On Tuesday, Jan. 5, President Obama gave a speech at the White House addressing gun violence in the U.S. The president outlined executive actions that he purports will help reduce gun violence, including improving the background check system, funding mental health facilities and developing safer gun technology.
Obama was introduced by Mark Barden, father of Daniel Barden, 7, who died...
This week’s ASUCR senate meeting saw the appointment of Melina Reyes as the new ASUCR elections director for the 2015-2016 school year.
Mahera Khan, a fourth-year sociology major, was also selected as the first director of transfer and nontraditional students for the first time in ASUCR history. This position was created after the student body voted to include the position...
UCR physics and astronomy researcher Miguel Aragon-Calvo has created a 3-D printed model of the cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe. By using this model, Aragon-Calvo hopes to understand galaxy formation, particularly how gas particles accumulate into galaxies through gravity in a method called...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about our winter break and New Years Resolutions, the Corinthian Colleges scandal and the 2016 Coachella lineup.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m., only on KUCR 88.3 FM.
In many respects, social media has provided an incredible gateway for the mass publicization of global issues. As a result, people have resorted from tweeting and participating in social media campaigns such as the 2014 #BringBackOurGirls campaign in response to the Boko Haram kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls. However, such social media activism — also known as “slacktivism” —...
On Friday, Dec. 11, members from the HUB Governing Board voted unanimously to overturn their prior decision to cancel the Heat music festival and possibly reschedule it for spring quarter. This decision followed a similar vote to overturn the HUB decision, which was made by ASUCR on Dec. 2 to overturn Heat’s cancellation. In order to finalize the decision...
Inland Southern California has added 4,600 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis for the month of November and 7,400 non-farm jobs the month of October.
The numbers above were collected by the University of California, Riverside’s School of Business Administration, which releases an economic report on the third Friday of each month that provides a gauge of the employment statistics...
On Dec. 3, 2015, the Department of Education announced that it was offering $27.8 million in student debt relief to around 1,300 students who attended Heald College, a chain of campuses under the now-defunct for-profit college system Corinthian Colleges Inc., which includes Everest and WyoTech Colleges. The investigation and subsequent filing of bankruptcy by Corinthian Colleges Inc. resulted in...
The director of UCR’s School of Business Administration Center for Economic Forecasting and Development, Christopher Thornberg, has discussed the likely implications of the Federal Reserve’s increase in its short-term interest rates on American families.
For the first time since December 2008, the Fed has chosen to raise its short-term interest rates. These interest rates will now be set at a...
Professor to give talk on U.S. as a nation of immigrants
On Thursday, Jan. 14, Mai Ngai – professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American studies at Columbia University — will give a lecture titled, “The United States as a Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea.” The lecture will be held at INTS 1113...