Archive for April 3rd, 2006
Regents Remove Sudan Investments
In a decisive move, the Regents of the University of California voted at a March 16 meeting to remove investments from nine companies with financial ties to the Sudanese government in protest of the government’s acts of genocide in the Darfur region.
Grad Students Win Lawsuit
A San Francisco judge recently ruled against the UC Regents in a lawsuit brought by a group of UC professional students.
Student Center on Track Despite Setbacks
In late January, the Associated Students of UC Irvine legislative council passed Bill R 41-42 in response to concerns that the Student Center construction would go over budget and that amenities would need to be cut back as a result.
State Department of Health Services Faults UCIMC in Patient Suici
When an 18-year-old patient in the neuropsychiatric ward of the UC Irvine Medical Center committed suicide on Dec. 14, the California Department of Health Services began an investigation to determine whether the hospital could have taken measures to preve
Nobel Laureate Ties Environment and Peace
About 100 people without invitations were turned away from a lecture by 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, who spoke at UC Irvine on March 20 in Humanities Instructional Building 100.
UC Irvine’s Concert Choir Speaks the Universal Language in Englan
St. Paul’s Cathedral has stood in what once was Londinium, what today is London and it will probably still be standing 111 meters tall in whatever city eventually replaces London. In the cathedral’s more than 1,400 years of offering service to God, countl
The Back-Up Plan—Trust Me, You Need One, Too
It’s almost one in the morning, at the end of a spring break filled with waiting tables, gin and tonics and random acts of senseless adventure. Instead of being relaxed, however, I am forever uneasy, with a sickening knot in my stomach and a head that is
Many ‘Faces of Africa’ Filled With Hope
When Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher met in the late 1970s they began a journey across sub-Saharan Africa, envisioning that one day they would create ‘a colorful, comprehensive, detailed record of the most important ceremonies that brought African indivi
Share Our Selves in Santa Ana
Partying in Rosarito was no spring break ideal for some UC Irvine students on a mission. While classmates hit the beach, volunteers for the Share Our Selves Medical Clinic of Costa Mesa were busy launching a community health fair to combat youth obesity.
Senate Declares a Year of Study Abroad
If you were asked to locate Iraq on a world map, could you? According to a National Geographic global literacy survey, about 87 percent of students in the United States between the ages of 18 and 24 cannot. The survey went as far as to reveal that 11 perc
