Tag: the editorial board
Wilcox puts UCR down by making deans step down
Recently, Dean Reza Abbaschian of UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), who had served in the position for 11 years, is stepping down from...
New California laws are a women’s rights victory
Two recent California laws are playing a major role in expanding women's rights. The first, which significantly eases access to birth control pills, was...
Better access for transfers is better for the UC system
The University of California and the California Community Colleges (CCC) system have approved a collaborative effort to increase UC enrollment of community college students...
The Oscars are just the tip of Hollywood’s racist iceberg
The Oscars have come and gone, and with them, an array of questions and controversy regarding race, representation and Chris Rock humor. This awards...
Editorial: The new age of social media protests
It’s been true for a long time that the spread of social media has changed what we do and how we do it. We...
Editorial: Improving the college commencement
What is college all about? Of course there’s the preparation for entering society as a full-fledged adult. That’s what taking classes and doing research...
Editorial: Pay our student athletes
Samantha Sackos worked at her university’s athletics department for four years. In her position and others like it, people frequently work over 40 hours...
Editorial: UC should seek student guidance to develop its policies
For many people, the thought of using a restroom in public doesn’t cause much consternation. There may be a few germaphobes among us who...
Editorial: Playing the game to beat it: UCR’s battle to change...
What is it, exactly, that makes a college, in the eyes of the public and students, prestigious? Most of us know the name of...