Author Archive for Paul Backus
Women’s Volleyball Defeat Aggies
Volleyball: The women’s team captured their first home win of the season with a four- game victory.
Too Many Starbucks Around
This summer, when I started taking classes at UCI, I discovered Diedrich Coffee. I was introduced to an alternative to Starbucks with free refills of coffee and free wireless Internet, which saved me when I had to do online research for a summer class one weekend. I was mooching wireless off my neighbors in my [...]
The Battle Cry of the Anteaters
When I was growing up, I learned that cows moo, dogs bark and cats meow. But it wasn’t until I transferred to UC Irvine that I found out that Anteaters, apparently, say ‘zot.’
The university’s choice of a mascot, and the mascot’s less-than-intimidating rally cry, is probably a mystery for a lot of the current student [...]
Facebook’s “Facelift” Causes Image to Sag
The popular online community Facebook recently launched a couple of new features: the News Feed and the Mini Feed. The feeds have been implemented in an attempt to let people know when and how their friends are updating their profiles on one easy-to-read screen. The result was a largely unwelcome page that gave users more [...]
