Matthew Alan Arrollado wears crocs to Associated Students Senate meetings, cracks jokes about racecar beds with buddies from the ERC Student Council, and takes serious issue with a lack of transparency in student government. Arrollado, a marine biology major and the current AS Senator for Eleanor Roosevelt College, is running for Vice President of Campus […]
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AS Elections 2016-17: THRIVE
Matthew Arrollado has an album on Facebook entitled “the thrive meme,” with 105 photos of orange objects with captions like “this plate is THRIVing.” It’s an unconventional advertising strategy, but THRIVE, a new progressive campus political party (or slate), is trying to make themselves notable to reach out to the student body. Arrollado is their […]
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AS Elections 2016-17: Students Determined
How can this research institution benefit the local community? That’s the question Students Determined, a progressive campus political party, wants to ask the campus community and if elected, address. This year, in the third iteration of the slate, they are running two executive candidates and twelve of a potential thirteen candidates for AS Senate. Students […]
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Game of Thrones Creator George R.R. Martin to Visit UC San Diego
George R.R. Martin, the critically acclaimed fantasy writer whose series of novels inspired the hit television drama “Game of Thrones,” will visit UC San Diego on May 2nd to discuss his life and work at a public panel hosted by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, UC San Diego announced in a Facebook post today. […]
Posted inOpinion, Staff Op-Ed
Love your hometown, even if you don’t
I can pinpoint the exact moment I decided to not have a southern accent. I was seven years old and going to Witter School in Brawley, California, a small town in Imperial County, close to the Mexican border. A classmate said, “My mama went out to the country to get something.’” He said with a […]
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My Top Fears for Sun God 2017
The lineup will be bad. The lineup will be bad but I will attend anyways in order to maintain my social status as a cool student on campus. The lineup will be bad but I will attend anyways in order to maintain my social status as a cool student on campus but none of my […]
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Tenzing Dolma: A Tibetan refugee’s perspective on the Dalai Lama
Congratulations to UCSD’s graduating class of 2017. As the first person in my family to attend college in the United States, let alone graduate from UC Berkeley this May, I am as excited and proud as any of you graduating this year from this great institution of learning. UCSD is not only famous for its […]
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Freshman Seminars: A First Year Privilege?
Freshman year is fondly remembered by most. For the first time, you are a fully independent being, free to do and eat what you want, and not yet overloaded with the rigors of upper division classes and adult responsibilities. However, it is easy to get caught up in the clamor of college life and miss […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Film
'Hidden Figures' is Not a Feel Good Tale; It’s News
Price Center Theater was packed. There were people standing in the back of the theater because there were not enough seats. I turned to the person seated on my right and asked, “When was the last time you saw a film with three black women playing lead roles in a film?” “I don’t think I’ve […]
Posted inNews, UC System
UC divests from Dakota Access Pipeline companies
The UC has been divesting and will continue to divest from Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, two companies involved in the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to Jagdeep Singh Bachher, Vice President of investments and Chief Investment Officer of the Regents. “Over the history of owning the bonds, we’ve probably had about […]