As one of his campaign promises, Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said he would push for a stricter crackdown on criminal activity by retaliating with higher levels of police brutality. Brazil has steadily declined in its safety rates, with gangs gaining control over certain neighborhoods that police don’t often visit. In instances where confrontations with the security forces and criminals...
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases estimates that during the 2017-18 flu season, as many as 80,000 deaths across the United States could be attributed to influenza. With the flu season beginning this October, this year appears to be no different.
The season’s first influenza-related death was an unvaccinated child in Florida on Oct. 15. Since Oct. 15, there have...
Chancellor Kim Wilcox released a statement on the resignation of James Sandoval, UCR’s Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs of 20 years on Monday, Oct. 22nd, providing the UCR community its first real insight into the circumstances involving Sandoval’s sudden resignation in January of 2018.
Wilcox released his statement after receiving the 298-page investigative report into Sandoval’s behavior conducted by the...
On Oct. 24, the nation believed for about half a day that President Donald Trump was finally going to understand the repercussions of his seemingly nonstop attacks on his critics. Shortly after law enforcement agencies intercepted suspicious packages on their way to notable Democratic politicians and CNN, Trump called the attempted bombings “despicable” and promised the public that the...
Propositions 1, 2, & 10: The band aid props that are certainly better than nothing
California is in a housing crisis. While the state is home to some of the country’s richest as well as poorest counties, the average rent for a California studio apartment is $1,680 a month, $618 higher than the national average. In Riverside, the average rent...
Nov. 6, 2018 is the date of the first midterm elections since 2014, where California voters will have a say in local, statewide and national issues ranging from our city councilmembers to the prices of our rent, to whether we as a nation decide it is necessary to hold Donald Trump accountable for the chaos and corruption he has...
Voting is one of the things that make a democracy, fair and free elections evoke visions of what America stands for. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness aren't just words; they are what we do every day. But being an American citizen does not stop at voting.
Democracy is not a passive activity that just happens while you go...
In an effort to further combat college applicant processing based on race, the Trump administration is investigating Yale University, which has received accusations of discrimination against Asian-American applicants. Around a month ago, the Justice Department faced a similar case of Asian-Americans accusing Harvard University for using race as a factor in admissions. In that investigation, the DOJ sided with...
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...
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) recently published some startling statistics: more than 80,000 people in America died of the flu in the winter of 2017-2018, the highest number seen in over a decade. While this information is scary, it's more important as an informative statement: one that recognizes the consequences of not taking proper steps to reduce...