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I.V. Festival Brings Pride to Pardall

May 2, 2011 by

UCSB Pride Week came to a close with the second annual Isla Vista Pride Festival on Pardall Road yesterday.     The festival, hosted by the UCSB Pride Steering Committee, included student dr...
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SB VisionWalk Donates Proceeds to Foundation Fighting Blindness

May 2, 2011 by

Hundreds of people banded together for Santa Barbara’s first VisionWalk at Santa Barbara City College on Saturday to support people living with retinal degenerative diseases. Proceeds from the 5K Vi...
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SBCC Ranks Nationally Among Top Community Colleges

May 2, 2011 by

The Aspen Institute ranked Santa Barbara City College among the nation’s top 120 community colleges from a pool of more than 1,000 schools. The international nonprofit organization released the rank...
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Scientists Seek to Establish Community Fishery

April 29, 2011 by

The UCSB Marine Science Institute is collaborating with several organizations to create a community-supported fishery in Santa Barbara by 2012. The institute will work alongside Commercial Fishermen S...
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Students To Seek Job Advice at Annual Career Day

April 29, 2011 by

The UCSB Dept. of Communication is hosting its third annual Career Day this Saturday to offer free job advice to all students. The event will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Phelps Hall and wi...
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Two Campus IT Departments To Merge

April 29, 2011 by

The College of Letters and Science Information Technology department will merge with the Office of Academic Programs’ Instructional Computing on May 1 to streamline the university’s electronic res...
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Cops Are Elected To Keep Order, Not Create Chaos

April 28, 2011 by and

Sometimes I fear for the Bear Flag Republic. I was walking through our beloved Isla Vista around midnight. It was a weekday and the streets were quiet. The air was warm and peaceful, pregnant with the...
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Muralists on Mason: Artists Work to Create Outdoor Gallery Downtown

April 28, 2011 by

On the corner of State Street and West Mason Street in downtown Santa Barbara exists a peculiar sight. Upon first glance, there might not be much to notice about the area apart from the vacant storefr...
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A.S. Holds Event to Inform Students About Budget Issues

April 28, 2011 by

Associated Students will host a public forum to discuss the state budget and its effects on the University from 4 to 6 tonight in the Student Resource Building’s Multi-Purpose Room. The open event, ...
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Transportation Lines Face Cutbacks

April 28, 2011 by

The Santa Barbara County Metropolitan Transportation District held a public meeting yesterday to discuss a potential four to five percent reduction in services scheduled to take effect August 22. Th...
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Protest Highlights Concerns Over Oil Policies

April 28, 2011 by

Associated Students’ Environmental Affairs Board organized a silent walk through campus yesterday to commemorate last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill and protest U.S. dependence on foreign oil....
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Legislative Council Discusses Next Year’s Budget

April 28, 2011 by

Associated Students Legislative Council spent the majority of last night’s meeting discussing the specifics of their impacted 2011-2012 budget. Next year’s proposed budget contains $284,953 in una...
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Local Organization Holds Benefit for Japanese City

April 28, 2011 by

The Santa Barbara-Toba Sister City Organization will host a fundraiser tonight at the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion to support a coastal city damaged in the earthquake that struck Japan last month. The “Oy...
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UCSB Rides Crest of Surf Schools

April 28, 2011 by

UCSB grabbed rail and pulled into the number one spot of Surfer Magazine’s Top 10 Surf Colleges last week, cruising past top rivals UC Santa Cruz, Pepperdine University and UC San Diego. The publica...
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AQB: Good Luck San Antonio

April 27, 2011 by

Congrats to San Antonio for staying alive, but it’s too bad they aren’t the Lakers. The league doesn’t care if the Spurs lose, so chances are good they won’t get any calls. No rating drop if t...
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