News

February 18, 2005

Campus Pool Leaves Players Standing

By Jessica Gonzalez

UCSB is in the early planning stages of constructing a new pool facility that better adheres to the water-depth rules mandated for the university's water polo teams.

February 18, 2005

Council Names Student to Bus Board

By Nikki Moore

The Santa Barbara City Council appointed UCSB student Logan Green to the Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) Board yesterday, giving Isla Vista bus riders a voice for the first time in decisions concerning public transpo...

February 17, 2005

UCSB Students Call for Fewer Education Cuts

By Kaitlin Pike

The United States Student Association (USSA) organized a campaign asking people to call congressional representatives who sit on House or Senate budget committees or members from their district to protest various cuts to...

February 17, 2005

Vagina Festival To Get Plaza All WETT

By Kristopher Daams

Vaginas from all over UCSB will come together today to celebrate women, their reproductive organs and the fight against sexual and domestic violence.

February 17, 2005

IVRPD Considers Sale of Park to Fund Center

By Drew Mackie

The future of Pardall Gardens, the public park located next to Kung Pao Kitchen on Pardall Road, will be discussed by Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD) directors at today's 6 p.m. meeting.

February 17, 2005

Leggies Pass Bills For Upcoming A.S. Campaigns, Voting

By Jason La

With a Spring Quarter election approaching, Associated Students Legislative Council approved three bills at its meeting Wednesday night that adjust the rules governing the voting period, campaign signs and candidate requ...

February 17, 2005

Forum To Address SB Public Transit

By Jerrod Heiser

Discussion about Santa Barbara County's bus system will go round and round at an open forum meeting today featuring representatives from the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) and South Coast Transit Advis...

February 17, 2005

Proceed With Caution

By Staff

A skater in the Arbor passes sophomore Bill Shiebler, who is part of the human wall to exemplify the obstacles that face disabled people every day on sidewalks and pathways.

February 16, 2005

Experts, Public Meet About DP Bluff Erosion

By Mollie Vandor

Third District Supervisor Brooks Firestone and a panel of experts gave I.V. residents a geology lesson Tuesday night to explain the county's rationale for evicting a number of oceanside Del Playa Drive residents last fal...

February 16, 2005

County Cuts Rural Land Area in Plan for Santa Ynez Valley

By Nikki Moore

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to slash the study area for the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan by 79 percent Tuesday, leaving the excluded land subject to existing zoning regulations.

February 16, 2005

Work Crews Block Off Ocean Road to Locate Water Leak

By Jason La

Crews working to find the source of a leak in the pipes running under Ocean Road in front of the Rec Cen are widening excavation of the street to find the exact location of the problem.

February 16, 2005

Human Wall To Show Pathways’ Risk to Disabled

By Liz Otter

Students cruising through the Arbor on foot, skateboard or bike today will be met by a human wall armed with signs that read, "Bikes Are Replaceable, But I'm Not." The Associated Students Commission On Disability Access ...

February 16, 2005

Author To Speak on Getting Smashed

By Stephanie Trujillo

Koren Zailckas doesn't regale close friends with tales of drinking in college -- she tells her stories to the whole world in her new book and is touring college campuses across the nation to share her story.

February 16, 2005

ICA Building Undergoes More Delays

By Samy Amanatullah

The opening of the new Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) Building has been pushed back another four to six weeks because materials for the project were not delivered on time, university officials said. Associate Athletic D...

February 15, 2005

Safety Concerns Spark Meeting About DP Cliffs

By Lulwa Bordcosh

Third District Superviso Brooks Firestone will hold a town hall meeting tonight in Embarcadero Hall to discuss the continued erosion of the bluffs along Del Playa Drive.

February 15, 2005

Professors Join Ranks of Engineering’s Elite

By Dina Vainer

The prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has admitted two more UCSB professors into its ranks this year, giving the university a total of 26 faculty members in the renowned organization under its belt.