The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced on Wednesday, Oct. 11 that, starting in 2018, it will allow girls to join the Cub Scouts, and that it plans to make the Eagle Scout program available to girls in 2019. Dens (a group of six to eight scouts) will remain single-sex, but packs (a group of dens) will have the...
Freedom of speech is a precious right allowed both within the UC institution and this country. As stated within UC Riverside’s “Principles Guiding Speech and Assembly,” “UC Riverside is committed to the belief that free speech, expression, and peaceful and lawful assembly are rights that must be protected, valued, and encouraged.”
UCR should feel proud and united for its...
Corrupt autocracy. Theocratic oppression. Legal and illegal organ markets. If this description screamed “Iran” at you, you’d be correct. Recently, investigative work by the likes of the Guardian, Los Angeles Times and New York Times, among others, has revealed the pervasiveness and scope of the kidney trade in the world’s largest and strictest theocratic state. While these revelations dismayed...
Dr. Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang of Stanford University are under fire for a paper published on Sept. 7 that examines the ability of existing facial analysis software to predict the likelihood that someone is either homosexual or heterosexual based on pattern recognition in analyzed photographs — colloquially, it’s been coined a “gaydar.” Kosinski and Wang’s research has been...
California’s new law, the New Parent Leave Act, effectively balances the thin tightrope of work-life legislation. It both promotes employment among parents and sets the foundations for healthy and supportive childhoods for their children. The law guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid family leave to all workers employed by businesses with anywhere from 20 to 49 employees, as federal law...
A man who claims to be deeply committed to the Christian Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, showed his true colors when he sold himself out in puppetry to President Donald Trump’s crusade against racial justice and peaceful protest. On Oct. 8, the self-proclaimed Christian, Vice President Mike Pence, entered Lucas Oil Stadium, the homefield of the Indiana Colts, and...
In what can be euphemistically described as a misguided endeavor, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 239 on Friday, Oct. 6. In California, beginning in January of next year, knowingly exposing someone to HIV without informing them beforehand will no longer be a felony punishable with up to eight years in prison, but a misdemeanor with a maximum jail...
You wouldn’t understand. You see, in my 21 years of life, I’ve acquired a near-bottomless well of knowledge — knowledge about politics, culture, art, philosophy, everything. I am the guy who doctors hate. I am the the guy who, by sheer willpower, has become one of the one percent of people with an immeasurably high IQ. Speaking in this...