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  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    Dan Walters, Dean of State Political Reporters, v. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UCI Law School

    The dean of California political reporters, Dan Walters, didn't like the idea of UC Irvine opening a law school six years ago and, in his syndicated column Monday, expressed vindication for that view thanks to a Los Angeles Times story that reports several law school graduates can't find jobs while ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2013

    Students to Protest Tomorrow at UC Irvine Over Proposed Health Care Fee Increases Across UC System

    Back in my grad school days at UCLA, I made frequent use of my health care there--not because I suffered from anything more than the occasional stomach ulcer, but because I was a hypochondriac. Besides, it was cheap, accessible, and it was the first time in my life I ever had health care. That was i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2013

    UCI's First Law School Class Has a Better Cali Bar Exam Passage Rate Than All But Stanford

    The end of our October blog post on University of California at Irvine School of Law students helping Nigerian activists present a case to the U.S. Supreme Court mentioned that the local school has its critics.The blasts to the law school and its founding dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, began in 2009, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2012

    [UPDATED: BODY FOUND] Jack Culolias, Arizona State University Student from Brea, Still Missing

    See the latest update at the bottom of the page... ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 14, 8:00 A.M.: On Nov. 30, Brea resident Jack Culolias went out with around 200 other people in fraternities and sororities from Arizona State University to the Cadillac Ranch in Tempe. Culolias was about to start Hell Week in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    UCI Law School Professor and Students Fight for Nigerian Activists in U.S. Supreme Court

    When the U.S. Supreme Court opened what's billed to be a contentious new term Monday, UC Irvine School of Law students were there.But the future legal eagles were not in Washington, D.C., to observe the proceedings as bystanders but to help one of their professors argue a case before the Supremes.

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    The Text of Gustavo's Long Beach City College Commencement Speech!

    As this gets published, I'll most likely be reading my commencement speech to the graduates of Long Beach City College. So I'm speaking to you right now from the future--WEIRD...Anyhoo, the entirety of the speech follows. I reserve the right to change words on the drive to campus in the next hour, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Pervy Shutterbug Invades College Ladies Room

    ​Cypress College is reaching out to the community in the wake of a female student's 3:10 p.m. Monday report to Cypress Police that a man tried to photograph or videotape her as she was using a restroom in the campus Humanities Building. By evening, Campus Safety officers released a still image of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Huell Howser Donates His Past and Future Programs Not to PBS SoCal But Chapman University

    ​If the homespun head of Huell Howser Productions was going to donate his vast catalog of past and future shows--California's Gold, Visiting ... with Huell Howser, Road Trip with Huell Howser and other Golden State-centric television programs--to anyone in Orange County, you'd assume it would be C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    UCI Law School Wins ABA Accreditation

    Dean Chemerinsky​UC Irvine's School of Law was informed today that it has been granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association."The ABA's decision puts the official seal of approval on the hard work of scores of faculty, administrators, students, and supporters--both on campus ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 9, 2010

    UC Irvine's New Computer-Games Major Gets Its Game On

    The school is banking big on computer games as an emerging discipline

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010

    The Supreme Court and the Future of Church/State Separation

    Irvine Ranch Water District

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Professors Ask "Who Owns The Korean Taco?"

    ​(Image from kogibbq.com) If you already had it up to here with articles about Kogi, here's another one. But wait! You want to read this one. In a piece called "Who Owns The Korean Taco" two experts in counterfeiting and intellectual property, Kal Raustiala (a professor at UCLA Law School an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Rep. Campbell and Irvine Co. War on Christmas: Security Goons Bar Students Singing Carols

    Remember those UC Irvine students who visited the Newport Center office of Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) on Tuesday afternoon? As the video above shows, the future doctors, lawyers and researchers from UCI's law and medical schools are singing traditional Christmas carols with new lyrics pert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    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, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2008

    John R. Wooden Classic

    College Basketball

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Activists protest hate at Cal State Fullerton

