News

February 15, 2008

UC Employees Rally for Better Wages

By Elliott Rosenfeld

Following an impasse between the University of California and service workers, nearly 50 community members gathered at Cheadle Hall yesterday to demand higher wages.

February 15, 2008

County Employee To Face Charges of Embezzlement

By Staff

County employee Steven Frank Ruiz, 39, was arrested earlier this week for allegedly embezzling $15,000 of county funds, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept. announced yesterday.

February 15, 2008

Vandalism Reduces Campus Resources

By Taylor Haggerty

With anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000 spent each year in clean-up, graffiti is serious business for university workers and campus law enforcement – even if the paint in question is one man’s declaration of de...

February 15, 2008

From Alaska, With Love

By Staff

February 14, 2008

Excavation Uncovers Chumash Adobe

By Bianca Licata

For researchers at Mission Santa Barbara, the former location of La Huerta Project's tool shed has become the most interesting 12-square-foot space in the area.

February 14, 2008

UC Associations Urge Boycott of Housing Complex

By Chris Stein

The Graduate Students Association and University of California Student Association have officially boycotted the San Clemente Graduate Student Housing complex after contract painters at UCSB alleged that their wages were...

February 14, 2008

Protest Disrupts Campus Conference

By Aria Miran

Following Tuesday's anti-war rally, a planned second day of the 2008 Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies Army-Industry Collaboration Conference was cancelled.

February 14, 2008

Capps Advocates Heart Legislation

By Tom Standifer

In an effort to call attention to healthy hearts, members of Congress are asked to shed their normal business attire today and throw on their favorite red shirt in support of new legislation this Valentine's Day.

February 13, 2008

Anti-War Rally Intensifies After Arrests

By Benjamin Gottlieb

With heavy police presence and two aircrafts hovering above UCSB, as many as five hundred anti-war protesters marched across campus yesterday, resulting in the arrest of three participants.

February 13, 2008

Clean Air Bus Goes Up in Smoke

By Staff

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to an acute case of irony yesterday when they arrived at the scene of a fiery Clean Air Express bus billowing thick plumes of black smoke into the air.

February 13, 2008

Habitat for Humanity To Construct Four SB Houses

By Taylor Haggerty

For the price of a mortgage and a couple hundred hours of "sweat equity," Habitat for Humanity looks to give a few local families new homes within two years.

February 13, 2008

Surfing, Rockin’ Rabbi To Jam in I.V.

By Mackenzie Weinger

As a surfer, mountain biker and musician, one might say UCSB alum Yom Tov Glaser is not your average rabbi.

February 13, 2008

Sheriff’s Dept. Offers Plans for Congested Jails

By Travis Miller

Last year, over 1,700 inmates in Santa Barbara County were released early due to jail overcrowding.

February 13, 2008

Anti-war Rally Photo Page

By Sabrina Ricci Orlando Giumarra Rickey Mizuno

Photos from the protest that occurred on Feb. 12, 2008 at Pardall Tunnel in I.V.

February 12, 2008

Protesters To Rally Against War in Iraq

By Benjamin Gottlieb

After covering the campus with signs reading "No more blood for oil" and "Last year... We took the 217. This year..." activists will attempt to top last year's massive anti-war protest today.