UCR Dining should better cater to halal dietary restrictions
UCR Dining has recently attempted to address the growing concerns of Muslim students about the campus’s limited sources for halal food. This issue was made worse when Chronic Tacos replaced Habaneros in the HUB...
UC prison divestment is a half-hearted, face-saving gesture
Recently, the University of California system divested from California's private prisons, selling approximately $25 million in shares from several of these corporations. This comes after a period of protest by students across the UC...
Subjectivity in recent ICE raids set a dangerous precedent
In the course of one week, 678 people in 12 states were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Immigration enforcement is not...
Editorial: Obama’s Immigration Act Needs Further Legislation
President Obama has issued an executive order which will temporarily halt the deportation of young undocumented immigrants. Under this policy, exemption will apply to undocumented immigrants who are high school graduates, returning war veterans...
Editorial: UCR’s protest guidelines unfairly restrict students’ rights
In what can only be characterized as a vast overreaction to the Occupy Davis and Berkeley protests, both of which were marred by police violence, UCR administrators released a list of official “protest guidelines”...
Increased population better mean increased resources for students
After the final due date of Nov. 30, the number of undergraduate applicants was counted and revealed promising results for UCR: For the first time in our school’s history, UCR received over 50,000 applications;...
Editorial: Big-name websites threaten blackout to protest SOPA
There is growing concern among many in the online community that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a US bill that would give the government power to block websites that violate copyright laws, is...
Editorial: Obama’s community college plan nice, but too big, too late
Issues concerning the rising tuition of higher education and how they might be mended have yet to stop floating in the air around every politician’s head, many of whom are forced to at least...
Sanders’ and Clinton’s visits fortify Riverside’s significance in the California primaries
Last Tuesday, Democratic Party presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton held rallies in the Riverside area, the former in downtown Riverside, and the latter on UCR’s campus itself. These visits are a huge...
Editorial: Frustration should lead to the voting booth
We’ve all heard it. “I care, but my vote really doesn’t matter.” We’ve heard it in Rivera library, in Starbucks, in class, at the HUB. In a time of uncertain job prospects, disastrous cuts...