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May 17, 2016

Danny DeVito Talks Voting, Bernie Sanders, Isla Vista in the Sixties

By Supriya Yelimeli

Actor Danny DeVito met with a crowd of nearly 900 students at UCSB on Tuesday to promote Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

May 16, 2016

Summer Star Wars Course Summons New Padawans

By Megan Mineiro

The Film and Media Studies Dept. will offer a course this summer to explore a franchise that gave rise to a stronger fandom than ever seen before — Star Wars.

May 16, 2016

Danny DeVito To Promote Bernie Sanders Tuesday in The Arbor

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Actor and director Danny DeVito will be at UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday afternoon, encouraging students to vote for Bernie Sanders in the California Democratic primary.

May 16, 2016

45 Ejections, 11 Arrests at Extravaganza

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

University police arrested 11 people and ejected 45 from UC Santa Barbara's annual spring concert, Extravaganza, on Sunday.

May 16, 2016

Students Claim Administration Has Not Fulfilled Sit-In Demands

By Supriya Yelimeli

Students who sat in the chancellor’s office for 13 hours one year ago to reform sexual assault policy will rally Monday morning to ask that the university fully implement their demands.

May 14, 2016

Police Seek Students’ Help To Identify Library Bathroom Peeper

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Police are seeking students' help in identifying a man who they say entered women's bathrooms in the library and may have taken pictures under stalls.

May 14, 2016

Blue Lights in People’s Park To Mark Anniversary of Tragedy

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

People’s Park in Isla Vista will be glowing blue Saturday night to commemorate the lives of six students killed in the May 2014 shooting.

May 14, 2016

Students Look To Profit from School IDs

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Several UCSB students have already been referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs for selling ID cards on Facebook in anticipation of Extravaganza.

May 12, 2016

UCSB Campus a Haven for Birdwatchers

By Andrea Adams

Tom Turner recently pointed his telescope toward the ocean at Coal Oil Point and saw a “river of birds,” counting over 10,000 Pacific loons in 20 minutes.

May 12, 2016

UC DREAM Loan Support Program Receives Extension

By Jack Hu

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday a three-year extension to the UC’s support program for undocumented students.

May 12, 2016

‘Very Hard’ Water Poses Aesthetic, Economic Threat

By Julia Ebert

Goleta’s water is “very hard” due to large quantities of minerals found in the groundwater, according to the Water Quality Association’s water hardness standards.

May 12, 2016

UCSB Alum To Host New Animal Planet Show

By Maura Fox

UCSB alumnus Forrest Galante is set to host a new show on Animal Planet to travel the world looking for proof of living animals that have recently been declared extinct.