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April 22, 2011

Demand for Crude Oil Makes Venoco Executive Millions

By Daily Nexus Staff

Venoco Chairman and CEO Timothy Marquez saw his personal fortune increase by $38.6 million last week, according to a Forbes blog post. Freelance journalist Brendan Coffey’s blog posting on Forbes.com, which credits Mar...

April 22, 2011

UCSB Appoints New Engineering Dean

By Kristin Crosier

Rod C. Alferness, the chief scientist for Bell Laboratories, accepted an appointment to serve as UCSB’s next Dean of the College of Engineering. Alferness will assume the position of Dean’s Chair and the Richard A. A...

April 22, 2011

Skate Shop To Fill Empty Niche

By Dominic LoBuglio

Two UCSB students will operate a skateboard business inside Sweet Jane in Isla Vista next month. Fourth-year business economics major Sam Gerner and third-year communication major Taylor Suiter are scheduling to open Swe...

April 22, 2011

[Update] 2011 Election Results

By Erika Martin

Update: April 23, 2011 8 a.m. The results of the Spring Elections’ Campus Elections Commission ballot were released yesterday, establishing one new fee and upholding five reaffirmations. Students approved a fee increas...

April 22, 2011

Associated Student Fees

By Daily Nexus Staff

Reaffirmations 1. KCSB/KJUC: Yes. 58.4% 2. A.S. Communication Personnel: Yes. 54.4% 3. Program Board: Yes. 72.8% 4. UC Student Association: Yes. 74.3% 5. Student Commission on Racial Equality: Yes. 62.7% 6. Bike Shop: Ye...

April 22, 2011

City Suggests Keeping Plastic Bags

By Jack Crosbie

Santa Barbara’s City Council Ordinance Committee recommended that the city continue to allow disposable shopping bags in the area despite concern from local conservationists about detrimental environmental effects. The...

April 22, 2011

Local Mickey D’s Increases Employment

By Robin Gautschi

McDonald’s franchises hired between 25 and 30 new employees from Santa Barbara County this week, in following with the company’s stated goal to hire as many as 50,000 new people nationwide. The company is expanding a...

April 22, 2011

Faculty Gives Recognition, Talks Budget

By Michael Dean

UCSB’s Faculty Legislature discussed budgetary issues and issued Teaching and Mentorship Awards to distinguished members of the university at yesterday’s meeting. The board, which acts as the legislative branch of th...

April 22, 2011

Juggle Club To Honor Victim With Festival

By Yishian Yao

Jugglers, unicyclists, acrobats and other performance artists will unite today at 6 p.m. in Robertson Gym to launch the 35th annual Isla Vista Juggling Festival & Public Show. The longest running juggling festival in...

April 21, 2011

Students Face Laborious Job Search

By Guiseppe Ricapito

Santa Barbara County unemployment rates remained stagnant throughout March, the Workforce Investment Board reported this week. County joblessness remained at 9.6 percent, with about 21,000 people still unemployed out of ...

April 21, 2011

A.S. Invests In Internet, Talks I.V. Annex Plans

By Patrick Kulp

Associated Students Legislative Council discussed topics ranging from funding Santa Barbara Hillel to investing money in a Chinese Internet provider during last night’s three-hour meeting. Having been denied funding fr...

April 21, 2011

Farmers Initiate Lawsuit Against Biotech Company

By Patrick Schaeper

A group of 60 organic farmers filed a lawsuit last week, denying accusations of infringing upon biotech corporation Monsanto’s patented plant germs. The coalition — including Seedkeepers LLC of Santa Barbara — took...

April 21, 2011

Site Chronicles Student Work

By Samantha Forcum

UCSB undergraduates established a blog earlier this school year featuring the ideas, experiments and findings of 11 student researchers. The blog serves as a public outlet for research discoveries, progress and predicame...

April 21, 2011

Sea Squirt Serves as Transplant Model

By Patrick Kulp

Researchers at UCSB suggest that further study into the natural transplantation process of the sea squirt species Botryllus schlosseri could provide crucial insight into how to avoid transplant rejection in human patient...

April 21, 2011

Power Plant Faces Tremor Tests

By Erika Martin

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been asked to delay approving Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s license renewal until the nuclear-powered facility undergoes an earthquake risk evaluation.   The Pacif...

April 21, 2011

Vendors Brace for Shut Downs

By Elliott Rosenfeld

Vendors who have lined the walkway adjacent to Storke Plaza for decades may not be allowed to continue selling their goods on campus after this quarter. Cindy Slater, a vendor who has sold her goods at a table along the ...