Author Archive for Ravind Kumar
UCI to Receive Award for Tree Campus USA
On Nov. 19, the Arbor Day Foundation will be awarding a greener gift to UC Irvine as a part of the Tree Campus USA program. In addition to the award, the Arbor Day foundation, in partnership with Toyota, will be sponsoring a volunteer-led tree-planting event in Aldrich Park.
Volunteers will be planting trees in four-to-six tree [...]
Planting Seeds
With the goal of fostering awareness about where food comes from and how it was produced, the Anteater Garden Initiative (AGI) established a 1/4 acre on-campus garden plot this summer, with planting to ensue later this fall.
The AGI campaign was born from the Real Food Challenge, a food sustainability campaign in the fall of 2009. [...]
The Parking Ins and Outs of UCI Structures
Diane Oh | Staff Photographer
As the new academic year begins, many students will find themselves trapped within the mad rush of parking, struggling to find a single open spot alongside dozens of other students and hoping that they might get lucky 10 minutes before class starts. Many students will park in the wrong spot at [...]
Define: Bullseye
Twenty-four smooth, black, acid-scented grains of smokeless powder lie compacted in a brass shell. The shell is 1.70 inches long with a 55-grain hollow-point cork above and an explosive primer charge below.
The charge handle pulls back the bolt, sliding into a well-oiled buffer tube as it cocks the hammer back before slamming forward, carrying the [...]
Dragon Race: Skating for a Cause
The radio chatter is mixed in with static and long beeps of low battery warnings. The hay bales at the bottom of California Avenue are all stacked up and ready.
“These radios fucking suck,” grumbles Daniel Navarro, one of the many Beta Theta Pi fraternity members setting things up. A call comes over the radio, broken [...]
Dear Professors: We Were Wrong
As the academic year comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to apologize to our professors. I’d like to apologize, on behalf of all those students who took the time during class to ridicule you, to send you angry e-mails, to complain about you on Facebook and rate you down on ratemyprofessors.com. [...]
New Negotiations In Worker Struggle
INSOURCE: UCI grapples with insourcing for on-campus custodial workers and its effects on the budget.
Internet Neutrality Sparks Concern
WEB: The possibility of charging for higher bandwidth websites may lead to an end to internet neutrality.
