UC San Diego student newspaper The Guardian, reeling from years of budget crises, is asking undergraduate and graduate students to vote on a referendum this week to help keep them afloat.
The Protect our Right to Express Student Stories (P.R.E.S.S.) initiative would add a $3.50 fee per quarter per student to UCSD’s tuition costs.
“Free press is under threat across the nation, and The Guardian is no exception,” said the newspaper. “Advertising revenue is inconsistent with this digital age, pushing The Guardian into a budget crisis that has put it at risk of shutting down.”
That money would go toward funding the daily operations of the 150-strong student staff, which has had no operating budget and long-running financial issues for years, and which receives little to no institutional support from UCSD.
“The Guardian is neither a student organization nor an academic department, but an anomaly: We are a UCSD department run entirely by students,” editor Adalia Luo wrote in February.
“Hanging in this balance often subjects us to the University’s fiduciary bureaucracy, but without the financial or structural support — or oversight — that other student-run departments receive from Associated Students and the administration.
“In simpler terms, this means that, while no one except us can exercise editorial control over our work, we are also no stranger to financial hardship.”
The UCSD Guardian has covered multiple stories of national and international interest in the last year, including the UC San Diego pro-Palestinian encampment and student deportations and sudden visa terminations.
If successful, the fee would be implemented in the 2025 fall quarter.
Eligible students can vote here. The referendum closes Friday at 4 p.m.
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