Dear ASUCR,
We at the Highlander would like to give our congratulations to our newly elected ASUCR representatives on their hard-earned victories this year. The campaign was long and sometimes negative, but each of you soldiered through the slime and debris to earn the trust of the student body and represent us to UCR, the UC and the Riverside community....
A report from the Beijing Times claims that Chinese officials are interested in a cross-continental railway through the countries of China, Russia, Canada and the United States. Even if the technological challenges can be overcome, it is a safe assumption that the current political climate in the United States would shelve this plan before a single Yuan is budgeted...
When considering whether the new stores opened by Dining Services are worth the money spent to build them, students need to ask whether these new stores really meet any sort of demand. Do we really want these stores, and if not, what do we want instead?
The new Scotty’s store by UCR’s medical school is a nice enough building, touting...
Is diversity important in higher education? And, if so, what programs and measures foster diversity?
For some time now, the idea of affirmative action in higher education has garnered much debate. Comments on the matter have ranged from calling it an effort to establish “racial quotas” to one that “accepts students based solely on their race, not merit.” Debates have...
Sen. Marco Rubio recently doubled down on his denial that climate change is caused by man. “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,” Sen. Rubio said in an interview with ABC, flat-out ignoring decades of research and undeniable proof that climate change is now...
I am writing this letter to the editor because I read your opinions article in the Highlander called “ASUCR actions on divestment hurt student democracy.” The main reason I am responding to the article written is because I want to address some of the points you make in your article and clear up the many misconceptions you wrote about.
The...
Drinking — “Everyone does it!” “Just try it!” “One drink won’t hurt!” Neither will two or maybe three. But once you go one drop over your limit you may find yourself with your arms wrapped around a toilet or blacked out and not knowing what happened the night before. But it’s okay, right? You have a designated driver and...
If people want to drink badly enough, they’ll find a way to drink. That is the simple truth about how alcohol consumption works. It should be no surprise then that since it's easy enough to get a drink — over a third of underage people in the United States have drunk at least some alcohol — it would eventually...
UCLA has faced some criticism recently for its diversity. A viral video created by UCLA student Sy Stokes last November protested the lack of diversity at the campus, where only 4 percent of undergraduates are black. Twenty-four percent of respondents at UCLA indicated that they experienced “exclusionary” conduct.
Virtually everyone agrees that these numbers can and should be improved. But...
On April 23, ASUCR passed Senate Resolution 18, which calls upon the UC to remove its financial holdings, or divest, from American companies, such as Caterpillar, that support the alleged human rights abuses conducted by the Israeli government against the citizens of Palestine. But many of the details surrounding the passage of this resolution point to how our own...