    At noon, the ho-hum shuffle of another Tuesday afternoon was interrupted with a jarring burst of voices. They echoed from the Cal State Fullerton quad in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences building. A noose was throw over a tree branch and dropped in the dirt. Today students from across L.A ... More >>

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Taken to School

    Judge dismisses a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by professors alleging class-hour fraud against Chapman University

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    Chapman responds to outlaw fraternity

    As reported yesterday on Navel Gazing, a group hoping to start a Jewish Fraternity at Chapman, see [Scarlet Letters, May 10] has issued a warning through the American Civil Liberties Union that the school cease what they consider violations of their First Amendment rights on campus or face the cons ... More >>

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    Who Watches the Watchdog?

    In the shadow of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, Chapman University is accused of being a bit too close to its accrediting agency

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    Muslim Bashers of Orange County Unite!

    Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irv ... More >>

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Litigating It Old-School

    Former Chapman instructors invoke a Civil War-era law in their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2007

    CA soon to spend more on prisons than education!

    According to an article today by James Sterngold in the San Francisco Chronicle, California will soon have the dubious honor of being the first state to spend more on prisons than higher education. Sterngold says that beginning in fiscal 2012-2013 the state will spend $15.4 billion annually on inca ... More >>

  • News

    May 10, 2007

    Scarlet Letters

    Chapman U. dean under scrutiny for scolding outcast fraternity

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2007

    Them That's Got

    If you belong to one of the groups targeted for a good squeezin' called on to sacrifice in the governor's budget plan-- college students, public school teachers, families on welfare-- rest assured that the truly needy will still be well taken care of. Kate Folmar reports in the San Jose Mercury New ... More >>

  • Features

    March 8, 2007

    Know Your Most Popular Spring Break Destinations

    According to 2004 hotel bookings at Travelweb.com

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2007

    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 >>

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Live Free Now

    Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine

  • Features

    March 9, 2006

    Top 10 Party Schools

    'Where the party at?'

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Bomb Voyage

    Cops say wannabe doctor faces charges in UCI bomb hoax

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    'No Entiendo'

    Tom Fuentes and friends axe Saddleback Colleges Spain study abroad program

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    No Entiendo

    Tom Fuentes and friends ax Saddleback Colleges Spain study-abroad program

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Diploma MillKill? No, Shill!

    Reg embarrasses itself with Corinthian Colleges story

  • Film

    November 4, 2004

    The Ghost Between the Sheets

    The other woman falls for a kid who is maybe her reincarnated lover movie

  • Culture

    June 10, 2004

    Shelter

    Trailer for Sale or Rent

  • Culture

    October 23, 2003

    You Ain't Inventing Jack

    Fullerton College looks back at sex, sex and the Old West

  • Columns

    October 9, 2003

    Illegal Immigrants vs. College Students

    Who lives the better life?

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Affirmative Action for Whites

    The Court affirms racial preferences in universities, so long as they work for white people

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Campus Radicals

    The Republican campaign to dominate universities comes to Fullerton

  • Features

    September 26, 2002

    Shake That Ass!

    Theres a club for every taste

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    The T Word

    Rigoberta Menchu Tum gives OC a new definition of terrorism

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Bandwidth on the Run

    Is Net speed or censorship behind Napster spat?

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    School for Scandal

    How does UCIs medical-school dean stay healthy?

  • Features

    September 2, 1999

    With Friends Like These

    Inside a real college sorority

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Freeway Fliers

    Life in the fast lane brings little reward for part-time teachers

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Those Picket Signs?

    At UCI, they're likely to return

  • Features

    September 10, 1998

    Welcome to Virtual U

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

  • Features

    September 10, 1998

    Give It the Old College Guide*

    The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions

  • News

    November 21, 1996

    Adventures in Advertising

    Democrat, nuts use anti-gay hysteria to win college board seats

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