UC Davis pepper-spray cop wins $38,000 settlement
On Oct. 16, former UC Davis police lieutenant, John Pike, received a worker’s compensation of $38,000 from the University of California, after citing depression and anxiety from a 2011 Davis demonstration. Pike gained notoriety...
ONE SPOT OPEN ON THE JUDICIAL BRANCH
Senators debate whether to give the Judicial Branch the power of impeachment and face allegations of misconduct and discrimination by an unappointed Judicial Branch candidate.
Members of ASUCR unanimously approved a revised Elections Code bylaw...
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UCR economics professor receives $70,000 grant
UCR associate professor Steven Helfand has been awarded $70,000 from the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The money will be used to research the efficacy of...
Riverside city ordinance enforces sterilization of pit bulls
On Oct. 22, the Riverside City Council passed an ordinance mandating the spaying and neutering of pit bulls and pit bull mixes who are over the age of four months. The new law is...
ASUCR President Patadia discusses the ‘Sustaining the C’ project
The big concrete letter C on top of the Box Spring Mountains has long been a hallmark of UC Riverside. The constructed letter, built from 1954 to 1957, was kept intact by the continuing...
Senators struggle to approve judicial branch
On Oct. 14, ASUCR senators voted to delay the approval of the Judicial Branch by a simple majority of 8-4-2 due to limited knowledge about each justice. The senators considered going into closed session...
Drunk student involved in collision with police car
On the morning of Oct. 12, 2013, a drunk driver was arrested after slamming his white four-door Lexus into the side of a UC Police Department patrol car. According to the UCPD, an on-duty...
UCR participates in worldwide earthquake drill
UCR students, faculty and staff were part of an estimated 9.6 million Californians who participated in the sixth annual Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on the morning of Oct. 17. Organized by the Earthquake...
The Lab: Research from UCR and the UC system
Young people are more prone to bad financial decisions than older people, according to a recent study conducted by Assistant Professor Ye Li and his colleagues at UC Riverside’s School of Business Administration (SoBA).
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State law allows more non-physicians to perform abortions
On Oct. 9, Gov. Jerry Brown expanded access to abortion for California women by signing AB 154, a bill that allows certified nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives to perform surgical abortion during the...