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Tatsuya Suda, Famous Computer Engineer, Accused of Criminal Conflicts from Japanese Telcom Firm's Secret Cash for UCI Research

An internationally renowned computer engineer has reportedly been criminally charged for conflicts of interest involving secret payments from a major Japanese telecommunications firm funding his UC Irvine research. Tatsuya Suda, a 59-year-old native of Japan who was a UCI faculty member for more tha ... More >>

Bunch of Latinos Assault Black Woman on OCTA Bus; Sheriff's Investigators Won't Call it Hate Crime

Cal State Fullerton student Amaryah Tarkington headed home on an earlier December evening to finish up her part of a group project. The finals week task, due the very next day, was one she never got the chance to complete. The 29-year-old took an Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus fro ... More >>

[UPDATED with Video:] Gary DeLong, Republican Candidate for 47th Congressional District, Snatches Phone from Democratic Tracker at Long Beach Debate

[Update at end] ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 8, 2:30 P.M.: On Friday night, Republican congressional candidate Gary DeLong grabbed a cell phone from the hand of a purported Democratic tracker only moments after a two-hour debate at California State University Long Beach with Senator Alan ... More >>

[UPDATED With City Council Vote:] Fullerton City Council Considering New Police Force

See the update at the bottom of this post detailing the city council's vote not to explore disbanding the Fullerton Police Department. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 7, 2012: Tonight the Fullerton City Council will consider the possibility of transferring law enforcement duties from the city's embattled p ... More >>

Murderous, International Cocaine Dealer in Mexican Mafia Gets Punished in OC

For a decade after his 1999 federal grand jury racketeering indictment, Los Angeles-based gangster Rolando Ontiveros (AKA "Rolo") escaped justice for his prolific, murderous career as an international cocaine dealer in the Mexican Mafia. Law enforcement intelligence placed Ontiveros in Mexico and li ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Sends 20,000 Budget-Cut-Themed Valentine Cards To Gov. Jerry Brown

​"Roses are red, violets are blue. Secure California's future--re-invest in the CSU." The message is being spread by Cal State Fullerton students, employees and other supporters who, on this Valentine's Day, are trying to urge Gov. Jerry Brown to remember the Cal State University system amid ... More >>

Bernie Fine Syracuse Orange Scandal's Orange County Connection: Mike Hopkins

​There is an Orange County connection to the controversy swirling around the Syracuse Orangemen's basketball program.His name is Mike Hopkins.Amid growing calls for the head of Jim Boeheim, the head coach who just received a vote of confidence from his chancellor today, many believe it's time for ... More >>

[UPDATED with Final Tally:] Students and Bank Bailout Foes Protest Tuition Hike Before Cal State University Trustees

​UPDATE, NOV. 17, 9:10 A.M.: The final tally, according to California State University police that responded to Wednesday's chaos at the Chancellor's office in Long Beach: 10 people were arrested, but it is unclear if they were students or activists and labor union members bused in to protest the ... More >>

Julian "Jules" Collender's Family Files Federal Suit Against Brea Police Over His "Unjustified" Killing

Jules Collender​The parents of Julian "Jules" Collender, who was unarmed when he was shot to death outside his Yorba Linda home on June 30, 2010, by Brea Police Detective Shawn Neel, have filed a federal lawsuit that accuses the department of bungling the case from the start.The suit names as defe ... More >>

Jerry Brown Signs Half of California DREAM Act; Illegal Immigrants Now Eligible For Private College Scholarships

​Having made a campaign pledge to do so, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California DREAM Act yesterday.  Well, half of it.During a town hall meeting at Los Angeles City College, Brown signed AB 130, the part of the two-bill package that gives illegal immigrants who live in California and at ... More >>

Reza Abedi's Greatest Escape

A local high-school-wrestling coach gave up his Olympic dreams to flee Khomeini's Iran

NBFF Midway: Reflexoes de um Liquidificador, High Road Premiere, Aaron Sorkin, California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown

Searching the High Road.​Checking in on the Newport Beach Film Festival at its halfway mark, viewers have been treated in this 12th year to the option of sticking to one genre of presentations--say, only shorts or comedies or Spanish-language movies--or creating their own cultural bouillabai ... More >>

[UPDATED with Quickie Review:] 12 Local Documentaries Worth a Look at the Newport Beach Film Festival

​UPDATE, APRIL 29, 5:15 P.M.: Just finished watching the short documentary on Orange County naturalist Joel Robinson at Triangle Square and, I gotta tell you, it left me wanting to know more.Directors Jonathan Formica, Celesta Giaimo, Mj Lat and Alexandra Santoro present an eye-opening look at ar ... More >>

Ruben Vives, Former Illegal Immigrant, Wins Pulitzer for Coverage of Bell Scandal

