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April 29, 2013

Goleta Tech Branch Product Helps Locate Boston Bomb Suspect

By Suzanne Becker

The Goleta branch of FLIR Systems, a thermal imaging company, helped manufacture an infrared-sensing chip that recently assisted Boston police in seeking out suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The chip a...

April 29, 2013

Students Vote in Favor of Every Fee Proposed in Campus Election

By Arda Jooharian, Carissa Quiambao

The results of the Campus Elections Commission’s 2013 fee initiatives were released yesterday, wrapping this year’s election season with a unanimous passage of all presented fees. Students voted to increase the under...

April 29, 2013

Pride Week To Host Multitude of Events

By Carissa Quiambao

UCSB Pride Week kicks off today with opening ceremonies held in Storke Plaza from noon to 2 p.m. and will culminate on Saturday, May 4 with the Isla Vista Pride Festival in Anisq’ Oyo’ Park. Today’s ceremony will b...

April 29, 2013

University Funding Affected by Recent Federal Budget Cuts

By Daniel Slovinsky

Roughly $1 trillion in automatic, across-the-board federal budget cuts were enacted March 1 after Washington lawmakers failed to agree upon a satisfactory deal between Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the Whit...

April 29, 2013

IHC Seminar Explores Cathartic Nature of Narrative Writing, Impact on US War Vets

By Jimmy Chang

Last week, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center held a conference titled “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” as part of a year-long interdisciplinary program on the human impact of the wars in Iraq and Afgh...

April 26, 2013

Alumni To Dish Out Career Advice to Communication Majors at Tomorrow’s Fifth Annual Career Day

By Kaitlin Cuskey

Tomorrow, the UCSB Communication Department will host their fifth annual Career Day as part of the All Gaucho Reunion Weekend, beginning at 12:30 p.m. in the Corwin Pavilion’s Lagoon Plaza. Over 30 alumni will be retur...

April 26, 2013

A.S. Affirms UC Prison Divestment, Addresses Internal Struggles Within Senate

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

During Wednesday’s Associated Students Senate meeting, Senators unanimously passed a resolution that calls for divestment of UC funds from the prison industrial complex and addressed issues of climate within the Senate...

April 26, 2013

Alumni To Bring Local Flavor to All Gaucho Reunion

By Carly Bates

This Saturday, former Gauchos in the food, catering and wine businesses will be gathering on campus to present their gourmet foods and unique drinks for the third annual Taste of UCSB. With events ranging from live music...

April 26, 2013

Abboud Named A.S. President for 2013-14 as OPP Sweeps Elections

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp, Emile Nelson, Carissa Quiambao, Arda Jooharian

COSWB, The Bottom Line Secure New Lock-in Funding;  All Existing A.S. Fees Reaffirmed [[UPDATED]] Emotions were high Thursday night as Associated Students election and fee results were announced in the Hub, with the O...

April 25, 2013

New Venture Competition Features Student Startups

By Carissa Quiambao

     This year’s New Venture Competition by the Technology Management Program brought 20 new student-founded business startups to Corwin Pavilion yesterday evening for the New Venture Fair. The New Venture Competiti...

April 25, 2013

Brothers Compete for Cash Prize, Six Continent Free Trip

By Suzanne Becker

UCSB alumnus Alex Ayling and his brother Mark are competing as finalists in the British competition “Biggest, Baddest Bucket List” — a travel-video contest with a grand prize of $50,000 in cash. The Ayling brothers...

April 25, 2013

Endowed Chair of Catholic Studies Wins Renowned Fellowship, Grant

By Jimmy Chang

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has chosen to honor UCSB religious studies professor Ann Taves as one of the 175 artists, musicians, scholars and scientists to receive the accolade this year. The Guggenheim...

April 25, 2013

UCSB Club Tennis Team Places in National Competition

By Jimmy Chang

On April 11, UCSB’s club tennis team competed in the 2013 United States Tennis Association Tennis On Campus National Championship, a tournament drawing on over 600 college campuses across the nation hosted in Surprise,...

April 25, 2013

Alumni Weekend To Draw Flocks of Former Gauchos

By Hannah Nelson

With over 6,000 alumni expected to return to campus this weekend, the UCSB Alumni Association is hosting a variety of events, ranging from lectures to athletics, as part of the seventh annual All Gaucho Reunion. The seri...

April 25, 2013

Gruesome Demonstration Protests UC Regents’ “Silencing” of Students

By Marissa Wenzke

After the UC Board of Regents failed to respond to A.S. President Sophia Armen’s letter requesting a UC Regents meeting at UCSB, the student executive and a small group of other concerned students occupied an area in t...

April 24, 2013

An Exclusive Daily Nexus Interview With the Stars of This Is the End

By Marissa Wenzke, Patrick Kulp

Yesterday, hundreds of UCSB students crowded Storke Plaza to meet actors Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson as the comedic trio promoted their newest film This Is the End. The film follows  escapades and those...