Welcome back, Tritons! First off, I would like to say farewell to the class of 2020 and wish you all good luck as you embark on new adventures. Secondly, I would like to welcome all new students who have just taken their first steps onto UCSD’s campus this year. We are so happy to see […]
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Disability Activists Criticize UCSD
Students, faculty, and activists are expressing their frustration toward the UC system for inadequate accommodations and lack of representation for the disabled community, especially at UC San Diego (UCSD). According to a November 2020 report gathered from UC Office of the President (UCOP) data and UC campuses’ Disabled Student Services (DSS) offices, the percentage of […]
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Muir Student Dies in Tragic Fall
Early Oct. 23, K. Wayne Yang, the provost of Muir College, announced in an email that a Muir student passed away. No further details about the tragedy were disclosed in the email. According to NBC 7 San Diego, the San Diego County Medical Examiner identified the 18-year-old student as Aaron Fan. After Fan fell from […]
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Lecturers Protest Working Conditions at UC Schools
The University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) union, which represents lecturers, librarians, and K-12 educators across the University of California (UC), rallied in front of Geisel Library at 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 14. This protest raised awareness of working conditions lecturers face and their struggle to get the UC to address their concerns. Lecturers are […]
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UCSD Students face Housing Crisis as Enrollment Rises
Due to a massive influx of students seeking off-campus housing, thousands of UC San Diego students are struggling to secure housing for the 2021-22 school year, a predicament that students have dubbed a “housing crisis.” One second year transfer student has been left homeless, and plans on living out of their car until they can […]
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UCSD Wants a Green New Deal
University of California San Diego (UCSD) students and staff rallied in solidarity with the global climate strike in front of Geisel Library on Sept. 24. This protest was lead by Green New Deal at UCSD, an organization that advocates for an end to the university’s carbon neutrality initiative and demands the university to commit to […]
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Ellamentally Yours: Self Care is Key
Dear Reader, Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! This month I challenge you to ask what self-care looks like to you. I’m sure it’s different for every single person, and we may each have our own individual methods for coping with separate aspects of our mental health–I know that the way I manage my anxiety is […]
Posted inCoronavirus, Opinion, 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 is this change a reduction from previous guarantees, it also stands in stark contrast to a goal that UCSD established in 2019 when Chancellor Pradeep Khosla claimed “[w]e want […]
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Student Advocacy and Activism Highlighted at the #SpeechMatters Conference
The third annual #Speech Matters conference, hosted by the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, took place on April 20th and 21st. The conference aimed to tackle topics that are exceedingly relevant, including communication during the COVID-19 pandemic and student activism and advocacy. The two-day event invited speakers from all over the […]
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Sixth College: Making the Most of Isolation?
One of the pandemic’s largest tolls on campus life has recently become strikingly obvious in the case of Sixth College students. The orders to remain isolated at home has evidently driven the campus residents to perform, what many are calling, a miraculous feat. Despite heavily reduced numbers of students living on campus, the residents have […]