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April 12, 2012

Report Faults UC Davis Authorities

By Patrick Kulp

The task force investigating the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident released its final report yesterday, distributing responsibility evenly between the chancellor, campus administrators and various police officials. The 190-p...

April 12, 2012

Spring Candidates Debate Key Issues, Establish Platforms

By Derek Rueschenberg, Brandon McCapes

Roughly 50 students gathered in the UCen’s Hub yesterday to attend a debate between candidates vying for the executive positions of External Vice President of Local Affairs and Internal Vice President in the upcoming A...

April 12, 2012

Filmmaker To Critique Consumerism, Offer Long-Term Solutions

By Phoebe Reith

Environmental activist and filmmaker Annie Leonard, director of the short film “The Story of Stuff Project,” will speak tonight before a sold-out crowd in Pollock Theater about widespread consumerism in American soci...

April 12, 2012

Authorities Take Precautions Against Diseased Tree Outbreak

By Rilla Peng

Agricultural officials warned local citrus-tree owners after discovering evidence of a tiny pest known to carry the disease Huanglongbing on several citrus trees in Los Angeles County. HLB is an insect-borne bacterial di...

April 12, 2012

New Bill Aims to Provide Free Electronic Textbooks

By Kristin Crosier

Legislation seeking to create an open source textbook library for the California’s colleges and universities passed the State Senate Education Committee in its first hearing yesterday. The two bills, introduced by Stat...

April 12, 2012

Lois Capps To Announce New I.V. Campaign Office

By Han Bae

Congresswoman Lois Capps and Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr will meet with the public at 5 p.m. today to mark the grand opening of Capps’ new Isla Vista campaign office above Silvergreens. C...

April 12, 2012

Proposed MTD Bus Routes Work Around Budget Cuts

By Sam Chung

The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District announced their plans to modify the current bus schedule during the annual public Transit Talk on Tuesday. MTD’s proposal includes expanding services for line 15x, separa...

April 12, 2012

Leg Council Reviews New Tax

By Arda Jooharian

A.S. Legislative Council discussed the UC Board of Regents’ tax initiative to restructure the UC Office of the President’s funding model during this week’s meeting. The tax requires that the UCs pay a 1.69 percent ...

April 11, 2012

UC Executive Panel To Address Students’ Financial Concerns

By Daily Nexus Staff

Gauchos will have an opportunity to discuss the University of California’s administrative policies with some of its top executives during an open forum next Monday in the Student Resource Building. Nathan Brostrom — ...

April 11, 2012

Groups Seek to Increase Local Access to the Arts

By Mac Kennedy

The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission teamed up with the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation’s Education Outreach Committee to create funding for grants that aim to make fine art more accessible for a broad range of local...

April 11, 2012

Team To Deliver Report on Davis Pepper Spraying

By Daily Nexus Staff

The task force conducting an investigation into last November’s pepper spray incident at UC Davis is scheduled to release its findings this afternoon, following a series of delays due to privacy concerns surrounding th...

April 11, 2012

Professor Studies Unjust Law in Trayvon’s Death

By Derek Rueschenberg

Trayvon Martin, a high school student from Miami, Fla., was shot and killed on Feb. 26 by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in a Sanford, Fla. suburb. Sociology professor Victor Rios discusses the incident ...

April 11, 2012

5K Walk to Raise Funds for SB Recovery Learning Center

By Yishian Yao

The Mental Wellness Center of Santa Barbara opened registration for its first annual Walk for Mental Wellness this week, trekking toward its $100,000 fundraising goal for the Recovery Learning Center. The five kilometer ...

April 10, 2012

Police Keep Peace During Deltopia

By Garik Hauer

Thousands of partygoers flooded Isla Vista’s streets on Saturday to soak up the suds and sunrays during Spring Quarter’s annual Deltopia revelry. An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people participated in the celebration t...

April 10, 2012

Green Projects To Commence Spring Quarter

By Yishian Yao

UCSB’s Green Initiative Fund awarded $172,932 in grants to 13 water and energy sustainability projects campus-wide, including reusable water bottle “hydration stations” and various solar-power fittings. TGIF sifted...

April 10, 2012

Documentary Highlights Death of ’90s Radio Host

By Rosalinda Diaz

KCSB will host a screening of the documentary “Radio Bandido” — investigating activist radio programmer Oscar “Bandido” Gomez’s unexplained death — at 7 p.m. tonight in Pollock Theater. Gomez hosted the “...