Over the weekend of March 22-24, the USF baseball team went head to head with the Portland Pilots in a three game series. The games on Friday and Sunday were held at USF’s Benedetti Diamond while Saturday’s game was held at AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants, as part of the Eighth Annual [...]

An article entitled “Better Colleges Failing to Lure Talented Poor,” published in the New York Times found that America’s “talented,” high-achieving poor are failing to make it into our country’s better colleges and universities. Of the roughly top 4% of graduating high school seniors from the lowest fourth of the income range, only 34% attended [...]

Hillary Harris Saturday, March 2 was a day of “firsts” for sophomore middle distance runner Hillary Harris, the proud new owner of the USF school record in the 400 meter race. Harris, an environmental studies major from Hillsboro, Ore., not only collected her first collegiate record, but did so in her first time running the [...]

If Awkward Silence, or “AwkSci,” the USF student improv team, sold tickets to their shows they would make a pretty penny. Most nights their shows are at capacity with eager and enthusiastic students waiting to get their laugh on, but lucky for us college students most shows are free. Surprisingly enough, Awkward Silence is not [...]

Colombian actress and social rights activist Patricia Ariza came to campus to speak to a full house of USF students and faculty, and other visitors about her unique movement for women’s rights in Colombia. Ariza is the president of the Colombian Theater Corporation, and the co-founder and director of Teatro La Candelaria, which is a [...]

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which has resulted in the deaths of up to half a million Iraqis, mostly civilians, and the displacement of millions.  Sectarian and ethnic tensions remain high and violence and terrorism — despite being less pervasive than a few years ago — are endemic.  [...]

A few weeks back, I had a casual conversation with my friends about the federal sequester. I noted that most of the discussion was dictated by speculation and fear-mongering rather than a real analysis of any of the proposed spending cuts brought about by the sequester. For my friends, it was the first time they [...]

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church last Wednesday, taking the name Pope Francis. The Argentine national is the world’s first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas. His election was signified with white smoke coming out of the Vatican chimney, and the announcement of “Habemus Papam,” [...]

The Seattle based rapper Macklemore, born Ben Haggerty, and music producer Ryan Lewis rocked the crowd at USF Friday night in their last US concert before continuing their tour in Japan. USF student Royce Anies, aka Dj Devarock, got the intimate crowd of concert goers pumped before the lead act took the stage, blasting all [...]