Exactly 100 years following the controversial secret ballot votes on five pieces of legislation, ASUCR has finally released each senator’s votes.
Thanks to the newly-developed Fellowes Unshredder, the destroyed paper ballots were able to be recovered and shared with the campus community.
The shredded ballots were discovered when third-year engineering student Melissa Weymouth was called into the ASUCR office in the...
A celebratory ceremony was held in the Bing Center March 30, where both students and guest speakers alike donned campus safety escort attire—consisting of yellow shirts and maglites—signifying a centennial of reduced criminal activity.
UCR honored the recommendations made by the Task Force on Campus Safety in 2013, which is attributed to the campus being ranked as the safest in...
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...
Governor Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 007, which eliminates all forms of state funding to the UC system. During a celebratory speech made at the UCR Bing Center, Governor Brown withdrew the final dollar from the university coffers, with hopes of ensuring a “feasible” academic agenda for the now-privatized UC system.
“This law will shift the funding we need...
Dear Highlanders,
After decades of disinvestments from the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Liberal Education (HASSLE), the Highlander can no longer continue to function alongside an administration that has continued to shun a liberal education. With the discovery of an old printing press in the basement of the Rivera Library, the Highlander was able to publish this commemorative issue in...
We all face daily struggles as we go about our ordinary daily business. We all struggle with wiping the sleep from our eyes when our I-Dosers force us to awaken. We deal with the monotonous drudgery of listening to dull robots in lecture drone on about the history of oranges. And we can all relate to the experience of...
A massive panic has erupted recently after the faculty at the University of California, Riverside discovered that students have reached a ten-year low in grade point averages. As fingers begin to be pointed up and down the hierarchy of UCR’s academia, the professors and even the chancellor himself are gearing up to propose a solution.
There have been many arguments...
Well, it was great while it lasted.
This is the final edition of the Highlander. As the University of California, Riverside marches ever onward to secure its place in history as the premier university of the nation, it has become clear that the Highlander is no longer needed by the community we serve. The purpose of the Highlander has been...
We’ve all experienced recurring moments, and fashionable clothing definitely belongs on the comeback list. Like your drunk uncle at a holiday party, clothing trends always make an awkward reappearance and remind us to never throw anything away. From shoulder pads and bodysuits to those God-forsaken Crocs, here are ways to rock recent comeback trends from your great-great-grandparents’ days and...
There are three very basic things I expect from my shows: straightforward explanations, uncluttered presentations and necessary information. I neither want nor need “plot” and “setting,” which are archaic leftovers from a bygone era. These are generally understood facts, right? Will someone leave a memo for director Quentin Tarantino IV?
Tarantino’s fourth clone recently released “CaffAttack,” which promised an in-depth...