Compared to a generation ago, there is an oceanic amount of data around. Perhaps there's simply too much data; that we lack the deep understanding (not processing power: understanding) of what's important or not in that data to effectively master it.
Posted 02.06.2012
On Monday, UCSD students camped out in front of a closed library, and eventually forced open the doors and rushed inside said library to protest the l...
The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.11.2011
You don't hate spoilers. You like them. You really, really like them. Are you getting sleepy? This is what a University of California, San Diego, s...
Posted 05.25.2011
Although UC San Diego student publication the Koala is known for pushing the envelope with questionable content, some think the paper crossed the line...
The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011
A tense discussion of a "toxic" racial climate took center stage at last week's meeting of the UC Board of Regents. Board members responded to recen...
The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011
The UC Board of Regents will meet next week to discuss universitywide issues, including prejudice, in light of recent incidents targeting specific stu...
The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
For students at UC Santa Cruz, the March 4 protests continued into March 5. At 5 a.m. PST this morning, protesters blocked the main entrance to cam...
AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San D...
The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 03.02.2010
University of California San Diego police have confirmed that a white pillowcase fashioned as a Ku Klux Klan hood was found affixed to a statue in fro...
The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
The woman who confessed to hanging a noose in a University of California-San Diego library issued today an apology in the The Guardian, the school's s...
Huffington Post | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 05.25.2011
March 4 is a day of action for students in California. In the face of mounting tuition hikes, layoffs and budget cuts, student activists will stage wa...
The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE II: Campus police confirmed that no second noose was found on UCSD campus. UPDATE: Multiple Twitter updates are reporting a second noose found...
The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
Overnight, an impromptu riot to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at the University of California-Berkeley snowballed to include more than 200...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Black and minority California lawmakers are leaping over each other to lambaste the now infamous Compton Cookout at UCSD as racially insulting, insensitive, and demeaning.
AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego has halted funding for student media after a TV segment ridiculed black students outraged by...
latimes.com | Larry Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011
UC San Diego leaders and civil rights activists have condemned a student party that mocked Black History Month with a ghetto-themed "Compton Cookout."...
New York Times | AD MOUAWAD and ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 05.25.2011
Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to com...
Rob Stafford | Posted 11.17.2011
give students the (simple, practical, common sense) tools that their successful peers learned from their parents or their friends years before, sit back, and watch them suddenly start to gain ground.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.13.2012