'I gained weight because I've stopped using crack'' or 'I didn't use to wear skirts because I used to have bruises on my knees because my boyfriend was a jerk.' When you help them shop, you hear their stories.
Ralph Cygan, CEO of the UC Irvine Medical Center, resigned on Jan. 31 amid a series of scandals taking a toll on the hospital and the university.
Cygan was put on paid administrative leave in November 2005 by Chancellor Michael Drake, while an investigat
If you're like me, although you love your boba and your coffee, a change from the usual Cha for Tea, Tapioca Express, Starbucks or Diedrich would be greatly appreciated. Well, now you can break out of the mold and expand your beverage options with a drink
Consisting of nine different performances, including various coordinated dances, singing, instrument playing, a talk show and a fashion show, Social Science Lecture Hall transformed into a stage exhibiting Chinese culture in celebration of the Lunar New Y
Something struck me when I researched the Peace Corps and Teach for America for this story. It's easy to be jaded all the time, to always have your cynical comment loaded.
At the newest theme house in Arroyo Vista, members of the Student Achievement Guided by Experience Scholars Program celebrated a successful first quarter with its first annual open house last Thursday, Feb. 2. Administrators and members from the Paul Mera
Everyone knows that recruitment happens once a year. It's a take-it-or-leave-it offer, and if you don't join the Greek system in the fall, you'll be looking at another year before the opportunity again arises. It's also a well-known fact that the best sor
College students don't just attend class with a notebook and pen anymore. Some college students walk around campus with hundreds of dollars worth of technology in the form of laptops, iPods, digital cameras and cell phones
Would you live your life any differently if you knew you had only three months to live? A low-budget film shown to a group of students turned out to be an opportunity to reflect on materialism, existentialism and self-gratification that we find present in
Tired of the daily grind of studying and sitting in class and wanting to get away, but don't want to spend gas money? Here are four day trips in the area that won't gouge your wallet.
Mark Twain once wrote, 'Modesty died when clothes were born.'
It's too bad he was wrong. Perhaps it was Twain who began the false belief, still prevalent today, that a person cannot be truly modest in spite of their clothing. Now I'm left here cleaning
As a symbol of exoticism, it has been used to sell cigarettes, tennis shoes and pornographic picture postcards. As a symbol of oppressive patriarchy, it has been used to justify decades of U.S. military interventions in the Middle East.
