News

November 14, 2014

Fair Fights Mental Health Stigmas

By Noah Brennan-Greenbaum

Active Minds and Associated Students jointly held “Stigma Free UCSB” yesterday in Storke Plaza to facilitate discussion between students, staff and mental health professionals about issues surrounding student mental ...

November 14, 2014

UC Nurses Participate in Nationwide Strike

By Josh Ortiz

Thousands of registered nurses held strikes throughout the country on Wednesday to protest what they claim are currently inadequate standards of nurses’ care for Ebola patients.

November 13, 2014

Commission Approves UCSB Development Plan

By Peeka Zimmerman

The California Coastal Commission approved UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP)Thursday, which will add 5,000 undergraduate students and hundreds of faculty and staffers to the university by 2025.

November 13, 2014

I.V. Residents To Hold Self-Governance Panel

By Josh Ortiz

Santa Barbara City College trustee-elect Jonathan Abboud and Associated Students External Vice President of Local Affairs-elect Cameron Schunk will hold a forum presenting their vision for Isla Vista self-governance toda...

November 13, 2014

Companies Compete To Cure Water Issue

By Celene Chang

The Santa Barbara Public Works Committee is currently accepting proposals from three companies to reactivate and maintain the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant in accordance with the 2011 Long-Term Water Supply Plan.

November 13, 2014

Seeking Solutions to Sexual Assault

By Rachel Ann Reyes

State legislators, Santa Barbara law enforcement, Santa Barbara City College representatives, campus resource groups and students met yesterday in the Engineering Sciences Building for a roundtable discussion on the issu...

November 13, 2014

Senate Discusses S.C.O.R.E Bill

By Rachel Ann Reyes

Members of the Student Commission on Racial Equality (S.C.O.R.E.) were in attendance during public forum of the Associated Students Senate meeting last night to combat a bill that would reduce S.C.O.R.E.’s decision-mak...

November 13, 2014

Angel Investor Gifts UCSB Tech Program

By Staff Report

The Technology Management Program (TMP) was recently gifted $1 million by Angel investor Christian Felipe to ensure a senior faculty professor for the program’s budding Master of Technology Management (MTM) master’s ...

November 13, 2014

Tuition Hike Plans Draw Controversy

By Christopher Chen

The UC Board of Regents will meet at UC San Francisco Mission Bay next week, on Nov. 19, to discuss a proposed tuition increase of as much as five percent annually for the next five years, depending on the level of state...

November 13, 2014

Physics Professor Wins Award

By Adelaide Burk

Physics professor Matthew Fisher received the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley prize for his discovery and investigation of the process in which superconductors transition into insulators.

November 11, 2014

A.S. FBC Hears Requests, Doles Out Dollars

By Peeka Zimmerman

On Monday night the Associated Students Finance and Business Committee met in the State Street Room at the University Center to listen to requests from 18 old and nine new campus organizations for funding.

November 10, 2014

Pro-life Group Files Lawsuit Against UCSB

By Juliet Bachtel

A civil lawsuit was filed last week against UCSB by pro-life student advocates Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) who claim the university did not pursue disciplinary action against feminist studies associate professor...

November 10, 2014

I.V. Anthology Now Accepting Works

By Josephine Niu

Associated Students Executive Director Marisela Márquez, alumna and former A.S. Internal Vice President Kyley Scarlet and KCSB News Director Monica Lopez will co-edit an anthology with a working title of I.V. Strong Col...

November 10, 2014

Exploring I.V. Through a Cop’s Eyes During the ‘Fall Offensive’

By Kaitlin Cuskey

As the first weekend after Halloween and the last weekend of “Fall Orientation” for the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP), this past Friday marked a period in which IVFP and the UCSB Police Department, Goleta Police Depa...

November 10, 2014

Three Plays Grace the Stage for One Acts Series’ 50th Anniversary

By William Leiva

The department of theater and dance presented the 50th anniversary of their One Acts series, a weekend of one-act undergraduate plays presented Friday through Sunday.

November 10, 2014

Harvard Professor Lectures on Classroom Learning Strategies

By Addie Burk

Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics and Area Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, gave a lecture Friday at Corwin Pavilion addressing the ineffective nature classroom assessment in the 21st century.