Over 50 members of the UCR community hustled over to the Highlander Union Building (HUB) Plaza to watch the ASUCR presidential debates last Tuesday. Drawing a comparably larger crowd than last year, the event was moderated by the KUCR radio station and the Highlander’s Managing Editor Colin Markovich, who asked about issues of campus crime, four-year graduation rates and...
Senators approved two internal allocations: $17,868.50 for HUB renovation, which seeks to create a separate and much larger lobby area for the ASUCR front desk and waiting area; and $22,950 in Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) funding for the expansion of two solar benches, which is being pulled from the senate reserve funds.
Vice President of Finance Janice Tang explained that...
BCOE Senator Sean Fahmian criticized CHASS Senator Nafi Karim for failing to deliver sufficient snacks to students during finals week of last quarter — as part of the snack wagon initiative — revealing early tensions between the two presidential candidates in the 2014-15 elections season.
During the public forum period, Leo Torres, a fourth-year bioengineering major and the president of...
A pair of UCR faculty and staff members passed away in the span of one week earlier this month. On Feb. 16, it was reported that Laura Abbot, an academic coordinator in biology, had died after a car accident. Six days later, it was revealed that UCR professor emeritus of plant pathology and microbiology, Dr. Donald Erwin, also passed...
UC Riverside is now offering free or low-cost parking to visitors attending academic, outreach, student or cultural events on campus.
Free or low-cost parking is only available for student recruitment and outreach programs, colloquia, symposia, lectures, student club meetings, cultural and public service events. Campus departments will determine parking and other service requirements and may submit a request to include...
UCR professor of cell biology Dr. Prue Talbot and her team discovered the chemicals used to refill electronic vapor cigarettes (e-cigarettes) may be more harmful than tobacco cigarettes. Her team discovered that electronic vapor requires a consumer to take deeper breaths which may potentially draw in harmful chemicals to fragile parts of the lungs, as opposed to a tobacco...
Watch the Highlander's livestream of ASUCR's presidential debates on our YouTube page at youtube.com/ucrchannelh:
The Highlander's managing editor Colin Markovich will be moderating the event, asking candidates questions about their goals should they be elected.
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During his town hall on Feb 19, Chancellor Kim Wilcox announced the launch of “Finish-in-Four,” a pilot campaign seeking to increase UCR students’ four-year graduation rate, which has remained nearly the same at around 40 percent over the past 20 years. Another notable initiative includes joining the planned University Innovation Alliance, a consortium with 10 other prestigious research universities...
The UC Student-Worker Union (UAW 2865) — consisting of 12,000 UC teaching assistants (TA), graduate student instructors and undergraduate tutors — held its “Week of Visibility” event earlier this month to bring to light ongoing contract negotiations between the UC and the union, which is seeking greater protections and benefits for members who are undocumented, student parents, transgender or...
After failing to reach a contract deal with the University of California, UC union AFSCME 3299 announced last week that it will go on strike once again. The union announced on Feb. 20 that its 8,300 service workers will hold a five-day strike from March 3 through March 7 after 96 percent of its members voted in favor of...