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UCSB Drops Second Consecutive Match

October 15, 2012 by

The No. 8 UCSB men’s soccer team dropped its second consecutive game when the team lost 1-0 at Aggie Stadium against UC Davis. The Gauchos drop to 8-2-3 overall and 2-2-1 in the Big West while the A...
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Club Provides Assistance To Drug Abusers in LGBTQ Community

October 12, 2012 by

A new campus group called Managing Substances with Pride, which strives to assist LGBTQ students concerned with issues of substance abuse, will begin meeting next week. The organization — which is l...
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Local Festival Honors Cultural History of Lemons

October 12, 2012 by

The 21st annual California Lemon Festival will take place this weekend in Girsh Park, celebrating the community, local businesses and all things lemon with entertainment for all ages. Hosted by the Go...
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Haunting New Art Exhibit To Showcase Current Global Decay

October 11, 2012 by

The UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum will open a new exhibition tomorrow titled “The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art,” which focuses on the portrayal of ruins through a haun...
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Koegel Autism Center Helps Autistic Students To Enter Into Workplace

October 11, 2012 by

The California Department of Rehabilitation contracted an initial $300,000 worth of contracts and grants to UCSB’s Koegel Autism Center to support their work in Pivotal Response Treatment and prepar...
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Local Residents Reject Beach Parking Fees for Rights to Beach Access

October 11, 2012 by

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal to implement beach parking fees with a 5-0 vote on Tuesday after the SB county Parks Commission voted against the recommendation in Au...
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Isla Vista Bookstore Closes Its Doors Indefinitely After Five Decades of Service

October 11, 2012 by

The Isla Vista Bookstore permanently closed its doors about two weeks ago after selling books and school supplies at the 6553 Pardall Road address for 47 years, since the building’s construction in ...
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Student Senate, A.S. Executive Director Discuss Need for Increased Student Space on Campus

October 11, 2012 by

The Associated Students Senate held their weekly meeting last night and discussed issues regarding ongoing campus development and further engaging the student body in tackling the current budgetary ob...
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Thomas Merton House to Provide Cross-Cultural Activities on Campus

October 11, 2012 by

The Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative will open a new house at the former location of the University Religious Conference, simultaneously developing the URC Interfaith Fund to provide funding ...
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Capps, Maldonado Talk Issues At Public Debate

October 10, 2012 by

Last night Democratic congresswoman Lois Capps and Republican candidate Abel Maldonado faced off at the 24th Congressional District Candidate Debate, hosted by the UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center and The Sant...
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UCSB Hosts 40th Title IX Anniversary, Honoring Equality

October 10, 2012 by

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX — a law that prevents anyone’s exclusion from college educational and athletic programs on the basis of their gender and mandate...
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Amateur Astronomers Gather To Admire the Wonders of the Universe

October 10, 2012 by

The Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit set up three of their high-powered telescopes along Manzanita Beach last night from 7 to 10:30 p.m. for UCSB Astronomy Night, magnifying stellar phenomena with up t...
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Tidbits of News From Around the UC System

October 10, 2012 by

UC Profs Earn $500,000 Grants UCLA neuroscientist Elissa Hallem and UC Riverside emeritus art professor Uta Barth were among 23 fellows — including a journalist, a physicist, a composer, a historian...
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Severed Natural Gas Line Brings On Local Residential Evacuation Orders

October 10, 2012 by

Yesterday afternoon, gas company workers successfully sealed a leak in a natural gas line located south of the Storke Family Housing complex. Southern California Gas Company personnel stopped the leak...
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New Development Approved by City Officials Near Marketplace

October 9, 2012 by

Last week, the Goleta City Council approved construction of the city’s largest development plan — a combined residential and business complex on Hollister Avenue — since its incorporation into t...
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