It’s safe to say that our local coffee shop in downtown Riverside has been ransacked and taken over by a group of pirates who happen to love coffee just as much as your average college student during finals. After searching the store for gold and only coming up with coffee beans, the pirates have been revealed to an entirely...
After months of grueling anticipation, the country’s No. 1 basketball recruit has officially made his decision. Last Thursday afternoon, 8’4” center Scotty the Bear Jr. announced his intent to join the reigning national champion UC Riverside Highlanders.
The announcement came from a Tweet by Scotty Jr., which stated: “#UCR baby! It was a hard decision, but I’m ready to bring...
With the surplus of water flowing around the campus of UC Riverside, the athletics department announced last month the addition of its 18th sport: rowing. Despite having roots and popularity on the East Coast, rowing has been taking the state by storm with other Cal States and UCs adopting a rowing program in recent years. UC Riverside in its...
Kim A. Wilcox has announced that he is stepping down as chancellor of UC Riverside to become the head of the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) by midnight on Friday, April 4.
“I just can’t help myself,” Wilcox said. “I love making pancakes and waffles more than anything, even education itself.”
It is well-known that Wilcox had previously worked with University...
A Taco Bell “Live Mas” logo will be erected atop the Highlander newspaper office to welcome its new corporate management on April 5, according to Editor-in-Chief Michael Rios. At the cost of a nacho cheese Doritos Locos Taco Supreme, the Highlander was purchased by Jane Schmitt, CEO of Taco Bell. The privatization of the 60-year-old campus newspaper aligns with...
This past spring break at an impromptu meeting, administrators of the University of California, Riverside were informed that winter 2014 would be its last quarter with public funding. In a detailed manifesto, titled “My Plans for the UC,” written by UC President Janet Napolitano and published unexpectedly last week, the Board of Regents was demanded to adjust the UC...
In a press conference on Monday, President Barack Obama announced that he would be moving the location of his 2014 commencement speech from UC Irvine to UC Riverside. The commencement speech was originally intended for UC Irvine to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the university, along with honoring the “accomplishments” and “diversity” of its students and class.
“To be, uh,...
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...
Last fall, a new policy was implemented at UCR to prevent the reckless riding of skateboards, bicycles or wheeled vehicles around campus. However, according to a campuswide survey released by the Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR), 87 percent of the student population are apathetic toward the ongoing effort.
“It’s a stupid policy, really,” said second-year history major Jerry Serrano. “No...
As the school year nears its end, UCR administrators have noticed a considerable decline in student attendance and focus. Students are simply not as motivated to go to class once summer daydreams caress sleepy lecture halls.
However, UCR administrators are not taking this lying down. In an effort to combat this drop in attentive students, the administration has implemented regulations...