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Last Thursday, local officials and members of the public gathered at Walter Capps Park to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly erected wooden fence along the park’s oceanside cliff. Spanning 390 feet along the Walter Capps Park bluff, the project is the result of collaboration between [...]
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UCSB history and environmental studies assistant professor Peter Alagona will give a free lecture on the Endangered Species Act today at 4 p.m. in the HSSB McCune Conference Room. Alagona’s lecture, entitled “Forty Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond,” will address the controversy surrounding the [...]
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Yesterday night the brothers of the Alpha Eta Pledge Class of Alpha Kappa Psi held a Flying Lantern fundraiser in Camino Pescadero Park. The event began at 9 p.m., and although the official release time for the lanterns was at 10 p.m., supporters could release their lanterns into the sky [...]
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The University of California held a global forum yesterday focused on addressing the issue of worldwide hunger by bringing together researchers, farmers, environmentalists, policymakers and other sustainability experts from 31 different countries for an all-day seminar. The over-arching goal of the conference — which consisted of two moderated panels and [...]
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Tonight, renowned comic theorist and author Scott McCloud will give a lecture titled “Comics and Visual Communication” at Campbell Hall, discussing the overall evolution of comic art in its many forms. The lecture, which will begin at 8 p.m., is an installment of the 2013 Regents’ Lecturer program within the [...]