Opinion

In a world where information is literally at your fingertips, one corporation reigns supreme: Google Inc. Or at least they will one day. After Google’s latest acquisition of Motorola, the question of if Google will rule the world has become when instead.

The fixation on Casey Anthony’s trial and acquittal is another case of routine media malpractice.

Compiled by Natasha Aftandilians and Kevin Phan, staff writers.

July has not been a good month for Rupert Murdoch.

UC San Diego recently lost a battle with Rice University when it tried to keep three star professors Ń all members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.

After an exhausting British Airways flight from London Heathrow to LAX, followed by a tiresome drive to Palos Verdes, I finally came home.

UC regents voted 14-4 to increase tuition by 9.6 percent for the fall, on Thursday, July 14, 2011, ushering in the second tuition increase of the year just weeks before the 2011-2012 academic year.

Google+ is not “a new way to social network” and it is certainly not “a Facebook killer”.

Coming to UC Irvine, I thought I knew exactly what I did and did not want. I wanted to be at UCLA. I didn’t want to be in Irvine. I wanted to have fun and party and, maybe on occasion, study. I wanted to be a fiction writer, not a journalist.

My time at UC Irvine began almost two years ago when I arrived as a slightly disinterested transfer student, and the plan at that point was pretty straightfo rward. I envisioned myself commuting to school every day, heading to class with maybe a quick stop for coffee beforehand, then driving back home to chill out with my cats, just like I did at community college. I had already been informed that everyone at UCI was “anti-social” anyway, so I figured it would be easy enough.

Congratulations, incoming Anteaters, and welcome to UC Irvine! As you can probably anticipate, the best way to begin your love affair with UCI is at SPOP, the “mandatory” Student/Parent Orientation Program. But we hope that you’ll realize that it’s okay to not like SPOP; in fact, it’s okay to hate it because, when you really think about it, SPOP has very little to do with what UCI is about.

From beginning as a Layout intern to becoming Managing Editor, I’ve seen UCI through the eyes of the New University for three years of highs and lows. Though it hasn’t always been a stroll through the park, I’ve loved my time at the New U because it’s given me the opportunity to meet people all over campus, to talk with administrators and student leaders and to learn about everything from budgets to athletics.