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SB Officials Currently Debating Beach Shutdown

Open beaches would break precedent of party-preventative closures instituted in 2009. As of yesterday, Santa Barbara County administration has not yet reached a decision on whether beach closures that...
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Student Faces Allegations of Staged Assault in SantaCruz

Criminal charges have been filed against UCSB student Morgan Triplett for providing investigators with false information regarding an alleged assault and rape case at the UC Santa Cruz campus. This pa...
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Carsey to Assume Role as Chair of UCSB Foundation

Emmy-winning television producer and Carsey-Werner Productions co-founder Marcy Carsey was recently named chair of the UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees, a non-profit organization that collaborates wi...
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UCSB Organization Celebrates Potential State Plastic Bag Ban

As the UCSB Plastic Pollution Coalition held its annual Day Without a Bottle celebrations on campus yesterday, a state-wide ban on plastic bag usage was approved by the State Assembly’s Natural Reso...
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Nexus To Update Website, Change Distribution Model

With the quarter quickly drawing to a close, today’s issue constitutes the last print edition of the quarter as the Nexus enters its usual Dead Week and finals week hiatus. When we return in three w...
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County Jail Draws Outcry Over Ban on Letters to Inmates

XiaoXue Du Reporter   A group of concerned citizens spoke out before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday in protest of a new policy that bans sending full letters to ...
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Local Organization Opposes Beach Revamp, Asks County To Reevalute

Kelly Lin Staff Writer A group of Santa Barbara community members submitted a formal complaint to the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury to stop the implementation of Goleta Beach 2.0, a plan to review a...
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Barry To Bring Comics, Creativity to Campbell Hall

Nelson Moreno Reporter   Cartoonist, author and graphic novelist Lynda Barry will make her Santa Barbara debut tonight at Campbell Hall in an event hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures. The lecture...
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Getting Creative: UCSB-Based Agency Offers New Solutions for Advertising

Kristie Ko Reporter   After taking winter quarter off in order to revamp the structure and organization of the club, SB Media Group is once again up-and-running and soliciting new recruits for sp...
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Students Address Senate About Racial, Minority Issues at UCSB

  During last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, the Associated Students Student Advocate General Yoel Haile addressed the campus’s senators with a list of demands from the Black Stu...
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Summit To Host Black Leaders To Network and Promote Organizations

Shannon Ham Staff Writer   UCSB First Committee is hosting their second annual Black Leaders Summit event today from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Mosher Alumni House. UCSB First is a volunteer student...
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San Joaquin Project Concerns Local Residents

Hannah Nelson Staff Writer   UCSB Housing and Residential Services will be in the process of constructing the new university housing site San Joaquin — an apartment complex to be located north ...
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Students Attend Education Protest, Discuss Legislation

Nearly 5,000 college students from around California descended on the state Capitol building in Sacramento this past Monday to demand educational reform from state legislators. The annual event, calle...
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New Icon Gardens Building To Provide More I.V. Housing

The developers behind ICON UCSB will open a new 30-unit apartment complex called Icon Gardens on Seville Road this upcoming fall. ICON established its presence in Isla Vista last fall with the opening...
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Panel Discusses Controversy Over Pope’s Recent Resignation

Last night the UCSB History Associates hosted a panel of professors at the University Club in downtown Santa Barbara to discuss the future implications of the recent resignation of Pope Emeritus Bened...
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