Perpetual University of California (UC) tuition hikes have also heightened the stress and anger levels of students. But a group of UC Riverside students have proposed a solution to tuition increases. more ›

A protest at the UC Regents meeting in Riverside yesterday devolved into a clash with police that resulted in two arrests and campus police firing pepper balls at protesters. Students were on the UC Riverside campus to protest tuition hikes and ask UC Regents to demand more funding from the state. more ›

If you found yourself standing in the line at a UC Riverside cafeteria recently, it might be time to check your credit report: the school announced yesterday that nearly 5,000 credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen from their system. more ›

Keep your eye on the mailbox if you're a UC Riverside student, faculty member or nearby resident -- 1,500 people have been notified to come in for testing after a student at the university tested positive for tuberculosis. KTLA reports that the student got the diagnosis last week, and is now being put up in an apartment near campus where he or she will remain until the disease runs its course. more ›

Ten Muslim students who interrupted a speech by Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren in February of last year at UC Irvine were found guilty of two misdemeanors today, reports L.A. Now. The charges against the students, who have come to be known as the Irvine 11 (eleven students were originally arrested), were two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt Oren's speech. more ›

The body of missing UC Riverside student Alan Sun-Long Lin, 23, was found yesterday morning floating in Newport Harbor's Rhine Channel. The Irvine resident had been missing for about two weeks, according to the Daily Pilot. According to Newport Beach Police Sgt. Steve Burdette the body appeared to have been in the water for a while, but did not show signs of foul play. A full autopsy is pending. more ›

With local Big West school Cal State Northridge in the Big Dance, here's a little Big West love. During the Big West tournament in Anaheim last week, the mascots from the nine schools competed in a mascot tournament at the ESPN Zone in Anaheim. more ›

As part of a week-long push, students on University of California campuses have been working hard to register as many Californians as possible before Monday's deadline. The effort is part of the UC Students Vote! Project, which began on October 13th and will run until the 20th. The week earned the endorsement of UC System President Yudof last month, and the last tally of newly registered voters was at 8,095 state-wide since the week began. The project is the largest non-partisan youth voter engagement mobilization in the state, and is led and and comprised entirely of students. more ›

- Graduation was canceled today at UC Riverside when police found a firebomb - LA Times more ›

OK so last night's Colbert/Decembrist Green Screen thing wasn't such a great premise but the line-up was incredible. Due to non-existent new programming somebody here suggested that I occupy my time with porn, but this is the TV Junkie spot, not the Porn Junkie spot, I'm not sure that the LAist editorial staff want that to happen yet, and no one has stepped forward to start supplying me with said porn yet either --... more ›

Lakers 101, Pacers 87 - The Lakers won their third in a row to stay atop the Pacific Division in a commanding win over Indiana. Kobe Bryant scored 21 but left the game in the third quarter with a sprained ankle. He returned to the bench shortly after going to the locker room. Before the game, coach Phil Jackson benched starting center Andrew Bynum due to questions over his work ethic, though the 19-year-old... more ›

Southern California is so big that it's easy to lose sight of all its treasures, especially living ones. In our myopia, we tend to think that most writers identified with our region all live west of I-15 and south of I-405. Novelist Susan Straight challenges that presumption just as her work challenges so many other notions about race, class and Californian culture. more ›

Over the past few years, string quartet tributes to pop culture have flourished and it can like it's more of a prolific commodity than an artistic endeavor. Vitamin Records are the ones responsible for those String Quartet Tributes you see out there and we are curious who in their right mind made the decision to make a Clay Aiken Tribute? The L.A. based, The Section Quartet (pictured above) participated on a good number of those albums (but not Clay's) and play tonight (think Radiohead) in a concert presented by KCRW at Largo. Some hate this type of strung out tribute music, some love it - we'll let you decide and chime in. more ›

Tonight at 826LA, you can hear LA Weekly blogger Joshua Bearman, Josh Kun (UC Riverside Prof and new music label head) and Salvadore Plascencia will read from their separate books and essays that, in some way, speak on the mixing, melding and clashing of cultures north and south of the border. Free refreshments from tu ciudad and photos by Yvonne Venegas are also on the menu! The reading begins at 7:30 PM and you can rsvp here. more ›

LA native Josh Kun demolishes the myth of the tweed jacket wearing, Euro-centric cannon defending, Ivory Tower clinging English professor. As an intellectual jack-of-all-trades, Kun’s interest in mainstream and far-flung aspects of pop culture ensures he’ll never succumb to the latter component of the "publish or perish" maxim. In addition to his position as Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside, Kun contributes to numerous periodicals and is the author of numerous essays, such as the introduction to Papa, Play for Me: The Autobiography of Mickey Katz. Other projects include his forthcoming book, Audiotopia: Music, Race and America (due this fall from UC Press), and a post as contributing critic to "The Movie Club" with John Ridley (coming to AMC in May). His professional roster also encompasses multimedia curating, serving as a DJ and VJ, consulting on matters related to Latin music and numerous aspects of pop culture, and writing about Tijuana. more ›