SB Board of Supervisors Elects Warfield to IVRPD
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted against the Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District’s wishes yesterday, appointing Ken Warfield to fill IVRPD’s vacant seat.
Cancer Expert Lectures About Latest Innovation
Though viruses are generally feared, scientists have begun finding ways to use them in the fight against cancer.
Liberty Belle: Props, Bonds Suck Californians Dry
I realize Californians are known for their rather hasty decision-making and Isla Vista residents are known for their “I-don’t-really-give-a-shit-about-shit, man” mindset, but voting is one of the few situations where the haste we are predisposed to can have especially negative, long-term effects on the rest of the state. Propositions 1B, C, D, E and 84 are five propositions that utilize a bond to fund the construction or program it suggests, and they do this with reckless disregard for the state’s fiscal predicament and for the voter’s future tax bill.
UCSB Closes Out Exhibition Play
The UCSB men’s basketball team won the battle of Santa Barbara schools once again last night, although Westmont kept things much closer than the Gauchos would have liked. The Gauchos overcame an early first-half deficit to defeat their cross-town rivals 76-68 in the final exhibition win of the year. Junior guard Alex Harris torched the Warriors for 36 points and five assists, both game highs, and freshman guard Paul Roemer added 10 second-half points for the Gauchos.
Albright Speaks on Past Failures, Future Optimism
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright stood before an eager and packed audience at the Arlington Theatre last night to discuss her new book, her political views, her career as a policy maker in the Clinton administration, and the U.S.’s role in world affairs.
Technology Bytes: Internet Providers Jack Up Web Surfing Prices
Imagine this scenario: You are sitting there doing writing a research paper, and need to go online to do a search. You open up Firefox and try search Google. Much to your dismay, the page loads extremely slow, if at all, and you are forced to use a far inferior search engine.
She Got Game: How the West Was Shafted
After receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the #17 UCSB men’s soccer team will make its fifth straight post-season appearance this year – the lone representative of the Big West Conference. And for the umpteenth time, the selection committee has overlooked a lot.
SBCC Student Entertains New Noise Law Idea
One Santa Barbara City College student is creating some noise in Isla Vista with his current campaign to amend the current midnight music curfew for residents of the community’s 6500 block. Keith Russell, SBCC Associated Students vice president of external affairs, is rallying for the support from both UCSB and SBCC A.S. organizations and I.V. residents to modify the current noise ordinance – which mandates that amplified music cannot be audible 100 feet from its source after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Russell said the county ordinance unfairly targets students, and is hoping to extend the cutoff time for noise in certain areas of I.V. by appealing to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.
Feds Terrorize First Amendment
History repeats itself, we are sometimes told. War, oppression and slavery continue now as ever.