Higher Education

UC Irvine Says "Go Back 2 Africa Slave" Note Was Left in Student's Backpack in Lab: Update

See the update at the end of this post with the university clarifying the note saying "Go Back 2 Africa Slave" was left in the freshman student's backpack in a lab.ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2:59 P.M.: A UC Irvine freshman received a note slipped under her dorm-room door* Tuesday night that read, "Go bac ... More >>

Tani Cantil-Sakauye, State's Chief Justice, to Give UCI Law School Commencement Address

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court will deliver the commencement address at UC Irvine School of Law on May 11. Fortunately, the UCI School of Law has informed the Weekly who that is: Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Truth be told, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2011, becoming t ... More >>

[UPDATED with Chancellor Response and Investigation:] UC Irvine Asian-American Fraternity Members Produce Blackface Music Video

Read the response from UCI's chancellor at the end of this post. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 25, 6 A.M.: Another day, another frat bro in blackface. Lambda Theta Delta (LTD), the largest and oldest Asian American fraternity at UC Irvine, is under fire after members produced a music video inspired by the ... More >>

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The Observatory

Seminar Explores International Law Strategies to Stop Local Criminalization of the Homeless

The way the City of Costa Mesa has demonized homeless people, you'd think that would be the place for this seminar: "Opposing the Criminalization of Homelessness: Building a Human Rights Framework Event."Actually, the talk runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in Irvine, in UC Irvine's EDU - 1111 Sem ... More >>

Orange County Dream Team to Have "ApocalypZolada!" Fundraiser Dec. 21!

If you don't know where to go for the end of the world this December 21st, or where to leave the money under your mattress that you were saving for your mezcalito, no worries: leave it to the Orange County Dream Team, one of the most prominent advocates in Orange County that support and pr ... More >>

Brice Harris, New State Community Colleges Chancellor, and Timothy P. White, Incoming CSU Chancellor, Challenged from the Get-go

Brice Harris took over the California Community Colleges system as chancellor on Nov. 6. Timothy P. White will be installed as the California State University system chancellor at the end of this month. Both are being welcomed to office by a broad, nonprofit coalition of education, business and ci ... More >>

Mexi, African-American Med Students at UCI Organize Conference for Their High School Peers

The words "cardiothoracic surgeon" are most likely not found in the vocabulary of any two-year-old, except for Barbara Williams, a second-year medical student at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. Williams recently completed clinical cardiovascular research at the nationally r ... More >>

Irvine Investment Operator Penalized For Scam Claiming 1,000 Percent Returns

Omar Ali Rizvi graduated from law school in San Francisco and earned a Masters of Laws degree in securities and financial regulations at Georgetown University Law School in the nation's capital, but its obvious that the Irvine man never learned to obey the law.In the last decade, Rizvi has been conv ... More >>

Jerry Amante, Tustin Councilman, Has Grand Jury "Misfeasance in Office" Finding Marked With Call for His Head and Hiring as a Lobbyist

Hey, Tustin City Councilman (and former mayor) Jerry Amante: the grand jury beotch slaps you for "misfeasance in office" and "exceeding or misusing a public power or position and thereby risking harm" for lobbying a college president to force the resignation of a professor who exposed the massive a ... More >>

UCI Opens Consumer Protection Clinic Tied to $18 Billion Mortgage Settlement with Banks

UC Irvine Law Professor Katherine Porter, who Attorney General Kamala Harris in March named to monitor California's landmark foreclosure settlement with five major banks, is starting a Consumer Protection Clinic to help homeowners get promised relief. The school's role is part of a state settlement ... More >>

California's Higher Ed Budget Gets Slashed By $300 Million in Gov. Brown's 'Trigger Cut' Spree

JC Vera/OC Weekly​California's higher education system got another big blow in yesterday's budget bloodbath.  Gov. Jerry Brown announced a round of "trigger cuts," mid-year reductions taken when state revenues don't meet initial projections. This year, there's a $2.2 billion shortfall, and Br ... More >>

[UPDATED With Woman Identified:] Cal State Long Beach Fatal Elevator Accident Launches Investigation

UPDATE, DEC. 7, 5:56 P.M.: The employee who died in the elevator accident this morning has been identified as 48-year-old Annette Lujan, according to a Daily 49er story. The story says she worked in the Office of University Research at the Foundation, where the accident happened, for nine years ... More >>

Raphael Nuñez Jr., Killed Crossing Freeway After UCI Frat Partying, Was Being Hazed: Family's Suit

MyUCIrvine.com​Did computer science major Raphael Nuñez, Jr. (nicknamed "Ralphy")--in his pot, Ecstasy and jungle-juice fueled stupor--mistakenly wander onto the 405 freeway before being struck and killed by two vehicles the night of May 7, 2009?Or, as claimed in the wrongful death lawsuit filed ... More >>

Dream Team Assembled at UCI Law School Squeezes Boring Right Out of 2010-11 U.S. Supreme Court Term

