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Divestment Resolution Conversation Continues To Dominate Senate Meetings

Last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting — which was once again held in Corwin Pavilion to accommodate the hundreds of students in attendance — centered around lengthy discussion of the u...
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A.S. Candidate Debates Debut With Discussion on Community Issues

In the first of several forums leading up to the Associated Students elections this month, candidates for the position of Off-Campus Senator presented themselves to discuss community-related issues ye...
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Divestment Proposal Sparks Nine-Hour Debate, Tabled as Each Side Stands Firm

Hundreds of students attended Wednesday night’s Associated Students Senate meeting to debate a resolution supporting divestment from companies accused of profiting from “the military occupation of...
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Associated Students Holds Student-Run Textbook Trade

Haley Kulik Staff Writer   Associated Students Office of the President and Academic Affairs Board will host a Textbook Marketplace this afternoon in Storke Plaza from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., in w...
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Students Address Senate About Racial, Minority Issues at UCSB

  During last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, the Associated Students Student Advocate General Yoel Haile addressed the campus’s senators with a list of demands from the Black Stu...
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Q&A With Armen: A.S. President Talks About Rally on State Budgets, Prop. 30, Financial Aid

Yesterday roughly 5,000 students from the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems joined forces to protest at the State Capitol in Sacramento, ad...
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A.S. Finance Board Deliberates Campus Organization Funding

Yesterday, Finance Board met and discussed potential funding for 22 clubs and organizations looking to receive financial assistance from UCSB Associated Students. Organizations which requested funding...
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Associated Students Hold Symposium About Violence, Effects on Underrepresented Students

Associated Students’ Student Commission on Racial Equality (SCORE) hosted a conference called “Against the Gun: Deconstructing Narratives of Violence in Communities of Color” on Saturday in the ...
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A.S. Senate Approves Bill To Hold Senators To Their Duties

Associated Students Senate approved a bill aimed at increasing senators’ accountability during last night’s four-hour meeting. The newly passed bill will require senators to complete a form every ...
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A.S. Senators Consider Changes To Elections, Campaign Process

Associated Students Senate considered two separate proposals to amend the elections process during Wednesday’s 10-hour meeting. Elections Committee initially presented their changes at last week’s...
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EAB Petitions A.S. To Divest Fossil Fuel Holdings

The Environmental Affairs Board is currently lobbying the Associate Students Senate to endorse a campaign requesting that the campus make divestments from fossil fuel-based companies. Similar campaign...
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Student Organizations Will Compete for Funds Created by A.S. Senate’s STARK Bill

The Associated Students Senate approved a bill last month that will set up a fund for student projects in the realm of science and technology. The bill titled Science, Technology, Aerospace and Resear...
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A.S. Senate Weighs the Benefits Of Divesting From Companies

At last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, the organization debated the financial and moral implications of drawing divestments from fossil fuel companies to provide a more eco-friendly cam...
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A.S. Gains New Senator, Looks Into Proposed Amendments

Associated Students Senate discussed a pro- posal to require mandatory sexual assault train- ing for all Senators along with other updates to the Senate Constitution and swore in a new Senator at last...
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New Resignations Leave More Seats Empty in the A.S. Senate

Four student senators announced their resigna- tion during last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, adding to a total of nine Senate resigna- tions since the beginning of the year. Former se...
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