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UCR student goes on 115-hour hunger strike for food security

ASUCR elections director and fourth-year political science major Melina Reyes went on a 115-hour hunger strike for five days to raise awareness about UC-wide...

Sanders and Clinton to visit Inland Empire

Courtesy of Washington College Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will both hold campaign rallies in the Inland Empire on Tuesday, May 24. Sanders...

ASUCR: Controversial Kappa Sigma resolution fails to receive a single vote

Vincent Ta/HIGHLANDER At the ASUCR senate meeting, which convened in the Tartan and Tweed Room at the Student Special Services building on Wednesday, May 11,...

ASUCR: Queer Alliance pushes back against grant revocation

ASUCR convened on Wednesday in the senate chambers to pass two resolutions. The first resolution aimed to condemn the Islamophobic, racist and sexist hate...

Protest culture needs an artful revolution

In my five years at UCR, I’ve witnessed the Occupy UC protests reach a crescendo here on campus, complete with drum circles, police in...

ASUCR calls emergency meeting to discuss possible re-elections

An emergency meeting was called on Sunday, April 24 at 8 p.m. in the ASUCR senate chambers to discuss the judicial opinion that was...

Global Issues Forum hosts event on drug trafficking

The Global Issues Forum (GIF) held an event at UCR’s Alumni Center on Thursday, April 21 called “Global Drug Trafficking: Understanding the Root Causes...

Professor gives lecture on 19th century French anti-Semitism

On Thursday, April 14, associate professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, Dorian Bell, visited UCR to give a talk entitled, “Axes of Otherness:...

ASUCR passes Highlander News Reformation

The ASUCR senate convened on Wednesday to discuss and approve two ballot referendums to be added to the 2016 ballot. They included an amendment...

R’Perspective: Why Chicanx is anything, but outdated

I was scrolling through Facebook the other day when I happened upon a short video that was supposed to open up dialogue about the...