Archive for February, 2010
‘Week of Dreams’ Highlights AB 540 Students’ Struggles
INFORMED: Next week will raise awareness for undocumented students’ ability to apply for financial aid.
UC Irvine Music Professor Gets LOST
BLOGGER: Amy Bauer is well respected as both UCI faculty member and a blogger about the hit TV show LOST.
The Consequences of Action for the Irvine Eleven
SPEECH: Eight UCI students still await academic punishment for interrupting Ambassador Oren.
Can Online Dating Include Racial Profiling?
RACE: Dating Web sites lead to studies with UCI Professor Cynthia Feliciano observing race preferences.
News in Brief
UCSD PIKE Frat Under Scrutiny
On Feb. 15, UC San Diego’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity made the grave mistake of creating an exceedingly controversial Facebook event for their party hidden under the guise of a “celebration” of Black History Month in February.
The event, called “Compton Cookout,” advertised intense stereotypes, encouraging attendees to dress up as “ghetto [...]
Vancouver: Just Enjoy the Sequins!
The Winter Olympics are awesome. All the cynics who are too cool to enjoy them and, more importantly, to let others enjoy them, can go jump in a lake, — preferably a freezing one with a hungry polar bear in it.
We aren’t stupid enough to think that the Olympics will bring about world peace, because [...]
Welcome to the Boo-lympics
The torch is lit, the world is watching, the time has come and the Games are back. Spectators from around the world eagerly anticipate the thrills of jingoistic fervor as finely tuned athletes compete on the allegorical battlefield of world war. I’m writing, of course, about the Boo-lympic Games, or the well-respected competition that captures [...]
One Nation Under God, So Says the Textbook
For decades,Christian groups have maintained that the United States is a Christian nation, that the founding fathers were Christian men who sought to build a government on Christian principles. They reject the separation of church and state and insist that the scrubbing of religion from our textbooks and written history is liberal revisionism.
Texas’s school board [...]
An Afghan Quagmire
Remember when President Obama took more than a month to formulate a new strategy for Afghanistan, deciding whether or not to send more troops? It seemed like every analyst had a different opinion about what the decision should have been.
It has been clear for a while now that nobody can look at the situation in [...]
Pop Some Happy Pills – It Just Might Work
Developed societies lead to developed demands. Because our basic needs for survival are practically assured for us, we now have time to fret about other, more emotionally afflicting matters: how our bodies look, how successful we are, where our lives are going, the kind of person we’re becoming, and so on. Hollywood and mainstream media [...]
