Subject: University of California-Irvine

• Minimum Wage NO! Slavery YES!

  First off, behold the new look of the UC Irvine student newspaper New University's website. Much improved. Second, take a gander at Linda Domingo's story on social science professor David Neumark's recent address to the all-new Social Science Dinner Club gathered in the University Club. Neumark essentially argued against increases in the minimum wage and for the return of state-sponsored slavery. Okay, so we're making up the slavery part (we think), but Neumark does contend that a higher minimum

  September 20, 2006

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: 200 million pixel TV!!!

  Is that a freckle? Reporter David Haldane finds that UC Irvine used a $300,000 federal grant to build a screen 100 times more detailed than the current best high-definition television. Its 23-by-9-foot display has 200 million pixels and is called the HIPerWall, according to the Times story. Students and researchers (like Stephen F. Jenks) have used the monitor in medical cases, to aid rescue teams at disaster sites and--imagine this sports nuts: watch the Super Bowl as if you're on the field. A

  August 13, 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 Irvine is amongst the universities that will host the event, due to the campus' wacky Muslims (read Reut Cohen's fascinating blog for more details), but Cal State Fullerton and Santa Ana College? The onl

  August 24, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/02

  MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 7pm Student created and free of charge, it may be worthwhile to check out this particular production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Grab a blanket because the comedy is held outdoors in Aldrich Park on the UC Irvine campus. Meet at UC Irvine’s Little Theatre at 6:50pm. Little Theatre, UC Irvine THE GO-GO’s WITH THE PO-GO’S, 7pm Go, go and check them out at Downtown Disney’s House of Blues. House of Blues Anaheim, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, (714) 778-2583 www

  October 2, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/24

  October 24, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 11/08

  November 8, 2007

• MTV's Best American Dance Crew: Kaba Modern

  Though UC Irvine hip-hop dance team Kaba Modern has been making a name for themselves in underground circles and national and global competitions for some years now—including winning first place at the USA World Hip-Hop Championship and taking second at the International World Finals—it looks like they'll finally be getting the mainstream attention they deserve. Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew is MTV's latest foray at the bizarrely popular reality dance competition phenom.

  January 28, 2008

• UC Irvine's End of School Year Partay

  To celebrate the end of another school year at UC Irvine, Sam Farzin of Acrobatics Everyday is throwing a partay (those are 34 percent more fun than a traditional party) involving at least 10 bands. The bill includes the following rising indie-rock luminaries (they're much more entertaining than descending indie-rock luminaries): DEVON WILLIAMS TALKDEMONIC THE GREAT WHITE JENKINS RED PONY CLOCK LLOYD AND MICHAEL VOICE ON TAPE GLASSER INFINITE BODY RAFTER PALMS The action goes

  June 9, 2008

• Weird, Fun Gig at UC Irvine Tonight

  Bird Names: Straight-up winging it... Acrobatics Everyday has another big show tonight for the cognoscenti and curious over at the UC Irvine campus' Phoenix Grille, 8 p.m., $5. Here's your lineup, darlings: BIRD NAMES Ramshackle, eerie Fall-like indie rock from Chicago. WUMMIN Psychedelic avant-opera duo from LA. IMAGINE "THE" BAND From LA, a fucked-up performance art/“a cappella ambient comedy” ordeal; the ideal opening act for grimly lame "comedian" Neil Hamburger. JEHOVAH'S FITN

  June 25, 2008

• An Immodest Proposal

  November 7, 2002

• UC Irvine Students Don't Give a Damn about Voting--Mostly

  "Who wants stickers for No on Prop. 8?" yelled out Jon, a young Vietnamese student at UC Irvine before the start of a Orange County history course in which I was to lecture. His enthusiasm was heartening--up until then, Anteaters where the epitome of the ever-elusive youth vote. As I walked to the Social Ecology II building, I made a note to notice everyone who displayed the "I Voted" sticker that proved their commitment to American democracy. Out of hundreds of students, I noticed no more than

  November 4, 2008

• Acrobatics Everyday In Trouble?

  Acrobatics Everyday has brought lots of cool shows to the UC Irvine campus in the just under a year they've existed: Japanther, The Mae Shi, The Shaky Hands, a Q&A with Ian McKaye, bunches more. Now the students behind the group--we profiled Sam Farzin last month--are looking for your words of support, as they prepare to oppose impending school legislation that would move Acrobatics Everyday-booked shows to the lecture halls; which, they say, would present essentially insurmountable challeng

  December 9, 2008

• OC Shows Respectable Level of Support for Prop. 8 Challenge

  According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and the ACLU, among the Orange County contingent filing "friend of the court" briefs in support of Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge of same-sex marriage barring Proposition 8:Irvine United Congregational ChurchOrange County Asian Pacific Islander Community AllianceThe Center Orange CountyChapman University groups Chapman Outlaw, Chapman Queer-Straight Alliance, Chapman Feminists, and Chapman SPEAK (Students for Peace

  January 22, 2009

• Albert on KUCI at Noon Today!

