Select Campuses Move to Revise Current UC SHIP Medical Insurance

Chancellor Henry T. Yang recently joined chancellors from the UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and Riverside to officially terminate each university’s participation in the UC Student Health In...
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University Funding Affected by Recent Federal Budget Cuts

Roughly $1 trillion in automatic, across-the-board federal budget cuts were enacted March 1 after Washington lawmakers failed to agree upon a satisfactory deal between Congressional Republicans, De...
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TBL Continues Campaign for Student Lock-In Fee

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

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

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 Nit...
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Students, Congressmembers Call for UC Healthcare Reform

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 repre...
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Davidson Library To Undergo Major Upgrades in 2013

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 bu...
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Reuters Wins UC Lawsuit

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 succ...
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Students Protest To Support Sexual Abuse Victims, Queer Students

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

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-...
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Conference To Feature Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels

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

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

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 exp...
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Famed Author Jared Diamond To Speak at UCSB Saturday

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 anth...
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Goleta PD To Fund Anti-DUI Program to Reduce Accidents

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...
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