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UCSB Students Participate in National Dakota Access Pipeline Protest
Chelsea Viola
National Beat Reporter
The Dakota Access Pipeline has been the center of controversy for several months—since April 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has...
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Features
Phamous Café: a Phantastic Phood Place
Kamran Yunus
Copy Editor
Over on Hollister Avenue, next to the local Costco and Albertsons, is a little Vietnamese restaurant known as Phamous Café. Though initially...
Lemon Festival Squeezes the Best Out of Goleta Valley
Jack Betz
Staff Writer
In an era where it seems that every item of produce has earned its own multi-day celebration (garlic in Gilroy, artichokes in...
Preview: Division of Student Affairs, MCC Bring ‘Resilient Love’ to Campus
Gwendolyn Wu
Executive Content Editor
The rainbow of chalk on sidewalks and walls may have washed away since marked on campus, but for students attending the...
Science & Technology
Four Questions Unveiling The Truth About Zika
Chelsea Viola
National Beat Reporter
The Zika virus outbreak has been circulating in a frenzy amongst global headlines; the World Health Organization announced the outbreak as...
What Moons, Tides and Earthquakes Have in Common
Rishika Kenkre
Staff Writer
New research from Satoshi Ide, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, concludes that huge earthquakes are more likely to occur during...
Aquaculture Ascendant: How Farming Fish Could Fix World Hunger
Jeremy Levine
Copy Editor
Picture walking into the dining commons and seeing, instead of overcooked swai fish (who actually knows what swai fish is?), heaps of...
Breaking Down Apple’s iPhone 7
Matthew Lee
Staff Writer
On Sep. 7, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus to the world. The public had already stirred up numerous...
Opinions
Should Third Party Candidates be Allowed in the Debates?
Matthew Lee
Staff Writer
During this current election season, the country is clearly unhappy with both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. With both candidates’ disapproval...
Accepting Our Changing Technological World
Miguel Rodriguez
Staff Writer
"The only constant in life is change," said Greek philosopher Heraclitus. More often than not, whenever something new and innovative peeks its...
UCSB Has No Business Moving Past Economics
Jeremy Levine
Staff Writer
About one year ago I sat in my first economics class at the University of California, Santa Barabara. I was filled with...
How Football’s Concussion Problem Should be Tackled
Spencer Wu
Staff Writer
For years, people have associated football with intense tackling, brutes battling at the line of scrimmage and, most notably, head trauma. The...