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January 11, 2013

Small Fire Damages I.V. Complex

By Staff Report

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 Department, Santa Barbara ...

January 11, 2013

Authorities Identify Body Discovered Last Spring

By Staff Report

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 investigation made by offici...

January 11, 2013

Famed Author Jared Diamond To Speak at UCSB Saturday

By Daniel Slovinsky

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 anthropologic exploratio...

January 11, 2013

2012-2013 Big West Conference

By Kristen Henneman

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 preseason media poll, rece...

January 11, 2013

Balanced State Budget To Increase UC Funds

By Arda Jooharian

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 Brown. The $97.7 billio...

January 10, 2013

Current and Former UCSB Faculty Start Relief Organization

By Hannah Nelson

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 Appelbaum and former faculty...

January 10, 2013

Economics Professor Weighs In on America’s Financial Crisis

By Loree Lewis

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 twohours after the mid...

January 10, 2013

Gaucho Rides Offers Carpooling Opportunities for Students, Provides Alternative to Public Transportation

By Rilla Peng

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 is available at www.g...

January 10, 2013

Churches and Volunteer Groups Open Doors to The Homeless During Extreme Low Temperatures

By Jimmy Chang

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 winter — have been unde...

January 10, 2013

A.S. Approves Shorter Meetings

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

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 a lengthy debate on...

January 10, 2013

Sheriff ’s Office Hosts Meet-and-Greet for New Public Information Officer

By Hannah Nelson

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 questions from commun...

January 9, 2013

Organization Awards Professors Distinguished Ecological Fellowship

By Staff Report

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 David Tilman — who ...

January 9, 2013

Interdisciplinary Study Disproves Link Between Genetics, Diabetes

By Jimmy Chang

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 in the open-access, p...

January 9, 2013

Collaborative Reading Organization Selects Nonfiction Title to Encourage Discussion

By Hannah Nelson

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 Championship in New Y...

January 9, 2013

A.S. To Hold Student-Run Textbook Marketplace

By Carissa Quiambao

Today at the Annex Lawn, students can directly buy and sell books with other students from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of an innovative Textbook Marketplace hosted by UCSB Associated Students Office of the President and th...

January 9, 2013

Big West Men’s Basketball: UCSB Gauchos

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

After losing five seniors in what may be considered the most talented team in school history, the UCSB men’s basketball team has shown promise this season as an inexperienced squad. The Gauchos are currently 5-9 overal...