEYS,” a R&amp;B-influenced song that was teased six years ago on Instagram and finally released as a single last year, remains one of the album’s catchiest records, with the electric guitar and melodic bass combining for one of the grooviest tracks on the album.</p>
<p>“CITY OF STEEL” is also grounded in R&amp;B sounds, and is perhaps the track that delivers the most on Fike’s promise of greater emotional depth. Alongside Indiana rapper Jorjiana, they explore what it means to live mentally guarded, with the title serving as a metaphor for that defensive headspace.</p>
<p>On the track, Fike raps: “My back knows the wall like the other side of my palm / My wrists know these cuffs don&#8217;t come off and these doors locked from the hall.”</p>
<p>However, in an effortlessly complimentary way, Fike offsets the paranoia in his verses with a melodic chorus that elicits more of a willingness to be vulnerable, illustrating the artist&#8217;s mental push-and-pull. It’s an atmosphere that’s relatable to anyone who’s been hurt.</p>
<p>Fike’s oscillation between his psychological states is one of the strongest aspects in atmospheric storytelling. The once-volatile decadent may have new responsibilities and values in place to ground him, but he still has moments of regression — moments when his demons pull him back down.</p>
<p>However, while “HOW TO QUIT SMOKING” succeeds as an evolution for Fike thematically, sonically, it underdelivers. Fike doesn’t cover much new ground — his discography is filled with indie-pop, R&amp;B and hip-hop influences that mimic many of the tracks on this project.</p>
<p>“HOW TO QUIT SMOKING” felt positioned as an evolution — the next chapter for an artist who occupied a lane as a voice for a notoriously unstable generation. But the lack of musical innovation on this project makes it feel like a vision only partly realized, and not one fully seen all the way through. It’s a project that feels more akin to a hop in a new direction, rather than a substantive leap, which could disappoint dedicated fans.</p>
<p>Still, while he didn’t put his best foot forward, “HOW TO QUIT SMOKING” lands in a place that still feels memorable — even if it lacks the depth to become a full-fledged classic.</p>
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<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bring hope with you into the polling booth</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These midterm elections are giving our nation a chance to see the democracy it has been waiting for. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eight years later on Nov. 5, 2024, I woke up at 4 a.m. in a cold sweat to a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> breaking news notification: Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States of America for a second time. I left my dorm room and sat on a bench next to USC Village, watching the sun rise as it always does. As I began to walk around campus, I saw a family. Two girls in a stroller were smiling and playing; their parents’ faces were identical to the harrowed faces I saw my parents wearing eight years before. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those of us in college, we largely grew up with the rise of Make America Great Again. With 60% of Generation Z strongly disapproving of Trump, the majority of us have lived in political disappointment from the beginning of our exposure to politics. Since the election of former President Barack Obama, we have not seen a nation thrilled for the future, proud of its progress and filled with downright, soul-fulfilling hope. But in two days, we might. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result of disappointment, the people bring about change: Fifty-six percent of people in the U.S. disapprove of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 65% of Americans disapprove of the war in Iran and 69% of Americans believe the country is headed on the wrong track. Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 30% — the lowest for any president since 1946. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But now, just as Trump asked us to, we have a chance to “pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just pretend.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MAGA supporters are afraid. Republicans are terrified of losing their congressional majority for the first time since 2023. Elon Musk, humanity’s beloved one and only trillionaire, has spent 0.04% of his net worth — an incomprehensible $446 million — on these 2026 midterms through various super PACs with the intention of preserving Republican strength in Congress. Almost $12 billion has been spent on this year’s midterm elections, primarily by super PACs, making these midterms historically expensive. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the people are somehow showing out even stronger. James Talarico, running with a chance to flip the Senate seat in Texas for the first time since 1994, has received more than 1.3 million donations — 97% of them being less than $100 — raising more than $134.3 million since the launch of his campaign. In just 48 hours after Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat from Michigan running for Senate, was declared the Democratic nominee, he raised $2.3 million from 43,000 U.S. citizens. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats took the lead in every battleground race according to October 2026 polls compiled by Forbes, with Adam Hamilton at a 54% lead in Kansas and Talarico leading with 49% compared to Ken Paxton’s 43%, along with similar numbers in races in Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Minnesota, Georgia, North Carolina and Alaska. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe the U.S. is a nation without the infrastructure to revolt; we are too large, too reliant on our jobs for healthcare and paying bills, and too numbed by our phones. But our democracy was born through a revolution. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are a nation unhappy — unhappy with our cost of living, as 60% of our population is living paycheck to paycheck; unhappy with our elected officials; unhappy with our nation’s education system; and, most of all, unhappy with our president. This is our chance to revolt within the system, playing by the rules; we can take the power away from him and his terrible decisions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Cardi B said, “If [Trump’s] definition of protection is making sure our daughters have fewer rights than our mothers, then I don’t want it!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We may have been children — or not even alive — during Obama’s election, but the opening line of his victory speech in 2008, I hope, will ring true for all of us tomorrow: “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get out and vote, for it is the most patriotic thing you can do. You deserve to see a better country for yourself, to create a better country for your children and to show a better country to your parents. Without hope, democracy plummets, so take that hope to the polling booth and watch it blossom this </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wednesday</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anahita Saxena is a junior majoring in political science and journalism who writes about politics, identity politics and the internal issues of the Democratic Party in her column, “Chai Socialist,&#8221; which runs every other Monday.</span></i></p>
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<p>A voting center opened at USC Village on Saturday; here’s what to know before you go and once you’re inside.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The center, in Room UVN-1200, will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Monday and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Election Day. It is one of the 523 vote centers opening across the county Saturday, joining the 123 that have been open since Oct. 24 for a countywide total of 646. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This guide covers casting a ballot in person atin and around University Park. For registration deadlines, mail ballots and voting as an out-of-state voter, read the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s September </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/17/everything-to-know-about-voting-midterms/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">voting guide</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><b>Vote at any center in the county</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">L.A. County does not assign voters to a single polling place. Voters registered in the county can cast a ballot at any center, regardless of their home address. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every vote center also has the same hours. Voters in line when polls close at 8 p.m. can still cast a ballot. </span></p>
<p><b>On campus</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides the USC Village center, the county will run a mobile vote center at the Health Sciences Campus on Monday only from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Consolidated Lot at 1633 San Pablo St.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both campuses have ballot drop boxes for voters who prefer to drop off a mail ballot. Every vote center also serves as a drop-off point for completed mail ballots, so voters can drop them off at the front without waiting in line. Drop boxes lock at 8 p.m. on Election Day. </span></p>
<p><b>Off campus</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three vote centers near the University Park Campus are already open: the Ahmanson Senior Center inside the ballroom, Denker Recreation Center inside the multipurpose room and Griffith Hall in Second Baptist Church. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://locator.lavote.gov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The county’s vote center locator</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> maps every site and shows estimated wait times. </span></p>
<p><b>Before you go</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voters who are unsure of their registration can check it at </span><a href="http://lavote.gov/vrstatus"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lavote.gov/vrstatus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The registrar has urged voters to review their ballots ahead of time, considering this election includes many contests and candidates. The county’s optional </span><a href="https://www.lavote.gov/home/voting-elections/voting-options/interactive-sample-ballot"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interactive Sample Ballot</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> lets voters make their selections on a phone or computer and transfer them to a ballot marking device at the vote center. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most California voters do not need to show identification to vote. According to the Secretary of State, a first-time voter in a federal election may be asked for ID if they did not give a driver’s license number, California ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when registering. Accepted forms include a passport, driver’s license, student ID, credit card or utility bill. </span></p>
<p><b>Not registered yet</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Oct. 19 voter registration deadline has passed; however, eligible Californians may still register and vote the same day at any vote center through Election Day. The state calls this conditional voter registration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voters complete a conditional voter registration application at the vote center, then mark a ballot on a ballot marking device and hand the printed ballot to an election worker. That ballot will be counted once the county verifies the application. Voters registering this way should have their California driver’s license, ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number with them upon arrival. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To register in California, a person must be a U.S. citizen and California resident, 18 or older on Election Day, not currently serving a state or federal prison term for a felony conviction, and not currently found mentally incompetent to vote by a court. </span></p>
<p><b>Registered somewhere else</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those registered in another California county cannot vote in person in L.A. County. They can still drop a completed mail ballot in any L.A. County drop box, and the county will forward it to the voter’s home county. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voters registered outside California cannot use L.A. County drop boxes and should follow their home state’s rules for returning a ballot. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans came close to taking the win, but couldn’t complete the late comeback.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite a valiant effort, USC (2-10-6, 1-7-4 Big Ten) couldn’t finish off what would have been a noteworthy comeback against No. 14 UCLA (12-4-2, 9-2-1), ultimately falling 3-2 to the Bruins in the final minutes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The loss concluded a 1-5-3 season at home and on the road, a major setback from last year’s 7-7-3 overall and 5-3-2 at home.</span></p>
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<p><b>Sold-out Rawlinson Stadium fuels USC </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a sold-out game, Rawlinson Stadium was pulsing with energy. Even with the Bruins playing just 13 miles from their campus, the Trojans’ home-field advantage was on display, winning the majority of second balls and putting up a strong attacking feat.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 15th minute, sophomore midfielder Jaiden Rodriguez nearly scored the game’s first goal from 20 yards out, barely missing the frame. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other than that shot, the offense was lackluster from both teams in the first half. Still, the momentum from the crowd and on the field was all USC. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Still, the Trojans could not convert on their chances and paid the price three minutes into the second half. UCLA junior forward Kara Croone scored off a Trojan error in the 48th minute, opening the scoring line. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, UCLA’s scoring didn’t stop there. In the 66th minute, the Bruins were awarded a penalty, which junior defender Paloma Daubert converted to take a 2-0 lead with just under 25 minutes to go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What&#8217;s important in life is if you know you get knocked down, you get back up, and you keep fighting,” Head Coach Jane Alukonis said in a postgame interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “That&#8217;s all that we&#8217;ve been asking of the team.”</span></p>
<p><b>Trojans nearly turn things around</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An agitated group of Trojans, however, did not let the two-goal deficit affect them. In the 81st minute, junior forward Peyton Nakagawara scored USC’s first goal on a set piece play assisted by graduate midfielder Mary Cochran.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just five minutes later, Nakagawara scored again in the 86th minute to tie the game at two apiece. The miraculous comeback ignited the crowd.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just felt great. The crowd was insane, and the energy was just insane,” Nakagawara said in a postgame interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Once I got that first one, I knew we could at least try and tie it. And getting that second one just brought the energy even up even more.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With momentum on the Trojans’ side, things looked promising for the first time in a while. But it wouldn’t last long, as USC allowed a costly penalty to UCLA with just two minutes to go in the rivalry match.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Croone converted on the penalty kick inside the box for a 3-2 win, handing the Trojans a heartbreaking loss for the ages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the loss, Alukonis remained positive looking into the future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This team is a very talented team, an incredible team and a young team,” Alukonis said. “[We] will put in the work and make sure they stay focused and clean up the areas, especially defensively, that we need to. But with a little bit of time together, this group will be really incredible.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the loss, USC finished the 2026 season with only two wins in 18 games — but with a young core set to return, optimism lies ahead for the Trojans’ next season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the rain poured down, fans and families at the Coliseum had high hopes, shaking the stadium as the No. 18 Trojans (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) fought for a massive 30-18 win over the No. 11 Buckeyes (6-2, 4-1). The victory was USC’s biggest in Head Coach Lincoln Riley’s tenure, ending in fans storming the field and soaking in the victory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Really fun win tonight. Great atmosphere in the Coliseum,” Riley said in a postgame news conference. “Everybody stayed together through the week, [which] was the key to the week. … I thought our team did a phenomenal job.”</span></p>
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<p><b>Large offensive gains set up touchdowns</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the second play of the game, freshman wide receiver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/11/mosley-makes-his-mark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trent Mosley</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caught a pass at USC’s 32-yard line and took it all the way to the house for a 69-yard catch-and-score, giving USC an early lead that it would not lose.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You grab momentum right away, [the] crowd went nuts,” Riley said. “You get those opportunities to go take it right away, and we did. [And Mosley’s] an electric player.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mosley finished the game with five catches for 101 yards, marking his fourth game with over 100 receiving yards. The freshman continues to be a threat in the passing game when healthy, after missing three games this season due to a right knee injury, totaling over 500 yards and six total touchdowns in six games played.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After missing the past month with a hamstring injury, freshman tight end </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/18/mark-bowman-takes-leap-into-anticipated-freshman-campaign/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Bowman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> returned in a huge way during the third quarter. With the Trojans up 20-9 and looking to extend their lead early in the second half, Bowman caught a pass over the middle and gave Trojan fans a run to remember.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Similar to his run </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/14/usc-football-overpowers-louisiana-lafayette-in-high-scoring-bout/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">against the University of Louisiana-Lafayette</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (5-3, 2-2 Sun Belt), Bowman took off and hurdled in perfect form over Ohio State junior safety Jaylen McClain, causing McClain to collide with another defender. Bowman wasn’t done, however, as he took on two more defenders, breaking through tackles and making it all the way to the Buckeyes’ 3-yard line for a 70-yard catch-and-run.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Riley taught me how to [hurdle]. He’ll telepathically tell me [to do it],” Bowman said in a postgame news conference. “You just got to see [the defender] running at you, and they’re gonna get low … so I’m just trying to protect my knees.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The play gave way to redshirt sophomore running back </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/23/its-miller-time/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">King Miller</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> taking the ball in for a touchdown, giving the Trojans a major cushion en route to upsetting the Buckeyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After struggling out of the gate with the run game, Miller and redshirt senior running back Waymond Jordan picked it up as the game went on, combining for 126 yards on 25 carries and each earning a touchdown.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saturday’s game was especially critical for Jordan, who did not play in USC’s loss to Wisconsin (5-3, 3-2 Big Ten) last week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The backs ran harder … and we stayed more patient with it,” Riley said. “Having [Jordan] back and a little bit healthier than he’s been, I thought that provided a real spark.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava did not stand out like he normally does, the veteran gunslinger did his job to help move the ball despite the rain and give the Trojans a bounceback win. Maiava completed 15 of his 22 attempts, with his sole passing touchdown going to Mosley on the second play of the game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One adjustment Maiava made that changed the momentum of Saturday’s game — as opposed to the stagnance of last week’s game — was his ability to stay composed in the pocket. While he suffered five sacks against the Badgers, Maiava took just one against the Buckeyes, helping the Trojans stay on schedule in the high-pressure environment.</span></p>
<p><b>Defense allows just one touchdown</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After allowing 24 points to a weaker Wisconsin offense, Defensive Coordinator Gary Patterson’s unit held the Buckeyes’ top-20 scoring offense to just one touchdown and four field goals, despite allowing 464 total yards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Patterson] called a really good game,” Riley said. “Our guys executed their best in those moments. … That’s two of the best teams in the country on the field, and it’s going to come down to who plays the situation best. And we did it tonight.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The defense was led by junior linebacker Desman Stephens II once again, who totaled nine tackles, five of which were solo. In the third quarter, Stephens forced a fumble in USC territory that was picked up by sophomore defensive tackle </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/09/19/canadian-bouchard-pivots-from-hockey-to-d-line-standout/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Floyd Boucard</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, allowing the Trojans to regain the ball in a crucial spot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Redshirt junior linebacker Deven Bryant had a strong game as well, recording double-digit tackles and giving USC assurance in the middle of the field.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the interior, senior defensive end Braylan Shelby, junior defensive end Kameryn Crawford and redshirt senior defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren helped shut down Buckeye freshman quarterback Luke Fahey, who was making his debut collegiate start after junior quarterback Julian Sayin was injured against Indiana on Oct. 17.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shelby’s sack at the end of the third on a third-and-7 kept the quarter scoreless for the Buckeyes’ offense and forced a field goal attempt at the start of the fourth quarter. Less than two minutes later, Crawford and VanSumeren’s sack helped set up an Ohio State punt, setting up the Trojan victory in L.A.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the Buckeyes having the ball on offense for nearly 40 minutes, USC’s defense held strong, allowing just 18 points and putting the Trojan offense in good field position. The massive upset victory keeps USC’s College Football Playoff hopes alive before they embark on a trip, in what is ramping up to be the biggest game of the year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before the postgame news conference ended, Riley read a prepared written statement in response to the widespread comments made last week about his job security.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This program is built on internal joy, not external applause,” Riley said. “I said before this game that I’m the right person for this job, and as long as all those people know that, that’s all I care about. … I’m going to continue to fight on because that’s what being a Trojan’s all about.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will have another bye week next week before taking on No. 6 Indiana (8-1, 5-1) in Bloomington, Indiana on Nov. 14.</span></p>
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<p>HUNG DANCE’s “Birdy” performance Thursday explored themes of freedom and limitations. The feather-filled performance — which was the dance group’s Los Angeles premiere — was presented by Visions and Voices and co-sponsored by the Kaufman School of Dance.</p>
<p>HUNG DANCE, a dance company based in Taiwan, aims to take its performances around the world as a form of cultural exchange and expression. They spread their message through dance, while exploring and learning from different cultures.</p>
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<p>“Touring can help us to reach new audiences, and we are here in the [United States] to share our work, meet people here and learn from a different cultural environment,” said Wei-Ping Chen, HUNG DANCE’s operations director.</p>
<p>Inspired by martial arts, tai chi and popping, the performance featured acrobatic movement and interactivity between different dance styles. The calmness of the tai chi contrasted the aggression of popping. In martial arts fashion, one male performer executed an aerial flip across the stage. Dancers climbed on top of one another and threw themselves backwards into another dancer’s arms.</p>
<p>“I was really struck by the timing and their balance — how they utilize their bodies so effectively,” said Liberty Dawn, an actor who had driven from Chatsworth to watch the performance. “There was just a constant flow, very harmonious flow.”</p>
<p>Violence was a throughline for the entire piece — several times throughout the show, the collective of dancers would target an individual dancer, pecking at them with an invisible beak or picking them apart like a pack of starving vultures. Even when a glimpse of trust appeared, it would immediately fall apart, and the aggression would re-emerge. The violence represented societal interaction and the effects of war.</p>
<p>“I saw things that reminded me of the connection between humanity and birds that we often don&#8217;t think that much about,” Dawn said. “I saw depictions of life concerning rebirth, death, … warfare, transformation.”</p>
<p>Spotlights illuminated the dancers’ hands and faces, creating specific lighting effects throughout the performance. One moment emphasized facial expressions in a violent, buglike quality: A male performer took a feather to a female performer’s throat in a slitting motion, and like a cockroach, she kept getting back up.</p>
<p>This performance centered the resilience and feelings about the recognition of Taiwan as a country.</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s just a feeling in Taiwan. It&#8217;s a lot of pressure, and sometimes if you go out, you cannot use your own country name,” said Lai Hung-Chung, the founder and choreographer of HUNG DANCE.</p>
<p>“Lingzi,” or pheasant feathers, have deep historical roots in Chinese opera. They were worn as headpieces and used as versatile props throughout the performance. At one point, one performer created a headdress from the feathers and waved his head around erratically.</p>
<p>Early in the dance, one main performer held up a long feather and mimed writing in the air; each movement was sharp and purposeful. The rest of the dancers used their feathers as knives, stabbing the performer directly in the back.</p>
<p>“Movement is like an extension of the spine, so you can see while they move and while they’re spiraling and how the energy goes out,” Lai said. “It&#8217;s like when we throw out a bolt [of lightning], you can see the power.”</p>
<p>Another prop piece was the rattan poles, which dancers held together like a connected labyrinth. They trapped an individual dancer in the center, who, despite their best efforts, could not escape. When the poles separated, they became prison bars, creating a bird in a cage. In an act of both intimacy and aggression, like a game of cat and mouse, two male dancers fought with the poles.</p>
<p>After the performance, Visions and Voices held a reception where the audience could interact with the performers. HUNG DANCE also hosted a workshop on the HUNG DANCE techniques the following day.</p>
<p>For HUNG DANCE, touring is not just a job; it’s a way to receive feedback from audiences and allow people to reflect on their own lives and bodies.</p>
<p>“We hope people can bring their own experiences to the work and find something that resonates with them,” Chen said. “We also invite the audience to notice how layered movement changes and what it brings to mind.”</p>
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<p>Hospital of Emotions is housed in the former St. Vincent Medical Center in Westlake. After succumbing to financial challenges and closing in 2020, the building has since transformed into an immersive pop-up art exhibition, displaying work from more than 70 artists. For a limited time, over 80 hospital rooms were reimagined as experiential artistic environments designed to explore different emotions.</p>
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<p>Drozdova said hospital beds and patient records were left behind, along with scrubs once worn by the hospital’s former staff, which she now wears to work.</p>
<p>“There&#8217;s an actual autopsy room and … there&#8217;s the morgue attached,” said Vince Cusimano, a check-in attendant for Hospital of Emotions dressed as a wolf-man. “There&#8217;s a big, nasty, gnarly blood stain that&#8217;s just decades and decades old, probably from a head wound or something.”</p>
<p>Hospital of Emotions offers an optional After Dark experience, which includes a 30-minute guided walk-through of the hospital’s basement before exploring the art exhibition. With dimmed lights and roaming characters, the walk-through centers around a story and mystery about the fictional character, Patient 13.</p>
<p>The mystery continues in the Hospital’s limited art exhibition, where visitors can participate in a scavenger hunt throughout the hospital to uncover more of her story.</p>
<p>The art spans across four floors. Visitors begin by taking an elevator to the top floor and make their way down the stairwells as they move through the exhibition. Visitors walk through ten emotion-themed departments, each made up of rooms exploring a specific human emotion, from joy to gratitude to sadness and anger.</p>
<p>At the end of each department, visitors can stamp their patient emotional chart, given to them at the start of the exhibition, to signify that they have been “discharged” from the department.</p>
<p>On the fourth floor, one installation in the anger department featured a hospital bed surrounded by newspaper clippings of death reports. Torn newspaper pages are strewn across the room and cover the walls and windows. Drozdova said that the room is one of her favorites.</p>
<p>“How this room is, that’s what I feel inside because of what&#8217;s happening around the world,” Drozdova said.</p>
<p>Another installation in the joy department featured a field of wheat with a harvested section in the center. Patrick Bostian, an attendee and security worker, said the room stood out to him.</p>
