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A former university student accused of striking a USC professor with a metal water bottle in a classroom two years ago i...
10/17/2026

A former university student accused of striking a USC professor with a metal water bottle in a classroom two years ago is currently seeking to have her criminal prosecution paused in favor of a supervised mental health treatment program, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records.

Brianna Gallimore, now 26, is facing a felony charge for assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a September 2024 incident in Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD).

On Sept. 23, 2024, Gallimore swung her metal water bottle at USC professor Danyao Li, hitting the professor on the head, authorities and witnesses said after the incident. Li, an assistant professor at the Price School of Public Policy, was teaching a class when she was allegedly assaulted. Gallimore was arrested by USC police following the incident, Annenberg Media previously reported.

On July 29 this year, Gallimore asked the court to divert the case to mental health treatment before trial and to keep a psychological evaluation under seal.

📝 By Andriana Yatsyshyn and Scott Hills
📸 Huining Zhu

An Annenberg Media analysis suggests that the USC administration laid off workers in departments not largely responsible...
10/17/2026

An Annenberg Media analysis suggests that the USC administration laid off workers in departments not largely responsible for the deficit. Rather than making cutbacks in management — one of the main contributors in overwhelming costs — USC cut its core programs.

Starting in 2018, USC’s reported “management and general expenses” began increasing sharply, according to its yearly Form 990s. Anything unrelated to education, health care or other student services should be reported in this category.

Most of the over 1,000 workers laid off by USC — professors, academic advisors, healthcare employees, etc. – because of the structural deficit would have fallen under “program services,” a separate expense category.

Annenberg Media asked USC why the university laid off program workers despite the rising deficit being caused by management expenses. USC directed Annenberg Media to two extensive statements from President Kim from July and November 2025.

“I hope you will understand both the reality of our situation and the deep respect I have for every member of our Trojan Family,” one statement read. The other read, “We can overcome major hurdles together.”

Neither statement addressed the baggage caused by management.

📝: Malik Gamble, Carlotta Escala Boehm, Jeremy Wong, Reo
📈: Malik Gamble
📸: Slide one by Ling Luo; slide two by Nina Kremer; slide eight by Jason Goode

An Annenberg Media analysis suggests that the USC administration laid off workers in departments not largely responsible...
10/17/2026

An Annenberg Media analysis suggests that the USC administration laid off workers in departments not largely responsible for the deficit. Rather than making cutbacks in management — one of the main contributors in overwhelming costs — USC cut its core programs.

Starting in 2018, USC’s reported “management and general expenses” began increasing sharply, according to its yearly Form 990s. Anything unrelated to education, health care or other student services should be reported in this category.

Most of the over 1,000 workers laid off by USC — professors, academic advisors, healthcare employees, etc. – because of the structural deficit would have fallen under “program services,” a separate expense category.

Annenberg Media asked USC why the university laid off program workers despite the rising deficit being caused by management expenses. USC directed Annenberg Media to two extensive statements from President Kim from July and November 2025.

“I hope you will understand both the reality of our situation and the deep respect I have for every member of our Trojan Family,” one statement read. The other read, “We can overcome major hurdles together.”

Neither statement addressed the baggage caused by management.
📝: Malik Gamble, Carlotta Escala Boehm, Jeremy Wong, Reo
📈: Malik Gamble
📸: Slide one by Ling Luo; slide two by Nina Kremer; slide eight by Jason Goode

Beong-Soo Kim was officially installed as USC’s 13th president Friday morning in a ceremony featuring live student perfo...
10/17/2026

Beong-Soo Kim was officially installed as USC’s 13th president Friday morning in a ceremony featuring live student performances, alumni appearances and congratulatory speeches, as organized groups cited their demands for prospective change.

Addressing hundreds of students, faculty, staff and other members of the Trojan family, Kim declared his commitment to increasing interdisciplinary collaboration across schools and improving the university’s relationship with Los Angeles. He also said the university is designing a new general education program, what he called “the first bottoms-up redesign in decades.” 

Cheering for their colleagues walking in the processional, faculty members from United Faculty-United Auto Workers Local 872, a union for non-tenure-track faculty, gathered around the ceremony. Union members said they wanted to congratulate the President on his installment and urge him to come to the bargaining table to improve working conditions.

Following his speech, Kim spoke to Annenberg Media about the importance of faculty in USC’s learning environment. He called faculty the “lifeblood of USC” and said it was wonderful to see the union organize as he walked. 

