Author Archive for David Nicolas
Baseball, Ray. There Will Always Be Baseball
Dedication: Field is renamed in former Chancellor’s honor for restarting baseball program in 1990s.
Green Day
East Bay Area natives Green Day have gotten a lot of criticism for “selling out.” Growing up in Northern California, surrounded by a thriving punk rock scene in Berkeley, it seemed that the band would follow suit in the same vein as the area’s Operation Ivy or Jawbreaker.
Wayzgoose Cometh: Your Guide to Festivities
theme: ASUCI and the Center for Service in Action team up to create sustainable tradition.
Thursday: Anything But ‘Common’
Reviews of Thursday’s “Common Existence” and 4AD’s “Dark Was The Night”
Travis Barker and DJ AM to Take the Bren
CONCERT: Kid Cudi and Too $hort will join Barker and DJ AM for this year’s homecoming celebration.
Vibe 14
Jennifer Hudson’s “Spot Light” suddenly comes to a halt in the Mesa parking structure. It’s freezing but there are people huddling together on the gray asphalt of the bottom floor, surrounded by water bottles, backpacks and the remnants of fast food. Some students are on their computers and the rest of the 40 people are standing in front of their audience, a line of cars, moving restlessly to their team captain’s counting. It’s just after 10 p.m., and most of them hope to leave by 3 a.m.
UC Student Regent Urges Undergraduates to Take His Job
CONFERENCE: Student Regent D’Artagnan Scorza invites students to consider applying for the position.
The Cure’s ‘Dream’ is No Remedy
Reviews of The Cure’s “4:13 Dream” and Deerhunter’s “Microcastle”.
Life Lessons at National Public Radio
Fourth-year English and drama major Aylin Zafar took off on a plane for the East Coast this summer for the UCDC Summer Internship program, where students get a chance to live and work in the heart of Washington D.C. Zafar turned her back to those flag-pinned politicians and headed to 635 Massachusetts Avenue, along with 54 other interns, to work at the headquarters of National Public Radio.
ASUCI Strikes a Chord
ASUCI refused to falter in its entrance to the new school year by inviting local darlings The Jakes and Newport Beach’s own Saosin for a free show in the seldom-used Aldrich Park. Oh, yeah. William Tell was there, too.
