Rejoice! For James Franco has a new web series. It's called "Undergrads," and it follows a bunch of overwhelmingly white co-eds at USC as they drink, hook up, and play games on the grass of the quad. And guess what? The show looks completely and utterly boring. more ›

New court papers filed in the case against University of Southern California's athletic program include an expert's allegations that coaching mistakes caused football player Stafon Johnson's 2009 on-campus weightlifting accident. more ›

UCLA announced today that they have fired their head football coach, Rick Neuheisel -- or, in PR parlance, Neuheisel has been "relieved of his duties." The firing comes on the heels of UCLA's brutal 50-0 loss to USC over the weekend. more ›

David Leslie Murtishaw, convicted and sentenced to death for the 1978 murders of three University of Southern California film students, was found dead in his cell at San Quentin State Prison late last night. Murtishaw, 54, died of natural causes, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. more ›

It's not exactly news that Hollywood doesn't offer up equal treatment of men and women. For every hulking male that crashes through a plate glass window to save the day, there's at least one scantily-clad woman whose primary function is to seduce/be seduced/smile and look pretty. But now, for the skeptics in the room who would argue that equal treatment is in the eye of the beholder, we have some numbers... more ›

Police are looking for an 18-year-old high school student from New Jersey who went missing and never boarded his flight home this week. Julian Thompkins was on a trip visiting USC with his mother, but the last time she saw him was on November 6 near LAX. more ›

Police are looking for the suspect who hit a USC motorcyclist last night and took off without offering any help. The 21-year-old USC student was driving on a motorcycle through the intersection at Vermont and Lexington Avenue around 6:40 p.m., when the motorcycle collided with a van. more ›

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College and USC are some of the priciest schools in the nation, according to a survey put together by Campus Grotto. more ›

An unidentified man died this morning after jumping from a parking structure on the USC campus. The man is thought to have jumped at about 7:15 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department, who have been investigating the incident. more ›

Fox Sports canceled "The College Experiment" immediately after airing a Pac-12 segment that was highly criticized for mocking University of Southern California (USC) Asian students. more ›

Two USC students were shot at party last night, after the host accused the shooter of stealing his Dr. Dre "Beats" Headphones, according to The Daily Trojan. The suspect drew a gun and shot a man and woman who had stepped in to help the host. The male victim, an undergraduate student, was seriously injured after being shot in the chest, while the woman was shot once in the hand. Both are expected to survive. more ›

If you've seen TMZ, you've seen how their intrepid newsgatherers stand outside Los Angeles hotspots hoping to catch a celeb with their cameras. Last Thursday, outside WeHo's Voyeur, the cameras rolled on University of Southern California tailback Marc Tyler, who find himself suspended today for what he said in the mini interview. more ›

The New York Times and the University of Southern California have partnered to offer an online, continuing education program that combines the brainpower and outreach of journalists and faculty, according to a news release. more ›

Sorry, Trojans. Your team has been stripped of its 2004 Bowl Championship Series title. The announcement came today, according to the Daily News. The 2004 season will simply have no champion. The decision by BCS officials is not likely a surprise to the University of Southern California or their fans, as the team knew they were in jeopardy of having the title yanked after being "hit with heavy NCAA sanctions last year for rules violations committed during the 2004 and '05 seasons." more ›

Author Aimee Bender is a literary iconoclast. The Los Angeles Times lauded, “she is Hemingway, on an acid trip.” Her knack for magical realism and her admiration of the fairy tale have inspired a generation of young writers bent on the surreal, citing dog-eared copies of Bender’s iconic collection Willful Creatures as influence. I met with Bender at USC to talk about Los Angeles’ less-known lit scene, feminizing fairy tales, and the splendor of LA’s sunlight. more ›

The Santa Ana Zoo has a new giant anteater, and for $5,000, you can be the lucky human to name her, reports the OC Register. The baby, born two weeks ago, has largely been chilling on her mother's back since her birth, as baby anteaters are wont to do, and snuggling up to her mom to take naps. more ›

Tomorrow, the annual LA Times Festival of Books—a weekend-long celebration of literature and a fifteen-year old Los Angeles tradition—officially begins. With new features like the free Target bus, Korean Taekwondo performances, and the LATFOB phone app, there’s a lot more you’ll want to check out at this year’s festival. Here’s the rundown on how to get there and what to expect: more ›

This weekend several celebrity chefs and award-winning cookbook authors will demonstrate recipes as well as sign copies from their latest cookbooks at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year’s lineup includes Thomas Keller, TV personalities Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet), Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes), Bob Blumer (The Surreal Gourmet) and Fabio Viviani (Top Chef All-Stars), and Academy Award-winning producer Laurie David. more ›

Let hyperboles of excitement fly: the greatest annual book festival in the country is only a week away. Our beloved Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is set to take over USC’s campus next Saturday, where some of the greatest names in the book world will congregate for LA’s most literary weekend of the year. more ›

USC is probably the last school in town at which you'd expect to find a student body actively engaged in administrative injustices and campus policy but that may be starting to change. "The tide is beginning to turn as USC continues to upset certain members of its community," said Max Hoiland, one of the student organizers behind the march and rally, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday in the United University Church parking lot. more ›

While USC may have been getting plenty of negative press as of late, it didn’t stop the Trojans from celebrating over the weekend when Flying Lotus came to the campus as part of this yea's KXSC Fest, a free outdoor concert put on by USC’s independent student-run radio station. Students and friends gathered at the small grassy knoll in Founders Park to watch eight acts including sets by Dublab and KXSC DJs. more ›

If you are a renter, and looking to move in the coming months, some encouraging news: Rents between now and the end of next year are expected to decline by an estimate 3.2 percent, according to the 2011 USC Casden Multifamily Forecast, a report released today by the school's Lusk Center. more ›

USC's Greek system is facing social probation for the second time this school year after a series of recent mischievous events including racy emails and rooftop sex on campus. USC's Vice President of Student Affairs, Michael Jackson, set up a task force Thursday night, including members of the administration and the Greek community to work past all of the negative attention, according to the Daily Trojan. more ›

Next Media Animation (NMA), the Taiwanese animation house responsible for such classics as: The Vdara Death Ray and Mayor Throws Dumpings/Steals Purse, and recently signed a five year deal with Spike TV, is showing cartoon love to the lewd and lascivious co-eds of Southern California with a down-home cartoon featuring the USC / Kappa Sigma rooftop sex scandal. more ›

A University of Southern California student has been suspended from the infamously misogynistic email-sending fraternity Kappa Sigma, after sexual photos taken at the roof line of a campus building over the weekend were posted online. The allegedly well-documented NSFW sexytime incident took place atop the 12-story Waite Phillips Hall, reports KTLA. more ›