Daily Nexus is a campus newspaper at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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11 Facts About Daily Nexus
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The modern Daily Nexus emerged from the activism and civil protests of the 1960s-1970s.
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The newspaper's editors changed the publication's name in 1970 to the Daily Nexus to "keep with the changing nature of the university" after protesters burned down the Bank of America building in Isla Vista, a UCSB community neighboring the campus.
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Since then, the Daily Nexus has covered campus-related and county-wide news, sports and arts.
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Daily Nexus office is situated in the Storke Communications Plaza, beneath Storke Tower and next to the offices of KCSB-FM, the campus radio station.
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The Daily Nexus receives about two thirds of its funds from advertising revenue.
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The Daily Nexus story drew other media coverage and intense university pressure for Huttenback to resign, which he did months later on July 11,1986.
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The Daily Nexus argued that its investigation was delayed because the governor had illegally denied requests for public information – but the suit finally was dismissed by the California Supreme Court for failure to file within the statute of limitations.
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Daily Nexus publishes daily via its website; in 2014, it reduced its print edition to once a week.
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In 2011, Daily Nexus managing editor Lexi Pandell received the California College Media Association's "Best Feature Story" award for a piece about five students who died from drug and alcohol related accidents during an 18-month span.
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In 2012 and 2013, the Daily Nexus placed 9th on The Princeton Review's list of "Best College Newspapers".
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