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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, the university in La Jolla has increased enrollment faster than it has added housing. A record number...

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, Dave Abrams said. “We thought it’s fitting that we tie this memorial into that aspect of his li...

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

" " Unité d'Habitation in Marseille is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time. It's also one of 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to be added to UNESCO's list of internationally significant architecture sites. Flickr/Denis Esakov/(CC 3.0) Strike up a conversation about the world's 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 the Palace of Versailles or something more recent like the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, but Le Corbus...

In a recent op-ed column for the New York Times, Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, wrote that "we're done making excuses for our founder," Margaret Sanger. Planned Parenthood began that reckoning last year when it removed Sanger's 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 unfortunate 'product of her time,'" Johnson wrote. For decades, foes of birth control and abortion have a...