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March 7, 2012

City To Add Electric Vehicle Outlets to Local Lots

By Vanessa Angiuli

The Santa Barbara City Council voted Tuesday afternoon to install six modern electric vehicle charging stations in three downtown parking structures for vehicles including the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt. Coulomb Technolo...

March 6, 2012

Student Protests End in Almost 70 Arrests

By Staff Report

Thousands of UC, CSU and community college students, faculty and staff rallied alongside lawmakers yesterday outside the state Capitol to protest against continued tuition hikes and cuts to higher education funding. Demo...

March 5, 2012

Demonstration at UCSC Closes Campus’ West Gate

By Arda Jooharian

Hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students, faculty and community members closed off most of the Banana Slugs’ campus last Thursday as part of the statewide student protests against sustained higher education budget cuts. Demo...

March 5, 2012

Local Builders Focus on Efficiency

By Yishian Yao

Isla Vista property owners St. George and Associates contracted architectural firm Shubin + Donaldson to construct a 52,700-square-foot development on 870 Camino Del Sur. The project features five buildings arranged arou...

March 5, 2012

SBMTD Drives New Flexible Bus Initiative

By Carissa Quiambao

The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District is adopting a flexible approach toward overcrowding on its 15x and 24x bus lines with the new 112-passenger Nova “Smart Bus.” The New York-made Nova — a subsidiary of...

March 5, 2012

Demonstrators Seek Funding For Education

By Phoebe Reith

Over 10,000 students are expected to march to the California Capitol Building in Sacramento this morning for a rally supporting higher education funding. University of California, California State University and communit...

March 5, 2012

Local Boys And Girls Clubs Search for Private Donors

By Arda Jooharian

The United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County recently began a 60-day fundraising campaign to garner $300,000 to offset growing financial difficulties. The 10 clubs serve over 5,000 local youths and receive par...

March 2, 2012

Event To Promote Better American-Iraqi Relations

By Brandon McCapes

Gauchos will have the chance to connect with fellow college students in Iraq during the videoconference “A Dialogue for Peace: Live From Baghdad” this Sunday at 10 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Theater. The confer...

March 2, 2012

Lawsuit To Proceed After Regents Violate Protocol

By Daily Nexus Staff

A federal district court denied the University of California’s request to dismiss the Alexander Stern v. Regents of the University of California case this Tuesday after the Regents failed to comply with proper legal pr...

March 2, 2012

Locals Question Planned Oil Capacity Increase

By Brandon Tobey

Local environmental groups spoke out last Wednesday against Carone Energy Petroleum’s recent proposal to increase offshore oil production at Platform Hogan in the Santa Barbara Channel. Carone Petroleum has operated Pl...

March 1, 2012

Model Student Faces Deportation as DREAM Act Remains Pending

By Erika Martin

UCSB student Cindy Reyna, who was taken into custody at the Santa Barbara County Jail last Thursday after being unable to produce American identification at a DUI checkpoint in Goleta, is now being held in an Immigration...

March 1, 2012

Event To Draw Possible Iranian Amendments

By Travis Vail

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 more democratic socie...

March 1, 2012

UCSB Wins Third Horniest Campus

By Rosalinda Diaz

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 … frolic — colleges i...

March 1, 2012

Bruin Launches Networking Site for Musicians

By Travis Vail

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 through integrated s...

March 1, 2012

Impactful Diatom Study Earns Grant

By Rilla Peng

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 exceed that of trop...

March 1, 2012

Local Festival To Celebrate Traditions in Jewish Culture

By Brigitte Naughton

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 day of rest. Shabba...