Demolishing $2,000 worth of electronic equipment isn’t normally a cause for celebration. But for the 25 students on UCSD’s Triton Robotix team — lead by Warren College sophomore Daniel Yan and Sixth college senior Allen Jiang, it’s all in a hard day’s work. After competing on the television show “Battle Bots” last April, Yang and Jiang, [...]read more
UCSD alumna and Surf eCo founder Torrey Trust never planned to get rich quick. In fact, after graduating with a major in visual arts and media from UCSD three years ago, Trust has yet to pursue a job within in her field of study. Instead, she has dedicated her time to saving the rainforest acre [...]read more
ON CAMPUS — Just three days after the Sun God Festival — as we all grasped to fading memories of freedom — came a buzz kill for the books: The UCSD Native American Student Alliance released a statement condemning those who had decorated themselves with face paint, feathers and headdresses on the day of the festival. According [...]read more
TRACK & FIELD — The best athletes — the UCSD track and field team has to offer know the stakes for their final meet of the season. With one quality race, throw or jump, any one of them could return to campus a national champion, and be immortalized in the Triton history books forever. From May [...]read more
By Constance Qian
Existing within a system that weathered an $813 million drop in state funding last year — and facing another direct $7 million cut next year — the academic departments of UCSD rely on a delicately budgeted balance between university money and grants toward research in the sciences and arts. Control of departmental funding begins in the [...]
By Alyssa Bereznak
ON CAMPUS — Just three days after the Sun God Festival — as we all grasped to fading memories of freedom — came a buzz kill for the books: The UCSD Native American Student Alliance released a statement condemning those who had decorated themselves with face paint, feathers and headdresses on the day of the festival. According [...]
By Neda Salamat
Demolishing $2,000 worth of electronic equipment isn’t normally a cause for celebration. But for the 25 students on UCSD’s Triton Robotix team — lead by Warren College sophomore Daniel Yan and Sixth college senior Allen Jiang, it’s all in a hard day’s work. After competing on the television show “Battle Bots” last April, Yang and Jiang, [...]
By Jenna Brogan
The “Shrek” franchise has been pumping out sequel after sequel for the last decade, on a dragon wing and a prayer that Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy can still make the kids giggle. Hmm. How to break this to them gently? In the latest and final chapter of the seemingly never-ending series — which has almost [...]
By Wesley Cox
WOMEN’S TENNIS — The Tritons played their final match of the year on May 6, suffering a 5-1 loss to Hawaii Pacific University in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division-II West Regionals. UCSD came into the matchup ranked No. 15 in the nation, while Hawaii Pacific came in [...]
Added on 21 April 2010