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Water Sampling Leads to Sands Beach Warning

Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services have issued a warning regarding the waters of Sands Beach at Coal Oil Point and advised ocean swimmers to stay out of water that is within 50 yards o...
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UC Suspends Further Use of New Logo After Public Opposition

The UC Office of the President recently decided to do away with a new UC logo and color scheme that was quietly implemented last summer due to a strong negative reaction from the public communicated t...
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Campus Troupe To Dance First Program After Two-Year Hiatus

This month, the Santa Barbara Dance Theatre — UCSB’s resident professional dance company — will present its first public performances since celebrated faculty member Christopher Pilafian took ov...
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National Geographic Photographer To Speak in Campbell on Sustainability

UCSB Arts & Lectures will host award-winning film-maker and photographer Mattias Klum in the debut of its new series, “National Geographic Live” this Sunday at 3 lp.m. in Campbell Hall. Klum...
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Local Student Housing To Participate in World Hunger Relief Project

Tropicana Student Housing will host a meal-packaging community service event this Saturday at the Tropicana Gardens Café through the international hunger relief agen- cy Stop Hunger Now. Started in 2...
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Gevirtz Dean Conoley To Temporarily Leave UCSB, Assume Position of Acting Chancellor at UC Riverside

UCSB’s Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Jane Close Conoley, was appointed acting chancellor of UC Riverside by the UC Board of Regents on Tuesday. Conoley will take over the positio...
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UCSB Remembers Deceased Recent Graduate Melissa Portillo

Early last Thursday, recent UCSB graduate Melissa Portillo passed away at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital due to head injuries resulting from a fall off a balcony at a residence on the 6500 block of Co...
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Author Susan Cain To Speak at Campbell Hall

New York Times best-selling author Susan Cain will speak on the strengths and capabilities that introverts con- tribute to today’s society in a UCSB Arts & Lectures event tonight at 8 p.m. in Ca...
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UCSB Introduces Solar-Powered Trash Cans Featuring Internal Waste Compactors

UCSB has introduced a collection of new solar-pow- ered, waste-compacting BigBelly trashcans in an effort to encourage improved recycling habits while allowing the university to spend less time and mo...
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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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