The Riverside City Council has unanimously approved a moratorium on Nov. 5, that will prevent homeowners from adding more rooms in single-family housing for 45 days. During a public meeting, council members argued that the restriction is geared at investors, who may illegally rent out “cut-ups” — rooms that are divided or expanded to make additional bedrooms — within...
Standing at 80-feet tall, a bright red streetcar made a pit stop between Main and Orange Street on Thursday, Nov. 7. Back in early October, the Riverside City Council acquired a $237,000 state grant to pay for a one-year feasibility study by Riverside Reconnects, which would determine whether the electric or light rail vehicle can connect downtown Riverside to...
The UC Board of Regents meeting is convening from Nov.12-14 at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay. Here are a few highlights to look forward to this week:
UC Student Association President Kareem Aref plans to speak on behalf of system-wide campaigns such as Fossil-free UC, Jobs! and IGNITE.
UCOP will address ways to provide competitive financial support for doctoral students,...
ASUCR President seeks to develop UCR mobile app
ASUCR President Sai Patadia has proposed a project to condense information about campus resources and activities through a free UCR mobile application.
With a beta version scheduled for release in early December, the app will include information from various departments including the athletics department, Orbach and Rivera Libraries, Transportation and Parking Services, and...
The passage of two resolutions brought forth by the Legislative Review Committee (LRC) highlighted last Monday’s ASUCR senate meeting. After some complications with the editing of the resolutions, 14 senators present at the meeting unanimously passed a resolution to expand access to higher education for underrepresented students, as well as another resolution to recognize UC unions’ collective bargaining effort...
Since its launch in mid-September, the crowdfunding campaign known as “Promise for Education” has raised over $1.25 million in donations that will be used to support undergraduate scholarships in the UC system. The campaign asked supporters of the UC system to make any promise they wished, raise funds online and follow through on their pledges if the donations were...
For the past five months, UC campus and hospital workers of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299 have been on strike in hopes of negotiating a “fair contract” with UC executives. According to AFSCME 3299, the UC system implemented “drastic cuts” on 8,000 of the universities’ lowest paid workers, and 12,000 patient care workers.
With...
Marking the fourth meeting of the fall quarter, the ASUCR senate approved the passage of two resolutions: one to create a “sanctuary” for undocumented UC students and another to revise UCR policies on the assembly of 25 or more individuals on campus.
Senators support greater freedom of expression on campus
Young Americans for Liberty President Ben Roden authored a resolution entitled,...
In her first major speech since being appointed President of the University of California (UC), Janet Napolitano promised to allocate a total of $15 million to initiatives that would support three groups in the UC campus: undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. The funds would be distributed equally — $5 million apiece — to each of the three...
UC Riverside professors Dr. Naveen Reddy and Dr. Bahram Mobasher, in collaboration with astronomers from three other institutions, have found what is not only the most distant galaxy in the universe but also the oldest known to date.
Part of the success of finding the galaxy, z8-GND-5296, came from utilizing the new multi-object infrared instrument MOSFIRE at the KECK Observatory...