News

February 22, 2008

Pool Repairs To Relocate UCSB Aquatic Teams

By Allison Bailey

Students taking a dip in the Recreation Center pool may find themselves competing for lanes with the UCSB swim and water polo teams over the next two months.

February 22, 2008

Workout Program Pumps Up Staff

By S.F.

Since the launch of FitSquad, UCSB staff and faculty members are squeezing big fitness into tiny breaks and lunch hours.

February 22, 2008

News-Press Files New Charges

By David Ferry

A day after union officials filed another unfair labor charge against the Santa Barbara News-Press, newspaper lawyers fired back yesterday with three new charges, including harassment.

February 22, 2008

Rwanda Project Members Discuss Coffee-Bike

By Benjamin Gottlieb

Hoping to solve the country's immense financial problems, one nonprofit organization is claiming it can help reboot Rwanda's economy with its coffee-bike.

February 21, 2008

Union Files Suit Against SB Paper Over Wage Policy

By David Ferry

The union representing the newsroom employees of the Santa Barbara News-Press filed yet another unfair labor charge against the paper yesterday, protesting the company's decision not to offer staffers a raise in 2006.

February 21, 2008

UCSB Event Remembers 1968 Walkouts

By Elliott Rosenfeld

In 1968, close to 20,000 public school students in East Los Angeles staged an organized weeklong walkout, or "blowout" of five schools in the district.

February 21, 2008

Nava Backs Canine Initiative

By Staff

State Assemblymember Pedro Nava will announce a legislative initiative combating dog fighting today, in a move that would effectively make it a felony to watch the canine sport in California.

February 21, 2008

Who Turned the Lights Out?

By Staff

February 20, 2008

County Officials Accept Plan for New Jail Facilities

By Kristen Ferrell

Following more than a year of planning and reporting, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in support of a plan to seek state funding for a new county jail at their weekly meeting yesterday.

February 20, 2008

UCSB Loses Tobacco Co. Grant

By Nadia Ismail

Tobacco company Philip Morris USA, Incorporated has awarded over $16 million in combined grants for tobacco-related research to seven UC campuses - although UCSB is no longer attached to such funding.

February 20, 2008

ICB Relocates Conference Amid Protest

By Staff

Contrary to a previous Daily Nexus report and claims made by protesters last week, the 2008 Army-Industry Collaboration Conference was not canceled following last week's anti-war protest.

February 20, 2008

IRS Decision Strikes Millions From SB Revenues

By Staff

The city of Santa Barbara stands to lose a third of its annual utility tax revenue after a recent Internal Revenue Service ruling.

February 20, 2008

Staying Vigil

By Mark Diment Daily Nexus

February 19, 2008

Reno Police Find Body of Brianna Denison in Field

By David Ferry

Nearly a month after she was first reported missing, police officers found the body of Santa Barbara City College student Brianna Denison on Friday almost eight miles away from where she was first abducted.

February 19, 2008

Lunar Eclipse To Attract Local Attention

By Evan Wagstaff

The night sky will darken even more for an hour tomorrow evening, as the Earth, the Sun and the Moon become perfectly aligned and Santa Barbara experiences its last total lunar eclipse until 2010.

February 19, 2008