  I'll be returning to my college radio roots today and appearing on UC Irvine's station, KUCI, at noon. I'll be on their all-local music show Press Pass, presumably talking about--and listening to--local music. You can listen online, so what better way to spend your midday than hearing my dulcet tones? Oh, and the tunes, those should be good, too. Anaheim's We Are the Pilots will be live in-studio.Check out the interview that erstwhile Aural Reporter Chris Ziegler did with Press Pass host Ashley

  January 29, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More

  October 23, 2008

• Anteaters Can Slurp Booze in Their Boxers Thanks to Midnight Muncheez

  Anyone who attended college, lived in campus housing with roommates, joined them in staring into a TV set playing Make Me Laugh at 11 every weeknight, finished the last of the 12-pack, desperately needed more brew, had to resort to walking -- because no one had a car, the campus shuttle stopped running at 9:30 and, besides, don't drink and drive, kids -- to the local liquor store, then realized upon pulling on the locked entrance door that liquor stores in this coll

  February 17, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of Oscar-Nominated Short Films, More

  February 5, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' More

  January 29, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Crowd,' 'Evil Dead II,' 'Love In the Sahei'

  January 22, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Let the Right One In,' 'Carrie,' 'Clerks,' 'Psycho'

  January 15, 2009

• International Polar Year Speaker

  December 25, 2008

• Clownzilla

  December 4, 2008

• Spacing Out

  October 23, 2008

• Blunt Truth

  June 5, 2008

• Get Plugged In By 'LIVE,' the New Art Show at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art and Technology

  May 8, 2008

• Zot Wot?

  March 27, 2008

• Jazz Times Ten

  January 10, 2008

• Merry Eid Ul-adha to All!

  2007: A year to remember

  December 27, 2007

• To Air Is Divine (Most of the Time)

  FEEDBACK: The Best and Worst Things About Being a College-Radio DJ

  November 15, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  

  January 11, 2007

• Hits!

  KUCI-FM 88.9

  September 21, 2006

• It's a Living

  July 27, 2006

• Irvine

  October 20, 2005

• Over the Cliffs

  January 20, 2005

• Eight Days

  October 7, 2004

• Drop In, Tune Out, Turn On

  February 12, 2004

• Affirmative Action for Whites

  July 10, 2003

• The Message Is Medium-Small

  January 23, 2003

• No Justice, No Teach

  October 31, 2002

• U

  October 24, 2002

• Sing Sing!

  March 14, 2002

• Those Picket Signs?

  February 11, 1999

• 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

• UC Irvine, A Campus of Hate, Bigotry and Intimidation?

  UC Irvine: A battlefield?In today's issue of the JewishJournal.com, Judea Pearl--an acclaimed UCLA professor and the father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was decapitated by nuts in Pakistan in 2002--has written "The Crucible of UC Irvine," which slams the Orange County university as a breeding ground for hate. "UCI has long been a proving ground [nationally] for orchestrated Israel defamation," Pearl writes. "The combination of a large and highly motivated Muslim stu

  May 28, 2009

• Ward Connerly: Protector of High Asian Admissions at UC Irvine

  Connerly: Asian fetishWard Connerly, the African American crusader who has never met a government set-aside based on race that he's liked, believes the University of California is hellbent on reducing Asian-American admissions--and Asian-American rights groups are not doing enough to stop them.Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Connerly--who is president of the American Civil Rights Institute and author of the newly released Lessons From My Uncle James--begins his opinion piece by recalling an incid

  June 12, 2009

• UC Irvine To Fire Whistleblower Nurse?

  Paul SchultzThis is not Ethel Mark, but isn't she so cute?A cardiac care nurse at UC Irvine who raised questions about faulty narcotics pumps, proper nurse rotations and mandatory breaks was notified by management that she could expect to fired in early July, according to the California Nurses Association. Ethel Mark, who's worked at UCI Medical Center for seven years, and a nurse's committee at the hospital have been pushing their managers to curb unsafe "floating" conditions, (nurses who aren'

  June 30, 2009

• Forced Vacation Vote for UC Irvine Faculty, Staff is Today

  Following approval of a plan Wednesday by its committees on finance and compensation, the University of California Board of Regents is poised today to force furloughs on more than 108,000 members of the UC faculty and staff, including those at UC Irvine.University employees would be required to take anywhere from 11 to 26 furlough days under the plan forwarded to the board by the committees meeting in San Francisco. More furlough days and steeper pay cuts would be mandated on higher earners, rep

  July 16, 2009

• UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

  The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence?  With healthcare premiums expected to rise 94 percent by 2020, everyone agrees something must be done. Well, everyone except town-hall criers. And Fox News. And Republicans. The main stic

  September 16, 2009

• UC Irvine's Day One Dance Trumps Walkouts

  Ho-hum, another first day of classes for the UC system, another student/faculty/staff walkout over budget cuts, tuition hikes and work furloughs. The photo roll above from UC Irvine is not only less inspiring than the ones from bastions of rabble-rousing UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, but even bass ackwards UC Riverside's. UC RIVERSIDE!!!But UCI still managed to trump the other nine UC campuses on Day One when it came to the Forbidden Dance of Dissent . . .

  September 25, 2009

• Coburn Ready to Blow Over UCI Computer Games Center?

  Coburn: Ready to blow?With UC Irvine's announcement of the establishment of the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds, you've got to wonder if U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's head is going to explode. At least his virtual noggin must be staining a carpet in some sims world somewhere. The Oklahoma Republican puts out annual "Worst Waste of the Year" reports, and among the examples of "outrageous federal spending" in the 2008 edition was the National Science Foundation having

  September 4, 2009