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Dear Editor, My grievance is against last week’s cover story, “A Radical Debate” featuring the debate between AFI and MSU. While I thought the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, It is good to know that the Muslim Student Union joins Chancellor Drake in condemning terrorism and reaffirming UCI’s “commitment to dialogue...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We, faculty at the University of California--Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis. The troubling...

The Hunger Strike Is Starved of Logic

In the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, prisoners banded together to protest what they considered to be inhumane treatment by the state. Though the...

Evaluating MSU Week

“You Jews… ya’ll the new Nazis!” This message is brought to you by the Muslim Student Union. Literally. Last Thursday during the MSU’s annual...

Obama Abandons Miranda Rights

The debate over Miranda rights for terrorists is getting old and largely predictable. Conservatives argue against following U.S. law and reading terrorist suspects...

Bob the Senator: No He Can’t

While the weather in Southern California has been mainly cool, the national political climate has gotten hot. The unwritten rule in Congress is that...

Notes From a Small Island

In the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave, some things never change. Yes, as Americans, we...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine joins Chancellor Michael Drake in condemning terrorism and in reaffirming our  university’s “commitment to dialogue and...

Op-ed: UC Irvine Faculty Call for Civility During Wall Week

We, faculty at the University of California, Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis. The troubling events over the past few years include the painting of swastikas in university buildings, the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika, a statement (by a speaker repeatedly invited by the Muslim Student Union) that the Zionist Jew is a party of satan, a statement by another MSU speaker that the Holocaust was God's will, the tearing down of posters placed by the student group Anteaters for Israel, and the hacking of their web site. Some community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe.

The Deficit Equation: Facing Up to Reality

In an economy such as ours, it only makes sense that people on both sides of the aisle are concerned with national debt...

The Subprime College Crisis

Here’s the business model. Find the most vulnerable people in society: the poor, minorities, people that the mainstream deems too risky to be a...

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