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After 11 hours of discussion between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the Associated Students Senate voted against the divestment resolution on the table. The 72nd Senate elected to use a secret ballot and saw 13 noes, 12 yeses and zero abstentions.   Over 100 community members, faculty and students signed up to speak at public forum last night, but only 83 actually spoke with generally equal amounts of support for and against divestment. The resolution called on the University of Ca...

Carolyn French National Beat Reporter Voting for UCSB’s Associated Student (AS) elections concluded on Thursday, April 22, and the results are in: Five executive positions and 26 legislative positions were filled. Additionally, a list of 33 reaffirmations and five new financial measures were voted on with a 5,122 undergraduate student turnout for the online election. Undergraduate students showed a 24.16 percent voter turnout while graduate students showed a 24.78 percent turnout, surpassing ...

Isla Vista Party Takes Home Executive Majority, Storke Party Claims the Most Senate Seats Isla Vista Party will hold a majority within the Associated Students executive branch for the 2021-22 school year, with the newly founded Storke Party capturing one seat — the presidency.  The election, which was hosted in a Zoom webinar format as opposed to its traditional in-person location at the University Center Hub, garnered 125 viewers, according to Andrew Yan, elections board chair.  Nex...

The Daily Nexus endorses Bee Schaefer, a third-year biology major and current University-Owned Housing senator running with Isla Vista Party, as the next internal vice president. Schaefer, the current Internal Affairs Committee (IAC) chair, described her role in leading the committee as one of neutral leadership. Courtesy of Bee Schaefer The internal vice president (IVP) not only represents Associated Students (A.S.) in all internal affairs, but is also responsible for leading and facilitating...