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March 9, 2012

Explosive Drilling Threatens Clean Water

By Alex Colletta

The Associated Students Coastal Fund gave the Environmental Defense Center $15,000 to prevent the use of explosives and chemicals to break up underground rock formations and release oil to natural gas. The process, known...

March 9, 2012

Students To Give Spoken Word Show

By Sruthi Nair

UCSB’s Health and Wellness Program will appeal to a wide range of spectators with “Wizard of Balls,” a spoken word presentation in the Theater and Dance Building’s Room 1701 today at 7:30 p.m. The event will feat...

March 9, 2012

Local Publication Throws Funky Music Fiesta

By Vanessa Angiuli

UCSB’s WORD magazine will host its first annual “WORDSTOCK Music Festival” this Sunday, featuring a lineup of local bands and Los Angeles-based DJs. The event will be held from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Sea Look...

March 9, 2012

Panel To Discuss Immigration

By Rosalinda Diaz

KCSB and local nonprofit organization La Casa de la Raza will host a panel today discussing recent immigration policies and their effects on American society. The “Los Olvidados: The Impact of Deportation and Immigrati...

March 9, 2012

SB Local Aids in Formation of Public Safety Network

By Graciela Romero

Santa Barbara resident Andrew Seybold, the nation’s leading wireless communication consultant, collaborated with the Public Safety Alliance to include the public safety broadband provision in the Middle Class Tax Relie...

March 8, 2012

Ecologists Debate Impact of New Bill’s Restrictions on Otter Habitats

By Brigitte Naughton

California’s 24th District Representative Elton Gallegly recently introduced the “Military Readiness and Southern Sea Otter Conservation Act” that aims to preserve Southern California’s “No Otter Zone.” The z...

March 8, 2012

Campus Burglar Faces Multiple Felony Charges

By Carissa Quiambao

UCSB Police Department detectives arrested 20-year-old Aaron Brian Ceja, a former UCSB student, as the primary subject in multiple burglaries at Santa Catalina Residence Hall on Feb. 5. The perpetrator, who has been in c...

March 8, 2012

Professor Helps Find Ancient Spherules

By Kristin Crosier

UCSB earth science professor emeritus James Kennett and 15 other researchers discovered 13,000-year-old black mat sedimentary deposits believed to be evidence of Earth’s encounters with extraterrestrial materials. The ...

March 8, 2012

Russia’s Democratic Protests Allege Election Fraud

By Staff

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia for his third term on Sunday with 63.3 percent of the popular vote, sparking major protest movements in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Political science professor...

March 8, 2012

Groups’ Events To Foster Pride in Disabled Community

By Amber Leitheiser

Various campus organizations are collaborating to promote respect and value toward the mentally and developmentally disabled as part of national Learning Disability Awareness Month in March. The university chapters of Be...

March 8, 2012

New Bakery Opens Downtown

By Yishian Yao

First Picks Management opened Santa Barbara’s first Panera Bread eatery last weekend in La Cumbre Plaza on upper State Street. The popular restaurant chain serves freshly baked breads and offers a mostly organic menu i...

March 8, 2012

Student’s Federal Suit May Impact UC Admissions

By Rosalinda Diaz

The Supreme Court recently decided to re-examine nationwide affirmative action legislation in light of University of Texas applicant Abigail Fisher’s claim that she was unfairly denied entrance due her non-minority sta...

March 7, 2012

I.V. Officer Offers Instruction to Egyptian Law Enforcement

By Garik Hauer

Isla Vista Foot Patrol Lieutenant Ray Vuillemainroy recently spent three weeks in Egypt teaching “Community Policing” to the Egyptian National Police. The Emergence Group — an organization that employs various lega...

March 7, 2012

Union Impedes Release of Report

By The Daily Nexus Staff

The Federated University Police Officers Association filed a temporary restraining order yesterday to block the public release of results from a University of California inspection into the pepper spray incident at UC Da...

March 7, 2012

S.B. Police Sniff Out Local Sex Solicitors

By Jack Crosbie

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau conducted two prostitution stings in Goleta over the past four months, using undercover detectives at local motels to pick up four male suspects. Accordi...

March 7, 2012

Politicians Plan Amid Protests

By Marissa Wenzke

While state lawmakers met to finalize their portion of next years’ University of California budget, thousands of students, faculty and other community members converged on the Capitol on Monday to rally for revenue-gen...