News

November 20, 2022

Student Health and RCSGD assess gender-affirming care at UCSB

By Asumi Shuda

The expansion was instigated in 2017 following student activism around the inadequacy of gender-affirming care at SHS at the time

November 20, 2022

Vista Point: Weekly goings-on in and around I.V.

By Asumi Shuda

Weekly events in and around Isla Vista.

November 20, 2022

UCSB extends passed/not passed deadline citing academic uncertainty amid strikes

By Asumi Shuda

Students now have the opportunity to change their course grades to passed/not passed until Dec. 2.

November 20, 2022

UCSB reduces COVID-19 mitigation efforts beginning winter quarter

By Asumi Shuda

UCSB will discontinue its COVID-19 testing center at Building 434 and end PCR testing on campus entirely.

November 20, 2022

Record number of students attend UCSB

By Mark Alfred

Of the total students enrolled, 23,460 are undergraduates, reflecting the highest levels of undergraduate enrollment at UCSB to date.

November 17, 2022

First week of UC union strikes begins

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch

Academic employees across all ten University of California campuses are withholding labor, picketing and marching through campus.

November 14, 2022

Hundreds march at UCSB as largest higher education strike begins

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch, Bella Leonard

Over 500 graduate students, employees, faculty members and UC Santa Barbara community members congregated at Davidson Library.

November 12, 2022

New Department of Homeland Security rule aims to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program amid court scrutiny

By Asumi Shuda

There are nearly 3,460 DACA participants enrolled at a University of California (UC) campus annually.

November 11, 2022

Student leaders advocate for greater physical accessibility of UCSB campus

By Asumi Shuda, Melea Maglalang

The lack of accessibility requirements has resulted in insufficiencies in several campus buildings, presenting barriers to students with physical disabilities.

November 11, 2022

Vista Point: Weekly goings-on in and around I.V.

By Asumi Shuda

Weekly events in and around Isla Vista.

November 10, 2022

Gaucho Grocery Shuttle set to launch in Isla Vista

By Melea Maglalang

The main objective of the project is to combat food insecurity by hosting a direct route to local grocery stores, thus providing a more convenient mode of transportation with a reliable schedule.

November 10, 2022

Get out the vote: campaigning efforts occur across campus

By Nisha Malley, Vikesh Dheeriya

Carbajal’s Get Out The Vote Campaign reached out to UCSB students to vote through texts, phone calls, door-to-door outreach and tabling at the UCen.

November 10, 2022

Academic workers prepare for Nov. 14 strike

By Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch

The strike is based on allegations that the UC has engaged in unfair labor practices throughout the process to negotiate a new contract for employees.

November 10, 2022

National Weather Service issues wind and flood advisories for Santa Barbara County

By Asumi Shuda

The advisories warned recipients of minor flooding in low-lying and poor-drainage areas and roadways, according to Noozhawk. 

November 10, 2022

Incumbents succeed in reelection bids down the ballot; local races decided by a handful of votes

By Nisha Malley, Asumi Shuda, Mark Alfred, Holly Rusch, Sindhu Ananthavel

Santa Barbara County voters cast 75,799 ballots of 237,759 voters, amounting to a turnout rate of 31.88%.

November 8, 2022

LIVE: Statewide and Local Midterm Election Results 2022

By Nisha Malley, Holly Rusch, Mark Alfred, Sindhu Ananthavel, Asumi Shuda

Providing live updates on local races, statewide races, and propositions on the ballot for the November 2022 midterm election