Opinion

Election season is in full swing and we’ve already endured nearly a month of back and forth controversies and accusations that one side or the other has engaged in cheap tricks. President Obama politicized the death of the world’s most notorious terrorist (at least until Kony came along), and Mitt Romney politicized Obama eating a dog as a child after the Democrats politicized him putting his dog on his car.

When Obama decided to “slow jam” the news he knew he was not going to be able to get away with pulling this campaign stunt without backlash from his critics. He took a risk by appearing on a late-night talk show, aware that his opponents would not shy away from the fight.

In the last few months, a push for individual UC schools to have more autonomy has increased, with UCSF calling for more independence and the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley releasing a memo in favor of local governance.

There’s one thing that you have probably never seriously attributed to Facebook—social reform.

The two party political system is the cornerstone of American politics. The Republican and Democrat parties dominate the way in which the average citizen thinks about public policy, and increasingly shape the legislative process, focusing debates along partisan lines rather than fostering an open and constructive environment for political development.

I was recently informed that men are no longer allowed to write about women’s issues in many newspapers across the country. Of course, this didn’t surprise me. Being a white, middle-class male, I’ve always had to deal with blatant sexist discrimination like this. While this article might surprise you since I don’t have a history of writing anything controversial, I beg you to read this so you can also be armed with the information needed to fight back against the oppressive vagina regime.

As the upcoming election approaches, all eyes and ears are centered on the candidates, but who is watching and hearing us? Every four years, presidential candidates stretch the horizons of their campaign to cover as many demographics as possible in hopes of attaining a multifaceted base of supporters. Amongst the many minorities that politicians lobby for, the vote of the youth continues to get overlooked.

It is that time of year when the community, the prospective students, alumni and fellow Anteaters come out to play. Saturday, April 24, was UC Irvine’s annual Wayzgoose, also known as Celebrate UCI. This student-run outdoor festival had it all, from live entertainment, to the car show, food, rides and games. It was the perfect way to welcome in the spring.

Every presidential campaign in the history of American politics has been built upon a characteristic platform — a definitive set of values, beliefs and qualities that the candidate is hoping to embody and sell to the voting public. Abraham Lincoln ran on unity and abolition. Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to fix the Great Depression. Lyndon B. Johnson promoted a Great Society and Reagan pushed for a balanced budget.

President Obama is pushing to extend the lowered interest rates on federal student loans and Mitt Romney supports the extension as well. So it’s a win-win situation, right? Not quite. First, let’s delve into the nature of these loan rate extensions.

I think it’s high time we checked back in with good old Vladimir Putin, don’t you? After all, Sarah Palin’s a bit too busy lately to keep the Russkies in line, so it’s up to us red-blooded American everymen to stop those damned Commies.

The explosive popularity of social networking websites in the past few years has presented us with some engaging issues, especially those concerning privacy and what should or should not be posted on the Internet. Thanks to the Internet and social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, people are capable of typing something into their computer and making it available to everyone else across the globe.