The regents recently announced that they will be holding their own rally at the State Capitol in May. As sloppy as UC student activism can sometimes be, they’re never that unabashedly ridiculous.
Although Black Friday and Occupy Wall Street represent vastly different things, their fervor comes from the same place, and that is the desire for justice.
In a system that often leaves us looking for more, students must supplement their education with experiences found outside of a lecture hall.
If protests can be used as any sort of pulse of the liberal or progressive movements, we’ve gotten a lot less fun, but a lot more focused.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning on launching a porn site for attention. This is the ultimate irony — compromising the integrity of human beings to prove a point about the integrity of animals. It’s also just plain lazy.
Netflix and Facebook are both facing user dissatisfaction after changing their formats. The reason why they’re going ahead with these changes anyway might have to do with the format they exist on — the Internet.
Every sport has its own issues: performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, alleged payments to college athletes under the table, concussions in football. You’ve heard about them all, but the one topic that has never come to the forefront that unites every sport is that of how homosexuality is regarded in the world of athletics.
After 25 seasons, Oprah Winfrey’s landmark talk show finally came to an end last week. Blair Stenvick looks back on what Oprah meant to her and to the world.
As I write this, I’m just three weeks shy of my college graduation. My inevitable existential crisis, having started sometime in April, has been in a state of flux for weeks now — am I excited, nervous, nostalgic or just over it? One thing, though, is certain. For the remaining days of my collegiate career [...]
The major networks announced their new pilots for the fall season a couple of weeks ago, and a few shows stood out as trying to cash in on Mad Men’s nostalgia-fueled hype. It remains to be seen whether the writers for these shows intend to only rip off “Mad Men’s” aesthetic, or if they’re looking to go deeper than that.