CALPIRG to push for open textbooks
Multiple Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), including California’s CALPIRG, have published a report entitled the Billion Dollar Program, which displays the possibility for open textbooks to save $1.5 billion in textbook costs for students...
[YOUR]Side ban leads to formation of three parties
Side, a political party that dominated ASUCR elections last year, was banned after a recent judicial decision ruled that the party carried out discriminatory practices. The case, which extended the application deadline for candidates,...
ASUCR Elections: Director debates seek to improve marketing, outreach to students
Despite the windy weather conditions, unwavering support groups for the political parties Voice, CR and PAC: Pride, Action, Change were in attendance as director debates occurred last Wednesday.
Candidates running for the positions of personnel...
ASUCR approves ethnic and gender referendum, welcomes new senators
ASUCR voted unanimously last Wednesday to put the Highlander Empowerment Referendum on the 2015 ballot, which, if passed by the student body, will increase funding for UCR’s seven ethnic and gender programs starting in...
Five UC Riverside students awarded $1,500 sustainability fellowships
Five UCR students were each selected to receive $1,500 grants under UC President Janet Napolitano’s new UC-wide Sustainability Fellowship and Internship Program. In less than three weeks, UCR received 38 student proposals vying for...
Entomology department to host the first Annual Insect Fair
The Department of Entomology will host its first-ever Annual Insect Fair on April 18. The fair will begin at 10 a.m. and last until 5 p.m. on Mission Inn Avenue, between Orange Street and...
Victims held at knifepoint near Extension Center, University Towers
On Sunday, April 5, two male suspects approached a male as he was walking through the University Extension Center. A second robbery that occurred approximately three hours after the first in the University Towers...
Security breach may affect nearly 8,000 UCR graduate students
Nearly 8,000 UCR graduate student applicants, admitted graduate students and other related individuals may be at risk of identity theft after it was discovered that a computer containing their social security numbers was stolen...
New budget plan strives for transparency
Administrators discussed key aspects of UCR’s new budget plan at the chancellor’s first town hall meeting of the new quarter on Monday. The new plan aims to remedy the lack of transparency of the...
Inland Education Collaborative awarded $5 million
An Inland Empire collaborative has been selected to receive a $5 million Governor’s Award for Innovation in Higher Education, the maximum amount possible. The Federation for a Competitive Economy (FACE), whose plan went up...