News

May 22, 2013

Substance Abuse: Perceptions and Reality

By Carissa Quiambao, Rilla Peng

76 percent of UCSB students have consumed alcohol within the past 30 days, and 20 percent of students have taken a prescription drug not prescribed to them, according to the National College Health Assessment 2011 data. ...

May 22, 2013

Special Farmer’s Market Event To Honor Public Works Staff

By Kelly Lin

In honor of National Public Works Week, the City of Goleta is holding a special farmer’s market to celebrate the hard work and dedication of all Public Works staff members. The celebration will take place at Camino Rea...

May 22, 2013

Communications Lab Hopes to Combine Physical, Social Sciences

By Daniel Slovinsky

Professor John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist from Berlin, spoke at the Media Neuroscience Lab of the Department of Communication yesterday afternoon. The lecture touched on Haynes’ experience with brain imaging...

AFSCME 3299 continues their strike against the UC system for new labor contracts and fair wages. Judge David Brown issued an injunction that would require 120 employees to work during the strike.

May 21, 2013

Court Works to Keep Hospitals Running During Strike

By Carissa Quiambao

Sacramento Superior Court Judge David Brown issued an injunction yesterday exempting certain union employees from participating in this week’s two-day strike of UC Medical Centers by the American Federation of State, C...

May 21, 2013

Senate Bill Could Prevent Loophole in Rape Cases

By Shannon Ham

After a Santa Barbara County sexual assault case involved a victim mistakenly giving consent after her attacker impersonated another individual, the Senate Public Safety Committee has now unanimously approved Assembly Bi...

Chateau Whatever, formerly known as HomeCookedHood, is a pop-up restaurant in Karla Subero’s apartment in Isla Vista. Several locals flock to her apartment-turned-restaurant every weekend for its themed cuisine.

May 21, 2013

Isla Vista Pop-Up Restaurant To Hold Final Brunch

By Jennifer Chang

Every week, Karla Subero can be found in the kitchen of her one-bedroom Isla Vista apartment cooking Sunday morning brunch. But rather than the usual eggs, bacon and orange juice, Subero serves up gourmet dishes like qui...

May 21, 2013

Six Teams Advance to Finals in Product Marketing Contest

By Suzanne Becker

The UCSB Technology Management Program will host the Finals for the 14th Annual New Venture Competition, in which teams of student entrepreneurs showcase inventions and business ventures, this Wednesday at the Corwin Pav...

May 21, 2013

A.S. To Swear In Next Year’s Executive Officers

By Tiana Miller-Leonard, Carissa Quiambao

With an OPP Election Sweep Last Month, the Winning Candidates Prepare to Take Office Associated Students Senate will swear in the elected student officials for the 2013-2014 school year at their weekly meeting on Wednes...

May 20, 2013

Kendrick Lamar Rocks Extravaganza 2013

By Kaitlin Cuskey

[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”4000″ transition=”‘slide'” lightbox=”true”] Thousands of students filled Harder Stadium yesterday afternoon for the ...

May 20, 2013

ROTC Cadets Commended in Ceremony

By Suzanne Becker

The 66th Annual Awards Ceremony of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps took place on Saturday at Mosher Alumni House, honoring over 30 Surfrider Cadets in the UCSB Army ROTC program. UCSB Assistant Professor of Milita...

May 20, 2013

UCSB Professor Gives New Point of View to Current Trend of Mastectomies Used to Reduce Cancer Odds

By Haley Kulik

A UCSB feminist studies professor is offering a new perspective on the growing use of prophylactic mastectomies, the surgical removal of one or both breasts, as a possible key to breast cancer prevention. As Hollywood ac...

May 17, 2013

A.S. Senate Approves Budget for 2013-2014

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

During Wednesday night’s 12-hour Associated Students Senate meeting, Senators approved A.S. budget allocations for the 2013-2014 school year. Due to a $50,000 cut in the fund for Boards, Committees, and Commissions and...

May 17, 2013

Street Health Outreach Petitions to Allow People to Live in Cars in I.V.

By Tiffany Park

UCSB student organization Street Health Outreach recently created an online petition to allow people to live in their cars in vacant Isla Vista parking lots without risk of being ticketed. The petition, which is entitled...

May 17, 2013

Panel Debates Ethics of Drone Warfare at Campbell Hall

By Daniel Slovinsky

UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosted “Drone Warfare: Prospects and Dangers” at Campbell Hall on Wednesday, opening the way for discussion of the United States’ use of militari...

May 16, 2013

Harvard Professor To Deliver Lecture on Social Inequality

By Tiana Miller-Leonard

Harvard University professor of social sciences Lawrence D. Bobo will give the 10th annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture today in the MultiCultural Center Theater, addressing contemporary issues of race and politics...

May 16, 2013

Gauchos Selected as Recipients of Prestigious Linguistic Scholarship

By Kaitlin Cuskey

The United States Department of State has awarded two UCSB students with the 2013 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes, allowing them to both spend the summer in a prestigious foreign language p...