Editorial: Yale students punished unfairly after providing a better course site
Yale University has made it clear that students’ right to explore the Internet is far less important than its command of authority over students.
In January 2012, two Yale students, Harry Yu and Peter Xu,...
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...
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...
Editorial: Standardized testing has created standardized students with useless skills
In the last decade, we have become obsessed with evaluating and reevaluating the success of our students. With the United States slipping further and further behind the rest of the world, politicians have decided...
The computers are coming — and that’s not a bad thing
“2001: A Space Odyssey.” “The Terminator.” “Portal.” Pop quiz: What do these things have in common?
Artificial intelligence sucks.
Well, it’s slightly more complicated than that, and there is a lot more nuance. But the general...
91 Freeway expansion could lead to more congestion
An old saying goes something like this: “Be careful what you wish for — it might just come true.”
The Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) would do well to keep that phrase in mind as...
Editorial: The UC system should follow its own mission statement
Grade school has taught us valuable skills for us to obtain information faster and reiterate what we know on a test. These skills were ingrained in us as children so that we could take...
Can New Year’s resolutions actually be accomplished?
Every year decisions to improve ourselves begin at the stroke of midnight each New Year’s Day. Whether it’s to be more frugal, get in shape or be charitable, it’s always easier to procrastinate by...
Letter to the Editor: ASA endorses resolution to boycott Israeli institutions
The American Studies Association, a congregation of professors and students dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, voted with an overwhelming majority last month to endorse the academic boycott of the...
Are liars better than squares in the world of the Common Application?
Once upon a time, being admitted to a university was as simple as taking a test. If you could prove general knowledge in common subjects and could write in Greek and Latin, you were...