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Student-Led Group Sells Vietnamese Food to Support Cancer Awareness Event Relay for Life

This past Saturday afternoon, UCSB students participated in the Pho-ntastic Noodles fundraiser, an independently planned charity event to raise money for nonprofit organization American Cancer Society...
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Small Fire Damages I.V. Complex

Santa Barbara County Fire Department officials responded to a fire at Breakpointe Apartments, located at 6690 Abrego Road, at about 1:21 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Officials from the UCSB Police Depart...
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Authorities Identify Body Discovered Last Spring

Santa Barbara police officials have finally identified the decomposed body that was found at a location between Santa Catalina Residence Halls and Santa Ynez apartments last May. Following an investig...
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Famed Author Jared Diamond To Speak at UCSB Saturday

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond — author of the best-sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Third Chimpanzee and Collapse — will give a lecture at Campbell Hall discussing the geographic and anth...
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2012-2013 Big West Conference

The UCSB women’s basketball team is the reigning Big West Champion, but it’s not thinking about that. The Gauchos were also predicted to finish third in conference this year by the Big West presea...
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Balanced State Budget To Increase UC Funds

Yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown announced the proposed state budget for the 2013-2014 year, which, if passed in June, will bring the state out of deficit for the first time in five years, according to Bro...
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Current and Former UCSB Faculty Start Relief Organization

In light of the underdeveloped infrastructure and near starvation that roughly 70,000 refugees in the Central African Republic of Chad face, Global and International Studies professor Richard Appelbau...
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Economics Professor Weighs In on America’s Financial Crisis

Scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2013, an array of looming federal budget cuts and tax increases collectively referred to as the “fis- cal cliff” were averted by a deal reached just tw...
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Gaucho Rides Offers Carpooling Opportunities for Students, Provides Alternative to Public Transportation

A recently launched online service called Gaucho Rides allows UCSB students to coordinate carpooling details for commuting to and from campus during weekends and holiday seasons. Gaucho Rides, which i...
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Churches and Volunteer Groups Open Doors to The Homeless During Extreme Low Temperatures

Santa Barbara County’s emergency warmth centers — coordinated systems of various churches, nonprofit groups, vol- unteers and county employees working together to shelter the homeless in the winte...
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A.S. Approves Shorter Meetings

Last night’s weekly Associated Students Senate meeting saw the proposal for a resolution that would effectively limit the duration of meetings, launching student senators and executive officers into...
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Sheriff ’s Office Hosts Meet-and-Greet for New Public Information Officer

Yesterday the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office officially announced their new Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, hosting a meet-and- greet during which the newly hired officer answered q...
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Organization Awards Professors Distinguished Ecological Fellowship

The Ecological Society of America granted four UCSB ecology professors fellowship into the prestigious society, which includes 121 scholars from throughout the nation. The honorees include professor D...
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Interdisciplinary Study Disproves Link Between Genetics, Diabetes

UCSB biomedical researchers recently discovered that Type 2 diabetes is triggered by alterations in cellular metabolism as opposed to predetermined genetics. Their findings were published on Dec. 27 i...
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Collaborative Reading Organization Selects Nonfiction Title to Encourage Discussion

UCSB Reads has selected Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, a nonfiction book that follows the author’s efforts to improve his memory and chronicles his participation in the 2005 USA Memory C...
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