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Ephemera

Breaking News | UCSD
Published June 11, 2008

The library at UCSD has just purchased some letters and related miscellanea belonging to Gary Snyder, a Northern California poet famous for hanging out with fellow Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Michael ...

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Top heavy

Breaking News | UCSD
Published May 21, 2008

The University of California just hiked annual student fees by 7.4 percent, but that hasn’t stopped the hallowed institution from handing out of ever-higher salaries. UCSD is still searching for someone to become the school’s permanent ...

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Ms. in-the-chips

Breaking News | SDSU | UCSD
Published May 14, 2008

San Diego State University has been getting more than its share of bad ink lately, what with the campus drug raid last week. But at least one top SDSU executive has good news to report: a ...

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How UCSD Spent Over $500,000 on a Home Remodel That Never Happened

Cover Story | UCSD
Published April 30, 2008

Perhaps the most prized piece of real estate throughout the University of California, San Diego, is the seven-acre site of University House, home to the UCSD chancellor. The rambling adobe home, with its row of south-facing ...

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What recession?

Breaking News | UCSD
Published April 16, 2008

More UCSD spending: recently appointed UCSD health sciences counsel Anthony Perez is being paid an annual base salary of $210,000 and will be eligible for a mortgage loan not to exceed $1.33 million made by the ...

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On the Brink

Theater Reviews | UCSD
Published March 12, 2008

In UCSD Theatre’s recent staging of The Physicists, Michelle Diaz played Sister Boll, a monobrowed, lock-stepping head nurse at a sanitarium. Diaz made bold physical choices, including reps of one-armed push-ups. Larry Herron played Johan Wilhelm ...

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Charity Begins at the Mansion

Breaking News | La Jolla | UCSD
Published Jan. 16, 2008

With Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposing draconian cuts — including closing 48 state parks and beaches, slashing Medi-Cal and school funding, and releasing 22,159 “low risk” inmates from state prisons — it might not seem like the ...

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Jeannie Cheatham

Of Note | UCSD
Published Jan. 2, 2008

“I wasn’t a singer,” says Jeannie Cheatham after I tell her how much I have enjoyed her singing over the years. “I was always a piano player,” she says, “that played for other vocalists.” Maybe so, ...

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Do You Feel Safe at School?

City College | Cover Story | Mesa College | SDSU | UCSD | USD
Published Aug. 30, 2007

On April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, a sullen, troubled, twisted young man killed 32 people, injured 25 more, and then took his own life in the deadliest shooting ...

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The Bourgeois Marxist

Calendar Highlight | UCSD
Published Aug. 23, 2007

Herbert Marcuse was the single most famous person who ever taught at [University of California San Diego], and there was no living connection to him, no evidence of Marcuse having been there," says Professor Andrew Feenberg. ...

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UCSD's anytime art-walk highlights campus sculptures large and small.

Point Loma | Roam-O-Rama | UCSD
Published Aug. 16, 2007

UCSD's Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture seeks to enrich the cultural and intellectual life of the campus and the surrounding community. The current 16 works in the collection are sprinkled throughout several hundred acres of the ...

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Doctor Money

City Lights | UCSD
Published April 19, 2007

When Dr. David A. Brenner was named vice chancellor and dean for the school of medicine at UCSD in February, his salary was the talk of the campus. Brenner, a gastroenterologist who came from New York's ...

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Let Him Eat Cake

Crasher | UCSD
Published Feb. 8, 2007

I heard about a party near the UCSD campus, but because of other things I had going on that night, I didn't make it there until 11:00 p.m. I found the street easily enough, but parking ...

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Purge and Rally

Crasher | La Jolla | UCSD
Published May 4, 2006

March was an active month for parties -- St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, National Corn Dog Day. You didn't know there was a Corn Dog Day? Neither did I. A group of UCSD students did, however, ...

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Unashamed of Screamo

Blurt | UCSD
Published April 6, 2006

"Che Café has that elite, on-the-cusp, über-indie stigma," says Brian Serocke, a UCSD senior who books bands to play on-campus Porter's Pub. Unlike the Che Café (UCSD's more famous music venue), Porter's Pub serves beer to ...

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