Friday, April 19, 2024

Experience is easier sought and gained farther from home

One of the biggest decisions that high school seniors must make is where they will go to school after graduation. The options are many: university, vocational school, community college and more. Something that may...

Money or Morality: The NBA must decide how much money dictates their stance on...

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey caused an uproar in China when he made a post on Twitter in support of the Hong Kong protests. Morey’s tweet, which has since been deleted, sparked enough...

Tall Tail #8

Admit it — electric scooters are a curse to campus

One Reddit search will tell you the number of claims of students and faculty has been hit by electric scooters, followed by dozens of complaints.  On January 21st, user UMSvictim in a post wrote, “I...

Pro-therapy culture hasn’t done nearly enough for the people who need it

Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicate a steady increase in adults who received therapy or counseling since 2002. As of 2020, 41.4 million adults in the U.S. have...

UCR’s e-book program will free students of a major financial burden

Due to the high costs students have to deal with when it comes to purchasing textbooks for their courses (on average, $1,700 per student per academic year), UCR launched the Affordable Course Material Initiative...

Op-Ed: UC Tuition Increase Gets a Failing Grade

January 26, 2017 marked a pivotal moment in the UC system’s history, as the University of California approved a proposal to increase tuition by 2.5 percent, jumping from $11,220 to a new tuition cost...

Tiananmen massacre censorship shows China is no less authoritarian than it was 30 years...

June 4, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Chinese government’s repeated failure to acknowledge the event for the tragedy that it was indicates that China is no less...

Rubidoux High School educators need to be aware of their school’s demographics

Six Rubidoux High School educators — social science teacher Geoffrey Greer, art teacher Robin Riggle, science teacher Allen Umbarger, agriculture teacher Rhonda Fuller, science teacher Chuck Baugh and guidance counselor Patricia Crawford — are...

Editorial: Divestment puts student participation on full display

By now, every student has heard the critiques before. We’re lazy. We’re entitled. We don’t want to take our eyes off our Facebooks or our butts off our couches. Yeah, we know. UCR students have...