Peter Mounteer

July 23, 2014

UC Regents Confirm New UCSF Chancellor

By Peter Mounteer

During last Thursday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Community Center, the Board unanimously confirmed the appointment of UCSF School of Medicine Dean Sam Hawgood...

July 23, 2014

UC Regents Convene for 2014-15 Fiscal Year’s First Meeting

By Peter Mounteer

The University of California Board of Regents held its first meeting of the 2014-15 fiscal year last Wednesday at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Community Center, addressing the appointments of the student regent and n...

July 4, 2014

UCSA To Ask UC Regents to Postpone Student Regent-Designate Confirmation

By Peter Mounteer, Hannah Nelson

Yesterday afternoon in a closed meeting, the University of California Students Association (UCSA) voted to recommend the UC Regents postpone their confirmation of Avi Oved as the student regent designate for the 2014-201...

June 25, 2014

UC Creates Anti-Sexual Assault Measures

By Peter Mounteer

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the formation of a system-wide task force to address sexual assault and sexual violence on campus this past Friday in an effort to make the UC a national lead...

May 27, 2014

Mourners Protest Continued Presence of Reporters

By Peter Mounteer

A group of around ten students gathered outside of I.V. Deli Mart yesterday afternoon to protest the presence of various [...]

May 25, 2014

Isla Vista Community Gathers to Mourn, Share Memories of Those Lost

By Peter Mounteer

Students, community members and victims' families assembled for a candle in response to the tragedy that shook Isla Vista on Friday night.

May 23, 2014

Student Regent Nominee Revealed

By Peter Mounteer, Aditya Tadanki

Former Internal Vice President and third-year economics major at UCLA Avi Oved recently received the nomination to be the 41st University of California Student Regent for the 2015-2016 school year.

May 22, 2014

Students, Organizations Honored in Awards Ceremony

By Peter Mounteer

Representatives from some one hundred student organizations were honored in the 28th annual Leadership and Activities Awards ceremony recognizing the achievements of individuals and student organizations in the Student R...

May 21, 2014

Supreme Leader of Nexus Arises

By Peter Mounteer, Aditya Tadanki

The Daily Nexus editorial staff elected former news editor Carissa Quiambao as editor in chief for the 2014-2015 academic year in an office-wide election last Thursday.

May 16, 2014

Regents Discuss Student Affairs at Last Meeting of Academic Year

By Leon Freyermuth, Peter Mounteer

The meeting of the University of California Regents resumed for its final session yesterday morning and discussed the financial status of UC Medical Centers and the UC Office of the President Budget following a public co...

May 8, 2014

Justice O’Connor To Speak at UCSB

By Peter Mounteer

Former United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will deliver a free talk in Campbell Hall Saturday afternoon titled “Educating for Democracy in a Digital Age,” presented by the Walter H. Capps Center...

May 7, 2014

Gang Injunction Trial Begins

By Peter Mounteer, Simone Dupuy

April 7, 2014

Administrators Address Deltopia Aftermath

By Peter Mounteer

UCSB Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Michael Young held an open forum with students, administrators and community leaders yesterday at the Coffee Collaborative to discuss the destruction caused by Deltopia and the fu...

April 4, 2014

Sheriffs, UCSB Install Cameras Throughout I.V.

By Peter Mounteer

Six surveillance camera towers were erected in Isla Vista on non-university owned property in the wake of recent violent crimes and as Deltopia approaches this weekend, in addition to two surveillance cameras placed temp...

March 26, 2014

UCSB Water Polo Player Dies in Pool Incident

By Peter Mounteer

Second-year psychology major and UCSB water polo player Nicholas Johnson died after three members of the Santa Barbara High School swim team found him unconscious in the high school pool during a workout with the high sc...

March 12, 2014

Traveling Preacher Debates Evolution, Other Topics

By Daniel Slovinsky, Peter Mounteer

Students gathered at the UCen and later the Arbor from 12:30 to 6 p.m. as preacher and founder of the Whitefield Fellowship Keith Darrell debated students on a number of topics such as evolution, the laws of nature and i...