Mesa Court was the first residence hall community constructed at UCI in 1965. Ondas, pictured here, is a Unit V residence hall, the latest phase of Mesa Court halls.

LITERATURE: UCI librarians celebrate the freedom to read by promoting controversial and censored books.

Acupressure Superior to Sedatives Prior to Surgery; UC Irvine Researchers Study Social Networks; The Vice Presidential Debate Doesn't Pay-lin Off; $14.5 Million Awarded to UCI for National Children's Study; UC Irvine Medical Center Voted Top in Nation

CONSERVATION: A drought has added increased risk to traditional seasonal wildfire danger.

Students hold a fashion show at the Phineas Banning Alumni House on October 3rd. The Fashion for Lupus event kicks off the year to raise funds for Anteaters Against Autoimmunity, a soon-to-be-established organization at UCI that will educate the public about the effects of autoimmune diseases.

CRIME: A sexual assault early last Sunday morning is the first involving a non-UCI student in eight years.

Finance: The government has bailed out careless lenders with $700 billion of your money.

An investigation has uncovered that UCI Medical Center doctors have completed anesthesiology patient records prior to surgery.

LEGISLATION: University presidents sign initiative and open debate to lower drinking age to 18.

Thumbs down all around: McCain Campaign; Dino Rossi; Chicago Cubs.

Palin; Palin; Pali—err, Putin.

While the New University's recent article entitled "PETA Accusations Fall Flat" by David Lumb [Sept. 29] provided graphic details about how rats and frogs were mutilated and killed for experiments in Neurobiology courses at UC Irvine, the article's title mistakenly suggested that PETA's accusations about this were somehow debunked.

Throughout this election season, there has been great concern among Republicans as to whether or not young, evangelical Christians will remain loyal to the Grand Old Party (GOP), which has been justified by a recent lack of support for John McCain among evangelicals. A recent survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner featured in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly found that young white evangelical Christians aged 18 to 29 years "are less supportive of John McCain for president than their older counterparts."

Justice may be blind, sometimes deaf and too often dumb, but every once in a while it still gets something right. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ordered the government to release photos documenting abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.