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Women’s Center to Host Discussion with Robin Hamilton

To honor Women’s “Herstory Month,” the UC San Diego Women’s Center will be hosting a screening of the documentaries This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer and Dignity & Defiance: A Portrait of Mary Church Terrell followed by a discussion with the director of both documentaries, Robin Hamilton. Filmmaker, journalist, and […]

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UC Santa Cruz Graduate Students on Strike Receive Termination Letter

At least 54 graduate student workers on strike at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) received a letter today notifying them of the university’s intent to dismiss them from their spring quarter teaching assistant (TA) appointments. Graduate student workers at UCSC went on a wildcat strike withholding grades in December, demanding that administrators meet to negotiate a […]

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Visual Arts Graduate Students Organize Around Promises For Increased Funding

Before graduate students across the University of California system joined together demanding a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), UC San Diego Visual Arts graduate students organized a department town hall in order to address complaints due to decreases to program funding. After months of repeatedly voicing concerns over decreases in funding and increases to their […]

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UCSD Graduate Students Circulate Strike Poll as Two More Campuses Join COLA Strike

UC San Diego graduate students sent out a strike poll last night for the Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) campaign to help determine whether graduate students at UCSD are willing to strike. If willing, UCSD graduate students would join in the wildcat strike that was started at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and has since expanded […]

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UCSD Graduate Students to Withhold Final Grades If UCSC Strikers Are Terminated

Around 150 UC San Diego demonstrators from the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) campaign led a walkout today at 11:00 a.m. in response to threats from UC administrators to fire striking graduate student workers at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC). UCSD 4 COLA is a part of a systemwide coalition demanding that UC administrators negotiate with […]

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UCSD Graduate Students Demonstrate in Support of Systemwide Cost of Living Adjustment

The UC Student Workers Union, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, held a systemwide demonstration on Monday, demanding that the UC system re-enter negotiations for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA).  This demonstration was held in solidarity with the ongoing wildcat strike occurring at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), which started when graduates students withheld Fall […]

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Studying With Focus Flows

With midterms season in full swing, students can get overwhelmed by high stress, preventing them from being in the optimal emotional state while studying or testing. In times of panic, students should review test material while jamming to their favorite tunes—it is proven that studying with music can help reduce stress! Before reviewing and explaining […]