Reports of impending budget cuts and layoffs rocked the UC system throughout the spring 2025 quarter. Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to lower California’s deficit...
While the right to freedom of speech is vital, it does not surpass the importance of granting any individual the opportunity to safely seek and receive necessary medical care.
The lack of governmental initiatives addressing these systemic issues can be attributed to the deep roots of colonialism in U.S. history, which makes this crisis difficult to fully eradicate — but there are rising grassroots efforts that help. The Murdered Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement has been a strong advocate for legal action and recognition against gender-based violence towards Indigenous women.
However, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause is not a sufficient substitute for a robust Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and misconstruing it as such only endangers women’s rights. Ratifying the ERA is integral to women’s rights in the United States as it ensures constitutional protection against sex discrimination; the proposed amendment is a vital piece to gender equality that has long been undermined.
Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed Senate Bill 3, which seeks to ban “adult cabaret entertainment” — including drag performers — from performing in public spaces, on March 2. While the bill has been hailed by some for protecting children from obscenity, the bill actually only serves to further stigmatize and endanger youths belonging to the LGBTQ+ community.
Last November, four women in the UCI community came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Francisco J. Ayala, an evolutionary biologist and one of UCI’s most prominent benefactors.
This past Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing to assess the recent allegations made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford.
Initially, Proposition 57 seemed to be a feasible solution to California’s prison overcrowding. It promised that nonviolent offenders would be offered parole if they...
By Elyse Joseph
Precious the hen strolls around her owner Sharon Portman's backyard, unafraid of everything — not the humans, with whom she is amiable,...
In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown proposed measures to restrict water usage statewide, which passed due to California's drought status. Last year’s cutback was...
Longstanding precedents established in the Associated Students of UCI (ASUCI) Constitution and By-Laws were brought into question during last week’s Legislative Council meetings.
According...
