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Various campus organizations are collaborating to promote respect and value toward the mentally and developmentally disabled as part of national Learning Disability Awareness Month in March. The university chapters of Best Buddies International and Project Eye-to-Eye, national organizations pairing students with disabled community members, launched a three-day campaign yesterday to [...]
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State Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez proposed a plan on Wednesday to provide more scholarship money for middle-class UC and CSU students. If passed, the bill would provide $1 billion to students already receiving need-based aid, those with family incomes lower than $150,000 each year and those who do not [...]
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Associate professor of sociology Victor M. Rios recently received a $305,019 contribution from the William T. Grant Foundation to study how youths involved in gangs relate to various authority figures in their community. Rios is the author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, which examines how [...]
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Seven UCSB Model United Nations club members recently returned from Argentina after competing against 300 other students worldwide in the Harvard National Model UN-Latin America Conference. The convention took place in Buenos Aires from January 12-15 and included teams from colleges in Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Canada and France along with [...]