Opinion

Conservatives have a lot to learn from Ron Paul, at least when it comes to his pull among young voters. Paul was able to garner a massive Internet following that bred a bevy of YouTube videos and other promotional columns to form the foundation of his campaign. It amounted to free publicity, spurring donations in excess of $30 million. Obama's ilk took the right cues, tapping the Internet's myriad caches of free liberal publicity. McCain hasn't done badly on the Internet either, but more is certainly in order.

As I walked to the metro from my summer class at Stockholm University in Sweden, my classmate casually asked me who I am voting for in the American election this fall. My diplomatic answer is always that I am a Swedish citizen, even if I am very patriotic toward the America I moved to at the age of seven months. So my voting powers are void and my candidate preference is limited to a spoken opinion, rather than a cast vote. "Well, I'm rooting for Obama … from a distance," she responds.

In the United States, we've come a long way environmentally; however, anthropocentrism still pervades our society.

In a move that shocked millions of California students, the UC Board of Regents voted to raise tuition 19 percent and threatened to increase tuition and fees, or what Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi called "student taxes," by 30 percent next summer if there are cuts to the education budget because of the war.

Palin, Fiorina insubstantial; Nader contemplates animal cross-dressing; Chuck Norris offers thoughts on "Black Belt Patriotism"; memo from the American Right: knowledge, expertise overrated, unpatriotic.

Steve Doocy; New York Mets; porn industry gaffe.

Student and professor laud UCI Dining for switch to organic eggs.

Each generation through the course of history cannot be abstracted from its place in time and culture. As a result, generations are often characterized by a trait that reflects the circumstances of a particular period in history. It would be fair to say that our current generation is shaped by the digital age; technology now affects behavior more than any other generation of the past.

After a three-year absence, the Anthill Pub is back. You stroll in, place an order for some delectable fire ants and saunter up to the bar to order a drink. But whoops, you are only a lowly 18-year-old and sub human at best. Save the few who have decided to abstain from drinking, we have all lived through the awkward years of resorting to the lowliest of tactics in order to get that sweet nectar.

High textbook prices are nothing new to us college folk. Every quarter I drop by TextMania to suffer a barrage of blows to my bank account. If they don't have what I need, then I trek over to UC Irvine's bookstore and pay even more through the nose. Consider John E. McMurry's "Organic Chemistry." A new copy is listed for $209.95; discounted, it's bumped down to about $150; used copies run $110 and up. Sure, that's $100 in savings, but it's still $110 for a freakin' book.

I sure hope the anti-corporate forces of Barack Obama's campaign get nowhere near the White House. Why? Because of garbage like this...

The gender politics identified by Nathan Tumazi in "The Problem with Gender Identity" [published on July 14] would be less prominent if the media did its homework on domestic violence and rape instead of using sexist, men-are-bad/women-are-good language that "anti-sexists" like Jackson Katz use, which stigmatizes male victims and leaves half of the violence invisible.