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1 month ago | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons |Hali Mecklin
USC announced major budget cuts and hiring freezes Monday, citing federal funding uncertainty and increased costs. The university announced the financial cutbacks in an email, which include a hiring freeze to nearly all staff positions, “significantly restricted” faculty hiring, an end to extended staff winter break and a pause on merit raises.
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May 28, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons
Down the center of the Stanford Avalon Community Garden rows and rows of dark green herbs, expansive heads of lettuce, prickly cacti and crisp cabbage lay neatly in line. These colorful vegetables stood out against their asphalt surroundings. To the right and left, cars with revved engines buzz by. Overhead, city power lines towered high in a cloudy sky as their bulky transmission towers stood only a few feet away.
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May 28, 2024 | 
cityfarmer.info | Katie Simons |Michael Levenston
1 in 4 Angelenos live in a food desert with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables, so community organizations have taken to building inner city gardens to remedy the produce problemBy Katie SimonsUSC AnnenbergMay 28, 2024Excerpt:Cushioned in between houses, busy streets and power lines, 180 garden plots stretch across eleven blocks throughout the USDA-classified food desert of the Watts.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons
A swastika drawing was discovered on a USC fencepost outside on Exposition Blvd., outside of a campus that is currently only available to students, staff and registered guests. The image was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “To see this unambiguous symbol of Jewish hatred on our campus is deeply distressing. There is no such place for such hostility and hate at USC,” USC Hillel said in a statement.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons |Tamara Almoayed |Aditya Thiyag
Student groups were left displaced and scrambling over the weekend when USC administration revoked all event permits for on-campus functions, including end-of-semester celebrations and performances, amid campus unrest. This came just as a citywide tactical alert was issued by LAPD Saturday from 6:30 to 11 p.m. in response to USC Divest From Death Coalition’s ongoing encampment, as reported by City News Service.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons |Jennifer Nehrer
At the USC Religious Center, five former members of the Advisory Committee on Muslim Life took to the podium to explain why they think USC is not interested in their help to make the university life better for students and faculty here who are Muslim. Dr. Evelyn Alsultany teaches American Studies and Ethnicity. She’s one of the faculty who resigned from the Advisory Committee on Muslim Life at USC, or ACML.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons
As Taylor Swift shocked the internet with her double album release of “The Tortured Poets Department” and “TTPD: The Anthology,” fans took to Twitter to express their excitement… by making fun of the singer. Between the two hours of new music and Swift’s heartbreaking lyrics tied with Jack Antanoff’s classic pop synth beats, fans were quick to tease the artist through Twitter memes. Here’s a round-up of the best “TTPD” reaction Tweets.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons |Jennifer Nehrer
Jane Fonda began by reminiscing about growing up in LA many years ago before freeways when nature was everywhere - easy to get lost in. She reveled in the birdsong, but then, after going away for many years, she came back to freeways, smog, way more people and way more buildings. But what really pushed her over the edge wasn’t until the 2019 climate catastrophe in L.A. where there were raging wildfires. Fonda: Five years ago I went outside and the sky was orange brown.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons
This week, Olivia Rodrigo’s team stopped the distribution of Plan B and similar contraceptive supplies at concerts. The National Network of Abortion Funds, who ran tables handing out the products, told Jezebel that Rodrigo’s team stopped the distribution because “the items would be too accessible to young girls in attendance.” This decision came after public pressure over a viral Tweet from Rodrigo’s stop in St. Louis where Plan B was distributed with handouts saying “Funding abortion?
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
uscannenbergmedia.com | Katie Simons
Eight years ago, Ezra Frech watched in awe as his mentor, Sam Grewe, won a silver medal for high jump at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics. Frech had competed in plenty of his own track meets, but while watching a fellow above-the-knee amputee on the international podium, inspiration struck. The 11-year-old Frech had an “epiphany” — he was going to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games at 15. “I was so inspired.
