Author Archive for Ophelia Young
UCI Womenfest
Last Wednesday, UC Irvine Womenfest educated the community about the social conditions and issues that women face, celebrated the contributions of women in our society and explored the inequalities and struggles faced by women everywhere.
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Drive-In Theater Culture Returns to the OC
In his New Jersey driveway around 1932, 30-something Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. arranged a Kodak projector on the hood of his car to aim at a white sheet nailed to some trees. He positioned a radio behind the sheet. Integrating baby-booming America’s two most revered pursuits, Hollingshead, Jr. elementally created what he would call an [...]
Naya Zamana: ‘A New Generation’
The women’s dressing room of the Charles Shultz Theater at Knott’s Berry Farm is swarming with vibrant pastel colors, solid blacks and sparkling gold.
Gold shines, glistens, jingles and echoes among the chaotic jabber of the 30 or so girls preparing for their performances in Naya Zamana, a cultural event hosted by UC Irvine’s Sub-continental Club.
‘Oh! [...]
The Relay for Life
Leslie Sinclair, a fourth-year social ecology major and skin cancer patient, wrote an e-mail: ‘Hey! I’m doing this event. It means a lot to me. It serves a lot of people. Please, if you are capable, donate.’
A few weeks later on Sunday, April 30, Sinclair was pronounced the participant that raised the most money for [...]
Sexual Assault Awareness: Students Join for a Night of Honoring Survivors
She was walking to her car from a shopping mart in Orange when she suddenly felt a wire wrap around and cut her neck. Panicked, then-43-year-old Dawn Foor clawed at the wire but the man threw her in his car and drove up Chapman Ave. to the hills. The next seven hours would change not [...]
The Surgeon May Never Have to Touch His Patient
Hunched into a gray machine, David Ornstein uses foot pedals and joysticks to stimulate the image produced in two peep holes. Outside of his vision, a larger vertical gray machine moves its arms in accordance to Ornstein’s commands. What may seem like a video game is serious surgery, but Dr. Ornstein, the surgeon and an [...]
Your Guide To A Perfect Valentine’s Day: Part 1
DON’T: Get Stoned
UCIs New Years Resolutions
Maybe it was the holiday eating or perhaps it involved the start of a new quarter, but many UC Irvine students are ringing in the new year with resolutions to lose weight, eat healthier, exercise and to do better in school.
Taking better care of the physical body and learning is not just a UCI thing; [...]
‘The Simpsons’ Meet Macbeth at ‘MacHomer’
Just as ‘The Simpsons’ is a classic sitcom satirizing American culture, Shakespeare’s plays often echoed the societal and political conditions of his time.
Aware of how effectively each of these reflects its cultural atmosphere, Rick Miller, voice and music artist, playwright and theatrical performer, decided 11 years ago that it would be a good idea to [...]
Adderall
According to Michael Linden, Ph.D., about 20 percent of students in college take stimulants to aid them in studying, but only about five percent of them are actually diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Some students have two or more finals scheduled in one day, and many students have scarce time and [...]
