Archive for September, 2010
How to Love Your Dorm
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here” is written on the entrance of Hell in Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Hopefully that’s not written on the entrance of your dorm. However, make no mistake. Dorm life is one of the scariest yet most exhilarating parts of embarking on your college experience.
On one of my first few nights [...]
UCI Hosts UCSA
Diane Jong | Staff Photographer
Voices buzzed around the white room with drab brown carpet while the students waited for the Congress to begin as they sat in little clusters all around Pacific Ballroom C and D.
The opening speaker, Mayor of Maywood Ana Rosa Rizo stepped to the microphone.
“In the future of government, we need to [...]
Will Voters “Legalize It?”
On Nov. 2, 2010, California will vote on Proposition 19, otherwise known as the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. Opinion polls throughout the year thus far show a split Californian population with those in favor of legalization having a very slight advantage.
Although those in favor of the legalization of marijuana do have [...]
Psychology Professors Investigate Memory
For the past few years, UC Irvine’s professor of psychology and social behavior Chuansheng Chen has been collaborating in a cross-national and cross-university research study on the neural basis of learning.
The team delved deeper into the long-standing belief that learning requires repetition and that studying is more effective when spaced out rather than employing the [...]
News In Brief
UCI Creative Writing Alumna Wins Prestigious Award
Vicki Forman, a 1994 graduate of UCI’s M.F.A. program in writing, won the prestigious 2010 PEN USA Literacy award for creative nonfiction for her memoir “This Lovely Life.”
Her work follows her experience giving birth to twins three months prematurely, the ensuing grief and her tremendous struggle as the mother [...]
Linkin Park Evolves
No music fan wants to see his or her favorite band lose its signature style, or, even worse, stay stagnant and never evolve.
Unfortunately, Linkin Park finds themselves in such a situation on their new album “A Thousand Suns.” As Linkin Park experiments with a different direction, they lose the unique sound that made them popular.
Linkin [...]
Save Trees, Buy Elephant Poo
Jason Davis | Photography Intern
What do you think about when you hear the word “poo”? If you’re Mike Flancman and his wife, Tun, you see an eco-friendly way to both make money and help save endangered elephants. For him, when life hands him elephant poo, he literally makes paper.
Flancman is the founder of the Great [...]
Is the Apple Honeymoon Over?
Back in the early 1990s, Apple came within yards of becoming another fossil in the history of computer technology. With a heavy unbalance between the quality of their hardware and its price, a platform they failed to update for far too long, a lack of hardware options and almost no creativity, Apple began to circle [...]
Earth Balance vs. Butter?
If you are a vegan or anti-saturated fat, you’ve probably sought out alternatives to butter. Earth Balance, a popular alternative, is a “natural” spread of expeller-pressed oils “shown to raise good cholesterol while lowering bad.”
Use this so-called food for any purpose — every diet and every customer. Take a look at the latest ad for [...]
Weezer Gets Lost With “Hurley”
Photo Courtesy of Epitaph Records
I’ve been a big Weezer fan for a long time now. And, like many others I know, I’ve been waiting for something from them that lives up to their first two albums. It seems as if something quite that amazing will never happen, but Weezer’s latest album, “Hurley,” is a ray [...]