<p>“After the wheat has been harvested, that gives a promise for the future,” Patrick Bostian said. “You reap what you&#8217;ve sown, and then that gives you security for the future because you know you&#8217;ll have enough to make it to tomorrow.”</p>
<p>Several installations also included interactive opportunities. In one room, the walls were covered with pink, orange and yellow sticky notes with handwritten messages. Visitors could use pens provided at a nearby table to write their own messages and contribute to the growing collection. Another installation on the sixth floor included an experience where visitors could scan a QR code to listen to a woman having a seizure or avalanche episodes, among other audio experiences.</p>
<p>Visitors could use the installation to draw comparisons from visitors’ lives: Cusimano said this experience reminded him of his family members.</p>
<p>“One of them is a cousin that I haven&#8217;t thought about in decades,” Cusimano said. “That&#8217;s art. It reminds you of things maybe that you haven&#8217;t thought about in a while.”</p>
<p>Actors portrayed patients with different illnesses and roamed the rooms and hallways. Patient 13 carried a notebook filled with sketches of the dark figure she believed was possessing her. She quietly wandered in her socks and hospital gown and interacted with visitors.</p>
<p>Allison Bostian, an attendee and nurse, explained that seeing the patient actors inside the hospital rooms made her think of her own patients. She said she felt especially connected to the characters because she felt that she could see patients in their performances.</p>
<p>“I wasn&#8217;t expecting the artist to bring up so much into it,” Allison Bostian said. “I thought it was going to just be … smaller things, but they put their heart and soul into it.”</p>
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<p>These classes give students the chance to catch waves, develop film and create multisensory media projects.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s Spring 2027 offerings include classes that stray far beyond the traditional lecture hall. Some take students to the ocean, while others place cameras, film and even scents in their hands. For Trojans with room for an elective, here are six classes to further explore new interests.</span></p>
<p><b>PHED 115: Surfing</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Living near the Pacific Ocean doesn’t automatically mean knowing how to surf. “Surfing” gives students a place to start.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The one-unit course covers fundamental surfing skills, water safety, wave recognition, surf etiquette, board selection and physical conditioning. Students must pass a swim test before being admitted to the class. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The class, taught by senior lecturer Ian Culbertson in the spring, has two sections on Fridays at Santa Monica Beach. The sections run from </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">8 to 9:50 a.m. or 10 to 11:50 a.m.</span></p>
<p><b>NAUT 301a: Seamandship and Navigation</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For students who want to stay a bit more dry but still take advantage of being near the water, “Seamanship and Navigation” offers the chance to learn aboard a sailing vessel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This two-unit class introduces students to vessel construction, sailing theory, oceanography, charting and navigation. After classroom instruction and a dockside demonstration, students apply what they learn during a two-day overnight voyage departing from the ports of Los Angeles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No previous sailing experience is required. The Price School of Public Policy offers “Seamanship and Navigation” during both the spring and fall semesters, with classroom sections meeting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8:50 p.m. Each voyage limits the number of students on board so each student has an opportunity to help operate the vessel.</span></p>
<p><b>ART 149: Black and White Film and Darkroom Photography</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Black and White Film and Darkroom Photography” takes students back to a time before an image could be captured, filtered and posted within seconds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students will learn to use film cameras, develop negatives and make prints through traditional darkroom techniques. The four-unit course also discusses photography history and theory. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two sections of the course will run this spring, taught by professor of teaching, art and art 4D Julia Paull. </span></p>
<p><b>PHED 118: Sleep for Peak Performance</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Trojans whose sleep schedules sometimes collapse due to assignments and late-night club meetings, USC offers a class devoted to rebuilding them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The two-unit course examines how sleep affects physical and mental performance. Students will study sleep systems and disorders while practicing breathing and meditation techniques intended to support healthier sleep. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Four sections of the class will run in spring, taught by associate teaching professor of physical education and mind-body health Marcos Briano, master lecturer Steve Hsu, and assistant teaching professor of physical education and mind-body health Eden Goldman are listed as the Spring 2027 instructors. </span></p>
<p><b>IML 427: DIY Music Videos from Critique to Creation</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever watched a music video and thought it could be better? “DIY Music Videos from Critique to Creation” lets students test that theory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This four-unit course is offered Tuesdays from 3 to 5:50 p.m. and combines the history and cultural analysis of music videos with hands-on production. Students identify a song or musician they are interested in, then write a script, create a storyboard, shoot footage and edit a final music video. The semester will conclude with a screening of the completed projects.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This class also counts toward the minor requirements of digital studies, future cinema, and media and social change. </span></p>
<p><b>IML 418: Sensory Design</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Movies usually ask audiences to look and listen; however, this four-unit class asks what happens when a media experience can also be smelled, touched or tasted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In “Sensory Design,” students explore ways to build media projects that extend beyond sight and sound by incorporating scent, taste, touch or other sensory systems. They will workshop their ideas throughout the semester and produce a film, an installation or something more creative as their final project.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans forged through the rain to take down the Buckeyes and keep their playoff hopes alive.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) took down No. 2 Ohio State (6-2, 4-1) 30-18 in a defensive masterclass, holding the Buckeyes to their lowest point total in any game this year. The offense did enough to secure the victory, bouncing back after its worst showing of the year in last week’s </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/26/usc-football-upset-by-wisconsin-as-playoff-chances-dwindle/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">loss at Wisconsin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (5-3, 3-2). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story of the game was Defensive Coordinator Gary Patterson and the Trojan defense showing their potential Saturday. The group limited a Buckeye offense averaging over 39 points per game to just one touchdown.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Junior linebacker Desman Stephens II led the defensive effort with nine total tackles, including a tackle for loss and a forced fumble. The fumble led to a USC touchdown, putting them up 18 points in the third quarter. Redshirt junior linebacker Deven Bryant also left his mark, with his season-best 11 total tackles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The loss of Ohio State junior quarterback Julian Sayin was felt, as freshman quarterback Luke Fahey threw for just one touchdown. The Trojan defense limited the impact of junior wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, holding the Heisman candidate to just 83 receiving yards, his second-lowest mark all season. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though the Buckeye ground game dominated time of possession, rushing for over 200 total yards, the effort was not enough. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freshman wide receiver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/11/mosley-makes-his-mark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trent Mosley</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> stole the show, going for 101 yards and a touchdown, including a 69-yard catch-and-run score on the second play of the game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mosley’s huge play wasn’t the longest Trojan gain of the night, though, with freshman tight end </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/18/mark-bowman-takes-leap-into-anticipated-freshman-campaign/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Bowman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reeling in a 70-yard catch and hurdling a defender to set USC up for its final touchdown. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the ground, both Trojan running backs were involved, as redshirt sophomore </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/23/its-miller-time/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">King Miller</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and redshirt senior Waymond Jordan both reached the end zone in the winning effort. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will have a bye week before traveling to Bloomington, Indiana, to try to pull off another upset. The Trojans take on the defending national champion No. 4 Indiana (8-1, 5-1) on Nov. 14.</span></p>
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<h4><strong>U</strong><b>SC upsets No. 2 Ohio State 30-18</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Halloween night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, USC (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) upset Ohio State (6-2, 4-1) 27-18 in one of the biggest games in </span><b>Head Coach Lincoln Riley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s tenure at USC. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming off a disappointing 24-7 loss against Wisconsin last week that knocked the Trojans out of the AP poll and nearly the College Football Playoff, USC responded in a massive way, taking down the heavily favored Buckeyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The effort was spearheaded by an early 69-yard touchdown from </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the first quarter, and a strong game from</span><b> redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">helped the Trojans keep the lead throughout the game. With the win, USC’s playoff hopes live to see another day and will certainly bring the Trojans right back in the rankings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;re reporting live from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. </span><b>Refresh to see new updates.</b></p>
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<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One key to stopping the Ohio State offense will be </span><b>freshman defensive end Luke Wafle</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who is tied for a team-high with three sacks this year. Wafle’s season started slow, but he’s been </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/30/at-the-wafle-house-the-feast-is-on/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">improving with each game he plays</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and will prove crucial if the Trojans hope to improve on the defensive side of the ball. </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the Trojans’ playoff odds slimming, they will look to</span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/30/baleful-buckeyes-usc-meets-ohio-state-saturday/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bounce back and upset the Buckeyes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The defense will look to take advantage of an Ohio State offense with </span><b>freshman quarterback Luke Fahey</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> making his first collegiate start. The Trojan offense will look to regain momentum against one of the best defenses in the nation that allows less than 14 points per game. </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC suffered a rough</span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/26/usc-football-upset-by-wisconsin-as-playoff-chances-dwindle/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 24-7 loss last week at Wisconsin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, scoring the least amount of points in a game under </span><b>Head Coach Lincoln Riley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><b>Redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> struggled, throwing two interceptions, while the run game struggled even more, finishing with -17 yards on the ground.</span></li>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>USC upsets No. 2 Ohio State 30-18</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Halloween night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, USC (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) upset Ohio State (6-2, 4-1) 27-18 in one of the biggest games in </span><b>Head Coach Lincoln Riley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s tenure at USC. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming off a disappointing 24-7 loss against Wisconsin last week that knocked the Trojans out of the AP poll and nearly the College Football Playoff, USC responded in a massive way, taking down the heavily favored Buckeyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The effort was spearheaded by an early 69-yard touchdown from </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the first quarter, and a strong game from</span><b> redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">helped the Trojans keep the lead throughout the game. With the win, USC’s playoff hopes live to see another day and will certainly bring the Trojans right back in the rankings.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>Field goal Trojans.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With time winding down in the fourth quarter and a Halloween upset brewing, </span><b>redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">put up a 32-yard kick to make it 30-18 USC. Less than two minutes remain in the contest as Ohio State’s offense runs back onto the field.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>Touchdown Buckeyes.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following a long 12-play drive, the Buckeyes score their first touchdown of the game with f</span><b>reshman quarterback Luke Fahey </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">connecting with </span><b>junior wide receiver Jeremiah Smith for a one-yard catch. Smith </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">makes an impact on the scoreboard after a largely quiet game from the Heisman Trophy candidate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite attempting the two-point conversion, </span><b>Fahey</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s throw goes over the head of sophomore wide receiver Phillip Bell, keeping the score 27-18 USC.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the Trojans advanced 22 yards, they were not able to put any points on the board, resulting in a 38-yard punt from </span><b>sophomore punter Lachlan Carrigan. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonetheless, the drive still took nearly four minutes off the clock, with eight minutes remaining in this contest.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another punt, this time for the Buckeyes, thanks to a sack by </span><b>redshirt senior defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that pushed Ohio State’s offense back. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s offense will take over on its own 40-yard line with under 12 minutes remaining.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC fails to strike back after Ohio State’s field goal, giving the ball back to the Buckeyes with a little over 13 minutes to go. Ohio State will start on its own 15-yard line.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>Field goal Buckeyes.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once again, it’s </span><b>junior kicker Connor Hawkins </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">putting Ohio State on the board. </span><b>Hawkins</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> converted his fourth field goal of the night from 47 yards out to make it 27-12 USC. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans get the ball back as the fourth quarter begins, looking to close out what would be an all-time upset for </span><b>Head Coach Lincoln Riley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>Upset brewing in Los Angeles with USC up 27-9 over Ohio State.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With 15 minutes to go, the Trojans are up on No. 2 Ohio State by 18 points, leading the Buckeyes 27-9. While the offense has looked much better than last week, it’s been the defense that has held Ohio State and kept USC so far ahead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the third quarter, USC’s defense did not allow any points to the Buckeyes, and even recorded a fumble. </span><b>Defensive Coordinator Gary Patterson</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will look to keep this momentum going into the final quarter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojan offense added a touchdown score in the third quarter, following a massive 70-yard catch from </span><b>freshman tight end Mark Bowman</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and scored by</span><b> redshirt sophomore running back King Miller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><b>Redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has done his job in the rain, completing 14 of his 19 passes for 223 yards, without any turnovers. With a quarter to go, USC is looking to shock the college football world and upset one of the best teams in the nation.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>TOUCHDOWN TROJANS.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following a fumble by the Buckeyes and a massive 70-yard hurdling catch-and-run from </span><b>freshman tight end Mark Bowman</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>redshirt sophomore running back King Miller </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">takes it to the house for a 1-yard touchdown score, further extending USC’s lead and boosting the chances for a massive upset.</span></p>
<p><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">added onto the lead with an extra point, giving the Trojans a 27-9 lead.</span></p>
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<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following a 15-yard penalty on the Trojan defense, </span><b>sophomore running back Isaiah West</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caught a pass </span><b>freshman quarterback Luke Fahey</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but fumbled the ball on a tackle from </span><b>junior linebacker Desman Stephens II</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and secured by USC’s</span><b> sophomore defensive tackle Floyd Boucard</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans catch a break as the Buckeyes were driving downfield quickly, but they will take over at their own 32-yard line.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-7ligdfu-b8417cfd746f3e55dbf9f33b3e8d247c '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>6:40 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State’s defense responds right back, forcing a three-and-out by the Trojan offense. Whether it’s the rain or another factor, both offenses have struggled to pass and run to start the third quarter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC </span><b>sophomore punter Lachlan Carrigan </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">punts it for 56 yards, and with a holding penalty called on junior cornerback Miles Lockhart, the Buckeyes will start on their own five-yard line.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5egkdu2-c473cee062b906b2590afe1e90190fff '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>6:34 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojan defense forces a three-and-out to start the second half strong. With a crucial stop for no gain on third down, Ohio State was forced to punt. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC takes its first possession of the second half at its own 29-yard line after a 39-yard punt, looking to strike first in the third quarter.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-7cxgeh6-45788b0d791c0fe8e40c6599d50f58c3 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>6:13 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>USC leads No. 2 Ohio State 20-9 halfway through Saturday’s game</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through 30 minutes, the Trojans hold a three-point lead over the Buckeyes. Across two quarters, </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has accumulated 89 yards on four catches, including a 69-yard touchdown catch-and-run on the second play of the game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a 14-point first quarter, the Trojans only mustered six points in the second quarter. </span><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Ryon Sayeri </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">put up a career-long 54-yard field goal, but a fumble by </span><b>redshirt sophomore running back King Miller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> stopped the momentum during USC’s next drive. </span><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">made his first field goal of the day with one second left in the first half, extending USC’s lead by 11.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the offense struggled in the second quarter, the defense looked its best that it has all year against the No. 2 Buckeyes. USC has limited Ohio State to just three field goals, keeping the Buckeyes out of the end zone entirely. The effort marks the fewest points Ohio State has scored in the first half this season. With 30 minutes to go, the Trojans are looking to pull off a major upset at the Coliseum in the rain.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8izhpu2-c4f5352c40f80404df1ae0262d0ef17b '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>6:08 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4>Field goal Trojans.</h4>
<p><b>Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">knocks through his first field goal of the night after missing both of his attempts last week, extending the USC lead before the first half ends. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both </span><b>Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><b> Sayeri</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have made a field goal today, with </span><b>Chittenden</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s putting USC up 20-9.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5op3pai-41b1c586b232a00fabc2965b5c705914 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:58 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4>Field goal Buckeyes.</h4>
<p><b>Hawkins</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> knocks in his third field goal of the night to make the score 17-9 USC. The Trojan defense held strong with their backs just one yard from their end zone. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the 13-play, 53-yard Buckeye drive, USC’s offense will retake the field with under two minutes to play in the half, looking to add on to its lead before time expires. </span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8eop0ju-7e74dc5caeac3c5284cc708e7bb22df0 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:44 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Right near USC’s logo, in the middle of the field,</span><b> Miller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> fumbled the ball, giving Ohio State possession. The turnover marks the first of the game by any team as the Trojans’ run game struggles continue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The turnover ended a promising drive for the Trojans, where </span><b>Miller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> carried the load as USC looked to establish its run game.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8rl34ei-aa55db06a4b1b7bf79581ec030886000 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:37 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC forces a three-and-out, aided by a holding penalty as the defense continues to look strong. Ohio State </span><b>senior punter Joe McGuire</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> booted the ball 45 yards, giving the ball back to the Trojans at their own 35-yard line as they look to extend their lead.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5ird34a-5497838ebfb424593a4758a6f6ec8b9e '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:33 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><strong>Field goal Trojans. </strong></h4>
<p><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Ryon Sayeri</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> got just enough under his kick, tying a career-long mark with a 54-yard field goal to put USC ahead 17-6 with just over 10 minutes to play in the first half.  </span></p>
<p><b>Sayeri</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> converts for his first field goal of the season, after missing his first for 58 yards against Penn State three weeks ago. The converted field goal also marks the first for the Trojans after </span><b>redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">missed both of his attempts last week against Wisconsin.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The field goal capped off a nine-play, 38-yard drive, putting USC back up by 11 points.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5ui2umi-c13f4da885948b21b38adec247b0c43f '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:27 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><b>Redshirt sophomore running back King Miller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> breaks through third-and-long for 21 yards and brings the ball over to Ohio State’s side of the field.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-57gq0y2-932608f5cb0401d8f4ed4c3c26cc8c5f '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:21 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State’s </span><b>junior kicker Connor Hawkins</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> knocks in a 34-yard field goal to make it 14-6 USC. The Buckeyes finished the 59-yard drive with three points as the Trojans take the ball back.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8t8mgwa-7c0b22dff5b916e6d05cf5de90179b62 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:16 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans lead the Buckeyes 14-3, largely thanks to a 69-yard touchdown grab from </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><b>Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has 87 yards through a quarter, including a key 44-yard punt return to give USC good field position in its third drive. The Trojans capitalized, extending their lead after a nine-yard rushing touchdown from </span><b>redshirt senior running back Waymond Jordan</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though the Buckeyes have been held to just a field goal through 15 minutes, they’ll open the second quarter inside the red zone, looking to bring the game within a score. </span><b>Freshman quarterback Luke Fahey</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has relied on </span><b>junior wide receiver Jeremiah Smith</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with 40 of his 81 yards to the Heisman candidate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both offenses have avoided turnovers, with near interceptions being overturned for each team. The rain will likely play a factor the rest of the way, with both squads likely to rely more on the ground game. </span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8maketm-8b531dfade7a72d4322216098fa7234c '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:14 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p>Ohio State finishes the first quarter in the red zone, 17 yards out of the end zone. USC remains up 14-3 through 15 minutes.</p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mvx2x72e-48199646d0d6613ec73d0fe6d1f6bf9d '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:06 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><b>TOUCHDOWN TROJANS. </b></h4>
<p><b>Redshirt senior running back Waymond Jordan</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> took the carry to the left side for a nine-yard score to capitalize on the short field. After not playing in last week’s game, the Trojans capped off a four-play drive with another touchdown.</span></p>
<p><b>Chittenden </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">put up the extra point to make it 14-3 USC with 2:25 left in the first half.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-79e1n0q-02908cf4a975548a4e8bdf8e0d292ec4 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>5:02 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A false start on fourth down by the Ohio State offense forces the Buckeyes to punt from USC territory. </span></p>
<p><b>Freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> took the punt from the Trojan 10-yard line past midfield. With a late hit penalty, USC will have the ball near the Ohio State 30-yard line, looking to extend its lead as rain begins to fall at the Coliseum. </span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5eiy496-7c88265ec030ab0625617ce2c140c2e0 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>4:56 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Dillon Zamperin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A near interception from </span><b>Maiava</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> prevents good field position for the Buckeyes but results in a three-and-out for the USC offense. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sophomore punter Lachlan Carrigan</strong> punts it for 46 yards as Ohio State’s offense will retake the field on its own 33-yard line with half of the first quarter still to play.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mvx291qf-308caccf0bb1f5c43d8b224b16889066 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>4:46 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><strong>Field goal Ohio State. </strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckeyes </span><b>junior kicker Connor Hawkins</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> puts a 39-yard field goal through the uprights to make the score 7-3. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State got an extra opportunity after USC’s </span><b>senior safety Christian Pierce</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> appeared to have intercepted the ball before the call was overturned. The Trojans will take the ball back up early over the No. 2 team in the nation. </span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-9v4mjt6-594729fb0f5ccda6f2eba977120aec84 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>4:34 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><strong>TOUCHDOWN TROJANS.</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On just the second play of the game, </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caught a screen pass and ran for 69 yards through the Ohio State defense to open up the scoring less than a minute into the game.</span></p>
