Marissa Wenzke

August 7, 2013

UCSB: A Party School?

By Carissa Quiambao, Marissa Wenzke

Amidst controversial holidays like Deltopia or Isla Vista’s infamous Halloween celebrations, which has attracted thousands of college-aged party-goers for decades, UCSB has been ranked the Number Two ‘Party School’...

July 17, 2013

The Nexus Says Goodbye to Treasured Alum

By Marissa Wenzke

The Daily Nexus lost one of its own when Jeffrey McManus, leader of Daily Nexus Alumni Group and CEO of the online technology startup Codelesson, passed away earlier this month. He is survived by his wife Carole, his dau...

May 16, 2013

Regents Meeting Focuses on Ending ‘Super Senior’ Trend

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents discussed graduation rates, student-faculty ratios and other university-wide issues at yesterday’s board meeting, while UC workers of the labor union AFSCME 3299 protested outside the meeting at...

May 15, 2013

City Council Meeting Revisits Gang Injuction

By Marissa Wenzke

For the first time since its initial proposal in 2011, the outline for a Santa Barbara gang injunction was listed on the agenda of a Santa Barbara City Council meeting yesterday evening, allowing community members to fin...

April 26, 2013

Abboud Named A.S. President for 2013-14 as OPP Sweeps Elections

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp, Emile Nelson, Carissa Quiambao, Arda Jooharian

COSWB, The Bottom Line Secure New Lock-in Funding; All Existing A.S. Fees Reaffirmed [[UPDATED]] Emotions were high Thursday night as Associated Students election and fee results were announced in the Hub, with the O...

April 25, 2013

Gruesome Demonstration Protests UC Regents’ “Silencing” of Students

By Marissa Wenzke

After the UC Board of Regents failed to respond to A.S. President Sophia Armen’s letter requesting a UC Regents meeting at UCSB, the student executive and a small group of other concerned students occupied an area in t...

April 24, 2013

An Exclusive Daily Nexus Interview With the Stars of This Is the End

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp

Yesterday, hundreds of UCSB students crowded Storke Plaza to meet actors Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson as the comedic trio promoted their newest film This Is the End. The film follows escapades and those...

April 3, 2013

SB Officials Currently Debating Beach Shutdown

By Arda Jooharian, Patrick Kulp, Rilla Peng, Carissa Quiambao, Marissa Wenzke

Open beaches would break precedent of party-preventative closures instituted in 2009. As of yesterday, Santa Barbara County administration has not yet reached a decision on whether beach closures that are usually in effe...

February 27, 2013

Facebook Pages Cause Free Speech Controversy

By Marissa Wenzke

A.S. Senate Bill Ignites Debate on Censorship Over ‘UCSB Confessions’ and ‘UCSB Hookups’ The national student rights organization FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has reported on an...

January 23, 2013

Brown Begins Push for Efficient UC Spending as Regents Navigate Through Financial Turmoil

By Marissa Wenzke

Despite the passage of Proposition 30 — which protected the UC from a $375 million funding cut — fiscal struggles have yet to disappear from the University’s agenda. While the most recent Board of Regents meeting l...

January 22, 2013

President Yudof Steps Down

By Marissa Wenzke

January 17, 2013

UC Board of Regents Debate Financial Strengths, Weaknesses Encompassing Online Education

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

During yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay, University officials and legislators met to discuss issues of faculty diver- sity and online education, with most Regents supporting efforts to increa...

January 15, 2013

Stein Discusses This Week’s Regents Meeting

By Rilla Peng, Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

This week, the UC Board of Regents will meet at UCSF Mission Bay to discuss a multitude of issues facing the University — the fate of UC online education courses, the potential for future tuition hikes or freezes and g...

November 30, 2012

UCSB Remembers Deceased Recent Graduate Melissa Portillo

By Marissa Wenzke

Early last Thursday, recent UCSB graduate Melissa Portillo passed away at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital due to head injuries resulting from a fall off a balcony at a residence on the 6500 block of Cordoba Road in Isla V...

November 20, 2012

UCSB Student Arrested in Freebirds Stabbing

By Katherine Friedman, Marissa Wenzke

Third-year UCSB student Peter Cho was charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and destroying or concealing evidence following a fight outside of Freebirds early this past Sunday. UC Police Department ...

November 19, 2012

Two Suspects Detained in Sabado Tarde Rd. Shooting

By Arda Jooharian, Marissa Wenzke

Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Deputies responded to multiple gunshots being fired on the 6500 block of Sabado Tarde Road during the early morning hours of Saturday and have taken two suspects into custody in connecti...