News

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...

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...