And here’s how:
There is now a direct line of communication between every UCR undergraduate student and the President of your student government to get feedback. I want there to be a whole new level of transparency, unseen on this campus since UCR opened in 1954. I promised the incoming first-year class during my convocation speech that I would be...
On Tuesday, November 18, many graduate and undergraduate students here at UCR participated in a UC-wide day of action on the eve of an important vote by the UC Board of Regents to approve a tuition plan proposal by UC President Janet Napolitano. This plan, approved as of Thursday, November 20, is set to increase tuition by approximately 27.7%...
Writer: Shyam Rajan, Sociology major
Email: [email protected]
Recent media attention has spotlighted President Donald Trump’s relationship with the North Korean and Russian post-communist nations. However, relations with the similarly oriented People’s Republic of China have been important since at least the presidency of fellow Republican Richard Nixon, who was the first American president to visit the country in 1972. And don’t...
According to the think tank Demos, $2,100 was the average price of tuition for an academic year when I was in college in the late 70s and early 80s. With the recently approved tuition increases, UC students will be paying more than $15,500 for the 2019-2020 school year.
These tuition hikes are unfair and should be reversed.
In the past 10...
Dear Editor,
I want to compliment Highlander writer Robert Lees for his well-written, well-observed and knowledgable review of the KUCR Comedy Apocalypse 12. Lees gets into the details. He seems to know comedy well and pretty much nailed everything, the high points and where a sketch could have been improved. I liked his writerly turns of phrase, such as in...
I felt compelled to write this Letter to the Editor in response to The Highlander’s front page story entitled “Cyber attack on ASUCR website decreases transparency” published on January 13, 2015. I am an avid reader of The Highlander and regularly enjoy reading through it each week to learn about relevant and noteworthy happenings on our campus. Thus, I...
We strongly take issue with the Highlander’s coverage of this incident and the personal denunciations/mischaracterizations of students who chose to protest (and will continue to protest) the presence of anti-abortion groups on campus.
As a matter of public record, the group working with the Women’s Resource Center was invited to join a protest against “Students For Life.” The open invitation...
Dear Editor:
We write to correct mischaracterizations in Sandy Van’s April 21st article, “Jewish organization alleges UCR class is ‘anti-Semitic’.
We are 20 advocacy organizations representing millions of members gravely concerned that UCR is offering a course that is anti-Semitic according to the U.S. State Department and in violation of UC policy that specifically prohibits using the classroom for indoctrination. This...
Dear Highlanders,
If it is not already apparent by the countless posters, events, giveaway items, etc. encouraging you to vote, ASUCR general elections are taking place this week. While the focus may be mostly on the candidates running for offices—and really, mainly on the three parties competing for control of ASUCR next year—there are actually several other important items on...
Those of us in SJP would like to share some of our thoughts on the “Highland Write-Off” concerning the divestment movement on UC campuses, published in the January 20th, 2015 issue of The Highlander. Though we appreciate and respect both authors civic engagement with the issue, we thought there were several misleading and false portrayals of divestment in the...