<p><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> knocks in the extra point to make it 7-0 USC.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-tsfbgq-819c0dea8a1bbc6cb0f53ff3cd7e3c75 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>4:34 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<h4><strong>TOUCHDOWN TROJANS.</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On just the second play of the game, </span><b>freshman wide receiver Trent Mosley</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caught a screen pass and ran for 69 yards through the Ohio State defense to open up the scoring less than a minute into the game.</span></p>
<p><b>Redshirt sophomore kicker Caden Chittenden</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> knocks in the extra point to make it 7-0 USC.</span></p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-8c674lm-149602386899259d51badd86ff62bff7 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock liv-updat-post liv-updat-post'  itemprop="text" ><h6>4:32 p.m.</h6>
<h6><strong>Caleb Olguin</strong>, Sports Editor</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State wins the coin toss, deferring the ball until the second half. The Trojans will have the ball first at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.</span></p>
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<p>USC will look to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four years.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While USC fared better in nonconference play last season, Big Ten games proved to be the weakest link of the schedule, as the Trojans went just 7-13 against their conference opponents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heading into the 2026-27 season, USC enters the preseason as the No. 21 team in the AP Poll, with what Musselman said is the potential to be “the best team” so far. With only three key returning players, time will tell for a largely </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/05/20/mens-basketball-adds-three-transfers-looks-to-conference-schedule/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">revamped roster</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><b>Returners to play together for the first time</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior guard Rodney Rice will look to return and help lead the Trojans after averaging 20.3 points per game in six games last season. His hot start was cut short, as he sustained a season-ending right shoulder injury in the Maui Invitational.    </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another key Trojan returner is sophomore guard Alijah Arenas, who averaged 14.1 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game after returning from a knee injury last year. Arenas will look to mature and see his role grow further this season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Junior forward Jacob Cofie will look to improve in his second year at USC after making strides across the board in his sophomore season. His defense and rebounding will remain one of the most important factors for Cofie and the Trojans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The three key starters have yet to play a game together, outside of exhibition play this year, but the potential is promising based on USC’s three preseason matches. </span></p>
<p><b>New faces join the Trojans</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Size was a key emphasis for Musselman this offseason, and with a tall roster full of new faces, players living in the paint will be an essential part of the game plan. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freshman center Darius Ratliff, one half of the Ratliff duo, is a four-star recruit and McDonald&#8217;s All-American whose size will help the Trojans. His twin brother, freshman forward Adonis Ratliff, was a five-star recruit and will also look to bring length on the court and spread the floor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sophomore center Eric Reibe is a big man from UConn whose efficient scoring and rim protection will be a great addition in the paint.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of USC’s prized recruits is the No. 6 player in the class of 2026, freshman forward Christian Collins. Collins’ high-volume scoring will be an effective addition alongside the Ratliff twins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior forward Joshua Hughes joins USC from the University of Evansville. Hughes brings consistent play and double-double capabilities to the Trojans’ group of forwards.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After frequent injuries and issues at the guard positions last season, Musselman must focus on solidifying the backcourt in the transfer portal. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Returning from injuries, transfer senior guards KJ Lewis and Issac Bruns both come in with efficiency and a high capacity for scoring. Other strong ball distributors and scorers include senior guard Jalen Cox and junior guard Jadis Jones.</span></p>
<p><b>Key matchups in conference play</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After going 2-1 in exhibition play to start the season, headlined by high-scoring performances from Rice and Arenas, the Trojans will look ahead to the first game of their nonconference schedule Monday. Though some matchups pose threats, including a bout against Utah State University, it’s the Big Ten schedule that is more intimidating.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While most of the Trojans’ toughest games were away last season, this year, the majority of them will be played at Galen Center.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Jan. 12, USC will take on No. 6 Michigan State in the first bout of a tough four-game stretch. The Trojans will look to avenge their 80-51 loss in January and establish their position and team identity against a perennial March Madness contender in the Spartans.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eleven days later, the Trojans will face off against the defending national champions, No. 16 Michigan. In last season&#8217;s matchup, the Wolverines got the best of USC with a score of 96-66, thanks to turnovers, poor shooting and points in the paint. USC’s bigger lineup and solid backcourt will be a key strength in this matchup.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wrapping up the tough four-game stretch is a trip east to Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, for a game against the No. 3 Fighting Illini. Last season, Illinois won by a </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/02/20/mens-basketball-suffers-worst-loss-in-musselman-era-to-no-10-illinois/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">36-point margin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at Galen Center; with an upset win over Illinois, the Trojans would set themselves up for success in the coming weeks and boost their tournament hopes considerably.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before conference play starts, USC will turn to 12 nonconference games, with the first coming Monday against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 7:30 p.m. at Galen Center.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will look to win their first conference match at home over the weekend.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, with the star power of No. 8 Wisconsin (14-6, 8-2 Big Ten) and No. 21 Minnesota (12-6, 6-4), these match-ups will provide a tough test for a Trojan team that has struggled thus far. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans (9-11, 3-7) are coming off a road loss against No. 1 Nebraska (21-0, 10-0), during which USC had its offense smothered, hitting only 0.095 against the Cornhuskers. With a meeting against Wisconsin on Friday, the Trojan offense will need a spark if they want to compete against a high-powered offense.</span></p>
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<p><strong>The challenge ahead </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC took the match 3-1 the last time it faced Wisconsin in 2025. As it looks to win its first conference match at home, USC will seek to build a streak against the Badgers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Wisconsin will not make that easy as interim Head Coach Megan Moenoa anticipates a challenge from the Badgers’ offense. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The challenge is really going to be on our defense to stop their offense,” Moenoa said in an interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “They have, in my opinion, the best setter in the country.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wisconsin sits fourth in the Big Ten in kills per set with 14, led by a pair of first-year hitters. Freshman outside hitter Audrey Flanagan leads the team in total kills with 211, while freshman outside hitter Decelise Champion leads the team in kills per set with 3.56, making her tenth in the Big Ten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will have one day off before it faces Minnesota on Sunday. The Trojans go into the match with a historical upper hand as they look to extend their winning streak against the Gophers to five straight matches. Similar to Wisconsin, Moenoa expects another test of USC’s defense Sunday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Minnesota has a ton of firepower,” Moenoa said. “They always play with a lot of grit and offensive tenacity.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the Trojans intend to contain Minnesota’s offense, they will need to limit fifth-year outside hitter Mckenna Wucherer’s impact. Wucherer’s 4.29 kills per set place her second in the Big Ten, and her 279 total kills this season have her leading the rest of her team by nearly 100. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a whole, Minnesota&#8217;s offense sits ninth in the Big Ten with 13.52 kills per set, but its defense has been formidable. Minnesota sits third in the conference in opponent hitting percentage, limiting the opposition to an average of .175 throughout the season, and fifth in average kills per set against with 11.65. </span></p>
<p><strong>Trojan belief remains consistent despite struggles</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For USC, offense has been a struggle throughout the season. The Trojans sit second to last in the conference in kills per set with 12.3. Inconsistency has also plagued the team as they have lost three of their last five matches. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the challenges USC is set to face, Moenoa remains confident in her team. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If we can do those two things — stay in the next-point mentality [and] control the ball on our side — it puts us in a good position to beat whoever we have left in the Big Ten,” Moenoa said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do so, the Trojan offense will need the help of their top attackers, redshirt junior outside hitter London Wijay and sophomore opposite hitter </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/27/skys-the-limit-for-volleyball-hotshot-abigail-mullen/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abigail Mullen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Wijay leads the team with 210 kills, while Mullen leads the team in kills per set with 3.05. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s defense has fared better at the net. The Trojans sit second in the Big Ten in blocks per set with 2.66, with only the dominant Nebraska leading them. Junior middle blocker Mia Tvrdy and redshirt junior middle blocker Leah Ford both sit within the top 10 players in the Big Ten in blocks per set, with Ford at seventh with 1.24 and Tvrdy at ninth with 1.20. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the Trojans coming close to a month under Moenoa at the helm, the team has gone 2-4 in those six conference matches. As they deal with this midseason change, Mullen highlighted the intentionality Moenoa has brought to the team. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our practices are very detailed, and she&#8217;s done a great job of making sure that we know the reason behind everything we&#8217;re doing, and that it&#8217;s for the benefit of the team,” Mullen said in an interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As USC looks to close out the season, the next two matches will be pivotal to turning it around. Two wins would leave the Trojans with a .500 record and build some consistency. Regardless of how the season has gone so far, belief in the team has remained consistent for Mullen. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There are things we can learn from a loss that will help us prepare for the next week, but at the end of the day, it&#8217;s a new challenge, new teams, new opportunity, and every night is a new night to win and to go out and play the best volleyball we can,” Mullen said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will face Wisconsin on Friday at 7 p.m. at Galen Center.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans hope to build up postseason momentum after strong regular season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 6-kilometer takes place at the Zimmer Championship Course, where the Trojans will compete against the other 17 teams in the conference. Following the regular season, USC heads into the postseason with promising individual performances but mixed team results overall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We&#8217;re young, but this is going to be a big building block for the years to come,” Coach Sean Brosnan said in an interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Monday. “[We can] hopefully do a little bit of damage and finish as far up as possible.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans competed in four invitationals this season, and freshman Monserrat Santillan Silva always had a top-10 finish in her three races. Santillan Silva placed second at the Pepperdine Waves Invitational, fourth at the UC Riverside Invitational and eighth at The Master’s University Invitational, where she recorded a personal-record time of 22:06.7. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, four USC runners recorded their best times at the Highlander Invitational, including senior Paige Unger, freshman Ivanka Malysheva, freshman Emilia Gonzalez and freshman Alexandra Sparno. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the strong individual performances, however, the Trojans’ results ranged from second place at the Pepperdine Waves Invitational to 19th out of 20 teams at the Highlander Invitational. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will enter the championships ranked among the bottom of the 18 teams, racing against top teams such as Oregon, which won the 2025 conference title. Catching the No. 15 Ducks, according to the U.S. Track &amp; Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Poll, will be difficult as the Trojans try to improve on last year&#8217;s performance, where they finished in last.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will send eight runners to chase the championship, including Unger. At the 2025 Big Ten Championships, Unger finished 164th out of 165 racers, running a 24:29.4, but has come a long way since last season in preparation for the event. Unger found success at the Highlander Invitational, placing 80th with a personal-best time of 21:50.2.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The [personal record] really gave me a lot of confidence and showed me how much the training this year has totally changed my fitness,” Unger said in an interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">on Tuesday. “It was such a big difference from anything I was able to run last year, and that brings me a lot more excitement going into the conference [championships].” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond conference strength, course conditions could pose another challenge for USC. There is concern about the weather conditions being colder than what the Trojans are used to, along with inexperience running on wet mud and grass, Unger said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brosnan said the unfamiliar course and the competition pool make it difficult to gauge USC&#8217;s standing going into the championships.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We haven’t run any national-caliber courses, so it’s hard to look at the marker and compare us to the other teams in the Big Ten that have run bigger races,” Brosnan said. “Maybe a couple of our girls can surprise people and finish toward the front.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brosnan said Santillan Silva has the potential to rank among the Big Ten’s top freshmen and highlighted Unger, whose leadership and experience could play an important role in the Trojans’ performance. Brosnan said he hopes that combining young talent and senior leadership will help USC achieve the best score possible compared to previous championships. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the challenges that come with competing against higher-ranked teams, the Trojans’ young roster could provide an advantage, with several freshmen hitting personal records in the regular season. The Big Ten Championships can give them the opportunity to gain experience against top competition early in their careers.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Having a young team is a strength, because … people don’t have a whole set of expectations,” Unger said.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will head to Wisconsin to kick off the Big Ten Championships on Friday at 8:35 a.m.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC faces Stanford and UC Berkeley for top-five clashes in back-to-back days.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This weekend, the No. 4 Trojans (14-3, 1-2 MPSF) will face No. 2 Stanford (15-2, 2-1) Saturday and No. 3 Cal (12-4, 1-2) Sunday in one of the most highly anticipated weekends of college water polo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With two losses to the Cardinal this year already, USC will look to turn its luck around and change the narrative in Palo Alto. A day later, the Trojans will travel to Berkeley to take on a Golden Bears team USC has already beaten twice this season, both by just a goal each.</span></p>
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<p><b>USC looks for first win against Stanford</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of the Trojans’ three losses this season, two were at the hands of Stanford. While the final scores were both within four goals of each other, the matches were fairly uncompetitive, all in favor of the Cardinal. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In both games, Stanford led nearly the entire match, despite USC’s various attempts to strike back. In the most </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/06/usc-mens-water-polo-splits-tough-weekend-matches/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recent match on Oct. 4</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Cardinal took a 6-0 lead to start the game before the Trojans went on a 7-2 run. While the attempt was valiant, USC was outscored in the final two quarters 7-5, resulting in the 16-12 loss.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The effort was headed by Stanford senior utility James Rozolis-Hill, who put three goals into the back of the cage plus an assist. His 30 goals this season put him at second on the team, tied with junior attacker Botond Balogh. Both will be massive obstacles for a weaker Trojan defense that struggles against fast-paced offenses like Stanford’s.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two big threats that perfectly complement Rozolis-Hill and Balogh, especially in fast-break situations, are the Ohl brothers. Freshman attacker Connor Ohl has tallied 19 goals and eight assists in 16 matches, consistently proving to be an issue on opposing defenses. Junior attacker Ryan Ohl fares similarly in his 17 matches, racking up 24 goals and 19 assists as a dominating force near the cage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Redshirt senior goalkeeper Bernardo Herzer holds down the fort in the cage, with an MPSF-leading 180 saves, allowing just 141 goals for a 56.1% save percentage. The former Trojan has limited USC to 20 goals across the past two matches, helping lift the Cardinal to victory both times.</span></p>
<p><b>Trojans try for three straight wins against Cal</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A day after the Trojans’ bout with Stanford, USC will turn to Cal, in an attempt to win their third straight match against the Golden Bears.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both matches this season against Cal have come down to the wire, with the last ending in triple overtime on a golden goal from sophomore 2-meter Strahinja Krstic. While the previous two matches were back-and-forth, USC will look to secure a lead early and hold it to avoid similar situations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do so, the Trojans will have to shut down star sophomore attacker Beso Akhvlediani. Akhvlediani put up four goals and two assists in his last game against USC, adding to his team leads in both, with 45 goals and 32 assists in the 2026 campaign.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sophomore attacker Tomas Perrone and freshman center Ilias Angelopoulos sit right behind Akhvlediani with at least 25 goals each. Of the two, Perrone’s game is arguably the most refined with 12 steals, 13 assists and six drawn exclusions. Still, both will look to be major factors in Cal’s game plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the cage for UC Berkeley is sophomore goalkeeper Aran Pina. The keeper from Spain has 103 saves this season, good for a 52% save percentage, adding to a team-high 21 steals. Pina’s biggest threat on the Trojan team is his countryman, senior driver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/08/robert-lopez-duart-brings-vigor-and-drive-to-water-polo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert López Duart</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who will look to have another big game against the Golden Bears on Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both Stanford and Cal will face No. 1 UCLA (17-1, 2-1) along with USC, setting up a picture-perfect weekend for water polo fans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will take on the Cardinal Saturday at 1 p.m. at Avery Aquatic Center.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With a mantel so crowded that its paint color is a mystery, the display says plenty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After all, Wafle’s laurels — and performance on the field — speak for themselves. In 2025 alone, Wafle was the Navy All-American Bowl Most Valuable Player, a MaxPreps First Team All-American and shattered the Hun School of Princeton sack record, among others.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to his unprecedented 23 sacks in 12 games as a senior, Wafle recorded 152 tackles over his final two high school seasons, which saw him skyrocket up the recruiting rankings and become New Jersey’s most prized prospect and No. 5 nationally. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Camp Randall Stadium was a house of horrors for the Trojans (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) on Saturday in Wisconsin’s (5-2, 3-1) </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/26/usc-football-upset-by-wisconsin-as-playoff-chances-dwindle/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">humiliating drubbing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Wafle did his part, pitching in six tackles and a sack to spearhead a defense that gave USC chances to win. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even for a player of Wafle’s caliber, storied high school resumes don’t always translate to — let alone guarantee — long-term dominance in college.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Wafle’s college career didn’t begin guns blazing. Totaling four tackles, he was merely pedestrian in his first two starts, showing flashes but struggling to get home and convert pressures into splash plays. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He had to learn the hard way — in what Wafle described as a “humbling” experience — that no matter how many stars are next to your name, bursting onto the college scene isn’t easy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But against the </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/14/usc-football-overpowers-louisiana-lafayette-in-high-scoring-bout/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">University of Louisiana-Lafayette</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (5-3, 2-2 Sun Belt), Wafle exploded for six solo tackles and a tackle for loss, making meat of the Ragin’ Cajuns’ offense. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever since mid-September’s breakout, Wafle&#8217;s underwhelming start to the season feels like a distant memory. In the six games since, Wafle has cemented himself as USC’s most devastating defensive player and game-wrecking pass rusher with 22 solo tackles, 29 total takedowns and seven tackles for loss.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Wafle] is definitely a freak of nature, so seeing him improve has been really great,” junior defensive tackle Jide Abasiri said in a news conference Wednesday. “His footwork, his overall knowledge of the game and his humbleness as an overall player have been great to see.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In USC’s early October </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/05/usc-football-squeaks-past-washington-25-21/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nail-biting victory over Washington</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (4-3, 1-3 Big Ten), Wafle got one final monkey off his back. After seizing the elusive first sack against the Huskies — earning him Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors — Wafle hasn’t looked back, rattling off sacks in each of the last three games. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was like a weight off my shoulders,” Wafle said at a news conference Oct. 7. “There [was] a lot of expectation. Now I have that sack under my belt, I feel like I can build on it. It was a special moment for me for sure.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wafle has a knack for rising to the occasion in the biggest moments, almost single-handedly saving the Trojans from blowing a lead to Penn State (3-4, 0-4) with a </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/13/usc-football-quiets-noise-in-statement-win-over-penn-state/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">third-down sack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that stopped the Nittany Lions’ possession in its tracks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Wafle], he&#8217;s an every-down style of player,” Head Coach Lincoln Riley said at a Sept. 1 news conference. “[Wafle] is pretty advanced, both physically and in his knowledge. … He&#8217;s going to be a high-impact player for us, not only this year, but for the years to come.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Numerous marquee programs were vying to land Wafle, but Ohio State and USC emerged as the top contenders. Though the Buckeyes heavily recruited him, Wafle headed west to join forces with the Trojans as a cornerstone of USC’s </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/12/04/football-secures-no-1-recruiting-class-flips-four-star-receiver/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">No. 1-ranked recruiting class</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, believing the team was “trending for the National Championship.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I remember seeing him first on film, and he stood out,” Riley said. “The [high school] game films were like highlight films, which is always a pretty good sign.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And the accolades haven’t slowed down. Last week Wafle was tabbed a Midseason True Freshman All-American after pacing all freshmen and Trojan defenders in quarterback pressures entering the Badgers game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[There is] the talent, but then there&#8217;s a certain old-school toughness,” Riley said. “He&#8217;s got the total package in terms of his mindset, his work ethic, his humility, but then his God-given ability when you put it all together. He&#8217;s got a really, really bright future in front of him.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a family with deep football roots, Wafle was a high-level three-sport athlete in high school, competing in shot put on the track and field team as a sophomore, and scoring over 11 points per game on the hardwood as a junior. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We grew up never [having] an off day in the Wafle house,” Wafle said in a Sept. 9 news conference. “We [were] running to every single sport you could think of.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether it’s bragging about beating freshman wide receiver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/11/mosley-makes-his-mark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trent Mosley</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in ping-pong, or jokingly blaming his parents for not getting him more into New Jersey native and icon Bruce Springsteen’s music, Wafle can trade in his competitive nature and militant discipline for the occasional dose of exuberant humor. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It&#8217;s been a dream come true. My whole life, [I’ve] just been waiting for this moment, and it&#8217;s finally here,” Wafle said Sept. 9 after his second career game. “I take my dream very seriously, and do everything I can possible on and off the field to try and make my dream [continue to] come true.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wafle and Co. will find out how they stack up against No. 2 Ohio State (6-1, 4-0) Saturday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The unranked Trojans seek an improbable bounce-back upset against the Buckeyes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winners of eight national championships, most recently in the 2024-25 season, No. 2 Ohio State (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) is the class of college football. With just 22 losses over the last 15 seasons and no finishes outside the AP Poll top 10 since 2014, the Buckeyes embody steady supremacy and are synonymous with inevitable, unmatched talent. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC (6-2, 3-2), meanwhile, despite annual sky-high expectations, has never made the College Football Playoff since its inception in 2014 and hasn’t won a national title in over two decades.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Oct. 24, in an all-around </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/26/usc-football-upset-by-wisconsin-as-playoff-chances-dwindle/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">dispiriting loss to Wisconsin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (5-2, 3-1), the Trojans’ playoff hopes were put on life support, reigniting cries for Head Coach Lincoln Riley’s termination.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no letup, and the task doesn’t get easier against an Ohio State squad that, even without junior starting quarterback Julian Sayin, boasts one of the most complete rosters in the sport and reemerges from its bye week motivated to remain a postseason threat. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet on Saturday, USC has a chance, in front of a testy home crowd, to prove its calamitous outing in Madison isn’t indicative of who the Trojans are as a group — and save their season in the process.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Teams that are going to be there in the end are the ones [that] overcome it and move on, whether it’s a big win, whether it’s a tough loss,” Riley said Monday on “Trojans Live.” “Fortunately for us, we’ve got a great opportunity ahead this week here at home versus Ohio State, and our team will be really ready and excited for that.”</span></p>
