NEWS
By Matt Murray | December 22, 2012
Recently, I heard about a girl in New Jersey trying to petition toy maker Hasbro into making a gender-neutral version of the Easy-Bake Oven for her 4-year-old brother. You see, Hasbro has been marketing the kitchen set, which kids use to bake cookies and cakes using a light bulb as a heating element, primarily to girls for years. All the packaging and promotional materials featured girls, and the ovens were only made in pink and purple. McKenna Pope has collected more than 45,000 signatures on her petition on change.org since Dec. 3, and has the support of celebrity chefs Graham Elliot and Kevin Gillespie.
NEWS
By By Michael Miller | November 3, 2005
Woman who accused Clarence Thomas of harassment talks about politics of high court picks at UCI.Anita Hill, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearing, spoke at UC Irvine on Wednesday evening as part of the campus' 21st annual Rainbow Festival. In her speech, which lasted about an hour, Hill touched only momentarily on her experiences with Thomas and her time in the public eye 14 years ago. Most of her presentation, delivered to a packed room in the Humanities Instructional Building, focused on racial and gender politics on the Supreme Court and President Bush's current mission to replace retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
NEWS
January 8, 2003
Deirdre Newman A UC Irvine Graduate School of Management professor has been honored with an endowed fellowship in her name courtesy of two former students. Judy Rosener, an acclaimed expert on gender differences in the workplace, received the honor in late December. Richard and Darcy Kopcho, who graduated from the school in 1980, donated $200,000 to the business school for the endowment. In addition, another alumna, Martha Newkirk, started a small committee to raise another $200,000 for the fellowship.
NEWS
By June Casagrande | May 24, 2013
The English language is flexible, forgiving and fun. But don't tell that to some people. There's a large contingent of sticklers who think that every language choice has just one right answer. Many are victims of superstitions that ran rampant in educational circles in the 1950s and '60s — mythical laws like "you can't end a sentence with a preposition" and "it's wrong to split an infinitive. " Most of the prohibitions popular in those days were pure superstition, including the aforementioned.
NEWS
By Humberto Caspa | February 28, 2009
After an unprecedented victory in last year’s election and a historic presidential inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, Barack Obama’s first address to both houses of Congress can also be recorded as memorable. The president delivered another powerful speech conveying a patriotic and a unifying message to captivate Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. But that wasn’t it. The magical moment traveled around the world through the Internet and moved mountains without even showcasing a Martin Luther King-like speech.
NEWS
November 10, 2007
Once there was a man who did not allow women on his team when they climbed Mt. Everest. He said they weren?t strong enough and lacked the leadership abilities to make it. In response, American mountaineer Arlene Blum organized a group of 10 women to reach an arguably more difficult summit, Annapurna. On Monday, Nov. 19, stories like Blum?s will be the focus of Vanguard University?s Center for Women?s Studies Day on campus. The day will kick off with a silent auction at 8 a.m. that lasts until 6 p.m. Participants can donate items to auction off or bid on the prizes any time throughout the day. The university?
LOCAL
By Byron de Arakal | June 4, 2008
My hunch is this column’s going to bring me some trouble. But the subject is just too fascinating to let pass. I witnessed a phenomenon last week on my way back to the home fort following another grinding day in the coal mine. Columns of women — a collective demographic of metropolitan hotties in their late 20s to refined and tailored business women just older than 40, it seemed — were surging in unison toward the cinema on Newport Center’s outer ring. Some strode confidently in strappy heels and in dresses with elevated hemlines and necklines finishing up somewhere near the equator.
NEWS
June 9, 2002
As I perused my accumulated Daily Pilots after a weeklong vacation, I found several very interesting articles and columns -- some very fortuitously juxtaposed -- that require my response. I was delighted to see Byron de Arakal's May 29 column summarizing the probable candidates for City Council in November (Between the Lines, "Early handicapping in Costa Mesa council race"). I was especially encouraged by his inference that Councilman Gary Monahan may, in fact, reconsider his plan to not run again.
LOCAL
By STEVE SMITH | April 28, 2007
On a recent business trip to Philadelphia, I was standing at the reception desk of the downtown hotel I was staying at getting directions one evening to Citizens Bank Park to see the Phillies play. In the middle of my conversation with the hotel employee, she stopped, looked over my shoulder and said to someone, "Are you the cab?" Apparently, before we started our conversation, a guest had ordered a cab and was waiting nearby for it to arrive. After she asked the question, I turned around to see whom she was addressing.
SPORTS
By Soraya Nadia McDonald | August 29, 2007
Every summer, across the country, high school boys line up in the heat in cleats and clothes made for muddying. They run countless drills, endure merciless barking from coaches and find themselves nightly nursing sore muscles and bones. They eagerly subject themselves to abuses called two-a-days and hell week . It’s no different in Orange County. Before practicing in full pads, the boys run plays in shorts, T-shirts, and helmets, resembling sweaty, panting, life-size bobble-head dolls.