News

January 15, 2015

BSU Holds Weeklong Event

By Danny Kolosta

Black Student Union (BSU) hosted “A Week of Education and Action” which began Monday and ends tomorrow to address issues regarding racism and police brutality on a local and national level.

January 14, 2015

Gauchos in Paris Recount Recent Shooting

By Beth Lebens

Four students currently enrolled in the Paris UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) were in close proximity to the Jan. 7 attack on Paris’ weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, whose provocative cartoons of the Muslim...

January 14, 2015

UCSB Grad Student Jason Bennett Dies at 32

By Juliet Bachtel

Graduate student Jason Andrew Bennett, a fifth-year doctoral student in philosophy, died on Dec. 31 after committing suicide at age 32.

January 13, 2015

UC Student Regent-Designate Meets With Students

By Megan Mineiro

UC Student Regent for the 2014-15 school year Sadia Saifuddin and UC Student Regent-designate for the 2015-16 school year Abraham “Avi” Oved met with students on campus at the Student Resource Building today to discu...

January 13, 2015

Weekend Wrap-up Jan. 9-11

By Patrick Guardian

This past week, law enforcement officers with UCSB Police Department (UCPD) and the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) responded to various incidents including noise ordinance infractions, abuse of the elderly and theft.

January 13, 2015

Campus Remembers UCPD Officer

By Patrick Guardian

UCSB Police Department (UCPD) Sgt. Tony Borrayo died in the early hours of the morning while he was asleep at home with his family last Sunday on Jan. 4.

January 13, 2015

Students Discuss I.V. Self-Governance Needs

By Rachel Ann Reyes

Students met in the Associated Students Main Office in the MultiCultural Center (MCC) yesterday to discuss different services that could be helpful to Isla Vista and to develop clearer goals for CA state Assemblymember D...

January 13, 2015

President Obama Proposes Subsidized Community College Cost

By Juliet Bachtel

President Barack Obama released a proposal entitled America’s College Promise last Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee, to subsidize the cost of community college tuition, enhance tech...

January 13, 2015

First Influenza-Related Death Reported in SB County

By Teddy Krolczyk

Santa Barbara County announced the first official influenza-related death of this flu season early last week when an elderly man over the age of 65 died due to complications directly caused by influenza.

January 13, 2015

A.S. Finance and Business Committee Discusses Requests

By Peeka Zimmerman

The Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met in the State Street Room in the UCen on Monday evening to listen to and grant funding requests to various student organizations.

January 11, 2015

Federal Court Orders County to Pay Alum for Damages

By Danny Kolosta

Alumnus Jay Shafer was awarded nearly a half million dollars of county money by a federal court in Los Angeles last month for personal damages and legal expenses after he alleged he was beaten by an Isla Vista Foot Patro...

January 11, 2015

Womyn’s Commission Throws 2015’s Inaugural First Friday

By Rishika Kenkre

The Associated Students Womyn’s Commission held a block party at Perfect Park in Isla Vista last Friday to advocate for women’s rights and increased female presence on campus.

January 11, 2015

Sen. Boxer Will Not Seek Re-election in 2016

By Josh Ortiz

In a video released Thursday, California junior Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not seek re-election in 2016, but that she will continue to work for the causes she has fought for throughout her political career,...

January 9, 2015

Vandals Spray Paint Santa Barbara News-Press Office

By Danny Kolosta

The Santa Barbara News-Press office in downtown Santa Barbara was vandalized sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning before scheduled protests were set to take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday in response to the...

January 9, 2015

Locals Protest Recent Newspaper Headline

By William Leiva

Students and Santa Barbara residents assembled at De La Guerra Plaza in downtown Santa Barbara Thursday night in a protest against the Santa Barbara News-Press for running an allegedly offensive headline regarding undocu...

January 8, 2015

Doreen Farr Discusses Self-Governance During Office Hours

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr held office hours at Coffee Collaborative in Isla Vista yesterday afternoon to give students and I.V. residents the chance to ask questions and make suggestions ...