We are writing in response to last week's article "ASUCR Senate: CALPIRG Referendum Cause Debate." As ASUCR leaders and other student group leaders, there is no debate - we strongly support a YES VOTE on the CALPIRG Initiative.
CALPIRG was established in the 1970s as a way for students to press decision-makers to adopt public interest solutions to the biggest...
By: Sami Al-Alami
Editor’s note: Samir Al-Alami was a member of the latest ASUCR elections committee and is a current contributing writer here at the Highlander.
Coming to college, I didn't have much of an idea of what student government did, let alone how it functioned. My earliest exposure to student government was a near midnight hearing on moving against the...
Dear Editor:
Global climate change is changing the future of our planet.
Although our technological advancements have allowed us to mass produce, our consumptions of single-use plastics continue to threaten our biodiversity and sustainable way of life. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, at current rates, plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050.
During the...
According to the think tank Demos, $2,100 was the average price of tuition for an academic year when I was in college in the late 70s and early 80s. With the recently approved tuition increases, UC students will be paying more than $15,500 for the 2019-2020 school year.
These tuition hikes are unfair and should be reversed.
In the past 10...
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 environment of parties, drugs, and peer pressure takes its toll on some. With all sorts of pressures, the ability to maintain a strong academic record...
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 both sides of the issue have claimed that they feel “marginalized” on campus. However, to portray the two sides’ claims to “marginalization” as equal in...
Those of us in SJP would like to share some of our thoughts on the “Highland Write-Off” concerning the divestment movement on UC campuses, published in the January 20th, 2015 issue of The Highlander. Though we appreciate and respect both authors civic engagement with the issue, we thought there were several misleading and false portrayals of divestment in the...
Writer: Anonymous
I congratulate the student senate on its Wednesday, Feb. 1 vote banning the sale of Sabra hummus! Thank God the 13 students in the senate took such a brave and consequential step against chickpea paste. I was especially pleased that the senate voted for the ban to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to recognize their suffering....
By: Michael Rios
Editor's note: Michael Rios is a UCR alumnus and former Highlander editor.
Sometime during my third year at UCR, I gave up on a lifelong dream of becoming a physicist.
I remember the exact moment it happened. It was during a math exam in the Physics 2000 lecture hall. I was at my desk, struggling to solve...
Writer: Melina Reyes, graduating fourth-year, served as an ASUCR Justice on the Judicial Council 2013-2015 and currently serves as the ASUCR Elections Director.
Contact info: [email protected]
Laptopping is the use of internet-capable devices (phones, tablets or actual laptops) to ask students to vote, often for a specific candidate or party. In years past, despite prohibitions against laptopping, it was common enough...