E-Romance Is Smarter Than You Think

By Kelsey Marrujo

Going on four years at UCSD, I’ve learned that scoring a decent date from the general pool is just short of impossible — considering 99 percent of on-campus pickup conversations fall flat after, “What’s your major?” That’s where Internet dating sites — widely viewed as the crux of societal shame — swoop in to save the [...]

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Dirty, Sexy Journalism Cheapens the Real Thing

By Reza Farazmand

With good reason, people in Washington are a little weirded out by Patrick Kennedy at the moment. The Rhode Island congressman kind of went off the handle yesterday. And by kind of, I mean a lot. In a fit of rage, Kennedy berated the press for failing to cover an important House discussion on the U.S. [...]

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Check Yo’ Fears Stateside: A Guide to Couch-Surfing

By Sari Thayer

The prospect of sleeping on a stranger’s floor in a foreign country raises a number of questions: How many sweaty, unclothed travelers past have grazed this blanket? Should I run and find a hostel before it’s too late? Is it cool to borrow toothpaste? How-to Guru knows firsthand that couch-surfing is a daunting activity. That’s why, [...]

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Fighting Productivity One Geezer at a Time

By Trevor Cox

Like the many of you who haven’t yet succumbed to the real world of hard deadlines and meals that don’t come in a box, I’m a highly skilled procrastinator. My unwillingness — inability, perhaps — to do things in a timely manner has historically ensured a number of things in life, ranging from a ‘B’ [...]

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After March Forth, We’re a Step Further

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 [...]

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EDITORIALS

The Melt is on, Don’t Stop the Heat

By Editorial Board

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 [...]

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More Meal Points? You Can’t Be Serious

By Editorial Board

You’d think that — after an enormous systemwide student-fee increase and pleas for money to save the Loft and our transportation department — the last on-campus business to ask for more money would be the only one that turns a profit. However, in a discrete effort to pad their lucrative business, Housing, Dining and Hospitality now [...]

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Students Should Take Action Against Prop. 209

By a reader

Dear Editor, The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary congratulates the Black Student Union and all of the black, Latino, American Indian and other students who have waged the brave and inspiring struggle against overt racism and hostility at UCSD. We know from our own experience [...]

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QUICK TAKES

The Sex Offender Next Door

By Guardian Opinion

Law is Useless Without Enforcement James Donnelly, the registered sex offender and new neighbor of Wildwood Elementary School, in Piedmont, is the official guinea pig of a law that never quite reached puberty. Jessica’s Law — mandated in 2006 after its nine-year-old namesake was raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender — requires a minimum [...]

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Feb. 08, 2010  


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