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April 16, 2015

A.S. Senate Dives Into Divestment

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

The Associated Students Senate met Wednesday night in the Old Little Theater and then in Girvetz 1004 to discuss a resolution by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), sponsored by senators Xin Ma and Steven Kwok, whic...

April 16, 2015

Das Williams Ready To Tackle Tough Issues

By Christopher Chen

Santa Barbara Assembly member Das Williams announced his candidacy to run for the Supervisor of the First District of Santa Barbara this past Monday.

April 16, 2015

Associated Students Candidate Endorsements 2015

By Staff Report

This years' Daily Nexus endorsements of A.S. Executive candidates.

April 16, 2015

Professors Receive Grant

By Josephine Niu

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced religious studies professor José Ignacio Cabezón and history of art and architecture professor Swati Chattopadhyay as two of 173 recipients of their 2015 fellowsh...

April 16, 2015

Melgoza Pushes for Change

By Erin Gurewitz

Second-year student will file a complaint stating that the university violated her Title IX rights

April 16, 2015

UCSA To Host Student Lobby In Sacramento

By Kelly Lin

University of California Student Association (UCSA) will hold their annual Student Lobby Conference this weekend from Saturday, April 18 to Monday, April 20 at the Holiday Inn in Sacramento for students to directly engag...

April 16, 2015

Students Take Back the Night at Anisq’oyo’ Park

By Danny Kolosta

Associated Students Take Back the Night, an organization that advocates combatting sexual assault on campus, will hold a rally and march down Del Playa Drive tonight at Anisq’oyo Park to combat rape culture and sexual ...

April 15, 2015

Office of Das Williams, Community Discuss I.V. Self-Governance

By Peeka Zimmerman

The office of Santa Barbara Assemblyman Das Williams held a community meeting in the conference room of the Isla Vista Medical Clinic Building Tuesday night to discuss I.V. self-governance bill AB 3, which would establis...

April 15, 2015

Weekend Wrap-up April 10-12

By Patrick Guardian

Isla Vista law enforcement dealt with multiple reports from residents including an attempted suicide, a resistant probationer and a missing persons report last week.

April 15, 2015

EVPLA and EVPSA Candidates Debate Student Housing, Self-Governance, More

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Candidates for the positions of Associated Students External Vice President of Local Affairs (EVPLA) and External Vice President of Statewide Affairs met in the Hub Tuesday afternoon to answer questions from students abo...

April 14, 2015

A.S. Forum Brings Candidates to The Hub for Questions

By Megan Mineiro, Cheryl Sun, Supriya Yelimeli

Candidates running for positions in Associated Students participated in a forum yesterday in the Hub, answering questions from students and explaining their platforms.

April 14, 2015

Students Protest Alleged Mistreatment

By Christopher Chen

Students gathered for a sit-in outside the Student Resource Building on Monday in protest of the university’s alleged mistreatment of sexual assault survivors and lenient punishment of perpetrators.

April 14, 2015

A.S. Hears Student Funding Requests

By Beth Lebens

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met yesterday in the State Street Room in the University Center to hear funds requests from eight student organizations.

April 13, 2015

Holi Moly!

By Shelly Lu

UC Santa Barbara Indus hosted their annual Holi event this Sunday on the beach behind the Anacapa and Santa Cruz Residence Halls, drawing over 2,000 students to celebrate the traditional South Asian festival of colors wi...

April 13, 2015

CA Assembly Bill Seeks to Increase College Sexual Assault Penalties

By Danny Kolosta

A bill requiring universities to include a notation on the transcripts of students found guilty of sexual assault was passed by the California State Assembly Committee on Higher Education last Wednesday after being intro...

April 13, 2015

Professors Present at TEDxUCSB

By Kendra Witt

Five professors from various university departments spoke about recent developments in their research and other ideas at the third annual UCSB TEDx talk on Saturday in Embarcadero Hall in Isla Vista.