News

April 24, 2007

Speaker Delivers Account of U.S. Prison Injustices

By Jessica Mullen

Former U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee spoke on campus yesterday evening about questionable interrogation tactics he saw at Guantanamo Bay prison - and what he alleged was similarly controversial treatment when he was later...

April 24, 2007

Campus Wireless Access To Increase Within Year

By Lee Desser

UCSB student John Simmons' birthday wish to watch porn during lectures just might come true.

April 24, 2007

UCSB Climb Team To Become Official, Compete Nationally

By Nayely Castrellon Reporter

UCSB may soon be home to one of the few collegiate climbing teams in the U.S., thanks to three ambitious students.

April 24, 2007

Finance Board Grants Campus Groups’ Requests for Funds

By Mackenzie Weinger

At a relatively brief one-hour meeting yesterday, the Associated Students Finance Board distributed $36,311 among eight organizations.

April 23, 2007

NORML Event Packs Park for Pot

By Casey Ibbetson

A crowd of marijuana users and supporters spent the day after 4/20 in an appropriate fashion

April 23, 2007

Roberts Speaks Out Against Allegations

By David Ferry

At an impromptu press conference yesterday, former executive editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press Jerry Roberts vehemently challenged a Sunday News-Press article linking him to a newsroom computer that was found to con...

April 23, 2007

Universities Seek Out Alleged Aid Corruption

By Chris Stein

The University of California has begun reviewing its financial aid procedures in light of a New York State Attorney General inquiry that found evidence of several lenders giving kickbacks to schools for promoting their s...

April 23, 2007

Anniversary Bash Celebrates Santa Barbara’s History

By Travis Miller

It was a fiesta more than 200 years in the making, one at which Santa Barbara families and community members joined together to throw a birthday party in honor of their town's Founding Day.

April 23, 2007

Club Focuses on Laughing Matters

By Geoff Skelton

From talking back to hecklers to making jokes about Satan's moist vagina, the comics at Isla Vista's new standup night are creating a buzz with their new edgy college comedy.

April 23, 2007

Stories from the files of Isla Vista Foot Patrol

By Nikki Moore

The Traveling Pants Go to Jail Friday, April 20, 11:47 p.m. - A deputy patrolling the 6500 block of Del Playa Drive observed a 20-year-old man stagger in front of him, bump into the rear of parked car and fall down backw...

April 23, 2007

Quantam Leap

By Staff

April 20, 2007

Undergrad, Grad Students To Vote on Lock-in Fees

By Mackenzie Weinger

Students voting in the rapidly approaching Spring Election may notice this quarter's ballot features only fee reaffirmations - no new or increased fees - alongside candidates for Associated Students offices.

April 20, 2007

CSO To Proceed With Impoundment of Bikes

By Benjamin Gottlieb

The Community Service Organization has begun seizure of illegally parked bicycles once again, marking the end of a two-week grace period.

April 20, 2007

Pho Eatery, Clothing Store Launches Recently in I.V.

By Koren Thal

Isla Vista food fanatics and fashionistas alike have reason to celebrate since a new Vietnamese restaurant, as well as a designer boutique, have opened in the past month.

April 20, 2007

Extension of Measure D To Appear on 2008 Ballot

By Evan Wagstaff

County officials met in Santa Maria yesterday to decide the fate of Measure D, and with it, the future of transportation in the county.

April 19, 2007

Earth Day Program To End With Lecture on Global Warming

By Allison Bailey

Author and climate change expert Elizabeth Kolbert will speak at Campbell Hall tonight, just days after the National Wildlife Federation commended the campus for doing its part to slow the effects of global warming.