Prior to college, part-time jobs tend not to be an absolute necessity for many students. In fact, volunteer work, extracurriculars and academic competitions are often strongly emphasized as ways for high schoolers to make themselves more competitive for college admission. Yet, as many current college students have long since realized, financial security is imperative for a successful future career....
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 on paid leave after posting a number of astonishing, since-deleted remarks to their respective Facebook feed on Thursday, Feb. 16.
As you may recall, Feb....
President Donald Trump’s administration team kicked the media beehive once again on Friday, Feb. 24, during an informal press briefing called a press gaggle. Several news outlets, including CNN, the New York Times and the Guardian were denied entry to the briefing, but others, such as Fox News, Breitbart and the Washington Times, were allowed to attend. CNN and...
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama and spiritual leader of Tibet, will be providing the commencement address at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) this year, and given his stature as a prominent political leader, his selection has received an immense welcoming from many undergraduate students. However, many Chinese students at UCSD aired grievances against his forthcoming appearance,...
As I was driving home from UCR last Friday, I was unlucky enough to be flipping through the channels on my car radio (most of the stations were on commercial breaks) and happened upon a pair of musical monstrosities. No, it wasn’t Taylor Swift; I would have been able to ignore bad pop music. Instead, it was a pair...
Writer: Daniel Ruppert-Majer, History Major with a European Concentration
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A great service to UCR was done on Wednesday, Feb. 15. This service was rendered by ASUCR Elections Director Marcy Kuo in the form of a bill that, if voted to pass by the student body, would eliminate the quarterly requirement of a 2.0 and raise the cumulative GPA requirements for...
Welcome to our second Ops Top 10! This time around, we feature our choices for the top 10 dog breeds from around the world. We rated these breeds on a variety of factors, which obviously included how cute they are, as well as how practical they are here in Southern California and how good they are as watchdogs. After...
People like to talk badly about covers of popular songs or disqualify them from being considered art because they seem like a glorified version of karaoke. And true, much cover music doesn’t exactly improve on the original and just ends up polluting the radio and other music streaming services (there are way too many versions of “All I Want...