News

August 30, 2008

UCSB Services Inform, Advise Students

By Jessica Mullen

Now that you're taking the longer and more arduous "college path" on this flimsy playing-board called the Game of Life, there are a number of spaces across campus worth landing on to help you make it to "Millionaire Esta...

August 30, 2008

Offbeat Courses Round Out Schedule

By Staff

As the class of 2012 will soon find out, UCSB is a place to learn many more things than just what's on your Major Requirements sheet. UCSB students can take advantage of a course list with more options than a game of Bat...

August 30, 2008

Santa Barbara Provides Access to Beaches to Suit All Tastes

By Adam Wenger

While UCSB may be most famous for its... Nobel prize winning faculty... the campus is equally well known for something most everyone can enjoy: the beach. Situated so close to the ocean you could throw a soccer goal into...

August 30, 2008

Isla Vista Events Embody Local Scene

By Kristin Ferrell

Welcome, freshmen, to Isla Vista, the beachside beer-bubble community that will play host to the majority of your exploits and misadventures over the next four years. Compared with her various college town peers, I.V. ma...

August 30, 2008

Travel With Ease in New Game of Life

By Taylor Haggerty

In your first year at UCSB you will no doubt face obstacles that seem near impossible -- transportation, however, will not be one of them. Getting past Go in the greater Santa Barbara area is an easy task, even for those...

August 30, 2008

Clubs Strive to Get Gauchos Involved

By Benjamin Gottlieb

Like the playing pieces vying for that Boardwalk property, Gauchos come in all shapes and sizes. And while no one has ever seen an iron or a thimble biking across campus, UCSB has so many clubs and organizations, even an...

August 5, 2008

Study Urges Reexamination of Parasites

By Nadia Ismail

Parasites have long been cast aside as microscopic pests, but a recent study from UCSB is calling for a reexamination of the role these organisms play in ecosystems.

August 5, 2008

UCSB Student Dies at San Diego River

By Elliott Rosenfeld

UCSB student Jaymie Rose Darrow died on July 19 while visiting the La Jolla Indian Reservation near San Diego. She was 19 years old

August 5, 2008

Authorities Link Activist Group With UCSC Firebombs

By Jessica Mullen

Two faculty members at UC Santa Cruz fell victim to what many officials are calling criminal acts of antiscience violence.

August 5, 2008

Officers Reap $87 Million in Reefer

By Staff

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept., in conjunction with other national agencies, completed their annual "marijuana eradication" early last week, resulting in the seizure of over $87 million worth of mature plants.

August 5, 2008

Master Plan Gets Underway on Pardall

By Kristin Ferrell

Construction began on Monday of the Pardall Road Streetscape project, a public endeavor aimed at giving Isla Vista's commercial center a bit of a face-lift.

August 5, 2008

Police Blotter

By Staff

Loitering in the Streets with Demons Sun., Aug. 2, 2:47 a.m. — Officers working the late shift received a call concerning a man loitering at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Hollister Avenue. According to the empl...

August 5, 2008