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April 12, 2011

More Nonresident Students To Come

By Elliott Rosenfeld

Expecting between $500 million and $1.1 billion in budget reductions systemwide over the next year, some UC campuses may incrementally enroll more out-of-state residents for the sake of collecting much heftier tuition fe...

April 12, 2011

A.S. Alloted Funds Aim To Benefit All

By Christina Lavingia

The Associated Students Finance Board allocated almost $50,000 to 27 student organizations at last night’s six-hour meeting.

April 12, 2011

Green Group Probes Pesticide Issue

By Megan Meyer

Partners of the Santa Barbara County’s Go Green Landscape Consortium endorsed proper toxic material disposal at a press conference yesterday afternoon.

April 12, 2011

SB Sees Influx of Visitors, Ups Marketing Plan

By Dominic LoBuglio

After battling an uphill struggle against the nationwide recession, Santa Barbara’s tourism industry is finally making a recovery. The Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau is set to receive more than $1.3 mil...

April 12, 2011

Government Briefs

By Daily Nexus Staff

Santa Barbara City Council The council will discuss The Compassion Center medical marijuana dispensary’s second appeal for a permit for its existing business at 2915 De la Vina Street today. The councilmembers previous...

April 12, 2011

CCS Undergraduates Play New Role in the Classroom

By Olivia Cvitanic

The College of Creative Studies is offering a selection of new student-led colloquiums this quarter.

April 12, 2011

Supervisors Seek Spill Solution

By Pierre Berlan

Residents from Summerland are requesting that the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors take actions to prevent decommissioned oil rigs from releasing oil seepage along their coastline. Summerland residents complaine...

April 12, 2011

Weekend Wrap-Up

By Garik Hauer

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol responded to a significant increase in crime throughout the weekend due to Deltopia, issuing 88 citations and making 27 arrests. Deputies received a report of a fight between several males on t...

April 12, 2011

Fees Return for Approval, Crowd Ballot

By Michael Dean, Samantha Forcum, John Leach

Various campus programs and organizations are asking for the reaffirmation of 31 separate lock-in fees totaling to about $552 per year in the upcoming Spring Election. All referenda were approved in previous elections an...

April 11, 2011

County Says, “You’re Grounded, Floatopia!”

By Garik Hauer

Although the beach was closed through- out the weekend to prevent Floatopia, Isla Vista didn’t stay dry Saturday.

April 11, 2011

Art Class Project Exposes Media Vulnerability

By Daily Nexus Staff

Students in teaching assistant Desiree D’Alessandro’s Art 7A section posted partially fictional online responses to Daily Nexus articles last week for a class assignment.

April 11, 2011

Coastal Fund Asks for Student Support, Fees

By Dominic LoBuglio

The Coastal Fund initiative is asking for the reaffirmation of two separate lock- in fees totaling to $6.33 per undergradu- ate student per quarter in the upcoming Spring Election.

April 11, 2011

UCSB Gives Students Insight

By Daily Nexus Staff

Thousands of prospective students toured campus Saturday for Spring Insight, acquainting themselves with the academic atmosphere.

April 11, 2011

Campus Calls Out UC Budget Cuts, Prepares Protests

By Yishian Yao

Students across the nation are protesting the effects of budget cuts on public education during this year’s Week of Action.

April 11, 2011

Scorched Socks Spark, Ignite in Manzanita Hall

By Katherine Friedman

Emergency personnel responded to a small fire on the third floor of Manzanita Village’s Rincon House early yesterday morning.

April 11, 2011

Professor’s Achievement Puts UCSB in Spotlight

By Kristin Crosier

UCSB physics professor Joseph Incandela was named spokesperson of a major experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland earlier this month.