The three-week media freeze — ordered by A.S. President Utsav Gupta on Feb. 19 — was lifted at Wednesday’s A.S. council meeting, after the council voted 5-13-5 to fail a last-minute amendment that proposed a government speech model. The model would have allowed the council to fund — through advertisements — only the media organizations [...]read more
Most Underrated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Speaking as someone who winces at the name Wes Anderson, I have to give it to him: His shit may be fucking kitsch and overrated, but “Fantastic Mr. Fox” wasn’t half bad. If anything, Anderson’s stop-motion, miniature marvel was unfairly eclipsed because of the cutesy iron curtain trailing “Up” (whose reviews were as [...]read more
For all you fortunate souls who spent last night somewhere other than the fourth floor of Price Center East: It was mayhem. Not mayhem by the magnified standards we usually put on A.S. Council affairs, all tangled up in bureaucratic floss over something as inconsequential as a sheet of paper proclaiming either “we condemn” or “we [...]read more
March is the most exciting month of the year for college hoops. As if the win-or-go-home formula was not enough, the NCAA’s selection committee found a way to raise the stakes even higher for the Tritons. In what might be the most interesting matchup in the field of 64 teams, UCSD women’s basketball is scheduled to [...]read more
By Angela Chen
The three-week media freeze — ordered by A.S. President Utsav Gupta on Feb. 19 — was lifted at Wednesday’s A.S. council meeting, after the council voted 5-13-5 to fail a last-minute amendment that proposed a government speech model. The model would have allowed the council to fund — through advertisements — only the media organizations [...]
By Editorial Board
The past three weeks of race rallies notwithstanding, it’s pretty rare for most on this campus to care about something enough to band together and get noticed. So when Library Walk reached max capacity last Thursday, filled with students and faculty members protesting fee hikes, budget cuts, acts of racism and myriad other problems within the [...]
By Zoe Sophos
Nearly 10,000 years after three tribal fishermen were buried in what is now the ritzy enclave of La Jolla Farms — just west of the Muir College campus — their bones have yet to find a final resting place. Ever since the remains were uncovered by archeology students from Cal State Northridge in 1976, the UCSD [...]
By Neda Salamat
“Green Zone” Starring Matt Damon & Khalid Abdalla Directed By Paul Greengrass Rated R 01:55 Green Zone” follows patriotic Chief Miller (Matt Damon) on his hunt for weapons of mass destruction through a war-torn Iraq. As its WMD team raids empty warehouses and other abandoned, deteriorating buildings, Miller begins to suspect that the intelligence arriving from undisclosed source “Magellan” are [...]
By Liam Rose
March is the most exciting month of the year for college hoops. As if the win-or-go-home formula was not enough, the NCAA’s selection committee found a way to raise the stakes even higher for the Tritons. In what might be the most interesting matchup in the field of 64 teams, UCSD women’s basketball is scheduled to [...]