Marissa Wenzke

January 18, 2012

A.S. To Host Informal Meeting Regarding Student Elections

By Marissa Wenzke

UCSB’s Associated Students will be accepting applications from students interested in running with a particular party in the upcoming Spring Quarter elections during an informational forum on Feb. 3. The meeting will d...

January 13, 2012

Governor Proposes New Plan to Fund Education

By Marissa Wenzke

Following a $100 million trigger cut to the University of California system last month, Governor Jerry Brown announced a state budget plan last Thursday including a tax increase initiative aimed at preventing additional ...

November 9, 2011

Vets, Protestors To Rally at Storke

By Marissa Wenzke

The UCSB Student Veterans Organization is hosting its Veterans’ Day celebration at noon today in Storke Plaza while student demonstrators congregate there to protest UC tuition hikes and budget cuts. The SVO’s event ...

October 27, 2011

Williams Upholds Student Interests

By Marissa Wenzke

State Assembly member Das Williams signed a pledge to vote against future cuts to the University of California’s state funding last week after students protested his vote in support of the $650 million decrease in UC f...

September 23, 2011

UC Faculty Scrutinizes Salaries

By Marissa Wenzke

Across the UC system, Nobel laureates have seen their pay take a back seat to the funding of athletic prestige. According to the UC payroll database, the highest paid UC employee in 2010 was UC Berkeley’s head football...

September 15, 2011

Students Urge Brown to Make Dream Act Reality

By Marissa Wenzke

Students and UC workers’ union members from across the state gathered in Sacramento on Monday in support of AB 131 — the second half of the California DREAM Act — which would enable students without full citizenshi...

August 24, 2011

Get Involved!

By Marissa Wenzke

If you’re looking to get involved on campus and expand your efforts into the local community, consider the following Associated Students organizations which work to affect change in the greater Santa Barbara area. Comm...

August 3, 2011

Regents Further Increases Fees

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

Following a $650 million cut in UC funding in California’s recently approved state budget, the UC Board of Regents approved an additional 9.6 percent increase in tuition — to be implemented Fall 2011 — at its July ...

July 13, 2011

UCSB Mourns Loss of Noted Professor

By Marissa Wenzke

UCSB Black Studies associate professor and distinguished scholar Clyde Woods passed away July 6 at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He was 54 years old.

June 22, 2011

Brown Denies Proposed Cuts to UC Budget

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the state legislature’s proposed 2011-2012 budget last Friday to prevent a revised $650 million cut to UC funding.

May 26, 2011

A.S. Elections Investigation Denies Second Student Appeal

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp

Associated Students Judicial Council denied a second appeal from a group of Open People’s Party representatives contesting A.S. Elections Committee’s allegations that members of the party furnished alcohol to minors ...

May 24, 2011

New Regents To Restore Order

By Marissa Wenzke

UC Berkeley graduate student Jonathan Stein was nominated as the UC Student Regent for 2012-13 yesterday and will begin his term in July 2012 if approved by the board.

May 19, 2011

A.S. Swears In New Representatives

By Marissa Wenzke, Katherine Friedman

The Associated Students conducted official government turnovers at last night’s Legislative Council meeting, swearing in representatives for the five executive offices and 24 council positions amidst multiple resignati...

May 18, 2011

Regents To Discuss Budget, UC Merced

By Yishian Yao, Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents will convene at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay Community Center today to discuss methods to compensate for shortfalls within the UC system’s 2011-12 budget. During the second and final day of ...

May 12, 2011

Student Entrepreneurs Square Off

By Marissa Wenzke

Student entrepreneurial group Aptitude Medical Systems claimed the top spot and a total of $11,500 in prizes out of six teams vying for recognition in the final round of the Technology Management Program’s twelfth annu...

May 5, 2011

Council Meets Controversy

By Erika Martin, Marissa Wenzke

Associated Students Legislative Council spent the majority of last night’s meeting discussing funding for College Republicans’ proposal to bring controversial speaker David Horowitz to campus. After being denied fund...