ESPN glorifies the college recruiting process. During key recruiting seasons its Web site, ESPN.com, features rankings of the top high school prospects in football and basketball.
As the rain swept in early Friday morning, it didn't look as though the UC Irvine Men's Tennis team (8-8, 1-1) would be doing much of anything besides trying to stay dry. The 27th annual Anteater Classic began the day before with a 5-2 win against the Uni
After a late start due to the referee being stuck in traffic for half an hour, the women's water polo teams of UC Irvine and Arizona State University faced off at the Anteater Aquatics Complex last Saturday. The Anteaters, ranked 11th in the Mountain Paci
If you've been following the college basketball tournament at all these last few weeks (and I know a lot of you have, judging by the size of UC Irvine's Facebook pool alone) you've been treated to a competitive and upset-laden tournament that's busted you
Apparently the top-ranked UC Irvine Men's Volleyball team is oblivious to the pressure that comes with being the target of the rest of the nation.
Taking the best shot No. 6 Long Beach State had to offer, UCI recovered from suspect passing and blocking i
With all the political and economic issues going on around us these days, it can be very easy to miss the truly newsworthy stories that foreshadow important changes in what society considers humane and acceptable.
David Syatt's article in the March 13 issue of the New University, entitled 'Pro-Lifers Use Religious and Sexist Reasoning' conveys a weak argument because the author did not exercise the principles he claimed to espouse.
It is unfortunate, because I ag
Last month the California State Assembly voted 49-0 to enact the Leno-Cohn Bill. The bill also known as AB 50 was designed to increase penalties on sex offenders and create a sex offender treatment program.
For the second time in only a few short months the French streets are filled with riot police, rampaging youths and tear gas.
The riots in France raise some important and troubling issues concerning its current economic and social situation.
If you spent your Spring Break in Southern California, you were doubtless confronted by a barrage of doomsday proclamations by arguers on both sides of the burgeoning illegal immigration debate.
A singer with two college degrees who reads classic literature in his spare time, a bassist with 'kung fu grip' and a 'Star Wars' obsession, and a drummer who doesn't drink and wears a suit to every show? A strange accent, and not what you might expect fr
The Wachowski brothers are famous for their modern '1984' parable, 'The Matrix' trilogy. Those films, needless to say, had quite an impact on the pop culture scene, not only because they redefined action films for the modern generation, but also because o
In the second episode of 'South Park''s 10th season, Comedy Central's most lucrative and long standing series, established that they intend to put nontopical, original plotlines on the back burner, and continue to satirize everything and anything in their
'Everybody ain't a stereotype, just because I look wrong I'm about to do right!' If the new television series 'Black.White.' had a motto, this would be it.
