Nearly 150 to 250 UCR students turned out for a protest on Nov. 18 as part of a systemwide “Day of Action” in response to UC President Janet Napolitano’s proposed tuition plan, which was voted on and approved by the UC Board of Regents two days after.
Organized by the ASUCR Office of External Affairs, UCR’s protest and class walkout...
Multiple campus student organizations led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A) of UCR organized a demonstration and candlelight vigil to stand in solidarity with 43 college students families who went missing on Sept. 26 in Iguala, Mexico.
The students, traveling from Tixtla to Iguala, planned to hijack buses for a protest when Iguala’s mayor Jose Luis Abarca allegedly sent...
Bernd Magnus, UCR professor emeritus of philosophy and Holocaust survivor, died Nov. 3. Magnus was born in Danzig, Germany where he and his family escaped the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen and moved to New York.
After earning his undergraduate degree at the City College of New York and his graduate degree at Columbia University, Magnus began teaching at UCR...
A coalition of UCR students protested UC President Janet Napolitano’s proposed tuition increases Tuesday. The demonstration began at the Bell Tower but moved outside Hinderaker Hall before finally resulting in a sit-in outside Chancellor Kim Wilcox’s office.
According to United Auto Workers Union (UAW) Local 2865 Recording Secretary Irene Morrison, the decision to move to Hinderaker Hall was a spontaneous...
Professor Emeritus of Zoology Wilbur “Bill” Mayhew, founding faculty member of both UC Riverside’s biology department and the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) — the world’s largest university-administered natural reserve system — passed away on Sept. 19 at the age of 94.
Mayhew first applied for a job at UC Riverside in 1953 and was hired as a parasitology instructor...
George Slusser, a co-founder of UCR’s Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, died Nov. 4 in his house in Highland, Calif. As a professor emeritus in comparative literature and the curator emeritus of the Eaton Collection, Slusser helped to make UCR a premier influence in science fiction.
Slusser earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, a Diplome d’Etudes Francaises...
The issue of rising tuition within the UC system was the main focus of last Wednesday’s senate meeting. Both President Nafi Karim and Vice President of External Affairs Abraham Galvan were vocal opponents of UC President Janet Napolitano’s proposed stability plan, which would hike UC tuition by up to 5 percent every year for five years.
Karim, reporting from a...
An opening ceremony was held last Thursday to celebrate the grand opening of UCR’s solar farm, the largest of its kind in the UC system. Located near the UCR community garden behind Lot 30, the solar farm seeks to reduce peak demand of electricity, while also helping improve clean energy production around UCR and the city of Riverside. The...
On Nov. 5, members of ASUCR postponed voting on a resolution that sought to ban the campuswide use of Yik Yak, the social media app which allows users to anonymously develop and view posts within a 1.5-mile-radius.
Delivered by President of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) Daniel Engels, the resolution calls for a joint IFC and ASUCR letter to be sent...
On the night of Nov. 7 at 7:35 p.m, fourth-year sociology and ethnic studies major Terry Liu was studying for a quiz in his Oban apartment near UC Riverside when he felt a sudden jolt. Little did he know that a 2.6-magnitude earthquake had struck Loma Linda, which was followed by two aftershocks in the 1.0 to 2.0 range,...