Google has their hands in many different parts of people's lives. If you use their search engine, Gmail email service, Google Voice, Google Music, Google Docs, Android, Google Chrome, Google+, and/or a plethora of their other pieces of useful software, Google knows a lot about you. They probably know what your major is, what you like to eat, trips...
As the drug capital of Southern California, Riverside is home to the most vibrant and lethargic stoner community south of Humboldt. But since the University of California system went tobacco-free in 2014, potheads are finding it harder and harder to get away with smoking weed on campus. With the inability to light up, many students have taken to the...
"You can't handle the truth!" were the last words Jack Nicholson snarled at Los Angeles Lakers owner Jim Buss IV following the Lakers’ latest home loss to the Washington Bullets, which dropped the team to 9-42 on the season. Reports are that the 176 year old actor confronted Buss on the struggling franchise's condition and later relinquished his season...
The Child Development Center (CDC) Building A was shut down last week due to a piranha infestation. University experts will work on clearing the infestation, and it should open in about six weeks or 7-8 months, whenever the CDC decides on a solid date.
Building A houses children ages three to five and provides schooling at the preschool and kindergarten...
The UCR baseball team squared off against the Zepton Martians this spring break in what could stand as the greatest game and only game they have ever played on our planet. The Martians were ahead late in the ball game but the Highlanders used a couple late two out rallies to battle back in route to a 12-11 victory.
The...
A jet-fueled bulldozer is set to demolish Watkins Hall next week, as students will be forced to evacuate the last-standing building for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Liberal Education (HASSLE) department. Funded by a $54 million grant from private donors, the university will construct another structure on behalf of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) for...
Beginning in fall 2014, UCR will offer existentialism as a major under the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) to meet the growing number of undergraduates — totaling 25 percent of all UCR students — who are still undeclared. Labeled as a philosophical movement emerging in the 19th century with such thinkers as Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard...
UC Riverside’s new Camel and Ostrich Express has begun its task of transporting students across the stretch of parched land between campus and the University Village (UV). The university’s purchase of the fleet of 12 double-humped camels and ostriches was prompted by students’ complaints regarding the inconvenience of walking to the UV. “With the demise of the trolley system...
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Erving “Magic” Johnson immediately regretted his decision to buy the Dodgers for $2.15 billion dollars. Realizing how worthless of an investment the Dodgers would turn out to be in the short and long term, Johnson decided to sell the team for $5 to some homeless guy he met at the park.
Just 24 hours after the deal, Magic realized that...
As I walked around Far Far Away Record Store, wallowing in the thought of never seeing our beloved Green One again, I suddenly heard a sound. “Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me,” the words proclaimed. Now, the Green One had certainly rolled me before, but I couldn’t be sure. As the words continued with, “I...