BASEBALL: Three game intersquad scrimmages showcase the new team to UCI, with free food to boot.

V-BALL: Girls end Big West conference schedule by beating Fullerton, but losing to Long Beach State.

The multiple Tony Award-winning musical, “Spring Awakening” is currently playing at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa until Sunday, November 29.

DIY MUSIC: Last Wednesday, Acrobatics Everyday brought more weird and wonderful music to UCI’s trailers.

LOVE IT: The next installment of the “Twilight” saga has fans howling at the moon.

HATE IT: Despite all the hype and fandom“Twilight: New Moon” fails to sparkle like its undead hero.

THEATRE: UCI Drama delves into dysfunctional relationships with the dark comedy of “Escape From Happiness.”

I’ve always enjoyed the term “DIY.” Something about it makes me feel warm inside. I mean, how can you misconstrue what DIY represents? Do it yourself. Of course, why not? Nobody does it better, right?

HYPED: The epic collaboration of “Them Crooked Vultures” produces only average indie-rock sound.

UC students everywhere are feeling the pressure after the UC Board of Regents approved a 32 percent fee increase on student fees last Thursday. This vote will make it even more difficult for students currently struggling to make ends meet to get the quality education they expect from the University of California, quality that has been called into question.

Curfews are, constitutionally speaking, a gray area. The government orders certain citizens to be in their homes by a certain time, all in the name of upholding a highly subjective “public order.” Failure to comply with this order could result in legal consequences. Here in modern America, the whole thing seems very reasonable: we use curfews to keep those under-aged hooligans off the streets and away from the liquor stores and heroin dealers. But just replace “America’s youth” with “Jews” and you’ve got Hitler’s Germany. Replace it with “Japanese-Americans” and you’ve got the level of paranoia that plagued our nation following Pearl Harbor. Replace it with “African-Americans” and you’ve got America, 1776 to 1865 – much later in certain parts of the country.

The United States of America, while not an officially Christian nation, is certainly a nation populated mostly by Christians. Because of this fact, changes in American religion will always be accompanied by changes in America itself. Specifically, the teachings of American churches will influence the way Americans live their lives, at least to some extent.

When Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the “mastermind” behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, would be put on trial in New York along with four other terrorism suspects, there was a predictable outcry. The right wing claimed it was a foolish decision to give terrorists the same legal rights afforded to American citizens. The decision, however, is wholly appropriate and consistent with judicial precedent and the high moral standards the very same right-wing people always uphold as American ideals that need protecting. When the time comes to practice them, the right wing is reluctant to prove how effective they are.