Bird Deaths Prompt Investigation
The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is investigating a series of attacks against wild pelicans that have taken place over the past month. The organization’s rehabilitative specialists examined six deliberately injured birds — euthanizing five and declaring another dead — and determined a human likely committed the attacks. Local animal care officials are issuing pelican […]
EAP Milestone Marred By Budget Cuts
The UC Education Abroad Program will host a series of international events throughout the 2012-2013 school year at UCSB to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The program originated at UCSB in 1962 after a group of 80 undergraduates traveled to the University of Bordeaux in France. The UCEAP now operates in 36 countries on six continents […]
Kum-Kum Bhavnani’s Nothing Like Water
‘Nothing Like Chocolate’ Teaser from Kum-Kum Bhavnani on Vimeo.
Are Eastern religions a good alternative to Western ones?
If you ask Rick Santorum he’d say no, because Christianity is the only true way a human should live — there is no “good alternative” to the truth. And if you ask a devout Buddhist which is better, Eastern or Western, he’ll affirm his own faith, because karma is manifest in all our actions, and […]
Super Snacks & Big Game Bites
Ask any American what their favorite day of the year is and you will almost always find that it’s their birthday or Christmas — or 4/20 if they live in I.V. However, Super Bowl Sunday comes in a close second for many. As football legend Art Donovan once said, “I’m a light eater. As soon […]
The 30 Seconds Worth $3.5 Million
This Sunday, you can expect upwards of 173 million Americans to be glued to a television, watching the battle unfold between the Patriots and the Giants. But of those 173 million viewers, only 47.3 percent are tuning in for the game. The Super Bowl is a rare social phenomenon; beside the World Cup and the […]
“I’m Not a Slut, I Swear” and Other Bedroom Mantras
“Shit Girls Say” started an epidemic. I just watched “Shit People Say About Shit People Say Videos” for a solid minute and 39 seconds; yeah, it’s gotten to that point. But you know what they don’t have? A “Shit Guys and Girls Say During or After Hookups That Just Really, Really Should Not Be Happening.” […]
UCSB Student Steps Off Bike as UCPD Steps Up Enforcement
Last Friday started off great. After waking up at 8 a.m. to no alarm on a clear, sunny day, I threw on some workout clothes, grabbed my bike and headed out the door toward the Rec Cen. A typical ride through I.V. with few people around, considering most are either asleep or in class at […]
Cops Apprehend Student Suspected of Firebombing
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Dept. arrested 23-year-old UCSB senior Keith Keiper in connection with the Molotov cocktail attack on the Isla Vista Foot Patrol station on New Year’s Day. Keiper, who is believed to have acted alone, was arrested on Jan. 25 and pled not guilty to charges of felony arson of an inhabited […]
Academic Progress Warnings To Cease
Starting July 1, the UCSB Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships will no longer provide a Satisfactory Academic Progress warning before suspending students’ aid as part of a new federal policy aimed at improving students’ academic performance. The change is a consequence of a U.S. Department of Education initiative that strives to decrease the time […]