To the Editor: I’m not a USC alumna, however I’m moved to jot down as a result of the college’s craven actions relating to range, fairness and inclusion have stained the fame of all Los Angeles residents (“USC scrubs DEI from some webpages as Trump cracks down on campus diversity programs,” Feb. 28).
The town’s range and dedication to social justice is its superpower. As a college that’s linked within the minds of many to this metropolis, USC has greater requirements to keep up.
Talking of requirements, the Annenberg Faculty for Communication and Journalism’s actions stand out as significantly egregious as a result of they undermine its mission. The varsity will not be upholding requirements of journalistic excellence when it obfuscates language and a prime administrator and college member refuse to talk to the press.
USC has bowed to authoritarian strain by “obeying upfront.” It could actually and should do higher for the sake of our metropolis and all the good it represents.
Janine Perron, Los Angeles
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I used to be angered however not shocked once I examine USC capitulating to President Trump’s anti-DEI tyranny. However with out even a direct risk, USC directors worry a man-made intelligence scrubber may discover their DEI-speak and drain the school of some unknown quantity of federal funding.
Please. Is that this the journalistic and scholastic management college students ought to anticipate in 2025? If USC needs to proceed to be one of the vital revered journalism faculties within the nation, it ought to put down this cowardice, stand as much as Trump and “Combat On.”
Carrie Poppy, Los Angeles
The author earned a grasp’s in journalism from USC in 2015.
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To the editor: President Trump hates range, fairness and inclusion. It’s wasteful spending and, heaven forbid, may deliver “totally different” folks to the desk. USC, in response, scrubs some references to DEI.
Bear in mind when your mother advised you to wash your room and you probably did it in report time? That’s as a result of your whole stuff went underneath your mattress.
USC can brazenly cease making a show of its dedication to DEI. Except Trump requires a thoughts wipe, USC employees and directors can nonetheless comply with DEI pointers; they only don’t should promote it. Trump won’t ever look underneath the mattress.
Pat Conwell, La Mesa
