News

May 9, 2011

University Honors Gaucho Staff With Week of Events

By Madeline Nelson, Sean Lee

The UCSB Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Council will host several events commemorating the university’s faculty as part of its annual Staff Celebration Week. The council is working alongside the UCSB Staff Assembly, the...

May 9, 2011

Google Executive Chairman, CNN Host Get Social

By Yishian Yao

Esteemed journalist Fareed Zakaria and Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre to discuss social media’s influence on politics and government. Zakar...

May 6, 2011

UCEAP Passes Baton to UCSB, Campus To Assume Leadership

By Patrick Kulp

UCSB administrators and the UC signed a Memorandum of Understanding giving control of the UC Education Abroad Program to UCSB campus administration. The agreement was signed by Chancellor Henry T. Yang, UC President Mark...

May 6, 2011

SB Subsidizes Solar Panels

By Olivia Cvitanic

Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council began their “Solarize Santa Barbara” program this month to increase domestic use of sustainable energy and reduce the community’s dependence on fossil fuels. The CE...

May 6, 2011

Toy Sale To Raise Funds, Benefit Cancer Patients

By Emily Nord

The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara will host its fourth Annual Kidz for a Cure toy sale fundraiser this Saturday at 9 a.m. The free event encourages children to sell their old toys, books and electronics to benefit cance...

May 6, 2011

Students Rate UCSB Faculty 20th in U.S.

By Michelle Molin

UCSB ranked 20th on RateMyProfessors.com’s list of the top 25 highest ranking universities in the nation based on the site’s overall professor and campus ratings. The nationwide rankings were based on 10,000,000 vote...

May 6, 2011

Mothers Call For Drug Reform

By Max Calehuff

Santa Barbara’s chapter of the national organization A New PATH — Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing — will participate in the organization’s new countrywide campaign to help end the nation’s “War on...

May 6, 2011

Budget Cuts Excise Minor From Campus

By Michelle Molin

The UCSB Dept. of Exercise & Sports Studies will eliminate its Exercise and Sports Studies minor after the university administration’s vote to cut the program last year due to budget constraints. ESS will have to b...

May 5, 2011

Council Meets Controversy

By Erika Martin, Marissa Wenzke

Associated Students Legislative Council spent the majority of last night’s meeting discussing funding for College Republicans’ proposal to bring controversial speaker David Horowitz to campus. After being denied fund...

May 5, 2011

Economic Event To Educate Community

By Kristin Crosier

May 5, 2011

Nonprofit Wins First Place Prize

By Robin Gautschi

UCSB nonprofit group Environmental Education for the Next Generation won the Dockers “Wear the Pants” contest on Monday, May 2 and taking home the grand prize of $100,000. EENG, founded by UCSB students in 2009 as an...

May 4, 2011

Extravaganza Lineup Features Array of Genres

By Christine Karavas

The UCSB Associated Students Program Board announced yesterday that this year’s Extravaganza music festival will feature Cee Lo Green, Rusko, Talib Kweli and The Expendables. This is the first year that the annual even...

May 4, 2011

Racist Graffiti Marks Up SB County School

By Dale Fairclough

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating a crime involving racially offensive vandalism that occurred last weekend at the Ralph Dunlap Elementary School in Santa Maria. The school’s janitor discovere...

May 4, 2011

Students Voice Concerns at A.S. Forum

By Daniela Montes

Associated Students held a transitional forum yesterday in the MultiCultural Center to encourage student feedback about the association’s plans for the upcoming year. A panel of both incoming and outgoing executive off...

May 4, 2011

Accused A.S. Member To Keep Office

By Erika Martin

Associated Students On-Campus Representative Joseph Lee, who was also elected as a 2011-12 Representative-at-Large, pled not guilty yesterday to four charges in relation to a recent laptop theft.

May 3, 2011

Campus Groups To Promote Global Justice

By Marissa Wenzke

UCSB’s third biannual Human Rights Week kicked off yesterday with a number of events aiming to highlight and discuss domestic and international human rights issues. The week-long series — hosted by various cultural a...