By Morgan Lewis CONTRIBUTOR It’s a Friday evening at USD’s brand new $13 million dollar facility. The Toreros are hosting the conference rival Brigham Young University Cougars. The stands are littered with fans that came to support one of the nation’s better baseball programs. Yet, among 600 or so people […]
Read moreBy Angelique Bash CONTRIBUTOR Lauren Silberman’s abysmal tryout at the NFL regional combine at the Jets’ training center in New Jersey last Sunday has sparked harsh criticism. Criticism is to be expected though, considering that as the first woman to try out at an NFL regional combine, she was only […]
Read moreBy Nick Dilonardo OPINION EDITOR The Vista was invited to interview Gayatari Spivak, author of “Can the Subaltern Speak,” an essay examining the support structure of patriarchal privilege. NICK DILONARDO:. I go to the University of San Diego, and it’s a place of no uncertain privilege, and one of the […]
Read moreBy Jamie Shea CONTRIBUTOR Walking to class the other day, I had to step onto the grass to avoid a collision with someone who was texting while walking. She stopped, apologized and then immersed herself back into her phone. I looked around, counting four other people in the immediate vicinity […]
Read moreBy Bianca Bruno CONTRIBUTOR As many seniors are nearing graduation in May, they are forced to face something many privileged USD students have never had to deal with: an unknown future. Many of us have been conditioned from a young age to do well in school, go to a good […]
Read moreBy 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 […]
Read moreBy 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 […]
Read moreBy 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 […]
Read moreBy Margaret Hartley CONTRIBUTOR Long shaggy brown hair, a face covered in a scruffy beard, wearing a loose tee and some dark jeans, Matt Costa looks like your average southern California dude. It was hard to spot him out as the headliner artist among the male audience at the Casbah. […]
Read moreBy Angelique Bash CONTRIBUTOR There are approximately 7,017,846,922 people in the world who use the Internet, 348,280,154 in North America alone (internetworldstats.com). This large number can be quite intimidating to people who would like to make a name for themselves in the world of online blogging. How can one possibly […]
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