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This Connection Won’t Evaporate

January 27, 2014 by

Vapor bar and e-cigarette lounge Vapor Connection officially joined the Isla Vista community on Saturday with a Grand Opening event that featured a live DJ and the store’s selection of over 80 diffe...
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UCSB Adds Housing for Future Students

January 27, 2014 by

Construction on a new UCSB housing complex near the West Campus Apartments on Storke Road is currently underway and due to be completed in Fall Quarter of the 2015-2016 school year.
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UC Calendar To Accommodate Jewish Holidays

January 27, 2014 by

Next school year, UCSB and every other UC campus will begin classes on Oct. 2, rather than in September, and winter break will be just two weeks long, with the changes being made to avoid conflict bet...
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Regents Deliberate on Salaries, Transfer Support, Academic Calendar, Other Topics

January 23, 2014 by

At yesterday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center, the University of California Board of Regents discussed the issue of sexual assault against women on UC campuses, salari...
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UC Students Petition Against 2014-15 Academic Calendar

January 23, 2014 by

Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, the starting instruction date for any University of California campus with a quarter system will be bumped down to Oct. 2 to avoid conflict with the Jewish High H...
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Dave Barry Causes Santa Barbara To Erupt with Laughter

January 23, 2014 by

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and humorist Dave Barry spoke to a nearly sold out crowd of about 1,500 people last night at 8 p.m. at the Granada Theatre downtown, in a UCSB Arts & Lectures-sponsored p...
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A.S. Senate Focuses on Budgets, Deltopia, Other Projects

January 23, 2014 by

Associated Students Senate met Wednesday night to review California’s state budget, discuss upcoming events for the quarter, such as Deltopia and examine food budgets for different campus Boards, Co...
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Is Isla Vista Rent Too Damn High? A Closer Look Into Housing in I.V.

January 23, 2014 by

With ‘For Rent’ signs slapped on almost every house or apartment in Isla Vista, thousands of students are now joining the annual housing rush that begins around the end of every Fall Quarter and b...
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Biology Professor Gains $1M Grant

January 23, 2014 by

The W.M. Keck Foundation, a philanthropic organization which supports scientific research, has awarded UCSB Biology professor Denise Montell with a $1 million grant to further her research on anastasi...
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I.V. Couple Arrested For Drug Hoard

January 23, 2014 by

Law enforcement officials arrested an Isla Vista couple Friday for conspiring to sell drugs, after one pound of marijuana was discovered in a car owned by one of the individuals.
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SB Foundation Aids Local GEM

January 23, 2014 by

The Santa Barbara Foundation, a foundation established to improve the lives of community members through philanthropy, recently pledged $25,000 to the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet (GEM), a partnershi...
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Regents Meeting Reaches Into Plethora of Topics: Master Plan, Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussed

January 23, 2014 by

During yesterday’s meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center, the University of California Regents discussed the expected federal and state budgets for the UC next year, Chancell...
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CCS Lit May Receive Admissions Hold

January 22, 2014 by

The UCSB Academic Senate is currently deciding whether or not the College of Creative Studies will be accepting applicants for the CCS Literature program for Fall 2014, as the Executive Vice Chancello...
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UCSB’s Prestige, Applicants Increase

January 22, 2014 by

Applications to the UC system have increased across the board and this year, UCSB received a record-breaking 80,893 freshman and transfer applicants.
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Regents Meeting Today

January 22, 2014 by

The UC Board of Regents will meet today at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center to discuss issues such as online education and the expected budgets for both federal and state funding to ...
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