On Thursday, May 12, UCR held an interdisciplinary water symposium, “Turbulent Futures: Water and Climate Change in Times of Crisis” from 4:15-6 p.m. in Winston Chung Hall 205. The conference was hosted by the Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training’s Water SENSE program to discuss and address water management and climate change.
The first speaker of the evening was...
Students for Justice in Palestine erect mock “apartheid wall” near HUB to bring attention to Palestinian conflict
By: Evan Ismail, SSW
On Tuesday, May 9, the on-campus student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) erected a mock “apartheid wall” to shed light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The wall, which stood by Coffee Bean in the HUB upper plaza was displayed from...
This past week saw the announcement of ASUCR elections results, developments on the UCOP's $175 million reserve and more discussions over UC Berkeley conservative speakers.
The group talks about all that and more on this week's newsroom. Listen below:
On Wednesday, May 3, the 2017-18 ASUCR elections results were announced in the senate chambers by Elections Director Marcy Kuo a little after 12 p.m.
Following the announcement, the Highlander reached out to each of the winners to hear their plans for the upcoming year. At the time of print, only four candidates had responded and are organized in order...
On Monday, May 1, a group of prisoners detained in downtown Riverside’s Robert Presley Detention Center concluded an 18-day hunger strike that began on Thursday, April 13. In an open letter released in March, the strikers — most of whom are housed in the jail’s administrative segregation unit, also known as “ad-seg” or solitary confinement — characterized the strike...
ASUCR’s fourth senate meeting of the quarter convened on Wednesday, May 3.
Justice Casey Thielhart presented the majority opinion S17-CC-01, which ruled that the process outlined in the chapter 23 ASUCR bylaw, regarding the act of censure and override, was unconstitutional. The decision reversed the attempt by the senate to appeal the censures issued at last week’s senate meeting regarding...
From 7:30 p.m. to nearly 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3 in 2200 Spieth Hall, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), co-sponsored by UCR College Republicans and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, hosted Lily Tang, the 2016 Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in Colorado. In the event titled “Lily Tang: My journey to freedom,” Tang spoke about her life in...
Engineers from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering began work this week on a new solar energy microgrid intended for the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation near Havasu Lake, Calif. The team of experts from Bourns College’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), working with support from the California Energy Commission in the form of a $2.6 million grant, finally realized...
On Monday, April 24, two students from the UCR organization, Guardian Ambassadors, traveled to San Bernardino’s North Park Elementary ― the site of the April 10 shooting of a teacher by her estranged husband in a domestic violence dispute ― to deliver books from the Guardian Princess series.
The books were written by UCR Media and Cultural Studies (MCS)...
On Monday, May 1, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, released a document stating that the group is willing to accept a Palestinian state under the 1967 borders while, at the same time, refusing to recognize Israel as a nation.
In Doha, Qatar, Chairman of Hamas’ Political Bureau Khalid Meshaal gave a statement explaining the specifics of the document, as well...