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The Beacon Project is a student journalism initiative supported by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to report on USC. It is independent of the university’s administration.
Why Students At LA’s Richest Public Schools Are Far More Likely To Get Extra Time On The SAT
Part of the college admissions scam was getting extra time on the SAT & ACT. In LA, experts say wealthy families may be exploiting the system to get that benefit, leaving poor kids at a further disadvantage
    Sam Kmack Austin Peay
  • August 29
USC benefit helps children of employees earn free college degree
    Consuelo Cifuentes
  • August 27
“Like The Kremlin”: USC’s broken promises of transparency
The contrast between USC’s promises of transparency and its actions has fueled mounting criticism.
    Austin Peay
  • August 19
48 male patients say campus doctor sexually abused them — and USC was warned
Five of those patients, all of whom were students, say they told the university that Dr. Dennis Kelly subjected them to invasive exams and made sexual remarks.
    Sasha Urban
  • August 8
A former UCLA student said the doctor accused by 48 USC students sexually abused him too
The former graduate student said Dennis Kelly subjected him to invasive procedures during two visits.
    Sasha Urban
  • August 17

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“Sell/Buy/Date” shares the potential future of the sex industry

Sarah Jones performed her one-woman show, “Sell/Buy/Date,” at the Bing Theater at the USC campus last month. The performance was a part of USC’s Visions and Voices series. Directed by Carolyn Jones, the piece was set in a future world where a professor lectured on the sex industry in the United States and attitudes about sex work using media from interviews. The piece mentions the creation of ‘Bio Empathetic Resident Technology’ to collect interviews between 2020 and 2041. Sarah Jones played more than 20 characters, each with a unique physicality and dialect for each person. She played both the professor giving the lecture and the interviewees in the BERT modules.
Kaila Tacazon
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