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Combined DUI arrests in SB County totaled 51. The big change though was in the number of parking tickets handed out - 283 - an increase of 489%!

Westmont Intercultural Programs and Religious Studies Department are sponsoring a free celebration of King’s life Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge inside Kerrwood Hall.

Eight Santa Barbara City College students recently were named recipients of the Sara Evelyn Smith Scholarships in Theatre Arts and the Phyllis Mailes Memorial Scholarship for Actors. The $1,000 scholarships are awarded annually to SBCC theatre arts students who attended local high schools, maintain high academic achievement, and demonstrate performance talent and experience.

Santa Barbara City College has received a $7,500 grant to support South Coast Bizconnect, an online business accelerator developed and operated by SBCC’s Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

UCSB students, faculty and staff will go on a one-day hunger strike to raise campus awareness and voice opposition to UC budget cuts; fee increases; job layoffs; furloughs; curtailments; program cut-backs and planned elimination of Exercise and Sports Studies; closure of UCSB Ventura Center; overcrowded classes; general decline of UC system

Three Westmont faculty members, Alister Chapman, Edd Noell and Helen Rhee, discuss human trafficking in a free event, “Modern Slavery Through Faculty Eyes,” Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 6:30-8 p.m. in Page Multipurpose Room. The talk will be moderated by Scott McClelland, director of Westmont's San Francisco Urban program, which is sponsoring the discussion.