Students Smash Scales In Support of Body Positivity

As part of National Eating Disorder Awareness week, members of the UCSB Women’s Center destroyed weight scales yesterday outside the Student Resource Building at an event called UCSB SMASH: A Love Y...
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S.C.O.R.E. Addresses Racial Inequality in Conference

The Student Commission on Racial Equality (SCORE) hosted its 15th annual Facing Race convention on combating racism on Saturday at the Student Resource Building.
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UC Workers Union Plans to Strike Again

Officials from the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME), the UC service and patient care technical workers union, announced the organization will be planning...
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State Senators Propose Legislation Regarding Measures Against Sexual Assault

On Monday, California State Senators Kevin de Leόn, Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblywoman and Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Bonnie Lowenthal proposed a bill that would establish consistent resp...
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MCC Conference Aims to Promote Societal Change

The MultiCultural Center hosted its second annual social justice conference PUSHING FORWARD: Critical Tools for a New Generation this Saturday, featuring University of Southern California professor A...
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“Bringing King To China” Screening Touches Students

The MultiCultural Center screened a documentary yesterday evening about one woman’s struggle to bring the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. to China, followed by a discussion with the film’s directo...
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ACLU Deems Proposed Gang Injunction Unconstitutional

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief against the proposed Santa Barbara City gang injunction last week, deeming it unco...
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New Scholarship Program for Middle Class Families Begins Next Fall

Starting next fall, a new program called the Middle Class Scholarship will offer a scholarship to students in California whose annual parental income is in the range of $100,000 to $150,000.
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UCSB Joins Efforts to Stimulate Research, Product Development

UCSB has recently become one of seven universities — along with 18 companies — to make up a new national public-private manufacturing consortium designed to stimulate the economy and American inno...
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UCPD Restarts Defense Classes

UCSB Police Department’s Rape Aggression Defense program began again this quarter, with its first series of classes beginning yesterday and continuing through January 21.
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Doctors Speak to Students in Series

UCSB Student Affairs is hosting a new lecture series called “Doctor in the House,” which will bring in doctors to speak about their careers and answer student questions in a string of talks beginn...
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Online Class Access Delayed for UCSB

The UC Office of the President recently launched a program allowing students at the UC system to take online classes offered by any of the main nine UC campuses.
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Film Screening Highlights Issues of Police Violence and Racial Profiling

Fruitvale Station, a 2013 film on the police shooting of 22 year-old African American man Oscar Grant, was screened last night at the Multicultural Center Theater, along with a discussion on police sh...
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Democrats Discuss Healthcare Options Beyond ACA

The Campus Democrats held an event called “Healthcare For All” yesterday evening, discussing current American healthcare policy and the role of single-payer financing in such policy.
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Resource Center for Diversity Hosts Hookup Presentation

Assistant Research Scientist of the Kinsey Institute and co-author of Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior Justin R. Garcia gave a presentation entitled “Love, Sex, and Hookups: Queering Heteronormat...
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