College is an exciting time to learn new things, make friends and gain independence. College can be stressful and difficult, however. Some students have a hard time adjusting to the larger workload, while others struggle to manage their time between school, work and family. Juggling these responsibilities can make it easy to forget time for fun and relaxation. Here are tips for making your college years both enjoyable and successful.

Taking Breaks on Campus
Most students, especially those who commute, are familiar with long days on campus. It’s important to make time for breaks between classes and studying. There are places to eat in almost all campus buildings and meeting friends for lunch is more refreshing than snacking at the back of the classroom. The Union has a food court and fun activities such as bowling, billiards and table tennis. Even if it’s taking a few minutes to take a walk or buy a drink, it is a good idea to find some way to decompress on campus.

Extracurricular Activities
The University of Utah is a huge campus and it is easy to feel lost among the crowd. Participating in extracurricular activities on campus is a great way to have fun, find a community and it looks great on applications for jobs or graduate schools. You don’t have to be a star athlete or the student body president to be involved. U students have created hundreds of clubs and organizations, so odds are you can find something interesting to do on campus. Join a leadership group, volunteer for a cause you are passionate about or participate in Greek life.

Explore the City
Whether you are new to the state or you were born and raised in Utah, there is always something to do around Salt Lake. Utah’s mountains are one of the best places for outdoor recreation, and there are tons of opportunities for skiing, hiking and biking for both beginners and experts. The city itself provides ways to have a good time, from shopping to museums to art venues. On weekends, spend a few hours away from the textbooks and discover something exciting in your own backyard.

Balance Your Time
Most students feel their college to-do list is endless and it can be hard to make time for the necessities, let alone time to relax. To find the right balance, it’s essential to stay organized. Writing and sticking to a calendar or an organization app can be helpful to keep track of everything you want and need to do. It may seem like an oxymoron to plan to have fun, but this is the best way to make sure you stay on top of schoolwork and still leave room for personal time.

Get Help
It’s easy to joke about stressed, overworked college kids sleepwalking through finals, but mental health issues on campus are no joke. According to Chadron State College, more than 80 percent of college students felt overwhelmed by their past school year, and 45 percent felt things were hopeless.  If you are feeling mild or severe anxiety, the U provides helpful resources. The Center for Student Wellness offers resources and counseling services for students, and it’s not just for when you are desperate. It is perfectly okay to cut back if you are overwhelmed. It is normal for students to take fewer credit hours or take a semester off to recuperate. Taking time to address your mental health is important for your happiness and well-being – and it will make you a better student in the long run.

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Momentum can differ from game to game, but the emotional rollercoaster Texas is enduring is at an unusually high level.

With a virtually guaranteed opportunity to host a regional, the Longhorns only needed to win one Big 12 tournament game to ensure that hosting would come to fruition.

Texas was essentially eliminated from the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship tournament before it even started. The No. 1-seeded Longhorns lost their first game to No. 8-seeded Kansas before dropping their second game of the tournament to rival Oklahoma 3-1 and were sent home without recording a tournament win.

The Longhorns came into the tournament fresh off of a Big 12 regular season conference title last Saturday. The team, which at that point was as hot as any in the nation, swept TCU in an outstanding effort that was aided by three Oklahoma State loses, and eventually brought home its first regular season conference championship since 2011.

Riding high, the team has since fallen on harder times. In an opening tournament game on Wednesday versus the Kansas Jayhawks, Texas failed to rally its bats and fell to the Jayhawks 3-2. The Longhorns met their match at the plate against Kansas starting pitcher, Jackson Goddard, who went for 6.2 innings and only allowed one run on two hits.

Texas would only record two runs on four total hits, one from sophomore third baseman Ryan Reynolds and the other from junior catcher DJ Petrinsky. The team scored its second run in a bottom-of-the-ninth rally but was unable to plate another to tie the game.

Thursday’s game was the same story on a different day. In an early 9 a.m. game, Texas faced off against the arch-rival Oklahoma Sooners and seemed to sleepwalk through the morning, at least offensively.

