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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Utilizing Student Resources
The Social Sciences Academic Resource Center provides workshops and career pointers to undergraduates across all academic disciplines. Under the School of Social Sciences, the Social Sciences Academic Resources Center (SSARC) provides workshops and programs on topics such as community service, public speaking and leadership to ensure students develop skills necessary to career success before sending [...]
Uniting Through Prayer
Every first Thursday of May, a nationwide phenomenon takes place — prayer sweeps across the nation and voices join together in unison, as people of all different ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths gather together to lift America up in prayer. Intended for people of all faiths, this day was created in 1952 by a joint resolution [...]
‘Uncovering’ Summer Aid
The ASUCI Office of the President hosted an event titled “Summer Aid Uncovered” last Tuesday to give students a better idea of how summer funds are allocated and to provide more transparency from the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships. Maria Khan and Trisha In, two student members of the ASUCI Transparency Committee, were the [...]
‘The Other CO2 Problem’
UC Irvine hosts a multi-disciplinary symposium that brought attention to the acidification of the world’s oceans. Informing scientists and citizens alike, scientists and professors from disciplines across all of science spoke at an ocean acidification symposium entitled “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century,” last Friday, May 3, on the impending impact that carbon dioxide is having [...]
Students Drive Initiatives
Voting results show a student-led demand for services. This year’s ASUCI Spring Elections resulted in a record turnout of over 30 percent of undergraduates voting at UC Irvine, ranking the highest among our campus’ history. Of the three referendums on the ballot, students voted to pass two of them. The initiatives put forward [...]
