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Headlining Bamboozle Left on Sunday night at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 50 Cent brings the crowd to its feet with hits including "In Da Club" and "Wanksta."

Junior Alisha Misiaita outdid herself, literally, at the California/Nevada Championships at UCLA last Sunday. She tossed a school record, 51-9, beating her previous record of 50-8.

The Freshness and The Swagger were invited to be pro's for a day and, as you may have expected, we took full advantage of the opportunity. Thank you, Dodger gods.

Phi Gamma Fraternity hosted the "Irvine Fun Run" last Saturday and raised $3000 for the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Research Program, part of Children's Hospital of Orange County.

The Fourth Annual Comparative Literature Conference featured keynote speakers professors Paul Rabinow and Eleanor Kaufman.

Who doesn't love food? It's a bit hard not to dig digging in when your life depends on it. Plus, food's just delicious. So what can be said about it? A fascinating, underrated place births it: the land. Without food, we can't do business, play piano, tune into "America's Next Top Model" or defend against telemarketing solicitations. As a consumer species, we are indefinitely and inextricably bound to the land. Without food, we are nothing. Now grab my hand, and we'll take a waltz down the history of food in modern times.

If there's one part of UC Irvine that makes me feel particularly spoiled, it's the Anteater Recreation Center (ARC). Not only does its recent remodel boast a brand-new weight room and equipment, but only at the ARC can you go swimming, get a massage, take a cooking class and climb a rock wall in the same afternoon. It's the nicest college athletics facility I've ever been to, and in my opinion even surpasses expensive private fitness clubs like Newport Beach's Equinox or the ritzy 24-Hour Fitness Ultra Sport.

Gloves on. Lightsaber ready. It's time to duel.

Ah, the geek: the socially awkward, anime-obsessed, MMORPG-playing, pale basement-dweller. Right?

Where I ate: McCormick & Schmick's, 2000 Main Street, Irvine. What I ate: 1/2 pound cheeseburger and fries, and an order of Haystack Onions. What it cost me: $1.95 for the cheeseburger and fries, $1.95 for Haystack Onions and $2.75 for a drink, plus tax.

This country's legal system operates on the code of innocent until proven guilty. While this might be applied with the law, you almost never see it in everyday life.

Travel a few miles up the 55 North and the prim, polished, perfectly planned community of Irvine transforms into the graffiti-ridden, overpopulated metropolis of Santa Ana. According to School Data Direct, a service of the Council of Chief State School Officers next door to one of the most affluent, first-rate research universities in California, the Santa Ana Unified School District stands as one of the lowest-ranked school districts in Orange County. We remain aware of these curious socio-economic contrasts, yet the question remains – what can we do?