Author Archive for Adam O'Neal
Criminology Online Degree Program Sets the Standard
When prospective students consider earning their Master of Advanced Study in Criminology, Law and Society (MAS) online from UC Irvine, their greatest reservation is always the same: Will the degree say “online?” When Adrianna Lopez, the assistant Director of MAS, says the degree will look exactly like an on-campus one, free from the nomenclatural stigma [...]
Expanding Diversity: Freshmen Selected
Hitting an all-time record high, freshman applications this fall promise UCI even more diversity on campus. The number of transfer and freshman applications for fall 2013 hit a record high of 76,235 (including transfers) this application season, purportedly increasing UC Irvine’s diversity and prestige while posing administrative challenges for Enrollment Services. About 61,000 students from [...]
Receding Republicans
Last election season, Jeremy Jang, president of the College Republicans at UC Irvine, brought a high-profile guest to campus: Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a former Reagan speechwriter and one of the House Republican caucuses’ top foreign policy wonks. Rohrabacher fought in Afghanistan, with the mujahedin, against the Soviets in the early 1980s. He also surfs. [...]
Welcome to the Gun Show, in Costa Mesa
Anyone driving past the Orange County Fairgrounds last weekend was presented with an uncommon dilemma: guitars or guns? Most chose guns, as the SoCal World Guitar Show’s attendance paled in comparison to the huge draw at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show. Long lines and occasional rain were not enough to keep over 20,000 [...]
A$AP Rocky: Worth the Listen
Since “LiveLoveA$AP” dropped on Halloween 2011, A$AP Rocky has found few doubters. Really, the only consistent critique of the much-praised mixtape focuses on the Harlem-darling’s supposed lack of depth; despite his exquisite taste in beats and smooth-as-butter flow, doubters say, A$AP Rocky doesn’t talk about much more than purple drink, dice, women, weed and brews. [...]
Go Ask Adam: Proposition 35 and Human Rights
There were few close calls in California on Nov. 6. The only “close” proposition was 37, which failed to pass by a little over 3 percent. The Big Win was a common result throughout politically monochrome California, where Proposition 40 passed 72-28 and 31 failed by around 60 percent. But these results pale in comparison [...]
Go Ask Adam: The Wartorn Remnants of Post-Election California
If you’ve been in a hallucinogenic state — post-election acid vacation, perhaps? — for the last two weeks, you might have missed a few bits. November 6, 2012 was an objectively bad day for Republicans throughout the country, particularly in California. Mitt Romney took an electoral shellacking while Republican incompetence led to Democratic gains in [...]
Go Ask Adam: Prop 37 and Frankenfood
Like so many Orange County residents, I buy healthy food (organic, non-GMO, etc.) to feel like I’m better than other people. It’s a natural desire, especially in the land of Range Rovers, Botox and pre-nuptial agreements. So when I heard that Proposition 37 required food companies to label whether or not food was genetically engineered, [...]
Go Ask Adam: Bright Eyes and Bald Wizard Bring The Magic
California, you might have heard, has been having some money trouble. Unfortunately, Governor Jerry Brown (Bald Wizard) and rich-person-turned-political-hack Molly Munger (Bright Eyes) have bestowed upon us peasants two positively terrible ways to “solve” the state’s fiscal woes. From Bald Wizard, we have Proposition 30. The plan includes both progressive and regressive tax hikes — [...]
Go Ask Adam: Proposition 32 and the Downfall of California
California, much like Rick Ross, had everything going for it. Ross has a way with words and a voice of unparalleled depth and power. California has natural resources; a young, massive population and booming technology and entertainment sectors. For California or Rick Ross to prosper, it would only take a team of semi-competent managers to [...]
