USC

USC ROTC Enrollment More Than Doubles

By Jeff Greer - The Paper Trail - October 22, 2009

Some attribute uptick in ROTC enrollment to economic troubles. more >>

USC Football Player Awake and Communicating After Surgery

By Jeff Greer - The Paper Trail - September 30, 2009

Stafon Johnson crushed his larynx in a weightlifting accident but is now in stable condition. more >>

USC Outsources Off-Campus Security

By Jeff Greer - The Paper Trail - August 25, 2009

To help students feel safer, USC contracts security officers to stand guard. more >>

University of Southern California and the Engineering Rankings

By Robert Morse - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings - June 11, 2009

There's been a change in the information USC originally sent for the best grad rankings. more >>

Joe Paterno's Glasses Stolen

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - January 5, 2009

They didn't belong to the real Jo Pa but instead to a statue that sits near Penn State's stadium. more >>

Southern California Hit by Norovirus

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - October 6, 2008

At least 130 students fall ill with severe gastrointestinal illness. more >>

USC Football Fans Can Text Their Food Orders

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - September 23, 2008

Message sent by university is short on details. more >>

Religious Texts Taken Down After Complaints

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - September 5, 2008

Southern Cal provost removes historical scriptures from student group's website. more >>

USC Trumps USC in Legal Battle

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - August 11, 2008

Southern California wins trademark lawsuit over South Carolina. more >>

Armenian Memorial at USC Damaged by Vandals

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - April 24, 2008

Two people stomped on the display's fact sheets and flowers. more >>

Antiwar Protest Causes Mild Ruckus

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - February 13, 2008

UC-Santa Barbara event prompts a "human barrier" and a counterprotest. more >>

Condom Vending Machines Up for Debate

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - January 29, 2008

"A negative image of our university to families, friends, and prospective students." more >>

USC's Right to Party vs. LAPD Riot Control

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - January 28, 2008

Not exactly the Rodney King L.A. riots, but drunk University of Southern California students staged a 100-person "sit-in" at a rowdy block party. more >>

Trail Mix: The Student Government Shenanigans Edition

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - December 5, 2007

Student Government presidents get into some trouble West Virginia University, the University of Southern California, and at Princeton more >>

Why the Bomb Squad Hates Halloween

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - October 30, 2007

A suicide bomber costume causes police to shut down a Southern Cal shopping center. more >>

Stanford Celebrates USC Upset, but Team Is Still Not Above .500

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - October 9, 2007

A heroes' welcome greeted Stanford football players in Palo Alto as they returned from their upset victory over No. 1-ranked USC. more >>

A Morbid Protesting Trend?

By Alison Go - The Paper Trail - September 17, 2007

More than 1,000 miles from the massive antiwar protest on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, around 30 University of Nebraska students staged their own die-in protest—lyingstill on the ground—as football fans streamed into the much-hyped, nationally televised Nebraska-University of Southern California game Saturday. more >>

18 College Papers Condemn USC's Ousting of Daily Trojan Editor

The Paper Trail - December 6, 2006

"Practicing journalism with strings attached isn't really practicing journalism at all," a group of 18 college newspapers declared yesterday, protesting the University of Southern California's move to block the student paper's editor-in-chief from continuing to serve next semester. In an editorial published first in the Daily Trojan and 17 other papers yesterday, the students condemn USC's administration for censorship that "diminishes the role of student journalists across the nation. more >>

Daily Trojan Editor Resigns Under Pressure

The Paper Trail - November 29, 2006

After they're elected by their staff, editors in chief of the University of Southern California's Daily Trojan must also receive the recommendation of the school's vice president of student affairs. In the paper's history, no student has ever been denied--until now, reports the Daily Trojan. more >>

Honorable Mentions: Just Like Voting as a Friend

The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006

George Washington University students care—but their attention was less on CNN than it was on a fist-to-fist jousting match between the campus presidents of the College Democrats and the College Republicans. The Ball State University Daily News manages to find some students who really care, a whole, whole lot. more >>