News

January 9, 2007

U.C. Briefs

By Staff

Chancellor-elect Block Sets Goals UCLA Daily Bruin: Jan. 8, 2006 - The UC Board of Regents named Gene Block the ninth chancellor of UCLA on Dec. 21.

January 8, 2007

Leg Council Begins Quarter With Loss of Two Executives

By Mackenzie Weinger

Associated Students Executive Director Don Daves-Rougeaux has been courted away from his post at UCSB by Santa Barbara real estate investment firm the SIMA Corporation to serve as its chief operations officer.

January 8, 2007

Officials Charge Three With Fabrication of Woman’s Will

By David Ferry

Last week, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Dept. arrested one man and two co-conspirators for allegedly forging the Will of Beverly Graham, who was killed by postal employee Jennifer San Marco in the Goleta Post Office shoot...

January 8, 2007

Police Make 123 DUI Arrests Over Break

By Nikki Moore

In an 18-day campaign to crackdown on drunk driving over the holidays, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Dept. reported that more than 100 people were arrested for driving while under the influence.

January 8, 2007

Professors Earn International Recognition

By Linzay Logan

Fifty-six University of California researchers, three of whom are professors at UCSB, recently celebrated their election as 2006 fellows in the prestigious American Association Advancement of Science.

January 8, 2007

Shiny and New?

By Staff

Tenants of Cedarwood Apartments, including over twenty families, were forced to vacate these premises by Dec. 1.

January 8, 2007

01/08/07

By Staff

'Full Metal Jacket' - Or Just 'Pants Full of Drugs' Saturday, Jan. 6, 9:28 p.m. - Officers patrolling the 6600 block of Picasso Road watched a 20-year-old man walking outside holding a red keg cup.

December 7, 2006

National Championship Sparks Rally

By David Ferry

When the final seconds ticked off the clock at the College Cup game in St. Louis, Gauchos across Isla Vista and Missouri erupted in a spontaneous series of "Ole's," celebrating the men's soccer team's victory over UCLA, ...

December 7, 2006

New IVFP Holding Tank To Be Built Near I.V. Theater

By Sonia Lucyga

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol received an early Christmas present this year - $1.8 million in funds to build a new station and holding cell behind I.V. Theater.

December 7, 2006

UC Staffers See Higher Wages

By Anastasia Alen

Minimum wage workers on campus will receive an additional $.75 per hour in their January paychecks, an increase that has many campus departments scrambling for money.

December 7, 2006

Students, Locals Take Action for Oaxaca

By Chris Stein

While the political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico seems to have calmed for the moment, UCSB students and community activists have continued this past week with passionate appeals, asking for help on a foreign issue they cla...

December 7, 2006

Parlor Provides Piercings, Parcels, Personal Ink

By Lauren Crecelius

Isla Vista residents interested in piercings, henna, body jewelry, ink-inspired paraphernalia, or perhaps just some stamps and mailing packages will jump for joy over the opening of Energy Tattoo at 955 Embarcadero Del M...

December 7, 2006

Former Japanese Envoy To Teach Politics

By Alexander Gorst

Some UCSB students studying politics or East Asian cultures will be beginning class next quarter with Kazuhiko Togo - Japan's former ambassador to the Netherlands - as their professor.

December 7, 2006

New Building To House Campus Services After Post-Break Relocation

By Valerie Tidwell

Just after Winter Break, several on-campus entities - some of which are currently relegated to WWII-era barracks - will be moving into their new headquarters in the Student Resource Building, scheduled to open in Februar...

December 7, 2006

Stories from the files of Isla Vista Foot Patrol

By Nikki Moore

Tree Terrorist Attack Plants Man in Jail Friday, Dec. 1, 1:34 a.m. - Isla Vista Foot Patrol officers were standing on the 900 block of Embarcadero del Mar, watching people exit Bill's Bus, which had just returned to I.V....

December 1, 2006

On The Menu

By Mark Batalla

The days leading up to Finals Week can leave many red-eyed and faded. Hazy study sessions that go on for hours at a time often lead to an altered state of mind and an unbearable hunger for munchies.