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Dishing It Out: If you've never gone to a wine-and-cheese tasting before, you should definitely add it to your "to-do" list.

The Way I See It: I'm going to veer a bit off course from my previous columns because I need to get something off my chest. It's been going on for a while, this whole sleeping together with no strings attached thing.

Let's face it: rare is the person who reads for pleasure in college, outside of a humanities major.

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Skeptics like to point out that school spirit is an ongoing challenge for UC Irvine. However, the first annual Care-A-Thon event from Associated Students of UCI's Spirit Commission is a bold attempt to revive school spirit by uniting the UCI community toward a common cause.

Undergraduate students present research projects in April 2008 as part of the Excellence in Research certification sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences....

ZOT IN THE CITY: As I listen to the Beach Boys sweetly croon, "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long," I can't help but commiserate. Sometimes I think that if Brandon and I were just a few years older, a few years wiser, more mature and had solid jobs, I could stop feeling like I'm constantly walking on eggshells while I wait to see if our relationship will blossom into something more.

AWKWARD SITUATIONS: I have a problem remembering people's names. I can remember birthdays, how to knit and John Locke's view on human nature; however, I fail to retain something as simple as a name. And I don't mean unique names; I'm talking about common names like Bob and Jane. Just this past week, I hit a record high of forgetting people I had already met. I tried to introduce myself to five people—all of whom remembered meeting me previously.

Although we are now in the 21st century, gender inequality still exists in universities, in a subtler manner. A report by the National Center for Education Statistics states, "Women now represent more of the U.S. undergraduate population than men." This means that women have become the majority group in undergraduate programs across the United States. However, how equally proportioned are females in higher education?

ASK GRACE: "Why do guys like to wear pink?"

A UCI student from Irvine Students Against Animal Cruelty (ISAAC) sits in a cage to express his views about scientific experimentation on animals.

Renowned "New Yorker" journalist Calvin Trillin delivers a brief biography and shares his experience in the field of journalism last week as a...