Category: Business

By Christopher Reyes BUSINESS EDITOR @cd_rey The Apple Watch is a bad product. It is an amazing piece of technology; There is no denying that. It represents the absolute best engineering and technology available today, but it takes more than that to inspire people to adopt a new product, even […]

By Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR In class the other day, my professor asked us “how do people measure happiness?” Of course, happiness is subjective and can vary from person to person but society has certain ways of measuring it. Perhaps the reason for unhappiness lies in those measurements and the […]

By Rebecca Lukito CONTRIBUTOR With summer just around the corner, many USD students are going back home or traveling abroad. While some of us may take classes or work to keep busy, others might have more free time to meet up with old friends or hang out with family. Amidst […]

By Henry Kittle STAFF WRITER Look out Rubicon, there’s a new sandwich shop in town and its not for the weak hearted. Fat Sal’s, located on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach, is the cutting edge culinary vision of three friends from New York. The founders are made up of food […]

By Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR Blurtopia, a new mobile phone application that could potentially change the way the entire world views and interacts with social media. For the past few years, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have dominated the charts in terms of most downloaded and used apps—but something new is […]

By Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR As young as elementary school, parents, teachers and role models preach to children “if you can dream it, you can do it”. If you’re anything like me, by the time you reached high school you started to feel like that wasn’t quite realistic. However, for […]

By Henry Kittle STAFF WRITER Whether you’ve noticed the snapback hats with “Pelican” sewed in cursive around campus, they’re out there and there’s more coming. The forces behind the hat, and its accompanying line of apparel are Steven Melendez of Los Angeles and Tyler Howard of Central Coast, California. The […]

By Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR With the job market down and the stress level of employed Americans at an all time high, many employees are unable to get an adequate amount of sleep each night. With the increasing number of employees out sick or those who are tired while on […]

By Kendall Tich BUSINESS EDITOR Just last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg anxiously awaited the passing of his proposed ban on large sugary drinks. Before it could pass, however, a state judge of New York blocked the bill saying that the law was “arbitrary and capricious” a was […]

By Taylor Milam STAFF WRITER “How are you?” It’s a simple question, a nice pleasantry even. The majority of answers I hear to this question seem to detail the overwhelmingly busy life led by the person I mistakenly inquired after. I constantly overhear fellow students complaining about their busy schedules, […]