Search Results | 'Transportation'
27 May 2010
The cost of parking permits could rise next year — a result of the UCSD Transportation and Parking Services’ $3 million funding deficit. After a $25 student fee designed to fund UCSD’s ailing shuttle service was rejected by the student council in February, the Transportation Policy committee looks to tighten parking regulations through a series [...]
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20 May 2010
Tonight’s two-hour A.S. Council meeting kicked off with a short discussion about the pros and cons of the various trolley lines proposed by the city of San Diego, planned for completion in 2016. A.S. Enterprises Advisory Intern and former Campuswide
Senator Tobias Haglund then presented a list of potential names for the newly approved A.S. Store, [...]
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17 May 2010
ON CAMPUS — Scantron grading machines — printer-like robots that cost upward of $3,500 — have recently become increasingly hard for professors to come by, especially in departments such as political and cognitive science.
Besides being an inconvenience for all of UCSD’s underpaid and overworked professors, the cutback is especially troubling because students often don’t receive [...]
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29 April 2010
Tucked away behind the concrete facade of UCSD’s exterior, there runs an extensive series of committees — small, isolated groups of administrators, faculty members and students charged with drafting the intricate policies that dictate how this campus is run. Meal plans, shuttle routes, housing costs and on-campus speech rights are just a few of the [...]
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26 April 2010
University City
La Jolla Colony
Adouble-layered circle on the edges of the world’s most manicured dog park, La Jolla Colony offers options from high-rise hives (La Regencia) to makeshift villas (Pines of La Jolla) to condos the color of baby food (Verona).
Its biggest perks are a five- to 10-minute proximity to the first and second stops on [...]
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26 April 2010
After two years on campus without a car, I, like many before me, have developed an acute appreciation for life’s smaller pleasures: anything and everything off campus.
During happier, more mobile times, I would never have thought that the stomach-turning texture of an over-microwaved Costco sample or the persistent stench of a crowded gas station could [...]
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08 April 2010
An in-the-works proposal to bring the San Diego trolley system to UCSD has narrowed down three possible routes, and could be completed by 2016, according to Director of UCSD Physical and Community Planning Brad Werdick.
The prospect first arose in 2004 when San Diego’s Regional Planning Agency suggested extending the current trolley system from the Old [...]
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05 April 2010
Utsav Gupta
Gunning for re-election isn’t traditionally on the agenda of an A.S. president. And it’s an especially bold move for Sixth College senior and current president Utsav Gupta, considering his largely unpopular Winter Quarter decision to freeze funding for all student publications, in response to hurtful comments from controversial humor newspaper the Koala.
“I looked at [...]
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05 April 2010
Five candidates attended the A.S. presidential debates last Friday, including two on brand-new slates that grew out of Student Voice! — which swept most election seats in recent years — and a three-person slate called NOW!
Candidates present were current A.S. President Utsav Gupta, on NOW!, Campuswide Senator Wafa Ben Hassine on Students First, Marshall College [...]
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05 April 2010
John Condello
President
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Acts as the student body’s official
representative, and chief executive officer of the A.S. Council
SALARY & BENEFITS
• $10,000 per year
• A-spot parking upgrade
WHY WE ENDORSE HIM
He’s got the right ideas — and the popular support to make them happen.
The Guardian editorial board has been skeptical of a Condello candidacy ever since he tried to [...]
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