“Welcome to a new year and a new era in the history of the University of California at Riverside.”
These were the words that began the first broadcast ever transmitted by KUCR, UCR’s very own radio station. The year was 1966.
In the nearly 50 years KUCR has been on the air, it has had a storied history. Its broadcasts provide...
Dear Highlanders,
On March 6, 2013, the ASUCR Senate passed a Resolution that I openly opposed
during the Senate meeting. I continue to strongly disagree with the resolution. I
understand the importance of creating an environment for students to express their
beliefs; however, I believe that this effort of divestment encourages biases instead of
reconciliation, and creates counter productive hostilities that divide the UCR
campus....
The past couple years have been symbolic of peace and progress towards building relationships between different student organizations that affiliate with the Middle East. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Highlanders for Israel (HIFI), and Hillel, the Jewish student organization. These clubs have been working on creating lasting friendships despite Middle Eastern politics. It seemed that everyone was working...
Students of all races, ethnicities, and religions came together in celebration, on March 6th, in which a historic moment for the University of California Riverside took place. This marked the night that ASUCR Senate passed the Boycott and Divestment Sanctions bill, BDS, brought forward by Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP’s bill urged the members of the Senate chamber...
Over the past few days, news agencies and medical personnel have reveled in the limelight after a newborn has been said to be cured of the HIV virus. People who have only caught a glimpse of the news programs reporting on the subject may believe that infants everywhere can now be cured of HIV, and those who have only...
If any show prepared our generation for the future, Nickelodeon’s show Jimmy Neutron surely did. Flash back to your childhood for a moment and recall the metal box Jimmy brought on his adventures: the hypercube. The hypercube, a groundbreaking invention in the show, was able to transform anything Jimmy needed to the condensed size of a molecule.
The hypercube has...
Now that Heat has concluded, we UCR students are coming down from our Porter Robinson-induced highs and settling back down into the mundane realities of UCR life. For us, this means that it is almost the end of winter quarter, with only a couple of weeks standing in between us and long-awaited Spring Break.
It is this time of the...
California has the most overcrowded prisons in the entire country. These prisons are so beyond capacity the Supreme Court deemed the state in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, or the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause.
An example of the horrific conditions of some state prisons involved the San Quentin State Prison in California, where thousands...
It is a sad but true statement that money is what makes things happen when it comes to the education of students and the quality of instruction. With 112 community colleges reporting that revenues from student fees for the current fiscal year are $107 million below expectations, the struggle continues as community colleges try to provide a quality education...
The secret is out. Or at least, everybody’s sex secrets are.
Thanks to UCR Hookups, a Facebook page that allows people to anonymously submit their private sexual escapades and voyeuristic yearnings, everybody is getting a first-hand look into the details of the UCR community’s sex lives.
The stated purpose of the group is to be “a place to post your sexcapades,...