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Groups Seek to Increase Local Access to the Arts

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 ...
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Team To Deliver Report on Davis Pepper Spraying

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 con...
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Professor Studies Unjust Law in Trayvon’s Death

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 dis...
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5K Walk to Raise Funds for SB Recovery Learning Center

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....
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Police Keep Peace During Deltopia

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 ...
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Green Projects To Commence Spring Quarter

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 f...
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Documentary Highlights Death of ’90s Radio Host

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. ...
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Budget Cuts Constrain CSU System, Delay Admissions

The California State University system announced that 15 campuses will freeze applications for Spring 2013 and wait-list all applicants until next fall in response to a $750 million budget cut. Admiss...
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City Funds Nonprofit Agencies

The city of Santa Barbara recently offered grants collectively worth $1.3 million to dozens of local community service organizations. City officials allocated over half a million dollars to capital pr...
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Students Start Spring Smashed

The beaches were off-limits this weekend but “Deltopia 2012” was out of control, as thousands of partiers flooded Del Playa Drive with beer bongs, swimming pools and super soakers during Isla Vist...
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A&L Shows Films on Humanitarian Issues Worldwide

UCSB’s seventh annual Human Rights Film Festival will kick off its month-long celebration today at Pollock Theater, featuring documentary films about global humanitarian issues. The festival, hosted...
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Exhibit Gives Unique Views on Nature

Davidson Library is displaying an exhibit illustrating the human views of the natural world through various disciplines. The showcase, entitled “Seeing Nature,” is currently housed in the library...
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Local Program Helps Kids Build Interactive Skills

The Fund for Santa Barbara donated $1,680 to the local organization PeerBuddies to help give special-needs children the opportunity to develop their social skills through interactions with other child...
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Gauchos Victorious in Last Home Games

The No. 15 UCSB women’s water polo team closed out the home portion of their schedule on Saturday by winning two games, the first in a 5-3 triumph over No. 17 Cal State Northridge, the Gauchos’ th...
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Board of Regents Approves New Tax on Campuses

The Board of Regents approved a new expenditure tax requiring all campuses pay a 1.69 percent fee on all revenue-earning funding streams, including student lock-in fees in an effort to restructure the...
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