THE HYPOTHESIS: Ladies and gentlemen, our Saturdays have officially become better. Saturdays play host to college football throughout the country and we get to watch players and students put everything on the line in the name of their school colors.
THE ORACLE: This may be the year both the men's and women's soccer teams break out. There, I said it. This season should be when Scott Juniper's women's squad takes it to the next level, and George Kuntz's squad bounces back.
Ryan Bailey, Jeff Powers, Rick Merlo, and Tim Hutten represented UCI in the Olympics by winning an unexpected silver medal, their first medal since 1988.
High textbook prices are nothing new to us college folk. Every quarter I drop by TextMania to suffer a barrage of blows to my bank account. If they don't have what I need, then I trek over to UC Irvine's bookstore and pay even more through the nose. Consider John E. McMurry's "Organic Chemistry." A new copy is listed for $209.95; discounted, it's bumped down to about $150; used copies run $110 and up. Sure, that's $100 in savings, but it's still $110 for a freakin' book.
After a three-year absence, the Anthill Pub is back. You stroll in, place an order for some delectable fire ants and saunter up to the bar to order a drink. But whoops, you are only a lowly 18-year-old and sub human at best. Save the few who have decided to abstain from drinking, we have all lived through the awkward years of resorting to the lowliest of tactics in order to get that sweet nectar.
Each generation through the course of history cannot be abstracted from its place in time and culture. As a result, generations are often characterized by a trait that reflects the circumstances of a particular period in history. It would be fair to say that our current generation is shaped by the digital age; technology now affects behavior more than any other generation of the past.
The Maloof Money Cup, a three-day professional skateboarding festival, took place in Costa Mesa this year, with over $450,000 in prize money up for grabs.
