Editorials

After winter break, UC Irvine students, staff and faculty were greeted with a new “smoke and tobacco-free” campus policy (with the exception of...

We want everything, and we want it fast. Why should we worry about cooking when we can grab fast food across the street?...

Let’s have a little chat about hypocrisy. Let’s talk about the abject absurdity of pat-down searching thousands of individual students in search of marijuana...

With financial and economic hardships plaguing the nation, a logical assumption would be that people are now taking a closer look at their...

If by now you haven’t heard about former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s appointment to the position of UC President, we don’t...

In the 48 years of this school’s existence, we have made breakthrough discoveries, won championships, witnessed history, suffered through tragedies, brought prestige to...

By Editorial Board Spring quarter is upon us once again. For some, this time just means nicer weather and excitement that the school year...

It’s no secret that Americans are hurting. Money is tight, education is in danger, political debate seems to be at an all-time high. In...

As the final weeks of campaign season come to an end, our presidential candidates are scrambling for votes across the nation. We’ve reached...

There was a time when society acknowledged two kinds of knowledge: book smarts and street smarts. Test-taking ability and common sense. Even though...

As UCI enters into its 47th year of classes, we editors at the New University seek to reaffirm our publication’s purpose and role...

This is just for laughs. The people represented here by no way reflect how the Editorial Board views the candidates running in the current campaign, or the positions they are running for. That aside, elections week is upon us! No doubt we have all seen the stenciled posters, the campaign t-shirts and the occasional free swag to get people to go out and vote. With so many choices, and with so many heated campaigns promising a dramatic and tense election season, we should step back, lighten up and think about which politicians could best fill them.