<p><b>Backup quarterback under center for Buckeyes</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the conference schedule was released in late January, this weekend’s matchup was projected to be a battle between two playoff contenders. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State has held up its end of the bargain. Since blowing a 20-point fourth-quarter lead to then-No. 4 Texas (5-2, 2-2 SEC) in mid-September, the Buckeyes have responded with a vengeance, rattling off four consecutive blowouts against multiple quality opponents. The run was punctuated by a scrappy 19-15 road victory over defending national champion No. 4 Indiana (7-1, 4-1 Big Ten). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the victory came at high a cost, and Ohio State may contend with an emotional letdown of its own after Sayin suffered a likely season-ending arm injury late in the contest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Sayin at the helm, the Buckeyes offense was as unstoppable as they come, leading the Big Ten with over 475 yards and nearly 40 points per game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State Head Coach Ryan Day has been intentionally coy about whether freshman quarterback Luke Fahey or former five-star sophomore quarterback Tavien St. Clair gets the starting nod Saturday. Fahey struggled in his only two possessions against the Hoosiers, but multiple weeks of first-team reps and an offensive game plan tailored to his skill set could ease him into his first college start. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without Sayin, the onus is on junior wide receiver and current Heisman Trophy favorite Jeremiah Smith to carry the offense. USC’s defense has its hands full guarding Smith, a matchup nightmare who has 984 yards and 12 touchdowns this season in the latest chapter of his legendary career. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coinciding with defensive coordinator Gary Patterson’s move to the booth, the Trojans’ defense has generated more pressure up front and reduced coverage busts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC avoided giving up chunks of yardage last Saturday, as Wisconsin’s passing game was a non-factor. Yet the Badgers shortened the game, limited possessions and wore down the defense with two drives that each lasted over half a quarter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We didn’t play good enough to win the game, and we got to remember the reasons why we didn’t, and we got to use those [to] push us to win this game,” redshirt junior offensive tackle Tobias Raymond said at a Wednesday news conference.</span></p>
<p><b>Buckeyes defense battles woebegone USC offense</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans’ offense was historically poor against a suffocating Wisconsin defense that bears a striking resemblance to Ohio State’s unit in both caliber and scheme. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite gaining six more first downs than the Badgers, USC’s backs averaged just two yards per carry and totaled 40 yards rushing. With a suddenly shaky offensive line that allowed five sacks, the Trojans couldn’t find rhythm or generate explosive plays. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As good as the Badgers&#8217; defense is, the Buckeyes’ is even better, allowing 13.4 points per game, second-best among Power Four programs. Junior safety Jaylen McClain and graduate safety Earl Little Jr. lead the standout secondary.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Redshirt senior quarterback Jayden Maiava, after throwing two ill-advised interceptions to the Badgers, must keep the ball out of harm’s way to avoid giving added life to a defense that doesn’t depend on turnovers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Obviously, we [didn’t] put out what we wanted, [not] going 1-0 last week, but it&#8217;s time to go 1-0 this week,” redshirt sophomore running back King Miller said at a Tuesday news conference. “It&#8217;s time to prepare, get ready and show the world what we can do.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans’ do-or-die upset bid commences at 4:30 p.m. Saturday against Ohio State at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans look to build on their October improvement against the Bruins on Friday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will host No. 14 UCLA on Friday in their regular-season finale, returning home after a three-game road trip that produced their first conference victory but ended with a loss to Iowa. USC enters with just two wins, while UCLA arrives following a 2-1 road victory over Nebraska on Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The gap between the two teams’ records is substantial, but recent rivalry results have been more balanced. USC (2-9-6, 1-6-4 Big Ten) is 2-2-1 in the teams’ last five meetings and unbeaten in its last three home matchups against the Bruins (11-4-2, 8-2-1). The Trojans have also kept UCLA scoreless in their last two encounters.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extending that success would give USC a strong finish to a season in which victories have been difficult to secure. However, if the Trojans combine their recent attacking progress with the defensive discipline, a final win in 2026 would be the perfect way to end USC’s season.</span></p>
<p><b>USC searches for a complete performance</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">October has offered the Trojans some encouraging results. After opening Big Ten play with five losses and a draw, USC earned consecutive draws against Illinois (5-5-7, 2-5-4) and Indiana (4-11-2, 1-9-1), defeated Northwestern (5-10-3, 3-7-1) and held Nebraska (3-4-10, 1-3-7) scoreless. Sunday’s loss to Iowa (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">9-4-5, 4-3-4</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">) ended the four-game unbeaten stretch. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s breakthrough came against Northwestern on Oct. 17, when USC scored three times and allowed just three shots for its first conference win.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Junior forward Peyton Nakagawara opened the scoring after 54 seconds, finishing a cross from junior midfielder Eleanor Morrissey. Sophomore midfielder Jaiden Rodriguez followed with a goal from outside the box in the 19th minute, and freshman forward Alyssa Parsons added her first collegiate goal in the 84th.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC finished with 15 shots, including 10 on goal, in a performance that demonstrated its ability to create chances through multiple players.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the Trojans generated opportunities again against Iowa, the outcome exposed the work left to do. USC outshot the Hawkeyes 15-13 and recorded six shots on goal, yet fell behind in the ninth minute after losing possession in its defensive third. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nakagawara brought USC within a goal in the 71st minute, forcing a turnover near Iowa’s penalty area and finishing toward the far post. However, the Hawkeyes answered with a third goal to cushion their lead and secure the victory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Against UCLA, USC will need to turn that attacking activity into goals while avoiding the mistakes that left it chasing Iowa. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connecting with players throughout the pitch will be equally important, as Morrissey offers a key connection between midfield and attack, leading USC with eight points. Freshman goalkeeper Josie Biehl has been equally important at the other end, recording 71 saves in her first collegiate season, tying for the fourth most in the Big Ten. </span></p>
<p><b>UCLA presents threats across the field</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bruins have paired a productive attack with a defense that has repeatedly kept conference opponents off the scoreboard. During a seven-match unbeaten stretch, UCLA recorded six shutouts before falling 1-0 at Iowa on Oct. 22.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior forward Oruha Hayashi and sophomore midfielder Grace Shank have formed a particularly dangerous partnership. Hayashi scored both goals in UCLA’s 2-1 win over Illinois on Oct. 11, with each scoring sequence beginning from a Shank corner kick. The performance helped Hayashi earn Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That connection makes defending set pieces a priority for USC. Limiting UCLA’s opportunities from open play will mean little if the Trojans lose track of runners or leave rebounds available inside the penalty area.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bruins’ latest victory also showed that their scoring threats extend beyond just Hayashi. Junior midfielder Cate Sarinopoulos and freshman defender Anna Wilson scored first-half goals against Nebraska on Sunday, ending the Cornhuskers’ six-game shutout streak.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sophomore goalkeeper Daphne Nakfoor returned in that match after suffering a knee injury against Indiana on Oct. 8. Although Nebraska cut UCLA’s lead to one, the Bruins held the Cornhuskers without a shot over the final 13 minutes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will need both patience and precision to break through the Bruins’ resistance. The Trojans’ recent performances have shown they can generate chances, but Friday will test whether they can finish them against a ranked rival.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will face UCLA at 7 p.m. Friday at Rawlinson Stadium for the final game of the regular season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The advertisement came from luxury fitness company Equinox’s “Question Everything But Yourself” campaign. After Asian American content creators criticized the image as sexualizing and dehumanizing, Equinox pulled it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The severed head makes literal what sexualized advertising usually does symbolically: It breaks a person into marketable parts. Lips, skin, waists, breasts, abs and glutes become visual shorthand, easier to display, judge and sell than a whole person with desires of their own. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The longer I looked, the more I felt that fitness advertising must permanently banish “sexy” and bring back eroticism. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In her essay, “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir argued that women are cast as “the Other,” conditioned to view themselves through male judgment rather than inhabiting the world as self-defined subjects. Fitness advertising monetizes that estrangement, teaching people — especially women — to survey their bodies from the outside, then selling ways to improve the view. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This fragmentation is the distance between sexy and erotic advertising. Advertising constructs sexy for an outside gaze, arranging the body to attract attention and encourage consumption. Eroticism begins with an inner life, in sensation, curiosity, openness, agency and the charged awareness of intimacy. A naked body can feel lifeless when reduced to a prop; a clothed body can feel erotic when it moves with intention. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NikeSKIMS offers another example. Its advertising promises “sculpted,” “compressed” and “shiny” silhouettes; underwear-like seams; micro bras and satin fabrics making aesthetics as prominent as movement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In testing pieces, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Women’s Health</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> found that during exercise straps slipped and padded T-shirts constricted and bunched up. Although some pieces performed well, sportswear requiring mid-workout adjustments reveals priorities: flatter the appearance first, accommodate activity second. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audrey Lorde offered a richer vocabulary in her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” She described the erotic as a form that brings fullness to our lives and — once felt — raises our standards for how life should be lived. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exercise can hold this power. There is intimacy in matching breath to movement. A spotter’s hand hovering beneath a bar can become a small act of trust. None of these experiences requires a body to look desirable from across the room. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outward gaze carries measurable costs. A 2024 meta-analysis covering 318 studies showed the risks associated with habitually experiencing the body from an observer’s perspective. Fitness advertisements train that perspective until the imaginary camera follows us into the gym. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cameras and mirrors are useful for checking form, yet a culture built entirely of mirrors eventually teaches us to live as reflections. Fitness advertising could train a different kind of attention. It could make us want to participate and feel. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sport England’s 2025 “We Like the Way You Move” campaign, part of its “This Girl Can” initiative, aims to get women active and demonstrates how. Thirteen street-cast women move through their lives, dancing in kitchens, cycling with family, practicing yoga while pregnant and competing in wheelchair rugby. The camera travels with a football as it crosses the field, drawing viewers into the play. Teammates huddle, high-five and celebrate together. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The power of these images comes from where the camera locates value: in experiences as they unfold. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is warmth in flushed faces, softness in strength and imperfect grace in effort. Exercise belongs to a life already being lived, free from the promise of a corrected body. The women remain subjects of their own movement; their desirability is irrelevant to the pleasure unfolding on the screen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More fitness advertisements should honor the solitude of a morning swim or the tenderness of helping a friend finish a set. Clothing should appear as equipment for moving bodies rather than just packaging to market them. A beautiful model does not require the person inside it to disappear. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fitness advertising should portray the body as a source of sensation, emotion and agency — something lived, never a product to be perfected, owned or consumed. The erotic body remains aware of its own sensations. And it belongs to the person breathing, sweating and feeling through it. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soefae Chen is a junior writing about health and fitness culture in her column, “Vital Signs,” which runs every other Friday.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Written by English poet and dramatist John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch, “The Beggar’s Opera” is a ballad opera known for an abundance of satire and the incorporation of popular ballads and culture of the time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The production’s director and choreographer, Stephanie Shroyer, a professor of theatre practice in acting, said that this production was notable with it being one of two final projects that the third year masters’ cohort will do in their time at USC.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This particular group of [masters’] students I had in class all year last year, … and I thought, ‘Gosh, this group has a real prowess for movement,’” Shroyer said. “They have a wonderful sense of humor, and I thought that this period, particularly, would be good for them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The opera takes a look at the machinations of the time and aims to criticize the leadership from Gay’s day. As a result, Shroyer said that felt like the perfect fit for today’s day and age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just thought, ‘Wow, there&#8217;s a lot of conversation about that today in our own 2026,’ and it just seemed like it might be a fun way and an intellectually stimulating way to look at what it is to be a leader, not by looking at our own leadership, but by looking backwards in order to maybe understand a little bit more about some of human beings&#8217; most unsavory natures,” Shroyer said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shroyer explained that much was done behind the scenes to achieve a production that was immersive and true to the time period. She said they took inspiration from William Hogarth, a painter and contemporary from Gay’s time, and that people involved in the design process based everything off his drawings of the 18th century. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The production’s stage manager, Charles Stevenson, a senior majoring in stage management, said that the grand scale of the production initially came as a challenge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The last show I did [had a] very minimal set, minimal costumes,” Stevenson said. “Our costume designers had to spend a lot of time researching, along with our other designers: researching the time, seeing what was readily available, what had been invented, what hadn&#8217;t been invented.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexandra Everbach, a third-year master’s student studying acting and playing the role of Polly Peachum, said that a big challenge for her was to balance the comedy of the script with the authenticity of the production.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our director at one point was like, ‘You&#8217;re all playing icons. They&#8217;re real people, but they each represent something in the world that we&#8217;re trying to create,’” Everbach said. “The challenge for me was bringing about that iconicness while not making it … cartoonish, and trying to play the comedy too much. You have to still bring a sort of authenticity to the character, even though you&#8217;re playing someone named Polly Peachum.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Kamran Amir, a third-year master’s student studying acting who plays the lead role of Macheath, the charming leader of a criminal gang in London, understanding his character and his character’s virtue came as the biggest challenge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There really aren&#8217;t people like this in the world now, and so … as society shifts, and as we are a younger generation, it&#8217;s hard for us to sympathize, and understand on a sensory level what these characters are going through, [and] for me, I definitely struggled with that,” Amir said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, Amir said he overcame this problem by tapping into his creativity as an actor. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don&#8217;t have real world experience in some of those things to utilize, [but] I can use my imagination,” Amir said. “That&#8217;s an opportunity for me as the beggar … to ascend into fulfilling this role to tell this story that I&#8217;m trying to tell, and not necessarily try to experience the life that this character would live.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everbach said that the main message the production would like to convey through this story is to encourage reflection and discussion on today’s society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You watch the play and in your mind, you&#8217;re like, ‘Oh, I know that our society definitely has a class system.’ But then you leave and you&#8217;re like, ‘Wait a second, am I part of the problem too?’” Everbach said. “I would love for people to question their beliefs, and … question how much they&#8217;re doing to aid a class system, or viewing society in a certain way.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Shroyer, her main wish for the production was to make opportunities for discussion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My hope is that if there are two people that drove together to see the play that one&#8217;s driving and one&#8217;s in the passenger seat, and that conversation between the two of them is vibrant and on two sides,” Shroyer said. “That&#8217;s what we really hope to foster.”</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Beggar’s Opera” runs until Nov. 1 at the Sanctuary Theatre.</span></i></p>
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<p><strong>For Trojan spirit</strong><br />
For parents visiting USC for the first time, Trojan Family Weekend is a unique chance to experience a great deal of what the University has to offer: The annual event features more than 200 programs and activities, including student performances and showcases from the likes of the USC Song Girls, Trojan Dance Force and Spirit Leaders.</p>
<p>The weekend began Thursday with an opening ceremony, followed by activities until Sunday afternoon. Parents can even attend classes with their children, giving students’ families a closer look at their academic experience.</p>
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<p>With University leaders including President Beong-Soo Kim, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan, and Vice President for Student Life Monique Allard, among other speakers, the weekend offers opportunities to learn more about the workings of the University.</p>
<p>Kim will address families in a conversation with Emily Roxworthy, the dean of USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, on Friday from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at Bovard Auditorium.</p>
<p>For fans of the Trojan Marching Band, Friday will provide plenty of options to get to know them. From noon to 3 p.m. there will be photo opportunities with the band at Alumni Park. Later that day, Jake Vogel, director of the Spirit of Troy, will deliver a “must-know” guide to Trojan traditions.</p>
<p>For families most interested in experiencing school spirit, however, Saturday is the main event.</p>
<p>Before the USC football team takes on No. 2 Ohio State, families can attend a pep rally featuring the Trojan Marching Band and join in on the Trojan Family Weekend tailgate, which will run from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Trojan Marching Band will perform in Heritage Hall from 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.</p>
<p>The game kicks off at 4:30 p.m. at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday. The tailgate requires a separate reservation, so families should check the event website for more details.</p>
<p><strong>Exploring arts on campus</strong></p>
<p>On campus, families will be offered an opportunity to go behind the scenes and observe the making of the School of Dramatic Arts’ fall production of “The Beggar’s Opera.” The event will be held at the Sanctuary Theatre from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Friday. The production will run until Nov. 1.</p>
<p>Families visiting can add a spooky stop to their plans at the Natural History Museum of LA County, which is hosting Halloween activities for visitors of all ages. From monster making crafts inspired by Mary Shelley to live spider encounters and a self-guided “Haunt and Hunt” exploration, the museum offers a fun way for families to celebrate the Halloween season together.</p>
<p>For families who want to experience Halloween on another side of the city, the electric West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval is also an option. The free event runs from 6 p.m. to midnight on Santa Monica Boulevard, between North Doheny Drive and North La Cienega Boulevard. With a stage, live DJs, food trucks and thousands of people in costumes, the Carnaval offers a lively way to spend Halloween night.</p>
<p>The end of October also leads into Día de los Muertos, celebrated Nov. 1 and 2. This holiday honors deceased loved ones and offers a way to experience the cultural traditions around Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The Natural History Museum of LA County will be hosting a Día de los Muertos event Sunday with live music, art activities and an interpretive ofrenda. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.</p>
<p>On Olvera Street, there will be a free and family-friendly Día de los Muertos Festival that includes nightly programming running from Oct. 25 through Nov. 2. Be sure to catch Teatro del Barrio’s 6 p.m. performances of Danza de la Muerte, as well as nightly Novenario Processions, running every night from Oct 25. Through Nov. 2.</p>
<p><strong>For film lovers</strong><br />
For those who would rather spend Halloween watching a movie than getting chased through a haunted house, the city also has its options for you.</p>
<p>The Los Angeles Theatre, a historic movie palace located in downtown L.A., is hosting a Halloween movie marathon on Oct. 31. The lineup includes “Hocus Pocus” (1993) at 10 a.m., “Ghostbusters” (1984) at 1:15 p.m., “The Exorcist” (1973) at 5 p.m., and “The Shining” (1980) at 8 p.m.</p>
<p>The daytime screenings are paired with a Halloween festival featuring a costume parade, photo booths and food trucks.</p>
<p>For a different kind of movie night, Cinespia is screening John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982) at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Halloween night, with “Jennifer’s Body” (2009) screening the night before. Tickets start at about $31.</p>
<p>No matter what you want to do this weekend, L.A. offers a range of options for visiting families.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of the time we mean it: Your week might really be packed. But somewhere between the sent text and the empty weekend, a question is beckoning: When did friendships become a matter of convenience?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Friendship is often supposed to be an easygoing relationship, one that doesn’t come with a syllabus and list of hefty requirements. Friendship is more fun than stress — that’s the best part. But easygoing doesn’t mean effortless. And it most certainly doesn’t erase our responsibility to maintain it. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At USC, where students have crammed, back-to-back schedules, it can be difficult to make time for friends. Oftentimes, we squeeze in time where we can, especially with study dates in Leavey Library and </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/29/embrace-the-art-of-walking-and-talking/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">quick talks in passing before your next class</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Classes, internships, clubs and job applications fill the calendar — hanging out gets whatever time is left. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We call this lack of time independence and a productive mindset. But at times, it’s really self-optimization to a deprecating extent. As we focus on self-optimization and our independent lives, we treat human connection more like a chore than a necessity. Just one more thing to schedule, one more energy-consuming thing we’ve decided to ration time for.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Picture how it goes: A friend texts on a Tuesday night: “Can we hang out?” You could be studying. You could be writing up a last-minute paper. So, you quickly shoot back a “next time.” In the back of your mind, you know that soon you’ll find more productive uses of your time again. The hangout ends up being rescheduled, prioritizing the next paper, application and assignment — and the cycle never ends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nobody decides to drift. It just happens slowly and quietly, one “let’s catch up soon” at a time, with neither person willing to send the first text to end the back-and-forth. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2023 Pew Research Center survey of more than 5,000 adults in the United States found that almost 8% said they have no close friends, and that adults under 30 are less likely than senior citizens to have five or more close friends at only 32%, compared with the 49% of those 65 and older. The numbers are telling — a lot of us are both busy and alone at the same time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that’s before we get to bigger favors: It makes it even harder to do nice things when all that’s prioritized is one’s Google Calendar. If you don’t have time for a night-in talk, you most definitely can’t help take them to the airport.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve also gotten increasingly fluent in a language that makes all of this sound healthy: “Protecting my peace,” “setting boundaries,” “detoxing.” Some of that is warranted: Neither rest nor recharging are selfish, and nobody owes anyone unlimited access. But somewhere along the line, the phrases stopped meaning “I need a night for myself” and started meaning “I just don’t prioritize you.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your time matters. But so do your friends who planned the dinner you bailed on. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This doesn’t mean every invitation deserves a yes. Finals stress is real. So are family obligations and self-care nights. The point isn’t to say yes to everything; it’s to notice when “not right now” subtly turns into “not ever.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So why bother? Because reliable friendships grant a satisfaction one can’t find from just checking off a quick coffee as if it’s a task. Being needed by someone, even at a bad time, is a reminder that you belong somewhere, and that someone is grateful for you. All friendships need nurturing — a sign that care is appreciated and reciprocated. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It makes hard-won friendships all the more rewarding, especially because those relationships can’t be rushed. University of Kansas associate professor Jeffrey Hall estimated it takes more than 200 hours together to become close friends. There’s no hack for that. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hours you put in are the friendship, and most of them aren’t conventional: late-night drives, small errands, dinners that run an hour past what was scheduled. The inconvenient moments aren’t the cost. They’re the point.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So text first. Initiate plans, and I mean real plans. Not just quick 30-minute, catch-up coffees. Do it this week. Give them a call and laugh about absolutely nothing. Help a friend get to the airport. Say “I can’t, but I can tomorrow,” and then actually show up. Be a little hassle to love, and let your friends be that for you. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the buzz Halloween brings an onslaught of costs for most people celebrating the holiday — and USC students are no exception. The Wednesday before Halloweekend, USC Housing Customer Service sent an email declaring that the FedEx at USC Village was receiving a record high of packages and could not take any more deliveries until packages were picked up. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the reason was not explicitly stated, one can assume that the influx of last-minute costumes ordered was a cause for the overload of packages. At UCLA, too, mailrooms were packed with students waiting in line to receive their costumes. