News

February 10, 2012

World-Class Locals To Surf at Rincon

By Han Bae

Local surfers will get “pitted, so pitted” this weekend along Santa Barbara’s legendary coastline during the 29th annual Rincon Classic surf contest. The power-packed professionals’ heat will include world-class ...

February 10, 2012

New Bill Could Provide Students With Financial Aid Options

By Amber Leitheiser

State Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez proposed a plan on Wednesday to provide more scholarship money for middle-class UC and CSU students. If passed, the bill would provide $1 billion to students already receiving need-b...

February 9, 2012

State Seeks Loans from Colleges

By Erika Martin

The state of California plans to borrow up to $200 million from the UC system for the operation of its general fund following the discovery of an emergency shortfall in its budget. The funds will not be extracted from th...

February 9, 2012

Police Book Conman on Burglary Charges

By Vanessa Angiuli

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Dept. arrested 21 year-old Arkansas resident Mathew Brian Hensley on Wednesday morning for his alleged involvement in a recent string of Goleta burglaries. The SBCSD and Goleta Police...

February 9, 2012

Nonprofit To Endorse Violence Prevention

By Rosalinda Diaz

Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County will host an event this Thursday in the Santa Barbara Central Library to educate the community about teen dating violence and prevention. The program will take place i...

February 9, 2012

SBCC Students To Receive ETP Aid

By Travis Vail

The Santa Barbara Foundation recently granted $75,000 to the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College to create a new Express to Transfer Program that would hasten students’ transition between SBCC and four-year unive...

February 9, 2012

Website To Assist Renters In Local Real Estate Sales

By Brandon Tobey

UCSB alumnus Kevin Sloan founded the networking site easycollegeliving.com to provide students with information on upcoming community events and various local housing options. The site aims to conveniently connect studen...

February 9, 2012

Upcoming Forum To Explore New Religious Perspectives

By Han Bae

Westmont College biology professor Jeff Schloss and Biblical studies professor Tremper Longman will host a forum at 7 p.m. today in the Isla Vista Theatre to discuss evolution in relation to the biblical creation story. ...

February 8, 2012

Appeals Court Opposes Prop 8

By Jack Crosbie

Yesterday morning, California opponents of Proposition 8 celebrated a landmark decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the 2008 ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. S...

February 8, 2012

Locals Protest Passage of NDAA

By Vanessa Angiuli

Protesters gathered at Santa Barbara’s De la Guerra on Tuesday afternoon to testify before the Santa Barbara City Council in opposition to the controversial National Defense Authorization Act. President Barack Obama si...

February 8, 2012

Arsonist Damages UCSB Construction

By Staff Report

The perpetrator of a north campus arson incident that caused roughly $1 million in damage on Jan. 29 remains at large. The fire, which detectives said was started intentionally at approximately 2:14 a.m., ­­damaged uni...

February 8, 2012

Gaucho Survives Deadly Gas Poisoning

By Patrick Kulp

Second-year psychology major Nikkie Sedaghat returned to UCSB this year after undergoing eight months of intensive therapy to recover from a carbon monoxide-induced coma. Sedaghat fell into a 35-day coma on Thanksgiving ...

February 8, 2012

EAP Offers Arabic Culinary Class in Rioting Cairo

By Emily Pedersen

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the UC Education Abroad Program will host five UC faculty-led summer study programs throughout the world, with UCSB faculty teaching a course on Arabic culinary traditions in Cairo...

February 7, 2012

County Passes Program to Increase Plastic Recycling

By Sam Goldman

The Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. approved a plastic bag recycling initiative on Monday that allows residents to dispose of the containers in blue curbside recycling bins. Waste Management and MarBorg Industrie...

February 7, 2012

Fund Asks Seniors to Give Back

By Mac Kennedy

The Alumni Association Scholarship and Recreational Sports Legacy funds are asking graduating students to each make a $20.12 donation to help the organizations reach their $100,000 goal for this year’s senior class gif...

February 7, 2012

Kavli Receives Grant to Host Physicists

By Chris Nebergall

The Simons Foundation awarded the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics $2.5 million to fund the institute’s on-campus visits and conferences with renowned theoretical physicists. The five-year renewable grant will a...