Student volunteers plan Tobacco Smokeout Campaign for next month.

High rates of illegal downloading on campus attributed to high bandwidth and online freedom.

Student Regent Jonathan Stein and Student Regent-designate Cinthia Flores visited UCSD on Thursday, Oct. 11, as part of their annual tour of the UC campuses. Stein, a law and public policy graduate student at UC Berkeley, is the only voting student member on the UC Board of Regents. Flores, a law student at UC Irvine, will not have a vote until she assumes full Regent roles this summer. The following is an abridged version of their conversation with the Guardian.

Four-year on-campus housing guarantee could change student life at UCSD.

UCSD research team finds long-lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy.

If you listened hard enough this month, you could hear all of the UC system’s 96,000 middle-class students groaning as the California Senate voted down the Middle Class Scholarship Act (AB 1500), a measure that would have cut fees for students whose families make between $50,000 and $150,000 by up to two-thirds. Tuition has been rising for everyone attending a UC school, but by most accounts, it’s the middle class that’s been hit the hardest.

A look at UCSD’s exam retake policy, and why one student’s doctor’s note didn’t cut it.

New report reveals odd instances and worrying trends.

Hate speech, the failed resolution, and how UCSD should respond to words that hurt.

Political preference found to have genetic basis.

UC President Mark G. Yudof fields questions from student media editors from the nine UC Campuses.