Over a dozen students from various California State University campuses initiated a hunger strike last Thursday, May 3. As of Sunday, May 6, the hunger strike participants had yet to consume any food, although they were provided with vegetable juice.
The students, who hail from campuses such as CSU Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, Sacramento and San Bernardino, have...
During last week’s ASUCR senate meeting and internal elections, senators discussed an unprecedented ban on off-campus campaigning and voted on the next ASUCR executive cabinet and officers. “There’s going to be no sense of…physical campaigning, any kind of explicit forms of it, off-campus outside of the campus loop,” stated Elections Chair Jonathan Mansoori.
On Thursday, internal elections concluded with...
UC Riverside scientists have created three varieties of avocado rootstocks that are able to overcome the fatal Phytophthora root rot disease (PRR). “The pathogen infects the feeder roots of the avocado tree so the trees cannot uptake water and nutrients and causes the trees to die. The disease is a significant problem in most avocado production areas globally,” stated...
UC Riverside has been recognized by “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition” for its green practices. The guide, which was released April 17 and includes a profile of each school’s progress in sustaining a green campus, stated that in the areas of “academics, buildings, energy and climate, food, procurement, recycling and waste management, sites, transportation,...
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of the University of California recently announced that it would participate in the largest HIV prevention pill test in the United States. The CHRP will divide $11.8 million to medical groups including three UC campuses—UC Los Angeles, UC San Francisco and UC San Diego—to help curb the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in California.
“HIV has...
ASUCR elections have concluded with the passage of all three referenda items—ASUCR constitutional substitution, ASPB fee referendum and theater free referendum—and all 20 senate positions filled by CR candidates. The goal of 20 percent student voting rates was exceeded with a total of 27.5 percent student participation (4693 votes).
“The 27.5 percent turnout for the ASUCR elections was remarkable! It...
A group of top UC administrators, including UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and former UC Provost C. Judson King, have published a report calling for increased autonomy for UC campuses. The report urges the UC regents to consider the implementation of individual campus governing boards that would be able to determine their own tuition and out-of-state student enrollment rates—decisions...
A measure that would replace capital punishment with a life sentence without the possibility of parole has qualified for California’s November ballot. The growing number of individuals who want to repeal the state’s capital punishment law claim that the process is expensive and that execution process is too long, resulting in only a handful of executions being carried out.
According...
On April 19, Lieutenant Matthew Carmichael was sworn into office as the UC Davis interim police chief in succession of retired Police Chief Annette Spicuzzi. Spicuzzi resigned just a week after the release of the highly critical UC Davis task force report, which reprimanded the miscommunication within the administration and the breakdown in police protocol in response to student...
In protest of plans to build a Whole Foods Market and senior housing facility on a portion of UC Berkeley-owned land, members of the Occupy movement have established numerous tent encampments on the property. On Sunday, April 22 (Earth Day), about 200 protesters marched onto the undeveloped tract of land and began to plow, de-weed and plant thousands of...