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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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UCI’s New Israeli Legislation Stirs Up UCSB Senate Meeting

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 Student...
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Financial Aid Office To Reassess Student Support for Hurricane Victims

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 w...
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UC Regents Discuss Budget Issues During This Week’s Meeting

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

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 ...
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Assault in I.V. Sparks SB County Sheriff ’s Department Investigation

In the fourth reported sexual assault case against a woman since the beginning of the school year, a female student was assaulted at a party in Isla Vista last Saturday night. At around 1:00 a.m. the ...
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Former Gymnastics Coach Arrested On Underage Sexual Assault Charges

A former UCSB gymnastics coach has been arrested on child pornography charges in Oregon more than a decade after a civil suit was filed against him for sexually assaulting two underage girls during hi...
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