A University of Southern California student will not be charged in the fatal stabbing of a car burglary suspect near campus, prosecutors said Thursday. Ivan Gallegos, 19, of Los Angeles, was booked into jail on suspicion of murder early Tuesday and held on $2 million bail following the attack Monday night, police said. The victim, […]
A 19-year-old business student at the University of Southern California who was arrested on suspicion of murder in the fatal stabbing of a burglary suspect on USC’s Greek Row in Los Angeles Monday night has been identified. The incident was reported around 8:15 p.m. in the 700 block of West 28th Street in the University Park […]
A 19-year-old University of Southern California student was in jail Tuesday after police accused him of murdering a man suspected of breaking into cars near campus, authorities said. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene after they responded alongside officers to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon […]
This article was originally published in South Carolina Daily Gazette. COLUMBIA — In the tampon aisle of a CVS in rural Clarendon County, a sign read “This item is in high demand” and limited purchases to two boxes per customer. It was this encounter with “period poverty,” defined as a lack of access to menstrual […]
A man has been accused of stealing banners hung in downtown Columbia celebrating the USC women’s basketball team’s national championship, police said. Jamie Evans Jennings, 46, was charged after Columbia police recognized him on downtown surveillance cameras that captured the thefts, police. said. The banners have not been recovered, a spokesperson for the police department […]
The crowd inside USC’s Galen Center erupted in a prolonged symphony of applause Friday as Asna Tabassum — the Muslim valedictorian whose speech was canceled by university leaders amid controversy over her pro-Palestinian views — walked across the stage to accept her diploma during the Viterbi School of Engineering graduation ceremony. Tabassum’s entire biomedical engineering class, along […]
Throughout the past week, college campuses across the U.S. have been filled with protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which has endured for over 200 days. It started on April 17, when protesters started an encampment at Columbia University to show their support for Palestinians. University president Minouche Shafik asked the New York Police Department to […]
he Supreme Court hears Donald Trump‘s presidential immunity case. Students are arrested at protests against the Gaza war in Texas and California. And what to watch for in tonight’s NFL Draft. Here’s what to know today. SCOTUS takes on a novel legal question: Trump’s presidential immunity claim Tackling an unprecedented and politically fraught issue, the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California has canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian, a Muslim student who has expressed support for Palestinians, citing “substantial” security risks for the event that draws 65,000 people to campus. Andrew T. Guzman, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs for the private university […]
University of Southern California canceled the commencement address of valedictorian Asna Tabassum on Monday in the wake of complaints and petitions accusing the biomedical engineering senior of antisemitism. Provost Andrew T. Guzman announced the school’s decision in a community-wide notice on Monday, writing, “When tensions are running so high across the world, we must prioritize […]
A social weekend that had been planned for months in New Orleans by a University of South Carolina fraternity turned tragic Friday when a bus carrying fraternity members and their dates crashed on an interstate in southern Mississippi. Five to six busloads from USC’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity were on their way to the Crescent […]
The University of South Carolina issued the following statement Friday night in response to a bus crash in Mississippi that involve members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. “The University of South Carolina was informed tonight of an accident in Mississippi involving a charter bus carrying USC fraternity members and their guests traveling to an […]