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July 9, 2019

Water Rescue Called In For Drunk Rafters, Aborted Shortly After Group Tows Themselves In

By Sanya Kamidi

The individuals had been out in the ocean for approximately fifteen minutes before the water rescue was called in.

July 5, 2019

New Initiative Aims To Address Basic Needs and College Affordability through Marijuana Cultivation Tax

By Max Abrams

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.

July 2, 2019

UCSB Teaching Assistant Under Fire From Colleagues, Students for Transphobic Tweets

By Evelyn Spence

The Twitter account, which features the T.A.'s photograph and name, contains hundreds of tweets and retweets espousing transphobic views.

June 28, 2019

UC Gains $4 Million in Funding for Summer Financial Aid

By Sanya Kamidi

Students who qualify can use the additional aid beginning this Summer Session A.

June 27, 2019

Two MCC Bathrooms To be Converted To All-Gender

By Sanya Kamidi

Gary Lawrence, director of the University Center, said he hopes to have the signs installed by July 15.

June 25, 2019

2019-2020 A.S. Executives: A Look Ahead

By Evelyn Spence, Sanya Kamidi, Max Abrams, Arturo Martinez Rivera, Katherine Swartz

The Nexus sat down with the five executives and asked them to speak about their plans for the upcoming year.

June 22, 2019

UC Announces New Measures to Fortify Admissions Process

By Max Abrams

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.

June 20, 2019

Promise Scholars Program Sees First Graduating Class

By Sanya Kamidi

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.

June 11, 2019

Student Regents: How Representative Are They of the UC?

By Sanya Kamidi

An overwhelming proportion of the student regents have come from UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis.

June 6, 2019

Spotlight Shines on Different Stages: Campus Groups Host Alternative Graduations

By Sanya Kamidi, Evelyn Spence

The majority of the alternative graduation ceremonies will be held in the next two weeks.

June 6, 2019

LGBTQIA+ Vignettes: Class of 2019

By Daily Nexus Staff

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.

June 6, 2019

Pay-What-You-Can Photography Event Inspires Other Students To Give Back

By Sanya Kamidi

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.