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A Grand Welcome
UCI caps off Welcome Week with a record-shattering dodgeball game with 6,084 students. UC Irvine successfully regained the title of holding the Guinness World Record for the largest dodgeball game on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at the ARC fields. With 6,084 participants, Anteaters took to the fields to check out what being part of a [...]
Pushing The Ballot
Voter education and registration are on top of the list for ASUCI and CALPIRG. Representatives from UC Irvine administration, ASUCI and CALPIRG kicked off Welcome Week last Tuesday by announcing their cooperative campaign to have at least 7,000 students registered to vote by this fall’s elections. Manny Rin, the CALPIRG Campaign Coordinator for UCI, [...]
Humanities Dean Candidate Appointment Causes Debate
Some faculty members of the School of Humanities express their concerns over the appointment of the new dean. Faculty members of the UC Irvine School of Humanities were invited to an informational meeting with Chancellor Michael V. Drake and Provost Susan V. Bryant to discuss the appointment of the new dean of Humanities last [...]
UCI Offers Free Online Courses
UCI partners with Coursera to offer higher education through free online courses to students worldwide despite their financial situation. In the recent weeks leading up to the start of the fall quarter, UC Irvine, along with 16 other schools, announced its partnership with private company Coursera to offer courses free of charge to students [...]
Artistic Empowerment
Student artists extend their creativity and activism, exhibiting their artwork under the theme of “empowerment.” ASUCI’s Office of the President launched the first of its newly created Art Lab programs – a showcase of artwork and music created by UC Irvine students – on Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Student Center Terrace. The purpose [...]
News In Brief
Governor Brown Shuts Down “Gay Camps” California Governor Jerry Brown has formally ended the practice of forcefully changing an individual’s sexual orientation in his recent signing of bill SB 1172. The bill, which was introduced to the California Legislature on February 22, 2012 by Senator Ted Lieu of 28th District, proposes illegalizing efforts by mental [...]
Dodgeball Supremacy
Today’s dodgeball game marks UCI’s third attempt at the world record against a familiar foe. One year ago during Welcome Week 2011, students at UC Irvine reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the largest dodgeball game at the ARC fields. Last year, 4,488 UCI students doubled the record set in 2010 when 1,745 individuals participated. [...]
UCI Travel-Study Programs Suspended Indefinitely
Due to a decline in enrollment, the UCI Summer Session office has suspended its long-standing programs. The UC Irvine Summer Session office announced in a campus-wide email sent on Sept. 5 that its various Summer Travel-Study programs would be suspended indefinitely for all students. “After careful consideration, Summer Session has decided to suspend these programs,” [...]
Discussing Issues With President Yudof
Campus newspapers discussed recent issues facing the UC system in a conference call with UC President Yudof. The upcoming election, the university budget and various campus climate concerns were among the main topics of interest during a recent teleconference interview between UC President Mark Yudof and student newspaper editors from nine of the UC campuses [...]
News In Brief
Successful Aging Series Commences This past week, UC Irvine’s program in Geriatrics announced that the John B. Parker Successful Aging series will commence in 2013, thanks to much needed donor support. UCI’s program in Geriatrics, focusing on the ever-increasing elderly population growing in Orange County as the Baby Boom Generation approaches retiring ages, is ranked [...]
