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The UCSD Guardian

UC San Diego's independent student newspaper since 1967

The UCSD Guardian

UC San Diego's independent student newspaper since 1967

The UCSD Guardian

The Multi-College System: Overflow Error

The Multi-College System: Overflow Error

Jenny Lee May 29, 2019

The original plans for the college system at UCSD are threatened by rising student numbers. Over the past ten years, national college acceptance rates have decreased by about 40 percent. One of the reasons...

Breaking the Glass Ceiling at UCSD

Breaking the Glass Ceiling at UCSD

Charlotte Armstrong May 19, 2019

UC San Diego’s Women in Business is on its way to helping women find the confidence and connections they need to have a fulfilling career in business — and it’s fighting gender norms and social standards...

Riding into the Future

Riding into the Future

May 19, 2019

Will electric scooters lead the future, or become another embarrassing fad? The first time I rode an electric scooter, I was wearing heels. I was interning in Washington, DC, and running desperately late...

Mandatory Mindfulness

Mandatory Mindfulness

Jade Knows His Gun-Wong May 12, 2019

Professor Karen Dobkins discusses her vision of integrating a well-being class into the undergraduate general education curriculum. Every Thursday morning in the Women’s Center, gathered high above...

Impostor Syndrome in Computer Science

Impostor Syndrome in Computer Science

Lara Sanli May 12, 2019

The Guardian explores how impostor syndrome reinforces the gender gap for computer science students. Everyone has experienced feelings of self-doubt or of not belonging at some point. Such impostor feelings...

Stigma and Strippers

Stigma and Strippers

Francesca Hummler May 7, 2019

Photo Editor Francesca Hummler captures the strip club in all of its bare, neon-lit glory, questioning how gender, agency, and sexuality operate within the space. Strip clubs — an experience I have...

What the Sighted Don't See

What the Sighted Don’t See

Apr 28, 2019

If you believe being blind means living in a state of constant darkness, then you may be contributing to a harmful misconception. Most Americans, as “sighted” people, have an inaccurate idea of what...

A Triton is Born

A Triton is Born

Jenny Lee Apr 21, 2019

This past Triton Day, The Guardian spoke with our #FutureTritons about why they decided to commit to UCSD. For many of us students, summer is like a refresh button. Fresh graduates are out seeking jobs...

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Green for Whom? Injustice in Environmentalism

Apr 1, 2019

Christina Roh talks about environmental racism, intersectionality, and toppling Tesla. “I went to a really progressive all-girls school in LA. That seems like an oxymoron, but it was actually a very...