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UC San Diego's independent student newspaper since 1967

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

Illustrated by Elyse Yang.

Bidding Wars

Guardian Staff Oct 11, 2015

Last Wednesday, it was impossible to step foot on campus without seeing droves of women dressed in shiny tank tops with Greek letters and clustered together in front of the Triton Statue by Price Center....

Across the Globe: Why Small Farms Matter

Guardian Staff Oct 7, 2015

We have a farming problem. And by we, I mean nearly every country on Earth. The problem? Small farms are unprofitable to the point where the vast majority of small farmers cannot make a living from farming. This...

Locked and Loaded

Oct 7, 2015

“There’s been another mass shooting in America — this time, in a community college in Oregon,” President Barack Obama said in a White House press statement. It’s a sobering statement, and one...

Illustration by Irene Luu.

Blissful Ignorance

Guardian Staff Oct 4, 2015

It’s 2015, and we are still trying to cheat climate change — at least, the German car company Volkswagen is, but we’ll come back to that later. It all started decades ago, when scientists realized...

Equal Pay Bill Fails to Provide Women With Answers

Sep 30, 2015

In a triumphant moment for women’s equality, the state Senate passed an Equal Pay bill on Aug. 31 to refresh some old laws in desperate need of an update. Gov. Jerry Brown has since indicated his intention...

Crossing the Blue Line

Sep 30, 2015

Anyone who’s walked around UCSD knows that public transportation is a necessity, but students can also attest to the difficulty of exploring San Diego via bus. We’re all for saving money on gas and...

Sick Profits

Sick Profits

Hailey Sanden Sep 27, 2015

Health: It is one of the most valuable things we can possess and it is also, at times, terrifyingly out of our control. But being at the whims of pesky pathogens, happenstance heredity and arbitrary accidents...