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Students Demand Private Prison Divestment

January 14, 2016 by Josh Ortiz

Black student leaders across the University of California (UC) increased pressure on Wells Fargo this week to divest from private prisons.

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Professor Megan Carney Lectures on Migration, Food Insecurity

January 13, 2016 by Amy Koo

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosted Professor Megan Carney from the University of Washington, Seattle to give a lecture titled “Back There We Had Nothing to Eat: Food Insecurity and Women’s Migration at the Intersections.”

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Woman Killed by Train Identified as UCSB Student

January 11, 2016 by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

The woman who died after being struck by a train in Goleta on Sunday has been identified as Lillian Feng, a 19-year-old UCSB student who lived in Isla Vista. Shortly after 9 a.m. on Jan. 10, Feng was struck by an Amtrak passenger train hea...

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Nonprofit Hosts Concert to Benefit Children in Need

January 11, 2016 by Dahyana Barraza

Student-run nonprofit Kids Helping Kids (KHK) hosted its annual Benefit Gala Concert featuring Grammy-nominated NEEDTOBREATHE and Johnnyswim at the Granada Theater this weekend.

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A.S. Welcomes New Senators, Allegedly Violating Legal Code

January 7, 2016 by Chris Perez

The Associated Students (A.S.) Senate appointed two new on-campus senators, first-year students Reilly Hobson and Batsheva Labowe-Stoll, Wednesday night in the Flying A Room of the UCen. Several senators alleged at the meeting that A.S. ...