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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

Students for Justice Palestine and Tritons for Israel gather support on Library Walk. Illustration by Elyse Yang.

What You Need to Know about Divestment

Mar 8, 2015

Almost exactly two years ago today, the atmosphere in Price Center Ballroom East was rapidly devolving from bitterly cold to borderline hostile. Following weeks of debate between Students for Justice...

Volunteers gather for Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Photo by Thiba Thiagarajan.

Wiki-ty Whack

Karly Nisson Mar 8, 2015

College students know that referencing a Wikipedia article in a paper is a universal taboo  — a lazy research tactic guaranteed to diminish the legitimacy of any academic argument. But that doesn’t...

UCSD alumnus Robert Pera. Illustration by Alice Hsieh.

Com-Pera-Tive Advantage

Sam Shapiro Mar 2, 2015

In 1997, Robert Pera was just one of 5,000 new freshmen trying to find their way around the seemingly massive UCSD campus. Just like any other student, he found the walk from Geisel Library to his...

Closing a Month of Celebration

Closing a Month of Celebration

Vincent Pham Mar 2, 2015

Just 28 days later, Black History Month has encouraged all those who participated in the campuswide events to carry February’s message throughout the year, and everyone received a final spark of inspiration...

Chicken Banh Mi from SpoonRocket. Photo used with permission from SpoonRocket.

Delivering More Than Pizza

Soo Yun Park Feb 23, 2015

Looking around Price Center, it’s not hard to want something other than Subway or Burger King after having both so many times in a year. But without a car or the time, it is only with great difficulty...

No More Bamboo Ceilings

Guardian Staff Feb 23, 2015

For Revelle College junior Julie Lam and UCSD’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, it’s not the glass ceiling, but the bamboo ceiling that they’re trying to break. The term, first coined...

Kevin Huynh drinking from Michael Asher's Untitled fountain, rumored to grant "A"s if sipped from before taking a midterm. Photo courtesy of Nhan Nguyen.

Art Around Us

Teiko Yakobson Feb 17, 2015

  A few weeks ago, a hooded man concealed in a black mask snuck onto our campus. Armed with a sledgehammer, he took to the fountain next to the Student Services Center and what was once a prized...

The cast of "The DUFF." Courtesy of Aceshowbiz.

Q&A with the cast of “The DUFF”

Guardian Staff Feb 8, 2015

You probably know her as Katara from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” or as Ann from “Arrested Development” (Wait, who was she again?), but Mae Whitman is now starring in the newest teen comedy movie,...

Scribbling Science

Scribbling Science

Soo Yun Park Feb 8, 2015

  Imagine sitting in a biology class very close to dozing off into Wonderland, when the professor pulls up a comic titled “World’s Derpiest Fish” on the PowerPoint. One would snap out of...

How YOU Can Change The World

Sam Shapiro Feb 1, 2015

This competition gives students the chance to turn their ideas to reality. It’s common for college students to want to change the world. Thanks to the University of San Diego Social Innovation Challenge,...

Identity Project's 2014 Dream Festival. Photo credit by Yasmeen Elsawaf.

Staging Identity

Teiko Yakobson Jan 25, 2015

For most of us, college is a time of finding our identity. While checking a box next to a preferred choice out of a long list of majors available at UCSD may or may not have seemed definitive at the...