FINANCE: The California state budget is passed after a record delay but restricts UCI budget to previous year's mark.

COMPLAINT: PETA claims an anonymous student was forced to dissect or fail course; professors reject claim.

RESEARCH: ICS Professor to study differing habits of American and Chinese online game players.

ORIENTATION: Students attend welcome events; small lectures introduce students to clubs and majors.

Sexual Assault in Mesa Court Parking Lot; Murdered Professor Barrett's Toxicology Reports Released; Patterns of Brain Aging Defy Scientific Expectations

INFORMATICS: Graduate student's research inspires site to examine language in political blogs.

The UC Irvine women's volleyball team swept UC Riverside in its Big West Conference opener (25-21, 25-18, 25-17) behind 15 kills from senior Lauren Kellerman. Fellow senior Shannon Homan (pictured above) registered eight kills and only committed one error. UCI will play two games at Crawford Court this week. They will take on Cal State Northridge on Friday at 7 p.m. and Cal State Fullerton Saturday at 7 p.m.

UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake visited the New University to kick off the new year in style.

So you found out you're an Anteater. You probably haven't started practicing chants of "Rip ‘Em 'Eaters" for sideline cheers just yet, and you may have to ignore the snickers for a while when you tell your friends back home your sporting event war cry is a ferocious, "Zot!" And how about explaining to them that accompanying hand gesture? Haven't heard of it yet? Try bringing together your thumb, middle and ring fingers to make hind legs and a tail. Have your index and pinky fingers stand tall to make arms ready for a bear hug defense. Your hand may cramp now, but it'll become second nature by Winter Quarter. It's your Anteater, and it's reared and ready to attack...

Anteaters abroad: Iran

Irvine Planeteers: Local beaches

Reviews of restaurants from everybody's favorite across-the-street shop-stop, the University Town Center.

ASUCI, along with UC Irvine in general, has undergone significant changes to meet the demands of our young and growing campus. One week into the 2008-2009 academic year, ASUCI has already established that it is nothing like past student governments.

Books in libraries and texts for writing courses can seem like fairly benign objects since they're just pages filled with words, bound in hard or soft covers, with occasional illustrations. They're just words, right? Who would think that words on a page could incite strong reactions or push people to keep some books out of others' hands?