With the food truck trend taking the restaurant scene by storm, UCR had the privilege of hosting its first-ever Food Truck Festival last Wednesday, May 15. Unique culinary options were provided, from The Viking Truck, Garlic Scrapes, Goodwin’s Organics and UCR’s own Culinary Chameleon to name a few. Muffled hip-hop projected from the Wednesday Nooner as the lines grew...
Students with goals and dreams may think that they have to wait until after graduation to achieve them. For some, their time is now. Michael Lauchlan, a fifth-year transfer student majoring in linguistics and philosophy is not only a student, he’s an entrepreneur as well.
Lingsanity, one of his first business startups at UCR, is a donation-based tutoring service that...
4 out of 5 stars
When someone has a dire hankering for seafood, UCR students and Riverside residents can find refuge in Rockstar Shrimp—located up Blaine Street at the University Shopping Center—to crush their craving. Offering a small but a satisfying menu, Rockstar Shrimp was nothing less than what its title suggested: rockstar-quality shrimp.
My friends and I walked in, not...
Hidden away in plain sight, sitting at the top of the Bell Tower, UC Riverside carillonneur David Christensen sometimes forgets that he is performing for students. “Sometimes I want to stop and play a different song but I have to remind myself that the entire campus can hear what I am playing,” said Christensen. But let’s back up a...
May Day
May 1
“Happy New Year!” shouted an alcohol-slurred voice among the multitude of faces.
This was the greeting my friends and I met as we got off the U-Bahn and into the crowd that consumed the middle of Berlin. The first of May is a national holiday in Germany, in which almost everyone has a day off from work and...
There are many words one could use to describe the eventful year that ASUCR had. In the past eight months, UC Riverside’s student government faced a multitude of issues ranging from painstaking elections to controversial resolutions. In the end, “successful” was the word AUSCR President Liam Dow used to describe the year ASUCR had.
I recently sat down with the...
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
The city of Riverside seemingly has two temperatures: tundra and Hades. The simmering spring days of May urge students to flee from the heat and find refuge anywhere with an ounce of shade, cool air and refreshing food. Luckily for me, I found the place to get away from the sun rays in Asahi...
According to Webster’s dictionary, the word Pococurante is defined as indifferent or nonchalant. UC Riverside student band Pococurante is apathetic in name only, however. The musically ardent and inventive group—which consists of seniors Hovig Sarkissian, Eric Hyman, Stephen Fong and Nate Guze—has been producing music together since its formation in 2010.
I have seen Pococurante play a few house shows...
Solid off-campus restaurants are somewhat hard to find. Students usually have to sprout wings to find quality food within a five-mile radius and do it on a student budget. Then, when something new emerges in Riverside, it seems like it is the campus' little secret. This theory was no different when it came to the Baguette Bakery and Cafe....
Samuel O. Mbisike, author of “The Other Side of Desire” is a third year student at UCR studying political science and international affairs. He transferred last fall from Mount San Antonio College and published his book in 2011. Mbisike sat down with the Highlander to discuss his work and he went on to talk about the philosophy of the...