​For the UC Irvine School of Law's first-ever Supreme Court Review Wednesday, the assembled panel was saddled with a reportedly "boring" 2010-2011 term. Fortunately, the legal all-stars who enlightened about 170 lunching students, lawyers and professors on campus (and an equal number watching the ... More >>

Assembly Passes Second California DREAM Act Bill, To Allow State Financial Aid For Illegal Immigrants

​Another hurdle cleared for illegal immigrant college students. On Wednesday, the state Assembly passed the second part of the California DREAM Act, a bill that would allow them to apply for state grants.  The two-bill package was introduced by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), wh ... More >>

California DREAM Act Passes State Assembly

​It's a little confusing, but no less a victory for illegal immigrant college students. While the national DREAM Act, an immigration bill aimed at providing a path to citizenship for young people, died in the U.S. Senate--and possibly forever--last year, the California DREAM Act is very much alive ... More >>

School Daze At UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton

While CSUF students find an administration that applaud their protests, UCI coeds deal with heavier-handed officials

Jerry Brown's Budget Slashes Higher Education Funding By $1.4 Billion

The Gov. ​The University of California president called it "a sad day for California." Today, Gov. Jerry Brown released his 2011-12 state budget proposal, one he described as "a tough budget for tough times," and higher eduction is feeling the blow.  Under the proposed budget, funding for the ... More >>

Evan Stone's Jazz Jam

Steamer's Cafe

Special Dream Edición

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Successful Latina seeks non-gabacho prince up to her standards

[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 >>

Have a DREAM

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special High-School-Graduation Edition

Ron Lane Takes Scholarly Approach to Life After Cover Story

Photo by Jeanne RiceRon Lane is all smiles in Orange County recently.​Issues won't be changed out on OC Weekly newsstands for another day, but the story is already changing when it comes to the current cover feature, "Found In Space: For his 20th birthday, Ryan Lane got a present he'd been wantin ... More >>

[UPDATED] Federal Lawsuit Targets Orange County College District Prayers

​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LAWYER FOR THE DISTRICT . . . A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the South Orange County Community College District over official prayers during public ceremonies, Americans United for Separation of Church and ... More >>

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 ... More >>

The Best Dessert You've Never Heard Of

​The picture at left is a mango shake with chamoy, the most mindbending non-alcoholic drink in all of OC. Never heard of chamoy?  Neither have most people in Orange County.Chamoy (accent on the first syllable) starts as apricots that have been soaked in brine. The sweet liquid is mixed with s ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez a Hypocritical Aztlanista

On my KPFK-FM 90.7 radio show this Tuesday, I interviewed a member of the Orange County Dream Team, a group of undocumented college students. This past Saturday, they and other supporters met with Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez, seeking her co-sponsorship of the DREAM Act, which would create a path t ... More >>

To Do Tonight 11/20

Coolio with DJ Squigs, 9 p.m. See what's cooking with this has-been rapper and his DJ friend! Sutra Lounge Triangle Square, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Ste. 200 Costa Mesa, CA 949-722-7103 Matisyahu; Flobots, 7:30 p.m. View images from the concert tomorrow at ocweekly.com/slideshows The Grove of Anaheim 220 ... More >>

Wasted Youth

Juilliard String Quartet

To Do Tonight - 10/11

23RD ANNUAL FOOD, WINE & MICRO BREW FESTIVAL, 5:30pm Enjoy a sampling of some of the finest cuisine from Orange County’s restaurants. There will also be live music and dancing. Contributions benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, Crate & Barrel/Macy's ... More >>

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. ... More >>

Happy 10th Birthday, FVC!

Now all OCs only cinematheque needs are more film geeks to help blow out the candles

The Gov's Budget: Who, What, and How Hard?

If you're a college student in California, congratulations-- you play a leading role in Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget plan. The governor believes in you. He believes you're the sort of person who can make a sacrifice for the public good. Instead of turning to, say, big businesses, real est ... More >>

Happiness is a Warm Crock

Family values renewed cant save Richard Dressers latest production

The Englishman Who Went Up the 405 but Came Down a Screenwriter

OCs Chris Billett goes from writing code to writing about cadavers

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 >>

Slumlord Moonbeam

Do not continue reading if, like millions who clamor for the latest Multihousing Professional magazine, you do not want to know what's in the March/April 2006 issue. The cover boy is former California Governor/current Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, whose face is fuzzed out enough to make you wonder if h ... More >>

Locals Only

Slanted and Enchanted

Diary of a Mad County

Parking Sluts

Rally Round Jah School

Saddleback students face cuts by tuning out

No Justice, No Teach

UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

Cram It In

Where to eat after an all-nighter

Hour of White Power

Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding

I Was Not a Beaver

This weeks featured NFL game: Philadelphia vs. Cleveland

Rooting Responsibly ...What?!

Zebrahead

Sun, half-naked bunnies and a second chance

Sound, Fury, Waste

John Fantes journey from promising writer to aging reactionary