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A historically high package rate begs the question: Why are we ordering and spending so much?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the beginning of October, my For You page on TikTok and Instagram Reels has been littered with Halloween costumes. Specifically, I noticed a trend of some creators sharing 31 days of Halloween costumes, each one more grand than the next. A common theme for these types of videos is the extensive elaboration of where the influencer would buy several pieces for a single costume, linking all of it on their Amazon Storefront.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Retail Federation’s 2026 Halloween Spending Survey estimated that the average person will spend about $115 on Halloween in 2026. Next to a creator in a look pieced from five $50 elements, a costume you create from items in your closet starts to feel like a lack of effort. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A costume bought to wear for one night only is fast fashion at its most extreme. Influencer storefronts normalize the cycle of overpurchasing for a single weekend, and Amazon actively courts these creators through its influencer program. So, a bigger haul isn’t just fun content; it’s part of the business model.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC was ranked the fifth-best party school on Niche’s 2027 Top Party Schools list, and with a reputation like that, Halloween becomes the epicenter of the last two weeks in October. The importance of the holiday brings added pressure to spend more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, the pressure also stems from being worried about what a cheap costume says about you. A 2017 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> report found that sixty-three percent of USC students come from families in the top 20% of income earners. With a greater proportion of wealthier students, Halloween can turn into a display of wealth above creativity and interest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The solution, rather than forcing yourself to wear basic costumes and not spend, is to find clothes that you see yourself wearing beyond Halloween. Spending exorbitantly on a costume that you will probably never wear again is wasteful, but finding pieces to mold into a creative, well-thought-out costume is sustainable yet unique. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The FedEx email was funny, but it’s also a haunting reminder of our reality of overconsumption. No one will remember the amount you spent on a costume — they’ll remember how well you embodied it. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But when we walked out of the theater, the two of us had one thing to say: “Meh.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those unfamiliar, Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who have both recently lost their father and family home. The sisters proceed to have the worst day of their lives by Regency Era standards, as one bad thing spirals into another. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While continuing to experience financial hardships, the sisters have tumultuous love lives. Elinor and Edward Ferrars pine for each other, but cannot act on it, as he has been secretly engaged for years. Marianne falls in love with the charming but untrustworthy John Willoughby, despite the older, devoted Colonel Brandon quietly pursuing her. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not a new story, and there have been countless television, play and movie adaptations since. Nevertheless, the 1995 version is simply a classic because you truly cannot get better than the stacked cast of Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman all in one movie. Watching the movie is like my personal British Thanksgiving feast — aka I devour it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At its core, “Sense and Sensibility” and the Dashwood sisters emphasize the importance of both emotional restraint and honesty: Elinor is sensible with her practicality, but her reservations cause heartbreak; impulsive Marianne, whose whirlwind romance with Willoughby ends poorly, by comparison, must learn that love requires some level-headedness. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, this new edition decided that loud equals romantic for both sisters. The movie’s take on the Dashwood sisters’ story was so incredibly melodramatic that it bordered on Brontë Gothic. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The movie seems to believe that Elinor’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) reservations stem from never being allowed to be loud, rather than understanding that being loud is simply not who she is. Similarly, they seem to be under the impression that Marianne’s (Esmé Creed-Miles) idealistic romanticism translates to outrageous rebellion, which takes the form of her inability to have her hair brushed for a single scene.    </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The already boisterous Marianne is made even more dramatic than she already is, cringingly screaming “Willoughby” in the rain and constantly yelling at her sister. Composed-to-a-fault Elinor also suddenly has the guts to angrily shout at Willoughby when he drunkenly arrives at their home. But all of this noise occupies any space in the film that could be used for unspoken moments of passion that might not have to be verbally spelled out.  </span></p>
<p><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/03/03/bridgerton-season-four-a-yearner-is-an-earner/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a previous installment of “Love, Actually,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I discussed how the latest season of “Bridgerton” illustrated the benefit of physical restraint on screen, compared to the 2026 “Wuthering Heights,” which was an overindulgent mess. Emotional restraint should be treated similarly: If the characters are too busy speaking — or rather, shouting — their every thought when they get the slightest urge to do so, what is left to be wanted?    </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 1995 version, when Elinor (Thompson) finds out that Edward (Grant) is not married after all, she bursts into tears. The scene is pivotal, not only because it shows how tormented Elinor had been, but also because it’s her finally letting herself be vulnerable and emotional — something she had refused herself to do for too long. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perhaps writer Diana Reid and director Georgia Oakley wanted to make the sisters more relatable to modern audiences, but loud doesn’t mean right. There is still beauty in romantic subtlety and emotional restraint that we probably take for granted. And as someone whose friends regularly dub her as the loudest, most opinionated person alive, even I can see the value in silence and emotional reservation.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, although you as a viewer may want an angry confession of love in the rain, remember that there can still be tenderness and passion in the quieter moments.  </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sophia Kang is a junior writing about love in media in her column, “Love, Actually.” She is also an Arts and Entertainment editor at the </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wednesday night marked the first of three concerts in Los Angeles for Todd’s “Do That Again” tour, titled after his sophomore album, released June 5. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before Todd came out for his set, 54 Ultra, an artist who blends soul, Latin and indie-pop, kicked off the night with a lively set. 54 Ultra and his band primarily played original songs, plus a non-electric version of ANOTR’s “Talk To You,” which he was featured on. The set built up the crowd’s energy and had the audience waving their hands in the air by the second song, “Find Your Love.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a 30-minute set, 54 Ultra exited the stage for a quick intermission before Todd came out. Half an hour later, the stage screen turned on to display a live feed of each band member coming out from backstage, accompanied by a booming announcer voice akin to a sports game intro. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Todd finally stepped out, wearing a Canadian tuxedo, black sunglasses and a baseball cap, he and his band wasted no time jumping into “Jean Skirt,” immediately captivating the audience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first couple of songs were energetic and focused on musicianship, accompanied by minimalistic live close-ups of Todd on screen and red lighting to mimic the dominant color of the “Do That Again” album cover. After “Jean Skirt,” Todd performed the album’s first single, “Breathe,” followed by “Malcolm In The Middle.” From the beginning, Todd’s live vocal performance lived up to the quality of his recorded voice. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the third song, graphic visuals appeared on the screen, mainly as a transition as he swapped his red guitar for a silver model and slowed down the pace for a sultrier, wailier “Free.99,” showcasing his drawling vocals and the guitarists’ solo quality. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It wasn’t long before the audience was singing every lyric as Todd jumped into “Difficult Love,” “Ain’t That The Truth” and “Walk to Class.” At this point, the on-stage visuals — featuring static and a cloud-studded sky — continued to work as a transitional asset, appearing mainly at the end of songs to maintain visual flow throughout the set without overpowering the artistry on stage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The concert became more visual-heavy at the start of “Bleed,” as the song was introduced by the beginning of its music video. However, it didn’t overpower the performance, as Todd used video clips sparingly throughout the night as more of an interactive play. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In “X’s &amp; O’s,” for instance, the screen split vertically, displaying several movie scenes using a cord-line phone on one side while Todd sang the song into a corded phone instead of a traditional microphone on the other. The bit was logical, too, as he used the phone to illustrate the break in the song where he acts out a voicemail: “Pick up the phone, baby / It’s, uh, Malcolm, your boyfriend.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These engaging moments continued throughout the night, with several women’s names popping up on the screen during “Obsessica,” while he sings them out in the song; With the visuals, the lyrics became a direct dedication to all the women in the audience. In “Chest Pain (I Love),” flashes of Todd’s face singing were swapped for iconic scenes from romantic comedies, pounding nostalgic emotion into the already pulsing, intense and emotionally charged song. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd also kept the show dynamic, switching between performing on the main floor area and an elevated platform, eventually pulling out a small piano to perform “Gun To My Head” and “Good Bye.” For the former, the crowd belted out the entire song. However, “Goodbye” made for a much quieter, intimate moment, as the audience remained silent and shined their phone flashlights, allowing Todd’s voice to shine through the theater.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the song, keyboardist Miles Tobel took a stab at the saxophone, one of the night’s unpredictable delights. After the segment, the band returned to its usual programming and powered through “Cheer Me On,” “Chest Pain (I Love),” “Earrings” and “I Saw Your Face”; both Todd and the crowd never lost any excitement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once Todd walked off the stage after what felt like a short set, the crowd begged him to come back out for more. He was clearly prepared, as the red and black visuals on the screen began to ask, “Should I sing another song?” The eventual answer came in the form of a Magic 8 Ball prophecy: “Do That Again.” And that he did.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clips of Todd as a baby played on the screen as he came out for a three-song encore, starting with the titular song, “Do That Again.” He followed with the night’s first and only cover, “Leave It All To Me,” the theme song from “iCarly,” taking on a jumpy pep in his step — a necessary move for such an unserious song.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show officially ended with Todd removing his shirt and bringing back his guitar to perform “Roommates,” which had the crowd singing the lyrics back to him, an earned ending to an engaging night.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The program, titled Direct File, was both popular and promising. In just a year, almost 300,000 tax returns were accepted through Direct File, with 94% of users rating their experience as “excellent” or “above average,” according to the IRS.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But less than two years later, President Donald Trump’s administration announced cuts to the IRS and the cancellation of the Direct File program in the wake of record spending from the tax preparation industry. Tax prep giants like Intuit and H&amp;R Block alone spent more than $103 million in lobbying Congress and the Trump Administration. Now, likely due in part to those efforts, taxpayers in the U.S. remain deprived of a public option for tax filing. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, American taxpayers spend a combined 7.1 billion hours complying with the tax code and $148 billion for tax filing services every year, a number that has only increased over the years. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the average U.S. taxpayer — who is already struggling with rising costs — to be subverted and extorted by a couple of entrenched tax prep corporations is unacceptable. Taxes do not have to be this hard, time-consuming or expensive. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This issue isn’t a new one, and neither are its solutions. There were moves for a free electronic filing system as early as former President George W. Bush’s administration. Over four White House administrations, the tax prep industry’s lobbying efforts have repeatedly stifled public filing programs, killed industry competition and maintained the status quo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intuit and H&amp;R Block have consolidated their duopoly over tax filing in the U.S. while barely conceding any real benefits to the average taxpayer. In 2019, IRS data showed that 81% of all individual filings used tax preparation software, like that of Intuit’s TurboTax or H&amp;R Block’s services. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although Intuit provides a free filing option following pressure from the IRS, it scarcely publicizes this service while maintaining dense and difficult-to-understand eligibility requirements, also obfuscating the location of the site online. Reporting from ProPublica has revealed that Intuit has gone so far as to actively mislead customers into paying for its services, with Turbo Tax’s “Free Edition” not being truly free, featuring tacked-on fees and extra charges to service state taxes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intuit and H&amp;R Block’s lobbying efforts have not only prevented the IRS from instituting a public option, but have also led to public investment into the private tax prep sector: Intuit alone collected almost $500 million in federal research and development credits over the past five years. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported that public costs to operate the IRS’ free filing program roughly amounted to the same amount of revenue that Intuit collects year over year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The technology for a national free tax filing system has existed for decades now, and the policy framework has been laid out in most other developed nations: Countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden all offer electronic prefiling systems which require little more than review and approval from the taxpayer. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But instead, the U.S.’ over 150 million taxpayers are stuck with no other option than to rely on an industry dominated by two companies. Intuit and H&amp;R Block have made it clear over decades of lobbying that they will fight against any measures that might hurt their market share and profitability, even at the cost of U.S. taxpayers’ time and money. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Young, first-time taxpayers in particular will have to either contend with a complex tax filing system or cough up funds for a service to do it for them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration’s decision to kill the IRS’ Direct File program furthers an overarching theme that has characterized tax policy over the past few years. Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center put it like this: “The traditional goals of good tax policy have historically been equity, efficiency, and simplicity &#8230; recent tax bills have accomplished none.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the midterms less than a week away, a lot of issues are on Americans’ minds, namely: affordability, immigration, artificial intelligence and healthcare. But it is important to give some thought about U.S. tax policy. What is happening with tax policy affects other hot-topic issues in real ways, and corporate interest’s role in our government is one that extends far beyond just tax policy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Corporate interests won’t concede anything unless something is done. Take this election season to get in the know, and to get in the vote. </span></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Meaningful connections don’t always require elaborate plans; sometimes, all we need is walking beside one another. </p>
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<p>Meaningful connections don’t always require elaborate plans; sometimes, all we need is walking beside one another.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we walked to Annenberg Hall under the warm afternoon sun, we realized how beautiful it was we connected without planning ahead. Simply walking and talking emphasized the spontaneity of the interaction: focusing on what the other said without being weighed down by distractions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">College social interaction often seems to require an elaborate production: We make plans around concerts, restaurants and campus events, then document them as proof of a good time. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At USC, EngageSC presents an endless menu of things to do, a helpful guide for students to find their communities and take advantage of opportunities to get involved on campus. But beneath all the flyers, organizations and schedules, its most valuable offering is often much simpler: an excuse to stand beside another person and begin a conversation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Embracing the bustle of a busy campus is often seen as part of the experience of college. Between classes, clubs, work and the pressure to turn every interest into an achievement, friendship can become another obligation to schedule. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevertheless, elaborate plans can work against genuine intimacy. When our attention is split into directions, notifications and reservations, conversation can become secondary to the itinerary. Walking, however, asks little of us. We can look ahead, notice the world together and let each thought come with each step. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walking also gives conversations room to be imperfect and genuine. In a controlled, planned environment, with another person’s ideas at the forefront of our attention, the depths to which the conversation can go are limited. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enjoying the scenery of an open space can allow conversation to develop naturally. A half-formed idea can stretch across a block before it becomes clear, and your mind can develop these ideas as your body moves through space. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research suggests that walking may encourage this kind of expansive thinking. A 2014 study conducted by Stanford University ran four experiments with 176 college students and other adults. Participants completed creative-thinking tasks while walking or sitting in indoor and outdoor settings. The study found that the participants were shown to generate more creative ideas while walking than sitting, regardless of whether the activity took place indoors or outdoors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While walking and talking don’t necessarily guarantee life-changing conversations, they can provide an avenue for connection beyond small talk, leading to deeper, more engaging conversations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walking may also shape how people relate to one another. A 2020 study from Tohoku University paired strangers for silent walks, conversational walks or a non-walking, non-talking condition. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participants who walked together reported better impressions of their partners afterward, with conversations further improving those impressions. The researchers also found that some pairs unconsciously synchronized their steps, suggesting that walking side by side can reflect a subtle form of harmonious body language. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The study reinforces that connection can begin before anyone says anything. Sometimes, for example, it starts when Armand chooses to walk in the same direction as Soefae and adjust to her pace. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The workshop gave us a reason to be in the same place, but the unplanned walk gave us the space to get to know each other better. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A walk invites us to slow down and reminds us that the person next to us has to take the same steps that we do to get from one place to another. Sometimes, being truly present in another person’s life can come from interacting with them just once, even as you go from one spot to another. </span></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>USC registered student organizations can once again table on Trousdale with a permit.</p>
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<p>USC recognized student organizations can once again table on Trousdale with a permit.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new permit process allows RSOs to get a daily walk-up permit on a first-come, first-served basis from Trojan Event Services before setting up. The system, which went into effect Oct. 12, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“balances opportunities for student engagement with the University’s longstanding priorities of preventing unapproved vending and maintaining pedestrian access,” according to a University statement to the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan. </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this semester, the University announced it will </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/04/usc-bans-tabling-on-trousdale-entrance/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">no longer allow tables, booths, carts and commercial activity on the Trousdale Parkway</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> entrance, where RSOs, local businesses and other organizations would set up tables to gain attention to students entering campus. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ban was implemented due to </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/04/usc-bans-tabling-on-trousdale-entrance/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">safety concerns and pedestrian traffic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, according to the Department of Public Safety.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amit Gupta, a sophomore majoring in business administration, said it took his organization two to three days to get a permit. He expressed</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> concern about whether the new system was working due to the fact that he didn’t know how it was being enforced. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don&#8217;t see anybody here to enforce any permits,” Gupta said. “No one&#8217;s come up to check if we have a permit.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some students who set up tables on Trousdale for outreach and fundraising purposes said they are concerned that the new permit requirement will further restrict access to the benefits tabling brings for their organizations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashton Ancheta, a sophomore majoring in quantitative biology, said that tabling on Trousdale is impactful to his club, Camp Kesem, which runs summer camps for children whose parents have cancer. He said not being able to table significantly impacts the club’s ability to fundraise.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Camp Kesem has] have a big week in December called Giving Tuesday,” Ancheta said. “That&#8217;s when we&#8217;re really out here tabling and asking for donations.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In tabling guidelines for RSOs, the University wrote that “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">only RSOs are permitted to table on campus for the purpose of promoting their RSO or hosting an event.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite this, many non-USC-affiliated groups as well as groups without RSO approval have continued to set up tables on Trousdale. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ancheta said he hasn’t seen USC enforcing these permits. He said non-affiliated businesses continue to set up tables on Trousdale despite the University’s new regulations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For smaller RSOs, the process has made it more difficult for some of them to get members and spread the word about their clubs. Katherin Jun, a junior majoring in art history as well as human development and aging, is a member of Students with USC Museums; she said the University’s administrative controls are limiting the growth of organizations, often delaying activity until the end of the semester.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It has simply become harder to gain access to tabling, and because of that, students are tabling on Trousdale rather than inside [the University],” Jun said. “It’s a little concerning because I feel like they’re getting a little more controlling every year, and of course there are liability issues, but it does get in the way of RSOs functioning as clubs for the students.”</span></p>
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<p><strong>The main campaign</strong></p>
<p>This campaign is absolutely addictive. Playing as a variety of characters, both old and new, the story follows a growing conflict in Korea. As North Korea invades South Korea, the rest of the world is affected. Valeria Garza, Joseph Dunn, Vladimir Makarov, and, of course, John Price, Simon “Ghost” Riley and Kyle “Gaz” Garrick all make appearances with storylines that intertwine with the main conflict and each other’s. All of these characters are, in some way, affected by or playing a part in the invasion.</p>
<p>The storyline weaves nicely, swapping perspectives with each mission, with some missions more elaborate than others. One mission has its own minimap with sidequests and opportunities for exploration.</p>
<p>Gameplay within the campaign is just as engaging. From combat-heavy missions to others that are stealth-based and leave your heart racing, all of them work to exercise plenty of skills — playing the campaign will almost certainly make players better in multiplayer modes.</p>
<p><strong>Multiplayer</strong></p>
<p>“Modern Warfare 4” is an enjoyable game to play with others. While most modes function similarly, with instant respawns and kill-based wins, a few stand out in concept. These modes are round-based, with three different options.</p>
<p>If you die in a round, you don’t respawn until the round ends, requiring arguably more skill and making for a more competitive game. Team Deathmatch is best for a fun, simple mode with constant play, instant respawns, and a very straightforward premise: amass the most kills in a 6v6 setup.</p>
<p>In terms of differences from one game to the next, blueprints for gun builds no longer exist and players must save their builds themselves. There is also an auto-build option that customizes guns based on your range preference and unlocked attachments.</p>
<p><strong>Technical</strong></p>
<p>The game is very similar to previous “Modern Warfare” iterations, with a few changes. When it comes to actual shooting, the developers seem to have eliminated weapon bloom, so bullets land pretty accurately where you aimed. Aim assist is not as aggressive either, which may either benefit or disadvantage the player, depending on your preference and skill level.</p>
<p>The movement was a bit of an adjustment. While tactical sprint used to be the default run, it is now only obtainable through a perk called “Blood Rush” in multiplayer. In the campaign, it remains the default. The default tactical sprint — and having the extra perk slot — may be missed, but it isn’t a big deal. Footsteps are quieter now, too, and omnimovement has been removed.</p>
<p>The graphics are also incredibly realistic, expected from the newest, greatest Activision game, but still impressive. Mads Mikkelsen appeared as The Archer, the primary antagonist in the game, providing voice acting, motion capture and his likeness to the character. It was definitely a cool surprise.</p>
<p>From a stellar campaign storyline with interesting, varied gameplay to multiplayer game modes that stay engaging and present variety, “MW4” delivers in ways Activision hasn’t in years. Maybe nothing can ever knock 2019 off its pedestal, but this game is a big step in the right direction for the franchise.</p>
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<p>The Trojans are hunting down a championship with a star-studded squad.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preseason No. 3 USC women&#8217;s basketball is ready to return to the spotlight in 2026-27. After a disappointing 2025-26 campaign — haunted by the absence of star senior guard JuJu Watkins </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/09/28/juju-watkins-to-miss-entire-2025-26-season/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">due to an ACL injury</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — the Trojans have loaded up on talent to support their returning star. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With a lethal combination of both old and new faces, USC will look to reclaim its spot as one of the premier teams in the nation in the hopes of bringing a championship home for the first time in over 40 years. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last season, the team finished 18-14 overall without Watkins, ending its season in the second round of the NCAA tournament. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After not reaching the Elite Eight since 1994, in the two years Watkins was able to play, USC made two consecutive appearances. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite an overall “down year,” the emergence of key players last season could prove critical if the Trojans hope to make a deep postseason run this season. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Filling in for Watkins was sophomore guard </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/02/26/a-facilitator-of-flair-family-and-full-court-effort/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jazzy Davidson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who stepped up even with the pressure of filling Watkins’ shoes. Davidson dominated offensively, averaging 17.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. The guard was also a force on the other side of the court, averaging two blocks and two steals per game —  both of which led the squad.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For her efforts, Davidson was awarded Big Ten Freshman of the Year, along with All-Big Ten First-Team and Big Ten All-Defensive Team honors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Junior guard Kennedy Smith is another key returning Trojan this season. The veteran has been a beast since she arrived: Beyond her Big Ten All-Defensive Team selection in 2025-26 and 19 double-digit scoring games last season, she brings playmaking to the backcourt, averaging 11.5 points and 3.6 assists last season with 4.3 rebounds per game.</span></p>
