UC Board of Regents: ‘5 percent is not enough’
UC President Janet Napolitano is blazing a trail for several initiatives, which includes, but is not limited to: reducing the UC Office of the President’s (UCOP) budget by 6.5 percent, finalizing contract agreements with...
Senators pass amendments to 2013-14 Elections Code
After a long night of debate at the Jan. 22 ASUCR senate meeting, senators unanimously ratified the new 2013-14 Elections Code, which aims to establish fair competitions in future general elections. The climax of...
Student petition condemns truncated winter break
UC Riverside will be shortening the length of winter break from three weeks to two this upcoming school year as a direct response to a UC policy requiring universities to change their academic calendars...
UC to reduce water usage amid drought emergency
In light of Gov. Brown’s recent drought emergency proclamation, the UC Office of the President (UCOP) announced its goal to reduce water use per capita across the UC by 20 percent by the year...
Divestment debates begin in ASUCR senate
During the special report portion of last Wednesday’s ASUCR senate meeting, a student representative gave a 15-minute presentation questioning the justice of a student-led divestment campaign that calls for the UC administration to cut...
ASUCR senators propose diversity council for UCR
A group of ASUCR senators is working to bring representatives from various ethnic and gender programs together in a diversity council that supporters say would give the programs greater representation in ASUCR and enable...
Guest lecturer of Palestinian research met with criticism
Palestinian civil rights activist Omar Barghouti visited UC Riverside last Tuesday afternoon to give a 30-minute lecture about pressing issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The lecture was met with criticism from a few attendees,...
The Lab: Research from around the UC
Island habitat linked to tameness in lizards
UCR professor Theodore Garland and two other researchers have published a study that confirms that island-dwelling lizards take longer to flee from predators than their mainland counterparts, a...
UCR sees growth in freshman applications
UC undergraduate admissions offices across the 10 campuses reported a total of 6.2 percent system increase in freshman applicants for the 2014 fall quarter — an increase of 8,692 students as compared to last...
UCR receives grants for expanding online research database
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation and expansion of academic knowledge in literature and art, recently awarded a grant of $405,000 to UC Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies...