Isla Vista

January 23, 2015

Goleta Contemplates Parking Permits for Deltopia

By Erica Loera

The Goleta City Council decided to consider a plan on Tuesday to use parking permits to discourage out-of-town visitors from flooding Isla Vista during Deltopia this April, a method used in October to limit crowds during...

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

Possible Isla Vista Community Center Discussed

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

The Office of Assemblymember Das Williams held the latest in a series of conversations about Isla Vista self-governance this past Tuesday night in the I.V. Clinic building in order to discuss the creation of a new commun...

January 21, 2015

Weekend Wrap-up Jan. 16-18

By Patrick Guardian

Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) officers responded to numerous calls in I.V. last weekend, citing under-aged students for possession of cocaine, taking custody of three legally registered firearms for safekeeping and answe...

January 20, 2015

March Decries Rape Culture in Isla Vista

By Beth Lebens

Students and Isla Vista residents, led by members of Sociology Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani’s Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development (Soc 156A) class, marched down Del Playa Drive to bring attention to rape cult...

January 16, 2015

Community Examines History of I.V., Self-Governance

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Students, faculty and Isla Vista residents met at the Isla Vista Clinic on Embarcadero del Mar yesterday to discuss the history of I.V. as well as problems facing the I.V. self-governance movement.

January 16, 2015

Students Plan DP March Against Rape Culture

By Juliet Bachtel

Chair of the Academic Senate and Sociology Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, along with four students from her Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development (SOC156A) class, plan to march up and down Del Playa Drive Friday n...

January 13, 2015

Weekend Wrap-up Jan. 9-11

By Patrick Guardian

This past week, law enforcement officers with UCSB Police Department (UCPD) and the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) responded to various incidents including noise ordinance infractions, abuse of the elderly and theft.

January 13, 2015

Campus Remembers UCPD Officer

By Patrick Guardian

UCSB Police Department (UCPD) Sgt. Tony Borrayo died in the early hours of the morning while he was asleep at home with his family last Sunday on Jan. 4.

January 13, 2015

Students Discuss I.V. Self-Governance Needs

By Rachel Ann Reyes

Students met in the Associated Students Main Office in the MultiCultural Center (MCC) yesterday to discuss different services that could be helpful to Isla Vista and to develop clearer goals for CA state Assemblymember D...

January 11, 2015

Womyn’s Commission Throws 2015’s Inaugural First Friday

By Rishika Kenkre

The Associated Students Womyn’s Commission held a block party at Perfect Park in Isla Vista last Friday to advocate for women’s rights and increased female presence on campus.

January 8, 2015

Doreen Farr Discusses Self-Governance During Office Hours

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr held office hours at Coffee Collaborative in Isla Vista yesterday afternoon to give students and I.V. residents the chance to ask questions and make suggestions ...

December 5, 2014

Local Committee Meets Over I.V. CSD

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Santa Barbara Local Agency Formation Committee (LAFCO) met at the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room at the Santa Barbara County Administration in Santa Barbara to review a report on the proposed formation of a Commun...

December 5, 2014

Community Meets for Latest on Isla Vista Self-Governance

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Approximately 30 students, homeowners, administrative officials and members of local government gathered at the Isla Vista Clinic yesterday evening to discuss the future of I.V. and the options available for I.V. self-go...

December 3, 2014

Memorial Walk Remembers the Fallen

By Addie Burk

In honor of lives lost to alcohol and drug use as well as to the six students who passed away in the 2014 Isla Vista mass murder, a crowd of students trekked from Embarcadero Hall to the streets of I.V. Tuesday night in ...

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 ...