Highlander Newspaper

It's no secret to anyone in the world that California is in deep fiscal trouble--so much so, that some experts have said that in order for this state to keep trudging along, as mangled as it is, we'd need a bailout focused on keeping businesses afloat and whatever is left of our economy intact.… Post the First Comment

The?Highlander welcomes letters. Please include your name, year and major. The Highlander does not edit letters. All submissons should be less than 400 words and sent in Rich Text Format to highlanderops@ucr.edu. What is ASUCR? When students ask me what ASUCR is, I would tell them it was the Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside which is their student government.… 1 Comment

The people are rarely good arbiters of civil rights matters. In the 20th century, when the battle grounds of civil rights were the lunch counters and the buses and the public schools of the South, when miscegenation was a crime punishable by time in prison, when lynching was routine, most Americans favored a continuation of the status quo, which mandated the second-tier citizenship of millions of Americans and their existence under a regime of terror, discrimination, and bigotry.… Post the First Comment

To me, walking across the UCR stage in less than two weeks is going to be a mere formality. My graduation really happened about a month ago when individuals stole our newspapers and were caught on film. We had reports that people knew who was responsible but would not come forward, and no one in the administration would loudly denounce it for what it was: an appallingly cheap form of censorship.… Post the First Comment