When Heat was cancelled last weekend, it would be an understatement to say that students were upset.
The Heat Facebook page quickly filled up with comments noting that Heat tickets were emblazoned with the words “rain or shine.” Now-useless tickets to the event were crumpled and discarded on the ground.
And though a lot of the whining seemed petulant, to a...
As the tail end of class registration nears and students await the arrival of second pass, too many students are being reminded that they won’t graduate on time. Sometimes, it’s due to a course conflict, with students forced to choose between two classes that take place at the same time. Others are stymied by the unit cap, a blockade...
This Presidents’ Day, Groupon tried out its humor and released a coupon that portrayed Alexander Hamilton as president of the United States. Ha ha, very funny. But wait: Do you know who Alexander Hamilton is?
It’s okay — it’s facts like these that tend to slip out of our minds and far as way as possible after exams and tedious...
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 America to know that real men do not hurt women,” proclaimed a passionate Obama in his weekly Internet address.
The changes Obama presented are helpful, but...
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 crowd, increase in popularity annually.
UC Riverside is able provide to more than one concert throughout the year, including Block Party, HEAT, Winter Solstice and Spring...
There is a time for passivity and a time for action.
The Highlander incorrectly included the following information in the article below:
The article incorrectly stated that a new policy was established to shift the academic calendar of the UCs to accommodate two religious holidays. The article should have read: “The policy will require appropriate adjustments be made to accommodate...
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, created an alternate course website that mimicked Yale Bluebook, an online course book for students to search for various classes. The site was named “Yale...
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 deviance class taught by professor Patty Adler at CU-Boulder explores the topic of prostitution through an interactive lecture. It typically enrolls 500 students, ranking it...
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 that the status quo can’t stand. Unfortunately, the status quo has been replaced with something worse: excessively standardized testing.
For grade-school students over the past years,...
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 on the next level of education with a little more ease. After continuous memorization, papers and exams, the idea of progressing to the next level...