Daphne Yaman

Feb 24, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Daphne Yaman

IRMO, S.C. — Barry Boyett is a self-described hillbilly from Alabama. He dons blue jeans and what appears to be a homemade yellow T-shirt with “You can do it Nikki !!” printed on the back. His long white hair is tied in a loose ponytail at the nape of his neck, and he shoulders a proportionately large walking stick as he stands at the edge of the Nikki Haley rally he has just attended at Irmo Town Park. “I always go for whoever’s the best person,” Boyett proclaims.

Feb 14, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Lyla Bhalla-Ladd |Peter Makk |Myriam Alcala |Daphne Yaman

My dreams kept me in bed longer than usual, so I sleep in. The sun is shining in Paris, and I think of you. I’ll have a small breakfast and plan for a brisk walk to school. It’s still cold enough to wear my trench coat, my local-passing uniform. Donning a pink bow in my hair, I play coy and pet my flowers before I leave. I have today to finish a midterm for my art history course, so I camp out in a café before my classes and try to write. I’m distracted.

Nov 11, 2023 | glimpsefromtheglobe.com | Daphne Yaman

The Israel-Palestine conflict — although I try to refrain from calling it a “conflict,” as “genocide” is a far more adequate term — is not a religious issue. If the roles were reversed, and it was an oppressive Muslim nation attacking a smaller, weaker Jewish nation, I would stand in solidarity with those oppressed Jewish peoples.

Oct 2, 2023 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Daphne Yaman

Judah Adkins had an upbringing that sets him apart from many of his USC peers. He’s from Las Vegas and was raised by a single father. He was homeschooled his entire life. He’s Black and Hispanic and from a low-income background — but for the past two years, he’s found his community at the University of Southern California. A cinema and media studies major, Adkins enjoys both the academic and social prestige that the university boasts.

Jul 8, 2023 | dailytrojan.com | Daphne Yaman

Christina Chkarboul – associate managing editorThe Daily Trojan has called our corner room on the fourth floor of the Student Union home for at least 60 years. The computers we use to make the layout of our “daily miracle” have changed, the messy inscriptions on our white boards have been erased and rewritten countless times, and generations of Trojans who love writing, creating and serving as USC’s voice have walked in and out of the newsroom’s doors.