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UCSB B.A., Ph.D. Sociology Students To Participate in United Nations’ Conference of the Parties

Students from the B.A. and Ph.D. Sociology programs are traveling to Poland, alongside sociology professor John Foran and other UCSB alumni and affiliates, for the 19th annual United Nations’ Confer...
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Annual Surf Fest, Swap Meet Takes Place at SBCC

Santa Barbara City College held the Sixth Annual Surf Fest and Swap Meet in the parking lot across from Leadbetter Beach, raising funds for the SBCC women’s basketball team, on Saturday.
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A.S. Senate Discusses Projector Installation, New Annex, Community Financial Fund

This Wednesday’s Associated Students Senate meeting focused on several upcoming projects, including a $7,000 projector to be installed near the dorms at San Miguel Stage, the Associated Students Ann...
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Drug Bust Leads to Two Arrested I.V. Residents

Santa Barbara Regional Narcotic Enforcement Team Agents seized 156 grams of cocaine, 49 tablets of MDMA (ecstasy) and 40 pills of an unidentified drug last weekend, according to a SBRNET press release...
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UCSB Theater and Dance Professor Discusses Upcoming Book, “Carmen – A Gypsy Geography”

The Daily Nexus talked to UCSB Theater and Dance Professor and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum to discuss her latest book, Carmen — A Gypsy Geography, which examines the novel by Prosper Mé...
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Napolitano Announces Aid for Student Groups

UC President Janet Napolitano announced a new initiative yesterday in her first major speech as UC President that will allocate $15 million of non-state funds toward undocumented students, post-doctor...
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‘The Wilde Circus: Vitriol’ Opens at Santa Barbara Art Foundry

Local Santa Barbara theatre company, Sexy Sandwich Productions, will be performing their third and newest opus, The Wilde Circus: Vitriol, this weekend at the Santa Barbara Art Foundry.
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To Party or Not To Party

Whether or not you’re prepared for I.V. to become a police state or for hoards of intoxicated, costumed, scantily-clad revelers to clog Del Playa and onward, it’s happening — the much anticipate...
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Resource Center for Diversity Hosts Hookup Presentation

Assistant Research Scientist of the Kinsey Institute and co-author of Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior Justin R. Garcia gave a presentation entitled “Love, Sex, and Hookups: Queering Heteronormat...
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HalloClean Plans on Cleaning Halloween Party Damage in I.V.

Isla Vista community members will be picking up post-Halloween debris this Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. though HalloClean, a concerted effort by students and local business owners lookin...
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KCSB Radio Plans First Record Label

After over five decades of community radio, UCSB’s own 91.9 KCSB-FM plans to debut their first record label, Bank Burner Records, with a show at Del Pueblo Café in Santa Barbara that will feature l...
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Local Organizations Host Halloween Events for Kids

This week several campus and community organizations — such as Storke Family Housing, Associated Students Community Affairs Board, the Family Literacy Program and Gamma Phi Beta — have hosted Hall...
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Halloween Alternatives

Despite efforts to “keep it local,” Halloween weekend will no doubt usher in its fair share of out-of-towners to I.V., making the celebration bigger, louder and crazier than it would be with just ...
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Professor Talks Porn Stars, Models, Idols

University of Vermont history professor Paul Deslandes spoke to UCSB students and faculty members yesterday in a talk entitled “Models, Idols and Porn Stars: Selling and Consuming the Beautiful Man ...
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Flash Mob To Encourage Solidarity

The Student-Worker Coalition for UC Statewide Action will organize a flash mob this Friday, in support of the UC employee union-led demand for better worker compensation for UC service and patient car...
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