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When I found out about a Persian film festival in Toronto dedicated to young filmmakers exclusively from Iran, I immediately packed my bags and bought tickets with money from my savings. My aspirations for making films in Iran after college drew me to this festival, especially given that the judges were some prominent filmmakers flying in from Tehran. However, hours before my flight was set to depart, I was informed by Shahrokh Bahrololumi, the organizer of the festival, that the festival was postponed.

Graduate student protests the UC budget cuts and student fee raises during the UC-wide walkouts on the first day of class last Thursday.

Students gather in Aldrich Park on Wednesday night, September 23, to watch ASUCI-organized concert featuring several band performances including The Jakes, Rootbeer and Shiny Toy Guns.

Hello my lusty little anteaters! I hope you're ready and waiting for the debut of the new Life Love and Lust column arriving...

The New U is getting tech-savvy. We now have a Features Section blog and Twitter. Get ready for funny videos, pictures, and random...

Varsity rowing, the only sport at UCI that was a true walk-on only program, was discontinued due to budget cuts in the athletics...

Dear Facebook friends: please don’t take this the wrong way, but I feel like there’s something that you should know. I’m glad that you resemble Meredith Grey out of all of the “Grey’s Anatomy” characters, and it’s nice to know that one of the five items you would wield during a zombie attack is a lightsaber, but I’m not interested in taking that quiz or “choosing my own five.” I don’t want to join your Mafia War, nor do I care that you are “movin’ on up in FarmVille!” I hope my lack of cooperation doesn’t affect our online or in-person relationship.

Fitness gurus frequently praise the physical and mental benefits of doing yoga and Pilates. But nothing compares to actually doing these alternative workouts yourself. The sweat, the heat and the intensity are more than with any typical workout I’ve ever tried.

An increasingly common situation has been hitting our country, which has caused confusion and controversy. This occurrence, known as abbreviations or “abbreves,” has taken a firm hold on our captive, young pop culture generation. I bore witness to this strange, new phenomenon while watching a commercial for a show on MTV in which a young and possibly inebriated man attempted to explain a vernacular based on abbreviated words. He slurred through his elucidation of the meaning of “dece” and “obvi” as merely shortened expressions of “decent” and “obvious.”

“You will not sleep for four weeks. If you love fashion design, it will be the best four weeks of your life,” read an ominous yet exciting email from my Fashion Design Concepts teacher a few days before classes began. This summer, I took two classes in Fashion Design at the Parsons New School of Design.

You show up to the first day of class ready to tackle the new school year. As your professor begins to lecture, you suddenly realize that you are still in summer mode. You find that you can’t focus enough to take quality notes and can barely understand what is going on. However, if you have a voice recorder and around $9.95 to spend on each hour of class, you may not have to stay in the dark.

Hola y bienvenido! My name is Connie Ho and I will be one of the two travel columnists for the New U this quarter. I am currently a fourth-year English major studying abroad in Madrid, Spain for the year. I hope to depict my travels, adventures and new experiences in Spain and to inspire other anteaters to study abroad or visit new regions in the world.