The team failed to get its bats going yet again as they only recorded seven hits on the day and mustered a measly one run.

Junior starting pitcher Nolan Kingham was serviceable, but not dominant as he allowed three earned runs on eight hits in 5.1 innings of work.

Over the course of the 18 innings, Texas only scored three runs on 11 hits.

Because the Big 12 conference title holds so much clout, Texas, in the grand scheme of things, should still be fine in its quest to host a regional. However, the Longhorns currently sit at No. 22 in the nation in RPI, which is not ideal, to say the least.

At this point, though, the team is forced to play the waiting game. Barring anything unforeseen, though, Austin should still be a destination for a regional tournament.

Texas will discover its fate when the NCAA Regional locations are announced Sunday night before the entire bracket is revealed on Monday.

This review contains major plot spoilers for the film “A Quiet Place.”

Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures

“A Quiet Place” is a 2018 American science-fiction horror film that was written and directed by one of the main stars of the film, John Krasinski. Krasinski stars in the movie alongside his real-life wife, Emily Blunt. The plot of this 90-minute film consists of a family of four and their fight for survival against intensely terrifying creatures that hunt through sound. They must carry out their day-to-day activities in complete silence or run the risk of being hunted and killed. Bryan Woods and Scott Beck started working on the story for the film back in 2014. Paramount Pictures later bought their script in 2017. After that, Krasinksi joined the team as a director and wrote the final draft of the script.

Here is the breakdown of the plot:

The film is based in the future, 2020. By this time, most of Earth’s human population has been killed by blind creatures that use their hypersensitive hearing abilities for hunting. Not only do they use their hearing to their advantage but they also use their indestructible shells to protect them from anyone or anything brave enough to fight back. What is even more interesting about the plot is that husband, Lee Abbott, and the wife, Evelyn Abbott, have a congenitally deaf daughter named Regan. Regan is played by the 16-year-old actress, Millicent Simmonds, who is actually deaf in real life. There are also the two
younger sons Marcus and Beau. The family uses American Sign Language to communicate on a daily basis.

At the beginning of the movie, four-year-old Beau is attached to a battery operated toy that makes noise. His father takes it away from him, but Regan gives the toy back to Beau without her father knowing. One day when the family was walking through the woods, Beau was playing with the toy and activated the sound function and immediately became a target. Sadly, there was a creature nearby and Beau was killed.

A year after the incident, Regan still blames herself for her brother’s death and struggles with guilt because of it. Lee continuously tries to contact the outside world through his radio. Evelyn gets herself into an almost fatal situation when she goes into labor while alone in the house. Her water breaks and so she begins to make her way to the soundproof basement that they built in their house. She steps on a nail and accidentally drops a glass picture frame which catches the attention of a nearby creature. Evelyn knows she is in danger so she flips a light switch that changes the exterior lights of the house to red to alert others of danger.

Lee sees the lights while traveling back with his kids and tells Marcus to set off fireworks as a distraction. Lee finds his wife in the basement holding their newborn son. The baby begins to cry and that brings around another creature. Lee leaves to find the children and Evelyn eventually manages to fall asleep. Soon, she wakes up to find that the basement has been flooded due to a burst pipeline and a creature is in close range and knows exactly where she is.

While this is happening, Regan and Marcus are trying to give a signal to show their father where they are so they light a fire on top of a grain silo. A door somehow opens up and Marcus falls into the silo. He falls into the corn and looks like he is about to drown in the corn until Regan jumps in to save him. All of the noise has attracted another creature. But the two manage to survive a potential attack by hiding under the fallen hatch door. With perfect timing, Regan’s cochlear implant in her ear has some sort of reaction and gives off a super high pitched sound that scares off the creature. Thankfully, the two kids make it back to their father.

Towards the end of the movie, the creature that almost attacked Regan and Marcus returns and Lee tries to attack it with an ax. Regan and Marcus hide in a nearby truck. Marcus lets out a yell when he
sees his father getting hurt and the creature heads towards the truck. Lee then communicates to his children in sign language that he loves them right before shouting to the creature and thus sacrificing himself so that his kids can survive.

