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Police Book Conman on Burglary Charges

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Dept. arrested 21 year-old Arkansas resident Mathew Brian Hensley on Wednesday morning for his alleged involvement in a recent string of Goleta burglaries. The SBC...
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Nonprofit To Endorse Violence Prevention

Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County will host an event this Thursday in the Santa Barbara Central Library to educate the community about teen dating violence and prevention. The progr...
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SBCC Students To Receive ETP Aid

The Santa Barbara Foundation recently granted $75,000 to the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College to create a new Express to Transfer Program that would hasten students’ transition between SBCC...
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Website To Assist Renters In Local Real Estate Sales

UCSB alumnus Kevin Sloan founded the networking site easycollegeliving.com to provide students with information on upcoming community events and various local housing options. The site aims to conveni...
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Upcoming Forum To Explore New Religious Perspectives

Westmont College biology professor Jeff Schloss and Biblical studies professor Tremper Longman will host a forum at 7 p.m. today in the Isla Vista Theatre to discuss evolution in relation to the bibli...
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Appeals Court Opposes Prop 8

Yesterday morning, California opponents of Proposition 8 celebrated a landmark decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the 2008 ban on same-sex marriage...
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Locals Protest Passage of NDAA

Protesters gathered at Santa Barbara’s De la Guerra on Tuesday afternoon to testify before the Santa Barbara City Council in opposition to the controversial National Defense Authorization Act. Presi...
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Arsonist Damages UCSB Construction

The perpetrator of a north campus arson incident that caused roughly $1 million in damage on Jan. 29 remains at large. The fire, which detectives said was started intentionally at approximately 2:14 a...
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Gaucho Survives Deadly Gas Poisoning

Second-year psychology major Nikkie Sedaghat returned to UCSB this year after undergoing eight months of intensive therapy to recover from a carbon monoxide-induced coma. Sedaghat fell into a 35-day c...
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EAP Offers Arabic Culinary Class in Rioting Cairo

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the UC Education Abroad Program will host five UC faculty-led summer study programs throughout the world, with UCSB faculty teaching a course on Arabic culinary...
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County Passes Program to Increase Plastic Recycling

The Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. approved a plastic bag recycling initiative on Monday that allows residents to dispose of the containers in blue curbside recycling bins. Waste Management a...
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Fund Asks Seniors to Give Back

The Alumni Association Scholarship and Recreational Sports Legacy funds are asking graduating students to each make a $20.12 donation to help the organizations reach their $100,000 goal for this yearâ...
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Kavli Receives Grant to Host Physicists

The Simons Foundation awarded the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics $2.5 million to fund the institute’s on-campus visits and conferences with renowned theoretical physicists. The five-year re...
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Union, UC Agree on New Pension Plan

After a year of negotiations, the UC finalized a revised pension plan and health care agreement for employees within the University Professional & Technical Employees-Communication Workers of Amer...
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Decoding Breakthrough Debunks Mayan Myth

UCSB Chican@ studies professor Gerardo Aldana discovered a new translation to a single Mayan verb, redefining modern understandings of Mayan astronomical texts and the manner in which Mayan hieroglyph...
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