Acting on information that commercial tutoring companies had obtained copies of official questions, the College Board announced on May 1 that it would cancel the SAT General and Subject tests scheduled in Korea on May 5. The College Board cancelled the January 2007 SAT scores of 900 Korean students who had prior access to the…
Terrence Park, an talented UC student, has “come out” as an undocumented immigrant.
Monster Energy, an energy drink popular with many people as a pick-me-up, is undergoing massive attack due to the recent death of a young girl. In December 2011, a 14-year-old girl from Maryland, after drinking two 24oz cans of Monster Energy, died of cardiac arrest and last week, her mother filed a lawsuit against…
American cyclist Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong, the once famous figure of cycling, has taken a huge fall amidst multiple accusations of doping and has been stripped of all his Tour de France titles as well as banned from any future sporting events involving cycling. On Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)…
The Monterey Jazz Festival, one of the longest consecutively running jazz festivals in the world, will take place Sept. 21 – 23. The festival is held annually at the expansive 20-acre Monterey County Fairgrounds, where in 2006 and 2007, a sellout audience of 40,000 attended every concert. The concerts run day and night in these…
Netanyahu draws a red line for the U.N. general assembly When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced to the U.N. about its future plans, he would not know how much controversy it would bring. And it brought a lot. On Sept. 22, 2012, Ahmadinejad attacked the United States and west European nations, calling them arrogant powers…
A recent virus called the Hantavirus that has caught on to six people and killed two has been discovered to originate from Yosemite National Park.
Psy doing his famous “horse-riding” dance Logging nearly 13 million views just two weeks after it was posted on Youtube, Psy’s new song “Gangnam Style” has been a big hit not only in South Korea but also in America, Thailand, and in other countries as well. With its unique horse-riding dance and techno backbeat,…
