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January 15, 2015

UCSB Receives Record Amount of Student Applications

By Josh Ortiz

UCSB recorded its highest number of student applicants ever for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year this past Monday.

January 15, 2015

Senate Proposes Construction to A.S. Main Office

By Rachel Ann Reyes

The Associated Students Senate met in the Flying A Room at the UCen last night to discuss potential campus construction projects and issues surrounding A.S. Program Board member payment.

January 15, 2015

Brown Releases 2015-2016 State Budget Plans

By Christopher Chen

Governor Jerry Brown released a $164.7 billion proposed state budget plan for the fiscal year 2015-2016 on Friday, which includes the $120 million increase for the University of California system he committed to in 2011,...

January 15, 2015

UCSB Receives Grant for Mental Health Services

By Peeka Zimmerman

Congresswoman Lois Capps announced that the university will receive a federal grant of roughly half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education (D.O.E.) to fund mental health services to address the increased...

January 15, 2015

A Slice of SB For University Chefs

By Supriya Yelimeli

Residential Dining Services hosted this year’s Pacific Chef Net Conference Tuesday through today, bringing together 30 chefs from universities and colleges along the West Coast to explore how to incorporate local and s...

January 15, 2015

SB Hillel Hosts Panel Examining Israel in the Media

By William Leiva

Santa Barbara Hillel hosted “Israel 101,” a panel discussing the history of the state of Israel, with students and Isla Vista residents at Santa Barbara Hillel on Embarcadero Del Mar this past Tuesday.

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.