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NEWS
UC System Creates Largest Vaccine Mandate in Higher Education
The University of California (UC) announced that it is considering plans to require students, staff, and faculty to receive a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to campus …...
UC Cops Off Campus Coalition to Hold Work Stoppage and Protest
The University of California (UC) Cops Off Campus coalition is organizing a nationwide...
COVID-19 Vaccinations Now Available to Students at RIMAC
UC San Diego announced that students will be eligible to receive their vaccination at the...
Class Of 2020 Calls For UCSD to Hold An In-Person Commencement Ceremony
Several Class of 2020 graduates are calling on UC San Diego to hold an official...
Opinion
Ellamentally Yours: Finding Where Our Roots Grow
Dear Reader, Where do your roots lie? Our roots can stretch across continents, and they don’t always have a single point of origin. I was born …...
Ellamentally Yours: Understanding Our History Through Healing
Dear Reader, I was chatting with an old friend recently, and we started discussing the...
The Sauce: “Say It Loud: I’m Black & I’m Proud!”
Hey, my loves and happy Black History Month! It’s February again and although this...
Ellamentally Yours: Spirituality, Medication, and The Mind
Dear Reader, I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions because I pretty...
ARTS AND CULTURE
The Triton Recommends: TV Shows You Should Get Into
Are you bored from being in quarantine for more than a year? Do you need an interesting distraction to help you procrastinate finishing your assignments? Well, …...
What Makes Seventh College’s New Writing Course Different?
The end of Winter Quarter marks the first completed course of Synthesis 1 for 320 Seventh...
New Target Opens on Campus
Now that the long anticipated on-campus Target is a few weeks old, we can begin to see...
Groundworks Books becomes first Co-Op to Reopen since March
Groundworks Bookstore reopened its doors on October 26 for the first time since March....
FEATURES
COVID-19 hits student workers hard: ‘’It took away my only source of income”
Just ten weeks ago, the UC San Diego bookstore was bustling with activity. The store was filled with students grabbing scantrons, picking up extra pencils, and …
The #MeToo Era: Challenges in Reporting Sexual Assault at UC San Diego
Content Warning: This article mentions sexual assault UC San Diego joined universities from all over the nation in honoring the 2019 Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). …
Beyond a Life in the Red
Content warning: This article discusses suicide. I. A student took his life last June. All that I could find was a traffic report noting that the …
THE CONCH
Dear The Triton, Please Abdicate Your Moral Authority Like Other Campus Publications
Dear The Triton, I, your lowly former opinion editor, saw a submission in another (more incredible) campus publication today, and it got me thinking about ways …
Introverted First Year Accidentally Joins Every Club on Library Walk
Andrew Nguyen, an introverted first year in Sixth College, along with his suitemates, were invited to meet the members of the Hypebeasts Club during Week 1. …
Khosla Got This Bread So You Don’t Have To
Chancellor Pradeep Khosla was spotted stapling pieces of bread to the Eucalyptus trees in Warren Mall. Ever in touch with the youth, Khosla said, “I keep …
Coronavirus Updates
UC System Creates Largest Vaccine Mandate in Higher Education
The University of California (UC) announced that it is considering plans to require students, staff, and faculty to receive a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to campus …
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