Archive for October 1st, 2007
News in Brief
UCI Builds High-Tech Playhouse for Charity Organization
A team from UC Irvine’s facilities management recently built a high tech playhouse for HomeAid Orange County’s Project Playhouse 2007 fundraiser, an event in which whimsical cottages built by top California engineering and building teams are displayed and auctioned off to raise money for homeless shelters. The playhouses are [...]
The Format Brings Desert Heat to Aldrich
The Format, like the opening bands, Newvale and Melee, transcended all definite labels at the Associated Students of UC Irvine’s Concert in the Park on September 26, 2007.
Newvale was an appropriate opening band, starting out gently as the sun set in Aldrich Park. The instruments combined to perform lush melodies that were punctuated by incompatible [...]
Rock ‘N Roll’s Fate in 2008
Death Cab For Cutie has come a long way from its first album, ‘You Can Play These Songs With Chords,’ released on cassette in 1997.
The band took some time off this year and wrote separately before it all came together. The musicians made magic happen with their eighth full-length record, their second Atlantic Records album [...]
6th Ranked UCI on a Roll
WATER POLO: Men’s Water Polo team defeats Cal State Long Beach and UC Santa Barbara
Staying Sane and Keeping on Top of the College Life Game
It has been a couple of years since I first came to UC Irvine, but I still remember walking around campus, trying to adjust to my new life. I was still in shock by the time my second week at UCI had begun.
I couldn’t stop reminding myself that I was a new college student on [...]
The Truth Behind America’s Bottled Water Industry
It is an understatement to assert that water is a simple and basic resource we all need to survive. In the United States, clean, healthy water is available almost everywhere. And yet, the bottled water industry has grown tremendously in the last thirty years and has been forecasted to grow even more next year.
Why then, [...]
Ahmadinejad Deserves Debate
Standing in his customary grey sport coat, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bellowed to an audience of hundreds of students at the annual ‘World Without Zionism’ conference in Tehran in October 2005. Less then a year after being elected Iran’s sixth president, what he said at this conference brought him into the international spotlight, turning him [...]
2007 Looks to Be Year of the Receiver
NFL: Receivers are putting up impressive numbers, and it just might result in re-writing the recordbooks.
Anteaters go into Big West Play after Two Ties
MEN’S SOCCER: Anteaters go into Big West Conference play following two ties versus Brown and SDSU.
Get High With Great Park Balloon Ride
Before you leave UC Irvine, take a 10-minute drive to the other side of the city and ride the 118-foot tall helium balloon
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