Marissa Wenzke

October 17, 2012

Prop 30 and Prop 32 Spark Protests and Local Rallies

By Marissa Wenzke

Yesterday students, policymakers, faculty and university staff gathered in front of the Arbor at noon to protest ballot initiative Proposition 32 and rally support for Proposition 30. While some protestors carried signs ...

October 8, 2012

Pardall Carnival Brings I.V. Community Together

By Marissa Wenzke

On Saturday, students, families and other Isla Vista residents gathered in the heart of town in celebration of this year’s fourth annual Pardall Carnival. Isla Vistans flocked to the small beach community’s central s...

October 8, 2012

Representative Receives Honor For Supporting Public Education

By Marissa Wenzke

Last week, Congresswoman Lois Capps was named a ‘Champion for Children’ by the national children’s advocacy group First Focus Campaign for Children for her history of prioritizing education during her career. Capps...

October 5, 2012

Haitian Cholera Epidemic Inspires Heated Documentary

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp

Last night Direct Relief International and the UC Haiti Initiative packed Campbell Hall for a free screening of the documentary Baseball in the Time of Cholera, which takes a critical look at the recent cholera outbreak ...

September 27, 2012

Largest Freshman Class in School History Impacts Several UCSB Services

By Marissa Wenzke

UCSB enrolled its largest freshman class to date this year, leaving the university with issues of overcrowding that could impact on-campus services such as housing, class registration and campus services. While the 2011-...

September 26, 2012

UC Regents Sue Disney, Facebook, Wal-Mart, Search for Budget Solutions

By Marissa Wenzke

Last week at UCSF Mission Bay, the UC Board of Regents met to discuss methods of coping with budget cuts for the 2012-2013 school year and simultaneously entered into litigation against Disney, Wal-Mart and Facebook over...

August 2, 2012

Late Night Stabbing Results in Multiple Injuries

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

UCPD officers and Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Department deputies responded to a reported stabbing incident last Saturday at 2:17 a.m. at a residence on the 6700 block of Trigo Road. The altercation began inside th...

August 1, 2012

Regents Support Tax Proposition For State Funding

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents voted to endorse Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative, which would save the 10-campus system from a 20.3 percent tuition hike in the 2012-2013 year, during their July meeting at UC San...

July 12, 2012

Regents Meet to Deliberate Tax Initiative

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents will meet next week at UC San Francisco Mission Bay to discuss the possibility of either a 20.3 percent mid-year tuition hike or a tuition freeze, depending on whether Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax ini...

May 21, 2012

Extravaganza Keeps Tradition Alive, Pleases Large Crowds

By Marissa Wenzke

Students flocked by the thousands into Harder Stadium yesterday for the chance to see hip hop legend Snoop Dogg along with a variety of other top performers such as DJ Wolfgang Gartner and reggae band Iration at Extravag...

May 10, 2012

Judges Award Budding Entrepreneurs

By Marissa Wenzke

The Technology Management Program’s 13th annual New Venture Competition awarded over $25,000 in prizes to six finalist teams last night at Corwin Pavilion, with aPEEL Technology — a venture for advanced fruit preserv...

April 30, 2012

DPP Executives Join With OPP-Dominated Senate

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

Associated Students Spring election results were announced last night in Karl Geiringer Hall, leaving the senate seats dominated by Open People’s Party (OPP) members and a majority of the executive positions secured by...

April 18, 2012

Students Exhibit Business Ambitions

By Marissa Wenzke

Nineteen teams of undergraduate and graduate students showcased business models for their newly developed ideas and inventions yesterday in the semi-finals for the 13th annual New Venture Competition. Hosted by the Techn...

March 7, 2012

Politicians Plan Amid Protests

By Marissa Wenzke

While state lawmakers met to finalize their portion of next years’ University of California budget, thousands of students, faculty and other community members converged on the Capitol on Monday to rally for revenue-gen...

January 24, 2012

Regents Move Meeting To Rally at Capitol

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents announced last week that it plans to relocate this year’s May 16 and 17 meeting from its original location at UC San Francisco to Sacramento, where regents will join UC students, faculty and sta...

January 23, 2012

UCPD Makes Arrests at UCR

By Marissa Wenzke

UC students and faculty members from across the state gathered on the UC Riverside campus last Thursday to protest during UC Board of Regents meeting, ultimately resulting in the arrest of two protesters including UCR ar...