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August 23, 2018

Abortion Pill In Public Universities One Step Closer to Becoming Law

By Simren Verma

The bill would require all University of California and California State University campuses to offer the pills by Jan. 1, 2022, including UCSB.

August 15, 2018

UC Regents Found in Contempt Of Court, Expelled Student Allowed to Return to UCSB

By Evelyn Spence, Sanya Kamidi

The student who filed the complaint, referred to as Jane Roe in court documents, said Doe stalked her on a daily basis after the two engaged in a sexual encounter in November 2015 and briefly dated.

July 1, 2018

A.S. Senate Passes Resolution To Split EVPSA Duties

By Evelyn Spence

The position of EVPSA is currently vacant because the A.S. Elections Board disqualified the then EVPSA-elect, Mayela Morales, in May.

June 29, 2018

SAG Martinez’s Domestic Violence Charge Dismissed

By Evelyn Spence

She was being tried as a defendant against the People of the State of California and pled not guilty in the domestic violence charge, according to court records.

June 15, 2018

KCSB Passes Vote Of No Confidence for A.S. Staff Member

By Maura Fox

Jennifer Kiser has been the assistant director of independent media with KCSB since December 2016.

June 14, 2018

UCSB Student Arrested Following Davidson Library Bathroom Incident

By Maura Fox

Huang was arrested and booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on June 12 on a $2,500 bail.

June 7, 2018

Bong, Bong, Bong: The Hands Behind the Carillon Bells

By Sanya Kamidi

As a member of Adjunct Professor Margo Halsted’s carillon bells class, Sophia Tao has spent the last two years making the trek up the tower at least once a week to play the bells.

May 31, 2018

Title IX Policy Changes Proposed by UCOP

By Sanya Kamidi

A graduate student representative of the UC Santa Barbara Title IX Student Advisory Board presented a series of proposed UC Title IX policy changes to the A.S. Senate Wednesday evening.

May 31, 2018

S.A.G. Martinez Charged With Domestic Violence, Driving Under Influence

By Evelyn Spence

The Associated Students student advocate general is being charged with two criminal offenses, according to publicly available court records as well as police arrest records obtained by the Nexus.

May 31, 2018

UCSB Professor Leads Summer Course for Incarcerated Teens

By Katie Wolf

UC Santa Barbara Theater and Dance Professor Michael Morgan’s program The Odyssey Project, which aims to rehabilitate incarcerated teenagers in Santa Barbara, will run for the eighth time this summer.

May 24, 2018

All Newly-Elected A.S. Senators Sworn In, Meeting Ends With Full Agenda Unaddressed

By Evelyn Spence, Sanya Kamidi

The meeting ended just after 5:30 p.m. with more than a quarter of the agenda left unaddressed.

May 24, 2018

Journalism Certificate Program Comes to UCSB

By Sofía Mejías-Pascoe

A journalism certificate program will be available for students at UC Santa Barbara beginning Fall Quarter 2018, which would allow students to take courses specific to journalism that are taught by trained professionals.

May 24, 2018

Backpacks Memorialize Victims of Mass School Shootings Across U.S.

By Sofía Mejías-Pascoe

Four years after the UC Santa Barbara and Isla Vista community lost six of its members on May 23, 2014, the community continues to honor their lives and reminds its members of the importance of healing and coping with tr...

May 22, 2018

BREAKING: Special Election for EVPSA Will Be Held Fall Quarter

By Evelyn Spence

Currently “appeals” are in place, according to the minutes, although specifications regarding Morales’ disqualification were not discussed during Monday’s meeting.

May 22, 2018

Second-Year UCSB Student Reported Missing Monday Morning, Later Found Deceased

By Evelyn Spence

A missing persons report was filed for Wang around 9:40 a.m. on Monday morning, according to Charlene Wu, one of Wang’s current housemates in Manzanita Village.