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May 13, 2013

FOX Contributor Speaks on Guns, Media at UCSB

By Kevin De Bree

Last Thursday, Ben Shapiro — editor-at-large of Breitbart.com and a FOX News contributor — spoke at UCSB’s Loma Pelona Center as the keynote speaker of an event hosted by UCSB College Republicans. His s...

May 13, 2013

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Held For Newly Constructed Fence in Walter Capps Park

By Daily Nexus Staff

Last Thursday, local officials and members of the public gathered at Walter Capps Park to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly erected wooden fence along the park’s oceanside cliff. Spanning 390 feet alon...

May 10, 2013

A.S. Senate Meeting Fails to Pass Revised Divestment Resolution With Close Votes

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

A revised resolution aimed at divesting from companies that “profit from the military occupation of Palestine” failed to pass — despite a 12-11-1 vote — after it was reintroduced during Wednesday’s 11-hour Asso...

May 10, 2013

Sorority, Nonprofit Join Forces to Support Victims of Domestic Abuse

By Carly Bates

Multicultural sorority Sigma Alpha Zeta will partner with Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County, a local nonprofit organization that provides assistance to victims of domestic abuse, to host the Run for Lo...

May 10, 2013

UCSB Professor Gives Talk on Bacteria Research

By Hannah Nelson

College of Letters and Science honors students gathered in the State Street Room of the UCen last night to listen as Professor Michael J Mahan of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology department gave a lectur...

May 9, 2013

Program Board Releases Extravaganza Lineup

By Staff Report

After months of anticipation, A.S. Program Board announced last night that Kendrick Lamar, Dada Life, J Boog, The Growlers and Alpha Phunk will comprise the lineup for this spring’s Extravaganza music festival. The ann...

May 9, 2013

College Republicans’ Keynote Speaker To Discuss Gun Control, Media Bias

By Suzanne Becker, Arda Jooharian

UCSB College Republicans will host their annual keynote speaker lecture at the Loma Pelona Center, featuring FOX News contributor Ben Shapiro, who will give a lecture entitled “Dismantling the Left’s Anti-Gun Media S...

May 9, 2013

Pollock Theater Hosts Feminist Mini-Con Events

By Suzanne Becker

The Feminist Porn Mini-Con — a multi-series event which discussed feminist and queer pornography — opened with a two-hour discussion panel at Pollock Theater yesterday, as UCSB professors and adult film industry prof...

May 9, 2013

CA Universities Uniting in SB to Talk Sustainability

By Rosalinda Diaz

Registration is now open for the annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference that is expected to draw hundreds of participants from across the state to UCSB next month to discuss long-term environmental ...

May 9, 2013

Annual Festival to Host Local Bands, Offer Free Food, Produce Zero Waste

By Carissa Quiambao, Arda Jooharian, Rilla Peng

Isla Vista’s ninth annual Chilla Vista will feature hip hop-infused indie surf rock trio Radical Something along with local Isla Vista bands Junipero, Ultraviolet, Adventure Dogs and Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus this Saturda...

May 9, 2013

Women’s Center To Host LunaFest Film Festival

By Kelly Lin

Tonight at 7 p.m., the traveling film festival LunaFest is making a stop in the Isla Vista Theater to showcase nine award-winning short films concentrating around diverse topics and issues within the female community and...

May 9, 2013

New Alert Website Texts Students Class Openings

By Daniel Slovinsky

A newly launched website called Alertification now allows students to receive a text message alert as soon as a space becomes available in a previously filled class. Initially established for UCLA students by UCLA gradua...

May 8, 2013

Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love

By Carissa Quiambao

Award-winning actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval” at the UCSB Multicultural Center Theater yesterda...

May 8, 2013

Local Entrepreneurs Create ‘Trustworthy’ Online Marketplace

By Emile Nelson

Looky.co, an Isla Vista-based start-up company, launched its website yesterday morning with hopes to attract individuals looking to buy products from friends and other acquaintances. The company takes inspiration from ma...

May 8, 2013

Assistant Professor To Discuss Highly Controversial Act

By Daily Nexus Staff

UCSB history and environmental studies assistant professor Peter Alagona will give a free lecture on the Endangered Species Act today at 4 p.m. in the HSSB McCune Conference Room. Alagona’s lecture, entitled “Forty Y...

May 8, 2013

Associated Students COSWB Holds Event to Promote Improvement of Student Diets

By Tiffany Park

The Associated Students Commission on Student Well Being is hosting a lecture and dinner in the Loma Pelona Center this evening to inform students about healthy eating habits. The event is intended to provide a forum to ...