Archive for October, 2006
Stairways to Nowhere and Spirits Abound at Winchester
If Sarah Winchester had lived in Orange County instead of San Jose, the Irvine Company would probably have tried to evict her. With her quirky sensibilities and 38 years of non-stop construction on her house, the 160-room mansion had, at its peak, more eccentricity on its first of seven floors than Irvine has in its [...]
News in Brief
UCI Medical Center Technician Accidentally Shot by Police
Police shot an X-ray technician in the upper back at the Hoag Health Center’s Woodbridge clinic while chasing a bank robber.
The exchange of gunfire took place at about 11:20 a.m. in the parking lot between the clinic and Wells Fargo on Barranca Parkway and Creek Road.
As the suspect [...]
Author Marcos Aguinis Speaks on Jewish Life in South America
Religion: The Department of Spanish and Portuguese sponsored the author’s discussion.
Men’s Basketball Season Preview
It was the shot heard all around UC Irvine.
With UCI’s men’s basketball team up by a single point and 5.3 seconds left in the game, Cal State Long Beach’s Aaron Nixon hit a fall-away three-pointer as time expired, ending the Anteater season and giving the 49ers an improbable 75-73 victory.
Nixon almost turned the ball over [...]
Ngugi wa Thiong’o's ‘Wizard of the Crow’
On Thursday, Oct. 27, the UC Irvine Bookstore celebrated the English translation of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 768-page novel ‘Wizard of the Crow,’ a political satire originally written in Gikuyu, Thiong’o’s native language.
Ngugi, head of the International Center for Writing and Translation, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCI and an honorable member of [...]
‘Treehouse’ Oozes Sap, Laughs
Autumn is upon us. The trees have turned color, the days are shorter and the temperature has plummeted into the high 60s. Only one thing would make the season complete: Kang and Kodos.
Yes, it’s time once again for Halloween, Simpsons-style Sunday Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. on FOX. This 17th edition of the annual ‘Simpsons’ [...]
Student Transportation Gets Slow Makeover
ASUCI: Students have hoped for more immediate results from last school year’s Measure S.
Men’s Water Polo Sunk by Trojans
Water Polo: The men’s water polo team put up a tough fight before falling to the top-ranked team in the country.
Tan Nguyen Letter Reveals Moral Bankruptcy
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