Friday, April 19, 2024

UC president sticks with tuition hike, threatens to release Kraken

UC President Janet Napolitano announced she will stick by her plan to increase student tuition, and has threatened to release the Kraken to enforce her new policy. “This school system needs to know two essential...

State defunds UC

Governor Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 007, which eliminates all forms of state funding to the UC system. During a celebratory speech made at the UCR Bing Center, Governor Brown withdrew the final...

Inauguration of UCR Mascot Showdown

Many fans have an obsession they take too seriously. Usually in college, fans are obsessed with either the basketball teams, soccer teams or the dance teams. Others, however, lean toward the mascot. This past weekend,...

Re-Decision 2012, Lebron James decides to play college basketball

LeBron James wants to suspend his NBA career and finish his academic career while playing basketball at the collegiate level. At the end of the season, James will take his talents to southern California...

McDonald’s is exactly what you expect

Name: McDonald’s Rating: N/A Location: 2242 University Ave Riverside, CA 92507 Price Range: $ Hours: 24 hours Category: Fast Food, Burgers, Salads, Chicken, Much More Credit/Debit Card: Yes Takeout: Yes Delivery: No Other amenities:   Nothing screams America quite louder than the shite lords of fast food chains: McDonald’s. Now, to be fair, most...

Campus Cope: Treading through the stress of swimming

  The most common form of transportation for students, swimming, has easily lost its thrill factor. Despite the idea sounding like a great alternative for cardio (as if we really need to work out anymore),...

Local billionaire announces plans to drain UCR, create libertarian utopia

Last Friday, billionaire and UCR alumnus Andrew Ryan announced plans to drain the campus and create a libertarian utopia, where state funding would be culled and UCR could exist as a “free market bubble...

“CaffAttack” Review

There are three very basic things I expect from my shows: straightforward explanations, uncluttered presentations and necessary information. I neither want nor need “plot” and “setting,” which are archaic leftovers from a bygone era....

Coping with the pope-ing: Surviving a papal presidency as a non-Christian

With the insanity of the body-swapping incident claiming the personas of millions, perhaps there is no swap more significant than that between the sovereign of Vatican City Pope Francis and President Donald Trump, effectively...

Students held at gunpoint, booty nearly stolen

Three students were held at gunpoint by two pirates at the mouth of the Colorado River at 11:30 p.m. on March 26. Out for a refreshing moonlit swim to the C, the students had...