Archive for 2013
Wayzgoose Unites ’Eaters
The 42nd annual celebration of UC Irvine boasted more clubs and a greater turnout than in recent years. ASUCI organized the 42nd annual Wayzgoose festival on Saturday, April 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m in Aldrich Park for the UCI community, as well as for prospective students and parents. Also known as Celebrate UCI, [...]
Dance Escape 2013
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” William Butler Yeats once said. During week seven of winter quarter, nine graduate students from the Dance Department auditioned their pieces. Since that time, there has been numerous brainstorms, rehearsals, costume fittings and tech work, but the end result was finally unveiled on April 18. Performed [...]
Off to the Semis
Third-ranked UC Irvine won a very close match Saturday night by winning the first and the final two sets to defeat seventh-ranked UC Santa Barbara 3-2 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation quarterfinal match at the Bren Events Center. With the win, the No. 2 seeded Anteaters improve to 23-6 overall and extend their win [...]
UCI and the Not So ‘Secret’ Rape Culture
UCI Secrets: a blessing or a curse? This popular Facebook page has been the primary tool for procrastination for many a UCI student these last few months, and at times becomes a place for contention, often spurred by the convenient mask of anonymity. Recent posts and replies have shed light on what many UCI students [...]
Paradigm ‘Shifa’
Health clinic run by pre-medical collegiate students intends to function through preventative methods. UC Irvine students who seek to join the medical field now have a variety of opportunities available for them in the form of the Shifa Student-Run Free Clinic, an organization made up of undergraduates, medical students and doctors who provide free medical [...]
Fall Out Boy, Reinvented
What might have been a normal day like any other was, for millions, a reawakening, a homecoming, a true act of divine intervention; on Feb. 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy formally announced their reunion. Rejoice, for the princes of pop punk have returned. If you’re anything like me, you spent the majority of your adolescence [...]
Sports In Brief
Baseball Friday On Friday night at the University of the Pacific, Andrew Thurman led the Anteaters to an 8-4 victory at Klein Family field. With a 0-0 standstill through three innings, the Anteater bats finally woke up in the fourth. Chris Rabago got it started with a single to get on base before Dominique Taylor [...]
Pulling a Pulitzer
In the April issue of Wired Magazine, Jonathan Keats argues that Google deserves to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, because it best embodies the values of the prize. He declares, “Literary heroes of an age are often neglected by future times and tastes.” Because literary fame mirrors the trends in society, it makes more [...]
The Coffee Chronicles
Happiness is a cup of good, fresh coffee. But what if I told you there’s more to coffee than meets the eye? Let me introduce to you Middle Eastern coffee. This strong, dark and deliciously rich drink is prepared in a unique coffee kettle and served in an espresso-sized coffee cup. In most Middle Eastern [...]
The Other Road: English to Music
Pawl Espinoza is a fourth-year Anteater from the San Francisco East Bay area. He is an English major who enjoys the flexibility of time that his major allows him, and credits this as being beneficial to his life. When asked why he chose this field of study, he responds, “It was my strength … I [...]
