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04 February 2010
… is still uncertain, after the A.S. Council postponed a decision last night on whether to run the Transportation Referendum on the Spring Quarter election ballot.
If placed on the ballot and passed by the student body, the referendum would instate a fee of $25 per-undergraduate per-quarter to maintain UCSD’s free public-transportation services.
In the [...]
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04 February 2010
After two important referenda discussions, three impeachments on the table, and eight hours after the beginning of debate, the A.S. Council left the fourth floor forum in Price Center East at almost 3 a.m.
During the meeting’s public input session, Marshall Chair Tanvir Dhillon announced the new Marshall A.S. senator Junn Paulino, who was a member [...]
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04 February 2010
It’s money-huntin’ season again — that time of the year when a handful of broke organizations try their best to throw themselves onto the A.S. Council’s election ballot, in hopes the student body might vote to fund them come springtime.
This year, in an attempt to subsidize shuttle service costs, the Parking and Transportation Department asked [...]
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04 February 2010
God knows we love the Loft. But we’re not ready for this kind of commitment.
Last year, one too many A.S. Council meetings dragged crankily to 2 a.m., until the council finally voted against letting the Price Center music venue the Loft ask students for $2.67 per quarter. (Or at least against putting it on the [...]
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28 January 2010
Things got heated between councilmembers at last night’s meeting as they argued over legislation and the impeachment of absent councilmembers.
The forum was crowded with members of student media organizations, who vocalized their opposition to the A.S. media guidelines proposal. However, the media guidelines were postponed indefinitely and therefore were not up for discussion at this [...]
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04 January 2010
Subpar Communication Is at Fault
The failed Christmas-day bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 raises doubts about American intelligence abroad.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — the Nigerian man who made it onto a flight to Detroit with an explosive in his underwear — wasn’t necessarily subtle in his attempt to blow his flight up, yet most hints were overlooked. Abdulmutallab wrote about [...]
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03 December 2009
UCSD researchers have developed a cell-phone application to help illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border more safely. The application — the Transborder Immigrant Tool — is a controversial device that some consider a humanitarian project and others an illegal aid to smugglers.
The project to create the application, led by assistant visual-arts professor Ricardo Dominguez and [...]
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03 December 2009
The particulars of the language of a Winter Quarter 2010 student survey — as well as a prolonged debate over various allocations of funds — dominated the drawn-out final Fall Quarter A.S. council meeting last night.
An especially lengthy presentation from Professor Ross Frank of the Ethnic Studies department encouraged the council to install an impartial [...]
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03 December 2009
Next quarter, your education is going to cost more. A lot more. A small group of important people in suits made that decision for you last month.
As expected, this made students angry. They protested. They cried. They made a lot of Facebook groups. As also expected, the increase passed anyway.
It’s always frustrating to look back [...]
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03 December 2009
Dear Editor,
The Nov. 23 article “Grass with No Roots” brought to light several issues with sustainability efforts on campus. The author’s apparent confusion concerning those efforts, however, highlights an even more pressing matter: the lack of communication and collaboration regarding sustainable endeavors.
When a reporter for the Guardian does not even have enough information to write [...]
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