Around 200 UC San Diego students, faculty, and community members protested at the Medical Education and Telemedicine Lawn Monday at noon demanding that UCSD Health commits to becoming an anti-racist institution. Most anti-racist institutions adopt proactive policies and actions in order to directly combat racism. Black medical students organized the demonstration to push UCSD Health […]
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Submission: Remove Bret Stephens from the UC Free Speech Center Board
Bret Stephens is unfit to serve on the University of California’s Free Speech Center’s advisory board. Last year, when I visited the Center’s inaugural event in Washington D.C., I watched Stephens tell a Black UC student that her understanding of the world is wrong: She shouldn’t take politics too seriously, he said, because political discussions […]
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#BLM San Diego Protests Police Violence in La Jolla
CW: anti-Black violence and police violence Hundreds of local San Diego residents protested Saturday against police violence and the recent killings of Black Americans by demanding widespread systemic changes, such as the demilitarization and defunding of the police. The San Diego #BlackLivesMatter chapter organized Saturday’s caravan protest where participants met at Gliderport and drove throughout […]
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Students and Faculty, Let The Triton Be Your Platform
What makes you angry? How are you responding to George Floyd’s murder? Are you participating in protests? What has your experience been like at UCSD? The Triton’s Editorial Board is reaching out to you, the UCSD community, to share your thoughts and opinions with us about recent incidents of police brutality and racism. As we […]
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A Letter to the Community from the Editor-in-Chief of The Triton
Dear UC San Diego Community, It is with a heavy heart that I write this letter to you, especially during a pandemic and national uncertainty. Since the ongoing national protests began this weekend, I have searched for the appropriate response to address the concerns of you, the community, and ensure that my staff’s needs (mental-health […]
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Submission: Losing Financial Aid During a Pandemic
As a bright-eyed, 17-year-old high school graduate, I was immensely proud of my achievements that led to UCSD granting me the prestigious Regents Scholarship. I entered UCSD under the assumption that the combination of my scholarship, which gives a yearly honorarium of up to $8,000, and need-based financial aid would leave me debt-free by the […]
Posted inCampus, Coronavirus, Feature, News
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 buying that Hydro Flask they had been eyeing all quarter. For Virgil, a student working in the Bookstore’s marketing department, it was business as usual. Even as the number […]
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P/NP Deadline Moved to End of Finals Week
Editor’s Note: This article is breaking and will be updated as more information becomes available. UC San Diego’s Academic Senate announced this morning that it will be moving the deadline to select the Pass/No Pass (P/NP) grade option from the end of Week 10 to the end of Finals Week. The deadline change follows calls […]
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UCSD Music Professor Anthony Davis Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize
UC San Diego Music Professor Anthony Davis was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera titled The Central Park Five on May 4. Premiering at the Long Beach Opera on June 15, 2019, the opera tells the powerful story of The Central Park Five, a group of African-American and Latino teenagers wrongly […]
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Sigma Chi to Remain Deregistered Until June 2022
Content warning: sexual harassment The UCSD chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity has been deregistered until June 2022 based on preliminary findings from the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) and the Center for Student Involvement (CSI) investigations. After June 2022, the fraternity will enter a two-year probationary period. The Office of […]