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November 14, 2013

UCSB Awarded as Lead in Water Sustaining Efforts

By Victor Garcia

UCSB was recently recognized as a pioneer of water conservation by the Earth Day Network, an international organization that has been spearheading environmental campaigns — such efforts against climate change or moveme...

November 14, 2013

Speakers Address Rights, Tuition During Public Comment Period

By Carissa Quiambao

Yesterday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting began with a Public Comment session featuring students and workers addressing the rights of union workers and undocumented students, as well as a proposal f...

November 14, 2013

Temporary Ice Rink Provides Skates, Photos, Raffle Contests

By Aditya Tadanki

Yesterday the UCSB Associated Students Program Board and the UCen brought an ice rink to Corwin Pavilion for their free ice-skating event, “Winter Wonderland Indoor Ice Skating.”

November 14, 2013

Gauchos Try to Stay Perfect

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Men's basketball hosts Utah State Saturday

November 13, 2013

Student Leads Presentation on History, Culture of Drag Shows

By Rilla Peng

The Queer Student Union held a presentation entitled “Behind the Wigs: An Examination of Drag Culture” to explore the meaning behind drag performance and its role in popular culture yesterday at the UCen.

November 13, 2013

Regent Talks Address UC Plans, Issues

By Rilla Peng

Along with protests against newly-elected UC president Janet Napolitano, the UC Board of Regents meeting that took place yesterday at the Conference Center in UC San Francisco Mission Bay featured discussion of various i...

November 13, 2013

Professor Discusses ‘Coded’ Racial Appeals

By Peter Mounteer

The Multicultural Center Theatre hosted a lecture by UC Berkeley Professor of Law Ian Haney-López on the “coded” racial appeals used by politicians to get voters to unconsciously support racially and economically di...

November 13, 2013

Union Announces Another Strike on UC

By Carissa Quiambao

The American Federation of State, County and Municpal Employees, or AFSCME 3299, declared a patient and care service worker strike against the University of California this past Friday on allegations of attempts by the U...

November 13, 2013

UCSB Student Group Holds Discussion on War

By Aditya Tadanki

Human Rights Board hosted a teach-in entitled “The ‘Other Side’ of War” to break down popular assumptions regarding the definition of war yesterday afternoon at the Parking Lot 22 lawn.

November 13, 2013

Democrats Discuss Healthcare Options Beyond ACA

By Emani Oakley

The Campus Democrats held an event called “Healthcare For All” yesterday evening, discussing current American healthcare policy and the role of single-payer financing in such policy.

November 13, 2013

Workshop Held in MCC Discusses Drones in Middle East, Philippines

By Carissa Quiambao

The Muslim Student Association and Kapatirang Pilipino hosted an interactive educational workshop called “From Mindanao to the Middle East: Life Under Drones” yesterday at the Community Affairs Board Office in the Mu...

November 12, 2013

Acclaimed UK Puppeteers Perform Premiere Show at UCSB

By Jimmy Chang

UCSB Arts &Lectures hosted the Santa Barbara debut performance of “The Table,” a show by the Blind Summit Theatre — a renowned puppetry group based in the United Kingdom — last week.

November 12, 2013

Human Rights Week Shines Light on Minorities

By Jun Ong

Human rights and social justice campus organization Human Rights Board is hosting their fourth annual Human Rights Week this week, with events under the theme, “[under]underrepresented,” beginning today and continuin...

November 12, 2013

Trevor Wishart Showcases Electronic Voice Music Compositions at UCSB

By Carly Bates

World renowned digital audio media composer Trevor Wishart performed at the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on Saturday, in a concert titled “Encounters in the Republic of Heaven: All the Colours of Speech."

November 12, 2013

Paul Rusesabagina Shares Stories of Rwandan Genocide, Passive Resistance at SBCC

By Elliott Wright

Humanitarian and Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts in hiding and protecting 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees during the Rwandan Genocide provided the basis for the film “Hotel Rwanda,” spoke publicl...

November 8, 2013

Anti-sweatshop Activist Talks Labor Rights Abuse at MCC

By Heeba Kaleem

Anti-sweatshop activist Scott Nova, executive director of an independent labor rights monitoring organization called Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), came to the MultiCultural Center Theater this afternoon to discuss huma...