Archive for May 24th, 2010
Don’t Be a Prisoner of Summer; Here are Options That Will Keep You Sane
With summer fast approaching and me not having any major plans after graduation, I have a lot of time to fill. I am probably right in guessing that there are a few others like me who have some free time on their hands and would like to fill it up. Thank god summer offers great [...]
UCI’s Last Home Hurrah
BASEBALL: Seniors honored during last home series, Anteaters pick up a crucial series win over UC Riverside.
USA Soccer All The Way
SOCCER: Team USA will be in Group C and competing against England on June 12th in the 2010 World Cup.
Sports in brief
Six Outstanding UCI Track Athletes Earn NCAA Prelim Berths
Six UC Irvine track athletes have earned berths in the NCAA West Preliminary Round at Austin, TX, May 27-29.
Charles Jock and Tim Murphy have qualified for the 800 meters. Jock was named the Big West Conference Athlete of the Year in men’s track. Colin Hacker will compete [...]
Show Your Primary Colors
Give yourselves a pat on the back, Anteaters: this year, you’ve rallied, protested, gotten arrested and done sketchy things to get your voice heard. You’ve marched around campus, you’ve marched in LA, you’ve marched in Sacramento, and the Governator has started to listen. Now the task falls to every one of us to get out [...]
From Their Cold Dead Hands
The idea of terrorists with guns is not a pleasant thought, and considering how gung-ho Americans are about fighting terrorists, common sense dictates that we would do everything possible to ensure that they don’t get their hands on any. If that’s the case, then leading members of the NRA do not have common sense.
There is [...]
How the Kindle Relit My Fire for Reading
I’ve always been a great lover of books; they have always been my greatest source of entertainment, inspiration and even companionship. The feeling of cracking open a brand new book and feeling its crisp, clean pages is one that can never be replaced, which is why I was initially hesitant to give in to the [...]
Drawn and Quoted
Don’t Bank On It – Last week, the Senate passed a financial reform bill. Well, sort of. They basically did the same thing they did with health care reform – they made a few baby steps in the right direction, but didn’t really address the actual problems. You know, problems like the shady types of [...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
It is good to know that the Muslim Student Union joins Chancellor Drake in condemning terrorism and reaffirming UCI’s “commitment to dialogue and democratic rule, not violence.” One imagines that he is referring to the speech by Malik Ali both supporting terrorism and calling Jews the “new Nazis,” although he does not address Ali’s [...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
My grievance is against last week’s cover story, “A Radical Debate” featuring the debate between AFI and MSU. While I thought the article was well written and was a refreshing exchange of dialogue between the two groups, the picture and caption that went along with the cover story of that week’s paper was what [...]
