August 26, 2011, 12:38 AM
Driven by dramatic budget cuts that will shutter four campus libraries, staffers at UC San Diego are removing roughly 150,000 books and journals from their collections by summer’s end – selling volumes to the highest bidder or donating them. If UCSD students or researchers want to...
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April 20, 2010, 12:06 AM
Some collegiate sports teams in California are up against tough times. Student athletes at UC Davis learned last week that the university would cut four sports teams in an effort to plug a $1.4 million deficit. The women's rowing, men's wrestling, men's indoor track, and men's swimming and...
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April 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
UC San Diego is investigating a professor who created a cell phone GPS tool to help migrants locate resources like water caches and safety beacons as they attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Wikimedia photo by Toksave Voice of San Diego reports that the university is looking into how...
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March 10, 2010, 12:04 AM
Former University of California regent and affirmative action foe Ward Connerly is jumping into the fray at UC San Diego, where the chancellor has vowed to increase black student enrollment in the midst of several racially charged incidents at that campus. Ward Connerly City News...
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February 24, 2010, 12:06 AM
Free-speech advocates are crying foul after a UC San Diego student government official's decision to freeze funding for 33 campus media outlets after one organization aired an offensive commentary about a controversial student party. The move represents more fallout from the "Compton...
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February 19, 2010, 12:05 AM
A party involving UC San Diego fraternity members that mocked black culture has caused outrage among some students and faculty, a number of whom are calling for the fraternity to be punished. An invitation to the "Compton Cookout" ridiculed Black History Month and urged...
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