The cute, affectionate puppies that bound onto campus at the end of each quarter provide a delightful form of stress relief for students battling finals week meltdowns. But it has recently been revealed that these poor pups are suffering some serious PPTSD (Puppy Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) after being exposed to squealing college students for several hours.
At first, it was...
5 out of 5 Pandas
The crowds of starving students coming back to UCR after spring break are in for a pleasant culinary surprise, because the long wait times and mediocre selection of the PUB has been tossed into the dustbin of history. In its place: the new-and-improved place for hungry students everywhere, the PUB (Panda Union Building). Burritos by...
Though the men’s basketball season had ended just recently, sophomore Taylor Johns has been tirelessly looking for a way to improve his game. He has already backpacked around the world twice in his quest to find the secret to basketball immortality. He has tweeted Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James looking for answers. Little did he realize that...
D’Antoni headed down the 91 freeway?
On Monday, it was announced that UC Riverside reached out to Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni to gauge his interest in coaching the Highlanders. Sources told the Highlander D’Antoni is fielding offers from the Washington Generals and Los Angeles Sparks, among others.
D’Antoni, whose NBA career spans over 16 years, guided the Lakers to...
Have you ever jolted yourself awake in the dead of night and muttered, “What if I don’t pass the final?” Or have you ever got the sweats with the thought of the senior thesis? Now, what if the “imagineers” of Disney took all those fears and used their magic to create a proper nightmare just for UCR? Don’t bother...
If you have ever been down University Avenue you may have noticed a boarded up brown building in between the Dynamite Café and Solar Panel Movie Theater. Recently, a respected age-old establishment bought this sad depleted building. Starbucks Incorporated has bought the building as a part of its attempts to take us back to the “good old days,” the...
In what has become the most popular tradition in UC Riverside history, students revealed it all last week as they ran across campus for the 17th annual UCR Naked Run.
The campus was littered with shirts, skirts, briefs and bras as nearly 10,000 students stripped off their clothes to celebrate the end of finals week. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC...
Firstly, where did your interest in biological engineering come from?
I’ve always enjoyed learning things and I think that working in Science gives you that opportunity to be a lifelong student. You probably think I’m crazy, but I like learning. I’ve always thought that figuring things out is a whole lot better than making stuff up.
Your work on the malaria...
Name: Marie Goodall van Leeuwenhoek
Year: Junior
Major: Microbiology
Area of Study: Extraterrestrial Studies
Planet: Mars
When our space ship Minerva landed on the surface of Mars a few months ago, I looked out the window to get a better view at red planet. As I stared at the red and orange mountains, cliffs and valleys, I couldn't help but feel a sense of...
Students camp outside of Student Services Building
Thousands of students have set up tents around the Student Services Building in hopes of gaining further financial assistance for paying off their high tuition fees. With lines wrapping around the Highlander Union Building (HUB), many students have embraced the week-long delays, despite facing heat exhaustion and encroaching line-cutters.
“These costs are truly outrageous...