The class of 2020 has been put in a precarious situation due to COVID-19 affecting everyone projected to walk the aisle and receive a diploma this spring. UCR has reacted and adapted to the situation accordingly. Though arguments can be made as to whether or not these changes were for better or worse, the university administration has tried their...
Michael Jordan is the definitive greatest basketball player of all time
By: Jonathan Fernandez, SSW
The greatest basketball player of all time argument has been hotly debated for as long as the NBA has existed and is often a barometer of which era one grew up watching. Fans during the...
Drawn by Justus Ross
UC Riverside should default to a Satisfactory/No Credit grading basis system for the 2020 spring quarter
By: Samuel Harrison, SSW
Left with no choice following Governor Gavin Newsom’s lockdown order, all nine University of California (UC) schools have closed their campuses over...
Drawn by Justus Ross
Country music is the ideal genre for commenting on social issues giving a voice to sidelined populations
By: Evan Ismail, SSW
As one of the most popular music genres in the United States, country music has a particularly long history of representing...
Billionaire baloney: Bezos’ philanthropy is a meager substitute for real action
By: Timothy Hughes, SW
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest man in the world, has recently committed to using $10 billion of his personal fortune to fight climate change. Considering Bezos’ relative silence on the issue in the past...
Bush should not be forgiven: Ellen chooses placation over condemnation of evil Timothy Hughes
Ellen DeGeneres is well-known for her kind and polite demeanor, witty sense of humor and generosity toward guests on her show. Ellen is a nice person — so nice, in fact, that she recently gave a monologue on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” about the importance of being...
Threats to free speech are real and closer than you might think
By Amy Perry, Contributing Writer
In response to alleged infringements to free speech on college campuses, the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) are planning a protest on campus on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The protest highlights concerns over campus policy 700-70, which prohibits students from gathering to protest in certain...
James Comey had it coming Christopher Ramos
James Comey needed to go. Both Republicans and Democrats had reason to hate Comey within the past year. Democrats hated it when he reopened the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation during the election and Republicans hate him since he was “looking into Russia.” Let’s be honest, Democrats, you wanted him gone ever since he opened...
Pay Aaron Hernandez, dead or alive
Jon Hammond
It’s April 2010, you’re a red-blooded American, so of course you’re watching the NFL Draft. Whether it's at a bar or on your couch, the only requirement is that there is beer, and plenty of it, because your team is about to make a pick that will either repeat a championship run, or...
There’s an inherited right we have as Americans that we take for granted and misuse often: Freedom of speech. We like freedom of speech. This country was founded on the principles of freedom while also having a strong central government. But something is changing, and I don’t like it.
Ever since the election of Donald Trump, many college students find...