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Subject: Higher Education Funding and Administration

  • Knee 'em, Gamecocks!

    The New York Times reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going mining for new fines by trolling broadcasts of live sporting events and other spectacles where coaches, fans, players and performers may have uttered forbidden expletives picked up by microphones. This, of course, will likely bankrupt the participating schools in last season's classic gridiron battle that pitted Awfuckit State against the University of Calico Cocksuckers.

    July 13, 2006
  • More love for Chemerinsky

    Chapman University announced just a few moments ago that it has locked in recently reinstated UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to be its law school graduation commencement speaker next year. The announcement is the most recent illustration of Chemerinsky's quick ascension from ashy to classy. Chapman is taking the high ground saying, not only is it ok with Chemerinsky's possible "polarizing" politics, it welcomes them. According to the release, Chapman Law dean John Eastman supports Chem

    September 17, 2007
  • UC Irvine Issues Alert About a Rifleman on Campus

    UC Irvine officials issued a telephone text message to students this afternoon warning about "a suspicious man carrying a possible rifle" on campus on Mesa Drive near the Bren Events Center.According to the message, obtained by the Weekly, the subject is a white male, 6-feet, 180 pounds, blond hair, wearing a beige outfit and boots.A student on campus now reports police and law enforcement helicopter activity near the center of campus.3:15 p.m. UPDATE: Law enforcement sources say the incident is

    May 20, 2009
  • Don Wagner Kicks Off Assembly Bid With a Little Help From His Far-Out, Far-Right Friends

    Don Wagner, in charge.​Irvine's Don Wagner, the hard-core conservative president of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, kicks off his bid for state Assembly this evening with the help from one of the other hard-core conservatives on the college board's dais, "Chairman Emeritus of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee" Tom Fuentes.Wagner hopes to win the GOP nomination for the 2010 race for the Assembly seat currently filled by Chuck DeVore (R-Ir

    September 30, 2009
  • UCI Anteaters Bound for Bruinsville to Protest Tuition Hikes

    ​All eyes from the University of California system, and some from outside it, will be on UCLA today and tomorrow. No, not to observe the Bruins licking their wounds from Monday night's embarrassing loss to Cal State Fullerton on the Pauley Pavilion hardwood. It's at UCLA where the UC Board of Regents, the governing body over the 10-campus system, will vote today on whether to implement 32 percent tuition hikes in the face of massive budget shortfalls. On Thursday, the board is scheduled t

    November 18, 2009