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Campus Coffee Carts Combat Waste, Begin Grounds-Composting Program

UCSB Physical Facilities and UCen Dining Services are collaborating to implement a new composting program Ground to Grounds, which will divert the waste created from the campus’s coffee cravings to ...
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Vocal Ensembles To Hold Fundraiser

Santa Barbara Children’s Chorus will host a joint choral event with three UCSB a cappella groups this Sunday to raise money for its scholarship program. “An Evening of A Cappella & Jazz” wil...
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Club Hosts Largest Swing-Style Dance Event in a Decade

The UCSB Swing and Ballroom Dance Club will throw a 1950s-themed sock hop party featuring live music tomorrow from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the Student Resources Building. The event — funded by the Afte...
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UC To Report Findings About Police Review

UC General Counsel Charles Robinson and UC Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley will release the results of the system-wide investigation into police protocol for handling protesters during a ne...
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TBL Requests Additional Funding

Last night’s Associated Students Legislative Council meeting focused on the organization’s budget, highlighting discrepancies between the groups’ funding and next year’s decreased honoraria. M...
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Panel To Analyze Local Economy

UCSB’s Economic Forecast Project is hosting its 31st annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit today in the Granada Theatre, featuring award-winning journalist Gillian Tett and three Federal Reser...
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Art Show Promotes Preservation of Santa Barbara Environment

The Pastel Society of the Gold Coast is hosting an exhibit at the UCSB Faculty Club in celebration of the unequaled beauty of campus coastlines. The “Preserving Native California” display features...
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Congresswoman, Students To Join Forces for Protest

Congresswoman Lois Capps will attend a rally alongside stu- dents, including the newly elected Associated Students executives, pro- testing rising federal stu- dent loan interest rates at 1 p.m. today...
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Finance Board 5/1/2012

The UCSB Associated Students Finance Board granted $1,235 to the campus Sociology Association last night during its weekly meeting. The group initially requested $1,485 to finance its Isla Vista Cultu...
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Palestinian Struggle Inspires Awareness Week

UCSB’s Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting a series of events this week, including an educational lecture and art display, in honor of this year’s Palestine Awareness Week. The campaign b...
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Sedaris Returns to Santa Barbara Stage

Comedian and best-selling author David Sedaris will make his annual visit to Santa Barbara today to dazzle audiences with his classic self-deprecating wit at 8 p.m. in the Arlington Theatre. Sedaris, ...
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Armed Suspect Threatens, Mugs Two Men in I.V.

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Deputies are searching for an unidentified suspect who robbed two men at gunpoint in a field behind the 700 block of Camino Pescadero on Friday night. At approximately 10 p.m...
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UCSB Scientists Examine Potent Salmonella Strain

UCSB researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff recently discovered “hypervirulent” strains of Salmonella. New methods to identify this especially dangerous form of Salmonella may allow scient...
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DPP Executives Join With OPP-Dominated Senate

Associated Students Spring election results were announced last night in Karl Geiringer Hall, leaving the senate seats dominated by Open People’s Party (OPP) members and a majority of the executive ...
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Top Intellects Talk on Pertinent Topics

The TEDxUCSB conference featured 10 campus professors from a wide range of disciplines last Friday in the MultiCultural Center to give 18-minute speeches about an aspect of their par- ticular research...
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