Life can be tough as a politically moderate student on a comparatively liberal campus; you hear a lot of things you disagree with, and anything political that you try to say is going to be blasted by your peers into oblivion. It’s even tougher, then, when you’re this politically moderate student who decides it’s a good idea to work...
I just don’t understand it. Why are so many people afraid of our new president’s relationship with Russia? Is it just because we had a cold war with them — nuclear arms pitted against each other for more than three decades, proxy wars fought in the name of ideologies? Russia has changed since the Cold War. They have disarmed...
In the course of one week, 678 people in 12 states were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Immigration enforcement is not a new policy by any means. In fact, Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama earned the nickname “Deporter in Chief” because of the record 2.5 million deportations...
If you were never presented with the option of attending college, do you think you would? Statistics don’t lie: Having a college education is preferable to not having a college education. America’s current unemployment rate is at 6.7 percent. Close to 8 percent of all working non-college graduates are unemployed — but only 4 percent of college graduates are.
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When I was younger, I’ll be honest — I hated writing. The experience was like pulling teeth from a shark. Level of discomfort: high. Potential for being skewered into a human shish kabob: very, very high. In my later high school days, I came to appreciate the technique of writing, but even then, I never considered it fun.
So I’m...
Student Regent, Avi Oved has been working diligently for the past year and half to add a third student seat to the UC Board of Regents. Currently all 238,000 students across the UC system are represented by two students: the voting Student Regent and the non-voting Student Regent-designate. The Student Regent was established by a voter driven state constitutional...
It would be hard to deny that UCR’s new recreation center is an impressive building. Including the facilities of the old building, the new rec center sports a rock climbing zone, a pool, an indoor jogging track, new basketball courts and numerous machines for cardio and muscular exercises. What the student body needs to ask itself, however, is whether...
It’s that time of year again. Many will come out of their homes to witness the coming spring sun, perhaps take in the beauty of the natural world. Its fragrant flowers, its whimsical wind. Then many will immediately go back inside, remembering that there’s a show on Netflix they must feverishly catch up on, or a cosplay costume that...
During the school year, it feels as if we constantly receive crime alerts from UCPD. On January 16 of last year, there were five crime alerts within one hour. People may joke about Riverside being “ghetto,” but the reality of the crime rate here is no joke. At the time of writing this piece, there have been 42 thefts,...
One thing you learn by growing up in California, besides where to get the best Mexican food, is that living in the state with the largest population means that water is a scarce resource. Since California is the leading agricultural center of the United States, farmers are especially concerned about their water supply because there is simply just not...