Archive for January, 2009
News In Brief
Insecticide for Termites Deemed Strong Greenhouse Gas; Workers Strike on UCI Campus for Disputed Reasons.
Irvine Weathers the Sudden Heat
CLIMATE: Students take advantage of favorable weather while others fear threats of global warming.
A Cry For Diversity
LECTURE: Distinguished Professor discusses benefits and problems of diversity in American society.
Fraternity Welcomes Little Brothers
PHILANTHROPY: Fraternity hosts event for less fortunate children from Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Twelfth Night
“Twelfth Night” is hardly as well-known as some of Shakespeare’s other plays, such as “Hamlet” or “Romeo and Juliet.” Yet that does not mean the play isn’t good – especially when the UC Irvine drama department is putting it on.
Inauguration Day Comes With a Bang
On inauguration day, Acrobatics Everyday celebrated its one-year anniversary and kicked off the beginning of a historic new presidential administration with the music of High Places, Protect Me and 60 Watt Kid.
Film and Video Center Lets the Right One In
Sinking her teeth into the neck of an unsuspecting victim, Eli’s actions are hardly those one would associate with a quiet 12-year-old girl. However, Eli has been a 12-year-old girl for a very long time…
Franz Ferdinand Returns to Form
Is it a blessing or a curse to be anointed the “next big thing” after your debut? While iconic alternative bands of the ’90s, like Radiohead, Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins used their first record as the calm before the storm, plenty of bands in this decade have hit the floor running, and the attention is overbearing. Franz Ferdinand is another example in the laundry list that includes Coldplay, Interpol, The Strokes, Bloc Party and a few others.
Indie 103.1 is Dead! Well, Only on the Radio, but Still Alive Online
Indie 103.1 has kicked the radio bucket in order to stay true to its mantra. Despite the rumors, it’s not shutting down, just moving everything to online streaming. But why the sudden shift? Esteban Lopez Blanco, Entravision’s (Indie’s parent company) executive director of interactive relations, clarified the situation…
Change at Last
At 4:10 a.m. on Jan. 20, the second metro headed for Washington, D.C. from a Virginia suburb is nearly packed. In the last hour before dawn, the frigid air bites through the heavily bundled passengers, even inside the train. The people don’t seem to mind the cold as they whisper excitedly to each other. Though no definite words can be made out, it is as though the collective murmurings of the passengers form the name that is on everyone’s mind, the name of a man “whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant.”
