You remember back in middle school and high school when the student government elections were popularity contests? Consider the ASUCI elections a glorified popularity contest. Except while in middle school and high school the student governments dealt mostly with dances and charity events, the ASUCI elections actually affect our environment on campus, our student life and even tuition.
Girl One: Who is Boy George?
Girl Two: Isn't he George Bush's son?
— Gateway Commons
Overheard by: Stephanie N. Van Ginkel
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I'm sure that during their time at UC Irvine, most students have made it to the beach, and after all, living so close to the coast is one of the largest perks of going to UCI. Catalina Island is right off the coast, and is an excellent day trip or weekend vacation that not nearly enough students know about.
There's something that's been bugging me for the past few weeks. Ever since the release of "Watchmen," I've seen a lot of people and critics continuously belittling the film. I come before you now to say: really? You're saying that "Watchmen" was disappointing? Now, let's be clear. Yes, the graphic novel was better. Of course it was. The book is always better.
Shapan: Comedies are being churned out all the time in modern cinema, and why not? Laughter, after all, is the best medicine. Nowadays, it's tough to find a comedy that doesn't include at least one of the actors from the popular "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy." Of course, that film had little intellectual purpose, but it was the perfect laugh. Memorable characters, hilarious jokes and a story you didn't have to worry about keeping up with. Good times, right? Wrong.
Neil Young has never been a perfect stranger to the world of concept albums. Nor has his songwriting avoided controversial political messages in order to find commercial success (see 2006's "Living with War"). The rock legend's latest release, "Fork in the Road," is both a concept album and a collection of songs defined by a progressive political message. At least, that was the plan.
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" this is definitely not. Any similarity you see when comparing two films with pasty white men stuffed into rent-a-cop uniforms will be immediately knocked out of your head the first time the streaker pops out his penis on screen.
On the surface, an amateur rugby player, an aspiring college student and a hitman may not have a lot in common. One could blow a game play, one may blow his chance to get into college and the last might just blow your head off. Yet these different roles represent the diverse spectrum of protagonists whose stories were told at the fourth edition of the Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF).
A woman comes up to a group of men and asks a simple question: "So do you guys like jokes?" Not realizing where she is about to take them, they say yes. Innocently, she asks them, "What do you call the extra skin around a vagina?" She responds, "A woman!" The smiling faces are quickly transformed into awkward grimaces and blank stares. This video installation by Elizabeth Watkins is just one of the works of art in the "Provocations" exhibit, the annual undergraduate art exhibition juried by Sarah C. Bancroft, curator of the Orange County Museum of Art.
An orchestra tuning its instruments before a musical is like the blossoming of roses; resilient. It starts out dull and closed off to its spectators, but with harmony guiding its movements, its different parts move outward and expand. It twists, dives and curls around in what at first does not appear able to create beauty. But in the end, it always does, fine-tuning its most appealing features in a cluster of rhythmic motion, finally settling into a state of calm. The difference between the blossoming of an orchestra and that of a rose is what comes next.
