All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
‘Watch’ How I Make You ‘See’: What My Point Is About Verb Usage
“Hey, wanna go watch a movie?” says your friend. “Sure,” you say, “your place or mine?” “No, let’s go watch a movie at the theater.” “Oh, you mean, let’s go see a movie?” “Yeah, that’s what I said.” But that’s not what your friend said, not one bit. They said “watch” as to reference the [...]
A World of Racism
First of all, congratulations on not being racist anymore. And a round of applause for moving past all your sexist views. It’s pretty impressive that you’re “better than all that” now. Most of all, it’s just nice to live in a country that is free of any sort of discrimination. After all, that’s what we’re [...]
Should the UC be Tobacco Free? (Pro)
Mark Yudof announced in January his initiative to make all UC campuses tobacco-free by 2014 “in order to promote community well-being through research, education, nutrition and exercise.” UCLA, ahead of the game, has decided to implement this policy starting April 22 of this year. You go, UCLA. Hats off to you. UC Irvine should have [...]
More Apps, Less Space
Around mid-January of this year, the numbers on applicants to UC Irvine for the fall quarter of 2013 were released, and, in keeping with the trend, set a record. The number of applicants for fall quarter 2012 was around 70,000 and this year the number rose by about 9 percent to over 76,000. The statistics [...]
Capitol Hill-ary
“I think Hillary will go down as one of the finest Secretary of States we’ve had.” Couldn’t have said it better myself, Mr. President. Hillary Clinton is probably one of the few Secretaries of State that the average American can name or recognize. (As terrible as that sounds, many of my peers have a hard [...]
Fairness For The Fairer Sex (Nidia)
EDITORS NOTE: The print edition of this piece incorrectly states that Jeantte Reveles wrote this article. The correct author of this Nidia Sandoval. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the ban on women taking combat roles. Though units like Delta Force and the Green Berets can still petition to have women excluded if they can [...]
Fairness For The Fairer Sex (Jeanette)
EDITORS NOTE: The print edition of this piece incorrectly states that Nidia Sandoval wrote this article. The correct author of this Jeanette Reveles. Last week, the Pentagon announced it was lifting the longtime ban on women in combat. This announcement has caused quite a stir among political circles, with supporters saying it is a huge [...]
Don’t Invest In Divestment
16 members of ASUCI gathered to vote in November 2012 on a divestment resolution that urged the University of California to divest, or remove their investments, from companies that directly profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Companies such as General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar and Raytheon made the list of culprits who directly profit [...]
Technology: Peak or Plateau?
Our current generation is considered to be at the peak of technology, the threshold of advancement. But is this really true? Consider mid-15th century France. Anyone who has read “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” knows that the country’s clergy believed the Antichrist had come and world was soon to end, all due to the invention [...]
Give Us Your Culturally Diverse
Despite the cultural mixing pot of students sitting in the seats of our lecture halls, the UC system is worried that there is not enough diversity in the front of the classroom — our instructors. On the agenda for the recent UC Regents meeting was the concept of online education, but also the familiar issue [...]
