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.
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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 South occurred back in Oct. 2014. In response, the SRC has launched #SaveTheTowels, an awareness campaign to curb the number of lost and stolen towels.
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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 funds for CALPIRG through a $2.50 fee charged to students each quarter, in addition to voluntary donations. After a prolonged discussion, the CALPIRG referendum failed...
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 University Avenue from Canyon Crest Drive when he was followed by two suspects in a vehicle. One of the suspects then exited the vehicle and...
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 of UC Riverside researchers one step closer to answering questions of early evolution and life on the planet.
Led by second-year earth science graduate student Scott...
The heat didn’t stop ASUCR party supporters from attending the recent executive cabinet (ECAB) debates, as cheers arose from the crowd of about 30 people. Candidates from Voice, PAC: Pride, Action, Change and CR vied for some of the highest positions in ASUCR, while issues of student pride, tuition hikes and transparency were popular discussion topics throughout.
The first to...
Between 15 and 20 students showed up at the Bell Tower to protest police killings and mass incarceration of minority youths on April 14 as part of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s “ShutDownA14” event, which occurred nationwide.
The action was meant to be a “shutdown,” where people walk out of their daily activities like school and work to “force more...
A Jewish group is calling for the cancellation of a UCR course, claiming that it meets the United States State Department's definition of anti-Semitism and holds an “anti-Israel bias.” The R’Course, entitled “Palestinian Voices,” is one of 11 student-led courses being taught this spring.
AMCHA Initiative, which describes itself as dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses, has alleged that...
Over 120 UC student health service doctors joined the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) — which represents and advocates for physicians across the nation — to go on strike again, from April 9-15, to protest allegedly unfair labor practices by the UC system. These claims include the UC increasing physicians’ contributions to pension funds without negotiating and...
The UC launched an online information center on April 15 which provides information regarding freshman admissions, alumni success rates and faculty statistics. According to a press release, this will be used to increase transparency throughout the UC system.
“When people explore UC's data, they will see what many of us already know: The university plays a major role in promoting...