Month: November 2011

News

Police Investigate Additional Vandalism

November 22, 2011 by Megan Meyer

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Dept. detectives found several defaced surfaces at UCSB’s Snidecor Hall that contained graffiti referencing last week’s arson attack on the Isla Vista Foot Patrol station. An unknown suspect threw two Mo...

News

Local Launches Support Site for Abuse Victims

November 22, 2011 by Christine Cha

Zoie Brown, a 19-year-old Santa Barbara resident, founded the online organization Victims Get Vocal as a network of resources and support for victims of sexual abuse. Brown and her mother Kristin co-founded the site to provide a forum for s...

News

Nature Groups Combine to Conserve Local Trails

November 22, 2011 by Vanessa Angiuli

Four of Santa Barbara’s trail organizations have collaborated to form the Santa Barbara Outdoor Volunteers program for local residents to collectively organize trail maintenance projects throughout the county. The Santa Barbara Trails Cou...

Science & Tech

Why It Pays To Be Social: How Companies Profit From Your Facebooking

November 22, 2011 by Daniel Czech

Once a website targeting mostly college students, Facebook’s popularity has exploded in recent years, a testament to its universal appeal. However, the numerous benefits of online social networking make it easy to overlook the risks assoc...

Science & Tech

UCSB Researchers Grow Understanding of Plant Evolution Through Flower Petal Cells

November 22, 2011 by David Wallace

Along with a group of researchers from Harvard University, Scott Hodges, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, recently discovered a mechanism of flower petal evolution that contradicts previous scien...