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Celebrating Engagement
The Department of Civic & Community Engagement celebrates UCI service in the community. Celebrating students, faculty and staff who are actively engaging the community to make a difference, the Department of Civic & Community Engagement held their fourth annual “Engage UCI” day of engagement last Thursday, May 9. Students, faculty, staff and community members filled [...]
Anteaters Show They Mean ‘Business’
Women in Business (WIB) bring back “Anteaters Got Talent” for the first time in two years, restarting an annual tradition. “Women In Business” (WIB), an on-campus graduate students organization for the master’s program, invited students and faculty members from UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business to present a show called Anteaters Got Talent [...]
A Discussion on Marriage
LGBT rights activist and University of Iowa student Zack Wahls speaks about his family and calls for “positivity” in the fight for marriage equality. Providing a first-hand account of how Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights affects the lives of individuals like his two mothers, LGBT rights activist Zach Wahls spoke before a large [...]
Uniting BioSci Students
Bringing Biological Sciences students together, ASUCI and the BSC collaborated to welcome back the 2nd annual Bio Week. In an attempt to foster a sense of unity and pride within the school of Biological Sciences (BioSci) at UC Irvine, the Bio Sci Student Council partnered with the Legislative Council Biological Sciences Representatives to bring [...]
Student Receives Racist Note
Student finds racist note in her backpack while studying at the Ayala Science Library. UCI PD is investigating the incident. A freshman student found a note in her backpack that read “Go back 2 Africa slave” while she was studying at the Ayala Science Library on Tuesday of last week. The note, which is [...]
Leg. Council Votes to Divert SPFB Funding
A majority vote allows budget bill to take student programming money for use in large campus events. Money was a major subject of contention at ASUCI’s Legislative Council meeting on Tuesday, May 7. The dispute came to head over Legislation B48-12, which regarded the ASUCI Executive Board’s mid-year budget allocation proposal. The vote was [...]
BSU Protests Against Racism
The Black Student Union and supporters rallied against Anti-Blackness while raising awareness of a history of racism on campus. UCI’s Black Student Union (BSU) organized a rally from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Anteater Plaza to raise awareness of anti-blackness last Friday. The rally was held in response to multiple incidents of anti-blackness [...]
Celebrating May Day with Literature
The English Department hosted a “May Day Literary Event” last Wednesday to celebrate the recently published works of two English Language Composition Lecturers, Lorene Delany Ullman and Peggy Hesketh. Lecturer Andrew T. Tonkovich opened the event, saying that the gathering combined his two passions: art and activism. “[On one of my] favorite radio programs on [...]
Arriving at Justice
Professor and Director of the Literary Journalism Department, Barry Siegel, spoke to colleagues and students about his newest book. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism Department Director Barry Siegel was the featured guest during last week’s Humanities Author Series, where he spoke about his new narrative non-fiction book “Manifest Injustice — The True [...]
Chancellors Approve Changes to Student Health Insurance Plan
The UC Chancellors approved a list of recommendations to the UC Student Health Insurance Program (SHIP) put forth by the UC SHIP Advisory Board last Wednesday, May 1 at their regularly scheduled meeting in Oakland. The SHIP Advisory Board recommends to the SHIP Executive Committee, which then forwards the recommendations to the Council of Chancellors [...]
