Archive for May 10th, 2010
Arizona Immigration Law Enrages Countless OC Latinos
UPROAR: Anger surges through communities in response to the newly passed legislation in Arizona.
New Stem Cell Center
SCIENCE: The Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center gives UCI a space to progress in the field.
The CHP Crew: Anteaters Excelling at Home and Internationally
HONORS: Campuswide Honors Program students share their stories and experiences in the US and abroad.
New Negotiations In Worker Struggle
INSOURCE: UCI grapples with insourcing for on-campus custodial workers and its effects on the budget.
News in Brief
Speakers to Come for MSU’s Israeli Apartheid Week
From May 10 to May 13, the Muslim Student Union (MSU) will be hosting the Israeli Apartheid Week: A Call to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel.
The week-long event will feature seven different speakers: Dr. Norman Finkelstein, an independent scholar with a Ph.D. from Princeton University; Hedy Epstein, Holocaust [...]
Breadth Requirements to Change
MULTICULTURAL: Questions of general education requirements for international students leads to less than effective meeting.
The Subprime College Crisis
Here’s the business model.
Find the most vulnerable people in society: the poor, minorities, people that the mainstream deems too risky to be a good customer. Sell them something that they can’t really afford by pushing a loan that they probably can’t repay. Use the hard sell. Tell them that this loan will help them solve [...]
Drill, Baby, Drill? Or Not
If we learned anything from the horrific oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico, or the other oil disasters, Santa Barbara in 1969 and Alaska’s Exxon Valdez in 1989, it is the desperate need for the United States to make some drastic changes.
The U.S. needs to focus its efforts on trying to obtain alternative [...]
The Deficit Equation: Facing Up to Reality
In an economy such as ours, it only makes sense that people on both sides of the aisle are concerned with national debt brought on by the continually rising deficit. The funny thing about this concern is that people seem to turn off that concern like a light switch. They get cranky about it when [...]
Drawn and Quoted
Famous For Being Famous – Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband, Damon Thomas, broke the silence this week in an interview with In Touch. The truth was finally brought out in the open in the shocking interview. Apparently, according to Thomas, Kardashian is a “fame whore” who “can’t write, sing or dance.”
Thank you, Captain Obvious. I am so [...]
