Paul Backus

MIDDLE EAST: Events promoting consciousness about Palestine prove fairly peaceful on campus.

There is no smoking in the Bren Events Center. The ever-watchful security force made sure that nobody even lingered in the aisles between seats for more than a few seconds at Rockstar Energy Drink's "Get A Life Tour" last Thursday night. Who knows what they would do if they caught someone with a lit cigarette?

SOLAR POWER: Student-funded gym may be a future home for solar panels in school's effort to ‘go green.'

Here we are in the middle of another primary election. Every four years, we hear presidential hopefuls make promises that we know they can't...

"Are you ready to PAAARTYYY?" hip-hoppers The People Under the Stairs excitedly asked the audience at Saturday's installment of the annual Wayzgoose music festival.

DEBATE: Four UC Irvine professors passionately battle the subject of immigration using popular arguments.

Keeping in line with the fad of slimming down after the New Year, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on Jan. 10 that he plans to trim the budget for all state universities, including the University of California, by 10 percent for the 2008-09 school year.

Everybody talks about how they want to study abroad, but only a few of us actually do it. However, there's no reason why anyone should pass up the opportunity.

Who knew that being a refugee could be so much fun? In what may be the understatement of the century, Reuben Koroma, lead vocalist...

ELECTIONS: Obama wins by a landslide at UCI, yet many students' votes may not have counted.

Hark! 'Twould seem that mayhap, the mentally ill, the drug addict, yeah, even the much-feared convicted felon possess an affinity similar to the proud...

Things are not looking good for the rebels in their epic battle against the evil empire. Desperate to end his fight for all that...

ECONOMICS: Professor Richard McKenzie presents an alternative method to lose weight and keep it off.

Things are not looking good for the rebels in their epic battle against the evil empire. Desperate to end his fight for all that...