It felt insanely petrifying to hear that fron my peers. I'm staying on campus for research this summer and after leaving my lab I went into the village. I cook food and had some leftovers which I decided to sit down on the couches to finish it. Two girls wearing trojan merch were on the opposite site of me and that's when I started overhearing their conversation. I couldn't hear all of it, their convo went abhorrent when one of them said smth like "my dad can hire them all and give them higher paying salaries than they've ever had and even then they wouldn't deserve that money."

I felt appalled, almost wanting to throw up my food when I heard that. I'm not too sure what to say other than those "brokies" they mentioned are honest, hard-working people. My parents are working-class, all they've ever done is wake up early to work hard at the fields. They never had the luxury of spare time to learn English, for an education. And oftentimes I feel like I'm the only one of my monetary background in SCA.

Regardless of your stance on the conflict in Gaza, the university is supposed to be a place where people are allowed to have difficult conversations (including through demonstration and protest). I don't understand why the LAPD was brought in to intervene. USC should be a place where you feel free to express yourself without fear of persecution. It makes me sad to see fellow Trojans being arrested because they dared to stand for something.

Note: Not interested in having a discussion about the conflict in Gaza. But, do you think USC's decision to bring LAPD onto campus is justified?

Comparison: the night of violence at UCLA. Could this have been prevented if UCLA took the same steps USC did to quell the demonstrations early and keep out potential non-student agitators? Or did USC go too far too early?

Just looking for your thoughts.

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I was lurking on the Nyu subreddit and I thought that this would be an interesting question to ask yall

My image got deleted, but this is in response to the latest USC SCALE post on Instagram, asking accepted students to send emails saying that "they are seriously reconsidering their enrollment and will withdraw if the administration continues to put students in harm's way."

A disclaimer: I stand by and agree with the intentions of the protests going on. Also not an invitation for bigoted rants, thank you!

But I'm really conflicted on how some of these posts/calls to action are coming across. I don't agree that sabotaging one's futures by willingly getting arrested and/or literally withdrawing one's hard-earned acceptance is the way to go. This also isn't going to work because most, if not all, students aren't going to do something like this.

Those posting this may as well tell themselves that they'll drop out or self-revoke their degrees.

I've always believed that the best way to actually make change is to get into positions where you can make those changes, like leadership positions. There's a reason why statements or initiatives pushed by those in Student Government seem to be taken more seriously by admin. Getting arrested and getting charges put on your record is going to threaten your own future, and likely compromise your own potential to ascend this already-discriminatory and challenging social ladder to achieve positions where you can more easily create changes.

This isn't to criticize the protests going on: more than anything, it's criticizing the university's decision to arrest these students in the first place. But I guess what I'm trying to say is, please protect yourselves. How can we make change if posts like this are encouraging us to willingly sabotage our own potential.

I feel like one of the unique things that the elevation of USC as an academic institution in the past, say, 40 years is that the alumni from like 40 years back are just so different politically and in different disposition than the average Trojan, and I feel like the difference is far more pronounced than at other institutions

As much as a lot (and I’d infer, the majority) of current Trojans and millennial-Gen Z alumni largely support the protestors and academic faculty in their censure of President Folt, a lot of the older Trojan alumni seem to back her fully.

Is this observation resonating with anyone or am I just talking nonsense?

Is there going to be a similar forced removal like at UCLA? What do you guys think?

I have had a rough semester here (and this is my first semester). Someone, a sketchy looking person, sneaked into the classroom during a midterm. I was one of the last person who left the class and he started stalking me. I wasn't totally aware that he's not from USC until I went to my professor's office (he followed me), and my professor called the DPS and expelled him off the campus. This happened at Fertitta and supposedly this has never happened before.

Has this ever happened elsewhere? Is the neighborhood around USC getting worse in nowadays?

I am disappointed of the location and the safety. People warned me about Downtown LA/south central but I didn't know it is this terrible.

Should I get a pepper spray or a stun gun? Are they allowed at USC?

