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10/02/2026

Meet the students topping the Legion Pass leaderboard — earning points, climbing ranks and redefining what it means to be a Trojan fan.

📸 courtesy of Aaron Oshawa, Grace Tehaney / USC El Rodeo 
🎥 Anvi Mahajan, Abhijeeth Nair

USC Sustainability hosted a stall at the Trojan Farmers Market on Wednesday to spread awareness about waste management a...
10/01/2026

USC Sustainability hosted a stall at the Trojan Farmers Market on Wednesday to spread awareness about waste management and campus recycling.

As part of its Green Week series, USC Sustainability also hosts Mend-It Monday, Tune-Up Tuesday and other events relating to sustainability and ways to practice it.

At another corner of the McCarthy Quad, USC Surplus Sales hosted a pop-up alongside USC Sustainability, for students and staff alike.

“So what Surplus Sales is as a whole, is we gather a bunch of different items from across the campus, whether it be donations from students, donations from departments, and it’s a way for us to redirect those items away from landfill and provide them back to the community at more bargain prices,” said Calvin Holmes, Director of Mailing and Material Management Services.

Read more at the link in bio.

📝Ish*ta Pandey & Nova Wang
📸Nova Wang

Inside the Doheny Library, the University of Southern California’s Korean Heritage Library (KHL) commemorated its 40th a...
10/01/2026

Inside the Doheny Library, the University of Southern California’s Korean Heritage Library (KHL) commemorated its 40th anniversary bringing USC students into the festivities on Friday, Sept. 25.

During the celebration, Jungeun Hong, a librarian at KHL, said the 40-year milestone was an opportunity to honor the collective commitment to share and preserve Korean heritage history.

According to the library, more than 100 collection donors, library supporters, scholars, alumni, faculty and students gathered under the theme of “Looking Back, Moving Forward” to celebrate the library’s accomplishments and look toward its future.

“KHL has grown through decades of community support and generosity. The librarians, staff, collection donors and community members, have all helped make the library what it is today,” Hong said.

This library collection started in 1986 with a small batch of Korean-language materials. Now, it holds one of the largest collections of Korean American history materials in the United States.

Read more at the link in bio.

📝Isabella Torrado Arevalo and Ish*ta Pandey
📸Photo courtesy of the Korean Heritage Library

David Madigan will replace Andrew Guzman as USC provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, the universit...
09/30/2026

David Madigan will replace Andrew Guzman as USC provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, the university announced Wednesday morning. Madigan will also be a professor of data sciences and operations at USC Marshall, and will hold joint appointments in departments at Keck and Dornsife.

Madigan comes to USC from Northeastern University, where he was a professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and special advisor to the president. From June 2020 to June 2025 he served as the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

In an email to the USC community on May 19, President Beong-Soo Kim announced that Provost Guzman intended to step down from his role “in order to return to the faculty at the USC Gould School of Law.” Guzman was appointed in July 2023 under former president Carol Folt. 

Madigan will assume the position on Oct. 13, according to a press release from the university.

“What I hope is that working very closely with President Kim and with leadership, and faculty, and staff and so on in general, that we can restore … the faith of the American people in higher education by being a kind of a shining example by doubling down on excellence and quality,” Madigan said in a joint interview with Annenberg Media and the Daily Trojan. 

Madigan said USC’s ability to change and grow is one of the things that drew him to the university. He said he values transparency greatly, especially when it comes to finances, citing President Kim’s efforts in that area.

“I never shy away from talking about it and being transparent about it because you know we all need to know where is the money coming from and how are we using it, and how can we use it better, and how can we generate more of it,” Madigan said.

Read more at the link in bio.

📝 Katherine Contreras Hernandez, Scott Hills
📸 Courtesy of Northeastern University

The alleged 2024 Cornell gang r**e case is raising questions at USC about transparency and accountability in wider campu...
09/30/2026

The alleged 2024 Cornell gang r**e case is raising questions at USC about transparency and accountability in wider campus investigations.

Just last week, USC DPS released its annual security report. According to the report, in 2025 there were a combined total of 10 reports of r**e cases that occurred on USC campus within their record; this does not include fondling or statutory r**e cases. These reports represent a general decrease in reported on-campus r**e on record in comparison to the years prior, with 2022 having a high of 26 cases.

Questions about the delayed disclosure in sexual-assault cases have also emerged at USC. In 2021, USC also acknowledged a “troubling delay” in notifying the campus about multiple reports of possible drugging and sexual assault connected to fraternities.

