The Highlander
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
For the week of Tuesday, October 15, 2024
VOL. 73, ISSUE 3
est. 1954
AFSCME LOCAL 3299 HELD A STRIKE IN SUPPORT OF PATIENT CARE AND SERVICE WORKERS.
NEWS AFSCME picket at Glasgow protests low wages and short staffing MATA ELANGOVAN Managing Editor
An informational picket was held by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. Beginning at 10 a.m., the group gathered outside of Glasgow Residential Restaurant in support of patient care workers and service workers of the University of California (UC). Danielle Brown, a communications associate for the Local 3299, explained that the purpose of the picket is to inform people in the community what is going on in regards to patient care worker and service worker contract negotiations at the UC system-wide level. The following day on Oct. 10, a post on AFSCME Local 3299’s X account announced that they are “tired of UC’s badfaith bargaining” and that “UC has refused to provide us with even the basic information we need to bargain our contracts.” As such, the Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) Committee called for a strike vote to occur from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30. The contracts that they would be negotiating would contain information remedying “short-staffing and low pay.” NEORAH DAVIS / THE HIGHLANDER
► SEE AFSCME PAGE 4
RADAR In Defense: ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ SPORTS THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE 2019 SMASH HIT “JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX” MAY NOT BE EVERYBODY’S CUP OF TEA BUT IT CERTAINLY DESERVES A TASTE. AAKIF IQBAL Contributing Writer
A piece of art goes beyond the bounds of its existence. A song is not just its recording, a film is not just its shots. What completes and officializes a piece of art, the primer that seals any painting, is the audience’s response to it. This is what separates something from being a complete personal expression and being something more. Whether an audience as a majority determines that a work is good or is bad, is out of the artist’s control. Occasionally, though, what happens to
the response a piece of art gets is not always that it is bad, but sometimes that it is celebrated for the wrong reasons. Todd Phillips’s hit 2019 film “Joker” was a runaway success, making over $1 billion worldwide on a production budget of $55 million. When the film won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, many were quick to claim that the film would inspire realworld violence to take place. Rather than mass riots and anarchy, what resulted from the success of the 2019 film is... ► SEE JOKER PAGE 15
Tailgating Times: Disgusting wait times and lit vibes AN HONEST REVIEW OF THE FAN EXPERIENCE AT DODGER STADIUM. TERRY NGUYEN Assistant Sports Editor
If you’re an avid Dodger fan who has gone to multiple events at Dodger Stadium, you’re probably well versed in understanding the fan experience and culture that playoff Dodger games carry. In the case of me and my friend, Francisco, we absolutely don’t fit that mold at all, so we are going to give an honest assessment of the fan experience at Dodger Stadium. We attended game five of the National League Division Series (NLDS) between the interstate rivals, San Diego Padres (SD) and Los Angeles Dodgers (LAD). It was the first time we ever stepped foot on the historic ballpark grounds, which was fitting because on the same day, two Japanese-born starting pitchers faced off in an elimination game for the first time in MLB history (LAD’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto and SD’s Yu Darvish). The drive to the stadium from Riverside is unsurprisingly flooded with traffic. We left at 2:55 and around 4:40, we were one
mile from the stadium. This is where the Los Angeles (LA) traffic becomes hectic, as we didn’t move much for the next 45 minutes. After paying 50 dollars for general parking, and more waiting, we finally parked the car around 5:30 p.m., arriving at the game in the second inning. “Probably the worst traffic I’ve ever been in … the price was fair for parking, but I still believe that it shouldn’t take [almost an hour] to get in,” Francisco said shortly after parking the car. The LA traffic was quite shocking to us, probably due in part to the fact that we’re both from northern California, where traffic is not as bad as it is in LA. ► SEE DODGER STADIUM PAGE 18
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