Stories

By Cathy Lawhon
UC Irvine students, faculty and staff took 15 minutes out of their day Tuesday, Nov. 25, to stop by the Cross-Cultural Center and make peanut butter sandwiches for the hungry and homeless in Santa Ana. The “Take Fifteen” event was part of the Fifty for 50 Volunteer Program, a campaign for the UCI family to donate 50,000 hours of service time over the two-year 50th anniversary period…

By Beverly Bostwick Mulherin
I was 15 years old. My big sister was looking at colleges, so we went to UCI to see if it was one that she wanted to consider. While we were there, we stopped at Mesa Court to evaluate the dormitories. There in the parking lot was a young couple locked in a very romantic embrace. They weren’t kissing, just standing in the midst of that parking lot lost in each other’s arms…

By Kathryn Bold
In his address to UC Irvine’s class of 2014, President Barack Obama nailed it: “This,” he told the more than 6,000 graduates and 30,000 family members and friends who’d come to Angel Stadium of Anaheim on June 14, “is a pretty cool place to hold a commencement.” For their part, Anteaters thought it was pretty cool to have a sitting U.S. president deliver the keynote speech at their historic all-graduate ceremony…