A year ago, on any given spring day, you could walk into the little surf shop at the mouth of Price Center–at the end of Library Walk, right before Geisel, at the top of the stairs that descended into the plaza–and disappear into a slice of UC San Diego largely unknown to the thousands of […]
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Submission: How UCSD Shaped My Core
Most of the memorable lessons I learned at UC San Diego occurred outside of its academic environment. On the same day I was accepted as a UCSD freshman in 1975, I was turned down by Stanford University, which was my first choice and the only other university to which I had applied. In retrospect, I […]
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Statement Regarding Incident at Merced from AS Office of External Affairs at UCM, UCSD, & UCI
Saturday evening, July 8, 2017 at a Black student gathering in a Merced hookah lounge, Merced city police abruptly raided the space with claims of searching at least one of the individuals present for drugs. The aggression brought in the space was met with defense and the events that followed lead to several students sustaining […]
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Submission: Pride and Protest
With marriage equality recognized in all 50 states; a Republican president who has been pressured into symbolic commitments to equal rights; and members of the LGBTQ community beginning to serve openly in clergy, the Boy Scouts, and the US Armed Forces; it is readily apparent why some erroneously see “the end of the culture wars” […]
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Submission: Save the Jewel
We are organizing against the expansion of UC San Diego because in 1849, when California placed in its Constitution the objective of a complete educational system, Governor Low suggested that the university system be based on the University of Michigan system. The state auditor’s reports have caused the Regents of the UC system and Janet […]
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The Hospitality of HDH Director Mark Cunningham
Keeping In Context “Students are lazy and they don’t really want to commute, so it’s a real big challenge.” That’s what Housing*Dining*Hospitality (HDH) Director Mark Cunningham said to a panel of around 100 developers, builders, and architects last November. Apart from picking up traction on Reddit, his comments, published in the Business Section of The […]
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Student Thinks 3D Printers Are Too Expensive, Builds His Own
“It’s basically a hot glue gun on motors.” This is how Tommy Spencer, a second year aerospace engineering major, explains his home made custom-built 3D printer. Spencer, the propulsion research lead for the UC San Diego Human-Powered Submarine Team (HPS), needed a low cost solution in order to quickly fabricate and test different versions of […]
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The MENding Monologues: A Vulnerable Masculinity
The MENding Monologues opens like a Macklemore song. “When I was a kid, I often wondered if I was gay,” declared second-year student Chris Doherty, reciting “Man Up,” a canon monologue that details the story of a straight man who likes theater and dance. “But just as I can’t deny that I am a singing, […]
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Students Petition for Disability Resource Center, Equity
A group of eleven students sat around a tile table inside a half-study space, half-Thai restaurant. Late in the Spring Quarter, the group had been discussing for weeks what their next action would be. Inside of the on campus restaurant Hi-Thai was hardly a choice location for meetings, but this was exactly what they were […]
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Seventh College Currently in Planning Stages
UC San Diego is currently in the planning stages of building a seventh college. The current proposal by the Seventh College Planning Task Force, published on the Academic Senate website on May 31, suggests two options: a college focusing on interdisciplinary themes or transfer students. The task force suggested that if an interdisciplinary college is […]