Archive for September 28th, 2010
Letter To The Editor
I am responding to your recent article, “Will Voters Legalize It?” As a UCI Alumni, I am writing you to express my opposition to Proposition 19.
Marijuana legalization should not be passed because of the physical effects of marijuana. A common comparison made to marijuana is that of the Prohibition Era for alcohol. I feel we [...]
‘Wall Street 2′: Is Greed Still Good?
Photo Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
In many ways, the conflict at the heart of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” has nothing to do with the return of disgraced corporate pirate, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), or with the personal ethical dilemmas of hot up-and-comer Jake Moore (Shia LeBeouf). Rather, Stone’s film pits the ethos [...]
Anteaters Abroad: “Everything is Beautiful” in Salvador, Brazil
Since middle school, I had had my heart set on traveling to Italy, eating lots of pasta and taking hundreds of pictures of myself being romantic in a romantic country. I had once been consumed with the beauty of the “classics” through four years of high school Latin, four years that initiated my unfortunate decision [...]
Dodgeball Record Underwhelming Compared to Anteater Athletics
In case you have not heard the grand news, UC Irvine made its way into the Guinness Book of World Records last Wednesday for the largest dodgeball game.
1,745 Anteaters, mostly freshmen, made their way to the Bren Events Center to shatter the previous record of 1,198 held by our neighbors to the north, the University [...]
