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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

Photos used with permission from SEDS.

To the Moon and Beyond

Jennifer Grundman May 17, 2015

  For some university students, the sky is hardly the limit. As part of the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association’s Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, UCSD’s Students for the...

Redesigning UCSD

Redesigning UCSD

Allison Kubo May 13, 2015

In the lower level of the Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1346 is brimming not only with office chairs and neon post-it notes, but also ideas. The space houses Design.UCSD, aka COGS 198,...

By the Light of the Moon

By the Light of the Moon

Karly Nisson May 13, 2015

On the weekend of May 2, the walls of Mandeville Auditorium were converted into the panoramic windows of Geisel Library, and those with tickets to the La Jolla Symphony were transported from a dark theater...

Areas effected by exceptional drought. Graphic courtesy of Drought Monitor.

When In Drought

Allison Kubo May 4, 2015

Out of 38.8 million Californians, most of us brush our teeth, drink Earl Grey tea, water our tomato plants, wash our dogs and lounge in tubs with scented bath bombs. We continually do all these things...

Virtual Campus, Off Campus

Virtual Campus, Off Campus

Teiko Yakobson and Allison Kubo May 4, 2015

Once you grow tired of meals scraped together with a microwave or sharing a room with two other equally messy people, off-campus housing looks heavenly. But when facing a new community, commute and possibly...

Talking about Pills

Talking about Pills

Kyle Somers Apr 19, 2015

The UCSD Guardian investigates the changing views on campus substance abuse.  In the very first issue of the UCSD Guardian — back in 1967 when it was called the Triton Times — the dean and provost...

UCSD grad Is making her hark as a professional poker player. Photos used with permission from Maria Ho.

Playing Her Cards Right

Sam Shapiro Apr 13, 2015

Many successful people take major gambles to be successful, but few take risks as a full-time job. For 2005 UCSD Marshall College alumna Maria Ho, that’s exactly what she does every day. Ho is a professional...

A food pantry stocked with a collection of imperishable foods. Photo courtesy of Salvation Army USA West (via Flickr).

Putting a Lid on Student Hunger

Soo Yun Park Apr 13, 2015

“Free food”: The two words that seem to prompt a positive response from students on campus who struggle financially due to tuition, textbooks and other living expenses. Money problems have even...

Miller (left) and Suvonnasupa (right) giving their opening statements. Photo by Emily Tipton.

Read the 2015 A.S. Presidential Debate

Guardian Staff Apr 5, 2015

Last Friday, Dominick Suvonnasupa of Tritons United and Travis Miller of Students Determined went head-to-head on the most critical issues plaguing our campus. Here's what they had to say. Q: A.S. Council...

The Right to Satire

The Right to Satire

Mar 29, 2015

The practice of satire within media is one that has come under both intense scrutiny and passionate defense after the tragic attack on the offices of French magazine “Charlie Hedbo” earlier this...