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Two Women Report Incidents of Fondling at Portola

The suspect is approximately 6 feet tall, has a “thinner build,” brown hair and was wearing a blue jacket at the time of the second incident. 
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Water Rescue Called In For Drunk Rafters, Aborted Shortly After Group Tows Themselves In

The individuals had been out in the ocean for approximately fifteen minutes before the water rescue was called in.
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New Initiative Aims To Address Basic Needs and College Affordability through Marijuana Cultivation Tax

UCSB students have rallied behind a new initiative calling for the redirection of a year-old cultivation tax, asking that the money collected from the tax be used to address college affordability.
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UCSB Teaching Assistant Under Fire From Colleagues, Students for Transphobic Tweets

The Twitter account, which features the T.A.'s photograph and name, contains hundreds of tweets and retweets espousing transphobic views.
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UC Gains $4 Million in Funding for Summer Financial Aid

Students who qualify can use the additional aid beginning this Summer Session A. 
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Two MCC Bathrooms To be Converted To All-Gender

Gary Lawrence, director of the University Center, said he hopes to have the signs installed by July 15. 
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2019-2020 A.S. Executives: A Look Ahead

The Nexus sat down with the five executives and asked them to speak about their plans for the upcoming year.
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UC Announces New Measures to Fortify Admissions Process

UC’s decision to reform its admission process arrives roughly three months after several universities across the U.S. were accused of using unfair backdoor methods to admit students.
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Promise Scholars Program Sees First Graduating Class

The program, the first of its kind in the nation, strives to give low-income students resources and guidance to help them graduate in four years with minimal debt.
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Student Regents: How Representative Are They of the UC?

An overwhelming proportion of the student regents have come from UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis.
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Spotlight Shines on Different Stages: Campus Groups Host Alternative Graduations

The majority of the alternative graduation ceremonies will be held in the next two weeks.
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LGBTQIA+ Vignettes: Class of 2019

The Nexus hopes to provide a platform — in this issue and in future ones — for LGBTQIA+ students at UCSB to share their lived realities on this campus.
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Pay-What-You-Can Photography Event Inspires Other Students To Give Back

It was the desire to strike a good balance between paying artists for their art and making grad photos as accessible as possible that led Kiyomi Morrison to create the event.
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Senate Votes To Open Applications for CCS & On-Campus Senatorial Vacancies

This is the second year in a row that no one has run for the open CCS seat.
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UCSB Graduate Student Nominated for 2020-2021 UC Student Regent

A record 113 UC students applied for the position of the 2020-21 student regent, compared to 40 who applied in the cycle before.
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