ABHIRUKT N. SAPRU
LOS ANGELES- The newest mutated form of the H1N1 flu virus has had a bizarre effect on one female student at the University of Southern California. Janice Odwallan, a member of one of the school’s better-known Greek sororities, has transformed into a rare breed of pig.
20 year-old Odwallan, now nicknamed Babe, has turned into the ‘Sus ahoenobarbus’ species, more commonly known as the Palawan Bearded Pig. This variety is indigenous to the Balabac, Palawan, and the Calamian islands in the Philippines and is almost impossible to find out …

DANNY LUBER
Most USC students make visits back home to catch up on sleep.  For Thomas McFarlstein, it was the complete opposite.  This sophomore became so accustomed to falling asleep to the sounds of fire trucks and ambulances racing down Figueroa Street that his visitations back home in Missouri were plagued by severe cases of insomnia.  It was not until this summer, while working on his grandfather’s wheat farm, that he discovered the potential for a siren-sounding sleep machine.
“I was listening to Chamillionaire’s ‘Ridin’ Dirty’ on my iPod and caught myself …