News

April 5, 2013

Brown To Grant Pardons to Former Convicts, Former SB Narcotics Criminal

By Suzanne Becker

Gov. Jerry Brown announced plans to pardon 65 various individuals convicted of drug possession and other low-level crimes, including Richard Brent DeLeon, a drug dealer from Santa Barbara County. All of those granted cle...

April 4, 2013

Engineer’s Death Sparks Suspicions in U.S.A.

By Daniel Slovinsky

Last June, UCSB Electrical Engineering Ph.D. graduate Shane Todd was found dead in his Singapore apartment on the eve of his return to the United States. Todd had just finished his work on Gallium Nitride (GaN) with the ...

April 4, 2013

Survey Reveals Students’ Dining Common Preferences

By Emile Nelson

Apart from textbooks, professors and course registration, a major concern for many college students is the quality and accessibility of food. With four dining commons situated around campus, UCSB students are not without...

April 4, 2013

Organization Plans to Restore Wetlands, Donate to UCSB

By Tiffany Park

The Trust for Public Land recently purchased the Ocean Meadows Golf Club, a 63-acre property in Goleta with plans to restore the area to its natural state of wetlands and eventually donate it to UCSB. In 1965, the Ocean ...

April 4, 2013

Campus Model U.N. Debaters Commended for Excellence

By Samhita Saquib

UCSB’s Model United Nations team was awarded “Distinguished Delegation” during the 2013 National Model United Nations competition held last week in New York City from March 24th to the 28th. One of the largest MUN ...

April 4, 2013

Coast Guard Takes Smuggled Reefer Near Channel Islands

By Staff Report

On Sunday morning, crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alert recovered approximately 3.3 tons of marijuana floating in the Pacific Ocean near the Channel Islands. During a routine patrol, a Coast Guard aircraft...

April 3, 2013

Police Blotter

By Nexus Staff Report

Last week, Santa Barbra police officials made three different arrests for large-scale drug charges, with one arrest involving a Santa Barbara City College student found to be in possession of one pound of MDMA — a drug...

April 3, 2013

Luminarium Returns to UCSB for Second Time

By Shannon Ham

Shannon Ham Staff Writer   Associated Students Program Board and Architects of Air will open the Exxopolis Luminarium on the Lagoon and Faculty Club Lawns tomorrow, with the exhibit remaining open through Sunday. Th...

April 3, 2013

Students Call For Attention, Promote Justice In Palestine

By Nexus Staff Report

Yesterday, Students for Justice in Palestine erected a wall outside Girvetz Hall in order to draw attention to the condition of the Palestinian people, along with presenting a petition asking the school to boycott busine...

April 3, 2013

Associated Students Holds Student-Run Textbook Trade

By Haley Kulik

Haley Kulik Staff Writer   Associated Students Office of the President and Academic Affairs Board will host a Textbook Marketplace this afternoon in Storke Plaza from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., in which students can bu...

April 3, 2013

SB Officials Currently Debating Beach Shutdown

By Arda Jooharian, Patrick Kulp, Rilla Peng, Carissa Quiambao, Marissa Wenzke

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 are usually in effe...

April 2, 2013

Student Faces Allegations of Staged Assault in SantaCruz

By Arda Jooharian

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 past Friday Triplett p...

April 2, 2013

Carsey to Assume Role as Chair of UCSB Foundation

By Carissa Quiambao

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 with the university to...

April 2, 2013

UCSB Organization Celebrates Potential State Plastic Bag Ban

By Staff Report

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 Resources Committee. The...

March 8, 2013

Nexus To Update Website, Change Distribution Model

By Patrick Kulp, Mark Strong

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 weeks, there will be ...

March 8, 2013

County Jail Draws Outcry Over Ban on Letters to Inmates

By XiaoXue Du

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 Santa Barbara County...