Madeline Bryce / Daily Nexus

Last week, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to implement a 72-hour noise ordinance in Isla Vista on the weekend of April 4. This put an end to Del Playa Drive’s annual block party, Deltopia, which takes place on spring quarter’s inaugural weekend.

While many expected the UC Santa Barbara student body to be most saddened by the news, our meta-analysis of social media posts over the last week revealed otherwise: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; San Diego State University, UC Los Angeles and local high school students caused the most uproar.

The discovery of this information prompted further investigation. Using Palantir’s citizen-tracking technology, we analyzed the crowd at Deltopia in 2025. Apparently, UCSB students made up just 11% of attendees, with the rest coming from other, more lame universities.

We reached out to these visitors to gauge their reactions to the news of Deltopia’s cancelation.

“Bro, Deltopia is the most important event of the year,” Santa Barbara High School senior and boy’s water polo captain Ryan Nguyen said. “Last year my mom dropped me and my friends off and picked us up later, it was so nice.”

Some students who anticipated coming to Deltopia expressed frustration at the noise ordinance since they had already made arrangements to come.

“My eight friends and I already booked a hotel room in Goleta because we don’t know anyone who lives in I.V. It’s non-refundable and I’m so pissed,” second-year journalism major at Cal Poly Elena Majora said.

A select few UCSB students decided to weigh in on the topic of Deltopia and visitors.

“It’s so stupid how many visitors ruin Deltopia — it’s a sacred practice! Like this is the only party we have all year, and instead of being full of wasted UCSB students who can really appreciate the art of Deltopia, it’s full of basically the same people from the same hometowns who go to college two hours from here,” third-year psychological & brain sciences major Hannah Nunez said.

Students from other schools who anticipated this year’s Deltopia have been organizing support services for their peers on their home campuses. At SDSU there will be a candlelight vigil on Thursday evening, and at Cal Poly they will have a moment of silence at the next event for whatever they do (rodeo??).

Joseph R. Biden wants an excuse to walk around basically naked.