Articles Tagged ‘housing’

Icon Plaza at USC has pre-leased 40 percent of beds

By Mat Goldstein · Daily Trojan

January 23, 2012 (3 weeks ago) at 11:31 pm

Icon Plaza at USC has pre-leased 40 percent of beds

Prices for a bed in Icon Plaza, now under construction, range from $925 to $1,709 per month.

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ADChi losing house after miscommunication

By kira brekke · Daily Trojan

February 23, 2011 at 11:19 pm

ADChi losing house after miscommunication

The Alpha Delta Chi sorority has been living in its house on 29th Street for four years.

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Gateway in need of USC’s intervention

By Lucy Mueller · Daily Trojan

August 25, 2010 at 10:55 pm

Student complaints about the new housing complex’s failure to deliver shouldn’t be ignored.

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Students take to the web in search of potential roommates

By Rebecca Buddingh · Daily Trojan

April 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm

Some students and experts recommend letting the university assign a roommate randomly.

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Around campus, some apartments come with perks

By Brooke Matthews · Daily Trojan

April 15, 2010 at 10:52 pm

Around campus, some apartments come with perks

Students who lease with First Choice Housing can get tickets to an upcoming Lakers’ game.

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High demand for housing leaves some in limbo

By christianna kyriacou · Daily Trojan

March 2, 2010 at 11:43 pm

Applicants for Resident Adviser positions can be left in a tough spot if they don’t get USC housing.

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Housing issue is improving, but still shoddy

By LUCY MUELLEr · Daily Trojan

February 28, 2010 at 3:46 pm

Housing issue is improving, but still shoddy

University Gateway is a step in the right direction but could be too expensive for many students.

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Please create your bonfires outside the building

By Laura Reeve · Daily Trojan

October 12, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Does the candy and condoms bucket make up for the extreme number of fire drills in USC student housing? Probably not.

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USC should aid students in housing search

By From the Editors · Daily Trojan

September 17, 2009 at 10:42 am

Over the past few years USC has vastly improved in accommodating more students in on-campus housing. Once students are inevitably shooed off-campus, however, they continue to be plagued by unreliable landlords. USC currently only guarantees undergraduates two years of on-campus housing. Every year, an average of 800 students who apply for campus housing are denied. [...]

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USC’s Master Plan bites off more than it can chew

By Kelsey Clark · Daily Trojan

August 19, 2009 at 1:00 am

Though student housing has improved in the last decade, plan executives face future hurdles that may prove insurmountable.

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Sugar rush

Sugar rush

Students from Gertz-Ressler High School, located on Union Avenue and 21st Street, enjoy free frozen yogurt and toppings at Yogurtland in University Gateway as part ...

Researchers at Keck discover new stem cell

Keck School of Medicine of USC announced last week that researchers discovered a stem cell that can be used as an effective cell model to ...

Amanpour to speak at USC graduation

Journalist Christiane Amanpour will address USC’s graduating class as the 2012 commencement speaker on May 11, the Daily Trojan has learned. The speech will take ...

Roundup

The following incidents were reported in the USC Department of Public Safety daily incident log between Thursday, Feb. 2, and Friday, Feb. 3.Miscellaneous incidentsat 3:11 ...

Dental school provides free care for local children

Before Ostrow School of Dentistry’s Give Kids a Smile Day on Friday, Jessica Garcia had never been to the dentist.“They were nice,” said Garcia, 5, a ...

Eco-friendly mug ready for purchase

Undergraduate Student Government and USC Hospitality launched a reusable mug program in a joint effort to promote sustainability on campus Monday. The launch ends USG’s ...

Opinion

USC promotes healthy eating, doesn’t deliver

Fun fact: If you type “fast food desert” into the Google image search bar, an image of Figueroa Street pops up.The three-block stretch of Figueroa ...

Smartphone use slowly turning into abuse

We’ve all seen comics of bathroom stalls featuring people poring over newspapers, but the bathroom might actually be a more popular destination for checking Facebook.[caption ...

USC should pick more women for its commencement

The 2012 commencement speaker is, by most measures, a tenacious individual. This year’s speaker is a journalist who has worked in crisis zones ranging from ...

If sex is a gamble, improve your odds

There are certain things we’re supposed to take risks with: playing the lottery, asking someone out or an “educated” multiple choice guess. Young adults often ...

How much does anti-gay rhetoric set back the GOP?

I’m fiscally conservative, but socially liberal.” The number of times I’ve heard fellow students use this line to describe their political views has led me ...

How much does anti-gay rhetoric set back the GOP?

As students at a college with a vibrant queer community, we hear a lot about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered activism. We can recognize the ...

Sports

Trojans earn No. 1 spot in ESPN’s latest rankings

USC moved to No. 1 in ESPN’s Top-25 Preseason Poll, released Monday. Previously ranked No. 2, USC ousted LSU from the No. 1 spot.With a ...

Two USC greats to have numbers retired

Pam and Paula McGee, two All-Americans and national champions for the Women of Troy, will have their jerseys retired at halftime when USC takes on ...

Trojans ready to hit the diamond

Football season is over and basketball is less than a month away from post-season play. Now it is time to focus on America’s pastime: baseball.  ...

USC finishes third at Stanford Invite

Sophomore two-meter Kaleigh Gilchrist scored five goals to lead the Women of Troy in two convincing wins in the final day of the Stanford Invitational ...

Women of Troy Can’t Get Past Washington

With an impending matchup against No. 4 Stanford on Thursday, the USC Women of Troy had hoped to carry a three-game winning streak into the ...

Lifestyle

Provocative play explores race

Provocative play explores race

The classic theater production A Raisin in the Sun, written by the late Lorraine Hansberry, is running at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City. ...

New show Smash revives TV musicals

If you happened to watch NBC on Sunday, you might have noticed a sporting event that  was going on in the interim between on-air promos ...

Chronicle embraces gritty filmmaking

In a time when most superhero stories come swaddled in plastic predictability and giant budgets, sometimes a messier, rougher film comes as a refreshing relief.[caption ...

Woman haunts viewers

Daniel Radcliffe warned fans before watching his new movie The Woman in Black at the Los Angeles premiere: “I hope you enjoy screaming, or if ...

Gallery presents rare glimpses of cultural icons

Certain figures’ legacies have survived decades of new movies, new hit songs and new famous faces, remaining bona fide icons whose fame continues today despite ...

Photos

This Week in Photos: Jan. 30 – Feb. 3

This Week in Photos: Jan. 30 – Feb. 3

"This Week in Photos" highlights the biggest stories of the week.Trojans upend Utah to end losing streak>>[caption id="attachment_44062" align="aligncenter" width="614" caption="Worth the wait · Sophomore ...

Slideshow: Spring Awakening

Selling out just 36 hours after reservations opened, Cardinal Theatre Productions’ presentation of the rock musical Spring Awakening had to meet some pretty big expectations. ...

Slideshow: USC Men’s Basketball vs. Utah

The USC men’s basketball team put an end to a nine-game losing streak on Saturday night with a decisive 62-45 victory over the Utah Utes ...

Slideshow: USC Women’s Basketball vs. Oregon

The Women of Troy had let a 13-point halftime lead slip all the way down to one in the second half. The Ducks were surging ...

KXSC Fest

KXSC held their annual music festival, KXSC Fest, on Sunday in EF Hutton Park. The festival, now in its third year, included artists Flying Lotus, ...