Failure to Cooperate
Students at the university are generally viewed as uncooperative when their basic constitutional rights, such as privacy and the right to remain silent, are asserted. Constitutional rights as we know...
View Article“Erotic Self” Art Final Requires “Nudity,” Mom Displeased
The mother of an anonymous UCSD student enrolled in “VIS 104A: Performing the Self” made statewide headlines last weekend when she claimed her daughter risked failing the class if she did not perform...
View ArticleSupport Our Parents
Unlike the majority of industrialized countries in the world, the U.S. provides little legislative protection to ensure that new parents are granted paid leave after child birth. Just one week ago, the...
View ArticleVisible Nipples: Topless Women Are Still “Not Asking For It”
Yesterday on Library Walk, there were student demonstrations supporting the #Freethenipple campaign, led by graduate student Annie Ma, who was approached by police for exposing her breasts on Library...
View ArticleShifting Mindsets
SGF15 incorporated a few marked improvements for drug safety through awareness-raising tactics, but a few cases of sexual assault indicated that considerable effort is still needed to create a festival...
View ArticleUncle Sam’s Lead
Election seasons and political initiatives in the U.K. follow in the footsteps of the U.S., as demonstrated by the sensationalism of members of Parliament in the media. On May 7, there was a general...
View ArticleAll Religions Deserve Equal Protection From Discrimination
Last week, a group of 700 University of California alumni signed a petition urging UC President Janet Napolitano and the UC regents to adopt the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. The...
View ArticleAbandoned Art
In a step that reinforces the administration’s reputation of shutting down student spaces, such as the Che Cafe, Graffiti Hall and Porter’s Pub, the University Art Gallery will soon be closed. The Ed...
View ArticleGlobal Negligence
Frequent destruction of the environment through careless mistakes, such as the recent oil spills in Santa Barbara and Mexico, demonstrates the need for international oversight of pollution. An...
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Senior Send Offs
ALEKSANDRA KONSTANTINOVIC ILLUSTRATION BY JENNA MCCLOSKEY Editor-In-Chief // Multimedia Editor // Associate News Editor This is the last thing I’ll ever publish in the UCSD Guardian. Let’s let that...
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Following Protocol
#IStandWithAhmed. Illustration by David Juarez. Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest highlighted the issue of Islamophobia in schools. The Ed Board examines the strictly cautious policies that led to his arrest....
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The Che Cafe Wins the Battle Against Administrative Attacks
UCSD’s sudden decision to revive the CHE Cafe Collective with university-subsidized safety upgrades to the facility is a rare and refreshing example that the university is not completely deaf to...
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Sick Profits
Illustration by Jenna Mccloskey 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,...
View ArticleCrossing the Blue Line
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...
View ArticleEqual Pay Bill Fails to Provide Women With Answers
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...
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Blissful Ignorance
Illustration by Irene Luu. 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,...
View ArticleLocked and Loaded
“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 that...
View Article“Fair Work, Fair Pay Act”: This PR Stunt Doesn’t Help Students
Less than 2 percent of UC employees will be affected by the university’s new minimum wage — 1.6 percent to be exact. And according to the UC Office of the President media representative Kate Moser, 1.6...
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Bidding Wars
Illustrated by Elyse Yang. 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...
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Plan Ahead
Illustration by Christina Carlson Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves: Do we need to change? The reality of the San Diegan lifestyle is that we like to drive in the fast lane, charging like a speed...
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