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Event To Draw Possible Iranian Amendments

The UCSB Iranian Studies Initiative is hosting a two-day conference beginning today at the Loma Pelona Center to dissect the nation’s post-revolutionary history and present possible paths toward a m...
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UCSB Wins Third Horniest Campus

UCSB: DTF or GTFO. College Magazine recently recognized UCSB students’ innate inability to stop hooking up with each other, ranking the campus third on its list of the Ten Most DTF — down to … f...
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Bruin Launches Networking Site for Musicians

This Valentine’s Day, UCLA student Ritesh Gupta launched CollegeRoots.com, an online service that lets musicians and bands from university communities showcase their work and boost their popularity ...
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Impactful Diatom Study Earns Grant

The National Science Foundation awarded Marine Science Institute Assistant Research Biologist Jeffrey Krause a $453,487 grant for his research on the photosynthetic prowess of phytoplankton, which may...
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Local Festival To Celebrate Traditions in Jewish Culture

UCSB’s Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Chabad Student Center will host “Shabbat 360” this Friday, bringing local Jewish community members and friends together to celebrate the traditional weekly...
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Art Collection Spotlights California’s Casual Living, Iconic Architecture

The UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum opened its “Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House” and “Catherine Opie Photographs Cliff May” exhibitions this week. ...
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SB Police Arrest Suspects of I.V. Stabbing Case in Venice Beach

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested two men Monday morning in Los Angeles for their alleged involvement in the Feb. 18 Isla Vista brawl that put three people in the hospital. A...
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Professor Examines Iran’s Nuclear Energy Program

Recent Iranian efforts to harness nuclear energy and reluctance to allow full inspections of the facilities have received international attention. Global and international studies professor Mark Juerg...
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Farr Discusses Students’ Concerns

Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr held an open meeting with UCSB students Tuesday afternoon to discuss her role in Isla Vista redevelopment and other local issues. The 3rd District Supervisor met ...
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Projects Expand UCSB’s Facilities

Several construction projects in UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan will come to fruition over the upcoming months, including additional dormitory housing and the completion of a youth education bui...
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Occupy SB Campers Contest Citations

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne overturned her initial Feb. 24 ruling on Occupy Santa Barbara protestors’ right to assemble in De La Guerra Plaza, allowing the plaintiffs to...
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UCSB Group To Aid Nepalese Village

The UCSB chapter of student-based initiative Nourish International will travel to Nepal this summer to provide basic necessities and construct new school buildings in an impoverished village. The orga...
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Muslim Students React Against Alleged NYPD Investigations

The New York Police Dept. is facing accusations of monitoring Muslim student associations at 16 college campuses in the northeastern United States after the Associated Press exposed documents revealin...
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SB Fire Bureau To Apply New Federal Grant

The Santa Barbara City Fire Dept. received a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security to install diesel exhaust filtration systems and improve labor conditions in local firehouses. In a ...
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SB Schools Scramble to Soften the Blow of State Budget Cuts

Santa Barbara Unified School District officials will meet today to discuss possible solutions to offset the district’s $2.6 million structural deficit. The SBUSD aims to make $6 million in budget cu...
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