Peter Mounteer

January 22, 2015

IVTU Fights for Evicted Tenants

By Peter Mounteer, Supriya Yelimeli, Jackson Kerr

The Isla Vista Tenants Union (IVTU) announced the beginning of a campaign on Tuesday to provide required financial assistance to five households allegedly evicted from Abrego Villas on 6754 and 6764 Abrego Rd. in Isla Vi...

January 21, 2015

Obama’s State of the Union Touches on Local Issues

By Peter Mounteer, David Jackson

President Barack Obama delivered his second-to-last State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress last night and touched on the economy, defense, education, tax reform and energy.

January 8, 2015

SB ‘News-Press’ Under Protest

By Peter Mounteer

Students and other Santa Barbara residents will assemble outside the Anacapa Street office of daily Santa Barbara newspaper the Santa Barbara News-Press tonight at 6 p.m. to demand a retraction of an allegedly racist New...

January 5, 2015

UCSB Professor Dies Over Winter Break

By Peter Mounteer

74-year-old materials professor Edward Kramer (far right) died in his sleep at his home in Santa Barbara on the morning of Dec 27.

December 3, 2014

I.V.: A History — Part III

By Peter Mounteer, Megan Mineiro

The self-governance conversation came up again for Isla Vista when Goleta sought cityhood in 2001. However, the resulting proposal to include I.V. and the university in the incorporation plan was voted down by the Santa ...

December 2, 2014

I.V.: A History — Part II

By Peter Mounteer

Although Isla Vista tried and failed for cityhood in 1973, the I.V. Community Council (IVCC) made several other attempts to give I.V. a more sustainable form of government in the years following.

December 1, 2014

I.V.: A History — Part I

By Peter Mounteer

In Isla Vista’s nearly 70-year history as the primary home of UCSB students, various residents and activists have made multiple attempts in the 1970s, 1980s and early 2000s to establish a form of governance within the ...

November 26, 2014

Protesters Flood Santa Barbara Streets In Wake of Ferguson Verdict

By Carissa Quiambao, Peter Mounteer

Hundreds of students, Santa Barbara residents and other local community members rallied and marched throughout the streets of downtown Santa Barbara last night in protest of Monday’s grand jury decision not to indict a...

November 20, 2014

Regents Approve Tuition Plan

By Peter Mounteer, David Jackson

The UC Board of Regents met yesterday at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center for the second of a three-day meeting to discuss, among other items, a proposal to fund the UC which includes a controversial increase in st...

October 7, 2014

UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura Wins Nobel

By Peter Mounteer, Max Fernbacher

Materials professor Shuji Nakamura was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, together with Japanese colleagues Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano.

October 2, 2014

Brown Approves Precautionary Gun Laws

By Peter Mounteer

Two laws introduced by state legislators from the Santa Barbara area following last spring’s murder spree in Isla Vista, which took the lives of six UCSB students, were approved by Governor Jerry Brown this past Tuesda...

September 25, 2014

Michael Young To Retire in 2015 After 25 Years

By Peter Mounteer

Michael Young, UCSB’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for 25 years, will be retiring from his position in January 2015. Chancellor Henry T. Yang announced Young’s planned departure in a recently released memo on ...

September 25, 2014

UC Task Force Aims To Combat Sexual Assault

By Peter Mounteer

UC President Janet Napolitano’s task force on sexual assault and sexual violence recently presented its findings along with seven specific recommendations to the Board of Regents at its bi-monthly meeting last Wednesda...

September 23, 2014

UC Regents Finish Up Summer with Finances, Appointments, Task Forces

By Peter Mounteer

The Regents of the University of California held their last meeting of the summer at the UCSF Mission Bay Community Center last Wednesday and Thursday, where they appointed a new UC Irvine chancellor, discussed future pl...

September 12, 2014

Students File Federal Complaint Alleging UCSB Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases

By Peter Mounteer

Six current and former UCSB students filed federal complaints against the university last Wednesday, citing violations of the Clery Act and Title IX in the way university administration handled their sexual assault cases...

August 27, 2014

Senate Passes Bill to Prevent Gun Violence, Sent to Brown

By Peter Mounteer

The California State Senate unanimously passed Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson’s bill to prevent gun violence last Friday, and the bill now heads to Governor Jerry Brown, who must approve the bill by Sept. 30 for it to bec...