Zachary Hanson
A General Guide to Safe Sex
In America, the university has for decades been seen in popular culture as a space of liberation, particularly sexual, which is a picture not...
Modernism, post-modernism and futurism on our campus
Physical spaces produce aesthetic echoes which are so impactful, yet their sources are so often left outside the conscious mind. It is in this...
My Riverside Christmas
Every year, usually the day after Thanksgiving, Riverside comes alive with holiday spirit, its downtown lit up with millions of strung lights and Christmas...
Ringing of the bells: The early history of UCR’s Bell Tower
“We’ve got a bell tower. So what else is nu? Personally, I don’t mind having it in the neighborhood. I just wouldn’t want my...
Ten hours in Orbach
Extended stays in libraries have never been an activity to which I am particularly inclined to — stuffy, dimly lit, sonically displeasing, these places...
The Getaway Cafe — reminiscing on a lost relic of UCR social life
As one walks this ever-expanding campus, a preternatural emptiness quickly becomes apparent. Relict and nebulous, the University of California, Riverside breathes a sense of...
Riverside’s hidden gems
In this old city of oranges, peculiar sites abound. There are strange relics of the eclectic denizens of Riverside receiving few visitors while alongside...
Ghosts in the mirror
Unworldly apparitions, logic-defying orbs, strange electronic malfunctions and peculiar physical sensations: all of these and innumerably more incidents make up the North American canon...