News

April 25, 2007

Workers’ Rally Gains Student Support

By Chris Stein

Seven students marched into Cheadle Hall yesterday to argue for university workers' rights and to present university officials with an Associated Students resolution supporting a planned employee protest.

April 25, 2007

Finalizing of Master Plan Postponed

By Staff

The Isla Vista Master Plan has been "in the making" for longer than most local residents can remember, and the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission has decided to hold off on sending the final version to the county f...

April 24, 2007

Students Create I.V. Beer Pong League

By Ashley Nikole Smith

The Isla Vista Beer Pong League has officially been established, and not only has it organized I.V.'s favorite game, it has also helped bring peace to the town by producing an exhaustive, official list of rules - while f...

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