Samantha Forcum

May 20, 2011

Students Rally for Affordability

By Samantha Forcum

UC students are participating in a statewide “Day of Action” demonstration tomorrow in response to Governor Jerry Brown’s revised 2011-12 budget proposal’s extended cuts to UC funding. The proposal recommends sla...

May 17, 2011

U.S. Changes Campus Sex Crime Code

By Samantha Forcum

The U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently implemented a series of new federal regulations decreasing the amount of evidence necessary to substantiate claims of sexual harassment and violence at fed...

May 17, 2011

U.S. Changes Campus Sex Crime Code

By Samantha Forcum

The U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently implemented a series of new federal regulations decreasing the amount of evidence necessary to substantiate claims of sexual harassment and violence at fed...

April 21, 2011

Site Chronicles Student Work

By Samantha Forcum

UCSB undergraduates established a blog earlier this school year featuring the ideas, experiments and findings of 11 student researchers. The blog serves as a public outlet for research discoveries, progress and predicame...

April 15, 2011

Program Hopes to Help Students Reach College

By Samantha Forcum

An emerging campus program known as “College Bound” is proposing the establishment of a new lock-in fee in the upcoming Associated Students Spring Election. College Bound is an on-campus organization designed to prom...

April 12, 2011

Fees Return for Approval, Crowd Ballot

By Michael Dean, Samantha Forcum, John Leach

Various campus programs and organizations are asking for the reaffirmation of 31 separate lock-in fees totaling to about $552 per year in the upcoming Spring Election. All referenda were approved in previous elections an...

March 3, 2011

Internet Profiles Influence College Admission Picks

By Samantha Forcum

Students who publicize their recreational drug use habits or bedroom romps on social net- works should be wary of the potential impact on their edu- cational prospects.

February 18, 2011

Executives Share Media Expertise

By Samantha Forcum

UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center for film and media studies will host a day-long conference about the digital distribution revolution tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in the Pollock Theater.

February 7, 2011

TGIF Fee Sustains Projects

By Samantha Forcum

The Green Initiative Fund will award around $150,000 in grants to select UCSB students, staff or faculty for their sustainable project proposals this year.

January 28, 2011

University Legislature Reviews Latest Events, Financial Difficulties

By Samantha Forcum

The UCSB Faculty Legislature met yesterday to discuss current university issues.

January 26, 2011

University Looks for Next Student Regent

By Samantha Forcum

The UC Board of Regents will accept applications for the 2012-13 Student Regent until Feb. 17.

November 17, 2010

Renowned Writer To Speak at UCSB

By Samantha Forcum

Award-winning author Sandra Cisneros will present a free lecture on diversity tonight at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hall.

November 9, 2010

Stealthy Shoppers Inspect UCen

By Samantha Forcum

UCSB has employed commercial spies for the last 16 years — it’s possible you could be standing right next to one at this moment and not even know.

October 31, 2010

Eminent Historian Traces Trends in Conservatism

By Samantha Forcum

UCSB history professor Laura Kalman recently published a book that she spent the last 30 years writing and researching.

October 8, 2010

Experts Join to Evaluate Oil Disaster

By Samantha Forcum

A group of executives will discuss the legal and environmental ramifications of the BP oil spill this evening at 5:30 in the Mosher Alumni House.