Regan and Marcus make it back to the house where they find their mother and new baby brother. Regan makes her way to the basement where she finds her dad’s research and notes on the creatures and his experiments with different hearing implants. The creature that killed Lee returns to the house and tries to get into the basement. Regan takes her implant and puts it up against a microphone to amplify the high pitched noise that worked before. The sound effectively throws the creature off guard, causing it to reveal its weakest point, the flesh under its armored head. Evelyn takes the opportunity to shoot the creature in that exact spot. They notice on their security camera that more creatures are heading towards their home. But now that they know what it takes to defeat the creatures they are at an advantage.

Now that I gave the entire film away, I bet you are wondering what is next! Yes, it has been confirmed that a sequel to the film is in progress. I mean, we need to know what happens to this family as they have just discovered the creature’s ultimate vulnerability. Critics claim this film to be a “smart, wickedly frightening good time.” This film has been given a 95% by Rotten Tomatoes, an 8/10 by IMDb, and a 4/5 by Common Sense Media. This film has successfully satisfied the public and hopefully, the sequel will follow well in its footsteps.

If you leave your bike on campus, you’re going to want to lock it up. In the last five years, there have been 694 cases of bike theft reported to the University of Oregon Police Department. Stolen bikes are difficult to recover; UOPD closed 95 percent of bike theft cases from 2013-2017 without ever identifying a suspect, let alone returning a bike.

Sgt. Jared Davis, who has worked with the university since 2010, said that bike theft is a blanket problem across campus; however, some areas, such as around large buildings, are particularly vulnerable to bike theft.According to the five years of UOPD crime data, Knight Library and the Student Rec Center both had 31 reported cases of bike theft and Lawrence and McKenzie halls had 24 and 18 cases, respectively.

However, bikes are most frequently stolen at the residence halls. Hamilton had the most reported incidents with 53, followed by Bean with 37 and Carson with 34. Here is the breakdown by each dorm:

Nicholas Abusaid, a freshman living in Hamilton this year, said he left his bike by the Rec Center for three days only to find that someone tried to steal its parts.

“I thought I lost my bike last week,” he said. “I found it and it looks like someone tried to remove the brakes. I’m actually on my way to get it fixed.”

The Emerald created a heat map of where bikes are frequently stolen on campus.

But on-campus housing isn’t the only target — Spencer View Apartments, located near Amazon Park, saw 34 reported incidents of bike theft.

UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver says that because Spencer View Apartments houses families, children’s bicycles are frequently left outside, which make them vulnerable to theft.

Davis says it’s important to be aware of one’s surroundings when locking up a bike.

“Be mindful with where you park your bike,” he said. “If your bike is located near a security camera we have more of a chance of identifying a suspect.”

According to the Eugene Police Department, 790 bicycles were stolen last year alone in the city of Eugene; 754 were stolen in 2016 and 1,048 in 2015.

Jeff Blondé, a program manager with EPD’s Crime Prevention Unit, says that bike theft is largely a crime of opportunity.

“If the opportunity presents itself, bicycle thieves are going to steal,” he said. “Bicycles are portable, easy to transport and not that difficult for thieves to sell.”

Blondé also said that a majority of bike theft happens in heavily populated areas, such as downtown.

“It’s a place that’s full of bikes and busy, distracted people and it’s easy for thieves to use the cover of that to steal bikes”

While Blondé says bike theft is a crime that is difficult to prevent, both he and Davis recommend that cyclists secure their bicycles properly with a U-lock, as bolt cutters can easily cut cable locks.

Blondé also recommends registering a bicycle with the EPD and encourages students to give EPD up-to-date contact information so authorities can contact them quickly if their bike is recovered.

However, Blondé said that recovery of registered, stolen bicycles averages around 10 to 15 percent, and he encourages students to take the preventive measure of securing their bicycles properly.

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Last month, I attended a University of Oregon seminar centered around activism in sports, which was part of President Michael Schill’s Freedom of Expression initiative to explore the limits of freedom of expression on college campuses.

