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Associated Students Senators Debate Allocation of Honoraria

During the final Associated Students Senate meeting for fall quarter last night, Public Forum speakers proposed a resolution addressing the Citizens United Supreme Court case while Senators debated th...
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UCSB Student Suffers Fatal Fall From Balcony

UCSB student Melissa Portillo, a 22-year- old from Los Angeles, died early Thursday morning after falling from an apartment balcony on the 6500 block of Cordoba Road. A second victim, 22-year-old Mich...
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Sprout Up Group Launches Campaign to Win Chase American Giving Awards

Sprout Up, the organization previously known as Environmental Education for the Next Generation, launched a campaign this past Sunday to promote the campus group in the second-annual Chase American Gi...
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Blue Horizons Premiers Student Films on Local Marine and Coastal Issues

The 2012 Blue Horizons Student Film Winter premiere took place last night in Pollock Theater, giving students who participated in this year’s Blue Horizons summer program the chance to screen their ...
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UCSB Student Dies After Falling from Apartment Balcony

 UCSB student Melissa Portillo, a 22-year-old from Los Angeles, died early Thursday morning after falling from an apartment balcony on the 6500 block of Cordoba Road. A second victim, 22-year-old Mic...
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UCSB Student Arrested in Freebirds Stabbing

Third-year UCSB student Peter Cho was charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and destroying or concealing evidence following a fight outside of Freebirds early this past Sunday. U...
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Saints to Face Test as NFL Winds Down

Football fans and fantasy players rejoice; there are no more bye weeks left in the NFL this season. That means more games throughout the week and no more worrying about replacing a star player who is ...
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Two Suspects Detained in Sabado Tarde Rd. Shooting

Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Deputies responded to multiple gunshots being fired on the 6500 block of Sabado Tarde Road during the early morning hours of Saturday and have taken two suspects into...
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Family, Friends Honor Life Of Celebrated Senior David Propp At Memorial Service

Beloved physics major, a capella singer and Recreation Center employee David Propp was memorialized by hundreds of students, friends and family members at the Rec Cen basketball court on Wednesday as ...
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New Social Network Aims To Connect Students, Professors Across UC System

A new social networking website specific to the UC system was launched last month as a virtual unifier encouraging communication between students, professors and alumni through one-on-one video chats....
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UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein Discusses University Funding, Proposition 30 with UCSB

Last Friday, UCSB Associated Students hosted a “meet and greet” event with Student Regent Jonathan Stein in the Loma Pelona Center to give students the opportunity to ask ques- tions and discuss t...
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Student Activists Protest Regents Board Meeting

At yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting, roughly 500 student protesters blocked entrances to the venue, stalling the three-day gathering on its last day of discussion at the UCSF Mission Bay camp...
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UCSB Alumni To Open New Microbrewery in West Berkeley

This winter, UCSB alumni Alex Wallash and Jay Goodwin will open an all-sour, all barrel-aged microbrewery in West Berkeley, CA. The company — The Rare Barrel — burst onto the beer scene with the d...
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UC Regents Approve Budget for 2013-2014

During the second day of their three-day meeting at UC San Francisco Mission Bay, the UC Board of Regents deliberated on revenue-generating measures such as increasing nonresident undergraduate enroll...
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U.S.Authorities Discover Smuggled Marijuana on Small Vessel at Sea

U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection patrols apprehended a small boat car- rying approximately 35 large packages of mari- juana yesterday morning just north of San Miguel Island. Authori...
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