Employees Walk Out on UCSB
As offices around campus shut down and cars honked to support strikers Monday, UCSB made it through the first of three days without many of its clerical workers and lecturers.
Don’t Dump Nuclear Waste Way Out West
I did not know exactly where I was going or what I was going to, but I did know that I had to go. What I ended up at was the Action for Nuclear Abolition Peace Camp on Western Shoshone Nation lands.
UCSB Smokers May Have to Step Back
The Tobacco Control Ordinance, which bans smoking within 20 feet of businesses in Isla Vista and other unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County, was passed in November 2001.
A.S., Marshall Approve New Blue Phones
Third District County Supervisor Gail Marshall is working with the Associated Students Safety Committee to identify appropriate locations for blue light emergency phones.
Alas, Poor Fraternities and Sororities, I Knew Ye Well
Fraternities at UCSB appear to be dying. Many seem to think that UCSB’s recent policy statement with greek organizations that fraternities are no longer allowed to have alcohol at their social events is the death knell of campus fraternities.
Have No Fear, UCSB and Isla Vista, Honest Jim Thomas Is Here
I read the Daily Nexus every day – I have for years. Actually, I only used a small portion of your staff editorial (“Betrayed,” Daily Nexus, May 4, 2001) regarding Gail Marshall’s “betrayal.”
Police Cite Eight at DUI Checkpoint
The UCSB Police Dept. and California Highway Patrol set up the Driving Under the Influence checkpoint on El Colegio Road between Stadium Road and Ocean Road from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m.
Robot ‘Judy’ Center of Futuristic Theater Piece
As computers continue to become faster, smaller and cheaper, some cognitive scientists wonder if tomorrow’s computers will ever match human intelligence and become self-aware.
Pentagon Thrusts Missile into Pacific Sky
The strange lights in the Santa Barbara sky last night were not indicative of the second coming. They were, however, the latest in a series of missile defense tests held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in north Santa Barbara County.
Greenthief
The police stopped a thief down the street from my apartment this weekend. “Bikes,” I thought. Or maybe computer equipment. But no. His truck was full of stolen… palm fronds.