UCR’s Office of Sustainability will be hosting Earth Week, an annual weeklong celebration to raise awareness about the Earth, the environment and how to protect them. Earth Day itself is scheduled for Tuesday (April 22), but the weeklong event will be open to members of the campus community and the public from April 19-26.
Currently there are seven events planned...
On April 15, UCR students met in HUB 379 for “The Importance of Unity,” a debate on affirmative action in the UC system. Students discussed state constitutional amendment 5 (SCA 5), an amendment to California’s constitution which would allow public institutions of higher education to take race and ethnicity into consideration when accepting students. The debate was introduced by...
About $20,000 worth of equipment was stolen from a contractor at UCR last week.
The theft took place sometime between April 12-14 at the Agricultural Operations facilities on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
As of presstime, no details have been provided about what equipment was actually stolen. According to the UCPD, no arrests have been made as the investigation is ongoing.
With nearly 50 senatorial candidates running in the upcoming elections, independents and a handful of members from each political party — SIDE, ABC: A Better Choice and Vox Populi — spoke during last Monday’s debates. Torn posters from each ASUCR political party became a topic of contention, when ABC party member and senatorial candidate Ben Roden called out SIDE...
On April 15, members from the political parties ABC: A Better Choice and SIDE held a candidate endorsement hearing to drum up support from individual students and student organizations in the galley. ASUCR senator Tin Dinh served as master of ceremonies for the event and set the ground rules for how the information session and Q-and-A portion would be...
Out of the record 183,272 students who applied to the University of California this past year, 86,865 students have been offered admission to the UC for fall 2014, according to UCOP. The record number of admitted students also includes more Californians, Latinos and international students than ever before.
“We are honored to extend admissions offers to this accomplished and diverse...
Two female students were victims of possible attempted abductions that occurred on the evening of Saturday, April 12, near Big Springs Road. UCPD detectives, receiving descriptions from the victims, released sketches of the alleged assailants, in hopes of receiving more information from the public.
On the night of the incident, police responded to a call from a female student reportedly...
UC President Janet Napolitano held another Google Hangout session last week. This time, the UC president conversed with UC staff members, answering questions from different UC representatives.
Napolitano first began the session by answering an inquiry regarding staff salaries. According to her, staff members are currently being paid different wages for doing the same type or amount of work throughout...
The cost of UCR’s student health insurance plan (SHIP) is expected to rise from $348 to $464 per quarter for undergraduates and from $898 to $987 per quarter for graduates come fall quarter of 2014-15. Under a revised contract with health insurance provider Aetna, SHIP will allow UCR students to be fully insured under dental, vision and health insurance,...
Early last week, UC Riverside’s Eaton Collection welcomed the rare 17th century utopian book called “Civitas Solis” or “City of the Sun.” Long sought after by Head of Special Collections Melissa Conway, this first-edition book was acquired with the help of a $54,000 grant from the Breslauer foundation, a New York-based institution that awards funds to U.S. libraries that collect...