Opinion

There’s a bill that has received increased attention from the American news media lately, and it isn’t about health care reform. In fact,...

In the movie “Zoolander,” fictional fashion guru Mugatu focuses his entire clothing line around the homeless. His new “Derelicte” campaign boasts women in...

Dear Editor, As a representative of the Office of the Dean of Students, I want to address a statement in last week’s New U...

This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether antitrust laws apply to the National Football League. If the Court rules in the NFL’s...

Once more we are faced with the age-old moral question: do the ends justify the means? Is it acceptable to steal under certain circumstances?

On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, an alleged Al Queda operative, attempted to attack a commercial flight by igniting an explosive powder that was hidden in his underwear. The attack was successfully thwarted, but the “Underwear Bomber” has cast a new shadow of doubt on security at airports, mass transit systems and in our country in general. It is remarkable how one man was able to cause our nation to question so much.

Islam has been placed in the limelight for the past decade; almost every news broadcast mentions Islam or Muslims in one way or another. “Experts” have emerged and taken it upon themselves to educate, or attempt to educate, us on this apparently complex and foreign religion.

“College is making me the man that I always dreamed of becoming.”

As personal computers, mobile phones and personal music players approach ubiquity, we are about to witness the next technological revolution with the emergence of the eBook.

It is evident that many students view the UCI Regents and Administration as the source of the current problems. The situation, however, is much more complex.

It has now been almost a full year since President Obama took office. In the historic 2008 general election, Americans sent Obama to the Oval Office and provided him with commanding majorities in both houses of Congress to allow him to fulfill his promises. Health care reform, a central part of his presidential campaign, soon became the core goal of his first-year domestic agenda.

For whatever reason, we humans have an odd habit of investing certain arbitrary dates with great significance: birthdays, anniversaries and, of course, New Year’s Day. This is because the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one offers the sense, however delusional, of renewal and of a fresh start. So in honor of 2010, the New University’s editorial staff picks 26 stories to watch for during the new year.