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Issue: February 2004

Voume 2, Issue 3

News and Views

U-Pass Program Gives Free Rides to Students

ALEXANDER PHILLIPS | Supporters of the program hope free bus rides for all students will lead to less traffic, less pollution, and more parking spaces at UCI.


Mad Cow, It’s What’s for Dinner

AMY WILLIAMS | The threat of Mad Cow has caused some to question the meat
industry’s practices.


Rolled Back Language Requirements Cheapens Education

CRYSTAL MASON | Starting next Fall, UCI students will only need to take three quarters of a foreign language.  That might not be such a good idea.


Reckless Spending Push Conservatives Away From Bush

RICHARD NGUYEN | Bush and congressional Republicans are under fire from both the right and left for their deficit spending that will bite us in the future.


U.S. Foreign Policy Debated

DAVID PHAM | A recent debate at UCI questioned the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy in the war against terror and its role in international affairs.


Op-Ed

Captured, But We’re No Safer

EDITORIAL | Saddam is captured, but that's only the tip of the iceberg.


Defeating the Bush Myth

ALEXANDER PHILLIPS | George W. Bush is portrayed as a president of high morals, but does it mean he can really tell from good and bad?


The Case for Homosexual Marriage

MATTHEW CARDINALE | Bush supports an amendment to monopolize marriage for heterosexual couples.  Sorry, no gays in this club.


Deregulation Be Damned!

JAMISON POWER | DEMOCRATIC COGITATIONS: Don’t let conservatives trick you into thinking government regulation is government running amok.


Vaginas Help Make UCI a Safer Place

JANELLE EAGLE | Help stop violence against women and girls.


Liberalism and Marxism

ADAM MARTIN | Marxism.  Its time has passed.


Fat Food Nation

CHELSEA THOMPSON | As Americans get fatter, the government does less about the physical well-being of its citizens.  Can it be “free-market” overriding public health?


Blogs Making the Internet More Accessible

ROBERT KHUU | Blogs are adding another level of user-friendly accessibility to Internet users.  Even politics have been hit with the blog bug.


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By The Numbers

500
Number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the beginning of the war


8200
Estimated number of civilian deaths in Iraq


1
Proposed increase, in billions of dollars, for NASA over the next 5 years


4
The cost of one NASA space shuttle mission, in billions of dollars


40
Percent proposed increase in college tuition for graduate students in California


480
Estimated budget deficit for 2004, in billions of dollars


401
Estimated budget deficit for 2003, in billions of dollars


281
Budget surplus in 2000, in billions of dollars

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