When grades are for profitA case against for-profit grading systems
To be an American college student in the 21st century is to be beset by pressing debts, by an endless variety of fees, by massive tuition and room and board obligations. The average undergraduate must find the money to pay for classes, for lodging, for textbooks and course materials, for assorted referendum fees, for parking and for the other aspects of life at a university such as UCR, all the while contending with a contracting financial aid system and student loan corporations that play on the lack of alternatives and charge students exorbitant interest rates.…
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UC labor centers targeted for cuts by Schwarzenegger
With the UC System facing a reduction of $813 million in state funding, cuts in academic programs, cuts in employment and increases in tuition are inevitable. One of the areas specifically targeted for cuts by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and UC administrators is labor studies.…
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UCR medical school plans are a case of bad timing, priorities
Building for the new medical school is scheduled to begin in 2010. The new school is supposed to open in 2012. If built on time, it will be the first new medical school built in California in 40 years and will join five other UC campuses that have functioning facilities.…
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Maine same sex-marriage ban shows Obama's cowardice
For civil rights supporters, last spring was a season of almost delirious hope. Just months after the success of California's infamous and hateful Proposition 8, same-sex couples were given the right to marry (and to thereby be recognized as equal to heterosexual couples) in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.…
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The American middle class: a vanishing act
In the last episode of The Colbert Report before Halloween, satirist Stephen Colbert addressed the nation on the dire economic situation in the United States. He reported that it had become so severe that children nationwide were forced to ask for 'food' on the night of Oct.…
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Is there still such a thing as business ethics?
Ethics in business-does this phrase represent an impossible ideal or an oxymoron? Having endured the financial collapse of 2008 and multibillion dollar Ponzi schemes, one wonders if such a thing exists in business as thinking with regard for consequences further down the line than tomorrow.…
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