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As the university prepares for Fall Quarter 2021, students are grappling with a housing crisis on an unprecedented scale.

July 20, 2021 at 9:51 pm by Atmika Iyer and Alex Rudolph The University of California released the admissions data for the incoming class of freshmen on July 19, revealing that UC Santa Barbara’s number of admitted students this year decreased from Fall Quarter 2020.  The data shows that Asians remain the largest ethnic group admitted among in-state students into UCSB. Chicanx/Latinx students make up the second-largest group admitted to UCSB, despite there being a dip in admittance numbers from Fall Quarter 2020. White/Caucasian people make up the third-largest group of admi...

As Tahirah Whittington, the cellist of all-Black Chicago string quartet D-Composed, flew through a piece by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, her young audience stared in awe. The performance was part of a webinar series in which D-Composed shares clips of its concerts and presentations on Black composers with local schools. Even on a virtual platform, the kids...

Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Tau Delta and Pi Beta Phi were repeat offenders. Alpha Tau Omega was the only offender to be sanctioned.

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 California Board of Regents to divest from companies that profit off of alleged human rights violation...