Max Abrams

Max Abrams served as the lead news editor for the 2020-2021 school year. He is from Buffalo. That's all you need to know.

February 6, 2020

UC Academic Senate Recommends UC Admissions Continue Requiring Standardized Testing

By Max Abrams

The Academic Senate supports the use of standardized testing because it is unclear how altering the standardized testing policy will affect the admissions process as a whole.

February 6, 2020

A Joint Effort: Cannabis Club Hopes To Build a Community, Educate Students

By Max Abrams

Cannaclub covers a broad spectrum of the cannabis world and opens the door for students interested in an industry that is oftentimes tricky to access while in college.

January 27, 2020

UCSB Students Mourn the Loss of Kobe Bryant and His Daughter Gianna

By Max Abrams

At the center of the vigil rested a picture of Bryant and his daughter, a bouquet of flowers and a poster inscribed “RIP #24 MAMBA.”

January 23, 2020

Inaugural Director of the Office of Black Student Development Hired Fulfilling BSU Demand

By Max Abrams, Sanya Kamidi

Hylton was selected after a national search by a committee comprised of members of the BSU demands team, as well as other campus leaders.

January 23, 2020

Student Documentary “Not One More” Puts a Story of Tragedy in the Hands of Community

By Max Abrams

The documentary’s narrative is instead established through interviews with politicians, UCSB faculty, psychologists, researchers, first responders and surgeons, giving viewers a previously unseen perspective.

January 22, 2020

Fifth Suspect Arrested For I.V. Armed Robbery; Additional Suspect in Custody Pleads Not Guilty

By Max Abrams, Evelyn Spence

The armed robbery, which took place on Nov. 18 reportedly around 10:30 a.m., resulted in the university issuing a “secure in place,” causing some campus buildings to independently lock down.

January 17, 2020

UCSB Community Holds Vigil To Mourn Lives Lost in Ukranian Plane Crash

By Katherine Swartz, Max Abrams

Attendees gathered under the A.S. Annex on Thursday afternoon, using poetry and candles to mourn the 176 lives lost when a Ukranian passenger jet was shot down in Iran on Jan. 8.

January 16, 2020

A.S. Senate Proposes New International Senator Seat

By Max Abrams

The A.S. Senate introduced a new bill that would add an international student senator seat, the first of its kind within Associated Students.

January 9, 2020

A Blacksmith of Education: UCSB Professor Talks Forging the Tools for Success

By Max Abrams

With his own life experiences in mind, Rios said he is dedicated to helping others go about their lives in a way that makes them feel supported — and never alone.

January 1, 2020

Thirty Meter Telescope Project Now To Be Paused Until February 2020

By Max Abrams

The project has drawn significant controversy since its groundbreaking in October 2014 and has remained a subject of criticism from Native Hawiians.

December 21, 2019

UCSB Police Officer Arrested for Battery and Brandishing a Firearm While Off Duty

By Max Abrams

The officer is new to the department and had not been cleared for field duty at the time of the incident.

December 7, 2019

Hawaiian Activists Speak At UCSB Town Hall, Urge UC Not to Move Forward With Telescope Construction

By Max Abrams, Jackson Guilfoil

The panel, hosted in collaboration between the the EVPSA office and the American Indian Student Association, consisted of three speakers who spoke and sang to a packed Flying A Room.

November 26, 2019

Cave Fire Grows to 4,100 Acres, UCSB Emphasizes No Threat To Campus

By Evelyn Spence, Sanya Kamidi, Katherine Swartz, Max Abrams

Classes for the remainder of the week were cancelled at 10:44 a.m. on Tuesday in an email sent by Chancellor Yang, but the fire “poses no threat to our campus,” with no evacuations planned.

November 14, 2019

UC Regents Move Forward With New Policy to “Generally” Prohibit Outsourcing

By Max Abrams

The new policy is expected to incur roughly an additional $108 million in costs for the UC.

November 7, 2019

UCSB Student Arrested Following On-Campus Stalking, Victim Discusses Navigating Reporting Process

By Sanya Kamidi, Max Abrams

A third-year UCSB student was arrested Sunday afternoon on a felony charge of stalking and two misdemeanor charges of vandalism and “annoying phone calls.”