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Dinner Program To Aid Dialogue

October 16, 2014 by

Faculty members and lecturers have been invited to dine with students in Isla Vista as a part of new Faculty Dinner Program that began this October and will continue throughout the year.
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DVA Week Aims To Educate UCSB Community

October 16, 2014 by

“Love Shouldn’t Hurt,” a series of events organized for this week’s ongoing Domestic Violence Awareness Week, began on Monday and continues onto Friday with presentations and activities inviti...
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Gaviota Train Incident Victim Identified

October 15, 2014 by

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has identified Mingyue Yuan as the 26-year-old UCSB visiting scholar who was struck and killed by an Amtrak train on Saturday evening at Vista Point.
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Measure P Divides County to Backing or Sacking Practicing Fracking

October 15, 2014 by

As Election Day approaches on Nov. 4, Measure P seeks to initiate a moratorium on the practice of “high-intensity petroleum operations” that include acid-well treatments and steam injection, more ...
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Project Fights to Slow Goleta Beach Erosion

October 14, 2014 by

The Goleta Beach Managed Retreat Project proposal, which aims to retain rock revetments installed in 2005, was resubmitted to the California Coastal Commission (CCC) on Sept. 29 for further review aft...
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Interview with Nobel Prize winner Shuji Nakamura

October 14, 2014 by

Materials professor Shuji Nakamura was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode. See full story here.
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Local Business Throws Entrepreneur’s Conference

October 14, 2014 by

Santa Barbara’s third annual Ontrapalooza business conference brought best-selling author of Chicken Soup For the Soul Jack Canfield, New York Times bestselling author Dave Logan, Ontraport founder ...
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AS Releases Special Election Information

October 13, 2014 by

The Associated Students Elections Committee announced the dates for a special election following the resignation of two A.S. executive officers earlier this year.
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Big Ideas@Berkeley Adds Global Food Systems Category

October 13, 2014 by

UC Berkeley launched the 8th annual Big Ideas@Berkeley contest last week, a student innovation competition open to all UC undergraduates that offers a $10,000 prize to the winning project proposal.
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This Week in Photos: Oct. 7 – 12

October 13, 2014 by

We look back at this past week in photos. Credits: John Clow, Eric Swenson, Kenneth Song, Christine Skari
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Pardall Carnival Brings Food, Fun, Games and Community Gathering

October 13, 2014 by

This past Saturday afternoon marked the sixth annual Pardall which took place on Pardall Road in Isla Vista between Embarcadero del Norte and Embarcadero del Mar.
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Train Collision Kills One, Injures Two

October 13, 2014 by

Four individuals, three who were researching at UCSB as visiting scholars, were involved in a train collision Saturday evening on a bridge near Vista Point that left one woman dead and two other peopl...
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Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr Discusses Isla Vista Self-Governance at Coffee Collab

October 12, 2014 by

Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr held her first office-hours-style open meeting of the new school year last Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Coffee Collaborative in Isla Vis...
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Local Group Dedicates Library for IV Kids

October 12, 2014 by

Local nonprofit Isla Vista Youth Projects (IVYP) held a ceremony last Monday at Isla Vista Children's Park to dedicate a Little Free Library, which will provide children in I.V. easier access to books...
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Fall from Balcony on Del Playa

October 9, 2014 by

Santa Barbara County Fire Dispatch responded to a report of a cliff fall from 6693 Del Playa Drive at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9, 2014. Updates to follow. Photo Courtesy of Ryan Ma...
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