News

UCOP Appoints New Special Advisor

December 4, 2014 by

Director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) Regis Kelly was appointed as special advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship for the UC Office of the President (UCOP) by UC ...
read more

Senate Bill Proposes $75m in State Funding to UC System

December 4, 2014 by

California State Senate Democrats introduced a bill that proposes $75 million in state funding and to repeal the proposed five percent annual UC tuition hike and provide further state funding for both...
read more

UCSB Associated Students Holds Final Quarter Meeting; Discusses Legal Code, Program Board Concerts, Bikes

December 4, 2014 by

The Associated Students Senate met Wednesday night in the Flying A room in the UCen for their final meeting of the quarter. Senators discussed a bill limiting the amount of funding certain student gro...
read more

Community Colleges Plan Bachelor Programs Under New Law

December 3, 2014 by

Fifteen community colleges in California have begun work on establishing baccalaureate degree programs, which would allow prospective students to receive Bachelor’s Degrees, since Governor Jerry Bro...
read more

I.V. Stays Relatively Quiet Over Thanksgiving Weekend

December 3, 2014 by

This past weekend, there were nine arrests in Isla Vista, including three for public intoxication, two for felony warrants and four for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
read more

Memorial Walk Remembers the Fallen

December 3, 2014 by

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....
read more

I.V.: A History — Part III

December 3, 2014 by and

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 vote...
read more

Das Williams Introduces I.V. Self-Governance Bill

December 2, 2014 by

Assembly Bill 3, a bill aimed to create the Isla Vista Community Services District (CSD) in order provide infrastructure and services to the residents of I.V., was introduced to the California State A...
read more

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Hears Funding, Reallocation Requests

December 2, 2014 by

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee held its last meeting of the quarter on Monday in the UCen’s State Street Room, where they heard six requests for funding.
read more

I.V.: A History — Part II

December 2, 2014 by

Although Isla Vista tried and failed for cityhood in 1973, the I.V. Community Council (IVCC) made several other attempts to give I.V. a more sustainable form of government in the years following.
read more

Students Respond to Recent Executive Order

December 2, 2014 by

President Barack Obama took executive action two weeks ago to temporarily grant legal status to unauthorized immigrant parents of children who are United States citizens or permanent legal residents.
read more

Fire Dept. Extinguish I.V. Theater Fire, Cause Unknown

December 1, 2014 by

At approximately 2:04 a.m. on the morning of Monday, Dec. 1, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept. and UCPD responded to reports of a fire at I.V. Theater.
read more

I.V.: A History — Part I

December 1, 2014 by

In Isla Vista’s nearly 70-year history as the primary home of UCSB students, various residents and activists have made multiple attempts in the 1970s, 1980s and early 2000s to establish a form of go...
read more

IN PHOTOS: Protests in Santa Barbara

November 26, 2014 by

Local activists and students protesting the recent Missouri grand jury decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown assembled in front of the Santa Barbar...
read more

Protesters Flood Santa Barbara Streets In Wake of Ferguson Verdict

November 26, 2014 by and

Hundreds of students, Santa Barbara residents and other local community members rallied and marched throughout the streets of downtown Santa Barbara last night in protest of Monday’s grand jury deci...
read more