California community colleges have increased their fees by six to 10 dollars nearly every year for the last few years while reducing the number of classes offered and enlarging class sizes. Community colleges seem to be one of the many places the state automatically turns to when looking to cut costs. A new bill, AB 955, was recently introduced...
Now that the course offerings for fall have been posted online, the scramble for classes has begun. In the quarterly ritual of class selection, students weigh class times, breadth and major requirements, difficulty and more in the hope of completing the Tetris puzzle that is choosing classes. One requirement, though, overrides all else when selecting a course schedule: the...
It is one thing to debate a “controversial subject” in order to better understand the topic. But when this controversy is leading to the torture and murder of innocent people, the charade needs to stop. Guantanamo Bay needs to be closed now. Guantanamo Bay is an interrogation prison that detains captives believed to be national threats in the Global...
Last August, President Barack Obama, wary of the civil unrest in Syria, issued a firm warning to President Bashar al-Assad, saying that the use of chemical weapons would cross a “red line” and result in “enormous consequences.” Now the president’s seriousness toward the situation is being called into question as the Syrian military forces are said to have been...
There was once a time when UCR students couldn’t even elect their own student body president. Only senators were directly elected, and those senators selected the president from amongst themselves. Furthermore, senators had the final say on everything—there was no external balance to ensure that the votes were properly taken. The very structure of the student government lent itself...
Before I attended UCR, my companions told me the city of Riverside was just okay, but the school was great. Naturally, when starting school in the fall, there was a preconceived resentment toward the city, and I heard the same sentiment from many students at UCR. Most felt there was simply nothing to do here, and often echoed the...
When UCR announced its intention to build a sports complex called the C-Center, it was a step in the right direction. Not only would the stadium house upwards of 6,000 people, but it would also allow businesses to rent out space in the facility, and would be accompanied by an adjacent parking structure to help facilitate the increase in...
Congress has until July 1 to figure out how it is going to deal with the impending increase in student loan rates. If a proposal is not drawn up and the politicians on Capitol Hill decide to ignore the issue, then the rates will double from the current 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. The hike may sound bad, as...
The famous Boston Marathon had a tragic ending on April 15 when two bombs set off panic, deaths, injuries and a tragedy that no one expected on that spring afternoon. As people tried to recover from the horrific event, another bomb was set off on the Internet. Comments of anger and outspoken prejudice with every tongue-biting comment appeared on...
“Before I die I want to go to Thailand,” writes one of many anonymous contributors to the trending “Before I die …” chalkboards. “Before I want to die, I want to help the world,” writes another.
The project began on an abandoned house in New Orleans. The boards feature the words “Before I die” with a blank space printed multiple...