Archive for April 2nd, 2007
UCs Treating Outsourced Laborers Unfairly
Commentary
Alternative Magazine Concert Presses On With Cute
Leave it to Alternative Press Magazine, one of the music industry’s largest publications, to take an ordinary list of 100 bands you need to know and team up with Rockstar energy drinks to produce a full-fledged 32-city North American tour, featuring four rock bands that packed the floor of The Glasshouse on Wednesday, March 21.
The [...]
Baseball Takes Two From Dirtbags
BASEBALL: The UC Irvine baseball team’s record now stands at 22-7-1 overall and 2-1 in the Big West.
Pres. Candidates+Internet=LOLLERSKATES
There’s nothing that young people, especially those in key voter demographics, love more than when grown-ups loosen their ties, squat down to look them in the eye and say, ‘I understand you, young person. What up, dawg? Let’s kick it old-school, homey. It’s all good.’
Or at least, that’s what the ‘grown-ups’ seem to think.
These days, [...]
’1984′: Doubleplusgood
Pop quiz: Who said the following? ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.’ Karl Rove? Tony Snow? Nope. George Orwell.
Here’s another one: ‘When we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.’ Orwell again? Good guess, but no. That would be President George W. Bush.
It should come as no surprise, then, [...]
News in Brief
Internet Founding Father To Speak at UC Irvine
Vinton Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will discuss the future of the Internet and his views on information bit rot at the Cal-IT2 Building at UC Irvine on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 a.m.
While studying at UCLA in the late 60s and early 70s, [...]
Chancellor Drake Goes to Washington
POLITICS: Drake stresses funding basic research before the Committee on Financial Services.
Newt Gingrich Shows Hypocrisy With Affair
‘Anyone who considers oral sex not to be ‘sexual relations’ is either doing it wrong or is a politician,’ says Stephen Talbot, co-writer and producer of the 1996 ‘Frontline’ documentary ‘The Long March of Newt Gingrich.’ The ‘politician’ in question is former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who admitted in a radio interview [...]
