Jackson Mills

Editor’s Note: Jackson Mills, one of the writers, was a student on this Maymester course. Professor Steve Swerdlow arrived in Kyrgyzstan with his Maymester class expecting to spend the next two weeks teaching the course on human rights in the Central Asia country as he has done since 2022. The students were beginning the first leg of a two-country trip through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Instead, he was denied entry on the spot.

United Faculty-UAW union members showed up and showed out for a “Respect the Vote” rally at Tommy Trojan Wednesday afternoon. The rally was hosted in the wake of USC’s continuous effort to challenge the results of the June election, where 70% of non-tenure-track faculty voted in favor of a union. UAW 872, a subsidiary of the larger United Auto Workers union, is seeking to represent 3,000 research, teaching, practitioner and clinical faculty across USC.

A group of medical students at the Keck School of Medicine sent a letter to its dean, Carolyn Meltzer, demanding that USC’s anatomical donation program make donors aware their bodies could be used for military training with the U.S. Navy and Israeli military. The letter was signed by 72 students, residents and attending physicians at Keck.