Janis Yue, an assistant professor of clinical occupational therapy, said she sees Kim’s installation as a turning point for bargaining. 

“I know that President Kim has been rhetorically championing open dialogue for quite a long time and really making that part of his platform,” Yue said. “I really see coming to the bargaining table as a perfect manifestation of open dialogue because we are actually talking to each other as equals and being able to share our concerns as faculty.” 

Read more at the link in bio.

📝 Miranda Huang and Caitlin Roehmholdt
🎧 Nicholas Corral
📸 Nicholas Corral

10/16/2026

USC is home to many accomplished professors. Here’s what their TAs have to say about the challenges of the role, and what it’s like to learn alongside the students they assist.

🎥 Claire Wong

In the midst of Banned Books Week, USC Libraries opened the “Forbidden Pages: Past and Present Exhibition” at Doheny Lib...
10/15/2026

In the midst of Banned Books Week, USC Libraries opened the “Forbidden Pages: Past and Present Exhibition” at Doheny Library.

The exhibit consists of items that have gone through multiple attempts at censorship, according to the USC Libraries website. It focuses on themes of “Dangerous Words,” “Obscenity and Censorship,” “Silencing the Other” and “Pages of Protest.”

The artifacts in the exhibit include books, photographs, newspaper articles and other materials from USC Libraries. Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel Jud Süß, which was pulled from the N**i book burnings in Berlin in 1933, had fragments of pages in the exhibition.

The display also includes pieces from the ONE Archives, one of the world’s largest collections of LGBTQ+ historical materials, which preserves rare books, pulp fiction, and activist artwork that faced severe censorship throughout the 20th century.

“[Banned Books Week] is an important week of events that supports intellectual freedom, students’ access to information and the freedom to choose in libraries” said Taylor Dwyer, the curator of the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, a special collections library at USC. Dwyer worked closely with the ONE Archives to identify books that had been banned throughout history.

📝 Caleb Olguin and Gary Wang
📸 Caleb Olguin

10/14/2026

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now open in Expo Park, and on a campus (not) far, far away, USC Marshall and Architecture students see if the Force is with them as they guess how much the museum cost to build and how long it took to construct.

📸 Nia Crichelle Robertson
🎥 Tiffany Im, Brady Travers

10/14/2026

Take a look at USC’s majors and what their relationship “red flags” would be.

🎥 Sophia Fernandez

On Tuesday, Paramount officially acquired Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion merger, combining the two companies i...
10/08/2026

On Tuesday, Paramount officially acquired Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion merger, combining the two companies into one major company called Skydance Corp. The deal not only promised an annual output of 30 films a year, but $6 billion in cuts over the next three years, raising many concerns for those planning to start their careers in the film and television industries.

“It felt like an inevitability that we were just slowly crawling toward,” said Ricardo Del Castillo, a sophomore business of cinematic arts student. “And now that we’ve hit that point, it’s like, I don’t know how to say, a sigh of disappointment and relief at the same time.”

Del Castillo says he is trying to stay optimistic about what this merger could mean for filmmakers. With more resources under one company, he hopes there will be more financial support for independent creators.

This could prove true, as the merger agreement brought forth a $5 million-per-year Independent Film Fund. However, according to the agreement, the fund is expected to support the acquisition of only 4 independent films per year.

“If you want to make it big, it’s going to require a lot more luck,” Del Castillo remarked.

Read more at the link in bio.

📝 Hawa Yusuf and Kate North
📸 Gracen Fling

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded a Biden administration policy regarding Title IX, impacting the application o...
10/07/2026

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded a Biden administration policy regarding Title IX, impacting the application of regulations at federally funded educational institutions or programs across the country. The change came last week and reverts the policy to a 2020 regulation from the Trump administration and narrows it to biological s*x as opposed to gender ideologies, which Trump’s order labeled as “inconsistent.”

USC never fully implemented the 2024 Biden administration changes, due to a federal court injunction, and has functioned under the 2020 regulations.

In a statement to Annenberg Media, the university said, “The government’s formal rescinding of the 2024 regulations does not change USC’s current Title IX policies, processes, or protections, because these regulations were not implemented at USC due to a nationwide injunction. USC remains committed to providing supportive resources and a fair and equitable process for addressing reports of s*x discrimination and s*xual harassment.”

Regardless, the announcement brings fear, confusion and anger to USC students.

Read more at the link in bio.

📝 Dillon Zamperin, Eleanor Morrissey, Milana Gallette, Sebastian Summer and Sofia Peña
📸 Courtesy of AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

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