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Feb 7, 2025 | 
dailytrojan.com | Justin Ha |David Rendon
Student Health is partnering with the Undergraduate Student Government and Graduate Student Government to fund free sexually transmitted infection testing starting next week, Chief Campus Health Officer Dr. Sarah Van Orman said in a briefing with campus media Tuesday morning. From Feb. 10 to April 5, students will be able to receive STI testing from Student Health without requiring insurance or out-of-pocket costs. Student Health will provide tests for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dailytrojan.com | Justin Ha |David Rendon
The Undergraduate Student Government president and chief diversity officer reported their ongoing and upcoming projects Tuesday night during the first senate meeting of the spring semester. President Brianna Sánchez gave her first report since being sworn in last December. During her report, Sánchez highlighted the USG donation drive to support those impacted by the multiple active and inactive Los Angeles wildfires, which began Jan. 9. The donation drive — which will run from Jan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
uwire.com | Justin Ha
.flex_cell.av-1l7ptjat-cf6dd90ba4d46ade6197c2633970acae{vertical-align:top;}The Undergraduate Student Government president and chief diversity officer reported their ongoing and upcoming projects Tuesday night during the first senate meeting of the spring semester. President Brianna Sánchez gave her first report since being sworn in last December.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Alexandra T. Evans |Justin Ha |Wesley WL Chen |Andie Kirby
USC Lambda Chi Alpha held a vigil Monday to honor sophomore member Soren Dixon, who was killed in a car crash over the holiday break. Dixon, also a member of the USC men’s club lacrosse team, made a lasting impression at USC, said his professors Laura Castañeda and Caroline Cicero. Castañeda, a professor at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, shared a story of Dixon excelling in her and Cicero’s course, Aging and the Media, when interviewing two of his grandmothers on Zoom.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Justin Ha |Christina Chkarboul
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, a national watchdog animal rights organization, filed a federal complaint for $114,000 against USC Oct. 30 after the United States Department of Agriculture found University researchers violated multiple federal codes that resulted in the euthanization of three rabbits.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Justin Ha |Lindsay Augustine |David Rendon |John Millsap
With the presidential election looming, many Angelenos are excited to vote, but some haven’t thought about the important races happening down the ballot – their local elections. According to Pew Research, about 66% of Americans voted in the last presidential election, but a 2015 Carnegie study found that only 15% voted in municipal elections. This year, Los Angeles residents will vote to elect new members to the City Council, the school board and the District Attorney’s office.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Justin Ha |Christina Chkarboul
While some may be celebrating the upcoming USC Discovery and Translational Hub, a proposed seven-story, multi-disciplinary research facility on the Health Sciences Campus, Pamela Agustin-Anguiano, the director of the Eastside Leadership for Equitable and Accountable Development Strategies, has been fighting for “community benefit concessions” for the last year.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Justin Ha |Bianca Arzán-Montañez
Mechanical engineering students at the Viterbi School of Engineering lost access to Siemens NX, a computer-aided design program, Sept. 1 due to a software licensing issue, forcing some professors to cancel class meetings and disrupting student design projects. CAD software, such as NX, is used to design and test 3D models and is commonly used in mechanical engineering courses and several student design projects.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Justin Ha
Former USC running back Reggie Bush is suing USC, the Pac-12 and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for using his name, image and likeness without compensation, his legal team said Monday. In the filing, Bush’s attorneys claim all three organizations received the benefits from television contracts, merchandise sales and media rights linked to the Heisman winner’s football career, according to CBS Sports.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Nicholas Corral |Justin Ha |Christina Chkarboul
On Saturday night, Bella Yadegar, a freshman majoring in artificial intelligence for business, discovered that her mezuzah — a parchment inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah — was missing from its usual spot on her doorway at New North Residential College. After searching around the hallway, she found it by the exit. On her doorway was a portion of the adhesive remnant. The mezuzah traditionally signifies a Jewish household and is a reminder of God’s presence in the home.
