Op-Ed: CAPS? What’s that?
Most students enter college eager to start fresh, experience the college life, excel at academics, and take on every opportunity they possibly can to build the perfect resume. The immersion into a new...
Phishing for votes
Writer: Bradley Evans, Electrical Engineering major
E-mail: [email protected]
This is my first year here as a transfer to UCR, and so it was my very first exposure to the toxic atmosphere surrounding the annual ASUCR elections cycle....
Vote yes on Proposition 54
Writer: Yozaima Escobar
E-mail: [email protected]
In Sacramento, special interests have a distinct advantage over constituents. The rigged system allows special interests to have almost unchecked access to a legislator’s ear at the expense of Californians. However, this...
Supporting Palestine: Silencing, intimidation and blacklisting activists at UC
Writer: Students for Justice in Palestine, UCR student organization
Contact email: [email protected]
In recent years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a controversial topic at the UC system and indeed around the nation. Student activists on...
Op-Ed: Party collapse: From national to collegent
Writer: Pasha Stone, Mechanical Engineer
Contact: [email protected]
In George Washington’s farewell address at The White House, he warned attendees of a dangerous trend growing in our political system, one that would put the pursuit of power...
Op-Ed: In defense of student employee benefits
Writer: Hayden Jackson, Political Science, ‘18
Email:[email protected]
I love my job here at UCR. I really do.I am a student first and an employee second when my boss is writing the schedule, and this is...
Making a difference in the classroom
I can remember the first time I heard of Teach For America - it was right after I joined the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity during my freshman year and learned that it...
Response to “Sorry, I can’t afford work experience”
Dear Editor,
I read “Sorry, I can’t afford work experience” in last week’s edition and, considering I accepted an offer for an internship just hours before reading the paper, it was very relevant to me...
Letter to the Editor: In response to the Highlander’s gas tax editorial
Writer: Kenneth Rosenfield, ’89 MBA UCR
Email: [email protected]
In response to the Highlander editorial published on November 20, 2017, entitled, "California must put the brakes on new gas tax," the Highlander has its facts right about...
Marcela Ramirez, UC Student Regent-designate
Student Regent, Avi Oved has been working diligently for the past year and half to add a third student seat to the UC Board of Regents. Currently all 238,000 students across the UC system...