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University of California-Irvine

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Your Inbox is Totally Stressing You Out, Says UC Irvine Study

    It's probably lurking somewhere on your computer screen right this moment, taunting, "Psssst, you haven't checked me in three whole minutes. Stop that very important thing you are working on and pay attention to me now!" Damn email. Can't function with it, definitely can't function without it.& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    VIBE Dance Competition at UC Irvine Last Night

    CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR VIBE 17 SLIDESHOW BY MARY PASTRANA VIBE 17 Dance Competition Bren Events Center, UC IrvineJan. 29, 2012There are two major consequences of attending the annual VIBE Dance Competition at UC Irvine. One, your ears will hurt from all the screaming and cheering ("Work it ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2011

    Richard Newton Film Shorts

    McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine, 1311 Humanities Gateway

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    UC Irvine Students Protest Tuition Hikes Today With a 'Study-In'

    ​Occupy textbooks!   Angry over tuition hikes, slashed resources and hefty pay raises for top administrators, students at UC Irvine will be demonstrating today with a "study-in."  Reads the Facebook page: "Bring your notebooks, your textbooks, your laptops and bluebooks. Bring lawn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    UCI's Student Services Want to Spend $170,000 to Bring Swedish DJ to UCI

    Avicii​UCI's Student Services want to host a huge, paid admission concert at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center with the artists Avicii, Steve Aoki, and Dev, but they're requesting the use of the association's emergency funds to foot the bill. Some students are complaining about spending $170,000 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Don't Ask, Don't Tell's End Marks ROTC's Beginning at UC Irvine

    ​Last week, when the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was officially repealed, UC Irvine's inaugural class of ROTC cadets began participating in the campus' new program.That wasn't just a coincidence.Campus officials first talked to the U.S. Army about establishing an ROTC program d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Mountains Help Kick Off Another Year of Acrobatics Everyday at UC Irvine

    Mountains, hi!​Okay, so to be fair, this isn't quite the first show that the fine souls at Acrobatics Everyday have put on this academic year: They hosted a free-to-all-new-freshmen gig last Thursday headlined by French Quarter. But with tomorrow's appearance by Mountains at UC Irvine, along with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    UC Irvine Retakes World's Largest Game of Dodgeball Record

    Michael Chin/OC Weekly Click here to see more images from the day.​Dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge: These principles are ones that UC Irvine holds very near and dear to their hearts, as they made their second (successful!) attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest dodgeball game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    $10 Million Anonymously Donated to UC Irvine

    ​While its student body works toward wrapping up another fulfilling school year at UC Irvine, the university administration received one heck of an anonymous end-of-the-year gift: $10 million. That's one way to say thanks for the memories.The gift was received from an anonymous donor. The universi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    U.S. Senator Names UCI's World of Warcraft Research One of the Worst Wastes of Taxpayer Dollars in 2010

    ​In Tom Coburn's just-released "Wastebook 2010," an 85-page tirade on what the U.S. senator believes are the year's 100 most outrageous uses of tax dollars, UC Irvine's $3 million research of World of Warcraft and other games comes in at No. 6. "Most people have to work for a l ... 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

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    What Do You Get When You Mix Dodgeball and Homeless Kids?

    ​Since Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story hit movie theaters in 2004, the once forgotten childhood game has made a comeback.  In September, a dodgeball world record was set at UC Irvine. Perhaps hoping to steal some collegiate thunder, Cal State Fullerton is holding an event where dodgeballs wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Reviews Are In

    ​This week's collection of things on the Interwebs from or about Orange County includes netizen reviews of a car shop, a sandwich shop, UC Irvine dorms, hotspots for meet-ups, Fullerton City Council candidates, San Clemente's immigration checkpoint and Huntington Beach white boys who refer to them ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Funeral for Education at UCI Today

    ​UC Rebel Radio presents a mock funeral for education this afternoon at UC Irvine.Faculty, staff and students wearing black are expected to participate in a 1 p.m. gathering at the flagpole, where speakers will eulogize young people's future before departing for a procession around the campus."The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    UC Workers Union Ask Commencement Speakers to Boycott Their Own Speeches--Time to Call Gustavo a Scab!

    ​A couple of weeks ago, I was at a backyard party in SanTana (no, not that type of party) when a gentleman sat down with me and talked for about 20 minutes. I had met him before but found out then that he was a representative for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Facebook Free Speech Page Denies Free Speech

    ​A Facebook page has been created "in light of the recent event at UC Irvine in which 11 members of the Muslim Student Union @ UCI were arrested for attempts to silence and censor a speaker whose views they disagreed with. Free speech is NOT negotiable!"Too bad the page does not practice what it p ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 28, 2010

    'Video Dada' at UCI is a Vast, Quirky Sampling of the Aesthetic Potential of Video

    ​A Facebook page has been created "in light of the recent event at UC Irvine in which 11 members of the Muslim Student Union @ UCI were arrested for attempts to silence and censor a speaker whose views they disagreed with. Free speech is NOT negotiable!"Too bad the page does not practice what it p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Researchers: Cell Phones and Brain Tumors Are a Bad Connection

    ​Keep those Blackberries pushed up tightly against your heads, Christmas shoppers: a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cell-phone use and brain tumors.Reuters has the skinny.The findings validate what UC Irvine medical researchers have been sayin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 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? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 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 Okla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 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 Assoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 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 univer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    February 5, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    January 29, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    January 22, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    January 15, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2008

    Clownzilla

    Clownzilla

  • Blogs

    June 9, 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 des ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 8, 2008

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

    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 des ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Zot Wot?

    UCI Men's Volleyball

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    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 li ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Jazz Times Ten

    UCI Jazz Orchestra 
Winter Concert

  • Features

    December 27, 2007

    Merry Eid Ul-adha to All!

    2007: A year to remember

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    To Do Tonight - 11/08

    2007: A year to remember

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    To Do Tonight - 10/24

    2007: A year to remember

  • Blogs

    October 2, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    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. Student ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2006

    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 esse ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 20, 2005

    Over the Cliffs

    LEMUR follows the crowd

  • Culture

    February 12, 2004

    Drop In, Tune Out, Turn On

    How to experience "Mitosis" at the Beall Center

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Affirmative Action for Whites

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

  • Culture

    January 23, 2003

    The Message Is Medium-Small

    UCIs ID/entity is gee-whiz neat, light on ideas

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    An Immodest Proposal

    Pacifist professor: Lets bomb Baghdad

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    No Justice, No Teach

    UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

  • Features

    October 24, 2002

    U

    UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

  • Culture

    March 14, 2002

    Sing Sing!

    UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Those Picket Signs?

    At UCI, they're likely to return

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