The UC San Diego Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination (OPHD) has not released an annual report since 2015, when they discontinued the report format. According to the OPHD website, annual reports aim to “inform the university community about the character… [and] the work performed by OPHD.” Annual reports include complaints about sexual harassment […]
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Where Did the Big Red Chair Go?
The Big Red Chair in Revelle College, the art piece behind Galbraith Hall, has been destroyed by the Theatre and Dance Department at UC San Diego. Not designed for prolonged outdoor use, the chair’s wood began to rot, and its metal rusted to the point where it was structurally unsound. Furthermore, UCSD’s Environment, Health & […]
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Constructive Criticism: UCSD Prioritizes Campus Expansion Over Student Life
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla claims that if you were to go to sleep today and wake up five years from now, you wouldn’t recognize the UCSD campus. As a globally recognized university and powerhouse research institution, UCSD has embarked on these ambitions, as the school plans to expand throughout the community with a historic […]
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UCSD’s Election Day Plagued with Unusual Voting Problems
Election Day at UC San Diego may not have seen a 78 percent voter turnout, but voters at UCSD witnessed other unusual occurrences take place, including a widespread lack of ballots at the polls and an unannounced closing of a traditional mail ballot drop-off location. Lack of Ballots Four polling locations at UCSD ran out […]
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No, UCSD’s voter turnout was not 78 percent
A survey from NextGen America claimed that UC San Diego’s voter turnout on Election Day was 78 percent, as reported by Teen Vogue. However, while student turnout did increase at UCSD this year, post-election reports from the San Diego Registrar of Voters Office show that turnout at campus precincts on November 6 was approximately 18.25 […]
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UCSD Prof. Nathan Fletcher Wins Election for San Diego County Supervisor
UC San Diego Professor Nathan Fletcher (D) secured his position as the San Diego County Supervisor for District 4 on November 6, defeating former San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis (R). Aside from the responsibility of representing the greater San Diego area, Fletcher will also be the only Democrat on the Board of Supervisors, which […]
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Democrat Mike Levin Elected to Represent UCSD in Congress
Environmental lawyer Mike Levin defeated Republican businesswoman Diane Harkey in the House race for California’s 49th Congressional District (CA-49). Levin, who won 53.5 percent of the vote, will represent the UC San Diego west campus in Congress for at least the next two years. The CA-49 currently encompasses UC San Diego, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Oceanside, and […]
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Saba to Headline Hullabaloo 2018
Saba will headline the eighth annual Hullabaloo festival, with Vincent and LELAND as supporting acts, on November 16, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. in Matthews Quad. Saba is a rapper and producer from Chicago. He had his first moment in the spotlight after being featured on Chance the Rapper’s second mixtape, Acid Rap, as well as on […]
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An Interview with The Marías
Los Angeles-based band The Marías has taken the underground music scene by storm this year. With only two extended plays (EPs) out, the up-and-coming group has reached more than one million monthly listeners on Spotify and earned a Coachella debut earlier last spring. It’s hard to place The Marías under a specific genre—lead singer María’s Spanish crooning over […]
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Where is Our Money Going?
Fall tuition has struck our (parents’) bank accounts again, and the crazy cycle begins anew. As we start to haggle over Dining Dollars, sell old Halloween costumes on Free and For Sale to afford textbooks, and panic about that free trial for our online math homework running out, we often wonder: Where is all our […]