DAILY NEXUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Isla Vista CSD Considers Turning Deltopia Into a Sanctioned Festival Arturo Martinez Rivera have a better handle on what the Asst. News Editor security presence looks like that we can change the overall feel to The Isla Vista Community be a much safer event.” Services District discussed a The current proposal has proposal from Lucidity Festivals the festival centered in the I.V. LLC on Tuesday night, voicing Loop, which will include three both support and doubts about music stages, a space for games the potentially $180,000 spring and activities and a beer garden project designed to turn Deltopia featuring local breweries. The — typically a chaotic, break-all- plan also includes detailed the-rules block party — into a more information regarding local controlled community celebration community collaboration, and festival. security and the budget for the Lucidity, an open-source overall project, with expenses transformational arts and music totalling $184,850. SIAVASH GHADIRI / DAILY NEXUS festival, first introduced the idea for The entire board unanimously a spring festival during Deltopia to expressed concern over the price the Isla Vista Community Services tag of the event. According to District (I.V. CSD) meeting in May. Jonathan Abboud, general No. 18 UC Santa Barbara Men’s At Tuesday’s meeting, I.V. CSD manager of the I.V. CSD, Board President Spencer Brandt there are two main options to expressed the board’s sentiments cover the cost of the event in Soccer Dominates Rival Cal Poly that Deltopia in its current state, a the budget: a UCSB grant, or fundamentally disorganized event the $100,000 reserve allocation Check out the full story online at dailynexus.com. that draws thousands of out-of- currently in the budget. UCSB towners, creates a public safety can grant $93,000 under one concern for the community. condition — the university must Deltopia 2019 saw 94 citations, reach an agreement with the I.V. Students Report Fourth Mountain 38 arrests, 19 medical transports CSD as to what the expenses are and one serial robbery — causing for. However, Director George the month of April to have the Thurlow expressed doubts as to Lion Sighting in Less than a Month highest number of arrests in whether UCSB would be willing comparison to previous months. to fund a community festival Evelyn Spence sunset on the beach just below the they could “pack up without him mountain lion sighting near the “Deltopia, as it exists, is not versus placing the money directly Lead News Editor Campus Point cliffs when Lopez hearing us.” Orfalea Family Children’s Center a safe environment. We see a into public safety. turned and spotted an animal that When the two were almost on West Campus; twenty minutes spike in physical assaults, in sexual Other ways to cover the cost For most, news of the recent was “very built” and larger than back to campus, they heard what later, however, the university sent assaults. We see a spike in medical of the festival could include mountain lion sightings on the both of them. they believe was the howl of a another alert stating the sighting transports as a result of alcohol sponsorships from local the UC Santa Barbara campus “It was fairly close to us,” mountain lion — a sound that “was was a “bobcat who has lived in the and drugs,” Brandt said at the businesses and funding from sparked shock. But then came Simental explained, stating the strange and didn’t sound human.” area for many years without issue.” meeting on Tuesday. the Isla Vista Recreation & Park the memes, many of which animal was on all fours and “It spooked us,” Simentel said, The school has sent out a “Our board’s thought has always District (IVRPD). Carlos Lopez, earned nearly 1,000 reactions “running away from us” in the stating that the two then began number of warnings over the been to provide people with a fun chairperson for the IVRPD, on Facebook and flooded the direction of campus. “running for our bikes” before past few weeks about mountain alternative where the community attended the meeting and said timelines of everyone following “He went behind the point in the they called the police. They later lion sightings; the first reported has the ability to plan the event, the IVRPD Board of Directors the posts of the infamous bluffs that was sticking out,” she Googled mountain lion calls and sighting was near Campus Point plan the content of the event and is willing to negotiate partially Facebook page, UCSB Zesty said. The two then waited a few said the noise they heard “sounded on Sept. 17, the second was on funding the festival. Meme Cuisine for Horny