UCSD students vote to pay $3.50 quarterly fee to save school’s struggling newspaper

UCSD students vote to pay $3.50 quarterly fee to save school’s struggling newspaper

UC San Diego students have voted to pay a $3.50 quarterly fee to subsidize The Guardian, a nearly 60-year-old campus newspaper that was on the verge of closing its print edition due to money problems. Nearly 6,100 of the 8,259 students who participated in this week’s spring student elections said yes to the fee, which will go into effect during the fall quarter. Like many newspapers, The Guardian has lost most of its print advertising money as r…