By Kelsey Wong
A couple hundred students literally swarmed the fourth floor of Price Center East yesterday, a bigger crowd than most that have attended A.S. meetings in recent years. The majority of students were there to persuade councilmembers into voting one way or the other on how to fund A.S. media organizations — a debate that began [...]
By Sonia Minden
Friday, Feb. 26 12:07 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A 20-year-old male with long black hair was reported as “playing the violin” at Lot 304, “hiding behind cars” to avoid CSOs. Checks OK. 12:34 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A black male was reported as “screaming … about the current situation on campus” at Price Center East. Saturday, Feb. 27 12:02 a.m.: Citizen contact ▶ [...]
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 Hayley Bisceglia-Martin
The Department of Housing, Dining and Hospitality will vote on a proposal this week to increase mandatory dining dollars by $100 next year, despite evidence that most students living in the residence halls will be left with excess by the end of Spring Quarter. Students living in the residence halls currently pay $2,795 a year in [...]
By Regina Ip
Is your Grandma feeling blue? Take a tip from a recent UCSD study and lend her your Wii for a round of tennis or two — the exercise will do her good. In a study published in February, psychiatrists at the UCSD School of Medicine found evidence that video games that combine the thrill of competition [...]