The chimes that play every hour from Geisel Library are not a recording. 74 individual chime bells make up the carillon, one of UC San Diego’s oldest instruments. Scott Paulson, a 1984 UCSD alumnus, rings them five days a week. The carillon rings every hour from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday […]
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Class Withdrawal Deadline Moved to Week 6 Starting Fall 2018
The UC San Diego Academic Senate voted to move the course withdrawal deadline to the end of Week 6 starting Fall Quarter 2018. The UCSD Academic Senate, which oversees educational policy, voted to change the deadline at its June 6 representative assembly meeting. Currently, if a student drops a course after Week 4 but before […]
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Prof. Thomas Healy Disputes National Free Speech Narrative in Talk at UCSD
Atlantic contributor and Seton Hall Constitutional Law Professor Thomas Healy spoke about free speech on college campuses and the limits of free speech last Wednesday in Price Center East Ballroom. “If you’ve paid any attention to the news in the last year or two, you probably know that free speech in the United States is […]
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UCSD Hosts Annual “BladeRunner” Fencing Tournament
The UC San Diego fencing team hosted the 22nd annual BladeRunner Tournament last weekend, featuring participants from various fencing clubs all over California, as well as a few clubs from outside the state. The BladeRunner Tournament began in 1988. It was discontinued in 1996 and then revived in 2004. Since then, the event has grown […]
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CSE 134B Midterm Study Guide Defaced with Racial Slur; Professor Responds
The online study guide for the CSE 134B midterm was defaced 86 times with the word “nigger” by an unnamed student on Sunday, Oct.29 at around 11:50 p.m., the night before the midterm. CSE 134B: Web Client Languages Design is an upper division computer science course taught by Professor Thomas Powell, which focuses on the […]
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Meccore String Quartet Celebrates 10th Anniversary at UCSD
As the Meccorre Quartet celebrates the tenth anniversary of their formation, they return to UC San Diego for a third time. The quartet is a young, acclaimed Polish ensemble that tours around Europe and the United States. Their newest album, Grieg: Complete String Quartets, received the prestigious German Record Critics Award: “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenktitik.” […]
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Rising Star Emily Beihold Explores Adolescence through Music
Emily Beihold, a first year at UC San Diego, received her first piano in 2006… and the rest was musical history. She started off learning classical music, but soon realized that playing classical pieces didn’t call out to her as much as her own melodies did. She immediately began to learn how to chart chords […]
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GoldLink to Headline at Seventh-Annual Hullabaloo Festival
GoldLink, Pham, and courtship. will perform at the seventh annual Hullabaloo event on November 17, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. in Matthew’s Quad. Headliner GoldLink from Washington, D.C., is a rapper formerly named D’Anthony Carlos. GoldLink got his start with The God Complex, a free mixtape first released on SoundCloud in July 2014. GoldLink then collaborated with famous music producer […]
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A Night with Daniel Caesar and Snoh Aalegra
“I am already crying” was the phrase of the night. Concertgoers showed up to the venue two hours before the sold out show to secure a good view. While in line, some attendees prepared for exams using study guides saved to their phones. Tickets for the show were sold out within days of being made […]
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Atlantic Contributor Thomas Healy to Discuss Free Speech at UCSD
The Atlantic contributor Thomas Healy will visit UC San Diego to discuss free speech at college campuses on Wednesday, Nov. 8. Healy, a law professor at Seton Hall University, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Price Center East Ballroom. The author of The Great Dissent, the story of how Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell […]