Author Archive for Emilie Doolittle
Admin Calls for Religious Tolerance
COMMUNITY: Faculty, students and religious organizations joined hands in support freedom of religion.
Reflection on Irvine’s Landscapes
While graduating students might feel stressed and disordered, they might as well appreciate the park-like order that Irvine has attempted to create. School, work, friendships
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What the Spirit Does, or So They Say
The stage lights illuminate the parishioners rather than the stage at the Vineyard Community Church in Laguna Nigel. While the parishioners sing, ‘Help me run to the shadow of your wings and the comfort that it brings,’ a woman standing in a row of chairs on the right side of the warehouse-sized church moves her [...]
Bands Visit Detroit Bar for KUCI Benefit Show
Always trying to generate appeal for innovative music, the nonprofit community radio station KUCI presented four new bands at the 2007 KUCI Benefit Concert held at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa.
Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks are a performing contradiction. Shannon’s light-blue eyes and gentle smile complement her soft, heaven-reaching soprano voice, but her [...]
Number of Sexual Assault Cases Increase on Campus
ASSAULT: Students seeking help at UCI counseling are most likely dealing with sexual assault.
UC Irvine’s Counseling and Health Services Are Under-Funded
Three weeks ago, before midnight, a student was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the Social Science Building at UC Irvine. He had committed suicide. Two weeks ago was the Virginia Tech massacre. In the aftermath of recent tragic events, students at UCI wonder how safe our campus is and how [...]
Iraqi Children Benefit, Concert Could Improve
It’s great that the Baghdad School Project Benefit raised about $2,500 for Iraqi school children. It’s also great that two groups on campus, KUCI and the Baghdad School Project, composed of students from the Social Science Dean’s Ambassador’s Counsel, joined together to raise money for a good cause while providing entertainment for the community. But [...]
Job Description: Dealing With Sexual Harassment
While showing more skin than usual to customers might help servers get more tips, just smiling and making conversation allows them to make extra cash. But, along with tips sometimes come something beyond what servers desire. Servers’ attractiveness may cause them to encounter excessively long stares and even sexual requests from customers on a regular [...]
The Commuter Hell
Southern California freeway culture is bound for torment: road rage climaxes, commuters vow to view drivers as machines, a commuter quits his job, weary from the unavoidable traffic, and a student misses study time stuck in traffic, as well as a test.
Before Cris Rogers merged onto the 10 Freeway he slowed down to let a [...]
A Coffee Shop Stands Against All Odds
Organic coffee and food and singer-songwriters taking turns at an open microphone seem out of place in a corporate coffee house world. And a style of dress that says ‘bohemian combined with bed head’ rather than ‘Gucci combined with bleach-blonde Barbie hair’ seems like a rarity in Newport Beach. Nevertheless, a down-to-earth aura persists against [...]
