Staff Report

May 21, 2015

SB County Board of Supervisors Support I.V. AB 3

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The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday morning at the County Administration Building and voted 3-2 to support Assemblymember Das Williams’ Isla Vista Self Governance Bill, Assembly Bill 3 (AB 3), on ...

May 14, 2015

Yang Meets Sexual Assault Survivors’ Demands After Thirteen-Hour Sit-In

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A group of students headed by survivors of sexual assault Alejandra Melgoza, Lexi Weyrick and Melissa Vasquez staged a 13-hour sit-in of Chancellor Henry T. Yang’s office from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning to...

May 14, 2015

AB-3 Passes Assembly Governance Committee

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The California State Assembly Committee on Local Government voted 6-1 with two abstentions on Wednesday to re-refer Assemblymember Das Williams’ Assembly Bill 3 (AB 3) to the Joint Committee on Fairs, Allocation and Cl...

May 11, 2015

Update on Sabado Tarde Rd. Emergency

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Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office (SBCSO) and UC Police Department officials responded to a domestic disturbance report Monday evening at approximately 7:15 p.m. on the 6500 block of Sabado Tarde Road, where gunshots...

May 7, 2015

National News/International Spotlight

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National Police Impersonators Three people were charged with impersonating officers from a fictional police department that they invented: the Masonic Fraternal Police Department. Brandon Kiel, David Henry and Tonette Ha...

May 3, 2015

Das Williams, I.V. Self Governance Initiative Search for AB 3 Lobbying Support

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Santa Barbara Assemblyman Das Williams and the Isla Vista Self Governance Initiative will host five events over the next two weeks to mobilize support for Assembly Bill 3 (AB 3), including a trip to Sacramento on May 13 ...

April 30, 2015

National/International

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An update on this week's national and international happenings.

April 26, 2015

Top UC Headlines

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Top headlines from across the UC system.

April 24, 2015

A.S. Elections End With Near-Sweep

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This year’s Associated Students elections ended with Open People's Party (OPP) candidates taking three of the four available A.S. executive board seats, an independent candidate taking one seat and a general OPP sweep ...

April 18, 2015

Statement on Internal Vice President Endorsement

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The Daily Nexus has issued an endorsement for Associated Students Internal Vice President. The initial endorsement was retracted because the same evaluation process for one candidate for the position was not carried out ...

April 16, 2015

Divestment Resolution Falls Two Votes Short of Passing

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The Associated Students Senate voted against Students for Justice in Palestine’s resolution to divest from companies profiting from human rights violations in Israel-Palestine by a tiebreaker secret ballot of 13-12-1 a...

April 16, 2015

Retraction: A.S. Internal Vice President Endorsement

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The Nexus hereby retracts its endorsement for Kimia Hashemian for the position of Internal Vice President. The endorsement process was not appropriately carried out for all candidates for this position. In an effort to e...

April 16, 2015