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November 4, 2013

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

By Kelly Lin

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’ Conference of the Parties ...

November 4, 2013

Annual Surf Fest, Swap Meet Takes Place at SBCC

By David Jackson

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.

November 1, 2013

A.S. Senate Discusses Projector Installation, New Annex, Community Financial Fund

By Elliott Wright

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 Annex in Isla Vista and...

November 1, 2013

Drug Bust Leads to Two Arrested I.V. Residents

By Staff Report

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.

November 1, 2013

UCSB Theater and Dance Professor Discusses Upcoming Book, “Carmen – A Gypsy Geography”

By Carly Bates

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 Mérimée set to music ...

October 31, 2013

Napolitano Announces Aid for Student Groups

By Staff Report

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-doctoral fellows and gradu...

October 31, 2013

‘The Wilde Circus: Vitriol’ Opens at Santa Barbara Art Foundry

By Elliott Wright

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.

October 31, 2013

To Party or Not To Party

By Jun Ong, Leon Freyermuth, Carissa Quiambao

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 anticipated, or un-anticipated...

October 31, 2013

Resource Center for Diversity Hosts Hookup Presentation

By Emani Oakley

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 Heteronormative Courtship” at ...

October 31, 2013

HalloClean Plans on Cleaning Halloween Party Damage in I.V.

By Jackson Kerr

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 looking to combat I.V.’s...

October 31, 2013

KCSB Radio Plans First Record Label

By Jackson Kerr

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 local surf rock band,...

October 31, 2013

Local Organizations Host Halloween Events for Kids

By Emani Oakley

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 Halloween-themed events ...

October 31, 2013

Halloween Alternatives

By Chelsea Brandwein

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 Gauchos hitting the ...

October 30, 2013

Professor Talks Porn Stars, Models, Idols

By Hannah Nelson, Kelly Lin

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 in Britain, 1950s-19...

October 30, 2013

Flash Mob To Encourage Solidarity

By Carissa Quiambao

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 care technicians.

October 30, 2013

Scholar Nassim Taleb Talks On Effects of Uncertainty

By Elliott Wright

Renowned philosophical scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave a lecture on the effects uncertainty has on decision-making Monday at Campbell Hall, discussing the philosophical and technical problems with probability as a mea...