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PRESENTATION: Fraternity hosts a night of remembrance and warning of the dangers of alcohol poisoning.

Students celebrate National Engineers Week at UCI to promote communication and interaction amongst the faculty, students and the general public by holding daily events and competitions.

FUNDING: The Senate's approved version of President Obama's stimulus package left Pell Grants funded.

PANEL: Students share their best and worst experiences while serving and living in war-time environments.

ACCIDENT: Police have ruled out arson in a fire that engulfed a room and set off sprinklers in a Mesa Court dormitory.

COMMUNITY: Local organizations and students assemble to demonstrate for show about immigration.

Dr. Robert F. Sawyer, Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus presents a lecture entitled "The Science and Politics of Air Pollution", part of UCI's Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series.

How appropriate, in current economic conditions, that an action film is released that demonizes bankers. More specifically, the antagonist of "The International" is a bank that exists above the law – stationed in neutral borders and holding a big enough profit to bribe God – whose illegal business practices are safeguarded through the routine "accidents" that happen to anyone and everyone able to fight it.

Highly acclaimed Japanese violinist and composer Mari Kimura performed at Winifred Smith Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Kimura's performance, "Reinventing Tradition: Violin and Computer Plays the East and Beyond," was presented by the Gassmann Electronic Music Series. Kimura's compositions combine elements of classical violin, Japanese and Eastern music and electronics.

At the age of 22, BoA Kwon has already overwhelmed the Asian music industry, claiming top charts in Korea and six consecutive number-one albums on the Oricon charts of Japan.

Most people desire only two things: security and attention. The two continually war over our hearts; on one end, there is the peaceful calm of security, bound by time and routine, by a lover reliable and devoted. On the other, there is the attention, that spatial leap, the risky rendezvous, the late-night reveries, always craving something less patient than the ticking clock.

Hosted by Irvine Queers on Thursday, Feb. 12, the UC Irvine Kiss-In featured a photo booth for boyfriends, girlfriends or best friends to get their polaroids taken just in time for Valentine's Day.

David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" is largely a collection of short stories based on Sedaris' real life and family. His humor is mostly self-deprecating and pokes fun at his middle class, dysfunctional family.