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April 10, 2013

Award-Winning Comics Theorist and Cartoonist to Discuss Development of Art

By Daily Nexus Staff

Tonight, renowned comic theorist and author Scott McCloud will give a lecture titled “Comics and Visual Communication” at Campbell Hall, discussing the overall evolution of comic art in its many forms. The lecture, w...

April 10, 2013

UCSB Equestrian Team Co-Captains Advance to Nationals

By Carissa Quiambao

After placing as the top two competitors during last Sunday’s Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone Championship, UCSB Equestrian Team co-captains Celia Turner and Becky Leisz will be traveling to Harrisburg, Pen...

April 9, 2013

SBCC Aims To Receive $1 Million in Donations

By Staff Report

The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College recently received upwards of $400,000 in grants from various community organizations and residents, as part of its Campaign for Student Success. The six-week long fundraising...

April 9, 2013

Record-Breaking Turnout for Deltopia 2013

By Carissa Quiambao

An Increase in Attendance, 9-1-1 Calls and Hospital Visits Takes Toll on County Resources; County Officials Look to Better Prepare to Respond to Similar Festivities in the Future This year’s Deltopia celebration — he...

April 9, 2013

Coastal Fund Awards Grant for Watershed Restoration

By Haley Kulik

The Associated Students Coastal Fund recently announced they will be granting the Environmental Defense Center a $7,000 grant to support the center’s work restoring the Goleta Slough Watershed. Located near UCSB, the G...

April 9, 2013

UCSB Students Vote to Bring Movie Premiere on Campus

By Tiffany Park

UCSB currently ranks first in a contest to host a free advanced screening of the Sony Pictures’ upcoming June 12 comedy film, “This Is The End”, directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring an ensemble cas...

April 8, 2013

Woman Found on Isla Vista Beach, Identified as Cal Poly SLO Student

By Staff Report

April 8, 2013

Assemblyman Proposes Bill to Exempt Textbooks From State Sales Taxes

By Cassandra Miasnikov

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of the 33rd District of California has introduced the Textbook Tax Relief Act, Assembly Bill 479, which aims to exempt textbooks from any state sales tax in order to reduce the cost of higher edu...

April 8, 2013

Professor Recieves Fellowship From Academic Foundation to Pursue Research in Egyptology

By Carly Bates

UCSB history professor Anthony Barbieri-Low was recently awarded a $238,700 grant called the Mellon New Directions Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship funds will be directed toward advancing his...

April 8, 2013

Deltopia Damage: Beta House Balcony Caves In

By Staff Report

This year’s annual Spring Quarter “Deltopia” event saw thousands of partygoers on Saturday and resulted in a number of incidents, including a collapsed balcony of a house on Del Playa Drive. Although the Santa Barb...

April 5, 2013

Divestment Proposal Sparks Nine-Hour Debate, Tabled as Each Side Stands Firm

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

Hundreds of students attended Wednesday night’s Associated Students Senate meeting to debate a resolution supporting divestment from companies accused of profiting from “the military occupation of Palestine.” Talk ...

April 5, 2013

Call it Deltopia: Weekend Beach Closures Confirmed

By Carissa Quiambao

Santa Barbara County’s Community Services Department will be closing Isla Vista beaches this Saturday and Sunday due to the potential for a “Floatopia” event to occur. The closure has been enacted in order to preve...

April 5, 2013

Photojournalist Brian Skerry To Present in National Geographic Live! Series

By Kelly Lin

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...