UC San Diego students Rachel Pryce and Caroline Siegel-Singh debated in the local newspaper on Wednesday over the possibility of abortion pills being distributed on campus. Siegel-Singh and Pryce both submitted opinion pieces to the San Diego Union-Tribune, respectively arguing for and against access to abortion pills on campus. Senate Bill (SB) 320 is a […]
UCSD Students Receive $11,701 Grant to Build Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Yonder Deep, an undergraduate student organization at UC San Diego, was awarded a full budget of $11,701 by the Marine Sciences Academic Senate Resource Committee to create four autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) on Feb. 8. Yonder Deep’s mission, according to its website, is “to empower students to make tangible differences in research, by inspiring lifelong […]
Sixth College Dryers “Explode”; Burn Student Clothing
Sixth College students have been experiencing dryer “explosions” throughout the month of February as a result of a lack of maintenance on the dryer machines. Connor Otto, a Sixth College Bioengineering major and UC San Diego club volleyball player, posted pictures on ”UCSD Memes for Sleep Deprived Tritons” of a dryer malfunction that resulted in […]
Housing, Dining, and Haters: Why Are Students Making Fun of HDH?
Why are students bashing Housing Dining Hospitality (HDH) on Facebook? The recent trend of making fun of HDH food on Facebook has taken on a life of its own, reaching thousands of students. On ”UCSD Memes for Sleep Deprived Tritons,” second year Political Science major Marcel Aviles posted a photo. “Let’s say this place is […]
Congressional Candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar: Admin, Not Professors, Should Deal With White Supremacist Threats
Activist, entrepreneur, and former Obama administration staffer Ammar Campa-Najjar spoke to about 40 UC San Diego students at the College Democrats’ meeting last Tuesday. Campa-Najjar, a San Diego native and San Diego State University alumnus, is running to replace Republican Duncan D. Hunter as the United States Representative for California’s 50th Congressional District. The district […]
Arson and Burglary Committed at Groundwork Bookstore
Unknown suspects smashed the glass door entrance to the Groundwork Bookstore yesterday morning, knocking over bookshelves and lighting a bookcase on fire, causing $500 in damage. Founded in 1973, Groundwork Books is UC San Diego’s student-run bookstore that offers a variety of social justice books related to workers, women, black, Latinx, indigenous, and critical histories. […]
HDH Director Mark Cunningham to Retire
Housing Dining Hospitality (HDH) Director Mark Cunningham will retire at the end of the academic year. Several student government representatives have confirmed Cunningham’s retirement, which will go into effect at the end of the school year. Cunningham has managed HDH for the last 40 years, watching over 5.3 million square feet of facilities contained […]
UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Discusses Free Speech on Campus
UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky spoke about free speech on college campuses on Tuesday in the Price Center Theater to a crowd of around 150 people. “You all know about the [sic] in Charlottesville over the summer, but I don’t know if you read the signs they held up,” Chemerinsky opined about […]
Bill Nye Dedicates the Halicioglu Data Science Institute
CEO of the Planetary Society and famed science educator Bill Nye the Science Guy spoke to more than 100 people at the dedication for the Halicioglu Data Science Institute (HDSI). The dedication, held at the UC San Diego Supercomputer Center, received enthusiastic fanfare from local technology industry leaders and members of the La Jolla community […]
Photographer Canyon Schmerse Captures His Creative Side Through a Camera Lens
Canyon Schmerse, a first year Sixth College student from Salt Lake City, Utah, isn’t good at drawing or painting. But it’s a completely different story when he has his camera. “I remember when I was younger I always wanted those crappy, cheap art kits with all the markers,” Canyon recalls amusedly, despite the fact that […]