The event claims that “sport has activism in its very DNA” because sport provides a stage for social progress that everyone can see. From instances such as racial integration, the right to opt-out of military service and Title IX protections for female athletes, sport has been a catalyst for change; however, activism within sport remains controversial and ignites debates on whether political discussions should have a place in it.

Although this seminar celebrated activism in sport, it also highlighted one glaring contradiction at UO: the silencing of our own student athletes.

It is unquestionable that student athletes trade some of their rights to freedom of expression for the ability to compete and represent their university on an athletic team. This opportunity is often accompanied with a scholarship, but this scholarship is not guaranteed for all four years. Instead, it is renewed every year at the coach’s discretion. This creates an environment where students are fearful of stepping out of line and losing access to scholarships that make higher education accessible. But despite these limits, there have been times when athletes have spoken out.

In 2014, Oregon basketball players Dwayne Benjamin and Jordan Bell held their hands up during the National Anthem before a game and appeared to frisk each other as the starting lineup was announced. Their actions took place as racial tensions began to flare following the killings of two Black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, by police officers who were not indicted for their actions.

Rather than being able to freely express their personal beliefs and explain their actions, Benjamin and Bell were not made available to comment, according to an article by The Oregonian. Head Coach Dana Altman criticized their actions while the players were unable to defend themselves.

“I think every player has a right to express their opinion; however, I didn’t think that was the time and place for it,” Altman said. “As part of our basketball team, when you put the Oregon jersey on, it’s a little different.”

But why should an Oregon jersey subject you to different rights?

Time and time again, university athletics utilizes its sports information directors (SIDs) — the gatekeepers who determine media access to athletes at their own discretion — to invoke unwritten rules that limit athletes’ abilities to freely speak to the press. Although the athletic department argues that these rules protect athletes from unwanted press coverage, this policy has routinely been abused.

This has happened in track and field when head coach Robert Johnson routinely denied athletes access to interviews. And this happened last year with the athletic department’s threat to revoke the Emerald’s press credentials after a reporter directly contacted an athlete about accusations of violence against former Oregon tight end Pharaoh Brown without the athletic department’s permission.

Although President Schill heralded higher education as dedicated to “rational discourse, shared governance and the protection of dissent” in his op-ed in The New York Times, he has ignored the stifling of discourse within his own ranks in the athletics department, and even endorsed the athletic department’s SID practices.

Although sports has activism in its DNA, the university’s policies create a glaring omission of student athletes from this activism.

Student athletes are first and foremost students. Despite all the glitz and glamour of sports, they experience all of the problems that come with being a student, such as rising tuition, food and financial insecurity, sexual harassment, hate incidents and safety. And their voices on these issues should be heard.

Student athletes are the most prominent students on campus because of their presence. Their faces are constantly plastered on TV screens, posters and news publications. With only four percent of students participating in the recent ASUO election, it is more likely that students know what the basketball team is doing than the ASUO Senate. Student athletes should be able to leverage their prominence to set the standard of what is acceptable at our university.

This was seen with the University of Missouri’s football players who refused to play unless the university president resigned over the school’s handling of racial tensions. Despite calls to have their scholarships revoked, the athletes held their ground and successfully changed their university to reflect the values of its students.

Allowing student athletes to stand up for what they believe in will lend our university credibility to its basic ideals of protecting discourse and dissent that Schill says it does. Threats of taking away scholarships or being removed from a team for voicing their beliefs amounts to a gag rule that restricts the marketplace of ideas that define higher education.

The right of student speech was famously laid out in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” And they certainly should not have to shed their constitutional rights when they step on the court.

Athletes must understand that they cannot expect reform from an institution and anticipate tolerance from that same institution. This institution has a vested financial interest in preserving the status quo, and the last thing it would want is an honest conversation about the restriction of student speech. It is unlikely that the university will allow such discourse among its athletes.

But athletes should be willing to make a stand.

