Patrick Kulp

March 8, 2013

Nexus To Update Website, Change Distribution Model

By Patrick Kulp, Mark Strong

With the quarter quickly drawing to a close, today’s issue constitutes the last print edition of the quarter as the Nexus enters its usual Dead Week and finals week hiatus. When we return in three weeks, there will be ...

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 16, 2013

A.S. To Look Into Lack of Proper Lighting in I.V.

By Patrick Kulp, Carissa Quiambao

Due to the abundance of nonfunctioning lights and poorly lit areas on Isla Vista streets, safety concerns have arisen within the campus community and Associated Students senators are now organizing new efforts to tackle ...

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 14, 2012

UC Regents Approve Budget for 2013-2014

By Patrick Kulp, Katherine Friedman

During the second day of their three-day meeting at UC San Francisco Mission Bay, the UC Board of Regents deliberated on revenue-generating measures such as increasing nonresident undergraduate enrollment and approved th...

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 ...

October 2, 2012

Calif. To Utilize New Online Voter Registration

By Patrick Kulp

In an innovative shift in the election process, California citizens may now register to vote online through a new system launched by the California Secretary of State and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Citizens can re...

October 1, 2012

UCSB Alum Aids Development Of Electric-Powered Longboard

By Patrick Kulp

UCSB alumnus Sho Takahashi is one of the founders of a new company called Boosted Boards, which is aiming to raise $500,000 through a Kickstarter campaign in order to manufacture lightweight electric-powered longboards. ...

September 27, 2012

Downtown I.V. Welcomes its Newest Additions

By Patrick Kulp

A slew of new businesses have recently opened their doors this Fall in downtown Isla Vista, including Crushcakes & Café, Pizza My Heart, Chase Bank, Habit Burger Grill and Angry Wings. Located within the 8,000 squar...

September 26, 2012

United Nations Special Rapporteur and UCSB Global Studies Professor Richard Falk Weighs in on Gun Control, Shootings

By Patrick Kulp

In the wake of the Colorado movie theater tragedy, the Wisconsin Sikh temple hate crime and other incidents, violent mass shootings became an alarmingly frequent occurrence this past summer, prompting national controvers...

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 2, 2012

Marijuana Legalization Simulation Stirs the Pot During Weed Debate

By Patrick Kulp

Last week, the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History assembled a panel of four experts to hold a town hall-style discussion on possible outcomes of hypothetically legalizing marijuana. ...

May 17, 2012

Student Demonstrations Target UC Regents’ Potential Fee Hike

By Patrick Kulp

Yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento was interrupted by student protesters as the board prepared to discuss a potential tuition increase. Students dressed in mock prison jumpsuits circled the room and ...

May 10, 2012

UCSB’s Most Useful Majors

By Christine Cha, Arda Jooharian, Patrick Kulp

In continuation of yesterday’s installment of UCSB’s Most and Least Useful Majors, as compiled by Newsweek using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, today the Nexus provides the Six Most Useful Majors offered on ca...

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 30, 2012