The latest visit to a restaurant that serves stacks on stacks on stacks of pancakes. By Katelyn McCullough CONTRIBUTOR Cedros Avenue is known to many as the design district within the Solana Beach area. The appeal of Claire’s lies in the food, atmosphere and inviting space. Claire’s is a home […]
Read moreBy Morgan Lewis STAFF WRITER Disclaimer: The following review contains spoilers. Prior to Sunday April 7th, “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s description of the Season 6 premier was as lacking as Don Draper’s dialogue in “Doorway,” but the two hour, multi-dimensional episode makes your average “Mad Men” fanatic run around […]
Read moreBy Tori Pappas STAFF WRITER When great television is the topic of conversation, the networks HBO or Showtime usually come to mind before AMC. However, AMC’s hit series “Mad Men,” has consistently broken this common conception. The series’ dashing leading man, Don Draper (Jon Hamm), has stolen the hearts of […]
Read moreBy Khea Pollard Assistant A&C Editor Poet Rudy Francisco graced USD with his poetic genius April 8th, at 6 p.m. in the SLP Exhibition Hall in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness week. You may know him from the poetry venue North Park, Elevated, as a member of the popular group […]
Read moreBy Loren Robb CONTRIBUTOR Apparently San Diego is fond of the Scottish. Or it may just be their blood that runs the streets. While I waited for the main act to grace the stage this misty Tuesday night in Solana Beach, I struck up a conversation with the fellowship surrounding […]
Read moreBy Blanca Torii ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR It’s coming to a close, the end of my college experience. It’s not the end of school for me, but the term “college experience” as I so often saw, read and heard as depicted before attending. I had this idea of college before […]
Read moreBy Jackson Somes CONTRIBUTOR At the second event of her stay at USD, Leymah Gbowee recalled waking up one day as a seventeen year old girl faced with the responsibilities of a woman twice that age. All the men were absent from the community and Liberia was in the throes […]
Read moreBy Leeza Earl STAFF WRITER Nobel Peace Laureate, Liberian peace activist, social worker and women’s right advocate Leymah Gbowee spoke with women from all over the world at the 9th Annual International Women’s Day Breakfast about the violence against women in the world and how we can positively change the […]
Read moreBy Devon Beck STAFF WRITER As a growing field, peacebuilding is seen as a vital tool for managing and resolving conflicts between and within states. USD has taken steps to further this field and involve the student body in peacebuilding. The Bolstering Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding event kick-started the west […]
Read moreBy Rashmi Chugani CONTRIBUTOR White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on March 13, announcing to the world that the Catholic Church has selected a new leader. The 115 voting cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a 76-year-old Argentine as the new Pope. Cardinal Bergoglio chose Francis as his papal name. […]
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