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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

Breaking the Bank

Breaking the Bank

May 1, 2014

In one of the final acts of its term, A.S. Council voted last month to bypass its own bylaws and dig into the already- strained Mandated Reserves to help fund student organiza- tions. Because a total...

S.B.850 Increases Access to Higher Education

May 1, 2014

California Senate Bill 850, introduced by state Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego), would allow up to 20 community-college districts to offer a new, special type of baccalaureate degree in a new pilot...

Lauren Koa
Technically Speaking
lkoa@ucsd.edu

CodeBabes Won’t Teach You How to Program

Lauren Koa May 1, 2014

Since people are generally excited about “teach people to code” campaigns, it’s pretty funny to see people riled up about CodeBabes, the website that uses busty women wearing cat T-shirts to lure...

Vaccine Nation

Vaccine Nation

Kelvin Noronha Apr 28, 2014

As part of the scientific campaign in the late-19th century to combat the scourge of infectious diseases, famed researchers such as Louis Pasteur introduced personal vaccines to combat public health...

Illustration by Elyse Yang

Saving Sun God

Apr 24, 2014

Sun God Festival coordinators have offered several solutions to ensure a safer event, but change is impossible without student compliance.   Since guest tickets for the Sun God Festival were eliminated,...

Unnecessary Grievances Delay Election Results

Apr 24, 2014

During the A.S. Council general election, any individual can file a grievance against a candidate for an unfair violation of election bylaws. However, most of these are petty trivialities that don’t...

Nostalgia Trips Aren’t All Happy-Go-Lucky

Nostalgia Trips Aren’t All Happy-Go-Lucky

Hilary Lee Apr 24, 2014

Last weekend, I trekked over to Balboa Park with a few old friends to recreate pictures and memories of a day trip we had taken together freshman year. We had lost touch numerous quarters ago and sought...

Nico Hemsley
Justice Is Served
nahemsley@ucsd.edu

Poverty Is a Wound, Not an Enemy

Nico Hemsley Apr 21, 2014

  As a cognitive science major, I never thought that my classwork would inform my alter ego as a columnist on social justice, but it turns out that education can inform your life in ways you don’t...