UCSB wins 2024 “Ballot Bowl”

UC Santa Barbara won the 2024 California Ballot Bowl, a competition organized by the California Secretary of State and measuring voter registration and civic engagement efforts across California unive...
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UCSB Basic Needs launches Childcare Grant

UC Santa Barbara students with children are eligible to receive up to $1,000 to help cover childcare expenses due to a new grant by the UCSB Basic Needs Pilot Program launched in the fall.
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Students found pop-up aiming to improve accessibility to Black haircare products on campus

Sydney Scott and Love Alexius are bringing Crown Collective, a pop-up beauty supply business to campus next month. The pop-up will promote hair services provided by locals and sell Black haircare prod...
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There are fires at home, and I’m not there

CYNDI CHIOU / DAILY NEXUS This article was written on Jan. 12. The information regarding the fires is subject to change, given that the fires are still developing. There are fires at home, and I’m i...
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U-Mail: Oh Euro-trash, my Euro-trash

To: <eurotrashclub@eumail.paris.fr> From: Lucy Dixon <lucydixon@umail.ucsb.edu> Subject: Oh Euro-trash, my Euro-trash Dearest Euro-trash club,  I always knew I would miss the inescapable ...
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U-Mail: The Art of Giving a Fuck

To: Whoever Needs to Hear This The moment finals ended, I felt an unfamiliar sensation. It was the nonchalant version of me spiriting away. Then again, maybe it was never there, and I never noticed un...
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In Photos | UCSB women’s basketball crushes Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

UC Santa Barbara Women’s Basketball dominated against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) in their first game of the season with a 70-26 win. It was the first win for Renee Jimenez as the Gaucho’s he...
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Wrex Coast Tour 2024 opens in Santa Barbara: Wrexham AFC and AFC Bournemouth draw 1-1

Fans from all over the Central Coast welcomed Welsh football club Wrexham AFC and English Premier League team AFC Bournemouth to UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium on July 20, 2024.  Harder Stadium ...
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UCSB men’s soccer shutout win against UCI

The number 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association ranked UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team arrived at UC Irvine's Anteater Stadium on Oct. 12, hungry to score and ready for a win after their pas...
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‘So fetch!’: ‘Mean Girls’ Broadway tour hits Santa Barbara

The hit Broadway musical “Mean Girls” performed to packed crowds at Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre for a night full of frenemies, queen bees and revenge parties.
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‘Nosferatu’: Eggers feasts on desire in a Gothic reimagining

The film reanimates cinema’s oldest vampire, stripping away the romantic veneer of modern interpretations and brings an adaptation that is brutal, seductive and, above all, uncompromising in its vis...
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Angelina Jolie brings Maria Callas back to life in “Maria”

“Maria” marks the third installment, after “Jackie” and “Spencer,” in director Pablo Larraín’s pseudo-trilogy of historical biopics.
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Simply Stated: Is gossiping a nasty habit or human nature?

While gossiping is often portrayed as a malicious activity, science shows that “spilling the tea” has significant roots in both evolutionary biology and social psychology.
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This May Help: Maintaining agency and preserving mental well-being amidst political uncertainty

For professor Erin Khuê Ninh, this collective emotional response to political inequities was heightened by the recent election and became the decisive catalyst for launching This May Help.
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Simply Stated: What is 3D printing and how is it being used on campus?

If you have ever taken a peek inside the UC Santa Barbara Makerspace before, you might have seen a cluster of identical machines lined up against a wall, quietly at work creating parts of all shapes a...
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Local man “not ready to commit” to group project

In a groundbreaking display of emotional vulnerability, third-year political science major Andrew Logan announced over the weekend that he is “not ready for the commitment” required by his POL S 1...
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Study finds that riding electric skateboards DOES make you cool

Despite previous understanding that the only cool way to ride a skateboard is, you know, the normal way by using your leg to push, a new study finds that there might be a much cooler way. Students hav...
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UCSB parent Facebook group found extremely informative

While UC Santa Barbara students waste their time doing coke off of collapsing beachfront porches, their parents are worried sick. Reliable news sources, only made available on Facebook, have found tha...
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In Photos | Campus Point Sunset Walk

UCSB’s Campus Point is a popular student destination to view the sunset. The Daily Nexus photo team went on a sunset walk on November 8th to capture this sunset tradition.
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In Photos | Mens Soccer Big West Final

In Photos | UCSB women’s basketball crushes Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

UC Santa Barbara Women’s Basketball dominated against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) in their first game of the season with a 70-26 win. It was the first win for Renee Jimenez as the Gaucho’s he...
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The Scoop: Recent Food News

In case you haven’t been keeping up, here is the top food-related news so far in this new year.
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Super Antioxidant Tea Recipe

This recipe is highly colorful, refreshing and energizing early in the morning, with cooling effects that are much to be desired as the weather (hopefully) starts to get warmer.
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2024 in Cookies

While holiday cookies are often shaped like Christmas trees, presents, snowflakes and other holiday-themed imagery, this year I encourage you to explore other silly shapes to reflect on what a year 20...
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Acción de Gracias en una casa mexicana

Para muchas personas en Estados Unidos, el Día de Acción de Gracias es una de las festividades más importantes del año. Es conocido por la cena de pavo, jamón, puré de papas y pastel de calabaza...
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Claudia Sheinbaum rompiendo estigmas

Recuerdo que, cuando tenía 10 años y aún vivía en México, mi mamá me preguntó qué quería ser de grande. Le respondí: “Voy a ser presidenta”. Ella me contestó: “México tod...
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Servicios para estudiantes indocumentados en el campus

En inglés En mayo de 2023, los estudiantes sin estatus legal de todo el sistema de la Universidad de California esperaban una respuesta de la Junta de Regentes de la Universidad de California sobre &...
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