Archive for 2013
Andrew Morales Pitches Perfect
FLAWLESS: With a perfect 9-0 record in 2013, Morales finds motivation in a battle off of the field. The petite and gentle 12-year-old Emily Morales steps up in front of the television screen. She takes her mark and fires a bowling ball down the lanes like a professional — the ball collides successfully and violently [...]
Carol Burke: Writer for the World
For many, storytelling serves as a way for strangers to connect, for parents to pass down family history to their children and for people to learn from the past. For Carol Burke, an associate professor in the literary journalism department at UC Irvine, it’s her job. Burke, who has been teaching at UCI since the [...]
Celebrating May Day with Literature
The English Department hosted a “May Day Literary Event” last Wednesday to celebrate the recently published works of two English Language Composition Lecturers, Lorene Delany Ullman and Peggy Hesketh. Lecturer Andrew T. Tonkovich opened the event, saying that the gathering combined his two passions: art and activism. “[On one of my] favorite radio programs on [...]
‘Hemlock Grove’ Falls Short
Above all else, “Hemlock Grove” is a disappointment. After Netflix’s spectacular-on-all-levels release of their first original series, “House of Cards,” viewers got their hopes up. Visions of masterful works of television, with whole seasons available at once, danced in their heads — and the advertising for “Hemlock Grove” did nothing to dispel the hype. The [...]
Arriving at Justice
Professor and Director of the Literary Journalism Department, Barry Siegel, spoke to colleagues and students about his newest book. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism Department Director Barry Siegel was the featured guest during last week’s Humanities Author Series, where he spoke about his new narrative non-fiction book “Manifest Injustice — The True [...]
Dean Rameen Reflects on LTD
Dear Fellow Anteaters: As I’m sure you are aware, the recent “blackface” video, produced by several members of the Lambda Theta Delta fraternity, has generated a great deal of disappointment, frustration and anger on the campus and beyond. Campus offices, including Student Conduct and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (OEOD), have been looking [...]
Chancellors Approve Changes to Student Health Insurance Plan
The UC Chancellors approved a list of recommendations to the UC Student Health Insurance Program (SHIP) put forth by the UC SHIP Advisory Board last Wednesday, May 1 at their regularly scheduled meeting in Oakland. The SHIP Advisory Board recommends to the SHIP Executive Committee, which then forwards the recommendations to the Council of Chancellors [...]
Our Raving Anteaters
Electronic dance music is a genre of music that has recently surged in popularity across the nation and around the world with international festivals like the Electric Daisy Carnival and smaller ones like Identity. The UC Irvine campus is certainly no exception to this growing trend, as evidenced by the enormous growth and passion of [...]
Jason Collins can be the next Jackie Robinson, can’t do it alone.
Growing up in a dugout or a locker room, you hear things you wish you hadn’t. One guy bedded a girl he met at the bar last night, another shares a little too much about a penis he justifies as average sized, and another makes fun of a teammate for going through a slump with [...]
The Dish List: North Shore Poke Co.
Aloha! Those familiar with Huntington Beach like myself may be surprised to find that hidden among the many shops and restaurants around the Huntington Beach is North Shore Poke Co., a small restaurant that offers poke bowls along with a refreshing Hawaiian vibe. Upon first entering and viewing the décor, I was skeptical. The restaurant [...]
