Daily Nexus

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Daily Nexus

Masthead for the Daily Nexus
Type	Weekly student publication
Format	Broadsheet
School	University of California, Santa Barbara
Editor-in-chief	Pricila Flores
Founded	1931; 93 years ago (1931) (as The Eagle)
Language	English
Headquarters	Storke Tower plaza Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
City	Santa Barbara, California
Country	United States
Website	dailynexus.com
Free online archives	dailynexus.com/archives
Media of the United States List of newspapers

34°24′45.34″N 119°50′52.73″W / 34.4125944°N 119.8479806°W / 34.4125944; -119.8479806

The Daily Nexus is a campus newspaper at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Daily Nexus lineage can be traced to the Santa Barbara State College student newspaper, The Eagle, of the 1930s. After the college became part of the UC system in 1944, The Eagle evolved under different names — The Roadrunner, El Gaucho, The University Post and The Daily Gaucho. The modern Daily Nexus emerged from the activism and civil protests of the 1960s-1970s. 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. The 1970-71 editorial board drew inspiration from a quote by Robert Maynard Hutchins: "A free press is the nexus of any democracy".

Since then, the Daily Nexus has covered campus-related and county-wide news, sports and arts. Students run the editorial side of the paper, independent of faculty or administration input or guidance. The editor in chief hires editorial staff and has the final word on what goes to print. Editors train and supervise staff writers and reporters. UCSB students work on the advertising and business side, as well.

The 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. The Daily Nexus receives about two thirds of its funds from advertising revenue. The other one third is derived from a quarterly lock-in fee of $3.85 per student during the regular school year and $1.00 per student during the summer session. The lock-in fee is voted upon by students every two years.^[1]