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Catalonia: The Next State of Europe?

By Charlotte Berends UCR Class of 2014 On Thursday, September 26, the Catalan Parliament adopted a resolution stating that an exact date, an explicit question, and the precise legal process for a referendum on the self-determination of Catalonia would be determined by the end of the year. This resolution marks yet another step in Catalonia’s…

The Road to Equality in the UN Security Council

By Julia Airey Staff Writer Recent diplomatic actions in the 68th session of the UN General Assembly by Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, has caused the much-discussed debate about representation in the Security Council to resurface.  President Mugabe argued that the UN does its members an injustice by allowing Europe two of the five seats on…

Midterm Week Cooking

By Tessa van Hoorn Staff Writer Those dreaded weeks of the semester are coming up again, and faster than you think. That’s right; midterm week is just around the corner. As I was looking in my diary, I realized how soon midterm was coming up, and I was thinking about all the presentations, papers, and…

The Rocky History of The Muslim Brotherhood

By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier UCR Class of 2014 On August 17, 2013, interim Prime Minister of Egypt, Hazem el-Beblawi, proposed the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just days later, he backed down from the idea, saying instead that his government would continue to closely monitor the group. And this is just the most recent difficulty faced…

Undesirables in Prison

By Hanna van Leent Staff Writer Where are you from? If you are not from The Netherlands, then there is a chance that your fellow countrymen, -women and children are being held in custody in the Netherlands without having committed any crime – apart from the fact that their request of asylum has been turned…

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