As Deltopia’s reverberations continue to be felt around the community, UCSB student leaders and groups are organizing to deliberate over the issue. UCSB’s radio station will hold a town hall discussion about Deltopia at Storke Plaza at noon on Thursday. Speakers will be given 2 ½ minutes and KCSB-FM 91.9 will live broadcast the event. People can also call in to the “Deltopia hotline” at (805) 699-6433. Associated Students is also requesting student accounts from Saturday; students can go to http://www.as.ucsb.edu/we-are-all-in-this-together/ to weigh in.

On the law enforcement side, the Sheriff’s Office is partnering with the LEEDIR (Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository) — a video platform service that law enforcement agencies can activate for free to collect photos and videos — to gather Deltopia footage to contribute to its investigation. People can download an app for their smartphone and footage can also be sent to www.leedir.us. Users are anonymous.

On the school administration end, Chancellor Henry Yang sent out a letter to all students on Tuesday afternoon. It appears below:

Dear Students,

I know that you all share my concern about the unfortunate events that occurred in Isla Vista last weekend. I spent several hours late Saturday night on Del Playa, speaking with students, public safety officers, and others, including visitors and students from City College and other schools. The safety of our students and our community is our highest priority. I am deeply grateful for the efforts of the dedicated law enforcement officers, safety teams, staff members, administrative colleagues, and our student leaders who were there during the night to help keep our community safe.

Many of you, in conversations last weekend in Isla Vista and this week on campus and in the dining commons, have expressed outrage, disappointment, and even embarrassment at the outcome of Saturday’s events. I thank you for sharing these sentiments with me. I know from my conversations on campus that our students are deeply concerned about the community they live in and care about the safety of their fellow students and neighbors.

The overwhelming majority of people I spoke with Saturday night were from out of town and were not affiliated with UC Santa Barbara. Data from the UCSB Police Department and Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office confirm that out of 412 arrests and citations, 376, or 91 percent, were not affiliated with UCSB. It concerns all of us that our outstanding and dedicated students, and our great university, are being defined by the actions of people who do not share our commitment to the community in which we enjoy living, studying, working, and raising our families. But we cannot direct all the responsibility for what happened toward outsiders. As residents of Isla Vista, and as neighbors, we have an important role to play in ensuring that both our campus and IV are a safe and welcoming community.

We are bringing together representatives from Associated Students, Student Affairs, Administrative Services, Faculty Senate, Governmental Relations, and the Police Department to address last weekend’s events. We are not only working to identify ways to prevent such incidents in the future, but also to make a fundamental change in the culture of Isla Vista. This, as I’m sure you would agree, requires a persistent multi-agency, multi-faceted approach and cannot succeed without broad student participation.

I welcome your thoughts, ideas, and contributions in making change happen. I hope that in the coming days and weeks we can come together as a community, in partnership with local elected officials, as well as our friends and colleagues at Santa Barbara City College, to address the dangerous events of last weekend and work to prevent future incidents of this nature. I invite you to email your thoughts and ideas to IV-feedback@chancellor.ucsb.edu so we can all share in coming up with solutions.

Sincerely,

Henry Yang

Chancellor

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