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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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’ [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]