Teens. minutes to make sure the animal really similar.” Sept. 18 by Devereux Lagoon Lopez also However, for UCSB was far away enough so Lopez rejected the notion that and the third was the morning LUCIDITYLUCIDITY suggested students Dulce Simental the animal the two spotted of Sept. 19, near West Campus. a system and Monica Lopez, was, in fact, a bobcat, as Simentel and Lopez’s sighting was of pre- who called in the another supposed mountain the fourth reported, on Oct. 7, but registration most recent mountain lion sighting turned out to no sightings were reported in the for the sighting on Monday be. Tuesday nearly three weeks between the festival evening, it “freaked afternoon, third and fourth. w h e r e [them] out.” t h e day after Students are cautioned people could S i m e n t a l Lopez and Simentel’s to stay away from sign up online and Lopez, sighting, the university the area until further for a QR code both fourth- sent out a notice. that would grant year biology majors, notification Madeline Thompson BRITTA GOOD / DAILY NEXUS Lucidity p.4 were watching the SAM RANKIN / DAILY NEXUS warning of a contributed reporting. Sea Lion Poisoned by Algae Growth Memes and Self- Spotted at Multiple I.V. Beaches Deprecation: Katherine Swartz “People were getting super close over the weekend and was showing at the bottom of the food chain, Asst. News Editor to it, dogs were going up to it and it signs of domoic acid toxicosis, a found among the phytoplankton A UCSB Professor’s just wasn’t really reacting or acting chemical reaction affecting the called pseudo-nitzschia. Through like a normal sea lion, so you could brain produced by phytoplankton biomagnification, the toxicity of tell it was sick,” Bazlen, a fourth- that causes “lethargy, disorientation, this harmful algal bloom — a rapid Key to the Belly year environmental studies eye bulging seizures, eye bulging, growth of algae in a small area major, said. unresponsiveness and inability — becomes more concentrated in When Bazlen’s to move out of the water and animals as it goes from krill to small roommate, fourth-year unresponsiveness,” according to fish and sardines to the California Laugh psychology major Phoebe the Channel Islands Marine and sea lion. Rogers, visited Devereux Wildlife Institute (CIMWI). “[The volunteer] was describing Max Abrams second. Beach the next morning, The sea lion that washed up on the to me how it literally shrinks the size Asst. News Editor What most students don’t she found the same I.V. coast this weekend is not a lone of the sea lion hippocampi … and know, however, is that this post sight. incident — CIMWI has reported a for the rest of the hour I just listened In a recent post to the UC didn’t belong to a student at “We could tell growing amount of affected marine to him off the edge of my seat with Santa Barbara “Zesty Meme all — it belonged to a professor, that the sea lion mammals in the Channel Islands my mouth hanging open,” Rogers Cuisine for Horny Teens” seasoned with over a decade’s BRITTA GOOD / DAILY NEXUS was not in great shape, area due to climate change and explained. Facebook page, one user’s worth of experience in the lacking proper cognition maybe or agricultural runoff. “The way he was describing [the Kyla Bazlen expected a Friday meme about a recent mountain art of memeing with enough perhaps paralyzed,” Rogers said. After Rogers saw the sick sea sea lion’s] mental state, he equated it evening surf session at Devereux lion sighting busted the guts of practice to likely earn himself a “We kind of just assessed the scene lion, she called 911, who then to human dementia and was telling Beach to be just like any other over a hundred college students degree in it. and tried to ask people to respect notified seal rescue and eventually me she doesn’t know that she’s a sea but quickly realized something was within minutes. The professor, Bob Kennedy the sea lion and give it space and CIMWI. Once the volunteer arrived lion and she doesn’t know where she off when she saw people crowding “Why do you keep going to — a linguistics lecturer at UCSB then we just immediately knew to to the beach a few hours later, he is. She doesn’t know that she needs around a small creature lying on the beach?” a hysterical woman — first dipped his toes in the call wildlife rescue.” confirmed to Rogers that the sea to hunt, she doesn’t know what fish the shore. said in the first picture. “Bro university’s meme scene years As Rogers would soon discover, lion was suffering from domoic acid are.” It was a sea lion — and it didn’t I’m straight up not having a ago, when he began posting on the sea lion was seen in multiple toxicosis.