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Inside the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences Advising

Advisors at UC Irvine’s Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences continue to support students in summer. Similar to the academic year, advisors answer emails and live chats and meet with students about their concerns. Instead of meeting a large portion of their advisees at...

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News

Bills for student housing improvement pass the state legislature

Five bills that will improve student housing for California’s public university students have passed the state legislature as of Aug. 30, advancing to the governor’s desk. There, each bill can either be signed into law, vetoed or ignored by the constitutional deadline of Sept. 30, making it a law automatically. AB 1732, introduced by Assemblymembers David Alvarez and Buffy Wicks, is known as The Student and Faculty Housing Opportunity Act. Currently, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires state and local agencies to disclose, evaluate and mitigate the significant environmental impacts of proposed projects, according to the AB 1732 fact sheet. The fact sheet reports that CEQA lawsuits stalled seven...

Bills for student housing improvement pass the state legislature

Five bills that will improve student housing for California’s public university students have passed the state legislature as of Aug. 30, advancing to the governor’s desk. There, each bill...

UCI Housing to require students to purchase renters insurance

Starting in fall 2026, UCI Student Housing will require residents to purchase renters insurance for on-campus and off-campus university housing. This includes Mesa Court, Middle Earth and American Campus...

UCI announces new UCIPD chief of police

Paul Cooper was announced UCIPD’s new chief of police on Sept. 4, five months after former chief Liz Griffin retired.  Cooper, who has been serving as interim chief of police...

Opinion

Women on Trump’s cabinet keep dropping like flies — why?

Anyone keeping up with the Trump administration must be familiar with one name: Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt has become one of its most recognizable faces as Trump’s White House Press Secretary; however, she recently announced...

The relatability trap: Selling the ordinary candidate  

A question of bodega orders was posed to New York City’s mayoral candidates during an October 2025 debate, placing their preferred sandwich order alongside questions about how they planned to address affordability and education...

Paparazzi shouldn’t have the right to stalk

Paparazzi are a plague to privacy. In today’s world, they fuel cheesy tabloid culture by taking pictures of the famous in borderline aggressive ways. The paparazzi have used the First Amendment’s freedom of the...

Timely, timeless and tailored: The fashion language of influencer weddings

Wedding bells and ringtones have rung over the past week as influencers have tied the knot in very public ways. From Paige Lorenze and Tommy Paul to Shay Sullivan and Casey Johnson, recent weddings...

Korean enough to sell: K-pop’s commodified Korean identity

In Korean pop (K-pop), idols have become cultural Build-a-Bears: meet Korean beauty standards, sing English lyrics and perform a marketable version of Koreanness calibrated for Western audiences. As the industry gains global influence, it...

The UN is a bad joke with no punchline. 

In the midst of the Second World War, the Allied Powers created the United Nations (UN) — a global peacekeeping organization dedicated to preventing world-wide conflict through international cooperation. When the war was over...

Entertainment

Surf City waves hello to Pasta Viva

The Italian-inspired kitchen Pasta Viva officially opened the doors of its Huntington Beach, Calif. location on Aug. 29. To celebrate, the restaurant gave their first 100 guests a free...

Chick-fil-A’s Chicken & Waffles give UTC a taste of...

Crispy red and orange leaves twist through Aldrich Park, a brisk chill floats through the air and Peter the Anteater adorns an Acne Studios fluffy scarf and Skims pajama...

Has Weezer released their best album in over a...

Weezer released their 20th studio album, “Weezer” — also known as “The Gold Album” — on Aug. 21. Beneath the surface of their newest self-titled album, Weezer introduces something...

Pageant of the Masters: A spectacle in stillness 

Paintings have always been frozen in time. Their subjects cannot move, speak or breathe. Yet every summer in Laguna Beach, some of the world’s most famous works of art...

Sports

Women’s Soccer falls 2-0 to Washington State

UCI Women’s soccer lost their second away game of the season 2-0 to Washington State University on Aug 27.  The...

UC Irvine Women’s Track and Field adds six transfers

The UC Irvine Women’s Track and Field has signed six athletes from other schools, including a second team All-American...

UC Irvine Women’s Tennis 2025-26 season

UC Irvine Women’s Tennis (12-10, 3-6) 2025-26 season kept viewers hooked on each match, and showcased how well they...

Men’s Soccer opens season with 3-3 draw against Oregon State

The UC Irvine men’s soccer team (0-0-1, 0-0-0 Big West) took a hard-fought 3-3 draw against No. 19 Oregon...

UC Irvine Women’s Track and Field win academic awards

The UC Irvine Women’s Track and Field team was awarded multiple academic honors for their performance in the 2025-2026...

Redshirt senior Finnegan Wall signs with the Minnesota Twins

With the 2026 MLB Draft completed on July 12, and two Anteaters ultimately being selected, it seemed like there...

Big West Women’s Cross Country additions creates upcoming competitive season

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s women's cross country team’s reign on top of the Big West may come to...

Women’s soccer begins creative preseason training for 2026 season

While many Anteaters are taking the summer to relax and recharge before September rolls around, the UCI women’s soccer...

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