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The Best Young Colleges

The Huffington Post | Anna Mazarakis | Posted 05.31.2012

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Today, the Times Higher Education magazine released the inaugural Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 list, which ranks the world's 100 best universit...

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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

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Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.

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PST: Best Kept Secret

Peter Clothier | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Contemporary Art, Art, UC Irvine, Arts News

Art schools -- and art departments -- typically enjoy their cyclical moments of greatness, and 1964-1971 was undoubtedly UC Irvine's. "Best Kept Secret" is a testament to that moment.

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Dr. Daniel G. Amen: 'Going With The Crowd...Total Waste Of Neurons'

The Huffington Post | Debra Ollivier and Evan Allis | Posted 12.12.2011

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For Daniel G. Amen -– psychiatrist, self-help advisor and medical director of the Amen Clinic –- the simple act of evaluating patients with the he...

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Conviction of the "Irvine Ten" is Constitutionally Sound

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Uc Irvine Muslim Group Suspended, UC Irvine, Politics News

Ten students who set out to prevent Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren from speaking to students at the University of California Irvine campus have rightly been convicted of a California misdemeanor and sentenced to probation and a fine.

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Dead Poets Society Lied: What the Movies Don't Teach You About Student Resistance

John Hrabe | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Student Protests, Uc Irvine Muslim Group Suspended, Orange County, Dead Poets Society, Irvine 11, Student Resistance, Muslim Student Association, UC Irvine, Culture News

Our natural reaction to contrasting views should always be to speak out ourselves, not shut our opponents up. Muslim students get the same First Amendment protections as Israeli ambassadors.

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Protesters Want UC Student Regent Ousted Over Sexual Assault Allegations

Posted 05.25.2011

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Protesters gathered at the University of California Board of Regents meeting Wednesday to call for UC Student Regent Jesse Cheng to step down. Cheng,...

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100 UC Irvine Faculty Call on D.A. to Drop Charges Against Students Who Disrupted Israeli Ambassador's Talk

Jon Wiener | Posted 05.25.2011

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The students face criminal conspiracy charges and six months in jail if convicted.

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UC Students Charged For Heckling Israeli Ambassador During Speech

Posted 05.25.2011

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Eleven University of California students have been charged for their involvement in disrupting a speech given by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michae...

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Is Heckling A Felony?

aolnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hecklers take note. A group of University of California students will learn next week whether they've been charged with criminal offenses for repea...

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Richard Branson Challenges Entrepreneurs To Be A 'Force For Good'

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.12.2011

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With much of his attention focused on space exploration these days, Sir Richard Branson's ambitions literally know no boundaries. But he is also doing...

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UC Irvine Admits Fried Chicken And Waffle Menu On MLK Day Was Insensitive

Posted 05.25.2011

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Students at the University of California-Irvine were irked when an on-campus dining facility served fried chicken and waffles in honor of Martin Luthe...

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UC-Irvine Upholds Suspension Of Muslim Group

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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IRVINE, Calif. — The University of California, Irvine has upheld its decision to suspend a campus Muslim group after some of its members disrupt...

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PHOTOS: Conservatives "Deconstruct" US World & News College Rankings, Trash UCs

Lance Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UC San Diego, US News College Rankings Process, US News, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams CampusReform.org says it was created "to give conservatives powerful new weapon...

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UC Irvine Muslim Group Appeals Suspension

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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IRVINE, Calif. — A Muslim student group has appealed its suspension by the University of California, Irvine over the disruption of the Israeli a...

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UC Irvine Suspends Muslim Group Over Disruption

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — A University of California, Irvine, disciplinary committee ruled that a Muslim student group should be suspended for at least a ye...

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US Geneticist Wins $1.5 Million Religion Prize

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A one-time priest who later became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism ...

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The Unforgettable Adventures of "The Human Google"

Eric Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memory, Documentary, Marilu Henner, Brad Williams, Hyperthymesia, Unforgettable, UC Irvine, Entertainment News

Although we had never encountered anyone in person with a brain like my brother's, we never imagined that his type of memory could be that rare or was worthy of serious scientific study. Researchers quizzed my brother Brad, and Hyperthymestic

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California Students Look To Colleges In Other States

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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New reports indicate that more and more California students are leaving the state to pursue higher education. The San Jose Mercury News has more: Un...

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Day Of Action: TOP MOMENTS

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though yesterday's California-born Day of Action to Defend Public Education became a national event, activity was anchored in the Golden State. The st...

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California Readies For Day Of Action

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

University of California students are gearing up for Thursday, Mar. 4, the state's designated Student Day of Action to protest higher education budget...

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Berkeley RIOT: Fire, Destruction

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

Overnight, an impromptu riot to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at the University of California-Berkeley snowballed to include more than 200...

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UC Irvine PROTEST: 17 Arrested

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seventeen UC Irvine activists were arrested after carrying out an impassioned sit-in outside the school chancellor's office this morning. According...

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UC Students Shouting Down the Israeli Ambassador: Boneheaded? Perhaps... Illegal? Not So Fast

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zionism, Pro-Israel Advocacy, Occupied Territories, Campus Protest, Chemerinsky, Israel, Palestine, UC Irvine, College News

My hope is that the members of the UCI community can use this event as a teachable moment, coming together as a campus more clearly to define the limits of acceptable protest.

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Zionist Group: UC Irvine Enables 'Bigotry, Discrimination'

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.25.2011

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IRVINE, Calif. — After months of growing tension between Jewish and Muslim students at the University of California, Irvine, the Zionist Organiz...

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