The Anteaters were one half of basketball away from having a spectacular week of Big West play — less than 10 minutes away from sweeping Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State.

Director Shana Feste presents a music melodrama with some tough knots that unravels through a love for country music.

Guard: Smith-Williams plans to play basketball overseas and attend law school after graduation.

With the advent of the Internet, the rap industry has been forced to adapt to an entirely new type of release — the mixtape.

The removal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is making waves nation-wide.

How do you get over the old dictum that being honest means telling the truth? As a culture, Americans have a troubled relationship with honesty, with very crude notions about how a person “is” honest or acts honestly. On one hand, we expect narrative films to portray human interactions honestly — we’re begging to be conned by the films we watch. On the other hand, we have silly ideas about how our actions define us; an actor “is” gay in a film, but “is” straight in “real life” — we like to feel like we’re in charge while we’re being conned.

UC executives demanding more pension money are threatening legal action against Regents.

The University Art Gallery opened its January exhibition last week, entitled “Cult of the Ruin: Strategies of Accumulation.” The exhibition is curated by MFA candidates in the Studio Art program at UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

PHOTOS: Your weekly photographs from the New University Staff photographers.

SCIENCE: Professor McGaugh is featured on “60 Minutes” for a breakthrough in memory technology.

In between not failing, making and spending money, maintaining my relationship with friends and not becoming unhealthy, I don’t know if I have time to even think about dating. Grades, sleep, social life, money, future, dating; pick two. Does dating even fit in there? We’re supposed to be at college to learn anyway, right? Maybe the single life is the way to go for college.

MEMORY: Beloved UC Irvine alumni Jessica Hoke passes in a tragic accident; event held in her honor.

Compiled by Greg Yee, Suzanne Casazza and Shruti Shantharam

HOLISTIC: Two UCI students are recipients of a scholarship from the Dalai Lama foundation.