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Center Aims To Unify BioEngineering Studies

The UCSB Academic Senate approved plans for the university’s Center for BioEngineering, scheduled to open in 2014 as a juncture for the campus’s fledging exploration into the field. Construction f...
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Board Grants Funds to Campus Groups

The Associated Students Finance Board distributed $2,450 to two student organizations during last night’s 45 minute meeting. The board used money from its Winter and Spring Quarter unallocated budge...
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‘Occupy’ Movement Hits I.V.

UCSB students, faculty and community members gathered this past weekend at People’s Park for an Occupy Isla Vista demonstration. The rally began Saturday at 3 p.m. and featured musical performances,...
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Plan Aims To Resolve I.V. Parking

The Isla Vista Project Area Committee considered a proposed program to monitor parking on I.V. streets between 3 and 5 a.m. during last Wednesday’s meeting. Community members and committee represent...
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Gaucho Alumna’s Research Spurs Acclaimed Device

Former UCSB graduate student Victoria Broje’s research contributed to the design of a revolutionary drum oil skimmer, which recently received the 2011 Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE’s $1 mi...
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‘No Unwanted Mail’ List Holds Potential to Eliminate Nuisance Mail

I am inundated with unwanted mail, including local publications. For example, The Montecito Messenger began sending me its newspaper, which I never requested. Not wanting to receive it at my home, I ...
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Library Sells Donated Antiquities

The Santa Barbara Public Library will offer vintage publications and rare art from their collection this weekend at a special two-day book sale. Friends of Santa Barbara Public Library will host a pre...
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City To Host Benefit Walk for Autism

This year’s “Walk Now for Autism Speaks” advocacy demonstration will kick off this Saturday at downtown’s East Beach at 10 a.m. Nonprofit organization Autism Speaks funds research into treatme...
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KCSB To Hold Live Audio Exhibit

UCSB student-run radio station KCSB will host an interactive radio art program called “Picnic Revolution” today at noon in Storke Plaza. Neighborhood Public Radio organized the open event as part ...
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The Atheist in Love: Chapter Three

This week’s question: How would you handle raising children with a religious spouse? I have often contemplated my future life as a father. To have a son would be both awesome and fucking terrifying ...
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Campus Joins Occupy Movement

The Occupy Wall Street movement reached Isla Vista yesterday with a campus teach-in regarding corporate control of the economy and media on the lawn across from the Student Resource Building. The firs...
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County Stops Commercial Weed Trade

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a ban on all medical marijuana dispensaries in the county at its Tuesday meeting after months of deliberation and failed alternate proposals. The...
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Police Blotter

While trick-or-ticketing the fertile hunting grounds of Del Playa Drive this weekend, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s deputies stumbled upon an 18-year-old man in possession of a criminal quantity of Hallow...
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BYOB: A Simple Solution to Our Plastic Bag Problem

Bring your own … bag? Santa Barbara has the potential to be the next county to ban single-use plastic bags to protect our oceans and to significantly reduce our plastic consumption. Approximately 12...
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Exiled Iranian Rock Group To Give Performance

Iranian electronic rock band The Casualty Process, whose members are political refugees now based in New York City, will perform at a free concert in the Hub at 8 p.m. The band’s members, Cis Nadjaf...
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