Isla Vista News

Representatives from some of the hardest-hit casualties in California's economic crisis gathered Wednesday for a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters .

A Habitat: Isla Vista is a habitat not fit for growing a tomato, let alone a family.

The giant cardboard video-camera contraption dwarfed the student inside as he positioned himself, strategically, between hundreds of bikes and the two towers of dorms that characterize many UCSB freshmen lives.

Your parents keep calling. They want you home, they want you to dog-sit. They want to see your glowing face, they want to take you to brunch.

About tonight's "Art of Peace" special two hour program from 6-8pm, host Phil Levasseur writes: "In conjunction with KCSB's annual Fund Drive we will be celebrating and focusing on the strength of grass roots media for local and global empowerment.

Eco Factor: Parking lot equipped with solar panels to generate renewable electricity.

Take a walk down the streets of IV any day of the week, ideally on a Saturday or Sunday, and you'll find the ubiquitous red cups.

"Keep your mouth shut" was the theme of the evening at the November 10 meeting held at Embarcadero Hall in Isla Vista, to provide information to students who were arrested or received citations on Halloween.

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As the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County continues its month-long Turkey Drive in advance of Thanksgiving, the Isla Vista Food Co-op is joining the effort by offering a two-for-one deal of sorts on organic and free-range turkeys.

It is usually a party heard around the world. This year, Isla Vista's infamous Halloween has come and gone.

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Local law enforcement agencies continued to brace for an onslaught of roughly 50,000 Halloween revelers at Isla Vista this weekend, reminding locals and out-of-towners alike about the stiff consequences of alcohol offences like underage drinking and driving under the influence.

Just a few days after Halloween revelers in Isla Vista left Santa Barbara County with a bill approaching $1 million to police and clean up after the festivities, county supervisors took a step they hope will curtail the hangover of another IV tradition.

Although the number of costumed revelers that poured into the streets of Isla Vista on Halloween fell far below expected figures, law enforcement officials made plenty of arrests and citations while medical staff treated dozens of alcohol-poisoned partiers.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department says the big party on Isla Vista this Halloween weekend, prompted more than a thousand arrests and citations.

It's been 11 years since Halloween last fell on a Saturday, and all involved - from authorities to partyers - expect debauchery of colossal proportions in Isla Vista.

Any day of the week, it's easy to find a news story about the problems caused by the way we eat.

Thousands of out-of-town visitors to the Isla Vista area on Friday and Saturday for Halloween will translate into a lot of extra vehicles, and local law-enforcement officials are using DUI checkpoints, road closures and parking enforcement to manage traffic and to try to minimize effects on the rest of the community.

At a meeting Tuesday night focused on discouraging local high school students from going to Isla Vista during Halloween, the 10-person panel barely outnumbered the small audience.