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September 22, 2011

Air Force Calls Off Test on Peace Day

By Megan Meyer

The Air Force Global Strike Command cancelled yesterday’s scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in order to finish analyzing the results of...

September 22, 2011

UC Regents Reveal Long-Term Budget Plan

By Erika Martin

Following a $650 million funding reduction for higher education in California’s latest state budget, the UC Regents unveiled a long-term budget plan last week suggesting that student contributions to the UC would conti...

September 15, 2011

Students Urge Brown to Make Dream Act Reality

By Marissa Wenzke

Students and UC workers’ union members from across the state gathered in Sacramento on Monday in support of AB 131 — the second half of the California DREAM Act — which would enable students without full citizenshi...

September 15, 2011

Council Unifies Programs to Address Transiency

By Michael Dean

The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously passed a motion on Tuesday endorsing the consolidation of regional homeless advisory committees with several nonprofit organizations in an effort to minimize homelessness in the...

September 15, 2011

Organizations Unite to Clean County Beaches

By Jack Crosbie

Volunteers will head to the Santa Barbara coastline this Saturday to obliterate litter from 28 of the county’s beaches, creeks and other environmentally sensitive sites during the 27th annual California Coastal Cleanup...

September 15, 2011

UCSB Library Receives Thoreau Collection

By Emily Hunt

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Davidson Library’s Thoreau Edition a grant of $245,000 last month, giving UCSB a 28-volume trove of writings from the famed author and philosopher Henry David Thore...

September 15, 2011

I.V. Community Mourns UCSB Student’s Death

By Jenna Ryan

Friends gathered at Campus Point Tuesday Sept. 6 to mourn the death and commemorate the life of UCSB student Mark Andrew Romasanta, II. The 22 year-old Santa Barbara native was last seen on the 6600 block of Del Playa Dr...

September 15, 2011

Revamped UCen To Welcome Local Shop, Healthy Eateries

By Vanessa Angiuli

This Fall, four business spaces within the University Center will close their doors to make way for new on-campus vendors including the Alternative Copy Shop, Subway, Wahoo’s Fish Tacos and Root 217. The Alternative Co...

September 15, 2011

UC Deals With Slashed Funding

By Patrick Kulp

The UC Office of the President recently released its annual report on UC system-wide employee compensation, highlighting the decline in state funding but also showing an increase in revenue generated by medical centers a...

September 15, 2011

UCSB to Welcome New Students at Convocation

By Christina Lavingia

New Student Convocation will take place on September 19 from 3 to 4 pm on the Faculty Club Green to welcome freshmen and transfer students to the greater UCSB community of scholars and students. The ceremony will feature...

September 15, 2011

Insurance Hikes Fees, Expands Health Coverage

By John Leach

Beginning Sept. 18, all UC students will fall under a newly restructured Student Health Insurance Plan. The new program will cost $300 more per year for undergraduates but now includes dental coverage in addition to exis...

September 15, 2011

Santa Barbara Remembers 9/11 Events 10 Years Later

By Megan Meyer

Santa Barbara County residents gathered at several local memorials on Sunday to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks exactly 10 years after the tragedy struck. The events included a “Day of Remembrance” at t...

August 24, 2011

Santa Barbara Airport Opens More Modern Terminal

By Megan Meyer

The Santa Barbara Airport opened its new terminal on August 18 to improve services and amenities for the 750,000 passengers travelling annually through the Goleta airfield. The $54 million project consists of a new 72,00...

August 24, 2011

Dating Site Plays Matchmaker Within Campus Communities

By Daily Nexus Staff

Looking for a college sweetheart? Log in to DateMySchool.com, a dating website created by Columbia University students Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer that matches students across departments within the same school and throu...

August 24, 2011

Major Teaching Nonprofit Recruits Gaucho Grads

By Vanessa Angiuli

Teach for America, a renowned nonprofit public service program that seeks to bridge the gap between underprivileged school children and recent university graduates, accepted 42 UCSB graduates among this year’s 5,200 r...

August 24, 2011

LGBTQ Support Garners Recognition for UCSB

By Christina Lavingia

The nonprofit organization for queer advocacy Campus Pride added UCSB to its list of 33 colleges nationwide with a perfect 5-star LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index rating for its support of the LGBTQ community. The univ...