Opinion

The word 'holocaust' stirs up emotions among people all over the world for many different reasons. The word 'genocide,' which most people agree the Holocaust was, is defined as 'the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, polit

Monday, May 15 marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of the apartheid state of Israel.

With the United States, especially California, falling behind in education, you would think that the vast majority of the population would be eager to ensure that students are graduating high school with a basic understanding of what they learned in ninth

These theses in regard to the Gateway Study Center, are concerns that have no doubt been brewing in the minds of the more conscientious of us for some time, but to the best of my knowledge, have yet to be expressed in more formal and public terms.

Voicing their strong opinion and flexing their united strength, thousands of Hispanic immigrants skipped work on May 1 in order to attend a nationwide protest known as 'A Day Without Immigrants.'

I don't know what the White House Correspondents Association was expecting when it picked Stephen Colbert to deliver the final speech at this year's annual White House Correspondents Dinner, but it probably wasn't what actually happened when he did just t

In an effort to curb diabetes in children throughout the nation, major beverage companies have agreed to stop selling soda on middle and high school campuses.

After spending a year in student government, and being a critic of it for three, I've realized that outside of the Associated Students of UC Irvine niche, there are generally two major student opinions toward it.

2006 will prove to be the year of '9/11' in Hollywood, with three movies coming out dealing with the tragedy to different degrees: the indirect 'Great New Wonderful,' Oliver Stone's less than subtle 'World Trade Center' coming out later this year and 'Uni

I consider myself an authority on what is funny and what is stupid. It would behoove the reader to follow my advice. 'Brokeback Mountain' was released about four months ago and people are still making jokes about its sheep-herding, homosexual male leads.

Partisan politics has once again leaked into the medical community. The Food and Drug Administration has recently issued a statement declaring that marijuana has no medicinal value and can no longer be prescribed to patients by doctors.

According to an article in the New York Times by Anna Bahney, many recent books and a study by the Institute of Social Research conducted by the University of Michigan, a growing number of parents are financially supporting their children well into adulth