Editorial: Dear First-Year Highlander: The Water’s Fine
A student’s first week on campus can be summed up as a sensory overload-induced daze. If it weren’t for some merciful professors’ generous first-day-of-class syllabus review to buffer the summer slog from the quarter...
Editorial: Prop 34 – Repeal the death penalty
Our justice system isn’t infallible. Since 1973, 140 people have been found innocent and released from death rows in 26 states. Nationally, at least one person is exonerated for every 10 that are executed....
Editorial: Improving the college commencement
What is college all about? Of course there’s the preparation for entering society as a full-fledged adult. That’s what taking classes and doing research is for: Eventually, you become an expert in your area...
Editorial: Tuition plan is Janet Napolitano’s proving ground
Only one year into her first year as UC president, Janet Napolitano is facing her most difficult challenge yet. It’s not about passing her much talked-about tuition plan, though — it’s taking on the...
Editorial: No more bystanding — students must help end sexual assault
President Obama recently announced that the White House was forming a task force to protect college women from what he called “the crime and the outrage of sexual violence.”
“I want every young man in...
Editorial: UC students show strength while facing endings
It was a moving sight to see.
Over a thousand students, stretched from the Bell Tower to nearly Olmsted Hall, all holding candles, gathered to celebrate the lives prematurely taken from our sister school at...
Editorial: Fall 2014: Gone but not forgotten
The last week of classes is finally here. For first-years, the anticipation is new, a feeling of excitement mixed with nervous energy as the last day of finals draws inexorably closer. Other students who...
Editorial: UC’s smoking ban protects students
The state of California is well known for working to ensure the public health of its citizens. Before the United States passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, California had already acted to curb...
Editorial: Chancellor White a loss for UCR, but greater gain for California
Come December, Chancellor Timothy White will leave our university to assume his new role as chancellor of the California State University system. His impending departure has come as a shock to students, faculty and...
Editorial: Campus space can be made more open and inviting
UCR has recently announced a series of workshops to discuss student feelings toward the overall design of the campus, intending to gauge students’ investment in the layout of the campus, as well as giving...