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October 13, 2015

UCSA Meeting Addresses Student Debt, Improving Communication Between Students and Regents

By Erica Schweitzer, Selina Alvarez

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) held a board meeting to discuss several issues concerning UC students Saturday and Sunday at UC Riverside. UCSA is a UC-wide student advocacy organization governed ...

October 13, 2015

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Discusses Funds for Campus Groups

By Supriya Yelimeli

Associated Students (A.S.) Finance and Business Committee (F&B) met in the State Street Room of the UCen on Monday to approve funding requests for 12 campus groups and discuss two internal bills. The current budget s...

October 13, 2015

Castro Valley Shows Similar Interest in Following I.V.’s Self-Governance Model

By Josh Ortiz

October 13, 2015

Send Silence Packing Display Recognizes 1,100 College Lives Lost to Suicide Each Year

By Erin Kownacki, Effie Sklavenitis

UCSB Active Minds, in conjunction with Santa Barbara’s Wellness Center, hosted Send Silence Packing Oct. 12 in front of the Student Resource Building to call attention to college suicide. Send Silence Packing is a nati...

October 12, 2015

Upcoming El Niño May Threaten Cliffside Homes

By Maura Fox

Climatologists are increasingly certain of predictions that a strong El Niño will likely hit California in the coming months, bringing wet weather and the possibility of increased erosion along the cliffs of Isla Vista....

October 12, 2015

UCSB Hosts Ecosocialism Conference in Girvetz

By Christopher Chen

System Change not Climate Change (SCNCC), an ecosocialists organization, hosted the “21st Century Ecosocialism Conference” in Girvetz Hall this weekend to discuss potential solutions to the climate crises. SCNCC is a...

October 12, 2015

Gun Control Activism Discussed During Open Meeting at UCSB

By Jonathan Mendez

Chicano/Chicana Studies Professor Ralph Armbruster and Graduate Student Association vice president of committees and planning Timothy Irvine hosted an open meeting Thursday evening in front of the Student Resource Buildi...

October 12, 2015

Long-Planned Ice Rink Opens in Goleta

By Kalina White

Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association (GSBISA) opened Ice in Paradise skating rink on Saturday on Santa Felicia Drive near Girsh Park and El Camino Real Marketplace. The GSBISA planned and developed the 46,500-sq...

October 12, 2015

Avi Oved Moves Forward Initiative To Increase Student Representation on UC Board of Regents

By Naomi Stolpner

University of California Student Regent Abraham “Avi” Oved has been working with students and organizations across the UC to add a Student Regent Adviser position as part of his Shared Governance Initiative. Oved’s...

October 9, 2015

Send Silence Packing To Feature Backpack Display Signifying Lives Lost to Suicide

By Erin Kownacki

UCSB Active Minds and the Mental Wellness Center will host an event titled Send Silence Packing on October 12 on the Student Resource Building (SRB) lawn from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Active Minds, a nationwide nonprofit org...

October 9, 2015

UCSB Staff and Students Share Opinions on Newly Passed California Fair Pay Act

By Effie Sklavenitis

Governor Jerry Brown signed Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson’s California Fair Pay Act (SB 358) into law this Wednesday. SB 358, which takes effect in January, prohibits California employers from paying employees at wages l...

October 9, 2015

Students and I.V. Community React to Jerry Brown’s End of Life Option Act

By Devon Dieling

Governor Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act (ABX2 15) into law Monday, making California the fifth state to grant terminally-ill patients the right to choose physician-assisted suicide instead of treatment. Si...

October 9, 2015

Doreen Farr Talks to Community About I.V. Self Governance, I.V. Community Center

By Jacob Little

Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr held “office hours” Thursday at Coffee Collaboration in Isla Vista to meet with constituents and address questions regarding local issues. Discussion focused on Assemblymember Da...

October 8, 2015

An Inside Look at the Roles of SB Peace Officers

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP), clad in khaki uniforms, and UCSB Police Department (UCPD), clad in blue, hold overlapping jurisdiction in the UC Santa Barbara community. IVFP was initiated in 1970 as a substation of t...

October 8, 2015

A.S. Senate Discusses RHA Representatives in Senate, S.T.A.R.K. Funding

By Chris Perez, Neil Yanga

The Associated Students Senate met Wednesday night in the Flying A Room at the UCen to discuss the possibility of having an RHA representative on A.S. Senate, reforming Science, Technology, Aerospace and Research Kapital...

October 8, 2015

Students Represent Both Sides on Pink Out Day

By Zareena Zaidi

Potential for federal defunding of Planned Parenthood spurs on-campus representation from both sides of life issue, reproductive health education and HIV/AIDS prevention Planned Parenthood’s UCSB chapter Generation Act...