As Sacramento became abuzz with business concerning the new legislative year on Jan. 4, lawmakers will still have to tackle last year’s leftover legislation that did not reach both houses or the governor. With bills ranging from raising the minimum wage to creating state guidelines for police body cameras, those in Sacramento will have a tough workload, not only...
This past winter break, I held high hopes for my family vacation. This would be the time that my brother and I got along, my mother would be open to opinions not similar to her own and my father would listen attentively to topics beyond the military, work and cars. With my parents moved out of state and my...
UCR’s annual Heat concert was cancelled by the HUB Board, citing El Nino weather as the reason. After a school wide survey, which overwhelmingly showed that students wanted to keep and reschedule the concert, the HUB Board decided to consider moving the event to spring quarter.
Given the popularity and amount of anticipation surrounding this event, the HUB made a...
California State Senator Connie M. Leyva is currently in the process of introducing a bill that would get rid of the statute of limitation for rape and sexual assault charges. Currently the statute of limitation for rape cases in California is 10 years or until 26 years of age for victims who were minors. The amount of time allotted...
With the amount of supplementary materials professors release online as well as the textbook, self-teaching may seem like a better option than showing up to an early 8 a.m. class. The information introduced in the lecture hall is often consolidated during discussion sections and many students feel they can reap the same benefits without being present during each lecture....
The unengaged student comes in many varieties: napping in the back of the lecture hall, watching “Breaking Bad” under the guise of taking notes on their laptop, searching for tattoo design inspiration on Pinterest or playing “Candy Crush” on their phone.
Unfortunately, we’ve all had someone like this as a classmate and I’ve been guilty of being unengaged and...
Following the crushing violence perpetrated by the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad against his own people, the country of Syria has descended into a bloody civil war, and civilian refugees are fleeing in droves. The U.S. plans to do its part to help some of these civilians by accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. Unfortunately, the recent Paris...
The opinion piece published in the November 16th edition of the Highlander, written by the editorial board, noted that the Salton Sea is an opportunity; an opportunity for raising environmental awareness, an opportunity for students and faculty at UCR to collaborate across departments on interdisciplinary problems and an opportunity for the university to uphold its mission of supporting its...
What’s the situation between ASUCR and UCR campus administration?
Before an opinion is offered on the situation, we believe it is ultimately beneficial for the readers’ understanding and for the editorial’s quality that a detailed summary is given.
On Oct. 19, 2015, four members of the ASUCR Executive Cabinet, President Ashley Harano, Vice President of Internal Affairs Michael Ervin, Vice President...
A recent traffic ticket amnesty program has been approved and is now making the lives of ticket holders much better by reducing the amount of people who cannot drive. California’s 18-month amnesty program, which is aiding in reducing the $10 billion of uncollected debt, was originally made to revise law enforcement programs that became ineffective due to motorists’ inability...