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Citywide Instrument Drive To Collect For Local Youth

The fourth annual Instrument Drive 4 Youth — a donation drive held to collect musical instruments for Santa Barbara youth — will take place until the end of this month. Hosted by the Santa Barbara...
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UCSB Research Provides Insight on Brain Processes

UCSB researchers recently garnered international attention from a new study on split-brain research revealing that healthy test subjects respond less accurately to stimuli when information is shown on...
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Proposition 30 Passes to Prevent UC Budget Cuts

Proposition 30 — Gov. Jerry Brown’s state ballot initiative that will provide the UC system with an extra $175 million and prevent further cuts — passed in the early morning hours of Nov. 7. Pro...
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Santa Barbara County Recognizes Region’s Purple Heart Veterans

Santa Barbara County was officially proclaimed a Purple Heart County on Tuesday, recognizing the numerous veterans in the region who have been honored with the Purple Heart medal. The combat decoratio...
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Defense Attorney To Give Students Free Information On Legal Situations

The Associated Students Legal Resource Center is featuring local criminal defense attorney William Makler for a Q&A seminar on the best ways to handle legal issues tonight from 5 to 6 p.m. and 6 t...
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UCSB Physicist To Hold Discussion on Higgs Boson Discovery

Today, physics professor Jeffrey Richman will give a talk at the Chancellor’s Community Breakfast entitled “From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson in Less Than an Hour,” discussing the discovery o...
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A.S. Senate Discusses New Investments, Debates Financial Affairs

During the Associated Students Senate meeting last night, senators voted against funding for the Chinese Student Association upon recommendation from the Finance Board. They also approved the Investme...
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New I.V. Residence Gives Discounts to Economics, Engineering Majors

St. George and Associates property management and the architects at Shubin & Donaldson are currently constructing an apartment complex at 870 Camino Del Sur that will be the largest private develo...
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UCSB Engineering Program Holds Orientation for Competition to Encourage Student Innovation

Tonight, the UCSB Technology Management Program will host its orientation session for the 14th annual New Venture Competition at Broida Hall, supplying students with preliminary information about the ...
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Pollock Theater To Host Series of Movie Screenings

The Pollock Theater will launch its “Script to Screen” series through screenings of the movies Dead Poets Society and 10 Things I Hate About You, which will be followed by Q&A sessions with th...
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Campus Groups To Rally Voters, Discourage Apathy

  Voter Registration Volunteer Coalition and UCSB CalPIRG are hosting a local youth voting campaign today from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Santa Rosa Residence Hall lawn in order to prevent student a...
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Lecture To Explore Effects of Rising Sea Level

This Friday, the 2012-13 Critical Issues in America series will kick off this year’s theme of “Figuring Sea Level Rise” with its first installment, which will discuss the role of global warming ...
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UCSB Red Cross Joins Hurricane Relief Effort

In light of ongoing natural disaster relief efforts on the East Coast, the UCSB American Red Cross group will host a blood drive today in front of the Thunderdome from 1 to 5 p.m. UCSB Red Cross is ho...
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2012 Ballot Measures Incite Significant Oppositional and Support Funding for Issues

Monetary influence on the democratic process will be explored this week as Californians head to the ballot box to decide on a variety of heavily funded social and economic propositions. Initiatives of...
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Acclaimed Author Hector Tobar Wins Luis Leal Award

Last Wednesday, Los Angeles Times journalist and internationally acclaimed novelist Hector Tobar was awarded UC Santa Barbara’s 2012 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature at a...
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