Last week’s ASUCR meeting witnessed the passage of a newly revised ASUCR Elections Code. The three major revisions consist of setting a minimum number of six representatives in the elections committee, allowing the option of a party registration for candidates during ASUCR senator elections and modifying certain details in the recall process.
The implementation of party registration will be an...
Following two weeks of online voting that ended Friday Feb. 17, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has endured a faculty-initiated vote of no confidence. The vote was prompted by the controversial pepper-spray incident at UC Davis where police, at Chancellor Katehi’s order, had confronted protesters.The victory was won by a landslide; 69 percent, or 697 of the 1,009...
Recent studies by a team of UCR cell biologists have led to new prospects in the field of colon cancer, which annually kills 50,000 people in the United States. In a collaboration with Australian researchers, the team recognized a key association between the variants in the “HNF4A” gene and the “Src kinase” protein, which may provide scientists with a...
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case which may potentially remove the right of public educational institutions to use race and ethnicity as a plus factor in admissions decisions. The case, which will not appear before the court until October, has prompted many concerns especially among advocates of affirmative action. These fears are largely fueled...
On March 2, UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy White is expected to vote for the approval of the controversial Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) expansion project. The plan has garnered backlash from local residents due to the fact that the facility, whose operations would include hazardous waste management, would be located within a quarter-mile of UC Riverside’s Child Development Center...
A recent study conducted by sociologists Jan E. Stets of UC Riverside and Michael J. Carter of Cal State Northridge has proposed a possible link between a person’s behavior and their moral standards. The study digresses from wide spread beliefs that center on the influence of cultural forces on one’s moral inclinations. The authors believe that their study may...
In an era where the Internet reigns supreme in the lives of the young adults, you see them everywhere. Just log into your Facebook or Tumblr account and you’ll see hundreds of the comic-like pictures. They are the memes—popular images and graphics that use various reoccurring themes to convey a humorous message viewers can often relate to.
Their origin can...
The Princeton Review has recognized UC Riverside as one of the top 150 colleges in the “Best Value Colleges for 2012” list. The criteria for the list includes an examination of an educational institution’s level of academics, distribution of financial aid and the cost of attendance. Despite increased tuition among UC schools, UC Riverside has remained affordable for many...
There is a growing dissatisfaction among full-time non-tenure track (FTNT) faculty members at colleges and universities, according to a recent study co-authored by UC Riverside Graduate School of Education Professor John S. Levin. The concerns regarding a lack of employment protection and roles in departmental decision-making has left FTNT instructors viewing themselves as foreigners and detached members of their university.
The...
UC students, like most university and college students across the country, are continuing to take out more loans in a pattern which experts believe may result in a “debt bomb” equivalent to the mortgage crisis in 2008. Whereas the mortgage crisis left many middle and lower income families in dire conditions, the disastrous consequences of the potential “debt bomb”...