With the majority of my peers in high school relocating to the midwest or east coast after graduation, I felt ashamed to admit that I was attending a university that was a mere 45 minutes away from my hometown. I felt that since I still had the luxury and convenience of coming home nearly every weekend, I would miss...
On Wednesday, April 26, ASUCR voted to continue showing support for a previously passed resolution for the establishment of a gender studies requirement, which, if approved by the faculty members of UCR’s academic senate, would make taking such a class mandatory for all incoming freshman students. Since then, ASUCR has pushed for the academic senate to put this proposal...
James Comey had it coming Christopher Ramos
James Comey needed to go. Both Republicans and Democrats had reason to hate Comey within the past year. Democrats hated it when he reopened the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation during the election and Republicans hate him since he was “looking into Russia.” Let’s be honest, Democrats, you wanted him gone ever since he opened...
Last week, a noteworthy sight on campus was a group of religious extremists armed with signs at the Bell Tower vehemently condemning homosexuality, abortion and even yoga pants as sins. Most students usually ignored these maniacs but some tried to counter many of their points by debating with them and even mocking them for their erroneous beliefs.
Encountering such hateful...
Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s election campaign, repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has been one of his main objectives. Therefore, in light of Trump’s official selection as the 45th president of the United States, it doesn’t come as a surprise that a new health care policy has been presented to take ACA’s place....
Right now, most Americans have some form of health insurance. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that, between January and September of 2016, only around 9 percent of the total U.S. population was uninsured. But that’s still over 28 million Americans who didn’t have access to the benefits of health insurance. Part of being...
With the election long behind us, it’s time to see where our president’s brash words have gotten us. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the federal organization, under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that is in charge of enforcing trade custom laws as well as legal immigration to the United States. ICE found themselves on...
No one will ever have to question whether UCR is a diverse campus. By now, UCR’s high degree of diversity is a cornerstone of its academic reputation and of its campus culture. While this in itself is not a problem per se, what is of concern is whether UCR’s administration is truly committed to diversity, and whether they consider...