<p><b>Newcomers fill spots of departed players</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though USC retained a valuable chunk of last season’s production, some important assets from the 2025-26 year departed during the offseason. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The largest loss the Trojans suffered over the offseason was </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/02/27/uscs-veteran-guard-is-getting-it-dunn/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kara Dunn</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who signed with the </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/04/14/kara-dunn-signs-with-wnbas-phoenix-mercury/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Phoenix Mercury after the 2026 WNBA Draft</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dunn was the team&#8217;s second-leading scorer, averaging 15.2 points and 5.0 rebounds. She was awarded All-Big Ten Second Team honors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dunn was a key contributor and consistent scorer last season, and her ability to step up defensively and be a reliable presence will be missed. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the loss of Dunn, USC was able to land elite freshmen recruits and explosive transfers that could set the tone for a winning year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The incoming freshmen for the Trojans include forward Sitaya Fagan, guard and forward Saniyah Hall, forward and center Sara Okeke, and guard and forward Alesia Talkouskaya. USC was also able to land two transfers: junior guard Ryann Bennett and senior center Pania Davis.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Headlining this list is Hall — the five-star and No. 1 overall recruit in the 2026 class. Hall marks the third No. 1 recruit that the Trojans have on their roster, along with Watkins and Davidson in each of their respective classes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hall’s ability to create space off the dribble and shoot from all around the floor is what made her a top recruit. The freshman is a two-time USA Basketball gold medalist and 2025 U19 FIBA World Cup MVP, all while averaging 20.3 points and 6.7 rebounds during her high school junior season.</span></p>
<p><b>Star-studded roster sets sights </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The return of Watkins is the defining component for USC’s upcoming season. Coming out of high school as the No. 1-ranked recruit nationally, Watkins averaged 27.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a freshman. As a sophomore, she averaged 23.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, and was awarded the 2025 Women’s Wooden Award. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After almost 600 days of recovery, Watkins is likely more ready than ever to step back into Galen Center.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watkins and Davidson are set to become arguably the most dynamic duo in the country this year: Combining Watkins as a two-way player with Davidson’s high-scoring one-on-one game will likely be a combination that’s hard to stop. Watkins and Davidson shared the floor for the first time Sunday in an exhibition against UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Davidson had 18 points and seven assists, while Watkins totaled 18 points, adding three rebounds and steals. Hall led the squad with 23 points on 9-of-13 shooting, along with six rebounds and five steals, impacting the game with transition play and defensive pressure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With so much talent in one place, the Trojans have an opportunity to build a team capable of becoming national champions, though the journey will not be easy: USC faces several key ranked opponents throughout the season, including No. 1 South Carolina, No. 4 Duke, No. 11 UCLA and No. 13 Notre Dame. That, combined with several other ranked matchups in conference play, will test how strong the team can bounce back. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will kick off their season with the Hall of Fame Series against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Monday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas at 1 p.m.</span></p>
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<p>Antonio Banderas signed on to star as Spaniard conquistador Hernán Cortés in the historical epic “Cortés,” set to release next year. Every detail revealed about the film since its announcement is more concerning than the last.</p>
<p>For starters, a film recounting historical events that took place in Cuba — the site of Cortés’ beginnings as a bloodthirsty conqueror — and presumably continues in modern-day Mexico where Spaniards clashed with Aztecs is somehow being shot only in France and Spain. Additionally, writer Nicholas Kazan has apparently been trying to sell the script for 30 years. These factors beg the question as to why the film’s never been produced until now.</p>
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<p>“[Producing “Cortés”] was always impossible: too big, too expensive, just always ‘too,’” Kazan wrote in an online statement. “Finally, I have found a home and creative partners with the talent and vision and a technology that will allow moviegoers to witness in some form events that took place more than 500 years ago.”</p>
<p>The technology he references is generative artificial intelligence. In fact, Utopai Studios — one of two production companies behind the film — is an entertainment company specializing in shoehorning AI slop with real, human art. Since reading the news about the film, a million thoughts have been swirling around my head, but there are two main points that stuck out to me.</p>
<p>It’s not unheard of to put despots and villains at the forefront of media and entertainment. It is through these characters that we can reflect on their real-world counterparts. Take, for example, Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” a 1958 satirical play of a Chicago mobster’s ascension to power that parallels Adolf Hitler’s own rise to the top. It also happens to be a play USC will put on next semester.</p>
<p>However, there’s a difference between Brecht’s piece and “Cortés”: At the School of Dramatic Arts, many Jewish actors and faculty members can and surely will participate in telling a story about the forces that target them.</p>
<p>We don’t get that potential with “Cortés”: Banderas is a Spaniard; Kazan is Greek American, like his more famous father Elia; and Director Paul Mignot is French.</p>
<p>I won’t decide now on whether or not the storytellers have taken care to include indigenous voices in this story about indigenous genocide. But the words of Kazan don’t exactly fill me with confidence.</p>
<p>“The facts of that time … are rich and complicated, and many are disputed. Our goal is to tell one story — not the story, because there are many sides to it,” Kazan wrote. “We want to entertain, to give viewers a glimpse of the clash between two very different, almost alien cultures.”</p>
<p>Ironically, it’s an approach that comes off not unlike the storytelling method the real Cortés had himself. According to The Smithsonian Institution, “Cortés wrote his own version of the conquest of Mexico that put him squarely at the center, favored by the Christian God.” It’s disappointing, to say the least, that audiences will now get yet another retelling of the events from a Western, European, Spanish perspective.</p>
<p>But don’t worry, the otherwise insurmountable scale and cost of the film are offset by the use of AI — right?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine that the wider audience’s reactions, especially in the film and art world at large, will be dissimilar to the widely negative reactions those in and around USC’s art schools had to the University’s new AI initiatives.</p>
<p>Ex Machina Studios, the co-producer of “Cortés,” calls its approach to filmmaking “artist-first integration of artificial intelligence.” SDA’s Dean Emily Roxworthy revealed her flagship Institute for Actor-Driven Innovation this year, which claims to keep performers’ interests at heart while utilizing AI tools. The institute focuses on the creator economy and aiding fledgling actors, according to its messaging. But that doesn’t make it popular.</p>
<p>AI initiatives at USC have, overall, been immensely divisive, but they definitely don’t have a place in the arts. Roxworthy’s IAI was panned when it was announced, because in human disciplines like theater and film, audiences will never accept replacing people with machines.</p>
<p>What those of us actually in touch with reality know about stories like “Cortés” is that there are always more sides to tell. Those of us committed to being real storytellers will seek to tell honest stories, from a place of taking back artistic power and enfranchisement instead of skirting costs. The issues that affect Indigenous and Latine actors become, in turn, issues that affect us all: We ought to speak our minds on them much more vehemently.</p>
<p><em>Fabián Gutiérrez is a senior writing about the Latine community and experience on screen and stage in his column, “Mucho Ado,” which runs every other Thursday.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The University did not address </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> inquiries over the last month as to why these changes were implemented and how the University is planning to assist students impacted. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonetheless, registration began this week, and students will be subject to consider the new rule while registering for next semester’s classes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s what the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knows so far about the changes.</span></p>
<p><b>What exactly is the new rule?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC is changing how they are determining student enrollment status and whether someone is considered a full-time undergraduate student for financial aid purposes. Beginning in the Spring 2027 semester, undergraduate students must take at least 12 units toward their declared major to be considered a full-time undergraduate student for financial aid purposes. The University is referring to these units as “degree applicable.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students must be considered full-time in order to receive their full financial aid. Starting in the spring, students who are taking more than 12 units in a single semester, but not 12 degree-applicable units, will be considered part-time students for financial aid purposes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this semester, before the wider rule was communicated, the University quietly implemented this change for </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/21/university-quietly-changes-pdp-requirements-leaving-students-in-the-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">students in a progressive degree program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, requiring them to take at least 12 undergraduate units a semester to be considered an undergraduate student. PDP students learned of this change as early as March.</span></p>
<p><b>What’s a degree-applicable unit?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Degree-applicable units are any classes that apply to a student’s declared degree program. This includes major classes and prerequisite courses, as well as required writing, foreign language and general education courses. Additionally, free electives will also count as degree-applicable. These are classes that don’t belong to a specific degree requirement category, but count toward the minimum unit requirement needed to graduate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To graduate, all undergraduate students must complete 128 units. However, individual degree programs vary in the number of required courses to complete the major. Every student has a different number of free electives depending on their major requirements and any transfer credit they might have.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students can determine how many free electives they have by checking the requirements for their degree program and talking with their academic advisors.</span></p>
<p><b>How will financial aid be impacted?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any students who are not taking at least 12 degree-applicable units may lose out on some of their financial aid, federal and in some cases, state aid. It is not clear whether this will impact University grants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If students enroll in fewer than 12 degree-applicable units — even if they’re enrolled in more than 12 units in general — their financial aid could be recalculated and could be reduced or cancelled. Students will have to pay the new balance if this happens. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The University directed students to “visit Student Financial Services for payment options or the Financial Aid Office website for information about other funding sources that may be available,” according to the email sent to students.</span></p>
<p><b>Does a minor, double major or PDP count for degree-applicable units?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minor, secondary major and PDP courses will not count as degree-applicable units, even though taking these courses is required to complete the program. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">PDP students have already been affected — they will no longer be considered undergraduate students by staying underneath the general 144-unit previously imposed and will now have to take 12 degree-applicable units toward their undergraduate degree to maintain full aid eligibility.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same applies to students pursuing interdisciplinary study through minors or a double major. The University specifically noted that courses that are part of a minor program, but go over the free elective unit cap, are not degree-applicable and won&#8217;t count toward financial aid eligibility. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The email does not specify if requirements for secondary major programs will count as degree-applicable. However, a source familiar with the new change told the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">that secondary major programs do not count toward degree-applicable units. </span></p>
<p><b>Why did this change happen?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is not currently clear why the University is suddenly requiring students to enroll full-time in degree-applicable units. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The University did not return multiple requests for a statement as to why this change is being implemented, nor did it mention a reason in its email to students.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seven months later, the Brewers have won more games than any other team in the sport, swept the </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/23/please-dont-let-the-dodgers-win-again/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mega-budget Los Angeles Dodgers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the National League Championship Series and handled the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to take home their first championship title in franchise history.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, for starters, that preseason projection was a little insulting in hindsight: Milwaukee had the best record in the league in 2025, and it brought back nearly its entire core, besides former ace pitcher Freddy Peralta. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Brewers’ success also speaks to the sport’s general unpredictability, with teams like the New York Mets — who finished dead last in the NL East at 74-88 — having vastly better title odds than Milwaukee before the season began.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the issue may not be how good the team looks on paper, but how well the team performs when it matters most. The Brewers, for all their recent regular-season success, have a horrific postseason track record.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In its last eight seasons, Milwaukee made the playoffs seven times, including five NL Central titles. During that span, the Brewers suffered five first-round exits and lost in the NLCS the other two times — both to the Dodgers. Before this season, they hadn’t even reached the World Series since 1982.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What, then, was so different about this year? Did Milwaukee simply decide that enough was enough and finally lock in?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I mean … kinda, yeah.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s use the NLCS as an example. For the past two years, the Brewers and Dodgers have been the last teams standing in the NL, and one has swept the other each time — Los Angeles in 2025, and Milwaukee in 2026.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last year, the Brewers’ offense went all but silent against the Dodgers’ billion-dollar starting rotation, mustering four runs </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">total</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> across the four-game series. The pitchers did what they could, combining for a 3.71 ERA, but there was simply no stopping </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/09/25/shohei-ohtani-is-worth-every-dollar-in-the-world/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shohei Ohtani</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and company.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, however, Milwaukee’s bats came alive, averaging more than five runs per game and recording more than twice as many hits as last season’s series. The pitching staff was sharper as well, posting a 2.25 ERA, despite none of the starters going longer than five innings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brewers catcher William Contreras was at the center of this postseason, making headlines for his all-around dominance, and he may be the best example available of this year-to-year turnaround. In last year’s NLCS, playing with a broken finger, Contreras went 2-for-14 with no extra-base hits or RBIs; this year, he went 5-for-14 with a double, home run and three RBIs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not like Contreras was a substantially better player this season: His regular-season offensive stats were nearly identical to 2025, and most of his defensive metrics actually declined considerably. He found a way to pull through in the season’s biggest moments, and it’s paid dividends for his team — </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/09/09/a-love-letter-to-the-ninth-inning/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">as David Freese could tell you</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, sometimes that’s just the way it goes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contreras is far from the only one, too. First baseman Jake Bauers went from 2-for-9 in 2025 to 4-for-14, six RBIs and an NLCS MVP. Second baseman Brice Turang improved from a .192 OPS in 16 plate appearances to a 1.290 OPS in 17. Even on the pitching end, reliever Aarcon Ashby went from a 4.50 ERA across three outings to 6 2/3 scoreless innings and two saves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be clear, this isn’t a case of 20 different players going on simultaneous Linsanity runs to win a World Series on the power of friendship alone; the Brewers are an extremely good baseball team. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They led the league in on-base percentage, ranked second in ERA and recorded by far the highest run differential in team history. Their one supposed downfall — a lack of home runs — didn’t stop them from scoring the second-most runs in the regular season, nor did it stop them from averaging nearly five runs per game in the playoffs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I haven’t even mentioned Jacob Misiorowski, easily the best pitcher in baseball this year, who threw 103.5 mph on the very first pitch of the World Series. Nor have I mentioned outfielder Jackson Chourio, one of the best young players in the game. For a team allegedly lacking in star power, Milwaukee seems to have plenty to go around.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The end result is a dangerous combination: an incredibly talented, severely underrated team, fueled by the constant heartbreak of years past and hungry for a championship no matter the cost. Those preseason odds may have been at just 1.9%, but what we saw this month didn’t surprise me in the slightest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An earnest round of applause to the Brewers for finally winning that elusive first title. I’m just glad it wasn’t the Dodgers again!</span></p>
<p><i>Bennett Christofferson is a senior writing about baseball’s biggest stories and controversies in his column, “Dugout Diaries,” which runs every other Thursday. He is also the managing editor at the </i>Daily Trojan<i>.</i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Researchers are studying how blood biopsy can help to identify breast cancer.</span></p>
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<p>Anastasia Martynova, a breast medical oncologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at Keck, is the principal investigator of this clinical trial. Martynova said the study is focused on assessing how a liquid biopsy designed to spot cancer-specific particles in the blood could eventually pair with existing procedural methods of detecting breast cancer.</p>
<p>Peter Kuhn, the director of the Michelson Convergent Science Institute in Cancer and professor of biological sciences at USC, said the liquid biopsy looks for cancer cells, cancer-related cells and fragments that can go into the bloodstream as a tumor grows.</p>
<p>“Breast cancer has its origins in the breast — it gets dangerous when cancer travels through the blood,” Kuhn said. “We figured out a method by which we can actually find that needle in a haystack with this liquid biopsy.”</p>
<p>In order to identify those atypical particles, researchers place around 2.5 million cells on a glass slide and label different types of cells with colored markers. Kuhn said artificial intelligence is involved in the analysis to separate cancer-like cells from normal cells.</p>
<p>Martynova said the research was inspired by the current limitations of mammograms. Beyond the challenges of detecting small cancers, she also noted that patients often undergo repeated procedures and imaging that later prove benign.</p>
<p>“I see a lot of patients who have multiple biopsies, and they are all benign, which is great,” Martynova said. “But they continue to have biopsies since we cannot — based on the mammogram alone — determine that it’s not cancer.”</p>
<p>Because of mammogram limitations, the researchers at USC examine whether this blood test could serve as additional evidence alongside mammograms to lessen the number of procedures required for patients. Martynova said this could be particularly useful when imaging creates uncertainty or when patients have difficulty accessing mammography.</p>
<p>The clinical trial currently requires participants to have an initial blood draw and then return for another draw about a year later. Martynova said this is important because routine mammogram screenings occur annually.</p>
<p>“I think that’s why we chose a year landmark: to align with the mammogram routine schedule and to determine whether or not the test is truly a true positive or a true negative,” Martynova said.</p>
<p>One of the study’s biggest limitations is keeping patients enrolled for the full duration of the year. According to Martynova, some participants complete the first draw but do not stick around for the second, which rules out the first draw from the rest of the study.</p>
<p>Martynova said the trial would need roughly 160 evaluable patients in each cohort to determine if the test is reliable. Because participants may drop out before the second draw, researchers expect that around 800 patients may be necessary. Currently, 400 patients are enrolled.</p>
<p>If the test performs well enough under its current parameters, Martynova said the next step would be a national trial with thousands of participants.</p>
<p>Amanda Woodworth, director of breast health at Keck Medicine of USC, said the trial’s ability to limit false positives and negatives will tell how the liquid biopsy could be used in the future.</p>
<p>She said that in order to replace existing screenings, the standard would have to be especially high. For supplemental use, the researchers would need to see a very low false-positive rate.</p>
<p>“I’d want to see that it could detect both early- and late-stage breast cancer,” Woodworth said. “We are including women with stage zero breast cancer, so [I’m] very curious to see [if it can] actually detect stage zero, because right now only mammograms can.”</p>
<p>If successful, Martynova said the researchers hope to make the test widely accessible through mobile blood-draw services and at-home blood-draw kits.</p>
<p>“They [will] receive a kit in the mail, and they do [a] self-draw,” Martynova said. “They will mail it directly to us so that kind of helps them to avoid any unnecessary trips.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will be out of the postseason after losing their last road game of 2026.<br />
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six of those points came during a four-game unbeaten run in October, headlined by a 3-0 shutout victory over Northwestern (5-10-3, 3-7-1 Big Ten). This last-ditch effort to rectify the season’s shortcomings against the Wildcats was enough to give the squad an unlikely shot at playoff contention.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Sunday afternoon, USC (2-9-6, 1-6-4) played the first of two must-win matches in the penultimate game of the regular season against Iowa (9-4-5, 4-3-4). The Trojans’ first and only previous encounter against the Hawkeyes finished in a 2-2 draw at Rawlinson Stadium last October. This time around, the match was at the Iowa Soccer Complex — a venue that has become a fortress for the Hawkeyes, who boast an undefeated home record this season.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite a relatively even affair, Iowa’s clinical edge — coupled with USC’s inconsistency — dealt the Trojans a fatal blow, losing 3-1 on the day. The loss marked a premature end to USC’s season, leaving the squad mathematically unable to reach the playoffs.</span></p>
<p><b>Back-and-forth first half sees chances for both sides</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An aggressive, offense-heavy start from USC left the door wide open for Hawkeye senior forward Reilly Heman, who capitalized on a gap in the Trojans’ defense and scored past freshman goalkeeper Josie Biehl at her near post in the ninth minute. Heman, a transfer, has quickly become Iowa’s talisman, notching a team-high nine goals this season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC graduate defender Hadley Snyder — who has started 10 games and amassed 823 minutes of play this season — was omitted from the starting lineup. USC’s lack of Snyder, combined with the decision to play only three defenders in the first team, may have contributed to the Trojans’ early defensive woes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevertheless, USC thoroughly dominated the following 20 minutes, forcing Iowa freshman goalkeeper Braelynn Galt to handle nine shots and two corner kicks. Freshman forwards Rhea Moore and Jordan Hill were live wires, each recording three shots in rapid succession. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hawkeyes soon regained their composure, with the remainder of the first half marked by scoring chances at both ends of the pitch. However, Iowa’s attack strayed offside eight times throughout the first half, a testament to USC’s high defensive line and coordinated offside traps. </span></p>
<p><b>USC capitulates in error-laden second half</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Iowa carried its first-half momentum into the second, kicking into full gear straight from kickoff. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A flurry of chances for the home side led to their inevitable breakthrough, as Heman fed a line-breaking through ball to senior midfielder Sofia Bush, who was left unmarked among a scattered Trojan defense. Bush dribbled through open space and coolly finished past Biehl five minutes into the half, extending the Iowa lead to 2-0.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biehl’s mistakes in goal were uncharacteristic of her recent performances: Despite being in her rookie season, Biehl has taken on significant responsibility, starting all of the team’s conference matches and averaging over four saves per game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hawkeyes began to control proceedings, drawing USC into reckless challenges and forcing Head Coach Jane Alukonis to work some magic on the touchline. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 56th minute saw the reintroduction of junior forward Peyton Nakagawara, who started the match for the Trojans. Nakagawara made an instant impact, dispossessing Iowa junior midfielder Kylie Cino following relentless pressure and firing a left-footed strike from the edge of the box to halve the deficit in the 71st minute. Her solo goal, which came against the run of play, was just the second that the Hawkeyes had conceded at home all season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nakagawara went entirely without minutes in her freshman and sophomore seasons, but has quickly risen to the top: The goal made her the joint-highest scorer on the team, level with junior defender and forward Lily Biddulph, with each tallying three goals for USC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The eight minutes that followed Bush’s goal were particularly testy, reaching their tipping point when USC committed a foul inside its own penalty area, leading to an Iowa spot kick that junior forward Abby Warner stepped up to take. Fortunately for the Trojans, Warner misfired the shot, sending it flying above the crossbar.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Iowa spent little time rueing the missed opportunity, as Heman found sophomore midfielder Elle Wildman unmarked; Wildman received Heman’s inch-perfect pass well, took a touch around Biehl and slotted it home into an empty net in the 82nd minute. Heman — who notched her third goal contribution of the match — was uniquely instrumental in securing all three points for the Hawkeyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the match ticked into its dying moments, USC desperately searched for a lifeline. But it was too little, too late — the Trojans’ playoff dreams did not make the return flight to Los Angeles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the defeat in Iowa City officially extinguished the Trojans’ postseason hopes, it stripped away any pressure for their final game of the season against UCLA (11-4-2, 8-2-1), which currently sits third in the Big Ten standings. The match will give USC a chance to end an underwhelming season on a high note as it attempts to play spoiler to the Bruins on Friday at 7 p.m. at Rawlinson Stadium.</span></p>
