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Six Teams Advance to Finals in Product Marketing Contest

The UCSB Technology Management Program will host the Finals for the 14th Annual New Venture Competition, in which teams of student entrepreneurs showcase inventions and business ventures, this Wednesd...
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A.S. To Swear In Next Year’s Executive Officers

With an OPP Election Sweep Last Month, the Winning Candidates Prepare to Take Office Associated Students Senate will swear in the elected student officials for the 2013-2014 school year at their week...
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Kendrick Lamar Rocks Extravaganza 2013

  [wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”4000″ transition=”‘slide'” lightbox=”true”]   Thousands of students filled Harder Stadium yesterda...
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ROTC Cadets Commended in Ceremony

The 66th Annual Awards Ceremony of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps took place on Saturday at Mosher Alumni House, honoring over 30 Surfrider Cadets in the UCSB Army ROTC program. UCSB Assistant...
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UCSB Professor Gives New Point of View to Current Trend of Mastectomies Used to Reduce Cancer Odds

A UCSB feminist studies professor is offering a new perspective on the growing use of prophylactic mastectomies, the surgical removal of one or both breasts, as a possible key to breast cancer prevent...
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A.S. Senate Approves Budget for 2013-2014

During Wednesday night’s 12-hour Associated Students Senate meeting, Senators approved A.S. budget allocations for the 2013-2014 school year. Due to a $50,000 cut in the fund for Boards, Committees,...
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Street Health Outreach Petitions to Allow People to Live in Cars in I.V.

UCSB student organization Street Health Outreach recently created an online petition to allow people to live in their cars in vacant Isla Vista parking lots without risk of being ticketed. The petitio...
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Panel Debates Ethics of Drone Warfare at Campbell Hall

UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosted “Drone Warfare: Prospects and Dangers” at Campbell Hall on Wednesday, opening the way for discussion of the United State...
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Harvard Professor To Deliver Lecture on Social Inequality

Harvard University professor of social sciences Lawrence D. Bobo will give the 10th annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture today in the MultiCultural Center Theater, addressing contemporary issues ...
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Gauchos Selected as Recipients of Prestigious Linguistic Scholarship

The United States Department of State has awarded two UCSB students with the 2013 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes, allowing them to both spend the summer in a prestigiou...
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Yudof Receives Criticism for Salary, Near-Doubled Tuition During Tenure

Last week, UC President Mark Yudof was placed eighth on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s list of the highest paid public college leaders in America. The list is based on figures from the 2012 fis...
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Union Workers Picket, Sit-in, Announce Strike

University of California Police arrested 13 people at the UC Board of Regents meeting yesterday morning during a demonstration in support of a UC patient care and service workers union in their ongoin...
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Regents Meeting Focuses on Ending ‘Super Senior’ Trend

The UC Board of Regents discussed graduation rates, student-faculty ratios and other university-wide issues at yesterday’s board meeting, while UC workers of the labor union AFSCME 3299 protested ou...
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City Council Meeting Revisits Gang Injuction

For the first time since its initial proposal in 2011, the outline for a Santa Barbara gang injunction was listed on the agenda of a Santa Barbara City Council meeting yesterday evening, allowing comm...
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Legal Action Taken by UC To Prevent Hospital Picketing

The University of California released a statement last Friday calling for a restraining order against major trade union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in response to the ...
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