UCR must keep solicitors from disrupting the reason students are here: Education
On the walkways surrounding the bell tower, the HUB and other areas on and near campus, leafleters, canvassers and other forms of solicitors frequently set up shop and ask for students’ time, donations, signatures...
Editorial: Aggression of the few overpowers message of the many
Last week, UCR played host to the University of California’s first major student protest since peaceful activists at Davis were pepper sprayed by UC police in November. Many hoped that the demonstrations, which took...
Editorial: Divestment puts student participation on full display
By now, every student has heard the critiques before. We’re lazy. We’re entitled. We don’t want to take our eyes off our Facebooks or our butts off our couches. Yeah, we know.
UCR students have...
Editorial: Shake up ASUCR
This year’s ASUCR elections have finally drawn to a close. Finally.
Most national elections are not about issues. Instead, they’re about personalities or scandals as candidates bring out the big guns to nuke their opponents...
Covering the “alt-right” is a necessary evil
As our country’s political and social climate becomes more strenuous by the day, media outlets are faced with a unique problem: Their coverage can bestow power on hateful extremist groups.
This summer we saw a...
Editorial: Students can take the initiative to create a college town
It was in every college movie. Surely all of us saw it because it was one of those “expected” perks about a university we were all looking forward to: the college town.
After arduous hours...
UCR’s “Cool School” ranking paves the way for future sustainability projects
UCR recently placed 27th out of 201 universities in the Sierra Club’s “Cool School” ranking system. This ranking scores each participating university on sustainability, giving points for factors such as the degree of divestment...
The University of California does itself a disservice by outsourcing jobs
The goal of the UC system, per its own mission statement, is to educate Californians in order to benefit the California economy by creating an educated workforce. It comes as a shock, then, that...
Editorial: Colleges overestimate the importance of rankings
The real-world value of college rankings has long been disputed amongst the individuals and institutions they affect. Some claim that rankings oversimplify the very complicated process of evaluating a school’s net worth, while others...
Make the UC great again; Trump for UC President
First and foremost, the president of the University of California’s duty is to shape the vision — the mission statement — for the university system by working with the UC Board of Regents and...