Presidential debates conclude ASUCR campaigns
Intense cheers arose throughout the audience of 40 packed with supporters from the political parties Voice and PAC: Pride, Action, Change at the ASUCR presidential debates. Presidential candidates President Pro Tempore Devin Plazo from...
UCR English professor awarded Fulbright Scholar Award
UCR English professor Adriana Craciun has been awarded the Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2015-2016 school year. The award will consist of a one-year professorship at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to support Craciun’s...
Former UCR history professor passes away
Robert Hine, a former UCR history professor, passed away on March 27 at the age of 90. The professor gained fame from his research on California’s utopian communities and his memoir “Second Sight,” which...
Yik Yak shooting threat hoax leaves students shaken up
UC Riverside student Anton Shirokov, 29, has been taken into custody after admitting to posting a threat of violence on the popular social media app Yik Yak last night between the hours of 9...
Wiz Khalifa cancels Spring Splash; to be replaced by Flosstradamus
Spring Splash headliner Wiz Khalifa has cancelled his scheduled performance on May 2. According to the Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) — the group who organizes the concert — the artist plans to perform...
Highlander Newsroom 04/22/15
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we gush over the Food Truck Festival, explore the travesty of the stolen towels from the Student Recreation Center, and critique UCR's methods of protesting.
Be sure to catch...
Student Recreation Center loses thousands of towels due to theft
The UCR Student Recreation Center (SRC) is home to many things — an Olympic-sized pool, freshly painted tennis courts and most of all, towels, thousands of which have disappeared since the expansion of SRC...
ASUCR Senate: CALPIRG referendum causes debate
At the ASUCR meeting last week, a lengthy debate occurred over the addition of a referendum which sought to increase funding for the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG). The referendum intended to raise...
On-campus robbery sparks creation of safety committee
A campus committee on safety has been proposed after a student was injured in an attempted armed robbery near the Arts Building on Monday, April 13.
At around 8:20 p.m., a student was walking toward...
UCR paleontologists unearth missing part of ancient fossils
What did the first multicellular animals of early Earth resemble? A recent discovery that specimens of the fossil Dickinsonia were fragmented due to being lifted off the seafloor by ancient currents propelled a team...