The United States is a primed political powder keg — which UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Playwriting Deborah Stein and her creative partner, Performer and Director Suli Holum, fully understand. Stein and Holum have created a new theatre piece that explores the extent of modern behavioral tendencies, using the platform of a political campaign. […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Dance
ZOR: From Bollywood to Justin Bieber
Brains, beauty, or Bollywood dance skills — one would think you could only pick one, maybe two if you are lucky. However, UCSD’s nationally recognized dance team, ZOR, proves you can have all three. Since their on-campus establishment in 2009, they have been taking Bollywood dance competitions by storm through their innovative choreography, precise dance […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Music
UCSD Students & Alumni Unite at NAMM 2016
ANAHEIM — From January 21 to January 24, UCSD students and alumni visited with 100,000 other attendees the 2016 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center. Now over a century old, NAMM—the National Association of Music Merchants—is a nonprofit organization whose objective is to buoy the music products industry and spread on a global scale […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed
San Diego is bringing back Silicon Beach
Forbes 30 under 30 came out just a few weeks ago, and it seems that San Diego had two top notch representatives: Daniel Lee and Sarah Guthals, who are both UCSD alums. Both also are actively running their startup ventures from sunny San Diego, a trend that to many who aren’t closely following the scene may find incredibly odd.
Posted inCampus, News
Sixth College to be Relocated to Muir Parking Lots
Construction of the “Living Learning Neighborhood,” a number of buildings including a ‘mixed-use’ residential facility and a Social Sciences building, is estimated to be completed in the Muir Upper and Lower Lots by fall 2019. Director of Physical and Community Planning Robert Clossin announced this in a presentation to Muir College Council in January. Plans […]
Posted inThe Conch
Regents Move to Raise Winds
Already upset about the recent series of raises in tuition, notably the adjustments to the already contentious scheme of tiered cohort pricing, students could barely contain their frustration over the recent announcement by the UC Regents to “raise the winds”. “Unfortunately when the state fails to provide the necessary funding for our system, we must […]
Posted inEditorial, Opinion
Editorial: What D-I Does Not Do
On Wednesday, Jan. 27, UCSD Associated Students unanimously approved a motion to put Division I status up to a campus-wide vote. If approved, it’s important to know what Division I would not do: there are no upcoming plans for a football team, no guarantee of an increase in our school’s national ranking, and most importantly, […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Dance
ArtPower Talks Dance and Kota Yamazaki
I like dance; I do. I just wouldn’t necessarily call myself a “dance person.” I can hold my own in conversations about literature and film and music, but dance particular has always been a bit outside my scope. For me, dance exemplifies a form of abstract expressionism that I struggle to fully grasp, constantly finding […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Visual Arts
Find Your Footing
As soon as you walk into the Find Your Footing gallery exhibition, you are trying to find your own. Neda Kerendian, the artist, is straightforward with her goal: to look at the same basic form of this blurry hectic life, but to realize the need to stop and look around. When asked why she’s an […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed
The Curious Case of the Disappearing Culture
It is 4:30 pm and the setting sun is beaming right at me from an open door in the Structural and Mechanical Engineering building’s Visual Arts Presentation Lab. The rows of theater seats are near-full, which is sometimes a rarity at the New Writing Series. I’m only there because I ran into a friend who […]