This past week, varying contingents within ASUCR executed a series of actions that could hold a significant impact on April’s upcoming 2017-18 elections.
As we reported two weeks ago, during the quarter’s second state of association meeting held Wednesday, Feb. 15, the senate unanimously approved amendments to the elections timeline which included moving the deadline for prospective candidates to submit...
An email received by the Highlander at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, reveals that, during the 2014-15 academic year, leadership within the ASUCR political party side requested signatures on a noncompete agreement form from 2014-15 ASUCR Vice President of Campus Internal Affairs Fernando Echeverria.
Attached to the email was the Word document version of the form and an...
ASUCR’s final state of the association meeting of winter quarter commenced at 6:09 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8 in the senate chambers. Serving as the major point of discussion for the night was the passage of senate bill W-027, which provided the guidelines for the 2017-18 elections cycle in regards to laptopping.
Prior to the presentation of the bill...
A recent study titled, “A Look at Black Student Success: Identifying Top- and Bottom-Performing Institutions,” revealed that black students at UC Riverside graduate at a rate of 1.7 percent faster than their white counterparts. The study, completed by The Education Trust, analyzed graduation data from 676 nonprofit institutions in order to rank student college completion rates. Kenneth Simons, the...
To continue our coverage of UC Riverside’s 62 percent food insecurity rate, the Highlander sat down with Professor of Gender and Sexuality Tanya Rawal to discuss food scarcity, race and food security, as well as ideas for how students can be more active in solving issues related to hunger.
In addition to her prominent work as a pro-immigration activist...
On Monday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in HUB 302, the 48th Hays Press-Enterprise lecture commenced with guest speaker Bill Keller, current editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project and former New York Times correspondent, editor, executive editor and op-ed columnist. His lecture, “The News Media in the Age of Trump,” focused on lessons to be learned from President Donald Trump’s...
On Monday, March 6, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order titled, “Executive Order Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” which revokes and replaces Executive Order 13769 (“Travel Ban”) and allows permanent residents and green card holders to enter the country but bans non-U.S. citizens from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen...
Researchers at UC Riverside, in collaboration with Wenshou Wang at Shandong University in China, have unveiled their invention of a reusable paper coating. Using light, nanoparticles and Prussian blue ink, the researchers have concocted a coating that will enable people to reuse paper up to 80 times.
Speaking of the inspiration behind the invention, Yadong Yin, one of the...
A group of UCR researchers received a $5,112,000 five-year grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture toward their fight against Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening disease, a plant disease known to be fatal to citrus trees around the world.
“Huanglongbing (...) is a bacterial disease of plants, mostly citrus, and it infects...
From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, on-campus student group “Feed the People” protested food insecurity at UC Riverside where 62 percent of students go hungry. The organization hosted two professors as well as student speakers to voice their opinions and personal experiences with food insecurity.
After reviewing the definition of food and housing insecurity with...