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March 5, 2015

Senator Jackson Encourages Equal Pay with New Bill

By Erica Loera

Santa Barbara State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced Senate Bill 358 (SB 358) which aims to strengthen California’s equal pay laws, ensuring women are paid equally to their male counterparts in the same occupatio...

March 5, 2015

UCSB Muslim Students Discuss Discrimination

By David Jackson, Juliet Bachtel

Gauchos of Islamic faith and/or Middle Eastern descent open up about the effects of the Department of Homeland Security's recent Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program and other international events that have shaped ...

March 5, 2015

Food Security Forum Explores Finances of Eating Healthy

By Erica Loera

The Associated Students Food Bank and UCSB Sustainability hosted their first of two Isla Vista Food Forums discussing student food insecurity at the local and state level at the Santa Barbara Hillel last night.

March 4, 2015

I.V. Stakeholders Meeting Talks Tax

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Community members met Wednesday night for the weekly stakeholders meeting hosted by Assemblyman Das Williams’ office to discuss the possibility of a User Utility Tax and whether students living in university-owned hous...

March 4, 2015

Families Sue For Wrongful Death

By Cheryl Sun

The families of former UCSB students David Wang, James Hong and George Chen jointly filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Santa Barbara County, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department and Capri Apartments.

March 4, 2015

Class Attempts to Rescue Paraglider

By Staff Report

A male paraglider died Monday in the Rattlesnake Canyon area after becoming detached from the tandem paraglider he was flying with his daughter.

March 4, 2015

History Professor Lectures On Underground Railroad, Misconceptions

By Danny Kolosta

Pulitzer prize-winning author and Columbia University history professor Eric Foner gave a lecture at Campbell Hall on Tuesday evening on his recently released book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Undergroun...

March 4, 2015

Weekend Wrap-Up Feb. 27 to March 1

By Patrick Guardian

Law enforcement officers with the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) and University of California Police Department (UCPD) responded to numerous calls this past week on various incidents concerning a fight, drug seizure and v...

March 3, 2015

Santa Barbara Exploring Voting Changes

By Erin Gurewitz

The City Council of Santa Barbara is drawing up new electoral boundaries with community input and will begin implementing by-district elections starting November 2015 as a result of a partial settlement of litigation cit...

March 3, 2015

A.S. Meets to Allocate Funds

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met on Monday night to hear 17 funding requests, fully funding 16 student organizations and refusing funds to UCSB Model United Nations.

March 3, 2015

Bill To Decriminalize Homelessness Introduced to State Senate

By Megan Mineiro

State Senator Carol Liu introduced the Right to Rest Act (SB 608) to the California State Senate on Friday to decriminalize the homeless by giving them access to public spaces without discrimination.

March 2, 2015

Dancers Boogie for 12 Hours, Raise Funds for Children’s Hospital

By Addie Burk, Alyssa Schmidt

The second annual Dance Marathon took place on campus on Saturday night at Pavilion Gym to raise money for the Santa Barbara Cottage Children’s Hospital.

March 2, 2015

Students Clean Up I.V. Beaches

By William Leiva

The Coastal Fund, a student organization that does restoration work on Isla Vista beaches, held a sunset beach clean-up along the beach of the 6700 block of Del Playa Road down to Sands Beach this past Saturday.

March 2, 2015

Cooking Competitors’ Beets Beat Others

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

The Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board (EAB) hosted their quarterly Green Chef sustainable cooking competition Sunday afternoon in the Student Resource Building.

March 2, 2015

Fitness Area Opens By Campus Dorms

By Josh Ortiz

The Housing & Residential Services and the Resident Housing Association (RHA) hosted the grand opening ceremony for the new Channel Island 5 (ChI-5) Outdoor Fitness Area located adjacent to the the Santa Cruz Residence H...

February 27, 2015

Students To Dance for Charity Saturday

By Peeka Zimmerman

Dance Marathon, a 12-hour-long fundraising dance event featuring food, entertainment, DJs, bands and other UCSB performing groups will be held this Saturday in the Pavilion Gym.