Spend less on college sports
College athletics are a huge deal. Millions of people watch and billions of dollars are spent on student-athletes dunking a ball or tackling an opponent. And whatever the reason for people watching it, there’s...
Starbucks employees unionized, yet no change in sight
Starbucks Workers United (SWU) is set to represent 400 plus stores and over 10,000 union partners. Although these numbers have not halted profits, Starbucks has grown 11.59% in revenue to $35.9 billion for the...
Price regulation will stop inflation in response to minimum wage increases
In order to not render minimum wage increases ineffective, America must regulate prices in all industries. This is not a novel concept in American history: this country has a long history of price regulation....
Donald Trump’s fascist tendencies
Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy. He’s always been a highly polarizing figure ever since his rise to national prominence as a business tycoon in the ‘80s. And this year isn’t the first...
Outside the binary: AB 1266 gives students gender equity
The new year represents a sense a hope, excitement and whirling possibility of what could happen in the upcoming months, like an ever-elusive fortune cookie. As this new year rung in, Jan. 1, 2014...
Prison voting: Who will bail us out of this decision?
On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed off on a bill that will enable felons to vote in elections while still in county jail. The bill was proposed by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San...
Editorial: Taboo topics should be open for discussion at universities
Does the topic of sex make you uncomfortable? How about prostitution? Or how about when a professor takes it into her own hands to explain prostitution by using students as examples?
Year after year, a...
The Supreme Court should have term limits in order to better represent the American...
As we get closer to the 50th anniversary of the historic Roe v Wade court case, we get closer to its apparent death. On May 2, a leaked draft majority opinion written by Supreme...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editors,
In the November 2nd issue of The Highlander, Fatema Shalabi wrote an opinion piece arguing that the proclivity of younger people to reject marriage in favor of long-term dating is damaging to the...