This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about Margaret Cho, the start of the R'Pantry and homelessness among students and finals week.
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Water experts Celeste Cantu, Joe Grindstaff, John Rossi and Doug Headrick convened on Wednesday May 27 to discuss the state of California’s water supply and measures being implemented in response to the California drought in a seminar entitled “Water: Impact of the Drought and New Regulations on Inland Southern California.”
The seminar was one of many in the Lewis Randall...
Success in Science & Technology: Engagement with Role-Models(SISTERS), a program initiated by the College of Natural and Agricultural Science Ambassadors, seeks to improve the amount of women in the science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program, initiated in November, has 50 University Heights middle school students meet monthly with their mentor and bimonthly with a female faculty member...
After a month filled with a laptopping scandal, the controversial removal of two justices, censure of two ECAB officials and allegations of bias by the elections committee, ASUCR — under the alleged pressure of administration — has allowed the elected senate to take their seats for the 2015-16 school year.
The majority of the ASUCR senate is dominated by the...
Bioarchaeologist and UCR professor Sara Becker and colleague Sonia Alconini from the University of Texas at San Antonio have discovered evidence of political torture among the Pre-Columbian Tiwanaku civilization in Bolivia. Their findings were published in the latest issue of “Latin American Antiquity” and offers an understanding of political exchange and strategy used to assert power within the Tiwanaku.
Becker...
Lead researchers of The Immortality Project — a collaborative philosophical, scientific and theological project that seeks to explore questions relating to immortality — presented the outlines of their research to the public at the Culver Art Center last Friday. This came amid the project’s capstone conference, closed to the public and open only to scholars, that was held at...
UC to decide to adopt State Department’s definition of anti-semitism
On May 25, over 57 rabbis and 104 UC faculty members wrote a public letter to administrators to adopt the controversial U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-semitism, which includes statements such as “denying Israel the right to exist.”
The letter states that campus administrators “should be trained in using the State...
ASUCR senators convened in the senate chambers last Wednesday for the last meeting of the school year. Among the 12 items up for discussion was the amendment of the election codes to combat the controversial campaigning practice known as laptopping. Later in the meeting, city councilman Andy Melendrez and Head of City Planning David Murray discussed the progress on...
UCR history professor Catherine Gudis spoke to the BBC Persian television station to discuss the impact of McDonald's on American culture. As a 20th century U.S. cultural scholar who specializes in consumer culture, Gudis focused on the labor industry and practices which allowed the company to succeed and influence the food market in California’s Central Valley
McDonalds, which began as...
Around 20 UCR and UCSB students trekked to Bakersfield, CA, last Wednesday to demand a meeting with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and to protest his support for billions in proposed cuts to student aid at his office. The demonstration, organized by the United States Student Association (USSA), lasted for approximately three hours and culminated in police arriving and...