Students Fly to DC to Discuss Iran and Hamas
Several students from the on-campus group, American Students for Israel (ASI), participated in a nation-wide American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., from March 5 to 7.
Program Aids Endangered Plovers
Sex, sand and snowy plovers are coming together this spring as the endangered species – which is less than a month into its six-month breeding season – continues to bounce back from years of population decline.
Call to Recycle the Nexus To Help Save Some Trees
Like many students here at UCSB, I wake up each day bleary-eyed and groggy, rolling out of bed only to roll off to class. I hate my early morning lectures, but I get by. You might ask why. Well, because of the Daily Nexus, that’s why.
A.S. Finance Board Limits Allotments, Hands Out Funds
At its Monday afternoon meeting, in addition to distributing $3,203 to on-campus organizations, the Associated Students Finance Board passed and then repeatedly debated a $750 spending cap on Spring Quarter allocations.
Let There Be Light, Goddamnit!
What a tease the weather is. The day before spring quarter starts, it – the cardinal of all spring quarter sins – rains?
Riverside Upsets UCSB
For the first time in ten years, the UCSB women’s basketball team watched somebody else head to the NCAA tournament, after losing to UC Riverside in the final round of the Big West Tournament on March 11 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Avoid Clicker Futility
For anyone who has ever taken Econ 1 at UCSB, I’m confident they will agree that passing asteroid-sized kidney stones is preferable to ever taking the class again. Economics is perhaps one of the driest subjects known to mankind.
Regents Reorganize Spending in Light of Controversial Funds
The University of California Regents decided to divest funds from several companies with business ties to Sudan and took steps to “improve accountability” for the UC’s wage practices during their meeting on March 15 and 16 at UCLA.
Howland Haunts Athletic Director’s Coaching Choice
I’m sure glad UCSB Director of Athletics Gary Cunningham wasn’t involved in the hiring of Herb Kroemer, David Gross, Finn Kydland or even Walter Kohn. Had he been, I’m certain those talented Nobel Prize winners would have honed their skills at another fine institution.
Student Frightens Class During Final
UC Police Dept. officers arrested a UCSB student Thursday, March 23 after he threatened to kill his classmates during a final exam. The student, an underclassman whose name was not released, had been acting strangely for about 15 minutes before he walked around the lecture hall and began threatening fellow students during a Math 34A: Calculus for Social and Life Sciences final exam in Girvetz Hall 1004, said Carlos Martinez, a third-year psychology major who was taking the exam at the time.