Residents of west Riverside’s Alvord Unified School District (AUSD) initiated an effort last week to recall a school board trustee accused of racist Facebook posts. Trustee Joseph Barragan, 21, representing Area 2 (a subsection of the district which lies between Tyler St and Van Buren Blvd, north of Wells Ave) of AUSD, is accused of making racist Facebook posts...
On Thursday, May 11, Gov. Jerry Brown released a revised budget plan for California. This budget plan will see state expenditure increase by over $3.3 billion with state agencies increasing the amount of jobs available by 983.
The revised plan will also see the California State Government withhold $50 million from the UC system. This is in response to a...
A historic property on Lemon Street, just a few miles from the UCR campus, may be in danger of collapse.
The Harada House, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was donated to the city of Riverside in 2004 by Harold Harada, the youngest son of Jukuchi and Ken Harada, a Japanese couple who immigrated to...
The ASUCR senate’s fourth general meeting of the quarter convened in the senate chambers shortly after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17. The bulk of the brief meeting was given over to fourth-year political science, law and society major and former CHASS senator Summer Shafer, who presented a series of updates on the gender studies requirement currently making its...
Judicial council hears cases on elections violations
Evan Ismail, SSW
The ASUCR Judicial Council held their weekly meeting this past Tuesday, May 16 in the senate chambers, beginning at 12:36 p.m. The five justices in attendance discussed two elections violations cases, Hayden Jackson v. Marco Ornelas and Katherine Tatley v. Briana Perera.
The first of the two cases heard was Jackson...
Spring quarter’s second ASUCR state of the association meeting was held on Wednesday, May 12 in the senate chambers. The meeting, which commenced at 6:10 p.m., focused predominantly on Dining Services’ plans regarding the establishment of new eateries in the HUB, a change that is projected to occur over the summer.
After a few brief announcements, UCR Dining Services...
After 10 years of research, 77 scientists from across the world, including two UC Riverside professors, published a reference genome assembly for barley in Nature science journal on Thursday, April 27.
With the genome of barley now sequenced, scientists are able to gain a better understanding of similar grains, such as rice, wheat, rye and oats since they now...
On Monday, April 24, UCR psychology professor Rachel Wu and her colleagues, Mental Health Professor George Rebok from John Hopkins University and Nursing Professor Feng Vankee Lin from University of Rochester Medical Center, published a new theory on cognitive development from adolescence to adulthood. The theory states that if adults continued to learn about new subjects through the same...
On Friday, May 12, Turbulent Futures held the third session of their “Water and Climate Change in Times of Crisis” series in HUB 355 from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. The title of the third session was “Water in an International Context” and was moderated by Professor of Entomology Dr. Peter Atkinson.
The event began with the introduction of UCR...
Session two of the Turbulent Futures symposium was titled “Responses to Climate Change” and featured three speakers who each offered their perspectives on the intersection between water conservation and combating climate change.
Paul Steinberg, professor of political science and environmental policy at Harvey Mudd College, presented his thoughts about institutions and their roles in determining environmental policy. Drawing on years...