Daniel Slovinsky

April 18, 2013

TBL Continues Campaign for Student Lock-In Fee

By Daniel Slovinsky

Next week’s Associated Students elections ballot will include a proposal for a $1.69 per quarter student lock-in fee in support of The Bottom Line, A.S.’s weekly campus newspaper. The organization began campaigning f...

April 16, 2013

Santa Barbara County Citrus Fruits Under Quarantine for Asian Citrus Psyllid Outbreak

By Daniel Slovinsky

The Agricultural Commissioner’s Office announced last Monday that Santa Barbara County citrus plants have been placed under quarantine following the discovery of six Asian citrus psyllids (ACP) within county lines. Non...

April 4, 2013

Engineer’s Death Sparks Suspicions in U.S.A.

By Daniel Slovinsky

Last June, UCSB Electrical Engineering Ph.D. graduate Shane Todd was found dead in his Singapore apartment on the eve of his return to the United States. Todd had just finished his work on Gallium Nitride (GaN) with the ...

March 1, 2013

Students, Congressmembers Call for UC Healthcare Reform

By Daniel Slovinsky

University of California President Mark Yudof stated that the UC is considering removing the cap on UC student health insurance, after Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Lois Capps and eight other congressional representatives submitted...

February 26, 2013

Davidson Library To Undergo Major Upgrades in 2013

By Daniel Slovinsky

Beginning in June 2013, UCSB’s Davidson Library will undergo a major construction project that will include a complete renovation of the two-story north building and the addition of a three-story building beyond it. Wh...

February 12, 2013

Reuters Wins UC Lawsuit

By Daniel Slovinsky

As of last Monday, the University of California Regents will be forced to disclose information regarding a number of the University’s investments into private venture capital funds, following a successful lawsuit filed...

February 5, 2013

Students Protest To Support Sexual Abuse Victims, Queer Students

By Daniel Slovinsky

Associated Students groups Queer Commission and Take Back the Night held a joint protest advocating the rights of sexual violence victims and LGBTQIA campus members last Friday. Protestors marched from Cheadle Hall to Pa...

February 4, 2013

Audience Crowns Tyler Robinson as Winner of Red Bull DJ Master Competition in Santa Barbara

By Daniel Slovinsky

Third-year film and media studies major Tyler “Sarthe” Robinson took home the trophy last Thursday in Santa Barbara’s first ever Red Bull DJ Master competition, a “discovery project” for up-and-coming UCSB DJs....

February 1, 2013

Conference To Feature Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels

By Daniel Slovinsky

The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Environmental Media Initiative will present a public conference at Bren Hall today, discussing the ongoing rise of sea levels along coastal regions worldwide and their effects on an increasingl...

January 30, 2013

NASA Astronaut Linnehan Discusses Multiple Stays in Outer Space at SB Talk

By Daniel Slovinsky

NASA astronaut Richard Linnehan gave a public lecture Monday at Santa Barbara Public Library, giving local middle school students and other community members a chance to hear about his unique 58 days in outer space as pa...

January 16, 2013

Award-Winning War Reporter, Author To Speak in Campbell Hall

By Daniel Slovinsky

Pulitzer Prize-winner Dexter Filkins — author of the New York Times best-seller The Forever War and former New York Times combat journalist — will give a free lecture discussing his first-hand experience covering war...

January 11, 2013

Famed Author Jared Diamond To Speak at UCSB Saturday

By Daniel Slovinsky

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond — author of the best-sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Third Chimpanzee and Collapse — will give a lecture at Campbell Hall discussing the geographic and anthropologic exploratio...

November 13, 2012

Goleta PD To Fund Anti-DUI Program to Reduce Accidents

By Daniel Slovinsky

The California Office of Traffic Safety awarded the Goleta Police Department a $68,250 grant to fund a year-long anti-DUI program. The grant provides support for 12 DUI sobriety checkpoints throughout the fiscal year aim...

November 6, 2012

Prop 34: A Matter of Justice, Efficiency and Morality

By Daniel Slovinsky

You’ve seen the signs and heard the arguments: vote for Lois Capps, yes on Prop 30, no on Prop 32. But what haven’t you heard? (Besides the obvious conservative argument, of course.) Where’s all the discussion on P...

October 29, 2012

Brazilian Musician Pays Tribute To Baião Music at UCSB Concert

By Daniel Slovinsky

World-renowned Brazilian singer and songwriter Gilberto Gil performed at Campbell Hall last Friday as part of his ongoing tour, “For All.” The concert, the first of Arts and Lectures’ World Music series, paid tribu...

October 19, 2012

EAOP Officials Host College Fairs to Inspire High School Students

By Daniel Slovinsky

This past Tuesday, representatives from UCSB Early Academic Outreach Program made their annual visits to a number of local high schools as part of Higher Education Week, which provides high school juniors and seniors wit...