Associated Students Program Board will keep the Extravaganza music festival local this year by banning all non-UCSB attendees. Extravaganza, slated for 1 p.m. on May 15, will be open exclusively to UCSB students, faculty and staff in an effort to eliminate overcrowding seen in previous years. While ASPB plans to release this year’s lineup in [...]
The results of the Spring Elections’ Campus Elections Commission ballot were released Friday, establishing one new fee and upholding five reaffirmations. Students approved a fee increase of $4.24 per quarter for Arts & Lectures by a margin of 66.98 percent, bringing total undergraduate student fees for 2011-12 to $654.40 per student — up $28.96 from [...]
Associated Students Legislative Council discussed topics ranging from funding Santa Barbara Hillel to investing money in a Chinese Internet provider during last night’s three-hour meeting. Having been denied funding from A.S. Finance Board on Monday, Hillel sought $1,700 from the council to organize its weekly Shabbat dinners and Kosher cookouts. However, the organization intended to [...]
Associated Students Legislative Council discussed A.S. Election Committee’s funding for their “Votetopia” campaign to mobilize student participation in the Spring Election during last night’s five-hour meeting. The Council allocated additional funding for Votetopia from its Special Projects account to supplement the funding it received after originally requesting $7,543 from Finance Board to rent Corwin Pavilion [...]
Associated Students held its second and final open forum for presidential candidates yesterday in the Hub. Presidential candidates Stanley Tzankov, Harrison Weber and Marcus Rochellle discussed their platforms and answered questions from audience members on issues ranging from budget cuts to A.S. outreach. Voting will be accessible through GOLD from April 18 at 8 a.m. [...]
Various campus programs and organizations are asking for the reaffirmation of 31 separate lock-in fees totaling to about $552 per year in the upcoming Spring Election. All referenda were approved in previous elections and have been charged to students as part of their registration fees every quarter for at least the last two years. In [...]
Candidates for External Vice President of Statewide Affairs participated in an open forum yesterday at the University Center Hub.
Associated Students Legislative Council discussed next year’s Finance Board budget during last night’s four-hour meeting.
Associated Students Legislative Council discussed their responsibility as an association to families living in Isla Vista during last night’s three-and-a-half hour meeting.
Associated Students plans to open a new off-campus workspace that will cost $82,500 a year to operate.
An annual external audit of UCSB’s Associated Students revealed potential embezzlement within the organization during the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
Associated Students Legislative Council discussed at length a bill to modify the upcoming spring A.S. elections during last night’s four-hour meeting.
The Associated Students Legislative Council addressed several issues during last night’s three-hour meeting.
The Daily Nexus talks with Cori Lantz, AS EVPLA, about Associated Students’ plans for this Halloween Weekend.
The Human Rights Board was finally established as an official Associated Students entity in a legislative council meeting last night, overcoming its defeat in deliberations last year.