Author Archive for Jesse Nickles
Staff Farewell by Jesse Nickles
“What happened, Mom? What is this?”
Campus Bike Policy Reinforced
POLICIES: Revamped bike policy enforced to encourage safer use of transportation vehicles.
Rick Brennan Evaluates Iraq War
Rand Corporation’s senior political scientist Rick Brennan discusses the issue of war termination and the progress made by the United States in the Iraq War at an International Studies forum titled, “Conflict Resolution in Iraq: A Bridge Too Far?” last Thursday, May 1.
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Kaba Modern Reps the O.C. on TV
Cindy Minowa, a member of the Kaba Modern dance crew, performs on campus last fall. Minowa, along with five other Kaba Modern performers, recently finished in third place on MTV’s hit show “America’s Best Dance Crew” to the chagrin of many fans who felt the final results were rigged by the network.
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Campus Crusade Cripples
Campus Crusade for Christ has flourished into an ignorant, overbearing religious group with vague goals and offensive methods that all Christians of the world should condemn as an inaccurate representation of Jesus Christ.
According to its own literature, Campus Crusade envisions a commitment to ‘take the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations.’ Under such a [...]
Case Study in Korean Hip Hop Culture
It is largely agreed that modern hip-hop culture has most of its roots in the United States, born out of elements such as African-American identity, minority outcries, poverty, inner-city society and youth movements.
In Korea, however, the largely homogenous population finds itself in a completely different situation. While old maxims like ‘art is not peace, but [...]
Evolution Doesn’t Make Much Sense
The idea of common descent and transmutation of species has existed for thousands of years. However, it was not until Charles Darwin published ‘The Origin of Species’ in 1859 during the Industrial Revolution that the theory of evolutionary biology was widely accepted. But as desperately as humans wanted to believe that they had created themselves, [...]
Modern Art, School of Arts Too Exclusive
Ever since the dawn of modern photography in the late 19th century, the art world has been in a state of shock and disarray. The camera, along with other technological advances of the industrial revolution, came to fascinate and terrify artists down a path of chaos from which we have yet to recover.
During the same [...]
Islam Is Not a Peaceful Religion
I love Muslims. The few Muslim nations that I’ve visited are home to some of the most hospitable and generous people I have ever met. However, this does not change the politically incorrect fact that Islam is an ideology that inherently promotes violence, subjugation and inequality.
You see, when the claim is submitted that ‘Islam is [...]
Popular Science Proves Itself Again
I would like to thank the graduate students from UC Irvine’s Earth System Science department who wrote an article on Feb. 12 titled ‘Global Warming Grounded in Science’ in reaction to my Feb. 5 article titled ‘Global Warming Not Proven by Science.’ I appreciate their effort for a number of reasons, but especially because academic [...]
