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: UCR sets the stage for other university concerts with innovative shows
Crowds, bodies pressed together, loud bass, and the next rising artist is always the situation you meet when you enter a UC Riverside concert — the concerts, famously known to draw in a large...
Editorial: Student input should be made on new changes to the UC Calendar
There is a time for passivity and a time for action.
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The article incorrectly stated that a new policy was established to shift the...
Editorial: Yale students punished unfairly after providing a better course site
Yale University has made it clear that students’ right to explore the Internet is far less important than its command of authority over students.
In January 2012, two Yale students, Harry Yu and Peter Xu,...
Editorial: Taboo topics should be open for discussion at universities
Does the topic of sex make you uncomfortable? How about prostitution? Or how about when a professor takes it into her own hands to explain prostitution by using students as examples?
Year after year, a...
Editorial: Standardized testing has created standardized students with useless skills
In the last decade, we have become obsessed with evaluating and reevaluating the success of our students. With the United States slipping further and further behind the rest of the world, politicians have decided...
Editorial: The UC system should follow its own mission statement
Grade school has taught us valuable skills for us to obtain information faster and reiterate what we know on a test. These skills were ingrained in us as children so that we could take...
Editorial: A quarter to remember and the year 2014 to look forward to
As the year of 2013 comes to a close, we recall the familiar tradition of reflection on the past year’s events. As students, we have accomplished the 10 strenuous weeks of the quarter with...
Editorial: Students should take a more active approach to protect their educational rights
Passive-aggressive tweets, Facebook statuses and Tumblr posts seem to be the way students deal with issues these days — even ones that deal with the imperative issues like that of divestment from higher education....
Editorial: More tests are not the answer to an expensive education
We’ve all taken that one class. The one that’s so utterly boring that you can’t help but sleep through. The one that you can’t imagine would ever be helpful to you after you graduate....