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We live in an interesting age, one where the weirdest fads can go viral, for better or worse. The latest of these real-life memes is the clown craze that began a few months ago...

In what can only be characterized as a vast overreaction to the Occupy Davis and Berkeley protests, both of which were marred by police violence, UCR administrators released a list of official “protest guidelines”...

UCR Athletic Director Brian Wickstrom recently announced the athletic department’s decision to push back the proposal to replace the men’s tennis team with women’s sand volleyball to 2013. The postponement of the proposal came...

College Republicans nationwide are seeing backlash from College Democrats as well as from members within their own party, according to a recently published New York Times article. This is in large part due to...

I can recall when my family used to bicker about no longer being able to talk on their cell phones while driving—until they bought bluetooth devices. These and other hands-free apparatuses changed the technological...

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...

A running theme in insurance commercials, be it automotive, property or life insurance, is “here at ‘x’ insurance company, we care about you.” I have always found this patronizing, because many of these corporations...

  On September 22, the Riverside City Council voted to put $1.5 million into its turf removal rebate program, a popular system that ran out of its $5 million in funding last May. Its popularity...

Thanks to the tireless efforts of the UC system, UCR students’ health care premiums are going up. During the 2010-2011 academic year, UCOP took it upon itself to implement a UC-wide health insurance program that...

“2001: A Space Odyssey.” “The Terminator.” “Portal.” Pop quiz: What do these things have in common? Artificial intelligence sucks. Well, it’s slightly more complicated than that, and there is a lot more nuance. But the general...