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November 28, 2012

Blue Horizons Premiers Student Films on Local Marine and Coastal Issues

By Hannah Nelson

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 short documentaries ...

November 23, 2012

UCSB Student Dies After Falling from Apartment Balcony

By Staff Report

 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 Michael A.J.H. Kuster, ...

November 20, 2012

UCSB Student Arrested in Freebirds Stabbing

By Katherine Friedman, Marissa Wenzke

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. UC Police Department ...

November 20, 2012

Saints to Face Test as NFL Winds Down

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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 sitting out this wee...

November 19, 2012

Two Suspects Detained in Sabado Tarde Rd. Shooting

By Arda Jooharian, Marissa Wenzke

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 custody in connecti...

November 19, 2012

Family, Friends Honor Life Of Celebrated Senior David Propp At Memorial Service

By Samhita Saquib

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 21 Storke Tower bell...

November 19, 2012

New Social Network Aims To Connect Students, Professors Across UC System

By Shannon Ham

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. UCMeTalk has garner...

November 19, 2012

UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein Discusses University Funding, Proposition 30 with UCSB

By Jennifer Chang

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 the university’s bu...

November 16, 2012

Student Activists Protest Regents Board Meeting

By Daily Nexus Staff

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 campus. The Regents disc...

November 15, 2012

UCSB Alumni To Open New Microbrewery in West Berkeley

By Christina Lavingia

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 development of a prod...

November 14, 2012

UC Regents Approve Budget for 2013-2014

By Patrick Kulp, Katherine Friedman

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 enrollment and approved th...

November 14, 2012

U.S.Authorities Discover Smuggled Marijuana on Small Vessel at Sea

By Daily Nexus Staff

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. Authorities took the three ...

November 14, 2012

UCI’s New Israeli Legislation Stirs Up UCSB Senate Meeting

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

In last night’s Associated Students Senate meeting, representatives from American Students for Israel and Students for Justice in Palestine appeared in public forum to discuss the Associated Students of UC Irvine’s r...

November 14, 2012

Financial Aid Office To Reassess Student Support for Hurricane Victims

By Matt Gray

Last Friday, the UCSB Financial Aid and Scholarships Office announced that it will reassess financial aid provisions for students affected by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. The effort — which will be made with the...

November 14, 2012

UC Regents Discuss Budget Issues During This Week’s Meeting

By Staff Report

The UC Board of Regents discussed UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan and a proposal to build the Faculty Office Building at the San Francisco Mission Bay campus yesterday during the first day of the board’s three-day...

November 14, 2012

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services To Possibly Remove Sea Otter Ban

By Loree Lewis

Next month, California sea otters may finally gain back their legal right to swim freely in waters along the Southern California coastline after 24 years of the marine mammals being banned in a “no otter” management ...