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Student Sues UC Over Employment Policy

Fourth-year global studies major Alexander Stern has filed a case against the UC regarding the employment policy of the Disabled Students’ Program, which allegedly bans disabled people from applying...
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Universities Study Effects of Weed on Lung Health

In a national study, researchers at UC San Francisco found that a low to moderate level of marijuana usage is less harmful to the pulmonary system than tobacco use. The researchers believe the data ca...
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UCSD Tests How Smokers Quit

The UC San Diego School of Medicine released an update in this year’s Annual Review of Public Health about the most successful techniques for helping modern smokers ash the habit. The group made sig...
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Scientists Relate Liquor to Endorphins Release

UC San Francisco researchers have linked alcohol addiction to the release of endorphins in the human brain, marking the first time these feel-good chemicals were directly related to alcohol use in Hom...
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Alumnus Produces Crime Thriller

What do a former Gaucho and Bernie Madoff have in common, you ask? Money laundering. Sean Meier, an alumnus of the communication program and former Division I golfer at UCSB, has found his niche in Ho...
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Regents Move Meeting To Rally at Capitol

The UC Board of Regents announced last week that it plans to relocate this year’s May 16 and 17 meeting from its original location at UC San Francisco to Sacramento, where regents will join UC stude...
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Weekend Wrap-Up

The I.V. Foot Patrol responded to an assault, theft and several alcohol-related crimes this weekend. Deputies received a report of a physical assault at 1:40 a.m. Saturday on the 700 block of Embarcad...
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Advocates Aim to Renew Law Against Violence

Earlier this month, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris joined 53 other attorneys general from across the country in petitioning the U.S. Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Ac...
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SB County Board Agrees to Conduct Poverty Study

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a $60,000 analysis of local poverty levels earlier this month after receiving half the funding in donations from the Santa B...
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Dedicated Violist, Conductor, Passionate Professor Passes On

Richard Rintoul, an orchestra professor at UCSB from 2006 to 2011, passed away in his sleep due to a heart attack on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. He was 56 years old. Last night, the UCSB orchestra performe...
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SB Zoo Welcomes Giraffe

Michael, a 16-foot-tall Masai giraffe, made a new home at the Santa Barbara Zoo last Tuesday as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums cooperative breeding program. Born in Toronto in August 20...
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UCPD Makes Arrests at UCR

UC students and faculty members from across the state gathered on the UC Riverside campus last Thursday to protest during UC Board of Regents meeting, ultimately resulting in the arrest of two protest...
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Hospital Passes Federal Inspection

The Santa Barbara County Psychiatric Health Facility was found to be back in compliance with federal regulations last month after undergoing a major overhaul of its premises and services over the past...
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New Bill To Deter Executive Greed

State Sen. Leland Yee introduced a bill in the state legislature that would attempt to curb administrative salary increases at California universities within two years of tuition hikes or state budget...
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Board Boots Crowd from UC Riverside Regents Rendezvous

The UC Board of Regents met yesterday at UC Riverside for their second day of meetings intended to furnish a comprehensive method to cope with the university system’s chronic budget crisis. Although...
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