Sammie Ayoub, a third-year political science and international affairs major, was at the center of a highly contentious discussion at the ASUCR senate meeting last Wednesday evening, when two students used public forum to make the senate aware of Ayoub’s alleged sexual misconduct during his time at Riverside City College (RCC).
Ayoub, who enrolled in UC Riverside this winter 2018...
Just after 2 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 25, a 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck and was centered west of the 15 Freeway between Lake Elsinore and Corona.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake had a depth of about six miles and occurred on the Elsinore Fault Zone. The Elsinore Fault is approximately 112 miles long with a slip-rate (the rate...
The ASUCR Judicial Council met for the third time since the beginning of spring quarter on Thursday, April 27 in the senate chambers, with the meeting beginning at 5:14 p.m.
The meeting began with the justices debating allocating $4,950 of student fees toward giving associate justices a stipend. Currently, Chief Justice Jo Gbujama is the only one on the court...
UC Riverside has launched R’Courses, a pilot program where undergraduates will be facilitating two-unit classes under the mentorship of a faculty member, which seeks to encourage discussion outside of a regular classroom environment. Ranging from “Disney: Race, Gender and Sexuality” to “Logic and Creativity,” nine official courses are available for open enrollment until the second week of spring quarter.....
Approximately 250 people gathered at Riverside City Hall on Sunday, August 13 to remember those lost to the August 12 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The rally, which was led by white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups to protest the dismantling of the city's long-standing Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue, left 19 injured and one woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer,...
Compiled by: Evan Ismail, SSW and Andreas Rauch, SSW
Several events occurred at a local, national and global stage throughout the 2016-17 school year that impacted the UCR community. Below we highlight and recap a few of the major events the News section’s Year in Review.
October 2017: Former U.S. Undersecretary of Education comes to campus
Ted Mitchell, now-former U.S. undersecretary of...
This past week, varying contingents within ASUCR executed a series of actions that could hold a significant impact on April’s upcoming 2017-18 elections.
As we reported two weeks ago, during the quarter’s second state of association meeting held Wednesday, Feb. 15, the senate unanimously approved amendments to the elections timeline which included moving the deadline for prospective candidates to submit...
The first senate meeting of spring quarter convened in the senate chambers on Wednesday, April 5 at 6:15 p.m.
Executive Vice President Wen-Yu Chou announced at the beginning of the meeting that Danielle Flores will be replacing now-graduated former CHASS Senator Connie Fan. Also, it was announced that CHASS Senator Ariel Chen’s voting rights had been revoked after receiving...
An email received by the Highlander at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, reveals that, during the 2014-15 academic year, leadership within the ASUCR political party side requested signatures on a noncompete agreement form from 2014-15 ASUCR Vice President of Campus Internal Affairs Fernando Echeverria.
Attached to the email was the Word document version of the form and an...
USHIP fraud targets students throughout the UC
On Thursday, April 20, the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) released a statement announcing the discovery of a fraud incident through its university-wide health care program, Undergraduate Student Health Insurance Plan (USHIP).
The fraud allegedly stole almost $12 million from the UC by writing counterfeit medical prescriptions in students’ names....