Archive for September, 2010
UCI’S LGBTQ Activists Speak Out
Imagine this: you’ve just been kicked out of your home and have been cut off financially from your family. In the blink of an eye, you’re left to battle homelessness and depression. You feel beaten down, both physically and emotionally.
Many students have been lucky enough to not have to suffer this fate, but for the [...]
Here Come the Men in Blaque
Photo Courtesy of Kenneth Haro
As the gigantic American flag raised overhead, it finally hit fifth-year voice major Kenneth Haro. UCI’s all-male chamber choir Men in Blaque took home three gold medals in the World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China.
Competing in the music contemporenea, folksong and standard male chamber categories, Men in Blaque earned gold medals [...]
The Face of the Team
Kari: In her four years at UCI, Pestolesi has recruited her coach, won awards and led the team.
Planting Seeds
With the goal of fostering awareness about where food comes from and how it was produced, the Anteater Garden Initiative (AGI) established a 1/4 acre on-campus garden plot this summer, with planting to ensue later this fall.
The AGI campaign was born from the Real Food Challenge, a food sustainability campaign in the fall of 2009. [...]
In Memorandum: A Girl and Her Goldfish
“Frodo or Sam died,” my mother said to me over an AIM instant message, followed by a sad emoticon. My heart dropped. Not Frodo or Sam!
When I was seven years old, I went to our church’s annual “Harvest Festival” on Halloween empty-handed, and then left with a pillowcase full of candy and a fist full [...]
Losing Games, Not Patience
Struggles: The Anteaters have lost four straight, but still hold out hope for conference matches.
Starting with Classic UC Irvine Eateries: Le Dip, Cha, Alejandro’sAle
“There’s nowhere to eat!” I hear it all the time. As an Orange County native, I consider that an offense.
Orange County has no where good to eat? I object!
I’m a double Anteater, having attended UCI as an undergraduate and now returning as a law student. Coming back, I was excited to revisit some of [...]
Football in Orange County, A Pipe Dream Not Worth Giving Up
Last weekend, I sat down on the couch at home, and as I flipped through the channels on the television, I came across ESPN. “College Gameday” was on. Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Lou Holtz ranted and raved about the weekend’s NCAA football matchups while stationed in a college town, surrounded by a rowdy crowd [...]
Healthcare Legislation Set Into Motion
As of last Thursday, Sept. 23, the Obama Administration’s health care initiative has officially gone into action, marking a historic point
in this bill’s controversial lifetime.
From now on, a parent’s insurance plan can cover their children up to the age of 26. The bill also forbids insurance companies to discriminate on pre-existing conditions in children in [...]
News In Brief
Compiled by Colin Murphy, Suzanne Cassaza and Maxine Wally
Sustainability House now Online in Arroyo Vista
The Sustainability House 1008 in Arroyo Vista — a project of student leaders and UCI’s Environment Institute — is now online.
Its objectives, according to founder Colin Murphy, are to set an example of sustainable living for other student communities, help catalyze [...]
