According to the UC San Diego commencement website, the weekend of June 13 and 14 is still scheduled for graduation festivities, including the 2020 All-Campus Commencement Ceremony. However, the website also warns that plans may change as the COVID-19 pandemic develops, and states that participating students and faculty will be notified via email if plans […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed, Student Life
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 Quarter 2020 studying for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), I was finally ready to actually enjoy college. There is still so much I haven’t done that I desperately […]
Posted inCampus, Coronavirus, News
Third UCSD Student Tests Positive for COVID-19
Three students have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a recent update via TritonAlert. The update does not specify if the third individual was in contact with the two students who tested positive on March 28 and March 23 respectively. UCSD medical staff are in the process of contacting individuals who may have been in […]
Posted inSubmission, 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 to improve the campus media environment. I’m writing to ask that The Triton adopt a journalistic standard of inviolable integrity akin to a skyscraper built out of toothpicks. This […]
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82% of Undergraduate Students Terminate Housing Contracts
82% of undergraduates and 6% of graduate students living on campus have terminated their housing contracts by the March 29 deadline, according to UC San Diego Associate Director of Communications Leslie Sepuka. There were 11,687 undergraduates and 3,531 graduate students housed on campus at the start of the 2019–20 school year. UCSD Housing Dining Hospitality […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed
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 implement a change which has been long overdue. UCSD needs to standardize podcasts for courses not only as a response to this health crisis, but also to compensate for […]
Posted inCampus, Coronavirus, News
Second UCSD Student Resident Tests Positive for Coronavirus
A second UCSD student resident has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a recent TritonAlert sent out today. The student is described as a “close contact” of the first student who tested positive on March 23. As with the first student, this student is under self-isolation and is receiving care. Samir Nomani is an Assistant […]
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Live COVID-19 Updates: Transportation Services Makes A, B, S, and D Permits Interchangeable for Spring Quarter
Transportation Services sent an email last night with service changes for Spring Quarter. All permits (except V) will be interchangeable in every parking lot except Gilman and reserved spots. Weekend parking rates will apply on weekdays, so parking on campus will be $6 a day. Parking permit holders can cancel their permit and receive a […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Events on Campus, Visual Arts
Art Gallery: Highlighting Women in STEM
Although art and science are an unlikely pair, women in STEM have shown that the subjects can coexist in both their personal interests and their work. “Bloom: Women Growing Their Roots in STEM” highlighted this overlap in an art gallery. It officially opened on March 6 in Room 142 of the Structural and Materials Engineering […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Events on Campus, Music
The Driver Era Brought the Energy to Rock N’ Roosevelt
As a new transfer student, I haven’t had the chance to attend many UC San Diego events yet, so as I got ready for Rock N’ Roosevelt, I was buzzing with excitement. Rock N’ Roosevelt, an annual concert organized by Eleanor Roosevelt College, has previously hosted student bands as well as popular indie acts like […]