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Print Cody Huynh showed up at a condominium in La Jolla recently hoping to find a place to rent after UC San Diego hit him with unexpected news — it had run out of undergraduate housing for the fall quarter. Things were worse than he imagined. “Three other families were there looking to rent the same place,” said Huynh, a sophomore from Anaheim. “I’m feeling anxious. I don’t know where I’m going to live.” Thousands of UCSD students are facing the same uncertainty. For years, t...

La Jolla High School students receive athletic awards Recent La Jolla High School graduate Rhys Bugelli has won the Matthew Abrams Memorial Award, which comes with his name on an award plaque hung at the Coggan Family Aquatic Complex and a $1,000 scholarship. The award was begun in 2019 by La Jollans Dave and Joyce Abrams as a way to memorialize their son Matthew Abrams, a 1999 LJHS graduate and MVP of its water polo team that year who died of cancer in 2018. Water polo was Matthew’s passion,...

My Inquiry Into the Strange Case of Charles Kellogg, the Nature Singer

" " Unité dHabitation in Marseille is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time. Its also one of 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to be added to UNESCOs list of internationally significant architecture sites. Flickr/Denis Esakov/(CC 3.0) Strike up a conversation about the worlds most beautiful buildings, and it might be a while before anyone mentions an example of Brutalist architecture. There could be numerous French buildings on the list like...

In a recent op-ed column for the New York Times, Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, wrote that "were done making excuses for our founder," Margaret Sanger. Planned Parenthood began that reckoning last year when it removed Sangers name from one of its New York City clinics. Now it is taking further steps. "We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination, while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortun...

Writing a New Chapter on Innovation UC San Diego establishes local chapter of National Academy of Inventors The University of California San Diego is the first University of California campus to establish a chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a move that will help the campus build and sustain a more robust innovation ecosystem. This designation provides tools and resources to help UC San Diego raise the profile of its inventions and technologies, encourage innovations on campus ...

Barely a week before the start of spring, San Diego County is a winter wonderland. March storms often dart through the region. But a mass of cold air that formed in the Gulf of Alaska continues to slowly sink through Southern California, blanketing mountains with heavy snow and wild bursts of rain. (Rainfall totals below) The San Diego mountains had 12 to 18 inches of snow through late Thursday. By early Friday, the figure could be 2 feet. Skies might clear by afternoon, making the peaks visibl...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. It’s appropriate that Ziggy Marley’s first show of 2021 performing with his entire band behind him will be at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach. “I grew up there,” said Marley. “As a teenager and as an adult, for me it’s a special place.” Advertisement Tickets for this livestreaming concert, which begins tonight at 6:30, are $20. The son of reggae legend Bob ...

UCSDs library acquires its first African Americana Collection KGTV and last updated 2021-02-25 18:21:58-05 SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The UC San Diego Library announced Thursday the addition of its first African Americana collection -- the Turner Collection -- to its Special Collections and Archives. Donated by Steve Turner, a UCSD 1982 alumnus and an avid collector, the collection is composed of more than 300 items including rare photographs, pamphlets, photocards, posters and pinback buttons, many fro...

Print In the early 1980s, as AIDS was beginning its deadly tear, a Catholic priest told a radio audience in Boston that he sympathized with people who didn’t want to be around anyone who had the disease. Dr. Robert “Chip” Schooley about popped a vein. The young Harvard physician and infectious-disease expert got in touch with the station and relayed a blunt message to the priest: “If you ever make a comment like that again, I will reveal that the church is keeping priests who have AIDS...