​There are a lot of local angles to tie in this week's Pulitzer Prize victory by Los Angeles Times reporters Ruben Vives and Jeff Gottlieb for their coverage of the City of Bell Scandal. You have the man they took down, Robert Rizzo, being a resident of Huntington Beach, and that Gottlieb used to ... More >>

[UPDATED: Students Petition to Oust Editor] CSULB Newspaper Apologizes for Insensitive 'Pow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippy Yay' Report on Native American Event

​UPDATE, APRIL 19, 11:35 A.M.: More than 1,000 CSULB students have signed a petition to pull Kevin O'Brien from his position as editor-in-chief of the Union Weekly. O'Brien is responsible for publishing the controversial "Pow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippy Yay" review, along with last ... More >>

UC Irvine Soccer Wuz Robbed

​The UC Irvine men's soccer team finished 14-3-3, won the Big West Conference regular-season title, were ranked No. 1 in the West Regional rankings most of the season and were in the national top 10 for the final six weeks of the regular season.So, how were the Anteaters rewarded? With another ... More >>

Orange County DREAM Team Protests Outside Meg Whitman's Santa Ana Offices Over Whitman's Anti-Undocumented College Student Stance

​Meg Whitman can down all the tequila shots with vendidos that she wants, but the fact is that the Republican gubernatorial candidate's name is mud with most any Latino voter in California. Her alliance with former California governor Pete Wilson might've played well with the CCIR crowd but antago ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton's Gutsy Professor

[Best of OC 2010] Cindy Abbott's 10 OC Survival Tips

[UPDATED:] Santa Ana College Quad Less Crowded

​UPDATE: Little did I know while posting this morning that Rancho Santiago College District, which oversees Santa Ana College, would be announcing sharp enrollment declines, although they are fewer than indicated in the student newspaper (see end of post) . . . With the tuition fee hikes, dwindlin ... More >>

UCI Professor's Budget-Cut Dispatch Splits Audience

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom​Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, a history professor at UC Irvine, has written a thoughtful piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, "U. of California Cuts: A Faculty Member's Dispatch From the Front Lines." In the piece, Wasserstrom bemoans how the state budget crisis cou ... More >>

Nip Tuck

Dick Tuck is not a new procedure offered by your plastic surgeon but a "legendary political hoaxster" and former frequent tormentor of Orange County Disgraced Favorite Son Richard Nixon, whose visit from Arizona to a friend's home in Colorado drew the ink-stained wretches of the Aspen Daily--and ... More >>

Let's Give the Nissan cube the New Old College Try

Cal State Fullerton communications student Elizabeth Heath contacted the Weekly about a contest her Brand Campaigns class has entered to come up with the best advertising campaign for the Nissan cube.The cube is a car. It looks like a boxier Toyota Scion. Like the Scion, it is meant to appeal to you ... More >>

Live Review: Ludacris on 02/23

Review, video and photos by Patrick Chavis. Ludacris, Pacific Division Walter Pyramid, Cal State University Long Beach February 23, 2008 A night of protests, hos and intellectual conversation in the LBC: isn’t that what hip-hop’s all about? The opening act—Pacific Division from Palmdale, ... More >>

For Their Protection

Safety Gear for Small Animals tries to save our species

New Lessons for CSU students

Earlier this month when the governor's budget plan was unveiled, three groups-- poor families with children, teachers, and college students at UC's and CSU's-- were particularly singled out for sacrifice, so the gov. could cling to his no new taxes pledge. CSU students are expect to part with an a ... More >>

A Remembrance

Laura Marchant

Beckett's Endgame

Trifling as ever

Who Would Jesus Discriminate Against?

Although it lacks the economic punch of Christmas, Easter is, in theory, the biggest of Christian holidays. "[A]nd if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." according to Paul (1 Corinthians 15:14), whose opinion on the matter commands a certain respect. So how ... More >>

Un-Made in Mexico

Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

Now More than Ever

Angela Davis matters

Get Faced With Dylan

John Mayalls not a bad poet, either

Ironys Siren

Pat Boone grapples with his demons

Perfect Sound forever

Everything in the world is Aaron Ximms pop song

Diary of a Mad County

Best of OC 2004: Part 5

Diary of a Mad County

A Yin-Yang Push-and-Pull Party

Slowrider cruise into the ever-mutating future

Spy the Friendly Skies

Letters

Letters

Access for Ass Kiss

Do Reg reporters love the DA, or is that a banana in their stories?

The Great Elaborator

Kushners A Bright Room Called Day

Never Cruel

Not trash, not ridicule, but clearly DeBris

Passport to Hell

Hasan Hasan met the War on Terror in Long Beach

Shake That Ass!

Theres a club for every taste

The Second-Chance Motel

Doing time for the wrong crime may have saved Richard Flores

This is Where We Pray

As earthmovers move in, local Indians move to save their sacred land

Letters

The Year in Cyberspace

Welcome to Virtual U

Why is cyberspace sucking the college experience into a black hole? 'It all comes down to money'