A hot-button topic for the past couple of years has been the increasing population of out-of-state and international students admitted in the University of California system. The commencement of the fall 2015 admissions cycle revived the controversy, prompting UC President Janet Napolitano to consider putting a cap on nonresident admission rates. Despite Californians approaching this situation with skepticism, admitting...
Ebola — you hear the word and you shudder. The name evokes gruesome images on a level similar to that of the worst horror movies. News comes every day that seems to foretell a massive outbreak close to home. You begin to wonder. “Should I wear a mask to school?” Or worse, “Should I even bother going to school...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
If you’ve passed your AP government exam, you’ll recognize these words as the first...
Samantha Sackos worked at her university’s athletics department for four years. In her position and others like it, people frequently work over 40 hours a week — it’s a full-time job. She is also a student, so she not only worked full-time, but tried to balance it alongside her academic studies. That’s over 8,000 hours of sweat and effort...
It would be hard to deny that UCR’s new recreation center is an impressive building. Including the facilities of the old building, the new rec center sports a rock climbing zone, a pool, an indoor jogging track, new basketball courts and numerous machines for cardio and muscular exercises. What the student body needs to ask itself, however, is whether...
Californian midterm elections are almost here, and when heading to the booth on Nov. 4, a ballot to keep in mind is Proposition 47. This proposition reduces the sentencing of many different “nonserious and nonviolent drug and property crimes” from a felony to a misdemeanor. These include: shoplifting, grand theft auto, fraud, forgery, writing a bad check, receiving stolen...
The allure of smartphones comes down to one factor: convenience. Thanks to mobile applications, we are able to achieve more in less time. The appeal of smartphones in their infancy centered around people being able to respond to emails and conduct their business on the go. Since then, smartphones have evolved — ridding us of the burden of carrying...
California’s ballot propositions are a trademark of this state’s aggressively forward-thinking attitude and the most recognizable of the 22 states that allow both initiatives and popular referendums. During election seasons in California, you cannot go to a commercial break without hearing from a lawyer or a doctor about how an upcoming proposition is going to save or destroy the...
This November, people around the country will go to the polls and cast their votes in the 2014 midterm elections. But it’s not just to elect who represents us in Washington, D.C. In fact, some of the most important action is occurring in the state of California, where Governor Jerry Brown is facing off against a charismatic challenger and...
On Oct. 10, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani women’s education activist, alongside Indian child’s rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai is now the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17. In October of 2012, Yousafzai was attacked on a school bus when the Taliban shot her as a consequence...