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It’s that time again. Cuddle Season, a season where cold weather has you grabbing for the covers, snuggling with your loved one and drinking some hot cocoa. Yet with this hazy post-holiday joy comes the dreary, gloomy months where loneliness kicks in, and depression wreaks havoc on your personal and academic life.

This being only my second quarter at UC Irvine, I’ve made quite the shrewd observation in regards to the student body of this great university. I realized that all those stories and rumors of the different majors possessing their own unique and random quirks and traits apart from one another is actually very true. I came to this conclusion just last week when I was exploring the school attempting to find all of my classes for the new quarter. Being an English and literary journalism double major, I only had classes in the humanities wing last quarter, and all within Humanities Hall.

The other day I found myself indulging in one of my many vices – reading the frivolous articles on Yahoo news. After scrolling through one insane article after another, primarily Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian news, I came across an interesting topic about freedom of speech in school.

You are behind the ever-quickening times if you are yet to jump on the latest cyber bandwagon that began with the “Shit Girls Say” YouTube videos. Since the three-episode sensation made its debut one month ago, a series of parodies have followed in its footsteps, thanks to fans that can “relate” to the stereotypes portrayed and exaggerated in the videos. The makers of the videos are often people who embody certain characteristics due to their race, sexual orientation, physical appearance, interests, or even relationship status, and are stereotyped for it.

Recently, the White House has announced it will help create over 180,000 jobs over the summer for youth aged 16-24. The plan calls on companies like Jamba Juice, Wells Fargo, Viacom, AT&T and others to increase the amount of young people they will hire this summer for temporary jobs.

A video of U.S. Marines defiling unidentified corpses, which was taped by a fellow Marine, has circulated the web on sites like YouTube, CNN, The New York Times, and internationally on Aljazeera and the BBC.

Fall of 2011 will be remembered as a dark time for the students of the University of California. The regents approved a controversial second fee increase on July 14, adding a 9.6 percent increase to the previously approved 8 percent increase. Student protesters at UC Berkeley were met by police wielding batons and bean bag guns, and police use of pepper spray at UC Davis on Friday, Nov. 18 drew outcry from across the nation. At the same time, Congress began pushing through legislation that would change the Internet on a fundamental level, allowing copyright holders the power to dictate which websites could be or could not be reached, despite near unanimous opposition from technology companies.

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