Archive for April, 2007
UCIPD Continues to Fight Selling to Minors
TRANSPORTATION: The UCIPD uses underage cadets to catch those who are willing to buy alcohol for minors.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight in Soweto
The raspy tone of ‘Black Velvet’ singer Alannah Myles channeled its way through female Soweto Gospel Choir soloists on Saturday, April 14 at the Barclay Theatre.
The 25-member Grammy award-winning choir effortlessly sings Bob Marley’s ‘One Love,’ ‘Siteng Sediba’ (that’s ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ to you) and ‘Amazing Grace,’ along with modern and traditional South African [...]
2007 ASUCI Elections Academic Vice President: Amanda Napier
Amanda Napier is a third-year biological sciences major.
The average UCI student has no idea what the Office of Academic Affairs does. Explain what you do as if you were explaining it to a first-grader.
The Academic Affairs Office overall represents the student-body when it comes to developing new majors and academic rules at their school. [...]
Erickson Breaks NCAA Saves Record
BASEBALL: Senior closer Blair Erickson registers his 50th career save, breaking the NCAA career saves record.
2007 ASUCI Elections Presidential Candidates: AJ Sciutto
AJ Sciutto is a fourth-year film studies and digital arts major.
In your candidate statement you name ‘working with housing’ as part of your platform. What does that mean specifically?
With housing, I really plan on speeding up the rate that the third section of VDC gets built. With housing’s new policy of guarantee housing [...]
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
When Cartoon Network launched its Sunday night ‘Adult Swim’ programming block nearly six years ago, they packed it with a variety of short, bizarre, original cartoons in the tradition of the equally bizarre ‘Space Ghost Coast to Coast.’ For whatever reason, the most enduring of these has been a show about a milkshake, a [...]
UCI’s 2007 Battle of the Bands
The musical bar was raised, the crowd was significantly larger and, compared to the year before, the quality of performances took a complete 180-degree turn at this year’s UC Irvine Battle of the Bands.
The system of selection remained the same: Bands sent in demos and were called in for acoustic auditions just days before the [...]
2007 ASUCI Elections Executive Vice President: Jaclyn Baccaro
Jaclyn Baccaro is a second-year English major.
What is the state of external affairs and what would you do differently?
I believe that the current state of external affairs is very good. Our relationship with University of California Students Association is very good. We are sending our largest constituency to many of their events which include the [...]
2007 Vietnamese Int’l. Film Festival at UCI
Well over two hundred bodies scuttled around Edwards University Cinema on Thursday evening, brushing shoulders with various Vietnamese TV hosts, actors, actresses and singers. All were eager to see the cast, crew and world premiere of the martial arts and stunning cinematic epic ‘The Rebel,’ the Vietnamese film by Charlie Nguyen starring Johnny Nguyen, Dustin [...]
