Friday, April 26, 2024

Tall Tail #13

UCR must keep solicitors from disrupting the reason students are here: Education

On the walkways surrounding the bell tower, the HUB and other areas on and near campus, leafleters, canvassers and other forms of solicitors frequently set up shop and ask for students’ time, donations, signatures...

Op-Ed: An open letter to the UCR community

By: Prof. Emeritus Ivan Strenski, Department of Religious Studies In 2015, I retired after two decades of teaching and service at UCR. I have always been proud to declare myself a member of the UCR...

Tall Tail #12

UCR IT layoffs short-circuit support for campus community

Recently, a spate of layoffs in the UCR Information Technology Solutions (ITS) has raised questions about the support students will receive when trouble inevitably arises with technology on campus, such as in campus computer...

Medical research funding is critical for public health stability

Modern medicine broke another barrier on Monday, Nov. 13, when scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) edited genes inside of a man’s body for the first time in human history. The...

The Museum of the Bible is no apocalypse

A few blocks from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a new Bible-themed museum has kicked a hornet’s nest of irrational outrage. The aptly-named Museum of the Bible (MOTB), funded by an almost $500...

Letter to the Editor: In response to the Highlander’s gas tax editorial

Writer: Kenneth Rosenfield, ’89 MBA UCR Email: [email protected] In response to the Highlander editorial published on November 20, 2017, entitled, "California must put the brakes on new gas tax," the Highlander has its facts right about...