The UC Office of the President announced a $3.3 million pledge to combat food insecurity throughout the UC system in July, with $151,000 allocated to each campus over the next two years. The campus Basic Needs Committee, composed of students, staff, and faculty, will use UCSD’s $151,000 toward financial aid packets, food literacy, meal preparation […]
Posted inThe Conch
Dear Semester System Losers
Quarter system brothers and sisters, This past week, in an attempt to undermine and invalidate of our way of life, The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley released an attacking article attempting to cheapen and scorn our dear, sweet quarter system. The article, entitled Dear Quarter System Losers, is a blatant piece of libel that seeks […]
Posted inCampus, News
UCSD Professor Finds Causal Link Between the Zika Virus and Microcephaly
Dr. Alysson Muotri, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics/Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD, and his lab recently found a causal link between the Zika virus and microcephaly. Microcephaly is a condition where the brain doesn’t develop normally, often leading to smaller than average head size. Prior to the study, there was no direct […]
Posted inCommunity Op-Eds, Opinion, Staff Op-Ed
Zachery Johnson: Legitimacy of Gaming at UCSD
Video games have never been considered a legitimate use of time. For older generations, games were in arcade cabinets, cost a quarter to play and offered little more than a way to pass the time after school. As gaming grew bigger, video game consoles became a household commodity. Many gamers have heard their parents or […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Music
The Triton’s Summer (Almost) Playlist
You sit beside a pile of textbooks, preparing your research paper about how social organization can sustain a colony of army ants. Outside, you see your friends playing frisbee in the sunshine, laughing freely. They are finished with finals. “Lucky for them…,” you think aloud as you down another espresso and return your bloodshot eyes […]
Posted inCampus, News
UCSD Administration Declines to Confirm Fate of University Art Gallery
UCSD administrative staff repeatedly refused to confirm or deny whether the University Art Gallery (UAG) will remain open or closed for the 2016-17 academic year. In the last year, UCSD students and faculty have spoken out against the administration’s decision to suspend the Gallery and, although an email from administrative staff confirmed that the space will […]
Posted inCommunity Op-Eds, Opinion, Staff Op-Ed
Hannah Reinheart: From the Eyes of a UCSD Theatre Major – Going D1
Recent news of the approval of the vote to increase our activities fees in order to move our Athletics Department to D1, as well as the announcement of the closure of the 50-year-old Undergraduate Art Gallery, has forced me to take a step back and question the importance that UCSD places among different departments on […]
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SEDS UCSD Launches Rocket Powered by 3-D Printed Engine
UCSD’s Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS UCSD) launched a rocket powered by a completely 3-D printed engine, making them the first student group to do so. “This sort of technology has really come to fruition in the last few years. This is proof of concept that if students at the undergraduate […]
Posted inEditorial, Opinion
Editorial: Freedom of Speech Does not Justify Chalkings, The Koala, or Your Ignorance
“Because freedom of speech.” This was the rationale of a student chalker the night before Transfer Triton Day, when asked why they were scrawling implicitly-threatening messages across UCSD. The First Amendment protects hateful speech like the chalkings, but does that mean the First Amendment justifies such actions? Does Freedom of Speech justify being an asshole? […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed
LGBT Housing: A University How-to
My first interaction with the idea of LGBT housing was tinged with cynicism. “The university says it’s ‘welcoming’ and ‘values diversity’ and that we’ll be perfectly safe and respected anywhere, but that LGBT housing is some kind of ‘extra safe.’ It seems suspicious to me,” my friend said. We were finishing high school, preparing to […]