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<p>President Syrabi Nur Rahman announced she is working on free Canva Pro and LinkedIn Premium for students</p>
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<p>Senate resolution 146-10, which passed unanimously, calls on the USC Office of International Services and the academic departments of each of USC’s schools to provide clear timelines for international students regarding when they can resume applying for curricular practical training.</p>
<p>CPT is the federal work authorization that allows F-1 international students to complete paid or unpaid off-campus internships and practicums as part of their degree program. After students secure an internship offer at USC, they must register for an internship course before they can submit their CPT work authorization requests.</p>
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<p>On Aug. 24, a broadcast message was issued by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, a program within United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stating that CPT requests for elective courses not required of every student in a program would no longer meet the requirements for approval for degree credit.</p>
<p>“USG exists to serve every student, regardless of where they come from or what path brought them here,” said senator Leilani Akwue, who authored Tuesday’s resolution. “This includes our international students who contribute to this campus every day and deserve the same advocacy and support as everybody else.”</p>
<p>Senators also unanimously approved senate bill 146-09 to amend USG’s funding department guidelines and allocations committee guidelines. Student organizations requesting funding must submit their travel expenses at least nine academic weeks before the initial payment due date, which includes transportation and hotels. Funding application deadlines have been extended for events taking place during the beginning of the Spring 2027 semester.</p>
<p>Chief financial officer Jackson Alexander — who presented the bill — said the reason for the nine academic week deadline was to “clear up some confusion with the wording.” Alexander also said the funding application deadlines for spring semester events were extended to allow registered student organizations to have “a little bit more time” to get their applications in.</p>
<p>Beyond these two items, senators unanimously approved SB 146-11 to recognize the statewide midterm election on Nov. 2 as a USG holiday and therefore cancel the senate meeting scheduled for that day. Speaker of the senate Madison Troup said the goal is to “allow and encourage” students, senators and USG members to vote.</p>
<p>During reports of officers and directors, president Syrabi Nur Rahman announced that some of her completed projects include Zipcar discounts, tabling on Trousdale Parkway to connect with students, creating rest spaces at Leavey Library and expanding the RSO liaison position to four positions.</p>
<p>“I think it is very important to let the student body hold us accountable for what we do, because our platform is our to-do list and our platform derives from knowing what USG can do and what USC needs as a campus,” Rahman said. “Part of our responsibility as your elected president and vice president is spearheading the undergraduate student government through these projects and through these initiatives that we promise to give you.”</p>
<p>According to Rahman, projects that are in progress include obtaining free Canva Pro and LinkedIn Premium for students, town hall meetings, and a volunteer fair.</p>
<p>In her presentation, vice president Diane Kim highlighted the 60 out of 128 projects that are now available to view on the USG legislative tracker.</p>
<p>“We have 11 [projects] completed out of the 60 on the list,” Kim said. “The reason why it is 11 [projects] and not 60 is because a lot of these are long-term projects that will probably be getting done later throughout this year.”</p>
<p>Additionally, chief of staff Shrinidhi Sriram said that throughout the month, she has been hosting bi-weekly organization-wide meetings, tracking office hours for all USG officers and coordinating stipends. One of Sriram’s projects included creating a how-to guidebook for USG officers.</p>
<p>“[The how-to guide] is a passion project and a way for people to reference resources that we have available at USG,” Sriram said. “[The guide] serves as an accessible document where every USG officer can reference conduct, procedural expectations and any questions they might have.”</p>
<p>Senator Piper Kujawa discussed her current projects, which include gathering data regarding how safe students feel on campus after students raised concerns about scooter safety, as well as an additional polling booth on USC’s campus in collaboration with VoteSC.</p>
<p>“I reached out to the [Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk] office, and we are currently gathering data that is representing a gap in need and accessibility for civic engagement at USC because we have a lot of registered California voters,” Kujawa said.</p>
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<p>Performance artist Raegan Truax blended movement with multimedia to tell a queer heritage story in a time of political discomfort.</p>
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<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mvrp981r-e3cc812cec3a21c3c09d237324c17b31 '   itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemprop="blogPost" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop="text" ><h6><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raegan Truax, a resident performance artist, aimed to explore the ongoing legacy of queer people in a political period marked by increasing anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric through their 46-hour multimedia performance. (Leilani Powell / Daily Trojan)</span></h6>
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<p>In a political period marked by increased anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric, Raegan Truax used their movement to explore what it means to carry the ongoing legacy of queer people and “breathe in proximity to their desire, fear, labor, refusal and survival.”</p>
<p>“Queer heritage is not only a record of what we have endured,” Raegan Truax wrote in their artist statement. “Queer life has always depended on our capacity to make worlds with and for one another — to invent kinship, cultivate desire, uplift friendship as love and imagine ways of living beyond the conditions imposed upon us.”</p>
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<p>Alexis Bard Johnson, the curator and interim director of the ONE Archives as well as the curator of the accompanying exhibition, “Being Beside,” said the collection was left deliberately unfinished — it both scrounges materials from Raegan Truax’s earlier performances and makes room for the incorporation of new materials throughout their month-long residency.</p>
<p>As Raegan Truax wandered between rooms that held items from their past performances and mementos from ONE Archives, the largest LGBTQIA+ repository in the world, they incorporated the surrounding ephemera into their movement.</p>
<p>“[Raegan Truax is] using materials from the archive,” Bard Johnson said. “They&#8217;re not coming in and being like, ‘This is my idea. This is what we&#8217;re doing.’ They&#8217;re responding to the space: both what&#8217;s in the space — the objects, the archival heritages — but also who&#8217;s there at a certain time.”</p>
<p>In addition to directing the Creative Body Institute, an artist-run nonprofit dedicated to creative research, Raegan Truax founded ON DURATION, an international platform that supports artists who engage in durational performance art — live, continuous movement over hours, days or months. As a feminist artist, scholar and educator, Raegan Truax said their work “challenges masochistic tropes of endurance.”</p>
<p>Bard Johnson said that, in a time when queer and trans rights are under threat, the format of Truax’s protest is central to their practice as they explore what it means to engage in daily defiance.</p>
<p>“Burnout is really easy to achieve, especially now,” Bard Johnson said. “We give up; we&#8217;re just like, ‘Ugh, whatever, I&#8217;m not gonna pay attention.’ … How do I attend, how do I stay present? … Those questions become really relevant [here].”</p>
<p>Over the course of their performance, Raegan Truax peeled off 10 layers of underwear and clothespinned each pair on a wall with an accompanying message outlining their experience with time throughout the performance. Alexandra Dalmacio, part of the preparation team helping Johnson at ONE Archives, said that seeing Raegan Truax hang their underwear forced her to reconsider what intentions and emotions go into the action.</p>
<p>“It takes two seconds in my day-to-day, but [watching the act] slowed down is really moving, because it makes me want to go back to my own space and do it more intentionally,” Dalmacio said. “It&#8217;s not often you encounter an artist who is super vulnerable, and [performance art] is allowing for this level of transparency and intimacy.”</p>
<p>Ryan Truax, the artist’s brother, said he was excited to see his sibling perform at a venue where a large audience can gather, and that the performance forced audiences to take stock of their surroundings.</p>
<p>“Every time I see Raegan perform, I think [the performance] really makes you stop and think about … how things move really fast all the time,” Ryan Truax said. “Being able to slow down and think intentionally about how you move through the world is interesting.”</p>
<p>Raegan Truax performed for 34 and 37 hours straight in 2014 and 2017, respectively, as part of their craft, through which they translated their number of lived years into hours. Mel James, a graduate student studying urban planning and development, said they came back to the performance each day to witness its 46-hour progression.</p>
<p>“Seeing the artist over those times and the different types of interactions with materials and props and clothing items was very eye-opening and emotional,” James said. “Sometimes, [I thought] … ‘Who wants to commit themselves to this?’ This was intense, but I loved it.”</p>
<p>The performance culminated with a final image: a tea party with all the artifacts gathered around a table set, complete with a pink tablecloth. Loni Shibuyama, a librarian at ONE Archives, said she helped gather the artifacts, photos and clothing used throughout Raegan Truax’s presentation.</p>
<p>“The performance is about being with the stories in the building, being with the archival materials, being with the history of the people,” Shibuyana said. “So [the performance explores] the idea of having tea, having a gathering with the artifacts, but also having a gathering with the stories and the legacies of the people.”</p>
<p>Bard Johnson said she hopes attendees feel that art can offer people something applicable to their everyday lives.</p>
<p>“I hope that [people] come away asking different questions than they did before,” Bard Johnson said. “I really want people to think critically and come away with different questions or ask questions about themselves or each other or the world we live in.”</p>
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<p>An outing for Nigerian food ends up disappointing.</p>
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<p>My initial choice for this installment was Mayowa Nigerian Cuisine; the food seemed good and the prices were reasonable. It was only upon arriving at the physical location, however, that I realized the restaurant was pickup and online order only. The warehouse-like physical location had a window where customers could pick up their orders but no seating of any kind.</p>
<p>Having taken a Lyft to the restaurant, Associate Managing Editor Anna Jordan and I decided to walk to a nearby Nigerian spot that I had also considered for this article instead. Six minutes and a few blocks later, we arrived at Jagabans LA.</p>
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<p>The restaurant’s interior was small and quaint. Shiny, disco-ball-esque panels covered the wall near the kitchen, and pink, purple and white plastic flowers hung from the ceiling like colorful stalactites. After perusing the menu — and with help from our friendly waiter — we ordered two entrees to share.</p>
<p>The first entree we tried was the chicken with jollof. I enjoyed the chicken, but it had no strong or memorable flavors. However, it came with a warm sauce that brought together the entree with a rich, savory flavor, enhancing not only the chicken but also the other items in the entree.</p>
<p>The jollof rice came in a suspicious Tupperware shape and, despite having a seasoned and smoky flavor, didn’t leave much of an impression. The plantains stole the show, being a crispy, sweet addition to the entire dish. While the sauce helped bring a needed “oomph” to the rice, mixing it with the plantains made for a delicious combo. Mixing bites of chicken with plantain also made for a satisfying sweet-and-savory mix.</p>
<p>Our second entree was beef with egusi stew. Egusi is a traditional Nigerian stew made with ground Egusi melon seeds, peppers, onion, meat and dried fish. Depending on the region in Nigeria, the dish can vary in what vegetables, meat and fish it features. Unfortunately, in this case, I was not a fan.</p>
<p>The stew we tried had a strong scent and flavor of fish, overpowering every ingredient in the stew and making it the only thing I could taste. The beef itself was tough to chew and tasted just fine; pockets of fat in the meat brought a softness in both flavor and texture.</p>
<p>The dish also came with yam fufu, a starchy, dough-like substance made of boiled yam that gets beaten into a ball. Using your hands, you tear off a piece of the fufu and use it to grab whatever sauce or stew it is served with. The fufu had a neutral flavor but a very fun, doughy texture. It paired quite nicely with the sauce from the chicken, but was no match for the overly fishy flavor of the egusi.</p>
<p>As we paid, our very kind waiter helped us pack up our food with a gleeful smile. I tapped my card on the reader, disappointed that we had to pay $30 for the chicken and jollof and $35 for the beef and egusi. The waiter sensed my disillusionment and told me the food tastes even better as leftovers. I took his word as law and hoped for the best.</p>
<p>After letting it sit in my fridge for two days, I gave the food another shot. Unfortunately, my opinion stayed the same. The chicken and rice were fine, and the egusi was overly fishy. I finished my lunch with a banana I had at home, hoping to imitate the best part of the meal — of which there were no leftovers.</p>
<p>After having visited only fantastic restaurants for this column, I was bound to run into one that was disappointing. My dissatisfaction doesn’t lie in the experience itself; rather, I’m disappointed that my first taste of Nigerian food did not live up to the hype and admiration that so many people around me have for it.</p>
<p>Instead of ending my journey for Nigerian food like this, I want to keep exploring. If any reader out there knows of any great Nigerian restaurants in Los Angeles and would like to let me know, please email ae@dailytrojan.com with the subject “Global Gastronomy Recommendation.” I can’t wait to see what you recommend!</p>
<p><em>Pablo Rodriguez is a senior writing about international cuisine in Los Angeles in his column, “Global Gastronomy,” which runs every other Wednesday.</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We must recognize when a friendship harms those we hope to protect — including ourselves.</p>
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<h1><b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">I can’t love you how you want me to</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We must recognize when a friendship harms those we hope to protect — including ourselves.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At its best, this habit makes people feel seen. At its worst, however, the boundary between understanding someone and attaching myself to them begins to disappear.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t fall in love because I don&#8217;t know anything about a person. I fall in love because I begin to know too much: which stories they repeat, what makes them withdraw, how their voice changes when they are genuinely excited. Intimacy accumulates quietly, until friendship no longer feels like an adequate name for what I feel.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is how I fell in love with a friend who could never love me in the same way. </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/30/unrequited-love-can-make-equal-friendships-impossible/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a previous edition of “No Straight Answers,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I wrote about the possibility of becoming friends with him again once I could look at him without wanting more. I believed distance would loosen my feelings’ grip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a while, it did. I fell in love with him, fell out of love and, with time, became his friend again. I thought I had reached the best possible ending: accepting what our relationship could never be without losing what it genuinely was.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, I overheard a co-worker suggest that I was still in love with him. The conjecture became more damaging as they went on, questioning what our closeness might suggest about his sexuality and his current relationship with his girlfriend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Until then, my feelings had belonged to me. But once another person began interpreting our friendship aloud, that privacy disappeared: Our closeness became evidence in a story neither of us had chosen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That comment also forced me to admit what I had been avoiding: I could never love him as only a friend. Our friendship was real, but it was not the whole truth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My feelings, like cigarette smoke, would continue to linger on everything. I had mistaken the absence of longing for its disappearance. No matter how thoroughly I deep-cleaned my life and our relationship, I would still catch the scent of what I thought was gone, leaving me vulnerable to wanting him again. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was when I knew I had to leave — for him, but also for myself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre writes about the destabilizing experience of encountering ourselves through another person’s gaze in “Being and Nothingness.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I see myself because </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">somebody</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> sees me,” wrote Sartre. “The Other is the indispensable mediator between myself and me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My co-worker’s suspicions did not merely re-characterize our friendship; they altered the conditions under which it could exist. The romantic nature of my feelings for him meant that every call and shared moment could become supposed proof of an affair. His sexuality could be questioned, his relationship could be disrespected and my presence could be cast as inherently threatening.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It would have been easier if he had been cruel, or if our friendship had been false. Instead, I had to walk away from something good because it could no longer be good for me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In “The Ethics of Ambiguity,” Simone de Beauvoir argues that loving another person requires recognizing their freedom rather than absorbing them into our own desires. Respecting his freedom meant refusing to let my feelings — or other people’s interpretations of them — define his identity. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To will oneself free is also to will others free,” de Beauvoir wrote. “No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited itself.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet protecting his freedom could not require abandoning my own well-being. I had treated friendship as a perfect antidote to romantic love, but his friendship could only soothe the longing without curing it. No matter how caring he was, he could not resolve a conflict that existed inside me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leaving the friendship was not an admission that the accusations were true. Our friendship was not an affair, nor had he betrayed his girlfriend. It was an acknowledgement that suspicion can cause harm, even when it is unfounded — and that I could not remain where I had to continually contain my feelings while also having to prove my innocence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I left because I cared about him enough to protect his life from that distortion, and about myself enough to stop asking friendship to cure a romantic dissatisfaction that it could only temporarily quiet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes, distance is not how we escape love. Sometimes, it is how that love remains — and how we choose not to let it unravel us.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrew Cardenas is a senior writing about love in all its forms in his column, “No Straight Answers,” which runs every other Wednesday. He is also the DEIA director at the</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Daily Trojan.</span></p>
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<p>Over 100 ghost, witch and monster puppets are showcased in this hour-long “boo-sical.”</p>
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<p>The “Hallowe’en Spooktacular” showcased a collection of over 100 puppets for its annual “boo-sical” geared toward all ages. The show, which runs from Sept. 5 to Nov. 8 in the theater’s Highland Park location, features puppets ranging from trick-or-treaters to aliens and ghosts. Despite being family-friendly, the show can easily be enjoyed by older puppet enthusiasts for a perfect date night or an afternoon with friends.</p>
<p>The Spooktacular included classic Halloween elements, with Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and witches all making an appearance. Ghouls and ghosts dazzled and floated their way around the audience. The puppets all lip-synced to spooky old-timey tracks, and Frankenstein’s monster even pulled off his scalp to reveal the brain underneath. The frightening vibes were perfect for the Halloween season.</p>
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<p>Audience interaction is key in this “boo-sical.” In a segment at the start of the show, the performers encouraged costumed audience members to come onto the stage and dance to the “Monster Mash.” Puppets sat in the laps of children in the front row or hopped around, jump-scaring them. Some front row members seemed like they wanted to jump out of their socks. The louder the audience clapped and cheered, the higher the energy of the performance became.</p>
<p>One seductive black cat puppet winked and flirted with the older audience members. Wearing a pink bow and high heels, she waved a pink handkerchief while singing about the desire to be “bad.” She also put her paws on people’s cheeks and shimmied like a prima donna. For cat lovers out there, it encapsulated the mood of a divalicious cat who only wants attention on her own terms.</p>
<p>This black cat was impressively articulated and was the size of a larger child. This was by far the largest puppet featured in the show, as the other puppets were more doll-sized.</p>
<p>Other similar bits threw a bone to the adults in the room as well, keeping older audience members immersed in the experience and giving them a good chuckle. Dracula told his supernatural sweetheart that she doesn’t look a day over 2,000, while she sang about how she doesn’t care what others are saying about him. It’s a forbidden romance with a dangerous bad boy who can drink one’s heart dry.</p>
<p>Another romantic subplot explored a young witch and her invisible boyfriend; she sang about how she might as well be dancing with the air. College students might be able to relate to this idea, like the mysterious long-distance girlfriend who lives in Canada.</p>
<p>Also flying over youngsters’ heads was the aforementioned flying bed and the ensuing parade of extraterrestrial creatures. The bed seemed like the heaviest set piece in the whole production. This section of the show featured fuzzy green aliens with antennae and long noses — sparking comparisons to Gonzo’s brethren in “Muppets from Space” (1999). Pink and yellow jellyfish aliens graced the stage, puppets that were notably featured in the theater’s Coachella performance.</p>
<p>It was clear that hours of rehearsal and preparation went into the performance. The performers disappeared, and the puppets truly came alive. Each puppet had several moving parts; with some flitting their eyes back and forth mischievously, while others wiggled their arms and legs.</p>
<p>An invisible man puppet even separated all its body parts and glided across the stage, astonishing onlookers. The level of skill required to operate these complex marionettes was one of the most impressive parts of the show.</p>
<p>Some of the most spectacular puppets of the “boo-sical” were found in its Día de los Muertos segment. A neon orange glow-in-the-dark skeleton wearing Crocs and a floral headpiece puppeteered her own little marionette skeleton. Another skeleton mounted a penny-farthing bicycle, riding with no hands nor feet.</p>
<p>The set design and music of the Spooktacular gave the piece a vintage feel. Painterly columns and red curtains framed the stage, adding to the grandeur of the theater. The backgrounds shifted from different painted backdrops to string lights in relatively quick transitions. The music replicated older recordings from the ’60s and ’70s, adding to the nostalgia. Musical interludes highlighted orchestral scores or funky drum beats with zany sound effects.</p>
<p>In classic Bob Baker fashion, the show ended with free ice cream — and dairy-free popsicles — in the parlor. A meet-and-greet with a couple of the puppet performers allowed guests to take photos and interact with puppets from the show.</p>
<p>The Bob Baker Marionette Theater illustrates that physical media and live performance are here to stay. In an age where technology and artificial intelligence are overtaking the art sphere, it is refreshing to see something so full of love and human touch.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Limited hours for resources on campus can undermine students’ personal routines.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both USCard Services and USC Hospitality need to extend their service hours to students to reasonably accommodate their schedules with eating and sleeping. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to all of the services that a USCard can offer are only available to students if they can keep track of a small ID card, which is a task that is harder than it may appear. Many students struggle to balance classes, clubs, internships and a social life, all while learning to live independently, which can lead to mistakes like losing their USCard. This isn’t a rare occurrence — according to a survey by Life360, 19% of college students lose their IDs every year. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only can lockouts from dorms occur because of student error, but they can also happen more sporadically due to cards demagnetizing: If you put your card in contact with strong magnets or even your phone, it can cause the card to demagnetize and lose door access. Ironically, many students keep their card in a wallet magnetized to their phone, which may help them keep track of the ID but still ultimately cause them to be locked out. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The only way to replace or repair your USCard is at the USCard Services office, which operates from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. In the case of being locked out of your room, they recommend you go to your Housing Customer Service Center; however, CSC hours vary based on the building. They are all consistently closed on Sundays, and Saturday hours go no later than 5 p.m., with the majority of buildings’ CSC desks only being open until 2 p.m..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The weekend can be one of the most likely times for students to lose their cards, as they break their weekday routines and get distracted by social gatherings. Additionally, roommates may leave town or have different schedules, limiting their capacity to help when their roommate is locked out. But with limited options at best, students are at a loss to deal with a lack of resources thanks to limited service hours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students suffer further due to USC Hospitality’s limited hours for the campus dining halls. Every first-year student is assigned the Cardinal meal plan and some upperclassmen also elect to have it, meaning a sizable percentage of students rely on dining halls for their meals. After paying $4,219 a semester for the plan, most students want to make the most of their money, yet are victim to the hours of the dining halls. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hours of USC’s dining halls can vary. In general, they are open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. However, on certain nights, dining halls will close early or open late on the weekend for maintenance purposes or events, which can throw off students&#8217; entire eating schedules.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, the hours themselves don’t coincide well with student needs: 8:30 a.m. is a late breakfast time for students with early-morning weekend excursions, forcing them to go hungry. On weekdays, a 10 p.m. closing time can seem reasonable — until you realize that some students have class or work until 10 p.m. or later, meaning they might not be able to eat dinner that night without spending extra money. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Student services are designed to service the students. Right now, the hours of USCard Services and Hospitality are not doing their intended jobs. USC must extend their hours to accommodate the routines of students who rely on their services, for the sake of their well-being and health. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This change will mean some scheduling adjustments for the dining halls and for USCard Services. But this does not have to mean that USC requires longer hours for service workers. Perhaps, with some scheduling adjustments, it could instead create a few more employment positions to alleviate stress on current staff.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although this could be a slight headache for USC to readjust labor costs and work hours, in the end, it would be best for its students. USC’s mission statement says that its “first priority as faculty and staff is the education of our students,” but without the extension of hours protecting students&#8217; food and sleep routines, the University is failing this prioritization. </span></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>USC football’s loss on Saturday was embarrassing, but women’s basketball healed the pain.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC football’s loss on Saturday was embarrassing, but women’s basketball healed the pain.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So why am I harping on the loss still? After all, I did just question </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/16/why-is-it-only-ever-about-football/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">why we only talk about football</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but let’s forget about that and turn to the highlight of my weekend: watching the premiere of a glorious three-headed monster and the return of one of the greatest basketball players ever.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you don’t know what I’m talking about — which you should if you enjoy USC Athletics at all — women’s basketball returned to the court Sunday afternoon in a 78-76 exhibition victory over UC Berkeley. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that three-headed monster is the trio of No. 1 overall recruits from the Classes of 2023, 2025 and 2026: freshman guard Saniyah Hall, sophomore guard </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/02/26/a-facilitator-of-flair-family-and-full-court-effort/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jazzy Davidson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and senior guard JuJu Watkins, respectively. The return of star-on-the-court Watkins after missing the entirety of last season was special, and Galen Center showed out: 4,748 fans came into the arena for an exhibition game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And yes, Watkins was playing. But that many people in the audience for an exhibition game? That’s how you know it’s going to be a good year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was also Hall’s debut, and if it’s even possible to steal the spotlight from Watkins, Hall still found a way. The 18-year-old put up 23 points, one assist and five steals in her first game as a Trojan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And then there’s </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/02/26/a-facilitator-of-flair-family-and-full-court-effort/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Davidson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, returning for her second year after keeping the Trojans afloat in 2025-26. And what did she do? Exactly what she did all of last season: play nearly the entire game, put up 18 points and be a force to be reckoned with defensively.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, with all the star power, how did they only win by two points?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be honest, I’m still questioning that too. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They have all the pieces to win by 30 points, but not quite yet. It’s both an ongoing process and a matter of time before it happens. But when it does, beware.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before the whole world flames them, even with so many stars, this is the first time in a while any of them have not been the definitive best player on the court. On that same note, this is the first time each of them is not their squad’s primary ball handler. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We know about the shooting abilities of the three players — if you didn’t know about Saniyah Hall, now you do — but the playmaking abilities of the trio are also off the charts. The way they can find an open teammate, not only sticking to themselves, is incredible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the team sporting just two seniors, the future for the Trojans is undeniable. But don’t look too far in the future because you’ll miss out on the present. And the present is JuJu Watkins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If all of this doesn’t make you want to run through a brick wall and attend a women’s basketball game, I don’t know what will. I can guarantee that you haven’t seen this much talent on one court together, unless you witnessed the 1992 Dream Team. But they didn’t have junior guard Kennedy Smith, now did they?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So before you drown in your football sorrows like me, lift yourself up and head to Galen Center. Watch greatness before your eyes. Bask in the living legend of Watkins, Davidson and Hall, because something like this may never happen again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you aren’t on the bandwagon now, dance, jump on it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And if you’re not, everyone will know. I don’t know who you are, but I will find you. I promise. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dillon Zamperin is a sophomore writing about USC sports and the bigger picture of it all in his column, “Inside the Lines.” He is also a sports editor at the</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Daily Trojan.</span></p>
