All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
Sailing Away From SHIP
UC Irvine joined all but four UC campuses in leaving the systemwide UC Student Health Insurance Program (UC SHIP) two weeks ago. The Council of Chancellors (COC) followed a series of recommendations by the Student Health Advisory Board in allowing each individual campus to “jump SHIP.” Jumping an ailing ship unfortunately describes the situation perfectly. [...]
Dean Rameen Reflects on LTD
Dear Fellow Anteaters: As I’m sure you are aware, the recent “blackface” video, produced by several members of the Lambda Theta Delta fraternity, has generated a great deal of disappointment, frustration and anger on the campus and beyond. Campus offices, including Student Conduct and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (OEOD), have been looking [...]
No Need to Intervene
The topic of intervention in international warfare always comes up as a decision for the United States government to make due to its powerful reputation. While it is great that the United States is seen as the superhero that must swoop down and save the day, it’s time for it to hang up its cape [...]
Gay and Greek: The Happy Truth
In a survey distributed to all of UCI’s Panhellenic sororities and IFC fraternities, 10 percent of those who responded personally identified as gay, bisexual or pansexual. This means around one in 10 Greek system members do not identify as heterosexual. It is a generally accepted stigma that the Greek system at-large is not welcoming or [...]
Islamophobia in America
The word “terrorism” finds its roots in France, during the Reign of Terror of the 1800s. Citizens and revolutionaries used the word “terrorisme” to describe not the actions of rogue groups, but atrocities committed by the government. As the years passed, the term has been adapted to mean the opposite, most spectacularly by the American [...]
Jumping The Guns
“This was a pretty shameful day in Washington,” President Obama so insightfully pointed out earlier this month, after another failed attempt to pass a bill in favor of background checks for all gun purchases. I figured the President would be used to shameful days by now. After all, shameful days in Congress are more common [...]
A Student’s Perspective
This is written as an individual student — it does not represent any organization I am affiliated with. “Anti-blackness” describes how racism has been directed toward black folks in the US. I define “racism” as not necessarily an assertion of racial superiority; it’s a massive and complex system of societal structures and normative behaviors that [...]
The New U Thanks U
Thank you. Thank you, dear reader, for voting YES on the Measure U referendum in this year’s ASUCI elections. Because of your actions, the newspaper that you hold in your hands at this very moment has been saved. Thanks to you, it will continue to live in print for the next five to six years, [...]
A Public Apology
We, the members of Lambda Theta Delta, are deeply remorseful and apologize for the racial ignorance and insensitivity demonstrated by our organization in two recent videos released online. The initial video which came to light last week shows four LTD members dancing to Justin Timberlake’s “Suit and Tie,” with one of the members impersonating Jay-Z [...]
A Meat-Eater’s Guide to the Galaxy
We’re told as children that quality always beats quantity. But it appears that our spoiled, rotten meat industry’s inability to learn this lesson is being paid for at the expense of consumers. We’ve all seen the videos. You do recall the slow motion shots capturing hundreds of chickens crammed into a two cubic feet box [...]
