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…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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,…

6 years ago