University of California-Irvine

Extra! Extra! Read All About It: UC Irvine's New University Student Newspaper is Saved!

The New U was saved! The New U was saved!Yes, those UC Irvine students buried financially in tuition, boarding, book and PBR costs that'll have them paying back government loans until they reach the Social Security age to be pulled out from under them, have approved a $3 fee to save the student news ... More >>

UCI Medical Center Workers Prepare for Strike Vote; UC Says Union Ducking Pension Reform

Thirteen thousand patient care technical workers from the University of California's $6.9 billion medical system, which includes UC Irvine and UCI Medical Center in Orange, will start taking strike votes April 30.After 10 months of negotiations and more than three months of post-impasse proceedings, ... More >>

New Musical Festival

Experimental Media Performance Lab, UC Irvine

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 >>

Maury May Be Able to Say, 'You ARE the Father,' Thanks to Smartphone App Developed at UCI

Pretty soon, the host of syndicated TV's Maury may be able to whip out his smartphone, look at the screen and proclaim, "You are the father!"And if Maury Povich does do that, he'll have computer scientists to thank at UC Irvine, where an Android smartphone app has been developed to store a small amo ... More >>

OC LGBT: A History Archived

UC Irvine documents the struggles of our local gay history—yes, we have one!

[UPDATED: They Did It!] Watch Out For Flying Balls! UCI Attempts Dodgeball World Record Today

See update at the end of this post!ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 26, 1:21 P.M.: At UC Irvine, nothing says back-to-school week like hundreds of brightly colored rubber balls flying at you at frightening speeds. This afternoon, the school will attempt to regain the Guinness world record for the largest dodgeb ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Richard Newton Film Shorts

McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine, 1311 Humanities Gateway

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

$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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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

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

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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 >>

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

Zot Wot?

UCI Men's Volleyball

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 >>

Jazz Times Ten

UCI Jazz Orchestra 
Winter Concert

Merry Eid Ul-adha to All!

2007: A year to remember

To Do Tonight - 10/24

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Over the Cliffs

LEMUR follows the crowd

Drop In, Tune Out, Turn On

How to experience "Mitosis" at the Beall Center

Affirmative Action for Whites

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

The Message Is Medium-Small

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

An Immodest Proposal

Pacifist professor: Lets bomb Baghdad

No Justice, No Teach

UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

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