In a scene that hails the quintessential philosophies of civil disobedience, the arrests and possible academic consequences of 11 UC Irvine students has sparked outrage among many Southern California universities.
We are caught in the midst of a perfect storm of circumstances that threaten not only our educations and careers, but the viability of the Californian economy for years to come. On Thursday, March 4, people across the state and country will call for the immediate rescission of the cuts to education.
Last month, the Office of Professional Responsibility released a statement saying that two former Bush Administration lawyers responsible for authoring legal memos that justified the use of torture were not guilty of professional misconduct.
The recent antics of Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the “White House party crashers, have critics loving to hate them, but most distressing are those self-proclaimed lovers of democracy who want them behind bars.
The incident that began last Sunday as an automobile collision with two inanimate objects has now ballooned into a saga of intrigue, drugs and illicit liaisons, except that no one can verify the validity of these claims.
Last Tuesday, the University of California Regents approved a 32 percent increase in student fees. The increase of $2500 rounds out the UC education fees to about $10,300. This price does not include the approximate $16,000 students spend on room, board and books.
Last Wednesday, John Muhammad, also known as the “DC Sniper,” faced his death sentence via lethal injection. Muhammad and an accomplice killed ten people and wounded three over the course of three weeks in October 2002.
You are watching something horrible happen. It is something so bad that you have to turn your head away, cover your eyes and wish that you hadn’t seen it in the first place. Yet, you look back; almost as if it were a train wreck.
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