November 2016 marks the next major election and is set to feature a few new measures and potentially many more to be voted on on the California ballot alone. Some of these possible items include the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes, the overturning of mandatory vaccinations, raising the minimum wage and reduced transgender rights.
Current Ballot Items
Three referendums already...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about The President of Ghana's speech at UCR, dining cuts and UCR's new athletic director, Tamica Smith Jones.
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.
On November 12, UCR students will take part in a national day of protest called the Million Student March alongside several UC campuses and various other colleges and universities from states across the country. The march is meant to collectively demand tuition-free public college, a cancellation of all student debt and a $15/hr campus-wide minimum wage at every college...
Last Thursday, UCR’s new School of Public Policy hosted Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin at the Center for Environmental Research (CE-CERT) building off campus. Hestrin lectured on the rising crime in Riverside County. According to the district attorney, a combination of imperfect legislation and a lack of resources are responsible for the rising crime rate.
Hestrin’s presentation asserted that...
On the October 1 broadcast of Conan O’Brien’s late night talk show and in observance of World Vegetarian Day, an engineering team from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering was mentioned in his opening monologue for their research on a lithium-ion battery anode powered by portobello mushrooms.
The research was published September 29 in the journal, “Nature Scientific Reports.” The paper,...
The Perris Valley Line will begin running Metrolink test trains in October on upgraded tracks at the bottom of Big Springs Mountain, banning hikers from entering the Big Springs Road entrance to the “Big C” hiking trail and other popular hiking trails nearby.
This 24-mile commuter line began construction in October 2013 and will be completed this December. The newly...
Louis Santiago, a UCR associate professor of physiological ecology will begin a two-year project to study the effects of extreme drought conditions on shrubs and trees after receiving a grant totaling $187,165 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
California is in its fourth year of drought, which has caused a swift and immeasurable increase in vegetation mortality and is leading...
The Green Action Campus Plan (GCAP) together with R’Garden will be hosting free fall movie nights starting October 8, at 7 p.m. in the campus’ community garden. The series promises to showcase films that are “a mix of kid friendly movies and documentaries with themes of sustainability and food.”
The first movie to be shown is the French-Italian animated movie...
$6.89 million was approved at a September 15 meeting between the UC Regents and Chancellor Wilcox and his team to fund the preliminary phase of construction for a new research building known as the Multidisciplinary Research Building 1, or MRB1. The initial phase or phase 1 activities of the project will include procuring a competent design team and conducting...
UCR Dining Services has reduced their meal perk program for student workers from $10 to $5 in order to save on costs from the old program. According to Dining Executive Director Cheryl Garner, this reduction allows the department to continue hiring and scheduling shifts for the 900 students it has employed in recent years.
In the past, students who were...