Startup Weekend Attendees Connect, Compete

Eager entrepreneurs networked, pitched ideas and presented prototypes to a panel of experts at UCSB’s Startup Weekend Friday through Sunday at Corwin Pavilion.

Is Sweet Alley For Sale?

An advertisement on Craigslist has generated questions about whether Isla Vista’s popular frozen yogurt shop, Sweet Alley, is for sale.

A.S. Senate Passes Resolution To Support Undocumented Community Members, Amends Legal Code Bill

The Associated Students (A.S.) Senate met Wednesday to discuss a bill amending the legal code of an Office of Student Advocacy bill and a resolution asking for “immediate” action in support of those who immigrated to the country illegally.

Gio’s Pizza To Close After 34 Years In Business

Giovanni’s Pizza Restaurant, locally known as Gio’s, will be permanently closed on Thursday, Jan. 14 after seven years under current owner Matt Metzka’s management.

Ceremony Held for Opening of New Library

Hundreds of students, faculty, community members and dignitaries attended the grand opening ceremony for the newly renovated UCSB Library Wednesday afternoon.

Students Demand Private Prison Divestment

Black student leaders across the University of California (UC) increased pressure on Wells Fargo this week to divest from private prisons.

Professor Megan Carney Lectures on Migration, Food Insecurity

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosted Professor Megan Carney from the University of Washington, Seattle to give a lecture titled “Back There We Had Nothing to Eat: Food Insecurity and Women’s Migration at the Intersections.”

Woman Killed by Train Identified as UCSB Student

The woman who died after being struck by a train in Goleta on Sunday has been identified as Lillian Feng, a 19-year-old UCSB student who lived in Isla Vista. Shortly after 9 a.m. on Jan. 10, Feng was struck by an Amtrak passenger train headed southbound under the Glen Annie / Storke Road overpass, according to […]

Nonprofit Hosts Concert to Benefit Children in Need

Student-run nonprofit Kids Helping Kids (KHK) hosted its annual Benefit Gala Concert featuring Grammy-nominated NEEDTOBREATHE and Johnnyswim at the Granada Theater this weekend.

A.S. Welcomes New Senators, Allegedly Violating Legal Code

The Associated Students (A.S.) Senate appointed two new on-campus senators, first-year students Reilly Hobson and Batsheva Labowe-Stoll, Wednesday night in the Flying A Room of the UCen.

Several senators alleged at the meeting that A.S. violated the Legal Code in the process of choosing the candidates. Hobson and Labowe-Stolle will fill two open on-campus positions, one of which was left vacant by second-year art history major Lacy Wright, who resigned in Fall Quarter.