Author Archive for Dat-Vinh Nguyen
Lighting Up The Night
Held annually, the 2013 Take Back the Night called for social awareness on the subject of rape and sexual abuse plaguing society. Students, faculty and guests gathered at the steps leading up to the campus flagpoles on Wednesday evening to commemorate the annual Take the Night event hosted by UCI’s Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE). [...]
Veterans Reaching Out
Workshop aims to inform former service men and women on re-adapting to school life. The Veteran Student Outreach Program (VSOP) held an open workshop in the Dr. White Room of the Cross Cultural Center on Friday, April 5, an event aimed at informing and encouraging veterans interested in attending UC Irvine. The organization, which [...]
Four Corners: Body image
Dat-Vinh Nguyen: It concerns weight … people’s looks, and how it impacts health, and its relation to health. Sarah Menendez: If there’s one thing that bothers me — and also speaking as a woman — it’s that we’re constantly faced with things like “13 ways to get skinny in two weeks.” To me, it puts [...]
Putting Out the Smoke
The recently signed federal legislation hopes to reshape policies and programs on campuses Beginning the transition as the first tobacco-free University of California campus, UCLA will begin enstating their policies against smoking and chewing tobacco on April 22 — Earth Day. “We felt Earth Day would be the perfect day because we are not only [...]
Renewed Focus on Campus Assault
The recently signed federal legislation hopes to reshape policies and programs on campuses concerning sexual assault. With the signing of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), all college campuses will now be under the effect of the bill’s provisions listed under the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act. The campus-based provisions mandate campuses [...]
Four Corners: A New Mascot
Four Corners: This week in the newsroom, we decided to ponder what course of action we would take in the event that Peter the Anteater was kidnapped. The focus of our discussion gravitated towards what mascot we would adopt as Peter’s replacement. Ian Massey: I’m going to throw out the honey badger. It’s just as [...]
Hope for ‘Homeboys’
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department gang prevention program and 20 of their at-risk youths were invited to a conference and tour of the UC Irvine campus on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The event, held in the conference room of the social ecology building, featured guest speakers from Homeboy Industries, who were invited to speak alongside student [...]
Engineers in ‘Action’
Having received funding and approval of faculty, the student-established group is set to build their first IV pole prototype. A group of UC Irvine engineering students met to discuss the development of a new IV pole that may assist and improve the conditions of hospital patients last Wednesday at the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced [...]
Week 7 NIBs
UCI Health’s Eye Institute Receives Grant The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation recently awarded $3 million dollars to the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute to support their efforts in researching preventive measures for disease-related blindness. $1 million dollars of this grant will be directed toward the acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and instruments, with the remaining [...]
UCI Law School: Above and Beyond
California Bar exam scores instill confidence in faculty and students at the UC Irvine Law School. With the recent release of California Bar exam scores, the UC Irvine School of Law’s first graduating class has achieved a 90 percent pass rate — ranking the legal education institution second in the state of California right after [...]
