Lizzie Blumenthal

May 19, 2006

UC Adopts New Apparel Policy

By Lizzie Blumenthal

After repeated systemwide protests made by groups like the UCSB Student Labor Action Project, the University of California agreed earlier this month to comply with a policy helping bar the use of sweatshop labor in the p...

May 12, 2006

Regents To Rule on Out-of-State Tuition Decrease

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Students from out of state may see their tuition costs lowered next year to the same rate as those living in state, if the University of California Regents decide to support a memorial passed by the UCSB Faculty Legisla...

May 1, 2006

Activist Speaks on Work to Save Kenyan Forests

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai arrived to a sold-out crowd in Campbell Hall last Friday to discuss her award-winning work to restore forests and wildlife in Kenya. Maathai received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize...

April 28, 2006

Nobel Prize Winner To Lecture

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai will recount her struggle to bring peace to her homeland of Africa tonight in a speech entitled "Sustainable Development, Democracy and Peace."

April 27, 2006

Geology Class To Research Faults, Volcanoes on Trip

By Lizzie Blumenthal

This fall, the UCSB Earth Science Dept. plans to send several students on an academic excursion to several areas, including the Mammoth Mountain volcanic sites where UCSB researcher Charles Walter Rosenthal died just thr...

April 14, 2006

Protesters Oppose UC Actions

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Acting on behalf of nearly 120,000 University of California workers, a few local union representatives marched to Cheadle Hall yesterday to oppose UC-wide wage reductions for non-union workers. American Federation of Sta...

April 12, 2006

Former Porn Addict To Discuss Sex in Society

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Mere days after Playboy Magazine exposed UCSB's student body, a self-proclaimed former sex-addict will speak in Corwin Pavilion about the negative effects of pornography. In tonight's multimedia presentation, "Porn Natio...

April 12, 2006

MCAT Switches to Computers

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Students vying for enrollment in medical school can say goodbye to Scantrons and No. 2 pencils thanks to a new, electronic version of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).

April 5, 2006

UCSB Grad Student Falls from SF Cliffs; Fatality Unconfirmed

By Lizzie Blumenthal

While his body has yet to be found, a UCSB graduate student is presumed dead after falling into dangerous waters near San Francisco over Spring Break.

March 9, 2006

Governor Hopeful To Discuss Education, Environment, Debt

By Lizzie Blumenthal

California gubernatorial hopeful Phil Angelides will address students today at 4:45 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Theater (MCC) about his views on higher education and improving California.

February 23, 2006

New Bookstore To Open Its Doors

By Lizzie Blumenthal

With next month's grand opening of a branch in Isla Vista, Beat The Bookstore will try to turn a new page in competitive used textbook prices.

February 17, 2006

Colin Powell To Speak at Theatre to Sold Out Room

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will address a capacity crowd at Arlington Theatre tonight, while groups of demonstrators plan to rally outside the theater in protest.

February 15, 2006

Bike Shop Wants Facility Budget on Spring Ballot

By Lizzie Blumenthal

The Associated Students Bike Shop still has a chance to cruise its renovation lock-in fee proposal onto the spring ballot, despite its shortage of signatures on a required petition.

February 2, 2006

Congress Adopts New Budget Bill, Decreases Loans

By Dana Olsen, Lizzie Blumenthal

After months of protests by student activists, the U.S. Congress passed the Budget Reconciliation Bill by a margin of two votes yesterday, cutting $12.7 billion from federally funded student loans.

January 27, 2006

NORML Participants To Roll in Grass Revolution

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Locals will be looking to smoke the competition as the Kottonmouth Kings weed out the amateurs from the experts at the 2nd annual Isla Vista Joint Rolling Contest this Saturday.

January 20, 2006

Library Offers Early Recordings Online

By Lizzie Blumenthal

Thanks to UCSB's recent effort to expand its online database, music and history buffs around the world are now free to download over 5,500 historical audio files recorded between 1894 and 1923.