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November 2, 2011

Seven Billion MarkWorries SB Professor

By Michael Dean

The United Nations declared Monday the symbolic date the human populace reached seven billion, with an infant in Manila, Philippines claiming the landmark birth. Official acceptance of the world population’s staggering...

November 1, 2011

Candy Buyback To Provide For Troops Abroad

By Megan Meyer

Santa Barbara-based Johnson Family Dental and the dental offices of Dr. Lloyd Suzuki & Dr. Karen Lin, D.D.S., will host their annual Halloween candy buybacks this week to support troops overseas. Trick-or-treaters ar...

November 1, 2011

A.S. Board Restricts Fall Funding

By Vered Hazanchuk

The Associated Students Finance Board dispersed $8,241 to five of seven student organizations present at last night’s hour-and-a-half meeting, stipulating that financed events must take place during Winter Quarter due ...

October 31, 2011

The Outcome of Libya: Just One Less Dictator

By Opinion Editor, Jeffrey Robin

When word came in that Muammar Gaddafi had been summarily executed by a shot to the head at point blank range, I imagine that President Obama must have been rather pleased with himself. After all, how could he not be? Th...

October 31, 2011

“One Cannot Simply Will a War to End”

By Opinion Editor, Geoffrey Bell

“We often hear them say, with false resignation in their voices, that ‘war is hell,’ but it isn’t. Hell is an abstraction; war is tourniquets, amputations, paraplegics, orphans, widows, torture, rape and a grief ...

October 31, 2011

Halloween Revelers Parade I.V.

By Megan Meyer

An estimated 20,000 to 25,000 participated in Isla Vista’s infamous Halloween celebrations this past weekend. Thousands of visitors — roughly the same number of attendees as last year — traveled to the community on...

October 31, 2011

UC Requires Fewer Exams to Apply

By Amy Hou

The UC Board of Regents altered the university system’s admission process last week, removing the SAT Subject Tests from its list of requirements for next year’s incoming freshmen. Although the previously-mandated ex...

October 31, 2011

‘Pay as you Earn Plan’ Seeks to Help Graduates

By Han Bae

President Obama issued an executive order last Wednesday offering consolidated federal student loans and lowered repayment rates to ease the burden of debt on American students. Part of the president’s “Pay as you Ea...

October 31, 2011

Former Gaucho Unveils New Film

By Carissa Quiambao

Screenwriter, director, film producer and former UCSB student Jeff Nathanson hosted an exclusive prescreening of his upcoming movie “Tower Heist,” starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, last Thursday at Pollock Theat...

October 31, 2011

SB Shelter Copes with Budget Cuts

By Vanessa Angiuli

Santa Barbara’s Transition House is scrambling to raise $40,000 by Nov. 15 to compensate for an unexpected budget cut in their Infant Care Center department. The support center provides shelter, housing and other servi...

October 28, 2011

Halloween

By Erika Martin

The Bad News The Festival Ordinance, which prohibits live or recorded music loud enough to be audible outside a residence, is now in effect from 6 p.m. through 7 a.m. the next morning. These extended hours went info effe...

October 28, 2011

Expert To Advocate for Youth Ecology Program

By Christine Cha

Environmental economics specialist Van Jones will speak at the Marjorie Luke Theater in downtown Santa Barbara tomorrow to promote the Sustainable Vocations program and his message for a green American economy. Having se...

October 28, 2011

Student’s New Work Earns Funds

By Chris Nebergall

UCSB computer science graduate student Deblina Sarkar is one of only three researchers worldwide to receive the Electron Devices Society’s Ph.D. Fellowship Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginee...

October 27, 2011

Williams Upholds Student Interests

By Marissa Wenzke

State Assembly member Das Williams signed a pledge to vote against future cuts to the University of California’s state funding last week after students protested his vote in support of the $650 million decrease in UC f...

October 27, 2011

Films Enrich Ocean Issue Knowledge

By Kristin Crosier

Twelve UCSB students had the opportunity to study in two of UCSB’s top-rated departments simultaneously through the fifth-annual Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media. The nine-week program — a collabo...

October 27, 2011

Police Defend Use of Force in DUI Arrest

By Megan Meyer, Jack Crosbie

Santa Barbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez announced yesterday that no further investigation will be conducted regarding allegations of excessive force by three officers in a contentious arrest last week. Officers arrested S...