Proposition 73 Endangers Women
Remember all that talk last spring about the governor calling a special election? Well, it’s coming up on Nov. 8 and I’d bet a parking spot on DP most of you haven’t given much thought to it. It hasn’t hit the airwaves and most people don’t know about it yet, but Proposition 73 is one of the most dangerous to hit California in a while.
Greeks, Daring Grad Student Undertake Unique Fundraisers
While some student groups are organizing more traditional fundraisers, geology graduate student Parker Williams is daring Santa Barbara County locals to care about the victims of recent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region with a pink tutu, a mustache and plagiarized poetry.
Benefits Outweigh Costs of Keeping Soldiers in Iraq
Here’s a question for you: rounded to the nearest kilo, how many troops have died in Iraq? Two thousand, as we all know. Here’s another: How many more hours of electricity does the average Iraqi home get now than under Saddam? Don’t know?
IVFP Completes Halloween Plans
With the Halloween weekend quickly approaching, local law enforcement agencies are gearing up to combat crime, fight fires and provide emergency medical care in Isla Vista during the holiday. More than 100 law enforcement officers, at least one ambulance, search and rescue personnel, and investigators from the Alcohol Beverage Control agency will be stationed in I.V. over Halloween weekend, said I.V. Foot Patrol (IVFP) Lt. Sol Linver.
If You Think IV Cops are Bad, You’re a Pussy
Jeff Gibson’s column “Corruption Lifts the Lorax” (Daily Nexus, Oct. 21) really took me back to my high school years. It also made me think, “Geez dude, grow the fuck up.” Gibson writes about growing up in a sheltered small town a few minutes east of Berkeley by BART. Hmmm, small town, with a BART station east of Berkeley.
Panel To Take Fright Out of Holiday Rule
Locals looking to avoid a ticket this Halloween might want to stop by Embarcadero Hall tonight, when a panel of local campus and law enforcement representatives will answer questions about the policies and procedures that will be in place over the upcoming weekend.
Fuel Efficency Exemptions Do Not Include SUVs
This letter is in regards to Joel Aurora’s article (“Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence” Daily Nexus, Oct. 24). Mr. Aurora implies the fuel efficiency exemption for all vehicles over 8,500 pounds will include family SUVs like the Hummer. Assuming he meant the new H2 and H3, a little research shows both models come up far short of the 8,500 mark.
Pig Eradication To Benefit Island Fox
Santa Cruz Islands will be off-limits to the public after this week, to ensure that no visitors are harmed while the National Park Service exterminates roughly 2,500 unwanted swine from the land. NPS restrictions on the island will begin on Nov. 1 and will close off all areas of the island except Scorpion Valley and Prisoner’s Harbor, said Channel Islands National Park Superintendents Russell Galipeau.
Women To Fundraise With Food
Students looking for a good lunch and a good way to help a former community member in need can stop by the MultiCultural Center (MCC) today for homemade Mexican food. The Interested Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha will be selling plates of pozole – a Mexican soup with beef or pork, hominy and vegetables – for $5 in the MCC lounge from 11 to 2 p.m.
A.S. Funds Student Advocate Office
The Associated Students Finance Board allocated $1,200 – more than half of its remaining budget for the quarter – to the newly reinstated A.S. Student Advocate’s Office at its meeting Monday afternoon, also dishing out another $720 to two student groups.