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By Haoning Zhu This new campus resource – which was Born out of steadfast efforts by the 2019 Black Student Union (BSU) Demands Team, will offer culturally relevant resources and cultivate partnerships to increase the recruitment, retention, academic achievement and self-advocacy of the Black student population at UCSB. The director of the new office tells […]

By Haoning Zhu The Asian Resource Center at UC Santa Barbara held an “Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American New Year Showcase” event on Jan. 25 to welcome and celebrate the Lunar New Year, where a virtual video series was presented to showcase various new year traditions. The Asian Resource Center (ARC) used the panethnic

UCSB has a rich history of student activism. From the student-led hunger strike in 1989 that called for the establishment of an Ethnic Studies requirement and a Multicultural Center on campus, to the more recent rally of students confronting Chancellor Yang and his involvement with the Thirty Meter Telescope Project on the sacred ground for

By Rebecca Bogdanovic and Sicily Barry The bustling of the arbor, the quiet chatter ringing throughout the crowded library, the morning bells echoing from Storke Tower; the chaos of the beginnings of your college career at UCSB can feel overwhelming. As you sit on your top bunk looking out through the window to students studying

AS Food Bank Overview The Associated Students Food Bank works to solve issues of food insecurity among students at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Faced with stressful financial situations, students often have to skip meals at the expense of books, rent, and other financial burdens. The AS Food Bank has been working to

By Olivia Terrazas Picture this: It’s election year. The minority party is gearing up for the general election: holding debates, campaigning across the country, and doing everything it can to win the damn White House.   If you’re anything like me — a nerd for politics who plans to stick that “I Voted” sticker on

How the Coronavirus and Distance Learning Affect the Wellbeing of a College Freshman By Hannah Hulbert From the moment Chancellor Yang sent out the first email addressing Covid-19 and the campus community, students understood that their undergraduate careers were permanently altered. As the student body was unceremoniously sent away, seniors mourned the loss of their