News

July 6, 2018

Holiday Road Fire in Goleta Burns 133 Acres

By Sanya Kamidi, Evelyn Spence

Approximately 100 acres have burned as of 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

July 6, 2018

DACA Recipients Continue To Receive Renewals Following UC Lawsuit

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

This was the direct result of a federal injunction filed after UC President Janet Napolitano brought a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.

July 1, 2018

A.S. Senate Passes Resolution To Split EVPSA Duties

By Evelyn Spence

The position of EVPSA is currently vacant because the A.S. Elections Board disqualified the then EVPSA-elect, Mayela Morales, in May.

June 30, 2018

Brown Signs Budget Act of 2018, Increases Funding to UC

By Simren Verma

Napolitano has yet to release a statement on the signed Budget Act, and it is unknown at this time whether the funding was enough to prevent a future in-state tuition increase for UC students.

June 30, 2018

Carbajal Visits Migrant Children Detention Facility, Calls for Answers About Reunification Process

By Sanya Kamidi

Among the 319 children being housed at this facility, 26 have been separated from their families, Carbajal said.

June 29, 2018

SAG Martinez’s Domestic Violence Charge Dismissed

By Evelyn Spence

She was being tried as a defendant against the People of the State of California and pled not guilty in the domestic violence charge, according to court records.

June 28, 2018

Deputies Utilize Naloxone in I.V. Overdose Situation

By Katie Wolf

The victim was found unconscious in an apartment complex on the 6600 block of Abrego Road at approximately 11:50 a.m.

June 21, 2018

One Suspect Still At Large Following Attempted I.V. Robbery

By Sanya Kamidi

Mendoza and his vehicle were found on the 6700 block of El Colegio Road, where he was arrested.

June 15, 2018

KCSB Passes Vote Of No Confidence for A.S. Staff Member

By Maura Fox

Jennifer Kiser has been the assistant director of independent media with KCSB since December 2016.

June 14, 2018

UCSB Student Arrested Following Davidson Library Bathroom Incident

By Maura Fox

Huang was arrested and booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on June 12 on a $2,500 bail.

June 14, 2018

Second-Year UCSB Student Passes Away

By Evelyn Spence

Shengyu “Jin” Jin was a second-year physics major in the College of Letters and Science, according to the UCSB Office of Student Life (OSL).

June 7, 2018

Measure R Passes, “Yes On Measure R” Campaign Celebrates

By Evelyn Spence

This was the CSD’s second attempt to secure consistent funding following the failure of Measure F in 2016, which left the CSD without a primary source of funding.

June 7, 2018

Letter From the Editor: Merk’s Paradise

By Jorge Mercado

New Editor-in-Chief Jorge Mercado introduces himself and examines the past three years in college, and the nexus, that has led him to this point.

June 7, 2018

Vista Point

By Staff Report

ELBOWS, KNEES AND FEET (KNEES AND FEET) Come to the Pardall Center Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. for free self-defense classes hosted by Santa Barbara Krav Maga. Circuit training, striking and kicking drills, resistance ...

June 7, 2018

Warm & Wild Nights at Woodstock’s Trivia

By Shomik Mukherjee

College kids everywhere take to trivia events about as well as they do to pizza and beer, but there’s something distinctly Isla Vistan about the tradition at Woodstock’s, which opened its I.V. location in 1982.

June 7, 2018

Bong, Bong, Bong: The Hands Behind the Carillon Bells

By Sanya Kamidi

As a member of Adjunct Professor Margo Halsted’s carillon bells class, Sophia Tao has spent the last two years making the trek up the tower at least once a week to play the bells.