Super Bowl Sunday is one of the most coveted days of the year in the United States. People make sure to wear their lucky jersey, have a gluttonous spread of delicious food making their heart palpitate, while getting comfortable on the couch to watch the big game. Super Bowl Sunday would not be complete, of course, without the endless...
Crowds, bodies pressed together, loud bass, and the next rising artist is always the situation you meet when you enter a UC Riverside concert — the concerts, famously known to draw in a large crowd, increase in popularity annually.
UC Riverside is able provide to more than one concert throughout the year, including Block Party, HEAT, Winter Solstice and Spring...
This coming Wednesday, February 12th, the Associated Students at the University of California, Riverside, will be voting on a resolution that calls for the divestment of UC funds in American companies that support and further the Israeli apartheid of Palestinians, as well as profit from these human rights violations. This call for divestment is just one aspect of the...
President Obama used his State of the Union address last Tuesday to bounce back from a forgettable 2013 and ask the joint session of Congress to restore America’s promise of opportunity.
Voicing his dissatisfaction with lawmakers’ recent productivity, the president vowed that “wherever and whenever (he) can, (he) will take steps, without legislation, to expand opportunity for more American families.”...
There is a time for passivity and a time for action.
The Highlander incorrectly included the following information in the article below:
The article incorrectly stated that a new policy was established to shift the academic calendar of the UCs to accommodate two religious holidays. The article should have read: “The policy will require appropriate adjustments be made to accommodate...
Experience is an aspect of life that is different for every single person. It is highly unlikely that you can find two of the same people characteristically, physically or even skillfully. The reason every college student goes through years of specialized undergraduate education is to focus on and excel in a specific field of the world. However, as cited...
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, created an alternate course website that mimicked Yale Bluebook, an online course book for students to search for various classes. The site was named “Yale...
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 marked the beginning of California setting a precedent as the first state in the nation to implement AB 1266, a law that would allow K-12...
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 deviance class taught by professor Patty Adler at CU-Boulder explores the topic of prostitution through an interactive lecture. It typically enrolls 500 students, ranking it...
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 that the status quo can’t stand. Unfortunately, the status quo has been replaced with something worse: excessively standardized testing.
For grade-school students over the past years,...