Nexustentialism

September 24, 2026

UC system announces major rebranding of UCSB

By Serrano Ham

On Friday, Sept. 11 the University of California system announced a major change to one of its most recognizable campuses, revealing that UCSB will no longer stand for University of California, Santa Barbara. 

August 27, 2026

Local drunkards host fundraiser to rebuild Deja Vu Cafe

By Joseph R. Biden

Beloved Isla Vista late-night establishment Deja Vu Cafe burned on Aug. 18, scaring high-functioning alcoholics for miles. The Isla Vista community consequently started a GoFundMe, planned multiple fundraising events and...

August 27, 2026

What your UCSB tour guide never told you

By Serrano Ham

The month before the start of the academic year at UC Santa Barbara always finds incoming freshmen in varying states of preparedness. However, whether you have tirelessly researched the clubs the school offers, or not ev...

August 5, 2026

New UCSB Bachelor of Science in artificial intelligence creates professor job insecurity

By Serrano Ham

Ahead of the 2026-27 academic year, professors at UC Santa Barbara are finding themselves increasingly concerned about job security. The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering recently announced a new Bachelor of Scienc...

July 19, 2026

World Cup faces backlash over “colonial optics”

By Serrano Ham

The 2026 FIFA World Cup came under intense scrutiny this week after cultural critics claimed the tournament had become indistinguishable from a European history textbook. Activists have accused FIFA of promoting “syste...

July 2, 2026

The fall of Santa Rosa and the end of civilization

By Serrano Ham

In what some have been calling “the boom heard around the world,” the mighty Santa Rosa Residence Hall, a beloved, if not somewhat misunderstood, member of UC Santa Barbara’s primarily first-year neighborhood, the ...

May 28, 2026

Best ways to ensure a return offer from your summer internship

By Joseph R. Biden

With spring quarter coming to an end, many students may anticipate summer fun: trading in the sunny Isla Vista lifestyle for eight hours behind a desk everyday at a summer internship.

May 28, 2026

Best ways to NOT accept that you’re graduating

By Serrano Ham

Society always seems to warn against peaking in high school: “The best years of your life are still ahead of you,” “High school doesn’t define who you are.” But what are we supposed to do once we have lived thr...

May 28, 2026

Seven ways to have the least self-destructive breakup

By D Indica

So your partner broke up with you. Maybe this was the guy you’ve been dating since high school and you went through the whole long-distance ordeal in a desperate attempt to make it work. 

May 21, 2026

Dominic Fike plays iconic ‘Euphoria’ song at Extravaganza

By Mikaela St. James

Last weekend, Extravaganza headliner Dominic Fike shocked the audience by doing a surprise performance of his original song from “Euphoria” season two during his set.

May 21, 2026

“Yang”: Chancellor Yang biopic in production

By Hugh Janus

UC Santa Barbara recently announced that a biopic on former chancellor, Henry T. Yang, has begun production.

May 21, 2026

ASPB implements X-ray technology at Extravaganza to prevent booze smuggling

By High Value Female

In the past, Extravaganza has been the stomping ground of unruly underaged students looking to get wasted with their buddies. This year, the Associated Students Program Board had enough and implemented advanced security ...

May 14, 2026

Extravaganza lineup unites gays and straights alike

By High Value Female

Extravaganza's lineup has finally been released and, surprisingly, UC Santa Barbara students of all sexualities have united over the artists picked to perform.

May 14, 2026

Horses escape from 68 Pasado, find frat ketamine

By Jesse Joint

Last weekend, as the usual Isla Vista festivities began to bathe the town in mutli-colored lights and the sound of 40 beginner bands, an unusual newcomer to the Goleta scene took the night by storm, or rather by hoof.

May 7, 2026

Irritated by cigarettes’ “mainstream” popularity, indie man smokes pipe

By Joseph R. Biden

Second-year political science major Jake Bertrand made waves in the Isla Vista community this past Wednesday at Pint Night when he was spotted smoking an 1800s-era tobacco pipe outside of Woodstock’s. 

May 7, 2026

Top five places to shit on campus

By Lady Dr. Big Naturalz

There comes a time in every Gaucho’s life when taking a shit on campus is absolutely necessary. Maybe you’re egregiously hungover from your housemate’s “Wine Wednesday,” or maybe your Arbor coffee went straight...