📝 Vicente Javier Cruz, Violetta Fajardo, and Leilani Powell
📸 Photo courtesy of WikiCommons

USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medic...
09/24/2026

USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medicine to Annenberg Media. Under the contract, USC previously sold dead bodies to the U.S. Navy that were used to train Israeli military medical personnel for over five years. 

In the statement, the Keck School of Medicine wrote that it is not ending the contract because of recent protests, rather because University of California San Diego said it would no longer provide bodies for the program. 

A spokesperson from the University of California Health Communications team wrote to Annenberg Media that the school decided to stop supplying bodies to USC’s program due to the surgical skills laboratory not meeting UC standards. 

Students have actively opposed the cadaver contracts for months, including students at the Keck School of Medicine. The students who sent a letter to Keck Dean Carolyn C. Meltzer in April said that Keck previously refused to host a town hall over the cadaver contracts. 

In a statement to Annenberg Media, a Keck medicine student who requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation said that there is much still unknown about why the contract was ended, as well as concern for the Keck School of Medicine’s justification. 

“Considering the tone of the announcement, it seems this was not a change in conscience on the part of USC,” the statement read. “Still, I am glad that the anatomical gift programs at UCSD and USC will not provide bodies from individuals who did not consent to their use in military training. Hopefully, this means that our training infrastructure will no longer be used by those who are complicit or active participants in genocide.”

Read more at the link in bio. 

📝Jackson Mills
📸 Slide one by Ling Luo; Slide three and four by Omar Mejia

The sold-out Oregon-USC football game isn’t the only thing happening on campus Saturday. California-based brand, Ryoko R...
09/24/2026

The sold-out Oregon-USC football game isn’t the only thing happening on campus Saturday. California-based brand, Ryoko Rain, is hosting a pop-up event in collaboration with the USC Bookstore featuring streetwear-inspired clothing that will only be available on Sept. 26 at 9 a.m.

Founded by former college athlete Garrett James in 2021, the collaboration focuses on athletic, creative styles that combine fashion and sports.

“This partnership with USC was about blending vintage Los Angeles culture with what makes the campus so iconic to create something genuinely special for the community and fanbase,” said James in a USC Media Relations release.

The brand will offer eight new products outside the bookstore. According to Darren James, executive director of auxiliary services at the USC Bookstore, the collaboration is intended to be a one-time product drop while supplies last.

Read more at the link in our bio.

📝 Milana Gallette
📸 Milana Gallette

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Guess, the apparel brand, collaborated with SunLife Organics, the juice and smoothie bar, to giv...
09/24/2026

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Guess, the apparel brand, collaborated with SunLife Organics, the juice and smoothie bar, to give out free smoothies and tote bags to students at the farmers market on McCarthy Quad.

According to Ivy Tam, the director of public relations at Guess, the USC farmer’s market is just the first stop on its Guess Campus Tour.

The partnership with SunLife Organics played a pivotal role in the event’s success.

“We wanted to really just support local vendors, especially [since] SunLife here on campus…with every location we try to tie it with one of the local vendors to support,” Tam said.

Read more at link in bio.

📝 Brenda Sanchez
📸 Brenda Sanchez

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan will become director of the USC Center for the Political Future in January, according ...
09/22/2026

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan will become director of the USC Center for the Political Future in January, according to a press release from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Peters will also serve as the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Endowed Chair in Practical Politics, according to Dornsife. Both positions are currently held by founding director Robert Shrum, who is retiring at the end of the year, according to Dornsife. Peters will work alongside Republican strategist and current co-director Mike Murphy.

CPF aims to foster civil dialogue across the political spectrum and is believed to be the only university political center in the country that is led by both a Democrat and a Republican, according to Dornsife.

“I see this as a capstone to my years in public service and an opportunity to help prepare the next generation to take the reins,” Peters said in a statement. “CPF has done a terrific job bringing people with different perspectives together. I’m excited to build on Bob Shrum’s accomplishments and work with Mike Murphy to encourage more young people to get involved in our democracy and show that people who disagree can still find common ground and get things done.”

📝Nina Kremer
📸Michael Bennett Kress

USC is the fourth most expensive university in the nation, according to a Princeton Review survey.The total cost of atte...
09/16/2026

USC is the fourth most expensive university in the nation, according to a Princeton Review survey.

The total cost of attending USC stands at over $103,000 for the 2026-27 academic year, including tuition, housing, books, transportation and fees, a Washington Post analysis found.

Out of the top 20 most expensive universities, USC’s need-based scholarships and grants average just over $50,000 per person, the fourth lowest amount of need-based scholarship and grant money provided to students on average.

📝 Anastasia Van Batenburg
📸 Michelle Cisneros

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