Daily Archives: Jan 9, 2006

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Women’s Basketball Pummeled

Despite an unending effort by the UC Irvine Women's Basketball team, last Saturday's game against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was nothing more than disappointing.

Men’s B-Ball Goes Cold Against Aggies

Would you really believe it if I said the Bren Events Center was going bonkers last Wednesday, Jan. 4 when the UC Irvine Men's Basketball team went heads up against UC Davis? I didn't think so.

Men’s Volleyball Spikes Cal Baptist in Season Opener

The New Year not only brought along new hope for the UC Irvine Men's Volleyball team, who finished last season with a dismal 9-20 record, but new expectations with a highly talented roster and many returning starters heading into their season, which opene

UC Irvine Soccer Looking More and More Like an Emerging Power

As the NFL playoffs are now upon us, one would expect a sports nut like me to be obsessing over the road to Super Bowl XL. Although I will watch every game intently, a different kind of f

UCI Lands Olympic Champion Coach

The future of the UC Irvine Women's Soccer program was not looking very good after two straight losing seasons and the resignation of Head Coach Marine Cano. But on Dec. 19 the Women's Soccer program received an early Christmas present that instantly made

Minimum Wage: States Have Caught On

The last time Congress unpacked the issue of the federal minimum wage, brought it into light and increased its former rate from $4.75 to its current rate of $5.15 was in 1997.

Why Look Back?

The end of the year is generally when I turn the news off for a week or so because whether or not there is something to report, journalists like to turn their focus to history. Highlights of 2005 flood every news program and paper, with phrases like 'The

Bush Defends Spying

Benjamin Franklin once said, 'Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.'

Hollywood Resists Needed Modernization

The first legal TV show downloads put on the Internet last year by Apple and studios experimenting with the new media marked the beginning of the end of media as we know it.

Future U.S. Soldiers: Weigh Your Options

Dear potential U.S. military personnel, As you go through high school, and those difficult years immediately after, you might be considering the military as a possible career option. You may be thinking about either enlisting into one of the country's fo

Miscommunication Causes Media Mistrust

The recent coal mining tragedies of Sago, W. Va. involving an explosion caused by disputed factors has caused an uproar against the mining company, the governor and the news media.

Falling Orange and Reel Big Fish at the OC’s New Year’s Party

When you think of New Year's Eve, you probably think of New York, counting down with Dick Clark and watching the ball drop in Times Square. This will soon change, because now Orange County is stepping up with its own countdown and claim to fame: the Orang

OCMA Presents ‘John Waters: Change of Life’

John Waters is an artist, a satirist, a modern-day visionary. One of the most controversial film-makers to emerge from the 1960s, he is best known for writing and directing such films as 'Hairspray,' 'Pink Flamingoes' and 'A Dirty Shame.' Waters' controve

‘Fateless’: Beauty in a Boy’s Concentration Camp Experience

Directed by Lajos Koltai, 'Fateless' is an artistic portrayal of the Holocaust in which traces of beauty are seen in a barren landscape of death, cruelty and helplessness.

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