Why Are There Many Cops in Isla Vista?

October 16, 2002 by

Halloween in Isla Vista is part Mardi Gras, part riot and part police state, with wholesome family fun lurking on the edges, trying to look brave.
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Oh, Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Grizzly Bears?

October 2, 2002 by

The clamor of the morning zoo rumbles from each car as horns blare, windows lower, doors pop open and hundreds of commuters scream. The grizzly bears are going to work.
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Expert Declares Lagoon Healthy Despite Odor

August 28, 2002 by

It's too shallow to swim in (not that you would want to), it's too salty to drink (assuming you could ignore the scum), and the dock is disconnected (covered in bird droppings, too).
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Here It Comes, Here It Comes, Heeeere It Comes…

August 28, 2002 by

Hello. Hmm. There's a lot of space left. I'd better change that subhead to read "A Few Words..."
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Goleta’s New Paper Hits Newstands

June 26, 2002 by

The South Coast Beacon is two issues old today. Tom Bolton and William Macfadyen, the two top editors at a paper of 18, try to explain why they started a 20,000-circulation paper for the new city of G...
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The Best Anniversary Gifts Are Fire and Flood

May 10, 2002 by

When the date approaches and your steely eyed girlfriend wonders just what you have in store for her, you plan. While no man wishes for war or anniversaries, they are thrust upon us for the preservati...
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Wily Vipers Burn Associated Students Behind Them

May 3, 2002 by

In tactics reminiscent of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov's, Representative Martin T. Doyle is burning every financial field and shooting every cash cow that SAC forces could find useful, and a great deal be...
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Chris Isaak | Always Got Tonight | Reprise

May 1, 2002 by

Chris Isaak's most polished album is also one of his best, focusing more on Roy Orbison-style rock 'n' roll than broken-hearted ballads.
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Candidates

April 19, 2002 by and

If you ask Maggie Stack what the most important thing an Associated Students president can do, she says, "Go to committee meetings."
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Policy Endorsements

April 19, 2002 by and

Sports and activity facility fee
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The Sequining Sight of Campus Elections

April 12, 2002 by

It's election season on campus, which is sort of like figure skating season. You look up one day and say, "oh, that again." Like figure skating, the rules and point of the sport are vague, there's lot...
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No Phone, No Pool, No Pets, Ain’t Got No Cigarettes

March 7, 2002 by

Activists for Isla Vista's homeless community can't always get what they want. But if they try sometimes, they might just find they get the last thing they want.
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Mongoose: Don’t Be Sheep, Recall is About Cows

February 22, 2002 by

The No On Recall folks have a point when they say that the recall campaign is backed by a shadowy cabal of Isla Vista's landlord scum - there are two of them and as of December they contributed a whop...
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Three Snakes Devour Ellwood – Kinda

February 8, 2002 by

The Ellwood Bluffs are going to get screwed up - just not as badly as before.
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Carrot Blows His Top

February 7, 2002 by

In which your Artsweek heroes sap a 33-year-old prop comic's will to live, he tells us to go fuck ourselves and cancels his Santa Barbara performance.
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