Archive for February, 2010

Letter to Editor: Misinformed Opinion

To whom it may concern, This letter is in reference to the article you published on Feb 22, 2010 entitled “Black History Month?” I am shocked and outraged that the New University has shown blatant disregard for the responsibility inherent to maintaining a school newspaper.  This article is the single most ignorant, offensive, and appalling [...]

Letter to the Editor: We are not post-racial

Dear UCI Campus and Family, My name is Grace Young and I am a graduating fourth year. In lieu of the recent racist events and outpour of institutionalized white privilege, I feel compelled to add to the discourse in support of the students fighting back. As the former Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Association, [...]

Dear UCI Campus and Family, My name is Grace Young and I am a graduating fourth year. In lieu of the recent racist events and outpour of institutionalized white supremacy, I feel compelled to add to the discourse in support of the students fighting back. As the former Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Association, [...]

Blast From the Past: Obama’s Speech on Race in America

Just thought it seemed relevant. Link to YouTube video: A More Perfect Nation Here’s the text: “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s [...]

17 Arrested For Sit-In In Aldrich Hall

On Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 at approximately 9:30 a.m., 17 members of the UC Irvine community entered the fifth floor of Aldrich Hall and held a sit-in that would last until 11:20 a.m., when the first arrests began. The group, composed of 12 undergraduate students, two graduate students, and three service workers, sat in a [...]

Black Student Union Statement February 2010 UCSD Black Student Union Address! State of Emergency!

Editor’s Note: This is the full version of Black Student Union Statement February 2010 UCSD Black Student Union Address! State of Emergency! By David Ritcherson and Fnann Keflezighi UCSD’s BSU (Forwarded to the New U by Aida Solomon) It is with crucial concern and urgency that I write this letter to bring to your attention the [...]

Ground Control

This is “A Guide. to find out who you really are deep deep deep down inside.” Typewritten letters catch your eye, crudely photocopied across the front of a booklet. Its many pages are multicolored. Inside, you will find that this is a “document of documentation” – forms, photographs, precise words peppered across every page. It [...]

The Appeal of “Torture Porn”

We all have friends that love certain movies that we just don’t get. The girls that love the chick flicks. The dudes that will watch that awful movie for that one cute girl in it. The other guys that watch those action movies that have no plots whatsoever. The people that will catch every midnight [...]

For the Love of ‘Phaedra’

THEATER: Rape, incest and violence are handled with tact in Sarah Kane’s drama, “Phaedra’s Love.”

I Love the Olympics: The Top Six Moments of Vancouver So Far

We’re only one week into the 2010 Winter Olympics and already we have experienced some amazing Olympic moments. Here’s a countdown of the greatest thrills and spills from Vancouver so far. 1. Apolo Anton Ohno: He’s officially the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian of all time, with a career total of 2 gold, 2 silver [...]