Staff Op-Ed
The Pandemic Did Not Cause UCSD’s Housing Crisis
UCSD will now offer guaranteed housing only to incoming first-year and transfer students, which is a drastic shift from the pre-pandemic two-year housing guarantees. Not only …
Safe Spaces For Black Students Should Be Protected
If the university claims to stand with Black students and hear us, they would commit more than empty promises in their emails and newsletters. Instead, they …
Labs Need to Step Up, A Call for Undergraduate Research Reform
Everyone wants to make their resume as strong as possible—at a STEM dominated school like UCSD, this means many undergraduates want to get experience working in …
COVID-19 is not the Senior Send-Off We Deserve
Only a couple of weeks ago, I was excited by the potential of my last spring quarter at UC San Diego. After spending all of Winter …
UCSD Needs to Standardize Podcasts Forever, Not Just for Spring Quarter
Amidst fears of COVID-19, UC San Diego has requested that professors podcast starting Spring Quarter 2020. However, it should not have taken an epidemic to temporarily …
COVID-19: Thoughts and Concerns from a Chinese Student
If you are in one of UC San Diego’s meme Facebook groups, you may have seen this meme and other jokes about COVID-19, a type of …
Fractured Experience: A Student Body Divided into Six Colleges
UC San Diego has not only made it harder for students to organize and gather but has also restricted students from getting the full college experience. …
A Place to Call Home: The Question of Transfer Housing
I vividly remember one day early last year, barely into my first quarter as a transfer student at UC San Diego, when I had to go …
A Call for Studying—Not Cramming
A few weeks ago, I saw a meme that was poking fun at how many students feel as if they are just regurgitating information on exams …
My DEI Experience: Successful Accidents and Failed Intentions
Last quarter, I audited ANTH 21 on a day when the class had a discussion about privilege. The professor asked, “Can someone experience white privilege without …