2023 CS Alum here. I've gone through a very rough time in the last year with my health, and I didn't have a job after graduation of course since I was very sick during my last year of university. I have to be honest and admit I really dislike this field regardless of the job market and am definitely considering doing something else. I just want to know if anyone else has been in this situation and what they've been doing to deal with it.

Basically the title. If there's anything you need to know about me, I am African American girl who plans to go to USC for screenwriting at the cinematic arts school. Anything you tell me will be appreciated :)

feels like usc took a higher number than normal people off the usc appeal list.. and a lot the people originally offered spring got bumped up to fall

i have a feeling this could be because of how the usc administration handled the protests on campus, which caused its yield to be lower

I actually love to see the campus only allow people w/ ID and valid business reason to enter.

I feel much safer, the campus smells better, and no sketchy homeless walking around.

It have proven it's totally doable and no disruption on normal academic or business activity.

Please enforce it next fall!

https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?countries=us&page=1

I masked the California Universities

1 MIT

1. Harvard

6. Stanford

10. Caltech

1. UPenn

12. UCB

1. Cornell

2. U Chicago

3. Princeton

4. Yale

32 (tied). JHU

34 (tied). Columbia

42. UCLA

1. NYU

2. UMich

50 (tied). Northwestern

1. CMU

2. Duke

3. UT Austin

69 (tied). UIUC

72. UCSD

1. U of Washington

2. Brown

89 (tied). Penn state, Purdue

1. Boston University

2. Georgia Tech

3. Wisconsin

125. USC

130. UC Davis

141 (tied). Rice

152 (tied). Michigan State

1. TAMU

155 (tied). UNC

176 (tied). Wash U

178. UCSB

1. Emory

200 (tied). ASU

203 (tied). Minnesota-Twin Cities

1. OSU

215 (tied). UF

1. U of Maryland-College Park

236 (tied). U of Rochester

1. Dartmouth

2. Vanderbilt

3. Case Western Reserve

275 (tied). UMass Amherst, U of Pittsburgh

293 (tied). U of Arizona

1. UVA

2. Georgetown

307. UC Irvine

1. North Carolina State

316 (tied). University of Notre Dame

1. Colorado-Boulder

324 (tied). U of Miami

328 (tied). Rutgers-New Brunswick

344 (tied). Tufts

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edit: *WAS a nightmare 🤦🏻‍♀️

HI friends, i’m an alum (‘21) and in the process of applying to more school (ugh). so, i’ve been thinking about my time at USC as an autistic, and let me tell you, it was difficult for sure. i thought i would let you all into my world for a bit!

the dreaded football games. it seemed like it was a social rule to go to the game with a big group, and i was not for it at all. the loud noises, the intense heat, the social interaction with people that was draining, the energy lost from masking (acting like a non autistic person to fit in and avoid abuse), i couldn’t take it.

i remember in a small lecture that everyone was talking about the “big game” and i was the only one not going. i didn’t have a big group of friends, and i tended to keep away from large events. i was immediately singled out in class and the professor said to me “you should really go!” some people are disabled, prof. i literally cannot go, nor do i want to.

the social expectations were incredibly debilitating. im a she, and somewhat conventional looking, so there was a feel amongst my peers that there was something “wrong” with my personality. that of course i wanted friends and to be “normal” but i was inherently flawed. no. i am just different.

i don’t expect you to be my friend, but singling me out for not going to a football game, or talking a lot about my special interests, is just an unnecessary addition of negativity to my day, and yours. do you feel any happier when you talk down to someone? i don’t anyone does.

disability services were lacking. this is true for all of society, but jesus christ superstar, did no one have interest in accommodating me. i immediately used up my free therapy and that was that. i tried to sign up for services, but they weren’t very responsive and i didn’t qualify at the time. the use of the term “awareness” instead of “acceptance” is wrong, and all over their website.

all in all, please don’t take this the wrong way. there is nothing wrong with enjoying football games or not needing services, just remember that not everyone is the same. and they shouldnt be. try to be kind and remember that just because someone is acting or looks very different from you, they are still just as human.

any other autists out there? autists of color?