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DAILY NEXUS Th URSDAY, MAY 19, 2016 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA UC Student Regent Nominated Effects of 2015 Paul Monge, UC Berkeley law student and UCSB alumnus, was Oil Spill Persist, nominated to become Student Regent beginning in July 2017 Researchers Say Courtesy of Associated Students In his last year at UCSB, Monge served as A.S. president, a position that helped earn him the Student Regent nomination. As president, Monge played a role in establishing the A.S. Food Bank in the 2010-2011 school year. Josh Ortiz “I want to attribute a lot of my ability to serve in this role to my University News Editor experience as an undergraduate at Santa Barbara,” Monge said of his STEPHEN MANGA / DAILY NEXUS nomination. “My experience there really activated me in wanting to A process known as tarball fingerprinting allows researchers to analyze the extent of the spill’s damage. A selection committee for the University of California (UC) Board pursue public leadership.” of Regents nominated a UC Santa Barbara alumnus Wednesday to If he is confirmed as a student regent, Monge said he plans to Kevin Flores assume the role of UC Student Regent. address food insecurity among students, an issue he said he has been Reporter The Regents will vote on the nomination of Paul Monge, a UC working on since his undergraduate years. Monge and A.S. officers Berkeley law student, in July. If approved, Monge will begin his were able to establish the A.S. Food Bank during his senior year at A severely eroded Plains All American pipeline 15 miles term as a non-voting, student-regent designate for the 2016-2017 UCSB. northwest of the UCSB campus near Refugio State Beach academic year, training to become the UC Student Regent in July Monge said he also hopes to address affordable housing across the ruptured one year ago today, May 19, 2015, spilling upwards of 2017. UC system. According to Monge, UC students live in some of the 80,000 gallons of crude oil onto the nearby coast, according to a Monge graduated from UCSB with a dual degree in sociology and state’s most expensive cities, so he wants to focus on implementing panel of experts and environmental organizations at Bren Hall. global studies in 2011 and later received a master’s degree in public rent control and tenant protections. The aftermath of the spill spurred a number of new state and policy from Harvard University. He served as Associated Students Avi Oved, the current student regent and one of the members of federal laws and local environmental organizations and Santa Barbara County have drafted new plans of action in the event of (A.S.) President during his final year at UCSB and is currently a the selection committee, described the nomination process as “very a future pipe leak. graduate student representative for the UC Student Association robust.” (UCSA) committee on planning and budget. 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A on Special Education, Disabilities, Skype Q&A session with Hinaleimoona, @ Hatlen Theater 7pm & 10pm and Developmental Risk. In 2015 an the film’s main character, will follow the It’s the early 1970s and the fourth largest anonymous donor gave a $2 million IV Theater, IV screening. (80 min, English, 2014) auto company in the Midwest just laid estate gift to the Gevirtz School to off more than half its workers. Chuck is establish The Michael M. Gerber C $4 one of them, but he’s not worried. Chuck is convinced that “the funk” will bring UCSB Ensemble for prosperity. Only thing, Chuck can’t play Contemporary no instrument. But somewhere in this sea of the recently unemployed and Music rejected—those morphine addicted Vietnam vets—those ex militants turned Wednesday, public servants—gear heads, burnouts, labor activists, Motown woulda coulda May 25, 2016 beens, and hustlers—somewhere in all that is Chuck’s band. 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A bright mustard yellow, this one-story students must be “sick with physics.” structure houses the elusive College of Creative “They must be people who love science, who Studies (CCS). love physics, who just don’t count the time they With about 350 students in the entire college, spend solving problems,” he said. CCS reflects a very small but unique percentage of Talon Stark, second-year CCS mathematics UCSB undergraduates. major, agrees. Though one of only three colleges here at “More than anything, it lets you dedicate all UCSB, CCS is the most abstract in terms of of your time on your own discipline,” Stark said.