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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

Quick Takes: Wikileaks

Guardian Staff Oct 16, 2016

By Failing to Deliver Full Context and Endangering Innocent People, WikiLeaks Fails to be Trustworthy Whistleblower The release of highly classified documents that endanger U.S civilians’ and soldiers’...

Quick Takes: Memes

Quick Takes: Memes

Guardian Staff Oct 11, 2016

Illustration by Quinn Pieper Memes Create and Facilitate Inclusive Disscussion In Politics and In Pop Culture Memes originally meant units of culture that spread between people, mind-to-mind through behavior...

Photo courtesy of WallpaperCave

American Patriotism: A Dark Dichotomy

Marcus Thuillier Oct 2, 2016

There’s nothing like a good dose of prime American patriotism. As highlighted in a series of surveys at the International Social Science Programme, Americans are number one at thinking they’re number...

Getting and Keeping the Kids Voting

Getting and Keeping the Kids Voting

Megan Monges Oct 2, 2016

Millennials get a bad rap. We are called lazy, self-absorbed and technology-obsessed. We spend too much time on Facebook, take too many pictures of ourselves and are too involved with the lives of celebrities....

Illustration by David G Juarez

Quick-Takes: Voting Third Party

Guardian Staff Oct 2, 2016

Expressing dissatisfaction with both major-party candidates running in November's election, some voters are looking to third-party candidates. In response, some have criticized the so-called protest vote. In...

Illustration by Sam Xu

Let Them Seek Help

Sep 29, 2016

When it comes to discussing mental health, less is never more. Last spring, when Northern Michigan University student Katerina Klawes sought counseling from the university after being sexually assaulted,...