Freedom of expression is not free. It requires action, but action comes with consequences that athletes must be willing to accept. In order to make UO the bastion of freedom of expression that Schill says it is, we must allow student athletes to speak without fear and participate in the historic activism that has long been connected to sport.

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When I was touring colleges, my dad brought along a stack of CDs he loved during his college days. As we drove through the Midwest, he pushed “Talking Heads 77” into our gray Honda CRV’s CD player, and we talked about the bands that shaped his college experience. Through David Byrne’s eclectic vocals, I saw a glimpse of my dad’s experiences at school: drunk roommates, studying in Bologna, Italy, and eventually meeting my mom.

David Byrne is probably something else to the current generation of college students — not archaic but not new, either. The band’s former frontman is an icon— but arguably not one of the defining musical icons of our college generation in the way that he was for our parents.

But that doesn’t mean students should skip out on seeing Byrne’s current tour in support of his first solo album in over 10 years, “American Utopia.” His music is as relevant now as it ever was. After a stop at Sasquatch! Music Festival just a few days ago, Byrne played the Keller Auditorium in Portland on Sunday, May 27. He will play the Hult Center in Eugene tonight, May 28.

The show began in darkness and ended with a crescendo. British musician Benjamin Clementine opened the concert sitting at a grand piano in a dark blue shirt with elbow patches and a white cowboy hat. After playing a few songs, Clementine had trouble with one of the looping pedals on his black baby grand piano. “That’s the 21st century for you,” he said before leaving the stage for a bit to figure out the technical difficulties. He returned to play tracks such as the eerie and spacious, “Jupiter,” and “One Awkward Fish,” where he walked to a tiny mannequin of a baby on stage next to a mannequin of a pregnant woman draped in an American flag. He struggled to put arms on the baby, walked across the stage and kicked the baby off at the end of the song.

Clementine’s discordant piano playing, wide vocal range and odd stage habits fit perfectly with Byrne’s art-rock aesthetic. Byrne has championed Clementine’s music during interviews in recent years and is bringing the musician along for the whole tour. As stagehands undid the gray chain curtains, audience members craned their heads to look at the bare stage. A stagehand brought out a desk and chair.

The lights went out and the audience hushed. Clad in a gray suit and holding a prop brain, with gray chains rising behind him, Byrne appeared alone on stage singing “Here.” “Here is a region that continues living / even when the other sections are removed,” he sang as the lights went up on him. Members of his band, also all in gray, emerged from the curtain playing their instruments. Every instrument was wireless and the band danced as they moved throughout the setlist like the marching bands and color guards Byrne has been fascinated by for years.  Byrne’s two back up vocalists danced freely across the stage with simple and jagged choreography, and occasionally Byrne would grab a guitar from off stage to join them.

With such a physical and intentional presence on stage, it was hard to believe that the band was playing live, but according to Byrne, they were. The setlist ranged from Talking Heads classics like “I Zimbra” and “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” to songs from the musical about Imelda Marcos, a former first lady of the Philippines. The audience was standing for most of the show and danced in sync with the sporadic percussion in Byrne’s music.

The show didn’t wind down towards the end. Instead, Byrne pulled out the Talking Heads’ classic “Burning Down the House,” before two encores. He and the band came together on stage for an extended version of Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout,” a protest song naming Black people killed by police brutality. “Say his name!” the band shouted to the audience, voices hoarse and chests out. For those who doubt Byrne’s relevance or maybe skipped his set as Sasquatch wondering, “Who’s this old guy?” He’s so much more than the white hair on top of his head.

Setlist:

Here
Lazy
I Zimbra (Talking Heads song)
Slippery People (Talking Heads song)
I Should Watch TV (David Byrne & St. Vincent)
Dog’s Mind
Everybody’s Coming to My House
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads song)
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song)
Doing the Right Thing
Toe Jam (Brighton Port Authority cover)
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (Talking Heads song)
I Dance Like This
Bullet
Every Day Is a Miracle
Like Humans Do
Blind (Talking Heads song)
Burning Down the House (Talking Heads song)

Encore:
Dancing Together
The Great Curve (Talking Heads song)

Encore 2:
Hell You Talmbout
(Janelle Monáe cover)

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C. L. Max Nikias has agreed to resign as USC’s president Friday after nearly 500 faculty members, the Academic Senate and members of the USC community called on him to step down. His resignation comes after multiple scandals at the University, including, most recently, sexual misconduct allegations against former health center gynecologist George Tyndall.

