Archive for March, 2010
Zion I: Bringing the Underground to UCI
URBAN: Hip-hop duo Zion-I brought their fresh sounds and conscious lyrics from Oakland to UCI.
Does ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Work?
FLASHBACK: Leg warmers, Reagan, neon colors, and plenty of cocaine? It must be the Eighties.
‘How To Train Your Dragon’
BEASTS: Vikings and dragons clash in 3-D in this visually stunning and kid-friendly romp through time.
A Modest Health Care Proposal
In 1729, Dr. Jonathan Swift offered a modest proposal to, as the full title of his satiric (he wasn’t actually, as far as we know, advocating infanticide) put it, prevent “The Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick.”
The year [...]
The Haiti Earthquake: View Below the Surface
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which has a population of about one million, has been completely devastated and dismantled by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged the metropolis on January 12, 2010. Currently, over 110,000 people are confirmed dead and over 609,000 more are displaced from their homes.
In the immediate wake of this crisis, the world seemed to [...]
The Church’s Cardinal Sin
Back in 2002, when reports of the Catholic sex scandal first started flooding the press, we already knew that the situation was bad. Over 10,000 American children were sexually abused by thousands of Catholic priests. We learned that instead of trying to clean up the situation, the Catholic Church refused to hold these criminals responsible [...]
Letter to The Editor
Full letter available at newuniversity.org.
We represent the Committee for Human Rights and Academic Freedom of the Association of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, an affiliate of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and the largest scholarly group of its kind. Most of us are career academics.
We are writing to you with concerns about the [...]
Democratize Education
A troubling editorial on the student movement recently appeared in the New U (“The Times They Are A-Changin’” Mar. 8, 2010). Not only did the Editorial Board treat student-activists like rowdy children, emboss facts (a shopping cart pushed off a sidewalk became a shopping cart pushed off a bridge), and condescend to the entire student [...]
History, Texas Style
History is a fragile thing. It is subject to opinion and the subjectivity of the majority. That being said, history is always in danger of being complete bullshit. And I don’t mean the crazy ranting bullshit of your neighborhood homeless guy preaching the next apocalypse, or the bullshit you tell your parents when you say [...]
Guidos: An Affront to Bro Culture
When MTV premiered its new reality show, “Jersey Shore,” my heart sank under the weight of my sorrow for humanity. Why would MTV showcase the Guido lives of six superficial, over-juiced, under-educated, fist-pumping, gel-loving, emotionally stunted orange whores? What America needs now is not a disappointing portrayal of the state of the human condition, but [...]
