The Australian bushfires are a climate premonition, but they don’t have to be
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report in 2018 outlining the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Current global concentrations of carbon dioxide roughly...
The model minority stereotype creates a lack of support for Asian communities
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The model minority myth refers to the commonly held belief that Asian Americans achieve a higher degree of economic success relative to other minority groups....
Newsom’s relief effort is a necessary, but minimal, help to undocumented workers
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President Donald Trump’s signing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act brought relief to the many Americans who face...
Tariffs are an integral part of the American economy
Taxes on imported goods are a fundamentally essential part of protecting America. Before the income tax, federal revenues derived almost entirely from tariffs. Tariffs protect American factory jobs from being outsourced abroad to countries...
Low enrollment is the silent killer for institutions during the pandemic
As a new wave of students are set to apply to college, UCR must consider how they are going to appeal the most to prospective students now that there are more challenges than benefits...
Efficient vaccine distribution will only be possible with a united and uniform approach
Despite the hopes that 20 million Americans would receive the COVID-19 vaccines before the end of the year, only 4.8 million Americans have obtained it so far. Once again, the United States is allowing...
Open textbooks open doors
A college education undeniably serves as a road to social mobility, but particularly in the landscape of COVID-19, expensive course materials are a roadblock. As students of the University of California system, which considers...
Improving the promotion of campus resources
Dear Editor,
Students are too preoccupied with assignments, work and life to figure out school resources.
UCR relies on students to do their job. At a CALPIRG meeting, I found out about the existence of the...
The religious exemption for the COVID vaccine is nothing more than a dangerous loophole
When the UC system announced that in-person classes would be offered only if students got vaccinated, there were exemption options that followed. These included accommodations for those who have medical reason not to take...
NFTs are destroying the planet
Over the past year, it’s been hard to avoid discourse surrounding a new phenomenon: NFTs, short for “non-fungible tokens.” Seemingly coming out of nowhere and exploding into the mainstream, many celebrities have endorsed NFTs,...