Two weeks ago, 18 gun-related bills shot onto Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. An unabashed partisan would have signed or vetoed all 18 together. But Gov. Brown took his time, duly examined each one and eventually made a reasoned, nuanced decision: 11 were signed, seven were vetoed. Bills requiring purchasers of rifles to undergo a written safety examination and preventing...
In a post-9/11 world, stereotypes of the Middle East have arisen and fogged the true culture and livelihood of its countries. The Middle East has been characterized, by some, under a single stigma of extremists who reside in a large desert. Thanks to the media and individuals’ lack of research beyond what is said through the news, these stereotypes...
The Great Recession hit public universities hard. Facing dwindling revenues, states slashed their budgets in furious attempts to get back in the black, and public universities found themselves staring into the blade of the guillotine. Many tried to turn to donations from alumni and local communities, but they were facing their own financial difficulties and were not ready to...
During the first few weeks of school a line forms outside the UCR Campus Store. Students patiently await to stow away their bags and collect a ticket to enter a room of shelves holding rip-offs upon rip-offs. Customers are usually freshman and transfers unaware of the other purchasing options available to them, students coming for the sake of convenience...
After a few strolls in Bourns and Winston Chung Halls, through dim hallways of male-dominated work space, one discovers the status quo in which female students hardly participate in engineering classes. In this case, observations are not far from the truth. According to the Bourns College of Engineering website, only 18 percent of currently-enrolled undergraduates are women.
However, this inequity...
Unpaid internships are the smarter option when choosing between a paid and an unpaid internship. Essentially, the purpose of an internship is to obtain hands-on experience in a work field in which someone is considering a career. Internships serve as introductions to the work field whether it be in the media, medicine, or anything in between. Internships help gain...
After long-term Riverside residents could not tolerate the noise and depravity from their fellow college neighbors, the city of Riverside passed a restriction that limited the amount of renters per house. In response to the overdramatized chaos, the neighbors created a mission for themselves to tone down the debauchery of college students to a mellower and less lively environment....
One of the biggest decisions that high school seniors must make is where they will go to school after graduation. The options are many: university, vocational school, community college and more. Something that may not always be a huge factor, but ultimately makes a tremendous difference, is the proximity of the student’s home to the university. While the argument...
During an 1879 speech to the Michigan Military Academy, General William Tecumseh Sherman reminded the class of fresh-faced students that “war is hell.”
He was in a unique place to know. Sherman had just helped lead the Union to a blood-stained victory in the Civil War, a five-year conflagration that resulted in more casualties than all other wars in United...
People agree that violence usually doesn’t solve a problem. But what happens when talk is not enough to solve it? In some situations, a threat of force is necessary to arrive at a conclusion. This is the way the United States government has responded to the actions Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has engaged in.
Instead of automatically turning to military...