In a letter to the USC community, Trustee Rick Caruso said the Board of Trustees heard the message that “something is broken and that urgent and profound actions are needed.”

“We recognize the need for change and are committed to a stable transition,” he wrote. “Please know that our actions will be swift and thorough, but we ask for your patience as we manage a complex process with due diligence.”

No timeline has been set for Nikias’ departure, and a successor has not yet been named.

The trustees’ decision was contrary to a statement released earlier this week by Board of Trustees Chairman John Mork. In that statement, the Board said it would continue to support Nikias’ action plan and leadership following the allegations against Tyndall.

Tyndall is accused of touching his patients inappropriately during pelvic exams, making inappropriate sexual comments during patient visits, and of exhibiting discriminatory behavior toward Chinese student patients who were unfamiliar with American medical practices. His alleged misconduct dates back to the 1990s, according to the Los Angeles Times.

While Tyndall has denied all allegations against him, a University hotline has received over 300 complaints from former patients in the last week.

“In hindsight, we should have made this report eight months earlier when he separated from the university,” Nikias wrote in a letter sent last week informing the USC community about the allegations against Tyndall.

Several women have also filed lawsuits against Tyndall and the University. In one lawsuit, four plaintiffs will be represented by John Manly, the lead attorney who helped settle a sexual assault case against Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar.

Manly, who received his bachelor’s degree from USC in 1986, said he was pleased with Nikias’ resignation, but that it was overdue.

“It’s a stain. It’s not only a stain on President Nikias but it’s a stain on our school,” Manly said. “I’ve never been more embarrassed or ashamed to be associated with an institution as I am right now.”

Manly also said that around 70 women have contacted his office regarding allegations against Tyndall and called the situation “a tragedy of epic proportions.”

The Tyndall accusations were only the most recent in a number  of controversies that have taken place in the past eleven months during Nikias’ presidency.

Last July, a Los Angeles Times report revealed that former Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen Puliafito had participated in drug-fueled parties and misconduct while serving as dean. The report also found that Puliafito had been using methamphetamines while seeing patients.

His successor, Rohit Varma, filled Puliafito’s vacant deanship despite the University disciplining him following an allegation that he had sexually harassed a colleague. Varma would go on to resign after less than a year as Puliafito’s replacement.

“Our leaders must be held to the highest standards. Dr. Varma understands this, and chose to step down,” USC Provost Michael Quick said in a statement after Varma’s resignation.

The University also faced sexual misconduct accusations involving professor Erick Guerrero and the University’s vice president of fundraising David Carrera. Carrera left his post and Guerrero was put on leave.

Now with the news of Nikias’ departure, Caruso says the University’s new focus will be to offer support, investigate what happened and listen to the community as more information becomes available regarding Tyndall and the University’s handling of the accusations.

“Our thoughts are with the families that have been affected by this situation, and our pledge to this community is that we will rebuild our culture to reflect an environment in which safety and transparency are of paramount importance, and to institute systemic change that will prevent this from occurring in the future,” Caruso wrote in the statement.

Academic Senate President Paul Rosenbloom echoed Caruso’s sentiments in a statement addressed to USC faculty, emailed to the Daily Trojan.

“With this change, we have cause to be optimistic,” Rosenbloom wrote. “We second the request from the Board of Trustees for patience, and we look forward to working together with them to ensure the healing of our students, staff, faculty, parents and alumni, and towards the betterment of the University.”

In addition to the Academic Senate’s vote in favor of Nikias stepping down, nearly 500 other faculty members signed a letter earlier this week calling for his resignation.

