@Darin off you can remove the badge by deleting the check in that gave you the badge.

Unlock Message:
"You know USC like only a loyal member of the Trojan Family can. Wear the cardinal and gold with pride. Fight on!"

Rumor has it that this badge will go active on or around the 17th of august

Venue Lists:
All of University of Southern California’s Tips

Greyed badge showing in my Foursquare Badge List. Almost time for it to unlock.

Just in from the USC twitter acct:

"T minus 2... The USC @foursquare badge launches on Move-In Day. Who will be the first to figure out how to unlock it?"

So it is now no lomger a rumor this badge will be available on the 17th

Wondering if I should start checking in to the venues above... Just in case...

Today is the day!!! Hopefully...

Per Twitter this badge is now active and there are unlocks. I have clicked all of the links above and it still has not popped. Maybe previous check ins don't count.

Unlock Message:
"You know USC like only a loyal member of the Trojan Family can. Wear the cardinal and gold with pride. Fight on!"

anyone know how many venues? I've checked in to 9 of them and no unlock.

@RainWave23 Still trying to figure that out myself...

Per the unlocks on twitter, the venues are

https://foursquare.com/venue/16504341(This is in New York but there is a tip by USC)
https://foursquare.com/venue/30659
https://foursquare.com/venue/349511
https://foursquare.com/venue/887921
https://foursquare.com/venue/320501

did a search for True Trojan.

https://foursquare.com/waltisbadical/badge/4e4bd29162e1ce23e57a3152?ref=tw

I actually only found 1 unlock... :-(

Maybe the New York venue is the key.

Another tweet: https://foursquare.com/oneramjac/badge/4e4bdcd46284a0b024b831c4?ref=tw

I am going to delete my checkins and mosey on down to my home state and get the Texas A&M badge.

anyone having any luck with these? I was up to 15 venues for USC, no unlock.

Nope, I can't seem to get either one of the college badges... Only thing I can think of is that the venues need to be visited on different days.

Pretty frustrating. I was looking forward to a couple of new badges today... :-(

No luck here...but I will mention that this venue
https://foursquare.com/venue/887921
is listed twice in the unlock instructions (I know that isn't preventing us from getting the badge)

11 check-ins (no rapid - got points)...still no luck...sigh...:(

Yep. We are all having the same issues. The checkins must have to be on seperate days.

Only explanation is it needs multiple days. Guess it makes sense if it is for the university students. Don't want everyone getting the badge on the same day.

I just got this from USC's twitter:

"The badge unlock isn't related to the tips page."

Maybe we need to check into campus venues and NOT what's on their tips page and see if that works. Everyone is saying 5 venues should do it. I'm going to test and see what I can find out.

But isn't 5 venues on their tips page campus venues? Maybe 5 university venue types?

Maybe 1 checkin a day for 5 days

if you have the sun devil you can't unlock any other.. a choice has to be made..

find out delete your sun devil one and one more checkin and you'll get the USC

what that sucks, i like the sun devil badge

I can confirm what @mgrob said is true. I deleted my check-in for Arizona State, and checked in to a USC venue, and the badge unlocked. I'm not sure if this means you can only have one of these? I'm going to try Texas A&M next, but it'll take a couple hours to wait for "travel time."

Guess they feel you can only be at 1 university. This is stupid on 4sqr part.

I went to 2 colleges when i was in school. 4sqr get your head out of your ass!

I know this is a bad move on there part, guess you have to figure which badge is most important to have...lol

I have a tweet to "@4sqOnCampus" asking them why they're doing that

great hope you get an answer back on the badge, thanks rain

@JR1 how you do it?

This has turned into such a stressful event! How else to you complain to 4sqr besides twitter?