Lizzy Rager

Santa Barbara

Assistant News Editor at The Daily Nexus

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Missed evidence and conflicts of interest: Behind the controversial UCSB Associated Students 2025 election

3 weeks ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nexus has published an editorial addressing allegations made against the Nexus’s news coverage of the fallout from the 2025-26 spring election and the results of our investigation into the allegations against presidential candidate Dan Siddiqui and the Associated Students members involved in his case. It is accessible here.
A week in UC student news

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

Governor Gavin Newsom reduces budget cuts to the UC in revised budgetCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom announced reductions to University of California budget cuts in a revision of the state budget on May 14, according to the Daily Bruin. Newsom’s January budget proposed that $396.6 million be cut from the University of California (UC) system, which was reduced to $129.7 million this month, less than half of the initial proposed number.
Term-in-Review: A.S. IVP Açúcar Pinto

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

The Nexus compiled profiles of the 2024-25 Associated Students elected officials to reflect on their past year in office. As they look back on their campaign platforms, we asked our elected officials to tell us about their successes and shortfalls throughout their terms in office. The term in reviews for the other executives can be viewed at dailynexus.com and/or in our May 22, 2025, print edition. Pinto did not meet with the Nexus for a mid-year check-in January.
A.S. election concludes with lowest voter turnout in a decade following three weeks of delay

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Anushka Ghosh Dastidar |Lizzy Rager |Jack Dindia |Michelle Cisneros

Following three weeks of delay to election results, the 2025 Associated Students Spring General Election concluded with a 20.42% voter turnout. Results were announced at the Interactive Learning Pavilion room 2302 at 7 p.m., an hour later than slated.
Missing UCSB student found dead in Big Bear Lake

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

A UC Santa Barbara student was found deceased in the water by Pine Knot Marina at Big Bear Lake today, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Tanner Prentiss, 22, was a third-year sociology major at UCSB. He was found at 10:23 a.m after an extensive search by deputies and the Sheriff’s Dive Team. Investigators followed up on information provided by people who last saw him. Prentiss went to Big Bear Lake last weekend on a cabin trip with friends.
UCSB moving forward with faculty housing projects, lawsuit over Ocean Road records heightens

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

UC Santa Barbara recently bought several downtown Santa Barbara units and approved exploring a financing method for Ocean Road, a nearly 20-year-old housing project. Ocean Road, which was initially slated to add 540 units for faculty and staff, has been delayed repeatedly amid controversy, but was the largest promised housing project for the workforce.
Two pedestrians hit in Isla Vista vehicle collision

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

Two women sustained injuries in a car crash on Camino Pescadero and Sabado Tarde on Tuesday, according to Santa Barbara County Fire Department Public Information Officer Scott Safechuck. At 6:44 p.m., an Infinity SUV drove westbound on Sabado, heading toward the southside of the intersection on Pescadero, when it collided with the two women riding bicycles, according to California Highway Patrol (CHP) Public Information Officer Jon Gutierrez.
County board of supervisors unanimously approve I.V. Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve District 2 Supervisor Laura Capps’ Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program, which would proactively investigate housing in Isla Vista for building and health code violations. The Rental Housing Inspection Pilot Program draws on county settlement funds from a housing lawsuit in 2024, allocating $600,000 from a $3.7 million settlement fund.
A week in UC student news

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

UCLA ROTC instructor one of 32 suing Trump for ban on transgender people in militaryKate Cole, a senior military science instructor at UC Los Angeles Army ROTC, joins 31 other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for its ban on transgender people in the military, according to the Daily Bruin. Trump signed an executive order on Jan.
El Congreso urges Chancellor Yang to meet demands before leaving

1 month ago | dailynexus.com | Lizzy Rager

Following up from its initial demand letter to Chancellor Henry T. Yang three years ago, student activism group El Congreso says their demands from 2022 have still not been met. They hand-delivered a letter with the previous and updated demands to the chancellor’s office on Monday. “We just want to talk to him face-to-face about a lot of these [demands], and even if we can just get some kind of voice support, or some actual physical demonstration of support.