Undergraduate Student Government President Debbie Lee said in a statement to the Daily Trojan that she respects Nikias’ decision to leave his post as president of the University.

“This situation has definitely brought to light some of the deeper fissures within the university, and I hope that moving forward, we can work closely with the new administration to ensure that students, their safety, and their well-being are always the top of the priority list, regardless of what’s at stake for the university,” Lee wrote.

Prior to Nikias’ resignation, USG and the Graduate Student Government released a joint statement Friday expressing their concerns with allegations against Tyndall, and how the  University responded to them.

“Why should students find any comfort in the knowledge that University administrators did not act sooner because they ‘didn’t [know]’ about the extent of the abuse for two decades, reflecting either an unwillingness or inability of leadership to thoroughly investigate and identify problems, as well as a deeper cultural problem in which University sexual assault allegations go uninvestigated and students are discouraged from reporting?” the statement asked.

Former Undergraduate Student Government President Rini Sampath said that his resignation is “step one for the University.” Sampath created a petition calling for Nikias to step down. Her petition garnered over 4,000 signatures.

“I think that what has transpired is a result of students, alumni, faculty and parents all banding together saying that this should never happen again,” Sampath said, referring to the accusations of misconduct against Tyndall. “This is unacceptable leadership. We want a culture of care at USC and in order for that to happen, there needs to be top-down changes.”

Trojan Advocates for Political Progress, a student organization that called for the Board of Trustees to evaluate President Nikias’ conduct last week, also said they welcome his resignation.

“We hope this solution not only addresses past abuses but also works with the entire USC community, including victims, students, faculty, staff, alumni and the Board, to foster a culture and campus characterized by safety, accountability, transparency, and restored trust,” the TAPP executive board said in a statement to the Daily Trojan.

Nikias was selected as USC’s 11th president in 2010. Nikias joined the faculty in 1991, served as the dean of the Viterbi School for Engineering from 2001 to 2005, and served as provost under former president Steven Sample from 2005 to 2009.

Under Nikias’ leadership, the University saw its admission rate fall to a historic low of 12.9 percent this past year.

During his tenure, Nikias led a historic fundraising campaign raising more than $6 billion in less than six and a half years, 18 months ahead of schedule. The campaign has led USC to rank among the top three universities for fundraising, along with Stanford University and Harvard University.

Nikias also oversaw major developments at the University, including the construction of USC Village and Wallis Annenberg Hall, and created two new schools at the University: the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and the Iovine and Young Academy.

In his statement, Caruso said that the Board of Trustees will work to ensure that the USC community can move forward.

“We will work with faculty, staff, student leadership, and alumni, and our focus remains on offering support and counseling to those impacted, investigating what happened, and listening to and healing our community,” Caruso said in his statement.

Kate Sequeira and Allen Pham contributed to this report.

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Berkeley police found formerly missing 82-year-old man Leroy Milman

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Updated 5/28/18: This article has been updated to reflect information from a second Nixle alert. 

The Berkeley Police Department is looking for Leroy Milman, an 82-year-old man who has gone missing, according to a BPD alert released Monday evening.

Milman has a mild cognitive disorder, according to the alert, and must take his medication. He is described in the alert as having grey hair and brown eyes, and being 155 pounds and 5’6”. Milman was last seen at 1730 Delaware Street at approximately 12 p.m. Monday. 

As of 7:20 p.m., Milman has been located, according to a Nixle alert.

Sakura Cannestra is the executive news editor. Contact her at bcannestra@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @SakuCannestra.

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In this installment of Spotlight on Science, arts and culture writer Frankie Lewis speaks with journalist Becca Cudmore. Within their conversation are the struggles of being a science journalist, Cudmore’s work for Audobon and Nautilus, and a brief preview of her upcoming story on Cougar’s in the Pacific North West.

Spotlight on Science is a series from the Emerald Podcast Network designed ot spark conversations across disciplines with researchers at the University of Oregging in researchers to discuss their work in a way that is understandable to everyone.

Music in this episode is “Zombie Disco” by Six Umbrellas.

This episode was produced by Alec Cowan.

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