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A.S. Senate Convenes for First Meeting of Fall Quarter

October 9, 2014 by

The Associated Students Senate held their first meeting of the academic year this Wednesday in the Flying A room at the UCen.
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SB Devises Plan For Response to Ebola Outbreak

October 9, 2014 by

Following the first diagnosis of the Ebola virus in Dallas, Texas, over a week ago, the Santa Barbara County of Public Health as well as Student Health is preparing a reaction plan in the event of a l...
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UC Neuroscientists Secure $10m in Federal Funds

October 9, 2014 by

The National Institute of Health announced on Sept. 30 that University of California researchers have been awarded more than $10 million of the $46 million in grants given to laboratories across the c...
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IVFP Discusses Halloween With Residents

October 9, 2014 by

Isla Vista residents met with I.V. Foot Patrol officers yesterday morning during “Coffee with a Cop,” an event held to allow I.V. community members to ask questions to local law enforcement at the...
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I.V. Discusses Self-Governance

October 9, 2014 by and

Residents gather for second town hall meeting to discuss plans for the community Members of local law enforcement, student representatives, local government officials, students and other Isla Vista re...
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Jack Johnson Performs at “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, & Unite”

October 9, 2014 by

Around 5,000 students gathered at Storke Plaza yesterday afternoon to promote a safer, healthier UCSB and Isla Vista community in commemoration of the six students who lost their lives during the May ...
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KCSB To Broadcast “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, and Unite” Live from Storke Plaza

October 8, 2014 by

Later this afternoon, Wednesday, Oct. 8th, at 4pm, KCSB-FM will broadcast UC Santa Barbara’s commemorative event “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, and Unite” LIVE from Storke Plaza. This sp...
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UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura Wins Nobel

October 7, 2014 by and

Materials professor Shuji Nakamura was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, together with Japanese colleagues Isamu Akasak...
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I.V. Food Co-op and A.S. Food Bank Host Community Potluck

October 7, 2014 by

The Isla Vista Food Co-op teamed up with the Associated Students Food Bank to host a community dinner potluck on the Co-op courtyard this past Friday. The potluck kicked off A.S. Food Bank’s “Hung...
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UCPD Releases Past Year’s Campus Crime Statistics

October 7, 2014 by

Last Wednesday, University of California Police Department released its annual crime statistics report as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics ...
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UC to Allow LGBTQ Name Changes and Gender-Inclusive Restrooms

October 6, 2014 by

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced that steps would be taken to provide a more inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender UC students, staff and facult...
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Graduate Student Matthew O’Neill Killed In Cycling Accident

October 6, 2014 by

Graduate student Matthew O’Neill was killed during a cycling accident in which he was hit by a truck driven by the son of Abel Maldonado, former Lieutenant Governor and California Senator, in Santa ...
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Police Arrest Salinas Man on Rape Charges

October 3, 2014 by

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man yesterday on charges of raping a 19-year-old female UCSB student. The suspect, 23-year-old Victor Farias from Salinas, California, was arrested...
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Brown Approves Precautionary Gun Laws

October 2, 2014 by

Two laws introduced by state legislators from the Santa Barbara area following last spring’s murder spree in Isla Vista, which took the lives of six UCSB students, were approved by Governor Jerry Br...
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‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Talks about Early Life, Cartooning

October 2, 2014 by

In preparation for his upcoming Arts & Lectures talk, “Love, Hate & Comics: The Friendship That Would Not Die” with Lynda Barry, “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” creator Matt Groening spoke t...
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