News

February 28, 2007

Court Case Decision Reveals Dangers of Networking Sites

By Evan Wagstaff

A local court case decision made late last month, as well as several other recent enforcement polices, could impact the types of information and photos that people, especially college students, post on social networking ...

February 28, 2007

Groups Battle to Preserve I.V. Trees

By Sonia Lucyga

A task force of local tree-huggers are in the midst of negotiations with a local property owner over whether to knock out six 20-year-old cork oaks and replace them with a more "tropical" tree arrangement.

February 28, 2007

Board Examines Drug Issues, Chumash Expansion

By Travis Miller

Methamphetamines and casinos were back on the agenda in yesterday's County Board of Supervisors meeting.

February 27, 2007

UC To Reassess Use of Tobacco Research Money

By Linzay Logan

University of California research laboratories may soon lose funding from tobacco companies, pending the results of an on-going debate among the UC Regents, top faculty administrators, interest groups and scientists.

February 27, 2007

Underwater Reasearcher Tours Seas

By Sandra Garza Reporter

While many people have the opportunity to travel the globe, there is one world that very few are lucky enough to explore - the vast and mysterious depths of the ocean.

February 27, 2007

Group Aims to Preserve Open Coast Available for Purchase

By Laura Wiesenberg

Anyone in the market looking to buy 265 acres of land in Santa Barbara - including 5,000 feet of oceanfront property - will have to shell out a pretty penny as More Mesa is now on sale for $110 million.

February 27, 2007

Week of Tolerance Fights Hate With Barbecue, Nightly Events

By Jenny Housel

In response to recent hate incidents on campus, UCSB organizations have banded together for the "Educate to Stop Hate Week," kicking off the serious discussions with some light banter and tasty grilled chicken.

February 27, 2007

Ellison Hall To Recycle With Worms

By Lizzie Blumenthal

As spring inches closer, UCSB is looking greener and greener with environmentally friendly policies across campus.

February 27, 2007

Finance Board Funds Sex Fair, Radio Club

By Mackenzie Weinger

Associated Students Finance Board sped through its meeting yesterday, allocating $12,912.20 to seven student groups in 40 minutes.

February 27, 2007

Student Dies During Trip to Thailand

By Staff

While participating in a UCSB Wildlands Studies excursion in Thailand, University of Michigan student Lynn Bensinger was killed after leaning his body out of a moving train.

February 27, 2007

Committee Revises City Objectives

By Lindsey Miller

The Goleta City Council revisited its 10-month-old Strategic Growth Plan yesterday, redefining and reprioritizing goals for the city's future.

February 26, 2007

Bike Race Rolls Through Santa Barbara

By Casey Ibbetson

Santa Barbara brought out smiling fans and divvied up hotel spaces to hundreds of statewide, national and international fans this Saturday, as the second annual Amgen Tour of California zoomed through on its second-to-la...

February 26, 2007

Second Arrest Returns Soccer Player to SB Jail

By Staff

UCSB soccer player Eric Frimpong was back in jail Friday, following allegations that he sexually battered a second woman.

February 26, 2007

Stories from the files of Isla Vista Foot Patrol

By Nikki Moore

"Jackass: The Movie" Friday, Feb. 23, 1:20 a.m. - Officers observed a 19-year-old man stumble down Camino Pescadero and bump into a car, setting off its alarm.

February 26, 2007

Isla Vista Rampage; Bank Destroyed by Fire

By Reporters Jeff Probst Cindy Heaton Larry Boggs Mark Aulman Becca Wilson Denise Kessler.

Thirty-seven years ago this week the Bank of America in Isla Vista was burned to the ground. Today, Embarcadero Hall stands in its place, as well as a small monument laid into the cement commemorating the events that occ...

February 23, 2007

A.S. Requests Updated Skating Rules

By Linzay Logan

The Associated Students Commission on Public Safety took the first step in a proposal to ban skateboarding on campus after hearing several complaints from students and community members.