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UCSB Professor Gives Talk on Bacteria Research

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 depa...
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Program Board Releases Extravaganza Lineup

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

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...
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Pollock Theater Hosts Feminist Mini-Con Events

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 adul...
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CA Universities Uniting in SB to Talk Sustainability

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

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, Euc...
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Women’s Center To Host LunaFest Film Festival

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 ...
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New Alert Website Texts Students Class Openings

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 stu...
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Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love

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 Cen...
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Local Entrepreneurs Create ‘Trustworthy’ Online Marketplace

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...
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Assistant Professor To Discuss Highly Controversial Act

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,...
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Associated Students COSWB Holds Event to Promote Improvement of Student Diets

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...
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UCSB To Restore Self-Sustaining Habitat

UCSB recently partnered with Goleta-based nonprofit organization Trust for Public Land to acquire the Ocean Meadows Golf Course near Coal Oil Point, as part of an effort to restore the area to its nat...
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Adult Film Stars, Professors Discuss Feminism in Porn

The “Feminist Porn Mini Con” — the first academic conference in the Unites States to discuss pornography from the feminist perspective — will take place at Pollock Theater today, with three UC...
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The new 7-Eleven will open under the ICON apartments in Isla Vista. The entrance of a corporate chain has received mixed responses from locals with some concerned for the livelihood of small businesses.
The new 7-Eleven will open under the ICON apartments in Isla Vista. The entrance of a corporate chain has received mixed responses from locals with some concerned for the livelihood of small businesses.

New 7-Eleven To Open Under ICON Apartments

Isla Vista will be welcoming its first 7-Eleven convenience store, as the chain is expected to open a new location inside the ICON apartment building at 6545 Trigo Road in the next upcoming weeks. The...
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