Tag: california
Academic student workers deserve better treatment from the University of California
Across all nine University of California campuses, the academic student worker union, UAW 2865, has now been on strike for a week as contract...
Critical race theory should be taught in K-12 schools
This past April, the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District banned the teaching of critical race theory. In response, Cal State Fullerton announced that they...
An innovative way to preserve California’s grass
California’s state grass Stipa Pulchra, more commonly known as purple needlegrass, has been slowly disappearing. Purple needlegrass can live for 100 years or more...
Increasing police presence on K-12 campuses will not solve school shootings
The United States is currently facing an epidemic of school shootings. While some have called for more gun control legislation to be passed, others...
Only one of California’s two sports betting propositions will benefit the...
This election cycle, Props. 26 and 27, which focus on the legalization of sports gambling, are being backed by record-breaking funding. Despite this, polling...
The University of California should be doing more to combat housing...
Being a college student is stressful enough with the many sacrifices people must undertake in order to succeed and finish their degree. Housing insecurity...
California’s proposed anti-gun violence office is a shot of false hope
California has some of the most stringent gun-control laws in the country, and yet it can’t seem to get out from under the pandemic...
Governor Newsom bans the ‘pink tax’ but there is still more...
On September 27, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning the “pink tax” — the practice of imposing different prices for similar consumer products,...
Botanical Garden workers are denied livable wages
Since late December 2021, student workers at the Botanical Garden of UC Riverside have been organizing in order to secure a $2 per hour...
UCR Professor Mary L. Droser receives National Academy of Sciences Award
UCR professor of Earth and planetary sciences, Mary L. Droser, has been awarded the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in Early Earth and...