Graduate students can ' t afford expensive IPAs . This is really a grotesque character assassination of the workforce that the University depends on in order to hide the University ' s own culpability for mismanaging its resources . If this pisses you off , the best thing you can do is not sugar coat the situation when prospective students ask you about life at UCSD especially you grad students . When faculty realize that their ability to recruit top talent is suffering , and when the admins realize their competitiveness for grants is suffering , that is the only time they will do anything to fix the problem . And don ' t let them sell the Trolley as the remedy that will fix everything that Trolley has been 5 years away for 20 years seriously . Not only that , but it is not clear what housing stock it will increase student access to maybe mission valley , but downtownlittle italy is already as impacted and expensive as UTC .