On Wednesday, April 19, UC Berkeley canceled a planned speaking event by conservative commentator Ann Coulter, citing security concerns. Due to Coulter’s determination to speak, the event was later rescheduled, only to be canceled again on Wednesday, April 26, as Berkeley could not guarantee Coulter’s safety in the face of significant protest.
Berkeley’s cancellation of this speaking event due to...
New York state has recently unveiled the Excelsior Scholarship, a program that essentially covers tuition for students enrolled in the State University of New York system. As the first of its kind in the United States and definitely a promising step toward free college education, it is then worth questioning if something like this could be applied in California,...
On February 13, 2017, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a compilation video which revealed that Disney’s Maker Studios decided to end their partnership with mega-YouTuber, Felix Kjellberg (more widely known as “PewDiePie”), after the WSJ inquired how they felt about the prevalence of Nazi and anti-Semitic themes in his videos. The compilation video contains various clips from Kjellberg’s...
On Friday, March 31, much of the media’s attention was centered on the revelation that a strange body-swapping effect had stricken the world, most notably in the case of President Donald Trump taking over the body of Pope Francis. This, however, is not the only noteworthy case that UC Riverside community should be aware of. As was later revealed,...
A scathing report published Feb. 28 by UC Berkeley’s Daily Cal reveals at least 124 cases filed over the past three years involving University of California employees’ violations of the UC sexual violence and harassment policy. Documents obtained by the Daily Cal further detail the extent of this problem, showing repeated occurrences of unwanted sexual advances, inappropriate comments and...
Six Rubidoux High School educators — social science teacher Geoffrey Greer, art teacher Robin Riggle, science teacher Allen Umbarger, agriculture teacher Rhonda Fuller, science teacher Chuck Baugh and guidance counselor Patricia Crawford — are on paid leave after posting a number of astonishing, since-deleted remarks to their respective Facebook feed on Thursday, Feb. 16.
As you may recall, Feb....
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama and spiritual leader of Tibet, will be providing the commencement address at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) this year, and given his stature as a prominent political leader, his selection has received an immense welcoming from many undergraduate students. However, many Chinese students at UCSD aired grievances against his forthcoming appearance,...
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 a new policy by any means. In fact, Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama earned the nickname “Deporter in Chief” because of the record 2.5 million deportations...
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, hundreds of students assembled at UC Berkeley (UCB) to protest a speaking event planned by the school’s chapter of the College Republicans, which was to feature Milo Yiannopoulos, a major player in the so-called “alt-right” and editor for the right-wing Breitbart News. After these protests ended up degenerating into riots, which resulted in significant property...
President Donald Trump’s political career has been under a great deal of media scrutiny, beginning from when he announced his intention to run for the presidency. Faced with the overwhelming negative coverage of his lewd and misogynistic conversations about women, ridicule of a disabled reporter, the dismal attendance at his inauguration, as well as the backlash elicited by his...