At the Senate’s Sept. 28 meeting, speakers at the Senate’s public forum voiced complaints regarding the resulting deficiencies in A.S. funding and function after Schaefer’s alleged neglect of he...
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Associated Students Assistant Director of Governmental Services Holly Mayes confirmed to the Nexus that the 73rd Senate has not been called into session since June 1, with its last email vote concludi...
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Amini’s death has sparked international protests and online dissent under the hashtag #Mahsa_Amini.
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CCAJJ aims to create a coalition for underrepresented cultural student organizations and unify activism on campus.
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The Regents discussed topics such as federal loan forgiveness, a new dual admissions program, military weapons on campus and transfer student reports.
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The total sum of UC allocations in the state budget is $602.3 million
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The contract takes effect immediately and runs through Oct. 31, 2025
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The University of California Board of Regents convened on July 20 and 21 in-person at UC San Francisco Mission Bay.
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The most significant addition for the UC in the new budget — which was first proposed in January — is a $307.3 million increase in the UC’s ongoing general fund.
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The county will release the first polling place results at 9 p.m. and continue to update results throughout the night as additional ballots are received.
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The arrest follows a timely warning sent by the UC Santa Barbara Police Department to the campus community on May 31.
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The Nexus surveys the UCSB student community annually to pick the best locations and services within the local area based on voting through a Google Form. The winners of our survey are listed here.
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The Nexus compiled UC Santa Barbara’s most significant news highlights of the year and the coverage that accompanied them.
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Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