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<h6 class="p-rich_text_section">This episode was written and hosted by Greta Corrigan, edited and produced by Fiona Vosper. “Talkin’ Troy” is one of three shows on the <em>Daily Trojan</em> podcast network. You can find more episodes anywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as our website, dailytrojan.com.</h6>
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<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/27/midseason-report-breaking-down-usc-soccer/">Midseason report: Breaking down USC soccer</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina Kremer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<h6 class="p-rich_text_section">This episode was written by Adilene Gomez Santiago and hosted by Tammy Yang and Jay Ghate; edited by Shubhechchha Khadka; produced by Camille Culbertson and Nina Kremer. “Rhythm and News” is one of three shows on the <em>Daily Trojan</em> podcast network. You can find more episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as well as our website, dailytrojan.com.</h6>
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<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/27/what-fxs-adults-reveals-about-gen-z-communication/">What FX’s &#8216;Adults&#8217; reveals about Gen Z communication</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dekle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>USC needs more third spaces that don’t beg for buying a product or solely working.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/27/students-deserve-better-third-spaces/">Students deserve better third spaces</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dailytrojan.com">Daily Trojan</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we tried to plan the same event this year, it took several hours of scheduling and practically begging people to show up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not that USC doesn’t have any common spaces; it’s that nearly every single one has a job. USC Village, for example, is sprawling with restaurants and tables, but it feels like the space asks something from you, like a purchase or an academic reason to be there.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are several places to study, but few spaces built simply for spending time with people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ray Oldenburg coined the term “third place” for spaces outside home and work where people can gather easily, regularly and without much cost – where conversation is the point. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freshman year, third spaces followed you everywhere. You could sit outside on the Parkside International Residential College couches and make several new friends in a single day by doing nothing but talking. Common areas were part of daily life, and running into friends was the default. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, the options mostly come down to USC Village, courtyards in USC dorms and general lounges, all built around academic or expenditure efficiency. In a school that places high importance on the Trojan network, our campus has been built to maximize efficiency, not human connection.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This extends beyond campus and towards Los Angeles as a city. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Built as a car-centric metropolis,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it becomes extremely difficult to find someone by accident, and if you want to go to a third place, it’s hard to find ones accessible without a car. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, found that lower-income neighborhoods have 85% less nearby park space than higher-income ones. USC has historically been in a low-income neighborhood, amplifying this lack of walkability. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC has shown it can invest in shared public space like the Parkside couches or the seating in between Trojan Grounds featuring illy and Everybody’s Kitchen, so it’s fair to ask why that attention doesn’t reach the places non-freshman students actually spend time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While USC clubs are a great outlet to find community on campus, they lack the randomness or casualness third spaces embody. Moreover, it becomes extremely difficult to join certain kinds of clubs, as </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/09/30/campus-club-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">there are several application rounds</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and often experience catered to a specific profession required. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Such interest-focused organizations can create spaces where students engage with those who already share a background, not giving them a place to engage with people with different backgrounds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This defeats the point of being surrounded by thousands of students who are different from us. A third place emerges with no application or shared resume, just through whoever happens to be there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A third space, however curated, can simply emerge on its own. The area outside Leavey Library, Dorothy Grannis Sullivan Terrace, is meant to be an outdoor study spot, but has become a hangout spot regardless. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This suggests that the best space starts with a loose purpose that then lets its users decide its meaning. For one, the terrace may be a place to study when it’s hot, but to another, it’s a place to hang out with friends without having to bring them all into one building.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curated hangout zones risk feeling fake, because you can’t program spontaneity. The best nights of college are the ones not on your calendar and without a dedicated location. This key part of the college experience can only happen if USC builds flexible, multipurpose spaces with no push for purchase or work. </span></p>
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<p>The Trojans took down Iowa in five sets before being swept by Nebraska.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC (9-11, 3-7 Big Ten) came into last week’s two-game stretch facing very different opponents: a fellow bottom-feeder in Iowa (13-11, 2-8) and the most dominant team in the nation, No. 1 Nebraska (21-0, 10-0). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outcomes of both matches were likely expected: The Trojans took down the Hawkeyes in five sets Thursday before being swept in straight sets by the Cornhuskers on Saturday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the split, the Trojans have now won just two of their last nine matches, including being swept four times, as their season-long struggles have continued. Despite a strong offensive showing in its first matchup, USC struggled on that front in the latter match, leading to the sweep. </span></p>
<p><b>Trojans take competitive match over Iowa</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming into Thursday’s match against Iowa, the Trojans had played in two five-set matches — both of which resulted in losses to No. 25 Michigan State (17-3, 7-3) and </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/19/womens-volleyballs-big-ten-struggles-continue-with-pair-of-losses/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ohio State</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (10-10, 3-7). USC was able to reverse this trend against the Hawkeyes, winning 25-20, 25-22, 16-25, 28-30, 15-9. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans were able to take the first two sets of the match thanks to top performances from redshirt junior outside hitter London Wijay and sophomore opposite hitter </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/27/skys-the-limit-for-volleyball-hotshot-abigail-mullen/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abigail Mullen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The two combined for 33 total kills and four aces in the game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In just the first two sets, Wijay tallied nine kills, helping push USC through a back-and-forth first set and fend off an Iowa comeback in the second. Her game-leading 17-point performance is on par with her season totals, as she leads the squad with 210 kills this year. Her two service aces in the match tied her for a team-high and marked her best on the season. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mullen dominated in similar fashion, tying for the second-most kills in the game with 16, while also adding two aces and four blocks. Mullen boasted a season-high 20 points as she continues to be an effective piece for the Trojans, with a team-leading 3.65 points per set. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After going up two sets to none, USC dropped the third set before a nail-biting fourth set. Though the Trojans held a late 23-20 lead, needing just two more points to secure the set and match victory, the Hawkeyes rallied to win it 30-28 and force a winner-take-all fifth set.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fortunately for USC, the fifth set was more favorable, as it was able to take the game with a 15-9 comeback victory. After falling behind 8-4, the Trojans went on an 11-1 run — aided by four total kills from Wijay and Mullen — to clinch the match victory.  </span></p>
<p><b>Nebraska rolls USC in sweep</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming off the gutsy road victory in Coralville, Iowa, USC felt some momentum heading into its next match, despite the opponent ahead. While an upset seemed unlikely against the top-ranked Nebraska, the Trojans had overcome the odds before, most recently pulling off a sweep of No. 19 Indiana (12-7, 5-5) less than two weeks prior. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cornhuskers have cruised through the season to this point, taking down every opponent in their undefeated campaign and losing just four sets total in the process. Their matchup Saturday was no different, as USC was swept, 25-12, 25-16, 25-13, while being dominated in almost every facet of the game. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans totaled just 28 points through the match — their lowest mark in a game this season. Nebraska controlled every category convincingly, including hitting percentage, kills, aces, blocks, assists and digs, showing its completeness as a team. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC held the lead for just one point throughout the entire match, and no Trojan had more than seven kills. Wijay and Mullen, who dominated the previous match, struggled mightily, combining for just 10 kills between the two while averaging a .042 hitting percentage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the few bright spots for the Trojans was redshirt junior middle blocker Leah Ford, who led the team with seven kills and two blocks. Ford also boasted a .462 hitting percentage — the highest of any USC player in the match. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The two-game stretch was a true mixed bag for the Trojans, as they reached both their highest point total in a match, 81, with the win over Iowa, while following up with their lowest total against Nebraska. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With less than a month left in the regular season, USC will have to turn things around quickly if it hopes to rechart its course and sneak into the NCAA Tournament. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans will return to Galen Center to face Wisconsin (14-6, 8-2) Friday at 7 p.m. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grand Avenue stands as the arts and culture powerhouse of L.A., housing some of the world’s most prestigious and impactful institutions across visual, performing and educational arts. Such organizations include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Broad and The Music Center. Celebrating its 10th anniversary Saturday, Grand Ave Arts: All Access brought together more than 14 organizations along the avenue for a day of interactive entertainment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We have performances on the stage at Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center. You can go into the [Museum of Contemporary Art] or the Broad museums if you&#8217;ve never been,” said Lisa Ducore, assistant vice president of marketing and brand communications at The Music Center. “There&#8217;s an opportunity to experience all the different art forms along Grand Avenue.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The event along Grand Avenue combined the voices of each art institution into one center for community interaction, including Gloria Molina Grand Park, where families and parkgoers participated in a celebration of music, culture and remembrance in preparation for Día de los Muertos. For some attendees, the festivities in the park felt close to home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Gloria Molina was my mother, and we put together an altar for her every year,” Valentina Martinez said on Saturday. “We are remembering her legacy through this beautiful park every day. … It warms my heart to know that her name is on this park and that people would keep her legacy alive.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further down Grand Avenue at Colburn School, performing arts students and staff across music, theater and dance hosted hands-on opportunities for attendees to explore arts education. Programming included “Conduct Us,” a collaborative performance tucked away in Colburn Plaza where attendees got the chance to lead a live orchestra of Colburn students.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Music making is something which brings us all together,” said Mert Yalniz, a student at Colburn who led the performance. “We sometimes forget what we do and why we do it, and these kinds of tiny gigs and scenarios where we can connect to the community make us connected to the world again and give us purpose again for why we’re doing this.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those who attended Grand Ave Arts: All Access, the arts showcase meant more than just an opportunity to explore diverse art and culture; it was a place to connect with fellow Angelenos.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The biggest thing is really just connection,&#8221; attendee Jordan Hunter said. “There’s so many little bubbles [in L.A.], and when you don&#8217;t really get outside of your bubble, you can have a lot of notions about what L.A. is and what Angelenos are. But being able to be in a public space like this with other Angelenos makes you feel more connected to [the] community.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Saturday’s event marking Grand Ave Arts: All Access’ 10th year opening its institutions to the public, the communities invested in the event’s continued success hope it will solidify Grand Avenue as a cultural corridor into the art and soul of L.A.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our hope is that we can close down Grand Avenue and have this one-day festival where there’s stuff happening in the streets as well as in the buildings, activating with the stage and food,” Ducore said. “While this is a fabulous festival, that would really give it that feeling because you’d feel like you’re in a space, and that’s what we’re aiming for.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ducore said she hopes the event will continue to be an outlet for L.A. to express its creativity and introduce attendees to an aspect of L.A. culture and of themselves they didn’t know could be unlocked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The arts are for everybody, and this is an opportunity for people to explore and feel a sense of belonging,” Ducore said. “It can be intimidating to go into a museum or to go see an opera, and this is a good way to sample it and say, ‘Hey, I really like that. Now I feel confident coming back.’ People should keep an open mind and take this as an opportunity to explore and really see what happens on their artistic side.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The No. 3 Trojans (14-3, 1-2 MPSF) responded with a 21-8 victory over the Falcons (16-13, 0-3 West Coast Conference) at Uytengsu Aquatics Center, allowing two first-half goals to finish their regular-season home schedule with a 6-2 record.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eleven Trojans found the back of the cage as USC built an early advantage and maintained control throughout the afternoon. Sophomore 2-meter Strahinja Krstic led USC with five goals, while senior utility Luke Nelson added three.</span></p>
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<p><b>Defense responds after rivalry loss</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s preparation centered on addressing the defensive problems exposed in its </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/19/mens-water-polo-falls-to-the-bruins/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">15-9 loss to No. 1 UCLA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (17-1, 2-1 MPSF). Against Air Force, that work began to show before halftime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our defense was one of the main things that we put an emphasis on in training this past week,” Nelson said in a postgame interview with the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Trojan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Obviously, [after] conceding more goals than we wanted to against UCLA, that’s been our main goal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Redshirt junior goalkeeper Charles Mills directed the defense from the cage, calling for an all-out press as USC worked to limit the Falcons’ opportunities. The Trojans allowed just one goal in each of the first two quarters, giving their offense time to establish a comfortable lead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After an Air Force goal early in the second quarter narrowed the score to 5-2, USC answered with six consecutive goals to enter halftime ahead 11-2. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans finished with 18 steals to the Falcons’ five while doubling Air Force’s shot total, 42-21. USC also won all four sprints, securing the opening possession in every quarter. For Krstic, the response to the UCLA loss started with the team’s intensity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I wanted to see improved effort,” Krstic said in a postgame interview with the <em>Daily Trojan</em>. “Losing to UCLA at our pool by six goals is an effort thing more than anything.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC’s challenge was sustaining that focus against an unfamiliar opponent. Nelson pointed to Air Force’s picks and trick plays as elements that required attention, particularly with limited experience against the Falcons. The last time USC played them was in 2018.</span></p>
<p><b>Krstic, Nelson lead balanced attack</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While defense was the Trojans’ priority, their offense provided plenty of support. Krstic scored twice before halftime and added three goals in the third quarter, helping the Trojans maintain their lead as Air Force began finding more scoring opportunities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nelson contributed two third-quarter goals after scoring from the wing in the opening period. Together, he and Krstic accounted for eight of USC’s 21 goals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the season, Krstic has been a star shooter, contributing 47 total goals so far and becoming a threat for other teams to watch out for. Nelson has contributed a total of 29 goals this season and a sprint record of 7-4. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trojans also generated offense through passing and movement. Mills assisted sophomore driver Efe Naipoglu and senior driver </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/08/robert-lopez-duart-brings-vigor-and-drive-to-water-polo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert López Duart</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on first-quarter drives inside, finding opportunities on both sides of the cage. Mills protected the cage the first half, and later was replaced by junior goalkeeper Nemo Pavoggi for the second half of play.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six different Trojans scored during the second-quarter run that separated the teams, helping  USC build its lead without depending on one single scorer. Still, Nelson emphasized that offensive success also depended on how well USC prepared to defend the next possession.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We definitely have a great offense, but again, we need to work on controlling our defense from our offense and taking smart shots,” Nelson said. “We did a much better job of that [in] this game.”</span></p>
<p><b>Conference road trip tests USC’s progress</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the decisive result, the second half left USC with areas to improve on. Air Force scored four goals in the third quarter, matching its total from the other three periods combined.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the Trojans answered with seven goals in the third, maintaining their cushion, the defensive improvement remains a work in progress.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will return to conference play with consecutive road games against No. 2 Stanford (15-2, 2-1 MPSF) and No. 4 UC Berkeley (12-4, 12-12 MPSF). The Trojans lost 16-12 to Stanford and defeated Cal 15-14 in a sudden-death victory during their </span><a href="https://dailytrojan.com/2026/10/06/usc-mens-water-polo-splits-tough-weekend-matches/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">October home </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">matchups</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The upcoming weekend will offer a tougher measure of whether Saturday’s defensive adjustments can carry over against stronger conference opponents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USC will begin this stretch against Stanford on Saturday at Avery Aquatic Center at 1 p.m.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new office will house the foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Lab.</span></p>
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<p>The Goldrich Family Center, named for Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich, will house the foundation’s CEO office, its Countering Antisemitism Lab, and art and testimony exhibitions.</p>
<p>The center sits one block away from Embassy Row. Most of the foundation’s staff will remain in Los Angeles, where a team of 60 to 70 people focuses on its archive, education and preservation work. The Washington, D.C., operation will grow to 25 to 30 people at its peak, said Robert Williams, CEO and Finci-Viterbi chair of the USC Shoah Foundation.</p>
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<p>“USC’s presence in Washington, D.C., is sorely needed, and I think it’s already reaping some positive benefit,” Williams said.</p>
<p>USC students can apply for internships and work-study positions with the foundation, including remote roles from L.A. supporting the Washington, D.C., team. Graduate students can apply for the Epstein Family D.C. Campus Graduate Fellowship, which supports Ph.D. candidates researching antisemitism.</p>
<p>Williams praised the campus for “building community ties” with think tanks, law firms and Capitol Hill, creating opportunities for local leaders to learn more about USC’s work.</p>
<p>Most of the foundation’s staff will remain in L.A. at its headquarters in Leavey Library. That team focuses on the foundation’s archive, education and preservation work. Jenna Leventhal, the foundation’s chief operating officer, said the Washington office will focus on countering contemporary antisemitism, along with government relations and board constituent affairs.</p>
<p>“We are one team, and we just have two homes now,” Leventhal said.</p>
<p>The Countering Antisemitism Lab was launched two years ago. Brian Hughes, the lab’s director, described it as “an applied research lab that develops evidence-based methods for preventing the spread of antisemitism and reducing antisemitism where it already exists.”</p>
<p>“Being based in Washington, D.C., gives us great access to policymakers and foreign governments, who are there through their embassies,” Hughes said. “We can’t have good policy if our policy is not based on provable evidence.”</p>
<p>Williams said Holocaust education, remembrance and research are at a “tipping point.”</p>
<p>“[It has been] more than eight decades since the end of the Holocaust,” Williams said. “There are, today, fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors still alive.”</p>
<p>Williams said the survivor generation is disappearing as postwar institutions are declining. Such institutions include the United Nations and international agreements such as the Genocide Convention and the Refugee Convention, which were established partly in response to the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Williams also pointed to declining Holocaust education and awareness, as well as governments and public intellectuals misusing the Holocaust for their own purposes.</p>
<p>“The Holocaust, in order to be maintained as a common grounding for our society, really needs stronger engagement at the political level,” Williams said.</p>
<p>The lab is running a nationwide survey of Americans aged 13 and older about antisemitism and Holocaust distortion to help inform policy decisions. It is also developing 30- to 90-second videos to help viewers recognize and resist propaganda using a method called “prebunking,” which trains viewers to recognize such tactics, Hughes said.</p>
<p>Debunking, by contrast, addresses misinformation after it has spread. Hughes said the “prebunking” approach works best on people who are already open to evidence of antisemitism.</p>
<p>Williams has spent about 20 years advising governments on responding to antisemitism, work he said often amounted to pointing out problems on paper.</p>
<p>“It’s one thing for me to point out an issue and say, ‘That’s antisemitism, fix it,’” Williams said. “But it&#8217;s something else if you’ve actually experienced that form of hatred.”</p>
<p>When the foundation began building out the fifth floor of the Capital Campus about a year ago, it had outside walls but nothing inside, Leventhal said. Starting from scratch, the team planned the space around its programs. A gift from the Goldrich Family Foundation supported the buildout.</p>
<p>In a statement to the <em>Daily Trojan</em>, Melinda Goldrich, the foundation’s president and chair of the USC Shoah Foundation’s board, wrote that the center is a legacy for her family.</p>
<p>“The testimony my father gave in 1995 for the Shoah Foundation was the first time I ever really heard the details of his story, so I feel that 30 years later this is coming full circle,” the statement read.</p>
<p>The center’s exhibitions include photographs Roman Vishniac took in the 1930s of prewar Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. The photographs are paired with testimonies from the foundation&#8217;s archive that expand on what each image shows. The center also displays “We Are One Humanity,” a light installation by artist Nicola Anthony inspired by Jona Goldrich’s words. Exhibitions are open to the public by appointment only.</p>
<p>Williams said he hopes to involve students who speak foreign languages in projects involving Holocaust history and diplomacy in Europe, such as rising tensions between Poland and Ukraine.</p>
<p>“Because it was an international act of genocide by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, [the Holocaust] should be something that can bring communities, bring nations together,” Williams said.</p>
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