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Editorial: Our Take On The California Ballot

Prop 51: Yes Proposition 51 supports a state-issued $9 billion in bonds to fund improvement and construction for K-12 schools and community colleges. While...

Women’s Chess Championship Stirs Up Debate About Hijab

American chess champion Nazi Paikidze has refused to participate in the 2017 Women’s World Chess Championship in retaliation against the host country Iran’s...

Digital Democracy: Redefining Popular Discourse For Minorities

By Aditi Mayer Beyond the popular notion of the blogging world as an overly saturated, face-value driven sell-out circus, the digital space also serves...

President Napolitano, Listen Up: A Response to Napolitano’s Letter in the Boston Globe

To UC President Janet Napolitano, Last week, you wrote an article for the Boston Globe expressing your opinion on freedom of...

The Effects of Microaggressions Against Asian Americans

Earlier this week, a nameless woman rushed through the downpour in the streets of the Upper East Side. She was tight on time,...

Voter Registration

Presumed student apathy and reported lack of political activism on college campuses is a media go-to cliché based on discouraging national numbers.  So-called...

A Closer Look at the Purpose of Greek Life

We’ve all seen it in the movies. Young men in tank tops, with chiseled abs and an affinity for saying “dude” and...

The Financial Aid Office: Understaffed and Inefficient

For the fall 2016 quarter at UC Irvine, 98,000 applications were received for just 6,000 available spots in the Class of 2020. The...

UCI’s Inflated Parking Permit Prices: An Unnecessary Financial Burden for Students

Tuition rates leave half of UCI undergraduates an average of $18,000 in debt by the time they finish their degree, according to a...

The Quiet Side of Assault

My freshman year was finally over and I felt a rushing sense of independence as I stepped into my first real apartment. Dorming...

Let’s Talk About…The First Presidential Debate

For me, the first presidential debate felt more like an intimate roasting session between the two candidates instead of  an actual debate. There...

eSports Arena Attracts Unnecessary Student Criticism

At the opening ceremony of UC Irvine’s new eSports Arena, Thomas Parham, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, revealed that whenever he was asked...

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