Negligent Government Spending Prohibits Prosperity
Recently Standard & Poor’s issued a warning that the U.S. debt rating could be downgraded due to excessive spending, debt and deficits. The investment community is questioning our government’s ability to maintain sound fiscal and monetary policy and is warning that our long-term rating will be reduced. How has it come to this? In 2008, […]
Muralists on Mason: Artists Work to Create Outdoor Gallery Downtown
On the corner of State Street and West Mason Street in downtown Santa Barbara exists a peculiar sight. Upon first glance, there might not be much to notice about the area apart from the vacant storefront that greets motorists driving past en route to the pier. However, the walls surrounding this derelict storefront are adorned […]
Fleet Foxes: Not So Helpless, Not So Blue
Fleet Foxes, the popular Seattle folk band, have a new album set to release on May 3, 2011. Helplessness Blues manages to retain the melodic harmonies and old time-y influences that made the band’s first album such a gem among dull, indie rocks. At the same time, it brings more to the table in terms […]
The Growlers Make Velvet Jones Sweat
One of the notoriously unfriendly Velvet Jones staff members led me to a large, potentially-creepy-but-mostly-psychedelic school bus last Friday where — I was informed — I could find the Costa Mesa-based rock group, the Growlers. Brian Stewart, the band’s rather dazed drummer who seemed to only faintly recall that we had an interview, met me […]
A.S. Holds Event to Inform Students About Budget Issues
Associated Students will host a public forum to discuss the state budget and its effects on the University from 4 to 6 tonight in the Student Resource Building’s Multi-Purpose Room. The open event, organized by the Budget and Resources Branch of the A.S. Office of the President, is intended to inform students about the expected […]
Transportation Lines Face Cutbacks
The Santa Barbara County Metropolitan Transportation District held a public meeting yesterday to discuss a potential four to five percent reduction in services scheduled to take effect August 22. The proposed cutbacks would eliminate lines with lowest ridership — such as lines 9 and 22 — and modify other route schedules. The reductions are in response to […]
Protest Highlights Concerns Over Oil Policies
Associated Students’ Environmental Affairs Board organized a silent walk through campus yesterday to commemorate last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill and protest U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The walk began at Davidson Library and continued through the center of campus and Isla Vista’s most populated areas, concluding at the MultiCultural Center. Protesters carried signs imploring […]
Student Food Collective To Serve Isla Vista Affordable Food
UCSB students have long yearned for a smarter and more sensible way to eat, but getting healthy and delicious food at affordable prices seems like a pipe dream. What we need is a way to “go green” without consequently going broke. One student group has taken care to notice our growing concern and now labors […]
Legislative Council Discusses Next Year’s Budget
Associated Students Legislative Council spent the majority of last night’s meeting discussing the specifics of their impacted 2011-2012 budget. Next year’s proposed budget contains $284,953 in unallocated funds — about half of last year’s unallocated budget — and must be approved by the council within the next week. Representatives deliberated over the most effective areas […]
Local Organization Holds Benefit for Japanese City
The Santa Barbara-Toba Sister City Organization will host a fundraiser tonight at the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion to support a coastal city damaged in the earthquake that struck Japan last month. The “Oysters and Pearls” event begins at 5 p.m. and features a buffet of local foods, a taiko drumming group from Los Angeles and a […]