Archive for May 17th, 2010
Elena Kagan Ready for High Court
It is no surprise that President Obama chose to nominate Ms. Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice. Kagan was on the short list last year, when Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, and has been the obvious front-runner for this past year. If confirmed, this New York maverick will be the third woman to serve on the [...]
Evaluating MSU Week
“You Jews… ya’ll the new Nazis!”
This message is brought to you by the Muslim Student Union. Literally. Last Thursday during the MSU’s annual Anti-Israel Week (or, as some people call it, Hate Week) the MSU’s favorite speaker, Malik Ali, apparently slipped up and forgot to preclude the word “Jews” with “Zionist”– his standard tactic of [...]
The Hunger Strike Is Starved of Logic
In the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, prisoners banded together to protest what they considered to be inhumane treatment by the state. Though the strike was technically a failure – it ended after prisoners began starving themselves to death – it still attracted international attention and had a significant domestic political impact. This is because, when [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
We, faculty at the University of California–Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis. The troubling events over the past few years include the painting of swastikas in university buildings, the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika, a statement (by a speaker repeatedly invited by [...]
Double Down
When speaking of the next big thing, it is often said that this is “the best thing since sliced bread.” But really, what’s so great about sliced bread in the first place? This is the question that the culinary gods who run Kentucky Fried Chicken asked recently, and their answer came in the form of [...]
Listen Up Closely: Mastering the Fine Art of Really Being An Eavesdropper
In a world without eavesdropping, the female black-capped chickadee would not be unfaithful to her mate (see footnote for explanation)*. In a world without eavesdropping, Elizabeth Bennett would never have overheard Mr. Darcy dismissing her as “tolerable” but not “handsome to tempt” him and without that, Pride and Prejudice wouldn’t work. By extension, we would [...]
Burn, Baby Burn
Hello, my name is Amanda, and I¡¯m a work-a-holic.
My first twenty-unit quarter was last spring. It was my most successful quarter to date, grade-wise. Of course, that gave me an unrealistic sense of capability, which I am now realizing halfway through my second twenty-unit quarter.
This time around, I¡¯m taking three upper division classes instead of [...]
The Waiting Game
Few statements are more insulting to the intelligence than “Abstinence is the only sure way to prevent unwanted pregnancy.”
What do marketers expect the public’s reaction to be? “My, what innovative advice! Allow me to throw away my condoms for you.”
Sure, being abstinent rules out the possibility of ever having to sit on the edge of [...]
Intimate Inquiries
Dear K&E,
I am recently single and most of my friends are too. We have tried dating different guys and so a lot of different boys have been cycling through our circle. However, recently all of the guys who have dated my friends have been trying to hit me up after things go [...]
