All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
The Anteater Spoonful: Political Participation
Naser: So where does this interest in politics come from? Armin: Well, it’s not so much interest, as a necessity. You know it goes hand-in-hand with trying to live and survive and just the primal things in life. I would never go into politics, but I realize it has a direct influence on everything that [...]
A Glimmering Farewell
In two weeks I will walk across the stage, shake Chancellor Drake’s hand for the first and last time, walk down the stairs and back to my seat as a UC Irvine graduate. The experience that I’ve been anticipating my entire academic life, from kindergarten till now, will have arrived. Here I am, about to [...]
A Scanner Snarkly
For a good year now, Justin Huft and I have been writing a debate column called “Snark vs. Snark.” The premise was simple — take a topic, add a dash of satire, a heaping spoonful of cynicism and a whole lot of opinion, and format two equally absurd, equally sarcastic perspectives on an issue that [...]
It’s Veganning to Get to Me
In the beginning, there was Jimmy Eat World. It was the first review I had ever written for the New University as a doe-eyed, second-year student who had never written any piece of journalism in my life. My thought process was that I liked music and I liked writing, so why not try to combine [...]
Fox News: Fee-Fi-Fo-Feminism
Last week, a panel of three men on a certain “fair and balanced” network news station warned us that something in America was going terribly wrong, that society was disintegrating and dissolving around us. Their panic-stricken faces and voices filled with fear could only mean one thing — apocalypse. No, it’s even more terrifying than [...]
One Last Cup of Copy
I’m an English major; I love to read novels and then write papers on them. Call me a nerd, I have no shame. I discovered this love my sophomore year of high school in my honors English class with Ms. Brewer. I got a C our first paper on Jade Snow Wong’s “Fifth Chinese Daughter.” [...]
James Kim – Puppy Lover
Four years ago, I would have had a hard time convincing myself that the UC Irvine community would be a place that I would be proud to represent and be a part of. A big part of it was that I didn’t know many people; another big part was that I was socially incapable of [...]
Exploring Many Forms of Writing
I have a strong feeling that my departing words will be the only ones that are not terribly nostalgic. After six years in college, three at a junior college in northern California studying theatre and then coming to UC Irvine to discover my writing for another three, I’m just ready to get out in the [...]
The Beautiful Journey
It sounds clichéd, but when I was asked to author a farewell for the newspaper, I didn’t know what I was going to write. When I sat down with my computer to write this, I knew even less. I couldn’t possibly comprehend what it truly meant to be hired by the newspaper last spring. I [...]
It’s Been Ballin’
I have been imagining my college graduation day from a very young age. Although the versions would vary, there were a few consistencies throughout my imageries: long hair, big smile, some fancy dress making me look like a model, shaking the hand of a European distinguished professor from an Ivy League, a long list of [...]
