Archive for October 2nd, 2006

ASUCI Funding Board Meets

ASUCI: New funding board sets stage for how clubs will request and receive money for events and programs.

Cornered! A Weekly CD Review

‘Liberation Transmission’ by lostprophets

Good Protest, But Not Great Protest

Protest: Peaceful protesters met even more peaceful police in Los Angeles hotel workers protest.

Major League Baseball Playoff Preview

Baseball: The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are on a collision course to play in the World Series.

Pi Phi Shows Love to Suffering Sisters

While most UC Irvine Greeks are recruiting new members this week, one sorority is in mourning. Two Pi Beta Phi sorority sisters, Lianne Takamori, a UCI alumna in engineering, and Celia Aceves, a UCI alumna in Spanish, lost family members this summer. Pi Beta Phi has been expressing their condolences by fundraising on behalf of [...]

Video Games Live

The house lights dim at the Hollywood Bowl, revealing the orchestra prepared for the symphony. The conductor for the evening, Jack Wall, dutifully marches onstage to the traditional applause and, before he starts up the orchestra with the first piece of the evening, the giant video screen above darkens, as if to display close-up shots [...]

Bush Should Not ‘Reinterpret’ Geneva

Last week, both the House and Senate passed controversial legislation giving President George W. Bush new authority for detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists.
While the bill gives detainees some rights, it does not allow terrorists to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their detention. Most contentious is the hypocrisy of the bill. It outlaws torture, yet at [...]

History Lesson on Churchill

If the leaders of the United States could have heard Sir Martin Gilbert’s talk about Britain’s lessons regarding Winston Churchill’s forewarnings of danger, perhaps they would have been more inclined to take all threats to U.S. safety seriously.
Hypotheticals aside, what were Britain’s mistakes before World War II and how has the United States made similar [...]

News in Brief

UCI Professor Named Vice Chancellor of African School
Neurobiology Professor Hans Keirstead left on Friday for the humid, barren region of Conakry, Guines in West Africa, where he will become the new vice chancellor at the University of Community Development on Oct. 3.

Keirstead’s father, Ken, is the president of the school and teaches its 280 students [...]

MSU Fast-a-thon

Hungry students drifted into the Bren Events Center. During the ensuing banquet, hijabs were common and casual conversation between Muslim students flowed throughout the room.
These students were breaking fast at sunset for the Ramadan, the holiest and most significant month in the Muslim calendar.
The Fast-a-thon, a month of fasting supported by monetary pledges, began officially [...]