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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?

Guy 1: Dude, it must hurt to get a vasectomy. Guy 2: Yeah, seriously. Hey, what's the opposite of that called? Guy 1: Getting your...

Donn Silberman of the Optics Institute of Southern California, dressed in eccentrically wizard-like clothing, demonstrates the way light enters 3D goggles in a...

Freshman Eric Wise and sophomore Patrick Rembert react to a call from an official in UCI's one-point loss to UC Davis in the...

Irvine Planeteer: It's almost that time of year: wildflower season. Last weekend I attended a pre-wildflower hike to see which species had begun to bud and flower. Wildflower season, beginning in March in Southern California, can be shockingly beautiful, depending on the amount of rainfall we receive in the winter and early spring.

Over 40 faces sat enraptured as they watched the UC Irvine Invisible Children club's premiere of the organization's newest documentary "The Rescue" this past Monday, March 2. As images of African children carrying machine guns flashed across the screen, students squirmed in their seats as they were faced with the reality of the 23-year long war currently raging in northern Uganda.

The Peter Pan-inspired play "Book of Tink," by critically acclaimed playwright Erik Ehn, continues its sold-out run at UC Irvine this week.