This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we lament the last throes of Spring Break, debate what comments made by UC President Janet Napolitano regarding student protestors mean and highlight the approval of a UCR-based food pantry.
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UCR Professor of Cetology Captain Ahab has been awarded a $5 million grant by the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) based in Japan. The grant will be used to support the professor’s five-year voyage to hunt the legendary sperm whale Moby Dick, who was responsible for over 30 shipwrecks last year.
Approximately $3 million went to purchase a world-class vessel...
Three students were held at gunpoint by two pirates at the mouth of the Colorado River at 11:30 p.m. on March 26. Out for a refreshing moonlit swim to the C, the students had nowhere to hide their booty and felt that they were “at the mercy of the pirates who were lurking nearby.”
Ron Chee, a first-year swag studies...
ASUCR voted last Wednesday to allocate more than $50,000 for free life vests for the student body to prevent drowning while navigating UCR’s waterlogged campus.
UCR has seen 134 drownings in the past year, according to UCR Director of Media Relations Kris Lovefin. These drownings are caused by students swimming while distracted, and are accompanied by hundreds of students dropping...
Last Friday, billionaire and UCR alumnus Andrew Ryan announced plans to drain the campus and create a libertarian utopia, where state funding would be culled and UCR could exist as a “free market bubble where capitalism is king.”
Delivering his presentation from the diving bell at the base of the Bell Tower, Ryan outlined “Project Rapture,” which aims to transfer...
The Child Development Center (CDC) Building A was shut down last week due to a piranha infestation. University experts will work on clearing the infestation, and it should open in about six weeks or 7-8 months, whenever the CDC decides on a solid date.
Building A houses children ages three to five and provides schooling at the preschool and kindergarten...
UC President Janet Napolitano met with key leaders of higher education from Feb. 26 to 27 in Ensenada, Mexico. The meeting is the first formal gathering for the advisory board of the UC-Mexico Initiative, whose goals are to strengthen UC-Mexico relations. UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox and other administrators are leading the 2014 initiative to increase faculty and student exchanges,...
The city of Riverside recently completed an expansive construction project along University Avenue and Canyon Crest Drive to make it safer and more accessible for pedestrians and bicyclists traveling through those areas.
According to Superintendent of Transportation and Parking Services Andy Stewart, construction for the project started last summer, and its final stages were finished in December 2014. The city...
A state bill aims to cap executive compensation at $500,000 and save $80 million per year through reforms sought by Gov. Jerry Brown. AB 837 is being sponsored by Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina) and supported by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the largest trade unions representing public employees nationwide.
“Less spending on...
The application deadline to run in the 2015 ASUCR elections has been extended from Feb. 27 to March 13 due to a pending judicial decision regarding a candidate. This allows time for potential candidates to form a party, change their candidacy or party affiliation, or apply for candidacy if they are interested in running in elections.
According to Elections Director...