News

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

Bubbly Second-Year Student Remembered for Her ‘Inner Light’

By Jorge Mercado

“Annie had a very specific sense of humor. She had a sarcastic wit that was very playful and could ease you into having a conversation,” Yoon said. “Her laugh and smile were so distinct. It was the first thing you ...

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 31, 2018

Vista Point: Freebies and Activities in Isla Vista

By Staff Report

The UCSB campus group Improvability is hosting a 24-hour Improvathon from 8 p.m. on Friday to 8 p.m. on Saturday.

May 31, 2018

How Much Are Pro, Anti-Measure R Groups Spending for Your Vote?

By Jose Ochoa

Primary elections are rolling around quickly, with voting set to take place next week on Tuesday, June 5. Two campaigns have mounted for the passage and failure of Measure R, a utility tax to fund the Isla Vista Communit...

May 27, 2018

How Much Are SB County Sheriff Candidates Spending for Your Vote?

By Jose Ochoa

Sheriff Bill Brown leads the fundraising effort comfortably with $251,364, as of May 25 — the last date on file that Brown reported finances — ahead of Lt. Brian Olmstead, who has raised $124,329 as of May 24. Th...

May 26, 2018

Sheriff Candidates Talk Platforms in Isla Vista

By Jose Ochoa

I.V. residents and UCSB students welcomed the three Santa Barbara County Sheriff-Coroner candidates with a packed room as the three made their last push to win over third district voters before the June 5 statewide prima...

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

Carbajal Signs Document To Force U.S. House Vote on DACA Bills

By Hayley Tice

Santa Barbara Congressman Salud Carbajal signed a bipartisan discharge petition last Friday in an attempt to force the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on bills that would protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv...

May 24, 2018

Vista Point

By Staff Report

Catch the goings-on in Isla Vista this week!

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

New Organization Hopes To Create First Rape Crisis Center in I.V.

By Arturo Martinez Rivera

Two UC Santa Barbara students, aiming to combat issues related to sexual assault, created a new group with hopes of implementing several projects on campus and in Isla Vista, one of which would be I.V.’s first Rape Cri...

May 24, 2018

Divestment Vote Canceled, 69th Senate Meeting Shut Down by ‘Civil Disobedience’

By Shomik Mukherjee, Simren Verma, Sanya Kamidi, Héctor Sánchez Castañeda

When the dust settled, it was another instance — the fifth time in six years — in which divestment failed to pass at UC Santa Barbara, which remains the only undergraduate UC campus not to have passed the resolution.

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...