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October 6, 2014

UC to Allow LGBTQ Name Changes and Gender-Inclusive Restrooms

By Staff Report

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 faculty last Monday. Among...

October 6, 2014

Graduate Student Matthew O’Neill Killed In Cycling Accident

By Emani Oakley

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 Maria on August 9. A...

October 3, 2014

Police Arrest Salinas Man on Rape Charges

By Staff Report

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 following an invest...

October 2, 2014

Brown Approves Precautionary Gun Laws

By Peter Mounteer

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 Brown this past Tuesda...

October 2, 2014

‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Talks about Early Life, Cartooning

By Daniel Slovinsky

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 to the Daily Nexus ab...

October 2, 2014

Annual Festival Advocates Food for the SOL

By Kaitlin Cuskey

This year’s fifth-annual Sustainable, Organic and Local (SOL) Food Festival brought live music, contests, cooking demonstrations and an array of local food vendors to Vera Cruz Park in downtown Santa Barbara this pa...

October 2, 2014

UCSB Faculty Member Arrested

By Staff Report

Last Friday evening UCSB Police Department officers arrested philosophy professor Kevin Falvey on felony false imprisonment charges following a verbal altercation between Falvey and an unidentified female victim.

October 2, 2014

EAP Students Without Housing

By David Jackson

Dozens of students are still without permanent housing as Fall Quarter begins at UCSB. Amid one of the most difficult years to find housing in decades, many of the students struggling to find a place to live are internat...

October 2, 2014

California Adopts ‘Yes Means Yes’

By Jackson Kerr

Governor Jerry Brown approved the “Yes Means Yes” law — or Senate Bill 967 — on Sunday, which mandates that affirmative consent is the determining factor of whether or not consent was given by both parties to sex...

September 25, 2014

Michael Young To Retire in 2015 After 25 Years

By Peter Mounteer

Michael Young, UCSB’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for 25 years, will be retiring from his position in January 2015. Chancellor Henry T. Yang announced Young’s planned departure in a recently released memo on ...

September 25, 2014

Twenty Years of Yang

By Hannah Nelson

He has advised the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA and the National Science Foundation. This past year, he finished his term as an elected chairman of the Association of Pacific Rim Univers...

September 25, 2014

UC Board of Regents To Sponsor Technologically Innovative Projects

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The University of California Board of Regents approved a $250 million investment to fund UC research-based economic endeavors, entitled UC Ventures, during last Wednesday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay C...

September 25, 2014

UCSB Committee Elects Former Dean as New EVC

By Heeba Kaleem

Former Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Letters and Science David Marshall was appointed as UCSB’s next Executive Vice Chancellor Sept. 10.

September 25, 2014

Two Associated Students Politicians Abdicate Positions

By Aditya Tadanki

Former Associated Students Student Advocate General third-year literature major Bailey Loverin and former A.S. External Vice President of Local Affairs fourth-year sociology and Asian American studies major Beatrice Cont...

September 25, 2014

Gaucho Entrepreneurs Recognized For Success In Startup Business

By David Jackson

Forbes magazine recently ranked UCSB as a better university for entrepreneurs than Harvard and other Ivy League institutions. The ranking system, which established UCSB in 20th place, was based on university ratios of st...

September 25, 2014

UCSB Committee Elects Former Dean as New EVC

By Heeba Kaleem

Former Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Letters and Science David Marshall was appointed as UCSB’s next Executive Vice Chancellor Sept. 10. Marshall replaces Professor of Geography Joel Michaelsen, wh...